Facing Up: Life Beyond Belief
A place for people who have lost their way to wrestle with the dark night and find life beyond belief.
Episodes
People wonder what possesses someone to give up the comforts of home and strike off into the woods. Here's why I do it. It's not so much about nature's beauty as her honesty.
This one is much better to watch visually here.
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Today I threw on my backpack and hiked up the Oat Mine Trail above St. Helena and Calistoga to get in shape for my trip to the Enchantments (in Washington State) with my kids. These are thoughts about love I had along the way. Love is not what it seems.
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How to make the three movements a way of life, not just a theory.
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Today I bring it back to earth and discuss living your life story in a new way: Adventure, Play, and Kindness.
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How do you find meaningful, authentic existence? This is the big picture looked at in a different way: as a journey.
I'm doing this one in front of a whiteboard. The pictures will be very helpful. You can find them on the website.
https://facingup.club/meaningful-authentic-living-part-2/
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What is Facing Up? Today, I zoom out and show you the big picture and explain why it matters.
It is especially useful to see the video of this episode since I present it in front of a white board. https://facingup.club/meaningful-authentic-living/
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The goal today is to face each Specters and say “Yes,” to choose life. I hope you will come to the end of this episode saying, “Yes in the face of Ignarus! Yes in the face of Vanitas! Yes in the face of Rapax! Yes! Yes! Yes! wherever the seed of my life is planted.”
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The Devil’s Playground is where we go to hide from the Specters. It is not a wellness retreat. The rides leave you sick and disoriented. Today, I will describe eight of them.
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When my story shattered, the first thing I felt was the three Specters. It was as real as if six malevolent eyes were glowing at me in the darkness. I hated them. I tried to avoid them. I told them to beat it. But they remained such frequent visitors that I learned their faces and gave them names: Ignarus, Vanitas, and Rapax. Today, we face the Specters together.
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Just as you were evicted from the safety and comfort of your mother’s womb, so your expanded consciousness forces an eviction from the Island of Pure Desire. Human beings are apes who tell stories. Welcome to Fantasy Island.
Here is the link to "The Story of My Fall" https://youtu.be/f0g3UaM1gMQ?si=Deszp66Bt2gvVptX
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It all began with a swimming contest. 300,000,000 of you were released at once. It was a no-holds-barred race to see who could reach the egg first. You won.
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In this chapter I will show an alternative to belief that I call Perceptualism. Perceptualism is how I escaped the chains of dogma and found life beyond belief.
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This is about the life that appears at the end of faith—the life beyond belief. I write with sincere desire for you to discover this life.
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The day I nearly drowned as a kid. Thoughts on death and life and the courage to keep going.
This one has some pretty cool pictures if you'd like to watch.
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The Bible was the most important thing in my life. Now I hardly ever think of it. Here's what happened.
You can watch this as a video at facingup.club
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In this episode, I point to the breakdown of our national story as the root of the present chaos. We are experiencing a global dark night of the soul. Facing this fact is the only way out--or should I say UP?
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How we can--and must--find life beyond belief.
See the video with illustrations at
https://facingup.club/walk-by-sight-not-by-faith/
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A way to live without faith.
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Here's what I see.
You will be able to follow this better if you can see the pictures. They are posted in the transcript on my website. https://facingup.club/perceptual-map/
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How I face today.
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