WHERE DOES THE FUTURE  COME FROM?

DOES EVOLUTION JUST HAPPEN, OR ARE WE CO-CREATORS IN ITS UNFOLDING?

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God: An Evolving Revelation with Brendan Graham Dempsey

In this exploration of metamodern spirituality, Aviv Shahar welcomes metamodern leader Brendan Graham Dempsey. Brendan is a unique voice who combines a deep personal experience with Christianity and a pioneering study and exploration of metamodern thinking and philosophy.

Together, he and Aviv trace the amazing evolution of the human notion and idea of God, from ancient cultures through the Enlightenment and into today. 

The conversation does not just look back, but also forward; in a learning, growing universe, what’s next? What’s on the horizon with our concept of God? Is there a metamodern integration of perceptions that can activate a more powerful inner conductivity and capacity for universal connection?

Jesus, the Six Stories

Here we've excerpted a section from the conversation between Aviv Shahar and Brendan Graham Dempsey, God: An Evolving Revelation,  which explores new insights into the appearance of Jesus and the rising importance of the individual, which explodes in the modern era with its elevation of self-actualization.

In asking the question: what should a metamodern Christianity explore, Aviv and Brendan discuss six storylines of how Christ can be viewed, from the specifics of the historic and literal, to the more universal aspects of The Christ archetype and its esoteric implications and how each can point us toward finding the Christ in us.

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IHOW #3: Integrating Contraction and Expansion

This is the third in a new Portals series of practices designed to bring healing, balance and relief to the busy, noisy and sometimes stressful lives that many of us may feel at one time or another. Think of the series, Internal Human Orchestra Work (IHOW), as “tuning” our inner instruments — the energies, qualities and finer lives — that together produce the symphony a human life can be.

The Art of Inquiry

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The Ghost and the Inner Conclave

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Loom Work Application

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The Art of Being Together

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Protecting the Sacred

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The Five Selves

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The Four Development Zones

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Choosing Our Families

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What is Healing #2

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The Portals of Perception Podcast

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Every journey begins with a question

Who are we becoming?

Who can we become?

And how do we navigate our way through the unknown?