Show Notes

LISTEN NOW What if the rosary is not a relic of patriarchal religion, but an ancient spiritual technology—older than Christianity itself—designed to open a living relationship with the Sacred Mother? In this episode we're joined by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn , founders of The Way of the Rose  and co-authors of the book by the same name, for a deeply embodied conversation about the rosary as a portal: tactile, erotic, ecological, and alive. Drawing on paleolithic bead tradi

LISTEN NOW In this episode, we finally discuss the new documentary The Age of Disclosure  and what it suggests about UFOs, government secrecy, and the possibility of non-human intelligence. Already convinced of the reality of UFOs, your hosts explore the deeper challenges of disclosure itself: psychological operations, selective truth-telling, and the difficulty of knowing what to trust when intelligence agencies are shaping the narrative. We discuss why so many credible insi

LISTEN NOW What if Christianity began not as a set of doctrines to believe, but as a mystery school—an initiatory path meant to awaken direct experience of the divine? In this episode, Jeff and Michael trace the ancient roots of the Christian story through the lost mystery traditions of the ancient world. From the Eleusinian rites to the “dying before you die” experience, they explore how Jesus may have carried forward an older, hidden stream of spiritual practice—and what it

LISTEN NOW Jeff and Michael sit down with Victoria Loorz , author of Church of the Wild , founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality , and co-founder of the Wild Church Network , for a conversation about finding the sacred beyond church walls. They talk about the experience of hearing God beneath an oak tree, encounters with owls and vultures, and why wilderness has always been the place where spiritual transformation begins. Together they explore what it means to face ecolo

LISTEN NOW Psychedelics are often framed today as medicines for trauma and therapy—but what if they are something more? In this episode, we sit down with Justin Levy , founder of Spirit House in Portland , Oregon, to explore psychedelics as a path of devotion, surrender, and cultural rebirth. Justin shares his journey from early rave experiences to work with kundalini, capoeira, and ayahuasca, and how these threads wove together into a living spiritual practice. Together we a

LISTEN NOW In this episode, Michael finally shares the wild story he’s been holding back for decades: the day in 2006 when he slipped from a meditation session in his Queens apartment back through time—waking up in his 15-year-old body in 1990. Was it something like a dream, an out-of-body journey, or actual time travel? Jeff and Michael follow the thread from memory and synchronicity into questions of how we experience time itself—linear, cyclical, radial, and kairos . Episo

LISTEN NOW In this episode, we speak with Nicholas Collura—a board-certified chaplain, spiritual director, and Enneagram teacher—about...

LISTEN NOW In this episode, we explore The City & the City  by China Miéville as a powerful metaphor for cognitive blind spots, social...

LISTEN NOW What is spiritual direction, really? In this episode, Jeff and Michael explore the practice not as a professional technique or...

LISTEN NOW Welcome to our very first live AMA episode—unscripted and full of spirit. Listeners showed up with real questions about...

LISTEN NOW In this powerful and personal episode, we sit down with Emma Mcilroy—queer feminist, immigrant, entrepreneur, and CEO of...

LISTEN NOW What if the path to salvation isn’t belief—but integration? Building off our last episode, Jeff and Michael unpack a...

LISTEN NOW What if the spiritual texts we grew up with only told part of the story? In this episode, Jeff and Michael explore the...

LISTEN NOW What if a long-dead painter could reach across time to guide your spiritual awakening? In this episode, Jeff shares the...

LISTEN NOW What if waking up isn’t a single breakthrough moment—but a layered, looping journey through insight, fear, wonder, and mystery?...

LISTEN NOW What happens when the walls of traditional religion crumble, and all that’s left is raw, unfiltered awe? In this episode we...

LISTEN NOW What happens when you call on Jesus in an ancient Vedic fire ritual? Will he show up? How? In this episode, Michael shares...

LISTEN NOW What if everything we’ve been taught to believe about reality is wrong? What if we’re not just living in the world, but...

LISTEN NOW What if your anxieties weren’t obstacles but doorways? What if your dreams aren’t nonsense, but portals to deeper wisdom,...

LISTEN NOW Why do Star Wars, Harry Potter, and other fantasy stories resonate so deeply with us? What do they reveal about power,...