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When many of you were very young, you learned about right versus wrong sitting in Sunday School being taught the Parables of Jesus. Unfortunately, that’s often where the learning stopped…
Discover how reviewing the Parables from an adult perspective can be a transformative experience with the help of Sean O’Laoire this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Sean at his Spirits in Spacesuits website at spiritsinspacesuits.com/about.html . Find him on social media via Facebook at facebook.com/Companions-on-the-Journey-1394330427541054 , Instagram at instagram.com/spiritsinspacesuits and YouTube at youtube.com/user/spiritsinspacesuits . Read his latest book,
Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We've Created in Our Own Image ( amzn.to/3SCZLg3 ).
0:00 Intro
8:04 Defining Parables.
9:42 The difference between knowledge and wisdom.
16:21 Jesus: The master of exaggeration.
23:21 The master and the servant motif in Parables.
26:16 The real lesson behind the Prodigal Son Parable.
30:48 The Proverb (ancient words).
48:32 “Every piece that’s necessary is there and every piece that’s there is necessary.”
56:53 The soul.
1:00:32 What’s your personal epistemology?
1:11:00 The Cross according to Rudolf Steiner.
1:21:40 “There is no situation you cannot reconfigure in order to become a deeply spiritual person.”
1:26:10 Solving problems from a deeper meta-perspective.
1:38:54 Religion: The training wheels for spirituality.
1:45:52 Do you live in gratitude?
2:01:10 Sean closes the conversation with a song.
Listen to Paul's conversation with Sean O'Laoire and check out the show notes page on our Spirit Gym website at paulchek.com/blog/podcast-episodes/394-every-parable-has-3-levels-of-understanding-and-why-most-people-are-stuck-on-level-one-with-sean-olaoire
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
When many of you were very young, you learned about right versus wrong sitting in Sunday School being taught the Parables of Jesus. Unfortunately, that’s often where the learning stopped…
Discover how reviewing the Parables from an adult perspective can be a transformative experience with the help of Sean O’Laoire this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Sean at his Spirits in Spacesuits website at spiritsinspacesuits.com/about.html . Find him on social media via Facebook at facebook.com/Companions-on-the-Journey-1394330427541054 , Instagram at instagram.com/spiritsinspacesuits and YouTube at youtube.com/user/spiritsinspacesuits . Read his latest book,
Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We've Created in Our Own Image ( amzn.to/3SCZLg3 ).
0:00 Intro
8:04 Defining Parables.
9:42 The difference between knowledge and wisdom.
16:21 Jesus: The master of exaggeration.
23:21 The master and the servant motif in Parables.
26:16 The real lesson behind the Prodigal Son Parable.
30:48 The Proverb (ancient words).
48:32 “Every piece that’s necessary is there and every piece that’s there is necessary.”
56:53 The soul.
1:00:32 What’s your personal epistemology?
1:11:00 The Cross according to Rudolf Steiner.
1:21:40 “There is no situation you cannot reconfigure in order to become a deeply spiritual person.”
1:26:10 Solving problems from a deeper meta-perspective.
1:38:54 Religion: The training wheels for spirituality.
1:45:52 Do you live in gratitude?
2:01:10 Sean closes the conversation with a song.
Listen to Paul's conversation with Sean O'Laoire and check out the show notes page on our Spirit Gym website at paulchek.com/blog/podcast-episodes/394-every-parable-has-3-levels-of-understanding-and-why-most-people-are-stuck-on-level-one-with-sean-olaoire
Thanks to our awesome sponsors!
• Organifi organifi.com/chek20 (save 20% on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout)
• BIOptimizers bioptimizers.com/spiritgym (save an extra 15% on your purchase by using the code PAUL15 at checkout)
• Wild Pastures wildpastures.com/paulchek (save 20% and free shipping for life plus $15 on your first order)
• CHEK Institute paul.chekinstitute.com/spiritgym (learn about the new CHEK Integrated Health Foundation program today!)
• Pique Life piquelife.com/paulchek (save up to 20% for life and get a FREE starter kit when you subscribe to one or more of Pique’s amazing beverages!)
• Paleovalley paleovalley.com/chek15 (save 15% on your first purchase)
We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.
Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
