394 — Every Parable Has 3 Levels of Understanding and Most People Are Stuck on Level One With Sean O’Laoire
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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. Find him on social media via Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Timestamps
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.
Resources
Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We've Created in Our Own Image by Sean O’Laoire
Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings by Martin Aronson
The cockle (weed)
Ilya Progogine’s concept of dissipative structures
Paul’s podcast conversation with Sayer Ji
How to Understand Your Bible by Manly P. Hall
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- 0:00Intro
- 8:04Defining parables.
- 9:42The difference between knowledge and wisdom.
- 16:21Jesus: The master of exaggeration.
- 21:49Organifi
- 23:21The master and the servant motif in Parables.
- 26:16The real lesson behind the Prodigal Son Parable.
- 30:48The Proverb (ancient words).
- 41:52BIOptimizers
- 48:32Every piece that’s necessary is there and every piece that’s there is necessary.”
- 56:53The soul.
- 1:00:32What’s your personal epistemology?
- 1:03:55Wild Pastures
- 1:11:00The Cross according to Rudolf Steiner.
- 1:21:40“There is no situation you cannot reconfigure in order to become a deeply spiritual person.”
- 1:22:51CHEK Institute
- 1:26:10Solving problems from a deeper meta-perspective.
- 1:38:54Religion: The training wheels for spirituality
- 1:45:52Do you live in gratitude?
- 2:10:10Sean closes the conversation with a song.