Are You Alive? A Conversation with Eloise Skinner

Are You Alive? A Conversation with Eloise Skinner

Author: Kent Dobson November 20, 2023 Duration: 1:09:53
Eloise Skinner's new book is called, But Are You Alive? How to Design a Life Worth Living.  In this conversation about her book, we discuss existential therapy, ancient practices, work life, monastic possibilities, and questions of meaning.  You can find her on Instagram, or through her website www.eloiseskinner.com I hope you hear some hints and guesses for your own everyday spiritual life. Enjoy!

Kent Dobson hosts Hints and Guesses, a space where curiosity meets the profound questions that quietly shape our lives. This isn't about delivering easy answers or rigid doctrines. Instead, each episode unfolds as a thoughtful exploration, weaving together threads from ancient sacred texts, the wisdom of the natural world, and the raw material of our everyday experiences in culture and society. You'll hear conversations that treat doubt not as an enemy of faith, but as a necessary companion on a genuine spiritual path. The terrain covered is vast and deeply human-from love and soul to mortality and what lies beyond-all approached with a sense of openness and reverence for the mystery. The Hints and Guesses podcast creates room for reflection, inviting you to slow down and consider the subtle whispers of meaning that often get lost in the noise. It’s for anyone who finds themselves pondering the bigger picture, regardless of where they stand on religion, seeking a honest and nuanced dialogue about what it means to live a connected and examined life.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
Age of Mistrust: A Sermon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:34
The word sermon implies a threading together, and I'd like to thread together some lines from St Paul, T.S.Eliot, and Jung. I hope you'll find some encouragement and challenge from these voices, who in their own way, poi…
Moving Again? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:02
Here are few thoughts on feeling stuck, big storms gathering at the window, what it's like when our stories and imagination seem disconnected from the present, a few musings on intuition, the still small voice, the melod…
The Masculine and the (Wounded) Feeling Function [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:14
What's the difference between mood and feeling? Between emotions and values? How do we grow our capacities for relationship, for deep values, in other words, how do we access the "feeling function" (Jung)? This episode i…
The Old Will Dream, the Young See Visions: Renewal of the Mystical [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:24
I'd like to explore the mystical, not as an expert, but a student. Lately I've been inspired by Evelyn Underhill's insights in her book, Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Conscious which I quote i…
Wandering Desert God [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:40
Here's a followup to Religious Problems, Religious Medicine, a further exploration of the tension between Law and Spirit, tradition and innovation, which seems to be natural and important. I also have a few musings on th…
Religious Problems, Religious Medicine? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:28
I want to explore some religious questions that have been troubling me lately, where I've gotten things wrong over the last few years, and some hints and guesses about what's calling my name; namely some very ancient inv…
The God of Wild Places: Tony Jones [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:42
We discuss Tony's new book, which is great (www.reverendhunter.com). We talk about theology, leaving the church, Tao and redemption, sacred places, and some personal things. Enjoy!
When the World Breaks: Jason Adam Miller [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:31
I hope you'll appreciate this conversation with Jason Adam Miller about his new book on Jesus' most paradoxical and misunderstood words at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. I loved this book, When the World Break…
The Journey [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:32
Here's another shorter podcast in my series, where I turn to poems, prayer, passages that have been important to me. I hope you'll hear your own hints and guesses. This week, we turn to Mary Oliver's classic, The Journey…
When We Are Lost [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:58
I'd like to explore the possibilities, the postures, and the terrain, of feeling lost, a certain kind of lostness. Rather than being prescriptive, I hope to just describe a little of what it's like, and a few hints and g…