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Michael Gungor (Vishnu Dass) explores how clinging to our most important stories imprisons us in suffering. Freedom is simply THIS.

Loving THIS with Michael Gungor The Liturgists Network

    • Religion & Spirituality
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Michael Gungor (Vishnu Dass) explores how clinging to our most important stories imprisons us in suffering. Freedom is simply THIS.

    Prayer For An Imaginary World

    Prayer For An Imaginary World

    May we be free from our beliefs. Amen.

    • 13 min
    Enough

    Enough

    In this episode, Michael talks about his discovery about how the most destructive patterns in his history have been rooted in a story of not being enough. This realization has made him refocus his mission to the point that he is restructuring all of his life, work, and business. Support this new work at www.patreon.com/michaelgungor

    • 37 min
    I Still Love You

    I Still Love You

    “What do I love when I love my God?”
     
    This is a famous question asked in St. Augustine’s “Confessions” that many people through the centuries have pondered and wrestled with.  
     
    I too have wrestled with that question. And I can tell you it wasn’t just a theoretical or casual philosophical conversation for me. For me, it felt like the slow breaking of a tree branch I was perched upon over a cliff.  It was terrifying and painful and often lonely.  But one thing that I think sometimes gets missed in conversations around “deconstruction” is that there is often a deep love that is underneath and even fueling the questioning. I didn’t question God because it was a cool or progressive thing to do… I didn’t question the Bible because I was trying to be relevant culturally. I questioned God BECAUSE I loved God. I questioned the Bible because it was so important to me.  
     
    This tension between loving something and not being able to understand it has shown up not just in my spiritual journey, but my personal life as well. In the last several years, some of my most important relationships have either been lost or redefined in some very scary and painful ways. But honestly, I still have such deep love for every one of those people. So what do you do in those scenarios? What do you do when your structures/expectations/understanding of reality falls apart even while you still are in love? What do you do when you love God even if you don’t know how to believe in God? What do you do when you love someone but don’t know how to define your relationship or understand them? This new single, “I Still Love You” that dropped today is an exploration of that tension. Sometimes, you just gotta let things be what they are. And maybe that’s actually the heart of what true, unconditional love is.
     

    • 24 min
    Nonviolent Forgiveness (I Forgive You)

    Nonviolent Forgiveness (I Forgive You)

    Can the idea of forgiveness actually be violent? In this episode, Michael talks about Gungor's new single "I Forgive You" and explores the idea of forgiveness looking through the different lenses presented in Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication".

     
     

    • 27 min
    A Million I’s

    A Million I’s

    Michael talks about the meaning and story of Gungor's new single "A Million I's"

    • 19 min
    For James

    For James

    What is truth? Can one be certain of anything? 

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
19 Ratings

19 Ratings

Brynllan ,

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much for your brave, honest approach in ‘Look what I can do’.
As always you spoke from your truth. I really appreciate how you do this - even when you risk your ‘reputation’. Fame is a slippery beast and for those of you that have to battle with it in order to share your talent with the world, I feel deep compassion. It doesn’t look like a fun time at all! Anonymity is easy street in comparison.
Keep sharing your wonderful music, it’s too good not to! And keep being true no matter what because ‘brave truth teller’ is an excellent ‘reputation’ to have isn’t it?
All the love to you and your beautiful family ❤️

Sarah Finegan ,

Anticipation

I enjoyed listening to this first episode. I anticipate good things that shall play about with my world view. I like that but at the same time it’s crazy sometimes. Bring on the joy of r

0range5 ,

One of the most interesting podcasts (to me at least)

Whether you ‘agree’ with none, some or most of the ideas put forward the content is very interesting and positive in terms of perspective on what all of this might be...

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