The Polycontemplative Podcast

Chris McAlister
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My name is Chris McAlister, founder of SightShift.com and a leadership guide with a seminary doctorate. I’m aiming to start a conversation with this podcast. I have no interest in finishing it. This will be a space for people to think critically about the stories guiding their lives. For 40 episodes, I’ll pull from theology, history, philosophy, meditation, religious practices, psychology, and science to help you push through. The goal is to guide you in the wilderness when you're stuck in a story that isn’t helping you grow your wisdom. It’s a poly-contemplative approach. Join me in discovering our next wisdom upgrade.

Episodes

  1. 11/24/2020

    PC 9: Power that makes you stronger

    There's a pattern to our reactions... to the power in our lives... and that power shapes us in healthy and unhealthy ways. Polycontemplative.com

    28 min

  2. 10/03/2020

    PC 8 : The river of deceit

    What do you do when you feel like life is an exhausting fight? What are you fighting against? Others? Yourself? Something or someone else? Figuring out who you are is the greatest struggle and greatest privilege.  Polycontemplative.com

    37 min

  3. 09/25/2020

    PC 7: three tests we all face

    When the box of your worldview isn't working... What if something else is going on? What if there was a way to decipher what was happening? What if it meant you would never be the same again?

    44 min

  4. 09/16/2020

    PC 6: Practice in the dark

    You're not ready to sustain the vision you were given.  You can be.  Make peace with the gap. Release the broken path. See the other even while you suffer. Forgive and test. Then you'll be unstoppable.

    40 min

  5. 09/11/2020

    PC 5: Drunk and more drunk

    Your life will always be full of hardships and challenges.  You can numb out and lose your spark.  Or you can stay on the lookout for when water turns to wine.

    27 min

  6. 09/11/2020

    PC 4: Unlearning hurts but it transforms

    In life we look for the big moments. We drive towards mountaintops that will fix everything or make it all better.  Yet it's in the cave that we find our truth.  It's in the "sound of thin silence" we find our way.  And we can't really begin until we unlearn what go us here.

    25 min

  7. 09/11/2020

    PC 3: A progression of consciousness: Me and We

    In extremist thinking we fail to understand the bigness and beauty of identity.  Some of you isn't the sum of you.  Yet, on the extreme right they demonize and diminish the struggle for becoming.  On the extreme left they victimize around whatever is the least validated part of their identity.  The electric middle is where we stand in the beauty of me and we.

    34 min

  8. 09/11/2020

    PC 2: Your voice or the institution?

    There's no transformation without leaving the institutions of our lives.  As we leave them (internally and maybe externally also) do they champion our progression and development?  We're in the midst of an era where our institutions are reinforcing shame rather than removing it. Find the courage to find your way.

    38 min

  9. 09/11/2020

    PC 1: The ancient/now struggle: Our 3 great problems

    Society used to solve 3 great problems for you.  Now they don't.  You have to learn these 3 mega skills on your own. If you do then you will be unshameable, unstoppable, and uncancellable.  It's about the struggle to be a good human who can be trusted with the great power of being impactful.

    38 min
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My name is Chris McAlister, founder of SightShift.com and a leadership guide with a seminary doctorate. I’m aiming to start a conversation with this podcast. I have no interest in finishing it. This will be a space for people to think critically about the stories guiding their lives. For 40 episodes, I’ll pull from theology, history, philosophy, meditation, religious practices, psychology, and science to help you push through. The goal is to guide you in the wilderness when you're stuck in a story that isn’t helping you grow your wisdom. It’s a poly-contemplative approach. Join me in discovering our next wisdom upgrade.

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  • Creator
    Chris McAlister
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
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