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God IS Study Group Podcast
Please note that even though the name of this study group podcast is the same as my spiritual autobiography, having to own or have read a copy of my book is not required to participate in the study group. The name God Is reflects my belief in the simple, powerful yet all-encompassing direction implied by the name.
On September 13, 2001 God spoke to me and told me "Radio is part of your path, do not forsake it." The complete story is in my Spiritual autobiography GOD IS, in the chapter titled “My Radio Dharma”. Since that communication, mass media and particularly radio, (Words of the Prophets Radio Show, Heart Talk Radio Show and Good Company Radio Show) have been a significant part of my life. Entering the 21st century my radio dharma has manifested in the form of a podcast.
In March, 2020, I was approached by Kirsten Wolfe to collaborate on a study group that blended together Spiritual principles along with basic therapeutic procedures, including 12 Step practice, with the Spiritual principles being the primary focus. The conversations that pursued were the birthplace of the cybernetic God Is Study Group.
Our purpose for the God Is Study Group is as stated below:
“Take each step forward in love and ask oneself what would you be doing if you knew that an infinite source of unconditional love was flowing through you and guiding you with affirmative directive in every given moment.
God Is that source and you are one with that source. Are you aware of the flow? Are you supporting the flow or are you blocking it? The God Is Study Group is specifically designed to help you recognize the flow and guide you in its utilization.”
The God Is Study Group’s first meeting took place on Sunday, April 19, 2020. The recorded audio file of that first meeting and the subsequent meeting recordings will make up the installments (see chart below) of this podcast. The podcasts are in an mp3 format and you can stream them by first clicking on the underlined description in the Theme column of the Podcast Listing chart, and then by clicking on the play button of the audio player that is launched on a new tab. The shows can be downloaded by clicking on the Download button that appears on the newly launched streaming tab described in the previous sentence. Feel free to make copies of the shows and share them with your family and friends. If you would like to participate live in the God Is Study Group, please contact me utilizing either of the methods listed after you engage the contact button on the navigation bar. I will respond with all the relevant information to allow you to participatRev. Philip Strom (Rev. Phil) is the Spiritual Director of Church of the One God. Rev. Phil is an Ordained, (September 15, 1997) Trans-denominational, Interfaith, Non-Congregational Minister and a State of NM Licensed Alcohol Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC) (December 17, 2004). Additionally, Rev. Phil is a 12 Step recovering drug addict (August 17, 1987).
Rev. Phil’s ministry, Church of The One God, is dedicated to the mission of carrying the message that God is a power greater than humans and is loving, caring and non-judgmental and that everyone can better their lives by spiritual practice and the application of spiritual principles. His ministry also believes that worship is a private matter. We all define Divine Presence differently and therefore meditate and/or pray differently. Membership in a group or organization isn’t what’s important. Connection to a Power Greater Than Ourselves is. Therefore, his ministry isn’t looking for congregants nor will he ever ask you to contribute to or follow any person or entity in any form of ritual or campaign. He does this because all too often in our history, the messenger has become more important than the message.
May you always walk in LOVE and LIGHT.
Kirsten Wolfe is a spiritual ambassador, addictions counselor and a devoted gardener. She works in the state of New Mexico as a master’s level mental health Clinician in the field of addiction treatment. Kirsten conducts group therapy sessions and process-oriented workshops at an intensive outpatient center with principles based on the 12-step philosophy. The motivation to work in the field of addiction began with an intention to better understand the causal factors of this spiritual illness, an illness she herself recovered from in 2013 after taking refuge at a small Buddhist center in Santa Fe. At that time a new will to live and a new life motto was created: Kirsten once was lost, but now she is found. Was blind but now she sees. T’was grace that taught Kirsten’s heart to love and it was grace her fears relieved.
It was grace that would have her complete a 400 hour+ clinical hypnotherapy training program at the Academy of America as an initiation into the world of mental alchemy. It is through Mental Alchemy; we transform our inner life from undesirable (lead) to desirable (gold).
After receiving the certification, Kirsten finished her clinical training at the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute Adult Psychiatric Division, an acute inpatient psychiatric setting owned and operated by the State of New Mexico. During the training hypnotherapy was applied as a complementary intervention to be used alongside conventional medicine. As of today, hypnosis is an aid in the psychotherapeutic journey. The therapy itself considers the whole being and addresses the spiritual hygiene of the individual. We are all spiritual beings having the human experience. Hypnotherapy is an intervention that gets us in touch with our oneness.
The governing principle of hypnosis is that there is only ONE MIND composed of the: conscious, subconscious and superconscious. When these minds align, harmony is the outcome. (S)he who lives in harmony with him-herself is in alignment with the universe. All of the world’s problems can be solved in alignment.
May the Force be With You.
DATE |
THEME |
LENGTH |
SUGGESTED READINGS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/19/20 | Oneness This audio file was lost due to techinical difficulties. "People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality." Thich Nhat Hanh |
N/A | None |
| 04/26/20 | Duality This audio file was lost due to techinical difficulties. "Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality." Huineng |
N/A | None |
| 05/03/20 | Shadow "Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice." Maya Angelou |
49:04 | Edgar Cayce’s Story of The Origin and Destiny of Man by Lytle Robinson |
| 05/10/20 | Karma - Part 1 The first 23 minutes of this recording was lost due to technical difficuliets. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Newton's Third Law of Motion |
27:54 | Edgar Cayce’s Story of Karma by Mary Ann Woodward |
| 05/17/20 | Karma - Part 2 "There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own." Edwin Markham |
46:19 | Edgar Cayce’s Story of Karma by Mary Ann Woodward |
| 05/24/20 | Reincarnation "Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this indeed that you wanted and required for your own ultimate illumination. That was a great big wonderful thing that you thereupon brought to pass: not the "you" of course, that you now suppose yourself to be, but the "you" that was already there before you were born. You are not now to lose your nerve! Go on through with it and play your own game all the way!” Joseph Campbell: Myths to Live By |
44:04 | Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation by Noel Langley Many Mansions, The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation by Dr. Gina Cerminara Twin Souls Merging by Jean Cline & Gary Duncan |
| 05/31/20 | God - Part 1 “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain |
44:30 | God Without Religion by Sankara Saranam The Evolution of God by Chris Griscom |
| 06/07/20 | God - Part 2 “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” Albert Einstein |
43:02 | God Is by Rev. Phil Strom |
| 06/14/20 | Power - Part 1 “We carry within us all the mystical power we need to transform our world.” Anthon St. Maarten |
39:54 | Timeless Healing The Power and Biology of Belief by Dr. Herbert Benson |
| 06/21/20 | Power - Part 2 “Every scripture, Eastern, Western, in same wording or maybe a little bit different wording they say that God created humans in his own image. What does it mean? If it means that once he created, he deposited his all qualities, virtues, attributes within us and that also means that he has put that Divine spark in us whereby we can become anything we wish. We are Creator of our destiny, both positively and negatively, because here is, we are a direct creation of Lord Almighty who has put his entire wealth within ourself. Once we gain this knowledge, Kriya knowledge, intellectual knowledge and once we make a decision to put this knowledge into action and gain direct experience of it, definitely we can do anything we wish to do, we can achieve anything we wish to achieve.” Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Ph.D. |
47:52 | Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl |
| 06/28/20 | Harmony - Part 1 “Harmony effects everything it touches, so does Disharmony, but Harmony is stronger than Disharmony. God’s will for us is to live our lives to the fullest, to maximum, to perfection starts with Harmony.” Tch Lao compilation |
44:49 | The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Translated by Swami Nikhilananda |
| 07/05/20 | Harmony - Part 2 “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” Mahatma Gandhi |
50:26 | None |
| 07/12/20 | Mercy “God is most Gracious, most Merciful. If anybody wants to be Gracious, has to be Merciful.” “Take one step to God walking and God will take ten steps to you running.” Maulana Zainulabedin-Kazmi compilation |
45:50 | None |
| 08/16/20 | Detachment "But when you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the self." The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verses 64 – 65, Translated by Eknath Easwaran |
45:54 | The Bhagavad Gita Translated by Eknath Easwaran |
| 08/23/20 | Discernment - Part 1 "Let no one neglect one's own duty for the sake of another's, however great; Let a person after one has discerned one's own duty, be always attentive to this duty." Dhammapada (The Path of Dharma) Twin Verses; Sayings of the Buddha Translated by J. Richards |
45:50 | At The Feet Of The Master by Alcyone (Jidhu Krishnamurti) Dhammapada (The Path of Dharma) Translated by Eknath Easwaran |
| 09/06/20 | Discernment - Part 2 “(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small as great, and a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness." Tao Te Ching Translated by J. Legge |
40:08 | None |
| 09/20/20 | Intuition “Never apologize for trusting your intuition – your brain can play tricks, your heart can blind, but your gut is always right.” Anonymous |
39:15 | None |
| 09/27/20 | True Spirituality - Part 1 “In true spirituality any knowledge which makes a person to be proud is a useless knowledge. Any knowledge which makes a person to be humble is a good knowledge.” Maulana Zainulabedin-Kazmi |
45:40 | God Is by Rev. Philip Strom |
| 10/11/20 | True Spirituality - Part 2 “In true spirituality there is no third eye, fourth ear, fifth arm or sixth leg. There are two eyes and two ears in the heart. That is how a true master, a true saint can see people.” Maulana Zainulabedin-Kazmi |
40:37 | God Is by Rev. Philip Strom |
| 10/18/20 | Ritual “Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.” Richard Rohr |
31:11 | None |
| 10/25/20 | Shadow’s Voice - Part 1 “Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected.” Carl Jung |
38:31 | Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung The Philosophical Tree by Carl Jung |
| 11/01/20 | Shadow’s Voice - Part 2 “The mind itself is the realm of Mara.” The Dhammapada (The Way of Truth), Page 111 Translated by Eknath Easwaran |
37:45 | The Dhammapada (The Way of Truth) Translated by Eknath Easwaranby |
| 11/08/20 | Shadow’s Collective Voice “We cannot always have everything our way. As co-creators of a shared reality our free will always operates within the confines of the collective consciousness.” Anthon St. Maarten |
40:07 | None |
| 11/15/20 | Perfection “There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.” Lauren King |
31:53 | None |
| 11/22/20 | Gratitude “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” Henri Frederic Amiel |
30:02 | None |
| 11/29/20 | Paths To Oneness “Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.” Ramana Maharshi |
36:25 | The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran |
| 12/06/20 | Time & Space “God is not mocked, and whatsoever a soul soweth, that must it somewhere, sometime reap. For in the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space. Edgar Cayce reading 3660-1 |
36:25 | Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River by Thomas Sugrue |
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