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Hearing the voice of the Holy Ghost and feeling the spirit often present themselves as elusive experiences that we want to have but just can’t seem to grasp. In fact, when teaching the youth in my ward I asked the priests and laurels to rate their interest in about 20 gospel/church topics. The topics with the highest degree of interest were these elusive ideas like revelation, or how to tell the difference between emotions and spiritual inspiration. Well, I’m not so sure that there is a strong divide between the spirit and our emotional responses. I also have come to realize that there are many different ways to fill your spiritual watering hole. Perhaps Robert Frost said it best “Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”
In this podcast episode I discuss three spiritual practices that you may not have thought of as spiritual practices, with Emily Ellsworth, Miranda Marquit, and Conor Hilton. They have their spiritual cup filled by reading a variety of literature and writing. Here is a link to Part 2 and link to Part 3.
Some Notes
Emily Recommended Reads:
Grandpa Green
East of Eden
How Green was my Valley
Miranda Notes on neuro-spiritual links:
Miranda Reccomended Reads:
The Twelve Houses
The Foundation Trilogy
Conor’s Blog:
CONOR HILTON: Thoughts, Musings, Poems and a Myriad of Other Writings
One of the guests on this podcast quoted Emily Dickinson:
“narcotics cannot still the tooth
that nibbles at the soul”
It sparked a thought:
Once something is learned, it cannot be unlearned. Like grooves on a record, information is permanent. More information can be added to correct, to clarify, or to add information, but the original information will always be there. In the Faith Crisis Era, it seems like certain bits of Mormon history that get grooved into our records have a lot of sway over all the previous grooves. Whatever the issue, those experiencing a faith crisis feel that nibbling in their soul by the tooth of new information.
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