Ppresentation by Tim AUDIO https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/a-joyful-noise-joy-and-the-metaphysics-of-music/ Consider how much of the time spent together in this community goes to catalyst — the hardships, the trials, the tribulations being endured at any given moment. That work is necessary. But an evening spent on something happy has been earned. So here is the question, put directly. Are you … Continue reading A Joyful Noise: Joy and the Metaphysics of Music
What Is It Like to Be a Sun?
Notes from a Tuesday night conversation about vertical concrescence led by Doug Scott, LCSW https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-sun I opened our group last Tuesday by asking everyone to notice something ordinary. If there was still light outside your window, that light was coming from a being. A Solar Logos. Something that is both not us and not other … Continue reading What Is It Like to Be a Sun?
Four Worlds, One Sun: A Raian Interpretation of the Solar System
On DeMarcus's presentation of the history of our solar system Audio: https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/four-worlds-one-sun-a-raian-interpretation-of-the-solar-system/ DeMarcus revisited a presentation he first gave the community a couple of years ago, on what the Ra Contact tells us about the other worlds that share our sun. Enough members have joined since the first telling that the material was new to … Continue reading Four Worlds, One Sun: A Raian Interpretation of the Solar System
VERTICAL ONEING: Terra, the Solar Logos, and the Jesus Christ Event
Presentation by Doug Scott, LCSW to the Building 4th Community [Notes from a Building 4th gathering, where I offer a speculation about what happened when two orders of magnitude fell in love with each other — and why Earth, of all places, is where it had to happen.] AUDIO: https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/vertical-oneing-terra-the-solar-logos-and-the-jesus-christ-event The pattern underneath everything Start … Continue reading VERTICAL ONEING: Terra, the Solar Logos, and the Jesus Christ Event
The Tears of Things — and a Sacrament of Solidarity
A reflection from a recent Building 4th gathering, offered in the conviction that the mundane is sacred. AUDIO https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-tears-of-things-a-sacrament-of-solidarity My phone is propped in the grass about twenty feet away. I'm raking the leaves and twigs of my children's piano teacher — a woman in her mid-eighties, arthritis in her hands, chronic pain, who has … Continue reading The Tears of Things — and a Sacrament of Solidarity
The Greenhouse and the Guest House: Disclosure as Integration
Building 4th Community — Ra Contact & Open Dialogue AUDIO https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-greenhouse-and-the-guest-house-disclosure-as-integration We open the way we always do, by naming what we are afraid of and asking that it be blessed. Tonight the fear on the table is disclosure — the growing public conversation about ETs, craft in the skies, information kept out of view … Continue reading The Greenhouse and the Guest House: Disclosure as Integration
We See As We Are: Distortion and Illusion in the Ra Material
by Doug Scott, LCSW A few years ago I put a small question to the Ra Material study group on Facebook. It was almost idle, the kind of thing you ask to see what comes back. Those of Ra use the word distortion to name anything that develops out of pure unity — every shape, … Continue reading We See As We Are: Distortion and Illusion in the Ra Material
The Art of Intimacy
Building 4th Presentation Audio: https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-art-of-intimacy/ Tim opens not with a thesis but with a prayer. He has written it ahead of time, with each of us in mind, and he asks us first to clear our minds, relax our shoulders, think happy thoughts. Lord, breathe joy into our souls. Pour light into our eyes. Give … Continue reading The Art of Intimacy
The Significant Self: “[Possesses] the will to know, but what shall it do with its knowledge, and for what reasons does it seek?” (79.42)
Presentation by Doug Scott, LCSW AUDIO https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-significant-self-possesses-the-will-to-know-but-what-shall-it-do-with-its-knowledge-and-for-what-reasons-does-it-seek-7942/ Notes from a Building 4th gathering, where the Ra Material's "significant self" meets Richard Rohr's true and false self — and where a model I use with counseling clients finds its way home. We begin the way we often do, settling into the still point a member introduced … Continue reading The Significant Self: “[Possesses] the will to know, but what shall it do with its knowledge, and for what reasons does it seek?” (79.42)
Re-Enchantment Without Discernment: Commentary on a New York Times article diagnosing UFO interest, Tucker Carlson’s demon in the bedroom, and surging conversions to orthodox traditions
Doug Scott, LCSW, MA https://building4thpodcast.podbean.com/e/re-enchantment-and-the-orange-ray-a-post-postmodern-reply-to-the-nyt/ — • — A note before I begin: A friend sent me a recent New York Times essay, “We Are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages” by Katya Ungerman (writing under the pen name Katherine Dee), describing what the author calls the “re-enchantment” of American life.1 The piece catalogs Tucker … Continue reading Re-Enchantment Without Discernment: Commentary on a New York Times article diagnosing UFO interest, Tucker Carlson’s demon in the bedroom, and surging conversions to orthodox traditions









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