Spiritual life help podcast

I created a podcast called Problems Are Not Real that explores, and explains, my perspective on life help and the life help approach that I advocate — what I refer to as spiritual life help. I created a podcast because I thought it might be a format that some people would prefer to get information through and that it could meet a need: I’m not aware of any podcasts that discuss help from something like the spiritual life help approach, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t any at all because the approach is so unusual. There is now however at least one podcast that does cover the topic: Problems Are Not Real.

So what about that title?

I’ll admit that there is some attention-getting involved in the title: problems are not real is certainly something controversial to say and might generate curiosity, it might generate interest in the podcast subject matter. But there is also a spiritual truth aspect to the title that is based upon a principle of spiritual life help — God as the only power and only good. If that principle is truth, if God is the only power and only good, then problems would have to be something unreal. Why? Because if God is the only power then nothing except for God, as the only power, could create problems. But if God is only good then God would not create problems to begin with and so where would problems come from? They would literally have no source, nothing would have ever made them. Under those circumstances to say that problems are not real would be a truth, though it would require some explaining before the average person understood it… and even if the average person were to understand it they very well may not buy into the reasoning. The Problems Are Not Real podcast explains the reasoning, not from a place of trying to persuade skeptics but to inform those who might have an interest; and then the podcast provides solution suggestions for how to respond to problems and discord.

I don’t necessarily see the podcast going on for an extended period because there is only so much information to be provided, and then it comes time to apply the practice (or reject it if it doesn’t appeal to you). Once a person becomes a practitioner then feedback, or back and forth engagement, is the best means of communication I believe and I don’t think a podcast is the ideal for that. I believe this platform, the Believe Perceive newsletter, is a good choice for feedback and back and forth and for sharing among other practitioners, particularly as membership is applied and serious practitioners or students make the effort to come in. I guess I see a podcast about spiritual life help as a good source for information and a newsletter as a good source for continuing engagement and feedback and education. In any event the Problems Are Not Real podcast is, in my view, a helpful resource and I assume it will remain online into the future and available to whoever might find it, no matter how many episodes there ultimately are.

Access the Problems Are Not Real podcast website at ProblemsAreNotReal.net.