Sacred Teachers in Unexpected Places (Chapters 21-25 of When Sex Meets God)

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of self-authority and how intuition and belief shape our future, referencing a talk by Alan Watts.

Who gets to decide what’s right for you? We often hear the phrase “You are the highest authority for your own life,” but that raises a deeper question: who is the “you” that can actually be trusted? In this episode, I reflect on a talk by Alan Watts, in which he suggested that our five senses are always perceiving the past, while intuition, faith, and belief shape the future. Much of what guides us lives below conscious awareness, quietly influencing our choices, desires, and longings. I exp...

People in this episode

Host: Deborah Lukovich

Topics covered

• self authority
• intuition
• faith
• perception
• conscious awareness

Keywords

• self authority
• intuition
• faith
• perception
• Alan Watts

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