Rainforest Mind: Embodied eco-spirituality with Allison Priestman
In this episode I’m in conversation with Allison Priestman, body psychotherapist and wild psychotherapist. We talk about spirituality coming through or from the body, receiving something from the natural world and examples of wild spirituality. I’ve looked for the C.S. Lewis quote, ‘God is wild’ and it looks like Allison was right – it is […]
Rainforest Mind: Searching for God, or something like it
In this episode I recount three experiences of being in sacred space, on on a rooftop in Delhi, one on a campsite in Harlech, and one during a five day chanting retreat. What was I encountering in those moments, and does it matter what it was? How do we interpret spiritual experience? Did I find God, or just the world?Â
Rainforest Mind: Wild Therapy with Stephen Tame
In this episode we explore Wildness and Wild Therapy. We talk about what wildness means. Is it chaos and unpredictability? Or something else? We talk about what supports wildness, and wildness in urban settings.
Rainforest Mind: Developing Empathy with special guest Satya Robyn
Special guest Satya Robyn – pyschotherapist, Buddhist priest and author – and I explore what supports empathy. How can we be more empathetic in our relationships? We talk about the therapy/client relationship, friendship and how religious experience can support empathy.
Rainforest Mind: Empathy with my enemies
In this episode I talk about the power of dialogue across difference, using the example of two counsellors who now work together, both grieving the loss of their sons. One killed by an ISIS suicide bomber, the other whilst fighting for ISIS. I talk about processing my own feelings that came up when I took part in the Worcester March for Unity on September 1st, marching past an EDL protest taking part on the same day. And I talk about my vow to save all beings. All of them? Even the ones I don’t like.
Rainforest Mind: Zen and Christianity: An Interview with Rev Ian Spencer
Kaspa interviews Rev Ian Spencer, an Anglican priest and Zen Buddhist – how does he bring these two quite different traditions together?
Rainforest Mind: Places of Worship? What’s the point?
If God or enlightenment is available everywhere – why build churches and temples?
Rainforest Mind: Wildness
The importance of wildness, why wildness is fundamental, and trusting the process. I talk about getting out into the natural world, and touch on the process that led to the creation of the Amida Mandala Temple. In this episode I refer to Isabella Tree’s Wilding, and Nick Totton’s Wild Therapy. Subscribe: RSS Feed
Rainforest Mind: Needs, Gratitude and Grace
In which Kaspa discovers a deep need that’s impossible to meet – and how – once the ego subsides – that need is almost magically met.
Rainforest Mind: Buddhism and Christianity
After a recent good experience in an Anglican Church, Kaspa explores the connections between Buddhism and Christianity, drawing books like Paul F. Knitters Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian