Jesus-shalom is a descendent of Workshop, a year-long programme of applied theology for everyday people that my podcast partner, Noel Moules, ran for nearly 30 years. And one of the wonderful elements of stepping into this history and legacy is the opportunity to meet fellow travelers, other spiritual seekers, who have been shaped by the Jesus-centred, world-embracing, shalom oriented framework of this podcast and its Workshop ancestor. Rob Walker is one of those people and he kindly shared some of his experience in Workshop, his transformative nature-mystical encounter, his engagement with broader mystical spirituality, both Christian and other-than-Christian. We also hear his questions about hell and universalism–each of which pushed and pulled him away from the fundamentalist evangelical church he had been involved in–as well as his curiosity about the healing possibilities of psychedelics. Listen in to learn from Rob a bit more about a mystical approach to consciousness, selfhood, God, and other things that might intersect with our shalom values and vision.
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