Soul Search

Who are you? How we answer this question determines everything in life. Too often our culture answers it for us, taking us away from being in touch with who we truly are. The essence of the spiritual life is to reclaim our lost identity. Using a blend of storytelling and interviews, the Soul Search podcast is an up-close look at this journey, taking you below the surface of life to find your deepest and truest self. Music: The Onyx by Blue Dot Sessionshttps://thesoulsearch.orgSign up fo...

In Episode One of our very first podcast series, called "Welcome Your Life," we look at walking as a spiritual practice to deepen our awareness in life. This is a certain kind of walking, not to get anywhere or to accomplish anything. Instead it is a walk to linger and to listen. We'll join Kirk Davis, a San Francisco native and community leader in the city's Bayview neighborhood, to trace the steps of a sacred walk he would take through the city. Often taking several hours, it is...

In this second episode of our "Welcome Your Life" series, we look at a vital, but often neglected, aspect of a healthy spirituality - wonder. As adults we tend to lose that unfiltered amazement of the world we had as children. Our agendas take over instead because we think wonder is a luxury we can no longer afford. But could it be that what we seem to have lost in our adult lives has never left us? And that recapturing wonder can reconnect us with what's always been most essential to u...

Our eyes often deceive us. We tend to confuse what we think about a person or a situation with all there is to them. But much of what we've come to believe is simply a reflection of our own internalized expectations or fears. Our projections distort their truth, and say more about us than about them. What does it take to slow down and see below the surface of life to what's actually there? And what's on the other side of what we resist?In this third episode of our "Welcome Your Life" se...

Kirk's walk in episode 1 inspired others to walk too. In this bonus episode, we take a walk with Nita Hines through Ingleside, the neighborhood where she was born and raised. It was a place of childhood wonder, care and spiritual connection. But like Kirk's home, it's changed too.Intro (00:00) - Did I lose something?Act 1 | The Hood (04:00) - Some things have changed.Act 2 | The Church (15:53) - Some things you question.Act 3 | The Home (20:43) - Some things can't be taken from you.Outr...

Kris Smiley has had four cancers episodes, twenty plus tumors and multiple invasive surgeries. He knows what it’s like to face that cold calculating part of reality that doesn’t care about your plans or the things you love. Can you hold hands with what’s destroying you? Is there an answer to why it’s happening? This is his story about finding out.Be advised: This episode contains adult language and graphic descriptions of medical procedures. So if any of this is triggering for you, you might ...

The next episode of Soul Search is "Taste," featuring Dr. Joyce del Rosario. Food has power when it's more than just something to eat. Coming in June.