Ocean of Ontological Light: Recent Episodes
Ron Wright
An Ocean of Ontological Light is a deep dive and exploration of our spiritual interiority where we are immersed in the presence, power and partnership of God, in Christ. These podcasts explore the Christian path from a biblical background and the mystical traditions birthed in direct encounter with and experience of the All-Inclusive Christ.
The mystics tell us our life is a great mystery hidden in God. Our existence and the unfolding of our real Self is actually not in us, but in God. This is why Communion with God is so essential. We will never discover our real being and our potential and capacity without communing with God and digging out our real Life which is hidden deep in His Love for us. This is what Communion does for us: it pulls out of our spirit the deep levels of God's Love for us and the powerful energies of His Life that unfold our truest potential. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light, come join me in an unveiling of where your life truly begins and ends: in Consummation of God's Love through Communion.
There is so much ego involvement in modern spirituality... as if God should cater to our wants, whims and wishes. The truth is that the path into God is a great dissolving as it were. God is not here to prop up and push forward our ego; rather, our ego has a destiny to dissolve and die as we enter into our spirit and understand the true profundity of what it means to live in Union with God. He must increase, and we must decrease. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light I explore the path of Dissolving into Profundity with God.
Are you ready for the Truth? Truth never stops calling out to us from the hidden recesses of our spirit. She is always seeking to make her wisdom known. The thing is, we are not always ready for the truth. There needs to be a certain realization of what it takes to encounter, receive and live the truth. In this episode I look at what it means to be ready for the truth.
Our lives are always drawn to something. As heavenly bodies orbit around larger bodies with larger mass and gravity (eg. the moon around the earth), so our soul will tend to gravitate to and orbit around what we have given "weight" and significance to in our life.
God's design is that our life and living orbit around His Son. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light we see that Freedom is found in learning to keep the orbit our being around God alone.
Christian mystics have often seen two seemingly opposite ways of approach to experiencing God. One way is via positiva (the positive way) and via negativa (the negative way). in the former, we reduce ourselves to nothing so that God fills all and all; in the latter way, we fill ourselves up with God until noting of self is left. Both ways lead to the same end: where God is all in all. In this Episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light I explore these two mystical perspectives to help you get a handle on them.
"What is the best practice for spiritual awakening?" It is a question I am often asked. In this episode I explore the heart of good spiritual practice: one that isn't just another ego-driven "self-help" exercise, but actually helps us touch what is authentic in us and living in God.
"Free indeed" is what Jesus promised us. God calls us to His own Freedom. What does freedom look like? If we are not free in our being, then everything we do is shrouded in fear and restriction. Freedom is an inward job: it is the removal of all our interior shadows by the Light of God's Love. In this episode, I look into the basis of ontological freedom.
Our life is both on an absolute level with God and a very relative level with the world; our lives are supernatural and natural all at once. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light I discuss the balance between the secular and sacred and conclude that life is about the beauty of sacred nonsense.
We don't see the world as it is, but we see the world -- and everything else -- as we are. How we see ourselves colours everything we do. It is the lens through which we perceive the world. In our spiritual path, God can open our eyes so see our true nature and life, as it subsists in Him, and through this vision we live a life of "trembling delight". Religion would have us cower from God in trembling fear, but Love brings us into the Trembling Delight of a God Who is thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying.
The world keeps us occupied and distracted. There is an all out assault upon our attention. Spirituality is about awakening and elevating awareness -- awareness to our inner being, our spirit and to God. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light, I discuss how to rescue our awareness. and return it to God.
The ego would have us see a world divided, separated and imperfect, but God's Spirit reveals a life through Christ that presents to us a Perfection to all Reality. In this episode, I delve into the perfection of every moment, in every place, because all things exist in Him who is True.
Why is there evil and suffering in the world? What is the nature of God's Presence in a world with suffering? In this episode of an Ocean of Ontological Light I discuss the powerful way in which God has chosen to walk with us through the trails of this life to revel and release His Love and Wisdom within us.
Here I discuss the important topic of Trust. Relationships only move at the speed of Trust and our relationship with God is no different. In this episode I help you investigate the meaning of trust and how it is to be gained in your heart.
Happiness is everyone's first pursuit. Why is the human soul oriented towards happiness? In this episode we discover that not only is Joy our pursuit, but it is also our very origin and being. Happiness is our pursuit because Joy is our essence of being within God's Love.
We all have two histories: the history of our personality in linear time and the history of our spirit in the heavenly realms with Christ. Growing in grace means that we make the transition of our faith from the former history to the latter. In this episode I discuss the practice of moving our attention from life in this world to a life found within Christ.
In this episode, we take a look into making our spiritual path a skillful one. "Skillful" is not usually a term we associate with spirituality, yet the lack of such pursuit in our relationship to God often is the cause of much dissatisfaction, difficulties and sorrow. Here we will investigate the meaning of a skillful vision.
In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light, I share the essential spiritual practice of placing awareness on our spirit, where Christ's Life is mingled with ours. This is the primary practice for fellowship with God and our growth in the divine Life.
The spiritual path requires an emotional anchor as we navigate the challenges of day to day life. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light I discuss the place of the Son of God as the relational anchor for our path.
We are often discourages by the seeming contradiction between what we believe and how we live. Life is often messy. In this episode of An Ocean of Ontological Light I discuss the movement of the "real" of circumstances to the "ideal" we are Christ.
This podcast reflects on our spiritual interiority, or our "heartscape", where we connect with God spirit to Spirit and become enriched by these intimate, interior and inspiring encounters. Understanding our interior makeup is essential to navigating a path of faith and being able to discern how God communes with us.