The Music Life: Recent Episodes
Skip Rushing
This is a podcast about finding meaning in life through music. We will talk about different genres. We will take a look at different types of musical understandings and our love for music.
In this episode I will explore my interpretation of the great 1979 masterpiece by Pink Floyd, the wall.
This is an episode where we talk about the band Nirvana. Some history and their impact upon music and life in general.
Hello my friends. You will note that the podcast format has changed the topic has changed. This introductory episode to the music life will explain why.
We are all invited into new ways of being. That should not scare us or frighten us. However, as human beings we will always always always hold on to The way it was. Spiritual maturity isn’t about being a monk or a saint it’s about realizing that we are always transforming and moving to the new paradigm.
What does it look like when we are the fullest expression of the human beings that we are. Take a listen.
So if we know that we have been formed by misinformation, what’s the next step. Take a listen. Thanks!
In this podcast I go deeper into the topic of how we are programmed into the false self.
A major part of the spiritual journey is and learning who we think we are. Take a listen. Thanks
We must have a larger purpose in our life. However, we have to be careful because there’s a lot of things out there wanting us to buy into them. Take a listen. Thanks guys.
What does it look like to be an authentic person? What does it mean to be on the spiritual journey? Take a listen.
This podcast is just an update on where finding meaning is at. It has been a while since I have given one and I will get back to give me more lengthy podcasts very soon but here is a brief word of encouragement for you and for me.
How is it that people can choose some thing that is demonstrably a lie? Take a listen! Please!
Why do we believe things? Why do humans find it necessary to make assertions that things are facts and other things are not. Take a listen, please.
Living out of fear causes manipulation. Manipulation of reality which causes fear. Thus, the false reality is created. Take a listen please. Thanks guys!
This podcast is an explanation of what finding meeting is about. I am preparing to take finding meaning visually and have live presentations and this podcast is the beginning of that process for me. Thank you
Patience is one of the biggest issues that we have or lack there of. Take a listen please
When we make decisions out of our false self things go wrong. This podcast is about recognizing that.
There is a power to being an empath, there is a power to being highly sensitive there is a power to being spiritual. Take a listen. Thanks!!!!
This episode talks about where our discovery of being empathic or discovery of being a sensitive or our need for spiritual sustenance leads us to an authenticity. That authenticity is the human journey.
In this episode I try to help people identify their own empathic sensitivity and spiritual wakefulness.
This is the beginning of a multiple part series on what it means to live in our world as a spiritually inclined person, an empathic person and a sensitive person. If you feel like you see the world differently than others or if you feel like you feel emotion more deeply than others, you are probably spiritually inclined, empathic or highly sensitive. Take a listen please
Why are people choosing what their choosing? What motivates us to make choices? Take a listen please. Thanks guys!
Hello my friends. In honor of the 200th episode of finding meaning I have tried to define what this podcast is about. Take a listen. Thank you
Important to understand the peace of spiritual growth. Take a listen please. Thank you!
There’s a reason our brains come up with conspiracy theories. Take a listen please. Thank you!
What is at the core of what drives us? I’m convinced it’s the search for meaning. Take a listen please. Thank you!
This podcast is about how the ego will insert itself everywhere it can as it begins to fade away in your spiritual growth. Take a listen please. Thank you!
Just like an apple tree we are in a constant state of becoming something that bears fruit. Take a listen please. Thank you!
We do a lot of self talk. A lot of it comes from ego. However, not all of it. Take a listen please. Thanks
What happens when we open our eyes and find it so much of our life is built in falsities. Take a listen, please. Thank you
Spiritual journey is full of moments of Epiphany and realization. Take a listen please. Thank you.
Here is what I think is a decent explanation of the difference between evil and brokenness. Take a listen please thank you.
Ever meet people who constantly try to make themselves superior to you. There’s a reason. Take a listen please, thanks.
This is the end of a three part series on the past, the present and the future. The future is unknown and we have to accept that, easier said than done. Take a listen! Thanks
This short episode is the second of a three part series on, the past, the present and the future. Enjoy!
This begins a three part series on the past, the present and the future. In this podcast we look at how false information is a way that we have made false and incorrect choices in our past. I do hope you enjoy it.
Being who you really hard include your past, your present, and your future. We have to be who we really are in order to be transformed
What happens to us when we are validated externally or internally? What happens to that false self? Take a listen please.
There’s some strange stuff in this world. Maybe there’s a way to understand it? In this podcast we talk about how we might approach understanding the mysteries of this life.
Have you ever felt you really didn’t belong? This might be the reason. Take a listen please.
This is the final part of a six part series of podcasts on practical aspects to finding meaning in our life. We are emotional beings we must experience those emotions and that is the context of this final sixth part of the series.
In this podcast we look at the thinking/mental aspect of finding meaning. Take a listen please!
We are sexual beings and the exploration of our sexuality is a necessary and important part of being human. Take a listen.
To be human is to be physical. Finding balance and In our physicality Is central to finding meaning
It has been a few weeks since I posted a podcast. Here is the reason why. Take a listen please!
There are four aspects of our spiritual being that we need to focus on. Please take a listen
Although we grow beyond to do is move this world, we still have to engage it. Take a listen please!
The function out of a set of insecurities. The answer is self-awareness. Take a listen please
Yes there will be challenges in life but there will be moments of clarity to. Break on through!
The level of forgiveness and grace we can share correlates often with the level of forgiveness and grace we have received. Take a listen
Do we seriously want to have a change in our life? Do we know what that means? Take a listen please
We are constantly having ideas put in our heads and we are constantly putting our ideas into other peoples heads. There is a danger to this take a listen
We have tools to deal with our world. Thinking critically, trusting as faith, living out of love and acting out of kindness are all keys to finding meaning. Take a listen.
Life seems to be about choices. However, we must be careful not to get stuck in those choices.
Being aware of one’s self means being aware of one’s anxiety and one’s joy. How do we engage this world spiritually? Take a listen.
How do we deal with toxic people, toxic situations and often toxic world? Take a listen
Being human is a very complex and multi layered endeavor. We have to understand this in order to find mean
Happiness is a part of finding meaning. Take a listen to hear how we might find happiness.
The ability to lie to oneself is more powerful than one realizes. Until we get past our inability to see our own lies, we cannot move forward. Take a listen
We do have some control over reality. We can control it by how we frame it. That may not get us out of the pain of life but it might allow it to make more sense and add meaning.
What does it mean to feel things deeply in the world that has really gone to a dark place. Take a listen.
We are all searching for meaning. After all that’s what this podcast is about. But there are two ways in which we search for meaning. Take a listen
We are people of relationships. Those relationships can be difficult to navigate. Take a listen
It could be said that the brain is a computer. The question is, what software are you using. Take a listen.
This podcast contains a bit of personal story to let you know what I mean when I talk about love. Take a listen
The journey of Finding Meaning is the journey of self discovery. The journey of self discovery means we have to look deep within ourselves. Even if we don’t like it!
Much of the suffering that we go through is caused by choices we make from the false self. Take a listen
There are two kinds of judgment. One we have to make the other we cannot make. Take a listen
One of the greatest mistakes we have made is to believe that our relationship with the universe is transactional. Take a listen
What prompted us to find meaning? By What process do we continue to seek? What is too much anxiety? Take a listen.
As we journey to find meaning in our personal life we are also trying to find meaning in our collective life
The greatest mistake religions have made is to become the moral authority. Spirituality does not he equate to subjective morality. There is only one morality and that is love!
One of the most difficult things to do is to let life unfold in front of you. To have the patience to do that is everything!!!
The human mind is scrambling to label your reality and others. That’s the natural way of being human. But what if we could contemplate living beyond that. Take a listen.
I don’t know about you but I have seen many relationships strained. Here’s some ideas about how to cope
The reason we get stuck in ruts as humans, it’s because we have no one to invite us or we have very few people invite us to a new way of thinking.
Just a little podcast about where we have been and where we might go. And the meaning that I find right now
Hardest thing for a human to do is to be in the midst of transformation. This might help
In the midst of a confusing world we need to learn that our higher power to speak to us. The question is, in what way?
As humans we keep looking for some answer, some program, some religion, some exercise that spiritual. You are already spiritual!
What is the next spiritual step for humanity? I believe it is learning to think beyond opposition and dualisms. Take a listen.
Spirituality is our quest and there are stages to our spirituality. What does it mean to be spiritual?
We are given time, talents, energy and the only way we can use them is to benefit others
What is life about, Christmas Hanukkah religious celebration. What is our fear leading us to what is the meaning we seek. Take a listen
We have to stop thinking in terms of transaction and start thinking in terms of experience in order to experience things like happiness and forgiveness
Low self-esteem high self-esteem etc. etc. it’s all dualism. There’s a deeper place to live
What are the great ironies of our life and one of the great sadness is behind not finding meeting is, we see complacency rather than transformation
As we live our life and as we go on a quest to find meaning there are moments when we find meaning. Take a listen
Mini mini mini religions teach us that we are looking in the wrong place for God and for heaven. Take a listen
The universe works for us if we only open her eyes and let go of expectations only let go of expectations
The question in this podcast is, does your religion inform what you believe or do your beliefs inform the religion you Follow?
Far too often we Are told that we have to do something to earn God’s love, or the universes love, your higher power’s love. Guess what? You don’t take a listen
We’ve got to have both honky-tonk music and gospel music check out the podcast and hear the metaphor
Yes life has within it big storms. However, it has within a little storms and they bother us sometimes more than the big ones. Take a listen
To be an agent of change from one cannot settle for the ways of the world. Take a listen
Talking about the album the wall by the band Pink Floyd and how it is spiritually important
It is sad that religion teaches us that to make mistakes is a bad thing. Making mistakes is not easy but necessary. Take a listen!
This is the first podcast about the topic of energy. What it is and who is it. It’s a brief podcast, but. Just a beginning of the conversation about energy
Real community can only happen organically and With inclusivity. Take a listen on my ideas about community. Thanks
Kindness builds people up and makes the world a better place the opposite is true also!!!
Giving ourselves grace is one of the hardest things to do. But we must do it. Take a listen
Too many times on the spiritual journey we believe we are not where we are supposed to be. Fact of the matter is this you are exactly where you are supposed to be and you are OK.
Our every day experience is also spiritual, even if it doesn’t feel like it. Take a listen
What does Jesus mean when he says you can live in the world but not of it? What does Buddha mean when he says that attachment cause suffering? Take a listen.
Do you ever feel as though something is missing? Do you ever feel homesick? There’s a reason for that.
There is an answer brothers and sisters for the insanity of her world end of our lives.
What are the positive dog whistles in your life? What resonates with you? Take a listen.
Ability to understand a wide range of issues with any aspect of life is a sign of spiritual growth. Take a listen
As we get angry with the way things are we need to remember that the way things are have come from the false self every human. Take a listen
On the spiritual journey you can seem as though we are giving up the very best of who we are. In fact however, we are really discovering the best of who we are. Take a listen
There is a deeper level to the teachings of Jesus that we could ever imagine. A deeper level than any church or any dog might could ever convey.
Why don’t our quests for improvement of life or a better belief ever really work? Here’s one idea take a listen.
What does it mean when we are told by the great spiritual masters that we cannot judge?
Be it religion, be it a club, be it anything! Our world functions out of transactional expectation and that’s wrong. Take a listen,
It is not what happens to you that makes you happy or sad it’s how you perceive what happens to you that makes you happy or sad.
It may be difficult but there are times we have to look for the blessing in everything.
Have you ever dreamt about spiritual community it is of inclusion and is of love? Take a listen.
As much as we like to fight against it life is about change. Maybe that’s the way we should live it?
Her disappointments are part of the journey and if we allow them to be they can be useful spiritual tools
We can live life with more than just tolerating life. If we can find a bigger purpose than we can persevere through things we didn’t think that we could.
What is real grace and what does it do for us? What is shame and what does it do to us?
Your authentic self is your true self your true self is your higher self your higher self is the self that finds meaning.
Yes we create our own reality for our life and hopefully that affects others. However, we have very little or maybe no control over the externals. This podcast is about that lack of control.
What we intend for ourselves we should intend for others and what we intend for others is what we intend for ourselves.
On the spiritual journey we are called to wait. It’s just as important as everything else we do. Be it like Jesus in the tomb, Jonah and the whale or Buddha under the bodhi tree, the spiritual journey is often about waiting.
Here are two podcasts that run together both dealing with the same topic of surrendering and discovering who you are.
There is a way to remain calm in the eye of any storm by practicing holy in difference. I hope you enjoy.
If there is one secret that we have forgotten as human beings it is the power to create our own reality. I hope this episode helps us all to do that in positive ways.
Paying attention is the hardest bill to bill to pay. Awareness is vital to finding Meaning.
This is the first episode of what I hope is several podcasts seeking to understand the meaning of life through, spirituality, the arts and human relationships.