Welcome to Spirit Jim. Did you know that there are currently 45,000 branches of Christianity,

each claiming to hold the original teachings of Jesus? So which one is correct?

Scholars have pointed out that even Jesus' own disciples didn't fully understand him,

so what chance do the rest of us have? But what if almost everything

we've told about the parables of Jesus is wrong? Not slightly off, not open to debate, but fundamentally,

completely, and perhaps deliberately misunderstood. In today's episode, Paul welcomes back

Father Sean O'Lea, priest, mystic and scholar of six languages

and six world mythologies.

Sean's premise is both precise and startling that the parables of Jesus weren't primitive

folk tales dressed up as theology.

They were, and remain, the most sophisticated delivery mechanism ever designed for transmitting

wisdom that the rational mind alone is simply not equipped to receive.

A parable isn't meant to give you information.

It's meant to give you a surfboard and point you at a wave.

The question is, are you ready to ride? But before we get started,

we'd like to say thank you for listening, as this podcast would not be possible without you,

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you. Now over to Paul and Sean as they explore the parables of Jesus in a way you have never heard before.

Well as you heard from Penny's beautiful introduction, one of my favorite people on the whole

planet is with us here today. Somebody I suspect you've heard on my podcast before, and that's

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