My Story of The Cosmic Egg

Another Name For Every Thing with Richard Rohr

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Richard Rohr, in conversation with Paul Swanson and Brie Stoner, steps into the “my story” of the Cosmic Egg. Richard describes the “my story” as the private, small life searching for significance through power, prestige, and possessions. The threads of this conversation follow the gifts, shadows, and pursuits of healing within “my story”. Resources: visit cac.org/podcast, or where ever you download podcasts, to listen to the first 4 seasons of Another Name for Every Thing visit universalchrist.org to learn more about the core themes of Richard’s book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe The transcript for this episode can be found here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit caac.org.
0:07.0	Brie, it's been so fun to delve into this cosmic agon-meaning.
0:16.0	And pretty much in this conversation, as we talked about my story, well, not my, as in
0:21.9	Paul Swanson's story, but just then.
0:23.8	Which would have been, that would have been just as entertaining now.
0:25.7	Which would have been a really long episode.
0:29.8	But as we talked about this, this yoke of the cosmic agon-searcher said, and the ways
0:35.1	that it shows itself in healthy and healthy ways, and the ways that we also need to see this
0:41.0	as one healing aspect of the whole cosmic agon-meaning.
0:45.0	What struck you in particular about this episode?
0:47.9	Oh, man, so much.
0:49.1	I think, you know, it's really, it's really beautiful to hear Richard reflect on, you
0:55.4	know, the healthy rule of religion in giving context to my story, the my story, so that
1:02.9	the my story doesn't become the narcissistic whole thing.
1:07.3	And you know, I think it's fair to say that we live in an era of narcissists and social
1:13.2	media certainly isn't aiding us with that.
1:15.6	So the ways in which Richard talked about the importance of context and in seeing ourselves
1:22.2	as reciprocally part of an hour and a larger, the transcendent story was really helpful
1:28.4	to me.
1:29.4	What about you?
1:30.4	Yeah.
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