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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to insights at the edge Today, my guest is Thomas Moore.

Thomas Moore is an American psychotherapist,

a former monk and the New York Times best-selling author

of Care of the Soul.

After studying at a prep seminary for 13 years,

he left just before his ordination as a priest

and went on to obtain a PhD in religious studies from Syracuse University,

as well as degrees in music composition and theology.

With Sounds True, Tom has published several audio learning programs and online courses,

and most recently, the audio series A Personal Spirituality,

finding your own way to a meaningful life.

Today, Tom and I spoke about staying faithful to one's own conscience and

inner promptings, even when that makes you less popular. conscience and

can even appear to betray one's religious tradition.

We talked about our secular culture and how there is a current

distrust of the mysterious and unknowable and how the ability to connect with the mysteries of the universe without having to explain

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