The Camino - The Way to Everything that Matters - TBH 376
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
I was sitting in my convertible Mercedes, staring up at the dark, starry night, anxiety and worry filling my heart. I figured Heaven was somewhere up there. I said, “God, if You are up there, all I want is inner peace. Please help me.”
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John Sottosanti had everything—success as an oral surgeon, a beautiful home steps from the San Diego beach, and a Mercedes in the garage.
But one by one, it all unraveled. Fraud, unexpected lawsuits, and even a car that seemed possessed, threw his life into chaos.
Desperate for peace, John whispered a simple prayer—and God answered in ways he never imagined. His journey led him to the 500 mile Camino in Spain, and a life-changing supernatural encounter in a small chapel along the way. This is the story of losing stuff…and finding everything that truly matters.
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John Sottosanti website: https://mortaladhesions.com/
Mortal Adhesions Book: https://amzn.to/3JstG5F
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| 0:00.0 | And I started having anxiety and despair. |
| 0:12.0 | I was sitting in my car, the Mercedes Ben, where the roof that opened, looking up at a dark starry night, |
| 0:20.0 | figuring heaven was up there somewhere and said, |
| 0:23.3 | God, if you are up there, all I want is inner peace. Please help me. |
| 0:29.3 | This is touched by heaven. Everyday encounters with God. Those moments when heaven and |
| 0:36.7 | earth collide. We see God. We see when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:37.9 | We see God, we see these flare gun moments, |
| 0:40.0 | God shooting off the flare gun, getting our attention, |
| 0:41.9 | these encounter stories with angels, |
| 0:44.7 | divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, near-death experiences. |
| 0:48.2 | Welcome, I'm your host, Trapper, Jack. |
| 0:50.7 | Have an exercise for you if you can. |
| 0:52.8 | Do you know, I just used AI to find out the answer for me, |
| 0:58.4 | do you know what's 500 miles away from you? |
| 1:02.5 | If you're to go for a drive, is there something 500 miles away? |
| 1:06.9 | So I just checked, and I, for instance, from, I'm in the Cleveland, Ohio area, Montreal is 500 miles away. Columbia, South Carolina. Hi there. 500 miles away. St. Louis, Missouri. There you go. Arch. Oh, look at that arch. Now, imagine wherever it is for you, find out what it is. And then imagine walking it. Why would? St. Louis. How bad do I want to walk from here to under the arch? Maybe not so much. It's a long way, my God. And yet right now, there are thousands of people doing it. At a particular place, you've heard of the Camino in northern Spain, 500 miles. And some of them are doing it to find themselves find God I think of the way the movie |
| 1:46.1 | the way Martin Sheen and his son amelia west ofez and I think you know as I flash on the movie it's like |
| 1:52.5 | why do people do it for him it seems like he needed to kill something I think some people just need |
| 1:57.6 | to kill something something inside themselves died itself and in his case maybe pride, whatever it was that needed to die. And some, you know, I imagine maybe they don't know that's why they're walking. But I think some people are out there killing something. Whatever gets in their way of being the person, they want to be the more loving person. They want to be. I have two sisters who did it. I'm amazed by this still. I just, and they, they, they, they, they, your feet are going to get so blistered every day they were walking and then got to get the right clothes, you know, something they can rinse out at night and drys quickly and stick it on the next day and off they go again. Uh, amazing experience. I think it interesting, too, that when I asked them afterwards, you know, what's the takeaway? |
| 2:38.2 | They couldn't tell me for a while. |
| 2:40.7 | It was so deep, so spiritual, is like, ah, I can't, they weren't there for a while to fully try to explain what touched them, you know? So in this episode, a gentleman |
| 2:53.5 | by the name of John Sotomay eventually gets there. Felt the need to kneel. It felt so holy in there. |
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