“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving,” Steve Maraboli reminds us, “We get stronger and more resilient.” Whether we're talking about relationships, growing older, living with grief, learning a new skill, recovery from addiction, healing from physical ailments... it's all about cultivating greater resilience and a strength that comes from that place within us that connects us to Source Itself. It saddens me to see so many self-proclaimed "progressive" clergy continue to pretend that the Christian bible is an historical text. The esoteric message in the narrative of Rabbi Jesus' death and resurrection is the initiatory journey of the human soul: the crucifixion symbolises the death of the ego (false self) and material attachment, while the resurrection represents the awakening of the Christ consciousness (True Self), revealing that eternal life and oneness with Source are realised here and now. That's the path to wholeness and resilience. And it has nothing to do with the guilt, manipulation, superstition and primitive machinations of religion. And it never was.

Tell us what it is about esoteric and gnostic spirituality and philosophy that drew you to this group. This is a safe space and no one will be judged. I just think it would be great to have a sense of what motivates one another to get involved here.

Creating a safe space for those who have been deconstructing the myths and traditions of mainstream religion -- particularly those in the LGBTQ+ community -- is something very important to me. It's the entire reason I created this group. My hope, however, was that those joining the group would engage with the content in the many courses we offer and with one another. I'd hoped we would see folks sharing the group with others they know who might be tired of mainstream social media and algorithms, ads and censorship. But instead, we seem to be in a very quiet phase. So I am reaching out to ask you what you would like to see here, in order to become more active and engaged. I don't want to continue creating more courses, if no one is actively participating in them. So tell me what you hoped to find in this group, so that we can possibly begin working on making that happen.