My name is Chris McAlister, founder of SightShift.com and a leadership guide with a seminary doctorate. I’m aiming to start a conversation with this podcast. I have no interest in finishing it. This will be a space for people to think critically about the stories guiding their lives. For 40 episodes, I’ll pull from theology, history, philosophy, meditation, religious practices, psychology, and science to help you push through. The goal is to guide you in the wilderness when you're stuck in a story that isn’t helping you grow your wisdom. It’s a poly-contemplative approach. Join me in discovering our next wisdom upgrade.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
PC 9: Power that makes you stronger
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
There's a pattern to our reactions...
to the power in our lives...
and that power shapes us in healthy and unhealthy ways.
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Saturday Oct 03, 2020
PC 8 : The river of deceit
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
Saturday Oct 03, 2020
What do you do when you feel like life is an exhausting fight?
What are you fighting against? Others? Yourself? Something or someone else?
Figuring out who you are is the greatest struggle and greatest privilege.
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
PC 7: three tests we all face
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
When the box of your worldview isn't working...
What if something else is going on?
What if there was a way to decipher what was happening?
What if it meant you would never be the same again?
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
PC 6: Practice in the dark
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
You're not ready to sustain the vision you were given.
You can be.
Make peace with the gap.
Release the broken path.
See the other even while you suffer.
Forgive and test.
Then you'll be unstoppable.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
PC 5: Drunk and more drunk
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Your life will always be full of hardships and challenges.
You can numb out and lose your spark.
Or you can stay on the lookout for when water turns to wine.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
PC 4: Unlearning hurts but it transforms
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
In life we look for the big moments. We drive towards mountaintops that will fix everything or make it all better.
Yet it's in the cave that we find our truth.
It's in the "sound of thin silence" we find our way.
And we can't really begin until we unlearn what go us here.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
PC 3: A progression of consciousness: Me and We
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
In extremist thinking we fail to understand the bigness and beauty of identity.
Some of you isn't the sum of you.
Yet, on the extreme right they demonize and diminish the struggle for becoming.
On the extreme left they victimize around whatever is the least validated part of their identity.
The electric middle is where we stand in the beauty of me and we.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
PC 2: Your voice or the institution?
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
There's no transformation without leaving the institutions of our lives.
As we leave them (internally and maybe externally also) do they champion our progression and development?
We're in the midst of an era where our institutions are reinforcing shame rather than removing it.
Find the courage to find your way.
Friday Sep 11, 2020
PC 1: The ancient/now struggle: Our 3 great problems
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Society used to solve 3 great problems for you.
Now they don't.
You have to learn these 3 mega skills on your own.
If you do then you will be unshameable, unstoppable, and uncancellable.
It's about the struggle to be a good human who can be trusted with the great power of being impactful.