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Bring Love to It
Carol has noticed the notion of Oneness that New Thought and traditional religion have in common. She and Rev. Bill discuss that, even though the world around us shows...
Changing the Way We Look at Things Changes the Way They Look
Carol is ready to give up her Certified Control Freak card and settle into a more comfortable partnership with the Infinite. As Rev. Bill points out, we have the abili...
Good News
Carol is concerned about getting wrapped up in the news of the day. Rev. Bill shares an idea about using the news as our prayer requests. The conversation turns to Rec...
Health, Wealth, Love, Work, and Spirit
Rev. Bill suggests that there are only five things we pray for. Carol resists, then they make their way to agreement before the discussion turns to the idea of prayer ...
CTAs and Thanksgiving
Carol wants to have a "Call to Action" in her prayers, to be very specific about the result she's desiring. Through the discussion, Rev. Bill suggests that it can be a...
Spirit Within, or Without
Carol is comfortable with the first two steps in Practical Prayer - Recognizing the One Power in back of everything, and then knowing that she is part of the One. She ...
Invisible Friends and Rapid Pace Affirmations
The conversation about duality continues, with Carol concerned that she might have to give up her intimate relationship with Spirit. Rev. Bill describes another way to...
Duality
New Thought is a philosophy and teaching of unity. Rev. Bill points out that duality is anything not consistent with the notion of Oneness. Carol has a longstanding pr...
Hypothetical Situations
Rev. Bill and Carol discuss the difficulties in solving hypothetical questions, and the ways we can pray for guidance in taking our next perfect steps.
How Much Better Can It Get?
Carol wants to know, if God is in it, and God can do anything, then what's holding us back in what we ask for? Rev. Bill describes the intersection of Infinite possibi...
New Thought Confetti
Carol has questions about praying for something without knowing how it could happen, along with a bunch of other things that feel like it's been tossed up in the air, ...
Getting Started with Practical Prayer
As we begin our practice of Practical Prayer, we don't have to start with "The Big Stuff", even though it's been demonstrated in miraculous healings, prosperity, and t...
Getting the Yes You Want
Carol continues to dig into the notion that the answer is in the prayer. Rev. Bill points our that, In order for our prayers to create a new and more joyous life, we h...
The Answer to the Prayer is In the Prayer
Ernest Holmes wrote that the answer to the prayer is in the prayer. Carol thinks that's beautiful, but isn't able to fit it into the familiar prayer models from tradit...
God Always Says Yes
Our language - the words we use, and the ways we use them - have a tremendous influence on the effectiveness of our prayers. As Rev. Bill explains, the answer is going...
The New Language of New Thought
Rev. Bill describes the science behind Scientific Prayer, what it is and what it's not, and how everyone can use it to bring more good into our lives. We close with a ...
Sticking Points
Carol has some questions that won't go away: Who am I talking or praying to? How about sinners, and separation from God? What if I need to add another step or two to t...
Jesus and Practical Prayer
Carol wants to know why Jesus didn’t do Practical Prayer… or did he? And how do we pray like Jesus? Rev. Bill gives us the instructions from Jesus on how to pray, and ...
Prayer With Purpose
When we begin a Practical Prayer, we start with our statement of purpose - the change in circumstance that we desire as a result of the work in consciousness. Rev. Bil...
Making Traditional Prayers Practical
Carol asks if people who have a longstanding, more traditional prayer practice can incorporate the techniques of Practical Prayer? Rev. Bill says that the answer is ye...
Spiritual Mind Treatment, Scientific and Affirmative Prayer
The “traditional” language of New Thought includes prayers called Spiritual Mind Treatment. There are also references to Scientific Prayer, Affirmative Prayer, and oth...
Praying for Others to Change
Carol wants to know, if someone is behaving badly, or is abusive, or our kids are "stuck on stupid", can we use Practical Prayer to fix them? The conversation balances...
What Makes Practical Prayer Different
Carol wants to know how Practical Prayer is different than other forms of prayer. Rev. Bill acknowledges his ignorance, and limited familiarity with other forms of pra...
Doubt
What happens when we don’t believe that what we’re praying for is possible? As Carol points out, we want to believe… we try to believe… but there’s something in there ...
Losing My Religion
Do I have to give up my religion in order to use Practical Prayer? This is a question that comes up a lot from people involved in traditional religions. The short answ...
An Unlikely Duo
How the heck did these two people get onto this podcast? Rev. Bill and Carol talk about their back stories, and the winding spiritual paths that brought them into this...
Praying for Money
You cannot pray for money. Or maybe you can. Carol and Rev. Bill take on this very touchy topic with gentle clarity that lets “the big picture” inform our understandin...
Ten Percent Better
Sometimes, when we open ourselves to Good, we only open a little. In this episode Rev. Bill describes a delightful technique that helps us take our self-imposed limita...
What You Can Pray For
Are there topics that are out of bounds for prayer? Things that we’re not supposed to pray for? And if there are, what are they and how did they get that way? This pod...
What Makes a Prayer Practical?
There’s a difference between a Practical Prayer and another kind of prayer. Carol and Rev. Bill dive in to explore and explain what it is.