WHAT IS A DEEP LIFE? A Session with Dr. Joe DeBruin

Dr. Joe DeBruin, a clinical psychologist, provides a rich, complicated, nuanced, and diverse answer to what might be the most important question in life. What is involved in creating a ‘deep life'? Or what is the core of the deep Christian life? He calls it a life of ‘contemplation’ and then he provides 20 elements of contemplation and then also 20 elements that are not congruent with contemplation. It is a video intended to inspire and broaden. It will not leave you with a fuzzy feeling that you now have everything figured out, but it can give you a road map.
Connect with Dr. DeBruin at joedebruin.com
00:00 Intro
00:42 A search for union with God
00:49 A cooperation with God working in us
01:07 An inner experience vs an outward system
01:25 An openness to mystery
01:45 Full-access knowing
02:05 Wondering above answering
02:32 Love above knowledge
02:54 Loving God more than ideas and words about Him
03:16 A hunger for transformation
03:50 A lifelong conversion
04:26 The practice of presence
04:44 Letting go
04:55 Encountering grace, mercy, and forgiveness
05:09 Prayers to change us, not to change God
05:40 Seeing and knowing now
05:49 Appreciating goodness while knowing limitations
06:15 An awareness of paradox
06:46 Knowing above believing
07:22 Worshiping Jesus above following Jesus
07:53 Honor of God’s divine image in us
08:07 A search for perfection
08:10 A search for the door to the next world
08:17 Something we earn by being good enough
08:31 Tribalism
08:49 Theological training without spiritual experience
09:21 Binary thinking
10:05 Doctrinal conclusions without inner experience
10:31 A purity code
11:21 An exaggerated view of truth
11:59 A need for certitude
12:24 “Churchianity”
13:01 Knowledge used for ego, shame, or control
13:40 A journey only in our head
14:24 Earning or achieving
14:34 Avoidance of questioning our assumptions
15:10 Manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing
15:26 A lack of enjoyment in win-win situations
15:56 Viewing the universe as unfriendly
16:40 Pursuit of individualism
17:08 Anger at what isn’t vs enthusiasm at what is
17:46 Summary
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Loved this great string of valuable insights that are applicable to both those of many different religions and equally to those with no ecclesiastical affiliation or beliefs. CZcams algorithm needs to spread this far and wide. Thanks!