PODCAST · religion
Spiritually Curious Podcast
by Khaaliq Thomas
Finding God, Enlightenment, and Self Outside Religion
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What Does It Mean To Live A Life?
Life is a constant invitation to transform and become. But what does that actually mean? We break down what it means to live authentically, respond to change, and create an experience that’s uniquely yours.
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Prayer: Why You Ask But Don’t Receive - Part I
What if prayer isn’t something we say, but something we live? This episode explores the deeper reality of prayer—not as religious ritual or spoken word, but as a constant, energetic dialogue with the divine. Whether spoken or silent, intentional or unconscious, every thought, belief, and action becomes a form of asking. Unanswered prayers aren’t signs … Read More Read More
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Salvation Without Religion
What if salvation wasn’t something you earned through religious loyalty but something you awakened to? What if being “saved” had nothing to do with belonging to a religion—but everything to do with becoming your truest, most liberated self?
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Carpe Diem – How to Identify and Seize Opportunities for Personal Growth
Opportunities are all around us—some whisper softly, while others boldly demand our attention. But how often do we ignore them, fearing change and clinging to our comfort zones? In this powerful episode, we break down what it truly means to recognize and embrace opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Learn how shifting your mindset can … Read More Read More
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The Idea of God III: What Does God Want From you?
Asking yourself this question, you’ve come up with answers that originate from religion or that are religious in nature. Things come to mind like, God wants you to go to church, to pray more, or to forgive and forget and be nice to those people that are cruel, hateful, and intolerable. You have been told … Read More Read More
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Daily Affirmation for Fearlessness / Confidence / Power: Claim Your Greatness
Us this affirmation daily to enter into your day with intention. Speak words of power over yourself and into universe to open yourself up for powerful experiences that lead to you being your best possible self.
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The Idea of God II: What Does God Actually Do?
Taking God outside religion is the only way too make God relevant and useful on a universal level. In this episode we discuss knowing God according to what God does in a religious capacity handicaps God.
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The Idea of God I: Who Is God?
This is where we do the work of discovering God, Self, and Enlightenment outside religion. This podcast is for people that think church is whack yet desire to have a relationship with God that affirms them for who they are authentically.
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Discover God, Self and Enlightenment Outside Religion
Discover the divine outside the church and within self. Khaaliq Thomas guides you on a journey of spiritual exploration, personal empowerment, and finding God in the beauty of daily life.
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For Those That Feel They Have Lost Touch With God
What do you when you don’t feel the presence of God in your life as strongly as you used to?
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Is God Asking You to Change?
2024 is coming and change is on our minds.Where is the inspiration for change coming from? Is God wanting you to change? Who benefits from this change; you or God? Understanding change from a perspective that is self empowering is essential to your becoming.
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Platos Allegory of the Cave and Discovering Your Truth
We tend to understand truth as a constant, unchanging, unbreakable guide we must adhere to but what if that is wrong. What if truth has free forming characteristics? Can we accept truth as more than the forms on the wall society gives us? Do you have enough courage to climb out of your cave into … Read More Read More
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Guided Meditative Affirmation: Transform the Way You See Yourself
We produce the personal worlds we live in according to our beliefs and perceptions. It is true that in order to change what we see we must change the way we think. But the way we think is directly connected to how we see ourselves, the power we believe in have. Therefore changing the way … Read More Read More
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Understanding Yourself To Be The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Jesus is not the only way to God and religion is not the only language, method, and passage to connect to the ultimate power that governs all life. You as an individualized aspect of the Absolute have the ability to connect to the Absolute. Consciously connecting to God doesn’t demand accepting a savior it requires … Read More Read More
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Losing Religion Finding Yourself
When we consider the objective of religion is to transform the individual into the ideal person we realize that in the process of that transformation the individual losses their uniqueness in order to belong to the community of believers and being accepted into a deep and meaningful relationship with God. One believer must become like … Read More Read More
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The Concept of God | Challenging The Ultimate Truth of Religion
Religious ultimate truth give us a concept of who and what God is, but is that image of God accurate? God is not an object that can be directly observed like the Las Vegas strip yet and still ultimate truths are formed about God. How does this construction of God, this creation of the Divine … Read More Read More
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How To Manifest | Exposing The Myth of The Law of Attraction
The mainstream philosophy of manifestation says that we can create the life of our dreams and have whatever we want. Is this plausible? What happens when we do believe and do the visualization and have the emotion and energy wrapped around the life we want to manifest but it doesn’t happen? Let’s explore another philosophy … Read More Read More
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Meditative Affirmation for Becoming a Confident, Fearless, Overcomer
Starting your day with intention is a strategic way to take advantage off the opportunities for advancement that await you today. This meditative affirmation prepares you for today and beyond by equipping you with the mindset to be the best version of yourself. Practice this affirmative for the week at the start of each day.
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Making Sense of God
How do we make sense of God?
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Stop Trying to be More Like Jesus; Building a Deep and Meaningful Relationship with God
Religion teaches that becoming more like its founders is the way in which an authentic relationship with God is established. The goal is to be more like the religious guide (Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Buddha, etc.) and less like yourself. But being more like your religious figure suggests we as individuals seeking to have a deep … Read More Read More
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Losing Religion in Order to Discover God, Yourself, and Enlightenment
We look at religion as a source of informing throughout the lifespan of the believer. Religion is a device that assigns identity to both God and humanity according to its own criteria but is religion a reliable source?
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Why Are You Trying To Fit In When You Were Created To Stand Out?
We get stuck in the idea and routine of trying to fit in, trying to be accepted and think this is where our power comes from; belonging. Our real power does not come from belonging to a group but by accepting who and what we are and expressing that uniqueness every possible moment we are … Read More Read More
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Ultimate Truth and the Freaky, Funky, Fun Individual
Ultimate Truth, according to religion gives us a very rigid and immutable set of guidelines in with to live our lives according to. This singular system wishes to inform, define, instruct, and assign direction, purpose, and identity to humanity as a whole not taking into account the value of individuality. This episode we discuss how … Read More Read More
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Why God Doesn't Change His/Her Mind
It is a common notion that God changes mind, but I believe if this is an accurate description of God it is a handicap with severe consequences.
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Taking Advantage of Opportunities For Personal Transformation
It’s a new year and people are inspired to better themselves. Many times taking on this challenge leads to change but no real transformation. In this episode we discuss personal transformation, how do we recognize when opportunities for it are in front of us.
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Cultivating Divine Guidance
There is a cosmic intelligence that seems informs leading us along our lives path but how do we tap into it more often?
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Is God Just An Idea?
Our specific culture gives us an idea of who God is but what if that idea is limited? What if there was a way to discover God beyond the single image, word, and identification of a social construct? Why not discover God for yourself.
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Reconsidering Ultimate Truth
Consider ultimate truth to be something that is experienced and not something that is exclusive to a religious concept.
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Self Identity Where Did your Personal Concept of Self Come From?
Where do the ideas, images and concepts we use to identify ourselves come from? We regularly use cultural concepts and ideas to establish ourselves as individuals amongst our peers, social circles, in our relationships, religions, and society at large. The questions is are these ideas and concepts of identity pushed on us by society honest … Read More Read More
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For Those Desiring Greatness
What is greatness and how do we achieve it?
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Being Less Like Jesus and Becoming More Like Yourself
Is becoming more like Jesus or any religious or spiritual figure and less like yourself a soul nourishing spiritual exercise.? What do we stand to gain in attempting to become more like Jesus, The Buddha, Moses, Abraham, Prophet Muhammad, Confucius, Lao Tzu? And in what ways is this spiritual practice of less of me more … Read More Read More
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What Makes a Life a Good One?
Let’s explore the idea of a good life. What does it mean? How do you define it? How can one adhesive it?
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Is It Possible To Satisfy God? Part II
Why you should stop trying to make God happy
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Is It Possible To Satisfy God? Part I
In part 1 of this 2 part discussion we explore the question, if God can be made to be happy, sad, joyful and angry due to the actions of humankind what does that say about the God? Do we make God emotionally unstable? Are humans in control of the emotional wellbeing God? Do we have … Read More Read More
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Outgrowing One God and Embracing Another
As we evolve as unique persons in the human experience our ideas and understanding of God evolves. We outgrow one idea of God and take on another that makes accommodations for the people we are becoming through the cycle of life.
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Being More Like Yourself instead of Becoming More Like Jesus: Coming to God as Your Whole Self
Is becoming more like Jesus or any religious or spiritual figure and less like yourself a soul nourishing spiritual exercise.? What do we stand to gain in attempting to become more like Jesus, The Buddha, Moses, Abraham, Prophet Muhammad, Confucius, Lao Tzu? And in what ways is this spiritual practice of less of me more … Read More Read More
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38. Are You God's Kind of Person?
Religion is wrong when it suggests a meaningful relationship with God requires us to become God’s kind of person. Religion says we must change, be born again, be renewed, become something other than what we are now. The most meaningful connection with God is made when who and what you are is embraced.
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Rethinking The Great Commission
What would it look if those fulfilling The Great Commission were focused on being Christian instead of making Christians? If I have my own ideas of God, salvation, and spirituality, what can the Great Commission offer that has any value? The Great Commission should be more than a global conversion project but an opportunity to … Read More Read More
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36. The Limitations of Salvation, One Liberation is Not Enough
Is one salvation experience enough? If salvation is a solution to the human problem reconnecting us to our spiritual identity there seems to be a need for additional liberations from future problems awaiting us as we experience life as spiritual beings throughout eternity. If we as spiritual beings retain the freedom to decide, interpret knowledge, … Read More Read More
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35. The Impossible Task of Satisfying God
Does performing good deeds result in the satisfaction of God and subsequent good blessings and a higher quality of life? If this is accepted as true it creates serious problems for both God and mankind.
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34. How to Make Sense of God
Making sense of God is done through religion, spirituality, or self exploration but are these tools enough? How do we venture beyond these tools in order to gain a more fulfilling understanding of God?
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33. Forgive and Forget Why it Harms More Than it Helps
Religion tells us to forgive and forget, to turn the other cheek and to let go and move on. But forgive and forget lacks the attention to love, compassion, and healing that the victim of hurtful experiences and damaging relationships need. A more loving forgiveness tactic is needed for the healing of the victim, disconnection … Read More Read More
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32. What is Ultimate Truth?
What is Ultimate Truth and what is its nature and function. How can we understand Ultimate Truth as a way to help connect religious claims of truth instead of them rejecting each other?
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31. You Are Not Gods Slave
The relationship between God and mankind is commonly understood to be of a master / slave context. I discuss how this understanding is counterproductive in mankind establishing a unique and authentic relationship with God.
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Why I Am No Longer A Christian
Exploring the vastness of God and the diverse ways in which different religions worship, relate to and understand God and spiritual phenomenon, I was no longer willing nor able to call myself a Christian. This episode is my story on the questions that peeked my curiosity and ultimately caused me to leave Christianity.
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29 God Loves LGBTQ
The idea that God rejects, abhors and condemns men and women of the LGBTQ community has been promoted and force-fed to the world, but this idea comes from a misguided theology. Why is homosexuality even an option if God created mankind to be heterosexual, is being gay a choice and what really happened in Sodom … Read More Read More
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28 Who Am I? The Power of Not Fitting In.
As the spiritually curious, we have all at some point pondered the seemingly elusive question WHO AM I? This episode offers direction in answering that question.
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27 Are We Made In The Image Of God?
Why do we believe we are made in the image of God? What does it actually mean physically and spiritually to be made in the image of God? Since God has infinite power, unlimited attributes, and is unable to be fully conceived, is it even possible for there to be a physical likeness of what … Read More Read More
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26 Understanding Inspiration to Encounter It More Often
What is the genesis of inspiration? Why do inspiring ideas exist? How can we encounter them more often?
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25 What Manifestation is not
Manifestation teachers tells us we can have the life of our dreams when focusing on positive thought energy, but this is not entirely truthful. There are a multitude of factors that result in a manifestion being realized and positive thought energy is not the greatest. Discovering what manifestation is, and is not, will help you … Read More Read More
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Finding God, Enlightenment, and Self Outside Religion
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Khaaliq Thomas
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