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        <title>Spiritual Directions Podcast</title>
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        <description>The Spiritual Directions Podcast is intended to help guide listeners toward wholeness through practicing greater spiritual awareness. With roots in ancient myth and the contemplative traditions, the show will touch on topics of spiritual growth through deeper awareness. Guests include people from different walks of life discussing the ways in which they have confronted their suffering and come out transformed.</description>
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      <title>Spiritual Directions - Season 1, Episode 6: Authentic Spirituality with John Brand</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Long-time spiritual mentor and advocate for men's spirituality John Brand sits down with Marc to discuss what he learned in the African jungle, the principles he lives by, and the gifts he brings to men's spirituality.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Spiritual Directions - Season 1, Episode 5: Embracing the Unknown with  Steve Allman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Former Naval officer and long-time Centering Prayer practitioner Steve Allman sits down with Marc to discuss learning to accept the journey into the unknown, the search for meaning, and a method he learned for dealing with anxiety.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Spiritual Directions - Season 1, Episode 4: The 23rd Psalm: A Contemplative Reading</title>
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      <itunes:summary>In this episode, Marc reads the 23rd Psalm through a contemplative lens, indicating how this spiritual practice can allow us to see familiar things, including time-worn spiritual texts, in a new light.</itunes:summary>
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