Listen "Ben Katt on Getting Quiet, Midlife, and the Power of Ritual (also, we chat about David Hasselhoff)"
Episode Synopsis
“A fantastically written, powerfully wise offering from Ben Katt…a gift to our world of pain and promise.”
— Krista Tippett
Ben Katt has worked with On Being, as an ordained minister, an advanced meditation teacher, and author. His first book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife is a guidebook and memoir about the inner journey that calls us further in the midst of life’s busyness. Ben is the founder of the WITHIN Prison Meditation Project, serves as a hospice chaplain, and writes regularly about identity, purpose, creativity, and belonging in his weekly STILL newsletter.
In our conversation we talk about a David Hasselhof museum, slowing down your life to catch up to it, getting quiet, relationships of depth, and much more.
Visit Ben Katt at benjaminkatt.com | IG: @akabenkatt
Episode Show Notes
Works by Ben Katt
The Way Home: Discovering the Hero’s Journey to Wholeness at Midlife
STILL (Ben’s newsletter)
Resources & People Mentioned
David Hasselhof
Calvin College
Bill Plotkin
Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche by Bill Plotkin
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin
Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche by Bill Plotkin
Transcendental Meditation
Casper ter Kuile
Jesse Israel
The Big Quiet
Henri Nouwen
Rainer Maria Rilke
Illuman
Drink Recommended
Peppermint tea
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