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LISTEN NOW! – God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – The Podcast

September 21, 2023
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Once the book and message gained the support of a global audience and diverse community of seekers, the spiritual podcast released the dramatic adaptation. With the help of actor and show host Scott Langdon, the book came to life. Because of continued support, the podcast continued the conversation.

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Life Wisdom Project | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

Welcome to the LWP series, which is all about how to live a happier, wiser, and more meaningful life through lessons from God, the book, and special guests.

| COMING SOON: 9/29 |
Dramatic Adaptation | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

Here, you can hear the entire dramatic adaptation of the book. When an agnostic philosopher prays to God, he receives an answer- in words.

| I Pray To A God I Don't Believe In |
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

This is a series of analytical and energetic dialogues of philosophical and spiritual discussion with Dr. Richard Oxenberg and Dr. Jerry L. Martin. Dialogues:

| 1 | Jerry's Story | 2 | Revelation | 3 | Purpose |
| 4 | The Nature Of God And Divine Reality | 5 | The Big Picture |
| 6 | The Problem Of Evil | 7 | The Nature Of Human Beings | 8 | World Religions |
| 9 | Eastern Religions |
What's On Your Mind | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

Here, digging into the mailbag, host Scott Langdon and Dr. Jerry L. Martin share an insightful conversation responding to fascinating reader and listener questions and comments.

| Spiritual Nudges |
What's On Our Mind | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

This is a series where Dr. Jerry L. Martin and show host Scott Langdon hare personal spiritual experiences while recapping points from the most recent episodes.

| Images Of God |
Interviews | God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher

These are a series of insightful and ambitious discussions amongst key players and special guests.

| The Why Behind The Book |

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What Does God Sound Like?

September 21, 2023

Learn- what God sounds like, and experience God.

 

When philosopher Jerry L. Martin heard God speaking to Him, people said – Really?

A real Voice? What does God sound like?

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God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – is the true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin, a lifelong agnostic. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department, is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at AAR, and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. Dr. Martin’s work has prepared him to become a serious reporter of God’s narrative, experiences, evolution, and autobiography. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Martin has testified before Congress on educational policy. He has appeared on “World News Tonight,” and other television news programs.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered- in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions, and God had a lot to tell him.

 

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“I am an evolving God.”

August 24, 2023

An Evolving God-

I entered college a Christian and left an agnostic.  I had no desire whatever to be “washed in the blood” again.  The question I had been avoiding was, Do You want me to become a Christian?

No, I don’t want you to join any denomination.

“Is it okay for me to read about Jesus?”  I asked about Jesus rather than Christ.  Jesus is an historical person, who certainly existed, but whether he was the Christ, the Messiah, is a religious question.  I did not want my question to prejudge the answer.

Yes, but reading through the Old Testament first is a good approach.

“The God of the Old Testament seems terrifying.  You do not seem terrifying, Lord.”

I was young then.  I had not had much experience with people.  I am an evolving God.

God was young then?  He is evolving?  I thought God was supposed to be perfect, eternal, and unchanging.  I had been an agnostic, but I thought I had a clear idea of what I was agnostic about.  I was often disturbed when I was told something that did not fit with what I had been taught growing up; however, this bit of news, while puzzling, did not upset me.  The God who spoke to me was very much a personal God.  It was surprising but not out of character if, like other persons, He changes over time.  Later I would learn that this is why God wanted to talk to me.

“Lord, what is my role?”

“Lord, what is my role?”

August 3, 2023

What is my role:

I did not feel like a prophet or seer and, as I started reading about different religions, I found an endless cast of characters—apostles, evangelists, saints, mystics, gurus, shamans, founders of religions. None seemed to fit me.

“Lord, what is my role supposed to be?”

Just to be a serious reporter of what you are told when you pray.

Okay, that I could do.

 

God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – is the true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin, a lifelong agnostic. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department, is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at AAR, and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. Dr. Martin’s work has prepared him to become a serious reporter of God’s narrative, experiences, evolution, and autobiography. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Martin has testified before Congress on educational policy. He has appeared on “World News Tonight,” and other television news programs.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered- in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions, and God had a lot to tell him

what is important, church

“Yes, that is important!”

June 15, 2023

What is important:

We were living in Memphis, Tennessee, where my dad was going to college on the G.I. Bill.  We attended my grandmother’s Pentecostal church.  I would listen to what grownups said and try to think whether they were true or not—especially when they contradicted themselves.  If heaven was a place of eternal joy, why didn’t they rejoice when somebody died?  They made way too much of dressing up for church, when what mattered—they said—was the state of your soul.

“Lord, I took things people said seriously and placed the highest value on truth and on being right with God.”

Yes, that is important!

 

God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – is the true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin, a lifelong agnostic. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department, is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at AAR, and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. Dr. Martin’s work has prepared him to become a serious reporter of God’s narrative, experiences, evolution, and autobiography. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Martin has testified before Congress on educational policy. He has appeared on “World News Tonight,” and other television news programs.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered- in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions, and God had a lot to tell him

interesting

Too Interesting

June 7, 2023

This is where, in my view, the book really gets interesting.

Almost too interesting.

In fact, I found it hard to re-read the chapters coming up.

I mean that literally.

A swirl of feelings fogged the page.  I relived the events, relived what I had been told, relived what I was asked to do, what absurd mantle was being placed on my shoulders.

The disturbance is not just retrospective.  I am now about to share these things publicly for the first time.  I think now, as I did then:  Surely not, Lord.  You can’t mean that!  What will people say?  What will they think?

I will be told things that deeply disturbed me, and may disturb you.

I will be given a much bigger assignment than I ever imagined, much bigger than I could possibly welcome.  You may think, as I did, surely not!

If so, just stay calm and set your concerns aside for the moment.  The first step to understanding something new or unusual is to “suspend disbelief” at the beginning.  You have to take it in, as best you can, on its own terms.  You need to try to see how it might make sense, how it might fit in as an extension or modification of your current beliefs.  Critical evaluation can be put off.  There will be plenty of time for that later.

On the other hand, you may be more open than a life-long agnostic and temperamental skeptic like me.  Either way, I will be happy to have you as my companion on this journey.  None of us should have to travel alone.

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God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – is the true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin, a lifelong agnostic. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department, is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at AAR, and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. Dr. Martin’s work has prepared him to become a serious reporter of God’s narrative, experiences, evolution, autobiography and sparks of wisdom. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Martin has testified before Congress on educational policy, appeared on “World News Tonight,” and other television news programs

God female voice

“The answer came in a female voice.”

June 1, 2023

The female voice of God:

One day, a New Age friend gave me a mantra that was supposed to “center” one’s self.  I thought I would give it a try.  I don’t remember the mantra now, but it was addressed to the “Lord,” and I asked, “Is the Lord in the mantra You?”

There is only one God but many “lords,” many spiritual beings for whom that is not an inappropriate title. 

Your early prayers—which were addressed to “Lord” and you thought perhaps Lord Krishna or Who-knows-who—were about right.  When you address “the Lord,” you do not have to specify or have in mind a particular spiritual entity.  The Lord who is right for you at that time will respond.  The Lord that was right for your early prayers was Me, and so I answered.

I had a very basic question.  The God who speaks to me is personal and, in human experience, persons are either male or female.  The voice I heard was definitely a masculine voice but sometimes, in some indefinable way, I felt there was a feminine side to God.  To my surprise, the answer came in a female voice.

No, not exactly.  There are many sides to God, some of which you might call feminine.

Many sides?  Some masculine, some feminine, some something else?  The sound you hear is categories shattering.

 

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

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Thinking about Infinity

May 25, 2023

Thinking about infinity:

The radical thinking God asked for has really been beyond my intellectual reach.

I tried to think about infinity, for example.

It is certainly a daunting concept.  Every philosopher is aware of such puzzles as Zeno’s paradoxes and Immanuel Kant’s antinomies.

The Greek philosopher Zeno argued that, if the tortoise has a head start, Achilles can never overtake him.  Once he catches up with the tortoise’s previous position, the tortoise will have moved forward.

Achilles will now have to reach the tortoise’s new position but, by the time he does so, the tortoise will have moved forward again, even if only a little way, and Achilles will have to catch up to that position, by which time the tortoise will have inched forward yet again, and so on.

Since there are an infinite number of points between the tortoise and the goal post, and an infinite number of points can never be transversed in finite time, Achilles can never catch the tortoise.  Of course, in real life, he could.  That’s why it is a paradox.

Kant’s antinomies are more metaphysical than mathematical but also have to do with infinity.

For example, either the world had a beginning or it did not (these alternatives are the antinomies or contradictories).  If it did, one wonders what happened before that?  And if it did not, there would have to be an infinite number of moments in the past, and is that really conceivable?

There were world-class physicists at a conference I attended.

One reported that mathematicians had now proved you can have an infinite space within a sphere—within a ball, in effect.  He said it made no sense to him but, since mathematicians had proved it, he had to accept it.

A great deal of contemporary science doesn’t “make sense.”

While I was balking at giving up my categories for understanding the nature of God, I saw what scientists have to believe when they do quantum mechanics.  They have to believe that some subatomic particles do not actually have a location prior to being observed.

They have to believe that a certain change in one particle is always followed by the opposite change in another particle even though there is no contact between them and no way for the second particle to “know” which way the first particle changed.

If tough-minded physicists could be that flexible, surely I could too.

I did try to think about infinity.

One of the basic paradoxes in the philosophical tradition concerns whether it makes sense to have an actual or completed infinity.  No matter how large the number, you can always add “plus one.”  So it seems that the number series simply goes on forever and can never be completed.  If so, infinity is more a process term than the description of an actuality.  It expresses the possibility of a larger number, not the actuality of an infinite quantity.  But that seems to mean that no thing or being could actually be infinite.  The number series can always go on, but each number is the end point of a finite series of numbers.

That means that God could not actually be infinite.

I wondered if that was adequate.  I tried to think of a completed infinite.  In our home, we have two mirrors that face each other.  Each one mirrors the other, and mirrors the other mirroring the other, and so on, with the result that one sees an infinite series of mirrorings in each mirror.  And they all exist fully and in the present, not just as a series running into the future.

Maybe, I thought, this was an actual or complete infinite.

But, no, the mirror images get smaller and smaller but at some point they are presumably too small to be mirrored, so there are a finite number of reflected images after all.

Moreover, although the images seem to us to all exist at the present moment, in fact light takes time to go back and forth, and that means there is really a series of images.  Even if the series could go on forever, it would never be completed.

Perhaps I was on the wrong track.

What is meant when people say that God is infinite?

Do they mean some kind of actual or completed infinite?  Or is it another way to say that nothing is missing.  That is a less puzzling idea.  In a perfect painting, nothing is missing.  There is nothing to be added.  Perhaps that is a thought in the right direction.

Then I remembered:  I had already asked God, Are You infinite?  The answer was “I am boundless.”

It is not clear what “boundless” means.  Literally, it would mean “without bounds or limits.”  But the next two answers may be relevant here.  I had asked about omniscience, in effect, infinite knowledge, and was told, “I know everything that is important.”  And I had asked about omnipotence—infinite power—and was told, “I can do everything I want (care) to do.”  That sounds more like the perfect painting.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

let it happen

“It is good, just let it happen.”

May 4, 2023

Let it happen:

One experience, late at night, went even further.  I felt the distance or boundary between me and the world becoming narrower and narrower, and less and less distinct.  Slowly, subject and object were blending, becoming intimately bound, not standing apart from one another.  I was noting this intellectually, but it was not an intellectual experience.  It was, you might say, an ontological experience, an experience of my whole being.  Finally, for a few moments, it approached total one-ness, the complete loss of awareness of self.  At that point, I pulled back.

“Lord, what is the meaning of this kind of experience?”

There are many levels and kinds of experience with Me (including music).  Do not make too much of it.  It is good, just let it happen. 

It does not mean that you are about to become a mystic or anything unworldly.  It is not unlike—it is on a continuum with—a wide range of spiritual experiences, in and out of religious practice and sensibility, that people have all the time.  But it is definitely good.  It will give you energy and peace and insight, so let it in.

Many times one “loses oneself” in an experience, but those moments are less threatening than merging with God.  I pulled back, but felt a nagging sense that I was not supposed to.

 

God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher – is the true story of a philosopher’s conversations with God. Dr. Jerry L. Martin, a lifelong agnostic. Dr. Martin served as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department, is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at AAR, and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative. Dr. Martin’s work has prepared him to become a serious reporter of God’s narrative, experiences, evolution, and autobiography. In addition to scholarly publications, Dr. Martin has testified before Congress on educational policy. He has appeared on “World News Tonight,” and other television news programs.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered- in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions, and God had a lot to tell him.

listen to me

“Listen to Me even when I whisper.”

April 27, 2023

Listen to Me even when I whisper:

I began to take the prayers more seriously and started writing some of them down. Sometimes the voice would speak to me even when I was not praying. One day I was driving to New York, running behind schedule. Along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, I kept hearing a faint sound, not much more than a gnat in the ear, and I kept trying to “brush it away.” But it was persistent, and so I finally paid attention. It was the voice telling me to pull over and pray. I don’t remember the rest of what I was told, but the first words I have always remembered,

Listen to Me—even when I whisper.

I have tried to do that ever since but it is not always easy.

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Listen to this on God: An Autobiography, The Podcast– the dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin.

He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered- in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions, and God had a lot to tell him.

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