A friend of mine gifted me a copy of The Gospel According to Zen a gift; but the gift he gave me was far more than a cool our of print book with some of my favorite authors like D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and Krishnamurti... he gave me the gift of openness, and the reminder that nothing in this world is truly "ours" (Originally uploaded to YouTube June 14th, 2025) 

A morning reflection sparked by seeing yet another sad comment from a fundamentalist on a Facebook friend's post. The Way of Christ has much to offer us on the spiritual path, but the Christian religion has a lot of dogmatic ideas that shadow its beauty. (Originally uploaded to YouTube March 29th, 2025)

Let's rap about what it means to be a mystic. No, we're not talking about middle earth or fairies... it's the direct experiential knowing of oneness with God beyond thought or theory. Mystic is the realization of the union, the 'religion' is the way that realization finds its form; in my case, through the Way of Christ, or, the spirituality of Jesus.   ***Sign up to receive the weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!    ------- Additional info -------   (((Keywords that I reference quite often: Mystic, Non-Dual, Non-Dualism, Mysticism, Oneness, Christ Consciousness, Exvangelical, Deconstruction, Spiritual Evolution, Post-Christian, Gnostic, Gnosticism, Consciousness, New Earth Awareness, 5D, Fifth Dimension, New Age, Escape the Matrix, Occult, Transmutation, Esoteric, Hermetic, Hermeticism, Wisdom, Ultimate Reality, A Course in Miracles))) A few of my highly recomended Authors: Richard Rohr, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Carl Jung, Cynthia Bourgeault.

I received a DM asking how to be a good husband, father, business owner, etc. while pursuing the spiritual path. Here's my thoughts about living a spiritual life with relationships, roles, responsibilities & expectations... *************** New Book KOANS OF CHRIST available now: https://a.co/d/j78yfzo  *** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com

Joseph Campbell famously made popular the Hero's Journey, which is the spiritual journey. While it is more intricate that this, it can be seen in 3 phases (not always sequential, but usually): - Departure (from the known) - Initiation (in the unknown) - Return (contribution to the once known with unique experience, wisdom, and maturity gained from initiation) Each of us, if we accept it, are on a hero's journey. But many don't accept it. Or they begin and out of fear retreat to the known. But if you are on the spiritual journey, you are being called to become the fullness of who you are, not so that "you" can be great, but that you can be a beneficial presence to the collective through your individual lived experience. Most on the spiritual path thinks it's only about them, it's about being the vehicle in which God embodies for healing, wholeness, and transformation of the world. Be curious. Be courageous. Be a gift.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com Let's hang on social:   / the_spiritual_nomad      Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

The shift is coming, but can you wait well? So often we rush things or become nihilistic. How can we live counter-culturally and BE in the in-between? For me, I'm often reminded of 3 points from a sermon I preached years ago. First, handle practical matters diligently and with mindfulness. Second, devote yourself to the ritual of spiritual practices. Third, commit yourself to community and getting outside of yourself through selfless service. Even though I was in a much different place theologically when I created that, it stand the test of time for a grounding way to live through seasons of waiting. Hope it helps you too.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org  For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com  Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad 

Alan Watts appeared to me in a dream and began to speak about a popular passage in the Bible where Jesus talks about the wide road that leads to destruction and the narrow road that leads to life. Alan encouraged me that the narrow path is supposed to be unique, unknown and insecure at times... it's a narrow path! It's not going to be familiar. The familiar path is the wide path. And that path requires you to betray your True Self, i.e., destruction. Trust your unique path and flow with each season as it unfolds.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com  Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad 

Many Christians use the language of being “born again” but clearly don’t embody the true essence of spiritual awakening, which is the true mystic meaning of being born again. Enlightenment comes from being born from above. Jesus understood this, religious people usually don’t. P.S. this isn't a new idea; The contemplative Christian tradition has known this for hundreds of years.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org   For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com    Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad   

Bob Peck joins me for conversation about non-duality, deconstruction, psychedelics, his book Original Sin is a Lie. Purchase your copy here https://amzn.to/3ubtcfr  Bob Peck is a festival award-winning filmmaker, author, lawnmower (I love that part), meditator, and a spiritual student of Christ, Krishna, the Buddha, and Paramahansa Yogananda. With bachelor’s degrees in Religious Studies & Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas, he has made ‘conscious films’—spiritual & advocacy documentaries—since graduating in 2011. He’s also a Kriya Yoga practitioner through KYI and a certified mindfulness & meditation teacher. His day job is centered around ads and mindfulness in Big Tech. A native Austinite, he lives with his wife and young son in Austin, Texas. *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

For those who are on the path of spiritual evolution (i.e. "deconstruction"), this video is for you. I'm an open book, feel free to comment or email me with any further details. Happy to help however I can. ******* Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org ******* *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

Many people in the Western world look at virtually everything from an "exoteric" perspective, meaning from a broad, surface level understanding. Much of Jesus teaching calls followers to have "ears to hear" - implying an esoteric meaning to his teaching; esoteric being under the surface, hidden, or with special knowledge. The controversial teaching in Matthew 10 of Jesus telling his followers that he did not come to bring peace but a sword is one of these kinds of passages. Sadly, it's also the passage the esotericists use to justify violence and war. It's a verse I continue to see Evangelicals use too flippantly in regard to Israel and Palestine. My intention today is to see that Jesus is inviting devotees to learn that the spiritual path will require the inner sword of discernment: one that often cuts us off from our familial and religious traditions and identities. Let me know your thoughts in the comments and what teaching of Jesus you'd like me to talk about next.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com   *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad   *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

Someone I work with for Spiritual Direction told me they were feeling lost and asked if I ever feel lost... yeah. Of course. In this video I share something similar to what I shared with her.   *************** Sign up to receive my weekly email: https://thisiscurrent.org   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com   *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/the_spiritual_nomad   *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!  

In this episode I talk about the spiritual truth that there is nothing out there, no physical New Earth, no utopia, that will ever satisfy the Soul. The spiritual path, the life path, is one that leads you back within. Learning that everything is a mirror and not removing obstacles from life but transcending all obstacles. Our work is to surrender and open ourselves up to be instruments of God. If we're bound up and restlessly searching out there for wholeness we will never find it. Because what you seek is already within. The gam of life is to wake up to that truth and participate in the on-going healing of the world.   ******* Subscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/lukebricker ******* Sign up to receive the weekly email and learn more about who I am and what I do: https://lukebricker.com ******* For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com  ******* Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke      

In this episode Ben Howes joins me for a conversation about his conservative Christian upbringing, deconstruction, psychedelic awakening, his journey into Vedanta, and non-dual spirituality. Ben is an extremely gifted graphic design artist. Check out his work here: https://howesdesignservice.com/ *************** Sign up to receive the weekly email and learn more about who I am and what I do: https://lukebricker.com *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke https://linkedin.com/lukembricker   *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

Sign up to receive the weekly email and learn more about who I am and what I do: https://lukebricker.com   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke   *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

Sign up to receive the weekly email and learn more about who I am and what I do: https://lukebricker.com   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke   *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!

Sign up to receive the weekly email and learn more about who I am and what I do: https://lukebricker.com *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com    *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole!   *** Stay tuned for the Spiritual Journey Center opening soon here in San Diego, CA https://spiritualjourneycenter.com  https://instagram.com/spiritualjourneycenter  (The SJC is a registered dba of Current Collective Church)   If you've read this far, reach out! I'm super accessible and love to chat :)   *** Formerly known as the Spiritual Nomad Podcast ***

"Impatience is an argument with reality" as Rick Rubin said in his latest book The Creative Act, and he couldn't be more right. Additionally, motivation is, contrary to self-development ideology, often rooted in lack and fear. For many of us it's actually an anxious energy to try and bring about some over aggrandized version of what could be with the hope that it will resolve the seeming unhappiness of the present circumstance or state of being. A little motivation to get some alignment, sure, but don't live there. *************** Learn more about who I am and what I do: https://LukeBricker.com   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com   *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke

Death is something we will all face. The reality of impermanence (from the Buddha) is one that has the potential to awaken, if we allow. Ash Wednesday reminds us of the brevity of life and the hope for the resurrection / transformation of the Eternal Divine Spark within us all.   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com or visit lukebricker.com/spiritualdirection   *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke https://linkedin.com/lukembricker

We have been taught (and sold) to believe that life is complicated and complex.. it's not. We're just so disconnected from who we are and what life's actually about so we're led to always think we're missing it. When you learn these 3 keys and practice them you will never miss meaning.   *** For 1:1 spiritual direction, email Luke@LukeBricker.com *** Let's hang on social: https://instagram.com/brthr.luke https://tiktok.com/@brthr.luke https://twitter.com/brthrluke https://linkedin.com/lukembricker    *** Luke Bricker is an ordained minister and Spiritual Director at Current Collective. Current is a non-dual spiritual community that holds space to experience the Divine through mystic & contemplative practices, teachings, and resources. Visit https://thisiscurrent.org for more info. Thank you for subscribing to the channel, contributing and partnering with us to help more people heal and become whole! *** Stay tuned for the Spiritual Journey Center opening soon here in San Diego, CA https://spiritualjourneycenter.com https://instagram.com/spiritualjourneycenter (The SJC is a registered dba of Current Collective Church) If you've read this far, reach out! I'm super accessible and love to chat :) *** Formerly known as the Spiritual Nomad Podcast ***