Join us for this 30 minute webinar every Friday morning as we thoughtfully consider the world we live in, our place in it, and the myriad ways our hearts, minds, and souls intersect with the insights of the world's wisdom traditions. Even if you can't make this day/time, every registrant receives a video of the webinar. $6
Join us at Oasis for this in-person live event. In the first century many texts were written about the life and times and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Four of them made it into the Bible and the rest were scattered, lost, or intentionally destroyed as heresy. In 1945 a complete, intact text of the Gospel of Thomas was discovered in a cache of scrolls in Egypt. Join us as we explore this ancient window into that heady first century before the establishment of the official Church. How is the Gospel of Thomas similar and different from the synoptic gospels and John? What do those differences reveal about the tensions in the early Jesus movement? Might the Gospel of Thomas move us closer to understanding the real Jesus? In-person only. $18
Join us for this 30 minute webinar every Friday morning as we thoughtfully consider the world we live in, our place in it, and the myriad ways our hearts, minds, and souls intersect with the insights of the world's wisdom traditions. Even if you can't make this day/time, every registrant receives a video of the webinar. $6
Join us for this 30 minute webinar every Friday morning as we thoughtfully consider the world we live in, our place in it, and the myriad ways our hearts, minds, and souls intersect with the insights of the world's wisdom traditions. Even if you can't make this day/time, every registrant receives a video of the webinar. $6
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Oasis San Diego, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr #269, La Mesa, California
A Sephardic Jew of Portuguese ancestry, Baruch Spinoza was born in Amsterdam in 1632. Often at odds with the Rabbis of his own immigrant community, Spinoza would go on to wrestle with ideas of God, meaning, and the universe in startling, influential ways. Arguing for an absolute monism, Spinoza believed that God was simply the name of the energy that binds everything together—a kind of pantheism, thus sealing his enemy status in both Jewish and Christian circles. He nevertheless persisted in taking full advantage of the liberal intellectual climate of the Netherlands to further pursue his ideas and change the course of Western religion and philosophy. Join us for this in-person only lecture. $18
"When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind." ~ Kahlil Gibran
I speak, write, teach, and sing about a wide range of spiritual and philosophical things.
I write a column for Unity Magazine. I publish a blog called Thinking Through where all my published writing is gathered. I lead guided meditations online on the Insight Timer Meditation app. I have a YouTube channel called Peter Bolland TV where I post videos of some of my talks and songs and more. And I lecture all over town in a wide variety of venues. All of my work is about one thing: shaping the insights of the world's wisdom traditions into tools we can use to enrich our lives. And all that happens when I'm not at Southwestern College in Chula Vista being a philosophy and humanities professor and department chair.
I also sing, play guitar, write songs, make albums, and perform regularly throughout the San Diego area.
I've been playing music and writing songs my whole life. My first solo album was called Frame, released in 2002. It earned a Best Americana Album nomination at the San Diego Music Awards. Then I had a band called The Coyote Problem from 2002-2010. We won the Best Americana Album prize for both of our albums, Wire in 2005 and California in 2007 at the San Diego Music Awards. Quit while you're ahead, right? I fired myself from my own band so I could focus on all of my other projects, including my solo work. The result? My album Two Pines, available now.
I am also a session musician playing a wide variety of instruments on other people's albums, things like acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro, mandolin, banjo, and harmonica.
But these day
s I spend most of my off-campus time speaking and leading workshops at a wide variety of venues, (The Chopra Center, The San Diego Vedanta Monastery, San Diego Oasis, The Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, and many more) about all of the things I've learned through the years about the world's wisdom traditions. If you'd like to come experience one of my many multimedia lecture presentations or long-form classes about the life-changing transformational wisdom of world mythology, comparative religion, and practical philosophy, visit the Calendar page for a complete schedule of upcoming events.
The Bolland Sevenfold Path
2. Check the Calendar page for coming attractions.
3. Listen and shop on the Music page.
4. Meditate with me right now for free on the Insight Timer Meditation app.
5. Follow the link to my Blog "Thinking Through."
6. Click the YouTube icon and subscribe to Peter Bolland TV.
7. And come back anytime you like. We'll be here.