Coming Attractions

Sep18

The Songs of John Denver

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San Diego Oasis at Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center Dr., Rancho Bernardo, CA 92128

The life and music of John Denver left an indelible mark on pop music, culture, and our lives. Join singer-songwriter Peter Bolland as he weaves the songs of John Denver with tales of his life and impact. And you’re all invited to sing along—lyrics for some of the songs will be projected on the screen. Join us for this concert and retrospective of the world’s most beloved folk singer of all time.

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Sep20

Join me for this Sunday morning service at Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living where I'll be guest-speaking on "Being the Change."

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Sep23

"Noticing" with Richard Louv and Peter Bolland

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San Diego Oasis, Grossmont Center, 5500 Grossmont Center Drive Suite 269 , La Mesa, CA 91942

Join best-selling author Richard Louv and philosophy and religion professor Peter Bolland for an on-stage conversation about Louv’s new book "Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World." Like his earlier works "Our Wild Calling" and "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder", "Noticing" takes us even deeper into the urgent question: What do we lose when we stop paying attention to the natural world? Join us for this rich opportunity to engage in essential dialogue about our interrelationship with one another and with our ancient mother nature. Warwick's Books of La Jolla will create a pop-up book store at Oasis for this event, where signed books can be purchased.

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Oct7

The Songs of Bob Dylan

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San Diego Oasis, Grossmont Center, 5500 Grossmont Center Drive Suite 269 , La Mesa, CA 91942

The life and music of Bob Dylan left an indelible mark on pop music, culture, and our lives. Join singer-songwriter Peter Bolland as he weaves the songs of Bob Dylan with tales of his life and impact. And you’re all invited to sing along—lyrics for some of the songs will be projected on the screen. Join us for this concert and retrospective of the world’s most influential singer-songwriter of all time.

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Author of The Seven Stone Path-An Everyday Journey to Wisdom


My book The Seven Stone Path-An Everyday Journey to Wisdom is out now and available everywhere. 

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I am a professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California where I have taught world religions, Asian philosophy, world mythology, and ethics for 34 years.

Off campus I speak, write, teach, and sing about a wide range of spiritual and philosophical things.

I have a YouTube channel called Peter Bolland TV where I post videos of some of my talks, songs, and the mini-lecture videos I produce for my students about the world's wisdom traditions. Check it out and subscribe!

I lead guided meditations online on the Insight Timer Meditation app. Come meditate with me for free!

I launched a newsletter called Finding a Way on the Substack app, all about my journey through the world's wisdom traditions. Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, and all heart, Finding a Way is my latest effort to finally make sense of it all. Check it out and subscribe!

For many years I wrote columns for both Unity Magazine and the San Diego Troubadour, and all of those columns are gathered on my blog Thinking Through.    

And I lecture all over town in a wide variety of venues. Check out the calendar page to see where I'll be next!

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. 

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.

Two Pines Album Cover

 


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.

dobro

 

But these days 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, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, First United Methodist Church, 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.

 


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1. Buy my book on Amazon and write a review.

2.  Join the Mailing List.

3. Check the Calendar page for coming attractions.

4. Listen and shop on the Music page.

5. Meditate with me right now for free on the Insight Timer Meditation app.

6. Follow the link to my Blog "Thinking Through."

7. Click the YouTube icon and subscribe to Peter Bolland TV.

8. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Finding a Way