Episode 9 • March 12, 2025
Jacob shares an unexpected trigger for this episode: his electric vehicle's auto-park feature displaying the message "remove your hands while I park." That small moment sent him down a reflection on the word "I" — who ge...
Jacob shares an unexpected trigger for this episode: his electric vehicle's auto-park feature displaying the message "remove your hands while I park." That small moment sent him down a reflection on the word "I" — who gets to claim it, and what it really refers to. He distinguishes the body ("this corpse," "this form") from the true self, arguing that the body can be sick, tired, or confused, but the true "I" — created by a holy Creator — cannot.
Drawing on Deborah Liverett's book Hey Me, Where Have You Been?, Jacob centers the episode on a single idea: holiness is the recognition that we are whole at birth. From that wholeness comes freedom from judgment — of ourselves and others — and permission to express our unique creativity without needing to prove worth. He closes by addressing "miscreations" (missteps or mistakes) directly: not something to blame on the body, but something to forgive in ourselves, without shame.
