{"id":27211,"date":"2026-09-08T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27211"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:01:41","slug":"thomas-moore-curing-our-cultural-lostness","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/thomas-moore-curing-our-cultural-lostness\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Moore: &#8220;Curing Our Cultural Lostness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/c17f9abd-02de-4da4-b4da-c15650435dbf\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thoreau said he wasn&#8217;t paddling the Assabet River\u2014he was on the Ganges. Was he being poetic, or was he seeing something we&#8217;ve lost the capacity to see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Tami Simon speaks with Thomas Moore\u2014bestselling author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Care of the Soul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark Nights of the Soul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ageless Soul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014about his new book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cure at Walden Pond: A Guide to Recovering Our Humanity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At 85, Moore offers a reading of Thoreau that upends the one most of us were taught: not a naturalist cataloguing the woods, but a mystic looking for what he called the divine &#8220;lurking&#8221; there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Tami and Thomas to explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living daimonically: the guiding presence the Greeks called a daimon and the Romans called a genius\u2014and how to tell it from your own ego agenda<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Moore left the monastery after 13 years on the strength of a single morning&#8217;s clarity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are half human, half angel&#8221;\u2014and what changes when you look at the people in your life through that lens<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musical time, Bach, and why playing the piano every day has made Moore think differently about dying<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why &#8220;the ultimate secret is to show the world who you are&#8221;\u2014and why humiliation may be closer to the soul than confidence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thoreau&#8217;s dark night: holding his brother as he died, and what it teaches about grief you never get over<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chapter called &#8220;Be Cold and Hungry,&#8221; and why the storms belong<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tami presses Moore on the parts she finds hard to swallow\u2014and his answers are the heart of this episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now, and find the cure. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and it originally aired on <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/STOne-Free-Month\">Sounds True One<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27220,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[386],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[573],"class_list":["post-27211","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon","contributor-thomas-moore"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Moore: &quot;Curing Our Cultural Lostness&quot; | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Moore: &quot;Curing Our Cultural Lostness&quot; | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thoreau said he wasn&#8217;t paddling the Assabet River\u2014he was on the Ganges. 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