Podcast Highlight: Mike Dooley

“The one thing that makes the most sense would if you really understood life, is to wish for things as they are right now."

What do you do when the Universe shows up to your podcast?

Well you start by making space and doing a happy dance...

Mike Dooley, the man behind "Notes from the Universe," he is a multiple New York Times Best Selling Author, and creator behind "The Secret.” He also runs TUT’s Adventure Club, a gathering space for liked minded adventurers, seekers, and spiritual aspirants.

Sitting down with Mike he shares the evolution of his life and how he defines his personal religion--which not surprisingly includes everyone and everything. Mike says “We are by God, of God. Pure God. We are eternal beings. We are divine creators. Our thoughts become things.”

Mike, like many of us was raised in Catholicism and he started to begin to question a lot things as he grew older. He talks about how some ideas he just could not reconcile. He recognized that there were some inherent flaws, that man had hijacked divinity in some ways and religion was being used to control the masses.

Mike goes onto to say, that “it takes a very discerning person to say “what here makes sense and what serves us. And what doesn’t?” His litmus test has become since simmering on those two questions for himself: “Is this this true? Like, don’t eat popcorn on a Wednesday night. Does this potential truth in a potential sea of truths that we are being presented with…does it speak of life’s beauty? Or [does it speak] of our power, AND, leave no one behind?.

He goes onto to say “you can’t have paradise for one school of people and not the other.”

Which speaks to Mike’s life’s work of inclusion in the sacredness of our shared humanity. That love is his religion, everyone is treated equal and has equal ability to achieve, succeed, and fully expressed as themselves ordained by their birthright.

Mike also gave the audience some insight into his early childhood experiences and he talked about how his mother was his greatest and earliest supporter. She instilled in him the courage to be curious and explore the fringe, which just so happens to be where the Universe lives. “Because that hinted of more.”

The most poignant moment of the interview was in the last few minutes when Mike, detailing his gratitude for the day turned the question to the listener; asking:

"What could be better than the way things are now (even if you could wish for anything or wish for a millions wishes)?

The one thing that makes the most sense would if you really understood life, is to wish for things as they are right now."

What are you grateful for?