"Our culture has given us the technology of gods, but we have wings without wisdom."

Brian Maierhofer is a clinician and somatic therapist who found Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell in a treatment center library at 20, got sober in a 12-step program before his 23rd birthday, and wrote his graduate thesis on the 12 steps as the hero's journey.

We get into how Carl Jung shaped the first steps of AA, why alcoholism is really a thirst for wholeness, and why rock bottom is a spiritual crisis. We also talk about recovery as the "half-life" of your reactions, the felt sense and the wisdom of the body, and the myth of Icarus. We get into why this generation has wings but no one to teach them how to land, rites of passage and the liminal space, Brian's book in progress, and his encounter with Christ.

In this episode:
- Carl Jung, Rowland H. & the roots of AA
- Spiritus contra spiritum: spirits vs. spirits
- Alcoholism as spiritual neurodivergence
- Rock bottom as a spiritual crisis
- "Take your hands out of your pockets": how one sentence becomes a belief system
- Recovery is the half-life of your reactions
- Wings without wisdom: the myth of Icarus
- Rites of passage, liminality & the numinous
- Purpose is found in relationship
- Brian's encounter with Christ

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"God can't bless you from a fake place."

Floyd Prescott III has served LSU Football for over 20 years. It started with a volunteer Bible study in a dorm in 2003 and grew into the team's pastor. No title asked for, no job description, just service. I met Floyd when I spoke to the Tigers, and he prayed over me right before I walked on stage.

We get into why ego makes service look like weakness, letting go of the "pretty route," the question God asked him in his darkest season ("Can I trust you with tragedy?"), why hiddenness is not hatred, why you can't serve from an empty tank, and how to take a first step toward God if it all feels intimidating. He also gets honest about the time he was tempted to walk away from his faith.

If you've ever felt overlooked, unseen, or stuck in a season that doesn't make sense, this one's for you.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome Floyd Prescott III, LSU Football's pastor
1:00 "Honor to serve"
1:53 Masks, ego & running the "pretty route"
8:31 Perspective precedes path
12:09 J.O.Y.: Jesus, Others, Yourself
15:18 From a dorm Bible study to LSU Football's pastor
27:24 The biggest misconceptions about the Bible
42:45 Floyd's favorite scripture
47:19 "Can I trust you with tragedy?"
50:08 The wilderness right after the blessing
53:12 You're seen: a word for anyone feeling overlooked
58:09 Hiddenness is not hatred
1:00:16 Discernment & why you can't serve from an empty tank
1:05:47 The Trinity, explained simply
1:14:32 A first step if faith feels intimidating
1:20:36 Mindset, motives & mysteries
1:33:00 "I was tempted to walk away from God"
1:36:02 Closing prayer

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You spend years in your head trying to make the right decision, and years later you're still talking about the same thing. Overthinking isn't the problem. It's the symptom of never learning to trust yourself, and you can't think your way into self-trust. You have to act your way into it.

I get into where that lack of self-trust comes from, why love gets mixed with judgment, the punishing God so many of us grew up with, and why confidence only shows up after the action, not before it. Then I share the greatest spiritual experience of my life: getting out of my seventh treatment center with nothing, and saying yes to the job everyone in recovery told me never to take.

In this episode:
- Overthinking as a symptom of no self-trust
- Love, judgment, and the "juggernaut judge of the heavens"
- Why you can't get an overthinker to stop overthinking
- Acting in opposition to your mind
- The phone room story and how it launched FTG
- Contempt prior to investigation
- No wiggle room: freedom through commitment

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