Episode 6 of The Ascending Age, “Nature of God,” turns inward, asking listeners to start with radical honesty about their own suffering before looking for a way through it. The episode frames prayer not as ritual but as direct address — speaking plainly to “the infinite spirit” and asking whether so much suffering is truly necessary to birth a new age. The premise offered is reassuring: that spirit listens, that it hears, and that this listening becomes more unmistakable the further one ascends in awareness.
As the conversation deepens, a recurring theme emerges — that with each “higher age” of consciousness, the illusion of separateness falls away, revealing what the speakers describe as a single spirit underlying and animating the entire universe. Rather than treating this as abstract theology, the episode grounds it in testimony: various speakers recount specific times — sometimes fleeting, sometimes sustained — when they felt they had already arrived at Shangri-La, a state of peace or wholeness, whether in the midst of ordinary life or at a distinct turning point.
The episode ultimately weaves together three threads: the practice of honest self-examination as a path to relieving suffering, prayer as living dialogue with a spirit that hears, and personal accounts of already having touched the paradise many seek — suggesting that the “ascending age” is not only a future to move toward but something glimpsed, again and again, in the present.
