“All of this art is a metaphor for yourself. You are the song. You are the poem. You are the painting.”

-Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin

What are we for? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin walk in this conversation. As musicians, poets, and teachers, they inherit and carry forward a lineage of song and story that reveals how art is not separate from life but a mirror of it—a way of giving voice to the unspoken parts of ourselves.

Along with their mother, Nóirín Ní Riain (also a previous guest of The Wonder Dome) they’re the leaders of Turas d’Anam, which provides both online and in person experiences offering unique and personal expressions of their rich musical and cultural heritage.

This episode is a meditation on soul and purpose, on tradition and innovation, and on the way beauty sustains us in difficult times. Along the way, we travel from Irish monasteries and chants echoing across the globe, to the words of Seamus Heaney, Rumi, and James Joyce, to the everyday practice of committing poems and songs to memory, allowing them to take root in the body and shape the life of the spirit.

"Turas d’Anam (Journey Of Your Soul)" by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin Often times the step backward lets the soul catch up. So that all our happy hindsight’s harmonise and wisdom builds. Share your luck. Be miserly only with misfortune. In each seismic shudder we learn to trust the ground again, humble again, knowingly broken, unrepentantly wounded, proud to bare pain. Laying claim to the joy factory of your body. No more tariffs, or sanctions. Wage cuts and glass ceilings. Conventions, expenses paid, nor lanyards or company position. Often times, this way you can live in ways others simply will not, develop sides of you others simply would not. So feel the rhythm beyond the beat. Begin with a break, and let your soul catch up.

Show Notes:

* YouTube: “Turas d'Anam (a poem by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)”

* Turas d’Anam | Celtic Wisdom, Creative Practice, and Tours of Ireland

* "For Ireland I’ll Not Speak Her Name” Digital Album

* Owen and Moley on AppleMusic

* Invitas with David Whyte

* #86 The Deep Heart's Core (with Owen Ó Súilleabháin)

* #97 What the Heart Hears (with Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain)

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

“Walking together is one of the most ancient human practices. It’s how we’ve always learned to be in relationship—with each other, with the land, and with God.”

-Reverend Rita Powell

Reverend Rita Powell is the Episcopal chaplain at Harvard, formerly a priest at Trinity Church in Boston, and a longtime spiritual innovator whose journey has included living in the monastic community of Taizé in France and working closely with Native communities in South Dakota. A Yale Divinity School graduate and recipient of the William Muehle Preaching Prize, Rita is a gifted storyteller and deeply spiritual human being. Beyond her formal roles, she embodies the practice of walking as prayer, offering, sacrament, and pilgrimage—a living expression of how movement can open us to healing, connection, and the sacred.

This conversation with Andy and Rita was recorded while walking. If you can, you’re invited to listen while walking too. And if walking is not available, you might feel called to listen in any way that helps you feel more connected to your body and the world around you.

"Walking" by Rainer Maria Rilke My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance— and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Show Notes:

* Watch: March 30, 2025 Sermon with The Rev. Rita Powell

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

“Mysticism is about meeting life as it is. It’s about leaning into discomfort, leaning into obstacles, leaning into challenges and saying, there’s a reason why they’re here.”

-Robin Alfred

What does it mean to live a mystical life? Not on a mountaintop or in a monastery, but in the midst of work deadlines, childcare chaos, and the messiness of everyday life? Once again we welcome back Robin Alfred, a dear friend, coach and mentor who shares how we might apply the wisdom and presence of the mystics in to our families, communities, and ourselves.

Robin Alfred is a leadership coach, facilitator, and teacher of contemporary embodied mysticism. Drawing on decades of work with leaders, teams, and communities worldwide, he helps people integrate deep spiritual insight with grounded, practical action.

In this conversation, Robin offers practical, soul-centered guidance on what “applied mysticism” means and how to practice it in daily life; accepting friction, challenge and discomfort as invitations to deeper presence; and finding the courage to leap and trust that the bridge will appear.

"The Guest House" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Show Notes:

* Emergent Leadership: A Training in Applied Mysticism — September 2, 2025 to April 9, 2026

* Open Circle Consulting

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

“Ritual makes the invisible visible.”

— Casper ter Kuile

Casper ter Kuile shares insight and inspiration on the future of community, ritual, and spirituality. His work explores how we’ll make meaning, deepen our relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual and co-founder of The Nearness, a digital community of people exploring life’s big questions through deep conversations.

Casper joins Andy under the Dome to explore how modern life has left many of us with an "ambient absence" — a yearning for depth, connection, and meaning in our fast-paced, disjointed world. Together, they discuss how rituals — both ancient and newly created — can help us reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.

From seasonal gatherings like Solstice in the Park to grassroots singing groups, Casper shares how simple acts of gathering can build resilient communities and meaningful culture. The conversation dives into the crucial distinction between tradition and convention, the evolving nature of spiritual life, and the importance of co-creating culture through shared song, storytelling, and collective care.

This episode is a powerful reminder that ritual is not just about the past — it’s about creating the future we long to inhabit.

"Mindful" by Mary Oliver Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant - but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these - the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean's shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?

Show Notes:

* https://www.caspertk.com/

* https://substack.com/@caspertk

* The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile

* Solstice in the Park: A Ritual of Mutual Belonging and Transformation by Casper ter Kuile

* Joyful Belonging by Casper ter Kuile

* Solstice in the Park

* Nearness

* Sacred Design Lab

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

“We need our most weird parts to be our most wonderful selves. And as we become more wonderful, we become more weird! And that’s kind of what flourishing looks like in the universe.”

— Dominic Longo

This Pride Month we are thrilled to welcome back Dominic Longo, founder of Flourishing Gays and author of Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults. Dominic’s work is devoted to catalyzing and cultivating the transformational journeys of other LGBTQ+ leaders, helping them leverage their unique experiences as queer individuals into strengths that foster courageously authentic and highly-effective leadership. Queer Flourishing is a field guide for those who want to flourish in every aspect of their lives; a pioneering work that fills in the gaps in the self-help landscape where queer identities are often overlooked.

Dominic sits down with Andy to discuss “queer superpowers,” 10 adaptive patterns and capabilities developed in response to the unique adversities queer individuals face, and shares how tending to the woundedness of the most powerful parts of ourselves with a trauma-informed approach can help us live our best lives as flourishing, queer adults.

"Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" by Chen Chen Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango. As friendly as a tomato. Merciless to chin & shirtfront. Realizing I hate the word “sip.” But that’s all I do. I drink. So slowly. & say I’m tasting it. When I’m just bad at taking in liquid. I’m no mango or tomato. I’m a rusty yawn in a rumored year. I’m an arctic attic. Come amble & ampersand in the slippery polar clutter. I am not the heterosexual neat freak my mother raised me to be. I am a gay sipper, & my mother has placed what’s left of her hope on my brothers. She wants them to gulp up the world, spit out solid degrees, responsible grandchildren ready to gobble. They will be better than mangoes, my brothers. Though I have trouble imagining what that could be. Flying mangoes, perhaps. Flying mango-tomato hybrids. Beautiful sons.

Show Notes:

* Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults by F. Dominic Longo, Ph.D.

* Flourishing Gays

* #94 Queer Flourishing (with Dominic Longo)

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?

As a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and coach, much of Ketriellah Goldfeder’s ethos is rooted in transforming the self-help paradigm of “working on yourself” to “working with yourself.”

While many of us feel that we are fundamentally broken and that one day, when we work hard enough, we will be fixed, Ketriellah helps her clients embrace the beautiful messiness that is synonymous with being human. Through embodied presence, loving acceptance, and connection with our own intrinsic wisdom, Ketriellah helps others uncover habitual patterns of thinking and metamorphose them into new, more realistic and rewarding mindsets.

Andy and Ketriellah share their experiences as coaches finding unity and presence with their clients; the meaning of mastery and the value of “doing a little less than your best.” If you’re a person who wants to live more fully in reality, this conversation with is for you.

"Enough" by David Whyte Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

Show Notes:

* New Moon Coaching

* Embodywise

* Hakomi Institute

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

What is your fiercest hope for humanity?