Renaissance

I'm back! After four years away, I'm opening a new chapter for UNTAMED WORSHIP—one that honors curiosity over certainty, embodiment over performance, and intimacy over spectacle. I share the origin story behind False Prophet (the original name of this podcast), why the early success felt terrifying to my nervous system, and how time away sharpened my commitment to a grounded and wonder-filled practice.

I unpack the difference between religion and spirituality without vilifying either, naming the gifts and risks on both sides. Religion offers lineage, ritual, and community; spirituality widens our lens to find the sacred in sunrises, relationships, and the ordinary moments that take our breath away. The bridge we’re building holds a non-dual middle path—space where subjective experience is honored without dressing it up as universal truth, and where humility guides the search for meaning.

Along the way, we talk about visibility, somatic safety, and the practices that make art in the public eye survivable—ceremonial tea, simple devotion, and honest self-inquiry. We address the cultural and political tensions that fuse belief with identity and invite a quieter courage: listening across difference without making others wrong. The episode centers around a single, disarming question—does God like you?—and explores how your first felt answer quietly shapes prayer, boundaries, belonging, and your capacity for awe.

If you’re longing for a faith that meets you where you are, without dogma or bypass, you’ll feel at home here. Expect weekly conversations spanning mysticism, astrology, relationships, culture, and the daily practices that make spirituality tangible. 

If this conversation moved you, you're invited to join us, subscribe, rate, and leave a review so more seekers can find this space. 

I'm excited to be back! This is only the beginning.

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Intention Setting

Remy Godwin 0:09

You are listening to Untamed Worship, a podcast for the wild, the free, and the faithful. Hello, hello, hello, everyone. I am back after a four-year hiatus. I've been living my life, going on all of the adventures, learning a lot, and really integrating with what this space wants to become in its next evolution. And wow, has it been a fucking journey to really allow this channel, this untamed worship channel, as it is now called in its next evolution, to live here in my mind, body, spirit space and form intimacy with it to honestly allow it to live. This particular channel of all of my channels has been quite a scary one. And so it has required a lot of personal practice to ground and support my nervous system and prepare myself to be ready to return. And I'm gonna tell you a story about that. But before I go there, if you're just tuning in for the very first time, welcome. My name is Remy, and I am the creator of Untamed Worship, a space for the wild, the free, and the faithful to meet in inquiry and exploration and adventure and discovery and curiosity around what it means to walk a spiritual path in the modern age. In this space, we talk about liberation and deconstruction of dogma and faith-based practices in a way that we can relate to them that makes us feel expansive and welcome and safe and liberated. We also explore culture and current events and how to engage with the modern tangible world through a lens of spirituality, the kind of spirituality that doesn't include spiritual bypassing, excluding others, and telling anyone that we know the objective answers of the universe that we know best. This is a space for our humanity to be a part of the conversations that we show up for. It's not about knowing, it's about seeking. We also explore relationship, relationship with ourselves, relationship with those we love in the world, and relationship with the God of our own imagination. So whatever it is that God means to you, when I say the God of your own imagination, that is an invitation for you to root in and find your truth around what it means for you to engage with that which is transcendent and that which is sacred. So I use the word God because my last name is Godwin, and also because this word resonates with me. So moving forward throughout every conversation that we have, sometimes I may invite you to seek a word for the God of your own imagination, and other times I may just use the word God, and I trust that you can receive that word and work with that word in your own relationship to it. So if that word doesn't resonate with you, that's okay. Pick your own word, the God of your own imagination. And so we will explore relationship in these ways: relationship with God, relationship with the other, with the beloved on this physical earth plane, and relationship with yourself and how it is that you want to relate to the world around you. I believe that if you're looking for God, you're looking for lived visceral, felt, somatic experiences of where God exists on this planet. You need look no further than into the eyes of someone that you love. Perhaps someone that you love as a child or a parent or a coworker or a friend or a beloved, a lover, a husband, a wife, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, whatever language that you use, I believe that to love another person is to see the face of God. And if you were a regular listener of my previous evolution of this podcast, you will know that I often signed off my podcast episodes with that, which is to love another person is to see the face of God. And that's why relationship is a piece of this space as well, because I believe we can't have a relationship with a divinity unless we can have a relationship with the divine within ourselves and the divine within each other. In addition to all of this, sometimes we'll have some astrology, sometimes we'll have some mysticism, sometimes we will have some esoteric, and I'm gonna break it all down for you, and we're gonna connect like we're hanging out at my tea table. And so if you're new here, again, my name is Remy, this is Untamed Worship. I'm really excited to get to know you. I'm happy that you're here, and thank you for listening. And for those of you who are returning and you have been here since the beginning, thank you for being here. Every single one of you that sent me messages the past four years of the hiatus I've been on. I read them all, I received them all, and each and every time I felt you, and I felt gratitude that you love this space as much as you do. When I set out to create this originally, I didn't think about whether or not it would be received, whether or not people would actually want to listen. It really was just a clear channel that wanted to come through. And so I made it and I released it, and people loved it, and it meant so much to me that people loved it. And the truth is that I got I got really scared, and my nervous system was not ready to be seen and received through this particular channel at the scale that it was with the first evolution of the podcast, and while I'm so grateful that it was so well received, holy shit, it was scary. And so it's taken me about four years to be ready to come back into this space, and I want to tell you that story. But in conclusion of this little piece, for those of you who are returning listeners, thank you so much for being excited to be here and for reaching out and letting me know that you missed this space and for asking for to come back because that really meant a lot to me. And I really thought a lot about each of you as I sat with what this new evolution of this space wanted to become. And so I hope that you feel that as you're listening. And if I could sit at my tea table with each and every one of you personally and serve you a few bowls and just connect in, I absolutely would. So this is my attempt to do that. And my invitation for the space of the podcast is for us to just be in an intimate, one-on-one kind of feeling together. I wanted to feel, I want this space to feel like we're best friends on a phone call. And so that's really the intention that I'm holding here. And I hope that you feel it as we go deeper. So let me catch you up on what has been going on since the last episode. And caveat, you might have noticed that the previous episodes aren't available anymore. I actually don't have them. If anyone has them and wants to send them to me, I would be really excited to receive them. And I like the idea that we're starting fresh. And so I'm acknowledging that there was a whole list, uh, there was a whole catalog of previous conversations and episodes in this space. And that's a beautiful sand mandala of a moment in time, and from here we are gonna move forward. So, with that, allow me to onboard you into current times. So, if you are new here, this space, this podcast used to be called False Prophet. The reason for that, the very TLDR, too long didn't read, summarized version of that, is there are many beings out here in the wild, wild west of this world that we are living in in the digital age that will claim to be prophets. And I believe that anyone claiming to be a prophet is automatically a false prophet. And so the intention of the name false prophet was to be intentionally pattern-interruptive and paradoxical and confronting to really bring to forefront that conversation of there's so many people speaking in spiritual spaces, acting as if they have objective answers that are not possible to be objective. So we can have our subjective experience of the divine, but that doesn't mean that it's objective. Meaning, objective is universal. Everyone has the same exact experience. Gravity is impacting you at this point and at this point in the same way. The sun rises and the sets, the sun rises and the sun sets every day, right? There are objective laws of the universe that govern all of us in the physical realm. And then there are subjective experiences of life. And when we speak about spirituality or religion, especially through a lens of this is objective truth, that is very harmful because our relationship to divinity is deeply personal. And so this is a large piece of my personal values in showing up to bring this work into the world, is to really truly attempt to create a safe space where we can have these really big philosophical deep conversations without needing answers to be objective and without needing to meaning-make our beliefs and our values in such a way that we require other people outside of us to confirm that they're real. So you can have a spiritual experience that is unique to you and is personally yours, is your intimate relationship with divinity in the natural or the supernatural world without needing anybody else to believe that as well or to have experienced that as well. And so the reason that the first evolution of the space was called false prophet is to bring that conversation to the forefront, which is there is no there is no way to believe someone that's calling themselves a prophet, in my opinion. In my opinion, the central prophet of the age of Aquarius is the collective consciousness that awakens within each of us and the ways in which this collective consciousness is going to connect us all through our evolution of the way that we relate to the sacred. And I know that's a very big thing to say, and I will zoom in on that at some point. However, for now, let's go into the story. So just for a moment, I'm gonna take us back to 2020. I know, big year. Here's what was going on as False Prophet came into the world. I had just started my ceremonial tea practice for the first time. So I'd always had a relationship with tea, but I went into a more devotional structured lineage of a tea practice. And every day I would sit at my tea table and I would hear tea kind of boss me around and tell me to just record myself having some of these big conversations. And that's a large concept that's difficult to explain, and people often ask like, what does it feel like to channel something? And how do you know? And there's lots of layers to this, which we'll explore in this space because this is a space for metaphysical curiosity. But without going too densely into it, my channel that wanted to bring forth this space was very loud and very present and was just very there, almost as if it was sitting with me at the tea table, and it felt very much like T was asking me to to record this. And so I went out and I I bought a podcast mic and I figured out how to use it, and you know, I just started recording it. And I recorded probably like 10 episodes before I posted any of them just because I didn't know what was coming through. And yeah, so that's where the first evolution of False Prophet came from. It was born in 2020 around the transition through the grand conjunction at that time, which was the winter solstice, December 21st of 2020. That was when the first episode was posted. And so that was the mystical cosmic context in my world and in the greater world when this space was originally born. And as I said earlier, it was unexpectedly received well, and it ended up being in the top 10 recommended spirituality podcast for quite a while in multiple countries. And I was so grateful for that. And one of my favorite pieces of feedback that I got was somebody said one time, I think it was an Instagram DM, but it may have been, it may have been in the reviews. I'm not sure where it was. I hope I can find it again. But it it said something like every single week, and this was this was the the third generation person saying it, but she said, every single week I listen to this with my mother and my grandmother, and we talk about the concepts and we have really beautiful multi-generational conversations as a result of this, and I'm just really grateful. And that that comment, I think about it every time I think about the space, and so yeah, people listened, and as much as I loved that, it also really scared me because these conversations are big conversations and they're scary conversations to have. And it's no secret that there's a lot of tension in the world around these topics right now. And I don't know if we've ever really existed in a time where there hasn't been a lot of tension and disagreement between different lineages and religious ideologies. I think maybe this has always been the case, but it's alive on the planet right now, certainly. And it became very scary to my nervous system to be having those conversations and inviting people into a non-dual space around them and being seen at scale. Because these are some of the deepest beliefs, if not the deepest beliefs that we hold, which is what is God and what is the right or wrong way to commune with God, and you know, what happens if I fuck up and where do I go? And what happens if you fuck up, and what if you fuck up worse than me or better than me? And there's all these big, scary, existential feelings that we all hold. And I believe this is a it's a part of the human experience, and it can be really beautiful, but it can also be really scary. And so I got really scared from holding these conversations, and I really had to take some time to get clear if I could do it at this scale, because podcasts a lot of people could listen to them hypothetically, and so I think that's a funny thing about putting anything into the world that has any piece of you in it, be it art or a channel or a book or something, right? Like you either allowed it to move through you or you made it, and so there's a piece of you there, and that piece of you stops belonging to you when you release it into the world to be consumed at scale. And it's it's one thing to tell your mind, like this is safe, this is safe, this is okay. It is quite another to uh allow your body to feel safe. And it really is a nervous system game, and so I have more to say about that in um follow-up episodes. We can really go into that if y'all are interested in that conversation, because yeah, the the needs of the nervous system as we are being seen bringing, I'll say, in this space, whatever it is that we are, let's say, blessed by God or inspired by God or gifted by God to bring into the world, you're gonna be tested and challenged and confronted with being witnessed in that. And that's just a part of the game. It's a part of the conversation, it's a part of the process, and woo, it does not make it easy. And so I took a break, I rooted deeper than ever before into the presence of my day-to-day experience of life, and that's been really beautiful. I have so many lessons to share and curiosities to ponder with you and stories to tell of that journey. Previous to that, during that, after that, that's what this space is for. And for now, I just want to say that I've I've missed this space. I've missed just hanging out one-on-one like this. The intimacy of hearing someone's voice in our headphones or in our car speaker or wherever it is that you're listening. I really value this space. So now we are in the new evolution, which is untamed worship. Untamed worship was born from false prophet. The seed is still there, but untamed worship is to me representative of something that's even more expansive than what the original evolution held. And so the original evolution was the seed of how do we find our truth and how do we become more authentic, and how do we connect with that which is divine? And that's all gonna be here as well. But untamed worship is how do we take these concepts and live them? How do we have a lifestyle of spirituality, if you will? How do we take the experience of the divine and bring it into every facet of our life in a way that expands us beyond the small box of what so many religions will have us believe is the right way to pray and the right way to approach the temple, and the one and only true way to speak to God or get into heaven or whatever it is the story is. And to caveat that a bit, I would like to just juxtapose for the record in my world and in my relationship to it, religion versus spirituality. So when I say religion for the purpose of this space, what I mean is an organized dogma set of rules around how you relate to God, how you have a relationship with God, and all of that which is accessible to you through that relationship as determined by the dogma of that particular religious lineage. Religion isn't wrong, religion isn't bad. However, religion is not right for everyone at every phase of their life. So if you're listening to this and you are a religious person and you do have an affiliation with a church or a temple or whatever the name of your holy place is in your lineage, that's beautiful. And you're absolutely welcome here, and I hope that you'll be here. And I think religion has lots of value, and it depends on where we are in our journey. And so, with that, I want to acknowledge that religion can also create a lot of pain for people for lots of reasons, and there will be subsequent episodes about these reasons as they want to come through. However, I think the largest reason is because we need to feel safe to commune with God where we are, how we are, with what is true now. And when there's lots of dogma, lots of rules, lots of rights and lots of wrongs, this can create shame for us that can separate us, make us feel separate from divinity. Nothing can really truly separate us from divinity, but when we're told this is the one and only God, this is the one and only way to speak to God, this is the one and only way to come in and pray, or how you approach X, Y, Z, that can make us feel like there's not God in it. And so if you're listening to this and you are someone who has tried a religious path and hasn't felt God there, uh this is also a space for you. We can have these conversations in a non-dogmatic way, which means religion is not wrong, spirituality is not wrong. We all want the same universal things, and in the context of this is to see God, right? To love another person is to see the face of God, and we all want to experience that, and we're all terrified that we won't. We're all terrified that if we don't do it right, then maybe we will cease to exist. And these are really big things to feel, and this is a space to feel that. You also might be someone who looks at religion and it's like, wow, there's a lot of pomp and circumstance. That looks like pageantry. I don't have a lot of interest in the formality of whatever it is that's going on there, but I do want to know God. I do want to have a spiritual relationship with life. That's beautiful, that's very okay. And a lot of people feel that way. So, from the religious standpoint, we have people who grew up in the church, whatever you call it in your lineage, and didn't feel like you belonged there, didn't feel welcome there, made some kind of mistake that made you feel excluded from the tribe in that particular walk of life, felt hurt in some way by something that happened to your mind, body, or spirit in the space of the church that has made you not want to be a part of a religious practice, and that has made you feel sad because you still want to have a relationship with God. You still want to have a relationship with divinity. There's also people who have never participated in church, never had a religious practice at all, and feel curious, but don't know where to start and have a sense that that's probably not their path. For whatever reason, they either they know that they're non-dogmatic, or as I said previously, maybe it feels like pageantry, or they don't XYZ. There's many reasons why someone doesn't have a religious practice and doesn't want one. There's a lot in current events right now that would make anyone not want to have a religious practice. If you're looking at Christianity in the United States, for example, the red hat Christianity movement is quite a thing. And I think there's a lot of pain that a lot of people are feeling as the political. Political ideologies have become so entwined with particularly these Christian values in the United States. And this is also a space to separate that and like have that big conversation in the right moment. And look, if you're listening to that and you're already feeling a contraction because you have political affiliation or connection or desire or adjacency to the more conservative ideology, whether or not you support the red hat movement and you're feeling a contraction around this, like you're welcome here. This is not a space to be politically divisive. However, it's impossible to not have the conversations about the ways in which we really essentially the value of the separation of church and state, right? Like that conversation is valuable. And so if you are conservatively aligned, beautiful. If that's your truth, then that's your truth. And you know, I think people have all different kinds of reasons why we believe what we believe and value what we value. And I believe this again is coming from we all want the same things. You know, we want home and we want our land and we want our people to be safe on our land, and we want to sit around the fire together, and we want to connect, and we want to love each other, and we want to have a future, and we want to be able to be proud of our history, and these are universal feelings, and there's not a right or wrong way to come to well, let me say that differently. There's not a right or wrong truth for you, right? What's right for you is what's right for you, but what's right for you is not necessarily what's right for everyone, because that's the difference between subjective and objective. And so we will have these conversations here, but to the best of my ability, I want this to be a space where we can hold a non-dual philosophy. And when I say the non-dual philosophy, I mean the middle path. So how do we have the ability to hold compassion for those who have different views than us without making them wrong and without making them bad and without making them evil? How do we do this? And you know, this is fundamental to the religious paths and the spiritual path. And so going back to this piece, which is whatever your relationship to religion is, I want you to relate to this space as a bridge between religion and spirituality. And so if you're on the spirituality side, you probably have resistance to religion. If you're on the religion side, you probably have resistance to spirituality. The religious side may say, oh, you're watering down the word, or you don't understand the word, or you're not praying correctly, or you know, God isn't in the festival or whatever. And if you're on the spiritual side, you're thinking the institution that you are pledging yourself to has lost the plot, and there is no God in church, right? Like there's that polarity in the conversation between religion and spirituality. And so when I speak of religion, what I'm speaking of is a particular lineage with a particular dogma, set of rules and law that you subscribe to as you relate to your spiritual practices. And when I say spirituality, I mean this is a, and I'll frame it the way I relate to it and understand it is spirituality is connection to the natural world. Spirituality is finding God in nature and finding God in the moments that we share with each other, the mundane and the magical. And so the spiritual is how do we connect with God outside of the dogma and outside of the law? And how do we do this in a way that's safe and sustainable and isn't going to create psychosis? So that's the elephant in the room of spirituality, in my opinion, is because it's the Wild West, because it's not held by dogma, and it's not held by a particular set of doctrine or rules or law or you know church organization with uh guardrails to the way that we connect to God, then all bets are off and anything could be spoken, anything could be preached, anything could be taught. And when we all have this deep need to know, and need to be certain, and deep longing to know God, it can be dangerous to be in the spirituality realm and not the religion realm because false prophets run amok. However, this is present and I in either side of the conversation. And so my intention with this space, this untamed worship space, has been previously with false prophet and is now for this space to be a bridge between religion and spirituality. So if you're someone who left the church and you want to know God in a in a different way, come be here and have these conversations with us. If you're any of the other previous people that I spoke to, come be here, have these conversations with us. And if you identify as spiritually awakened or conscious, you're part of the spiritual community or the conscious community or whatever language you're using to define yourself as awakened and conscious, my strong invitation for you is to humble yourself and show up to these conversations, considering the possibility that that is also not the way. And when I say the middle path, that is what I mean. And so until we can hold a space of neutrality for both walks of life, until we can really do our very best to release the need to have a core identity based around how spiritual and awakened and conscious we are, we are probably not spiritual and awakened and conscious. And so my value around speaking to spirituality is to pull us into our humanity and really to invite us to find beauty all around us without allowing that beauty around us to separate us from each other, from those who walk a different path of life, and from the human experience. And so my invitation and my value of spirituality is our spiritual practice is not here to take away our fear of our mortality. Our mortality, in case that wasn't enunciated clearly enough. Our spirituality is here to make it so that we can look at the sunset and maybe cry sometimes because of how beautiful it is. And just have even a second of awe about how fucking cool this planet is. Like that is spirituality. And if you look at the sunrise and you think, wow, I saw more colors in the sunrise because I'm awakened and I'm not a sheephole. That's not it. If you look at the sunrise and you think I understand the sunrise more because I learned in church that this is the right direction to pray to the sun, this is not all, that is not it. And so this space is my strong prayer for this space is that we can find love and compassion for each other in all walks of life to have these most precious and potent and confronting and terrifying and beautiful conversations toward our quest to know God together, one conversation at a time, without needing to know the answers, and allowing ourselves to be uncomfortable together. And with that, once again, I'm Remy. This is Untamed Worship, and I'm really happy to have you here. This space is going to expand over time. Expect weekly podcasts exploring a range of topics throughout the mystical relationships, spirituality, religion, all through a lens of liberation. Here we deconstruct dogma, and I invite you to develop your own relationship with divinity, one that feels uniquely yours and true to you, and safe to you, and real to you in a way that makes you feel happy to be alive rather than scared. And so I will leave you now with a question to ponder from now until whenever you listen to the next episode, which is when you think about God, does God like you or not like you? Really feel it. Let it land in your body. See if you notice any sensations somewhere for you as you ask yourself really to think about your answer to this question. Not what do you want to believe, but actually when you think of God, does God like you or does God not like you? So I will leave you with this to ponder until we meet again and know that this question, your answer to this question, dictates everything about how you will relate to spirituality, religion, God, the divinity available to us in this realm and the next. How you answer this question really, truly, genuinely has everything to do with your access to spirituality and how you will relate to beauty and magic here on earth. So I ask you once more, does God like you or does God not like you? Whatever your answer is, let's explore it together. Once again, welcome to Untamed Worship, a space for the wild, the free, and the faithful. Until we meet again, I'll see you next time. This week's episode is sponsored by Untamed Worship, the Substack publication. Here you can go deeper into the themes that we explored in this episode and in other episodes. Inside you'll find articles, personal essays, tips, tools, and practices to support you in your spiritual quest and your relationship to life, love, culture, and the world around you. 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