In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore what “saving ordinances” truly mean — and challenge the common assumption that symbolic rituals are salvific in and of themselves.

This lesson reframes temple ordinances not as spiritual hall passes or automatic guarantees of salvation, but as symbolic invitations into real spiritual transformation, covenant relationship, and lived discipleship through the grace of Jesus Christ.

Using a well-known quote from Brigham Young as a starting point, the discussion unpacks why memorizing signs, tokens, or participating in ceremonies alone cannot save a person — and how those symbols instead point toward deeper spiritual realities that must be experienced, embodied, and received through grace.

You’ll learn:

✨ Why ordinances are a means, not an end
✨ How symbols represent real spiritual experiences and gifts of grace
✨ The danger of reducing temple worship to performance or compliance
✨ Why God is interested in who we are becoming, not just what we are doing
✨ How ancient Israel struggled with the same misunderstanding
✨ How the Book of Mormon functions as a temple text
✨ What it means to “see beyond the symbol” into spiritual reality

This episode invites viewers to move beyond surface-level religious participation into conscious spiritual growth, discernment, and personal transformation in Christ.

If you’ve ever wondered whether ordinances alone can save you, how grace actually works, or how temple symbolism connects to lived spiritual experience, this lesson provides clarity and depth.

🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community conversation, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).

⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.

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In this expansive episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner is joined by theologian and author Michelle Wiener to explore the hidden feminine thread within the Abrahamic tradition.

Drawing from Michelle’s book Return to Mamre: Recovering the Melchizedek Mysteries Beneath the Sacred Groves, this conversation reframes Abraham and Sarah not merely as patriarch and matriarch, but as participants in a sacred matrimonial priesthood order — a divine pairing of priest and priestess rooted in ancient sacred groves, temple imagery, and cosmic symbolism.

Together, they explore:

• Sarah as possible high priestess
• The Mamre Order as a template for Melchizedek priesthood
• Henotheism vs. monotheism and the divine council
• The role of Heavenly Mother in healing Abrahamic division
• Astrology, archetypes, and the constellations as priesthood patterns
• The mother/daughter (virgin/“harlot”) archetype in scripture
• The sacred feminine as key to reconciliation among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

This episode invites listeners into deeper discernment, symbolic literacy, and spiritual maturity — reclaiming a balanced priesthood of partnership rather than hierarchy.

If you’ve ever wondered whether the sacred feminine was truly erased from scripture — and how to recover her — this conversation will expand your lens.

• 00:00 Introduction + Michelle’s academic background
• 04:00 Southern Baptist roots & fear-based theology
• 08:40 Discovering the mystical & divine feminine
• 15:30 Introducing Return to Mamre
• 16:20 Abraham & Sarah’s journey to Mamre
• 20:00 Was Sarah initiated alongside Abraham?
• 23:00 Sacred groves, Asherah, and priestesshood
• 29:00 Bread, libations, and feminine temple ritual
• 34:00 Monotheism, henotheism, and the divine council
• 38:30 The “Most High God and Goddess”
• 45:00 Avoiding goddess conflation & discernment
• 50:15 Astrology, archetypes, and the Maseroth
• 55:30 The maiden–mother–crone pattern in the stars
• 1:02:00 Sarah & Hagar: mother/daughter archetypes
• 1:07:00 Solar vs lunar symbolism & degrees of glory
• 1:10:00 Healing Abrahamic division through the feminine
• 1:11:30 Final reflections on sacred partnership

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In this special bonus episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan and McKay Farner share the talks they delivered in sacrament meeting on the greatest commandment: to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Meghan explores the often-overlooked doctrine of self-love through the lens of agape—the unconditional love that God is. She unpacks false beliefs (“unbelief”) that keep us stuck in shame and natural-man identity, reframing repentance as healing rather than punishment. Drawing from Mosiah 3:19, Doctrine & Covenants 93, Moroni 7, and the teachings of President David O. McKay, she invites listeners to see themselves as the “pearl of great price”—already worthy of divine love.

McKay then shares a powerful mission story that forever changed his understanding of loving your neighbor. Through personal experience—including stepping away from church activity—he reflects on charity without ulterior motive and what it truly means to love as Christ loves.

Together, these talks offer a message of hope, grace, and spiritual maturity:
You cannot hate yourself into holiness.
You cannot give a gift you have not received.
And love is not kindness with a destination attached.

• 00:00 Introduction & purpose of the message
• 00:33 The Great Commandment (Matthew 22)
• 01:19 Agape: the unconditional love God is
• 02:35 False beliefs (“unbelief”) about self-love
• 04:24 Natural man vs. true eternal identity
• 07:23 Repentance as healing, not punishment
• 09:26 Shame, fear, and perfect love
• 10:16 Rest, worthiness, and grace
• 11:50 Meditation as communion with God
• 12:42 The pearl of great price
• 13:52 McKay’s mission story begins
• 15:47 What love is not
• 17:13 “Love is not kindness with a destination attached”
• 20:10 Charity defined (Moroni 7)
• 22:27 Princess & sacrificial love
• 23:40 “Greater love hath no man…”
• 24:16 Stepping away from church activity
• 24:48 “It’s what Jesus would do.”
• 25:02 Final testimony & invitation

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In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore what ordinances truly are, why they matter spiritually, and how they function as the bridge between human effort and the saving power of Jesus Christ’s Atonement.

This lesson introduces a transformational framework for understanding ordinances as having three essential components: a physical action, a symbolic spiritual teaching, and a real spiritual manifestation or gift of grace. Using baptism as a primary example, the discussion reveals how ordinances are not merely symbolic rituals, but divinely designed pathways for spiritual rebirth, covenant relationship, and inner transformation.

You’ll learn:

✨ Why ordinances are the means by which we access the power of Christ’s Atonement
✨ The three essential components of every saving ordinance
✨ How baptism teaches death, rebirth, surrender, and resurrection
✨ What baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost truly represents
✨ Why ordinances are incomplete without spiritual manifestation
✨ How temple ordinances mirror these same spiritual patterns
✨ The meaning of signs, tokens, and covenant exchange

This episode invites viewers to move beyond automatic or surface-level participation in ordinances and toward lived spiritual experience, discernment, and conscious covenant relationship.

If you’ve ever wondered why ordinances matter, how they actually change us, or how temple rituals connect to real spiritual growth, this lesson provides essential clarity and spiritual depth.

🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community conversation, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).

⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.

Join the Contemplative Prayer + Meditation Q&A with Meghan and Phil McLemore, on February 16th at 7pm MT. Register here!

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In this expansive episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner is joined by returning guest Phil McLemore for a deep, practical teaching on meditation as the highest form of prayer. Phil presents meditation as an ancient practice of awareness, union with God, and transformation.

Together, they explore the difference between mindfulness and transcendental (yoga) meditation, why stillness is essential for spiritual perception, and how meditation aligns with Jesus’ own teachings on prayer, the inner kingdom, and becoming “one” with God. Phil offers step-by-step guidance on posture, breath, mantra, handling distractions, and receiving meditation as a feminine, receptive flow of grace rather than a forced effort.

This episode also addresses common fears around meditation, ego resistance, spiritual ego, emotional release, and discernment—grounding the practice firmly in Christ-centered theology, embodiment, and character transformation. For anyone seeking a deeper experience of God, inner healing, and true at-one-ment, this episode serves as both teaching and invitation.

• 00:00 | Introduction & why meditation matters for spiritual growth
• 03:00 | Phil’s background & discovering meditation through pain
• 06:10 | Meditation as prayer, not self-improvement
• 07:20 | God in the present moment & spiritual awareness
• 09:00 | Mindfulness vs transcendental (God-centered) meditation
• 12:50 | Jesus’ model of prayer & the Aramaic meaning of “pray”
• 16:30 | Awareness of awareness & inner stillness
• 19:00 | Yoga, atonement, and union with God
• 23:00 | Still mind, pure heart, and scriptural foundations
• 29:40 | Preparing for meditation: time, place, posture
• 34:00 | Harmonizing the body & devotional intent
• 43:10 | “Don’t pray to God—pray in God”
• 46:20 | Breath as the gateway to Spirit
• 52:35 | Diaphragmatic breathing & nervous system safety
• 56:00 | Mantra meditation & examples (“Be Still,” “Peace, Be Still”)
• 01:05:30 | Handling intrusive thoughts & ego resistance
• 01:11:50 | Concentration vs meditation: receiving grace
• 01:15:40 | Oneness, transformation, and Christ-consciousness
• 01:23:30 | Obstacles, emotional release, and patience
• 01:31:30 | Discernment, symbolism, and avoiding spiritual ego
• 01:33:30 | Character transformation as the true fruit
• 01:37:15 | Closing reflections & invitation to practice

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In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore ancient covenant ceremonies and what covenants truly meant in biblical and Israelite culture — far beyond the modern idea of a simple two-way promise.

Using the story of David and Jonathan as a primary archetype, this lesson reveals how ancient covenants involved the merging of identity, shared inheritance, protection, loyalty, sacrifice, and sacred relationship. These covenant patterns illuminate how God relates to humanity and what it means to enter a covenant relationship with Jesus Christ.

You’ll learn:

✨ Why ancient covenants were relational, not contractual
✨ How covenant ceremonies symbolized shared identity, strength, and inheritance
✨ The spiritual meaning of robes, weapons, and sacred exchanges
✨ How covenant blood symbolism points to Christ’s atonement
✨ Why God identifies Himself as One who keeps covenant and shows mercy
✨ How covenant blessings extend across generations
✨ What covenant faithfulness, justice, and mercy look like in real life

This episode also explores the story of the Gibeonites, the seriousness of covenant obligations, and how God honors covenant relationships even across centuries. Viewers are invited to reconsider temple covenants as sacred relationships of transformation rather than mere ritual compliance.

If you’ve ever wondered what temple covenants truly mean, how God relates to covenant partners, or how ancient practices illuminate modern worship, this lesson provides essential spiritual foundations.

🌿 This episode is part of a 17-week course releasing weekly on YouTube.
🌿 For guided reflection, journaling tools, deeper study resources, and community discussion, explore the Hidden Wisdom app (link below).

⚠️ This content reflects personal spiritual study and interpretation. Viewers are encouraged to seek personal revelation, honor sacred covenants, and engage with discernment.

Join the Contemplative Prayer + Meditation Q&A with Meghan and Phil McLemore, on February 16th at 7pm MT. Register here!

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In this in-depth episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan Farner shares five core practices that accelerate spiritual growth, drawn from her own lived experience of awakening, healing, and deepened relationship with God.

Moving beyond passive obedience and performative religion, this episode invites listeners into spiritual adulthood—where personal accountability, direct revelation, embodied healing, and courage replace fear-based faith. Meghan explores what it truly means to inquire of the Lord, pursue spiritual rebirth, reframe repentance as healing, and release the subtle fears that keep us spiritually stalled.

Grounded in scripture, personal revelation, and esoteric Christian wisdom, this conversation is for seekers who want a lived experience of the divine, not just belief—without dismantling family, community, or faith. If you’re longing for faster growth, deeper discernment, and a more embodied connection to God, this episode offers a clear and compassionate path forward.

00:00 – 02:30 | Introduction, context, and why spiritual growth can accelerate

02:30 – 05:20 | Why faith expansion doesn’t require burning everything down

05:20 – 07:30 | Why Meghan reflects on growth, timing, and spiritual maturity

07:30 – 15:35 | Practice 1: Personal accountability & reclaiming spiritual authority

15:35 – 24:40 | Practice 2: Inquiring of the Lord & direct revelation

24:40 – 25:40 | Asking courageous questions & trusting God will answer

25:40 – 31:40 | Practice 3: Spiritual rebirth, awakening, and sanctification

31:40 – 34:50 | Awakening vs justification vs sanctification

34:50 – 40:45 | Practice 4: Repentance as healing, integration, and remission

40:45 – 46:10 | Eternal law, embodiment, and becoming a pure vessel

46:10 – 51:50 | Practice 5: Releasing fear (deception, isolation, the body, God)

51:50 – 54:30 | Bonus: Why seekers get stuck—and how to keep going

54:30 – 56:50 | Dark nights, integration, and growing grace for grace

56:50 – 58:20 | Final invitation: sanctification, embodiment, and continuing the journey

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In this episode of House of Learning: Understanding the Doctrine of the Temple, Meghan Farner and Cory Jensen explore the ancient tabernacle of Moses and how its layout, symbols, and ordinances reveal a powerful pattern of spiritual ascension and preparation to enter the presence of God.

This lesson examines how the tabernacle functioned as sacred space, divided into increasing degrees of holiness, and how those divisions mirror the doctrine of Christ, the three degrees of glory, and the journey of spiritual transformation in mortality.

You’ll learn:

✨ How the ancient tabernacle was designed as a symbolic map of the spiritual journey
✨ The meaning of the outer court, holy place, and holy of holies
✨ How the tabernacle reflects justification, sanctification, and exaltation
✨ The symbolic meaning of the veil, including Christ, creation, sacrifice, and divine embodiment
✨ How the law of Moses and ancient ordinances were designed to prepare Israel to receive Christ
✨ Why ancient temple rituals still matter for modern temple worship and spiritual growth

This episode also explores the Day of Atonement, the mercy seat, the ark of the covenant, sacred color symbolism, and how ancient temple practices foreshadow the life, atonement, and mission of Jesus Christ.

Join the Contemplative Prayer + Meditation Q&A with Meghan and Phil McLemore, on February 16th at 7pm MT. Register here!

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