Coming Attractions

Oct7

The Songs of Bob Dylan

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San Diego Oasis, Grossmont Center, 5500 Grossmont Center Drive Suite 269 , La Mesa, CA 91942

The life and music of Bob Dylan left an indelible mark on pop music, culture, and our lives. Join singer-songwriter Peter Bolland as he weaves the songs of Bob Dylan with tales of his life and impact. And you’re all invited to sing along—lyrics for some of the songs will be projected on the screen. Join us for this concert and retrospective of the world’s most influential singer-songwriter of all time.

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Oct11

Guest-Preaching at Christ Church Episcopal Coronado

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Christ Church Episcopal Coronado, 1114 Ninth Street, Coronado, CA 92118

Join me for both the 8:00 o'clock and 10:00 o'clock service, as well as the Forum, where I'll be guest preaching and leading a discussion at this beautiful church on Coronado Island.

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Oct16

The Hero's Journey: Myth as Life Lessons

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San Diego Oasis at Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center Dr., Rancho Bernardo, CA 92128

In 1949 Joseph Campbell published his first book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. It not only launched his career as the world’s preeminent scholar of mythology, it also had a deep and lasting impact on the disparate fields of literature, film, psychology, religion and spirituality. If, as Campbell claims, “each of us is the hero of our own lives,” then studying the universal themes of the hero’s journey takes us on a profoundly important journey of self-discovery. Join us as we chart the transformational stages of the hero within each of us.

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Oct17

Our Favorite Neil Young Songs with Peter Bolland and Joe Rathburn

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Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living, 4780 Mission Gorge Place, Suite H, San Diego, CA

Join singer-songwriters Peter Bolland and Joe Rathburn for a special matinee concert of their favorite Neil Young songs. $25 to join us in the room, or make a donation to get a link to the livestream at https://visioncsl.breezechms.com/form/20261017

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Author of The Seven Stone Path-An Everyday Journey to Wisdom


My book The Seven Stone Path-An Everyday Journey to Wisdom is out now and available everywhere. 

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And be sure to get the free Workbook HERE!

I am a professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California where I have taught world religions, Asian philosophy, world mythology, and ethics for 34 years.

Off campus I speak, write, teach, and sing about a wide range of spiritual and philosophical things.

I have a YouTube channel called Peter Bolland TV where I post videos of some of my talks, songs, and the mini-lecture videos I produce for my students about the world's wisdom traditions. Check it out and subscribe!

I lead guided meditations online on the Insight Timer Meditation app. Come meditate with me for free!

I launched a newsletter called Finding a Way on the Substack app, all about my journey through the world's wisdom traditions. Part memoir, part spiritual exploration, and all heart, Finding a Way is my latest effort to finally make sense of it all. Check it out and subscribe!

For many years I wrote columns for both Unity Magazine and the San Diego Troubadour, and all of those columns are gathered on my blog Thinking Through.    

And I lecture all over town in a wide variety of venues. Check out the calendar page to see where I'll be next!

All of my work is about one thing: shaping the insights of the world's wisdom traditions into tools we can use to enrich our lives. 

I also sing, play guitar, write songs, make albums, and perform regularly throughout the San Diego area.


I've been playing music and writing songs my whole life. My first solo album was called Frame, released in 2002. It earned a Best Americana Album nomination at the San Diego Music Awards. Then I had a band called The Coyote Problem from 2002-2010. We won the Best Americana Album prize for both of our albums, Wire in 2005 and California in 2007 at the San Diego Music Awards. Quit while you're ahead, right? I fired myself from my own band so I could focus on all of my other projects, including my solo work. The result? My album Two Pines, available now.

Two Pines Album Cover

 


I am also a session musician playing a wide variety of instruments on other people's albums, things like acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro, mandolin, banjo, and harmonica.

dobro

 

But these days I spend most of my off-campus time speaking and leading workshops at a wide variety of venues, (The Chopra Center, The San Diego Vedanta Monastery, San Diego Oasis, The Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Vision: A Center for Spiritual Living, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, Seaside Center for Spiritual Living, First United Methodist Church, and many more) about all of the things I've learned through the years about the world's wisdom traditions. If you'd like to come experience one of my many multimedia lecture presentations or long-form classes about the life-changing transformational wisdom of world mythology, comparative religion, and practical philosophy, visit the Calendar page for a complete schedule of upcoming events.

 


     The Bolland Eightfold Path

 

1. Buy my book on Amazon and write a review.

2.  Join the Mailing List.

3. Check the Calendar page for coming attractions.

4. Listen and shop on the Music page.

5. Meditate with me right now for free on the Insight Timer Meditation app.

6. Follow the link to my Blog "Thinking Through."

7. Click the YouTube icon and subscribe to Peter Bolland TV.

8. Subscribe to my Substack newsletter Finding a Way