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Talking Grief and Healing | Karen Johnson Jul 21, 2021

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This week we welcome to the show Karen Johnson.

Karen is a shaman, healer, and former judge. She was catapulted into the life of a healer when her son died suddenly of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty seven. Leaving her old life behind, Karen embarked on a multi-year spiritual quest around the world, ultimately discovering -among many modalities and sources of spiritual nourishment- shamanic energy medicine. (Karen is actually my teacher at the Four Winds Academy, which comes up a couple of times in the show.)

She joins us today to talk about her brand new book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss.

A really great chat about a really powerful topic. Enjoy.

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H2 2021 Astrological Forecast | Austin Coppock Jun 30, 2021

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Christmas only comes but once a year, which makes the half-yearly astrological forecasts twice as good as it!

Big thanks to the one and only Austin Coppock -as well as the premium members and patrons who join the call. As is now tradition, we look at the previous six months, the upcoming six months and situate our discussion in the context of longer cycles.

I always look forward to these chats!

Politics As Religion, Ressentiment and Identitarianism: Finding the Ekumen with Rhyd Wildermuth Jun 13, 2021

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Something a bit different and exciting this week in lieu of a normal show. One of the things the premium members will be doing over the coming month is participating in calls and Q&As with thinkers who have something to share or contribute to this notion of operating at the level of the living field.

First cab off the rank is none other than Rhyd Wildermuth. Finding The Ekumen gets its name from Ursula K. Le Guin's space utopia, effectively an anarchist version of Star Trek's far more militant United Federation of Planets. So if we are going to have a series of discussions beyond traditional politics, we should begin with a discussion of what politics is, what it isn't and where it might be that you come in. I can think of no one better than Rhyd for that chat, so here it is!

Big thanks to Rhyd and the members for participating! This is obviously a video discussion if you would prefer to watch on YouTube or Odysee.

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Talking Entheogens, Dreams, Prophecy and Releasing the Past | Nick Sun Jun 08, 2021

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Comedian, author, ceremonialist and healer, Nick Sun, joins us this week.

Back in January, Nick wrote a piece on Medium called Watch Your Dreams Die And Be Happy Now. It's about how childhood dreams in general and the insistence we all follow them is not always a good thing. In fact, it can even be pathological.

Obviously that sort of piece has Big New Year Energy given the world is awash with resolutions at the time. But it is also good and insistent medicine for now -particularly for younger readers. There is a lot about this in the wealth magic course in the members area, but desire is very poorly understood and even more poorly experienced in the modern world.

Given the dramatic changes to how society functions we have all been through these past sixteen months have barely begun to be felt, the work of sitting with, parsing and simply showing up to your dreams, desires, goals -as well as how they all differ- takes on a different form of urgency.

So that's what Nick came on to discuss ostensibly. We also talk about a bunch of other stuff too, I hasten to add. Encountering different plant spirits, prophecy, healing from trauma, all very good times.

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Talking Indigenous Thinking | Tyson Yunkaporta May 30, 2021

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This week, we welcome to the show the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World -genuinely one of my favourite books ever- Tyson Yunkaporta. In addition to being an author, Tyson is a poet, an artist, a wood carver, a linguist and and is senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University.

I had a fantastic time with this chat. We talk about ceremony, metaphor, the pitfalls of the new age, right relation and all that good stuff. We also talk about communicating via body odour, getting fat and 80s movies.

Enjoy!

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Get Sand Talk.

Talking The Two Antichrists | Peter Grey May 24, 2021

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Author, speaker and Scarlet Imprint co-founder, Peter Grey, returns to the show this week to talk about his latest book, The Two Antichrists.

This means we explore the Babalon Working(s), the influence of Jack Parsons on science fiction and science fiction's influence on Jack Parsons, the sophistication in Parsons's later work, L. Ron Hubbard's fascination with Aleister Crowley -as well as some of the ways he managed to out-Crowley the Beast himself.

We also talk about what witchcraft could and should do now, as well as the urgent necessity of coming into relation with the stars.

Enjoy!

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Get The Two Antichrists.
Scarlet Imprint on Instagram.

Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen Apr 27, 2021

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This week, we are speaking with Danish historian and animist, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen.

Animism is the main topic of our discussion, inevitably. We talk about what it looks like in the doing, and what academic work does and still might come from operating within an animist framework rather than a materialist-naturalist one.

We also examine both some of the opportunities and risks inherent in learning from and with indigenous ways of thinking and being.

Absolutely killer chat. Enjoy!

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Talking Microanimism | Dr Siv Watkins Apr 18, 2021

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Microbiologist, teacher and ritualist, Dr Siobhan Watkins joins the show this week.

We have a really great chat about the how and why of coming into right relation with the microbial world, what all forms of biology look like from an animist perspective and the ancestral implications of being a composite being.

Awesome discussion. Enjoy!

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Talking Yagé, Ayahuasca, Spirits and Ecology | Jonathon Miller Weisberger Apr 11, 2021

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Ethnobotanist, ecologist, author and teacher Jonathon Miller Weisberger joins us this week.

We talk about growing up in Ecuador, living among various Amazonian nations, ecology, eco-spirituality, environmental activism and the difference between ayahuasca and yagé -among many, many other topics (including being dispatched by Terence McKenna to buy a paddleboat).

This is an amazing and lengthy chat which I have wanted to have since reading Jonathon's book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago. And we are having the conversation now because Jonathon is convening three upcoming series of yagé ceremonies at his amazing facility in Costa Rice known as Ocean Forest Ecolodge in April, May and June 2021. I mention it at the opening of the audio-only version of the show and then we discuss it again toward the end of the episode in both the audio and video versions.

Details and dates in the show notes!

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Details on Rainforest Medicine the book, as well as the yagé ceremonies.
- April 24 – May 1 (option to add 3 days til May 4)
- May 29 – June 5
- June 6 – June 12
Learn more and book your ceremony.
Don Pablo's copal ceremony.
Ocean Forest Ecolodge video tour.

Talking Playing Card Divination | Camelia Elias Apr 06, 2021

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One of our most popular returning guests joins us again this week.

Denmark's very own Queen of Swords is back to talk about the latest book in her Read Like The Devil series, which is about something near and dear to my own heart (and diamonds), fortune telling with playing cards!

So we discuss the in's and out's of the various suits, how significators work in playing card readings, which questions might be better 'suited' to playing cards and which ones to tarot, which spreads play to their various strengths and weaknesses and what can happen when, you know, you just read the damned cards.

A great chat with a great person about a great book. Enjoy!

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