The Numinous Podcast

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TNP150 Hekatean Witchcraft with Dr.Cyndi Brannen Aug 25, 2021

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Today’s fantastic guest is Dr.Cyndi Brannen, one of the world's preeminent scholars on Hekatean Witchcraft.

After a successful career in academia and healthcare, Dr.Brannen transitioned to focusing on reclaiming the sacred feminine after she became convinced that mainstream psychology was not sufficient to lead to personal wholeness. Her work focuses on personal healing through depth psychology, herbalism, rituals, meditations, and exploration of the deeper self. She founded The Covina Institute, a soul school dedicated to the pursuit of wholeness through structured programs of study and transcendent experiences. Dr.Brannen is the author of the bestselling books, Keeping Her Keys and Entering Hekate’s Garden.

Mentioned in this episode:
• Dr.Sarah Isles Johnstone's Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature
• Thomas Moore
• James Hillman
• Erich Neumann

Check out Hide Tanning 101 with Fern + Roe!

TNP149 Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola Dec 13, 2020

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This special episode includes a 30 minute trancework exercise. I stack 4 different spiritual hygiene exercises, one after the other, to connect with earth, water, air and fire.

This episode is a complement to my Yuletide Stocking Stuffer program.

Inspiration for some of the techniques in this exercise come from:
• Diane Poole Heller (Competent Protector terminology and trauma-informed pedagogy)
• Philip Shepherd's Radical Wholeness work
• Laura Day, intuitive coach
• Dara Silverman and Amanda Ream, Somatics For White Racial Justice Organizers
• The Strozzi Institute
• generative somatics

And of course my nearly decade-long experience as a Clinical Hypnotherapist.

Hope you enjoy it and find something in there of use to you!

TNP148 Seeing Yourself Through The Apocalypse With Lindsay Tunkl Oct 26, 2020

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Lindsay Tunkl is an artist and the author of "Origins & Endings: Seeing Yourself Through the Apocalypse". It's a divination deck and self-reflection inkblot kit that helps us grapple with the most pressing questions of our time. In this conversation, we explore the intersections of art, healing, therapy, intuition, fear, collectivism, divination, and living in choice during apocalypse times.

Find the Origins & Endings Divination Book and Card Deck here.

See some of Lindsay's artwork here including some of the PreApocalypse Counselling installation here.

Connect with Lindsay for coaching at intothedeepcoaching.com.

Follow Lindsay on Instagram to learn more about her magic and Tarot work, as well as her current adventures.

TNP147 Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse + Meaning Through Poetry Sep 22, 2020

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Sometimes A Wild God is a powerful poem written by storyteller, author, wilderness vigil guide, and poet, Tom Hirons. In this episode, I ask the poet the impolite question, "What is your poem about?"

It leads to a conversation about collapse, grief, wilderness vigil, the wyrd, the loneliness of modern masculinity, the lifetime work of wholeness, and the prospect of hope as a deity.

Find Tom's writing at tomhirons.com

Purchase stacks of his poetry and prose at Hedgespoken Press hedgespokenpress.com

Adorn your abode or altar with Rima's art by visiting her site: rimastaines.com

And learn more about their life in the off-grid storytelling theatre run from a 1966 Bedford RL lorry, converted to be a home and go-anywhere stage. (For real.): hedgespoken.org

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Dark Mountain Project
On Poetry, by Glyn Maxwell
In The Skin Of A Lion, by Michael Ondaatje
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart

Learn more about The Numinous Quest Online here.

Learn more about the Threshold community here.

TNP144 Mimi Young on Intuition + Pandemic Plant Medicine Aug 28, 2020

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I'm talking with Mimi Young about clairolfaction, wonderful plant allies for pandemic times, and how to work with tea in a magical – even ancestral – way.
Mimi is a shamanic intuitive and founder of Ceremonie (@shopceremonie), an esoteric brand focusing on in-person and online core shamanic and occult education, Remote Shamanic Readings, and plant potions for skin and aura. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism, plant spirit healing, chao magick, and Chinese esoterics, with a focus on healing through shadows, dream work, divination, ancestral connection, and psychic development. She is also a neurofeedback practitioner (@openmindsperformance), where she supports others in accessing their peak via neurological resilience.

Check out all of Mimi's offerings here.

Follow her on Instagram: @shopceremonie

Find out about doing neurofeedback with Mimi here.

Learn about joining the online Mystery Mentorship Program here.

The book she referenced is For All The Tea In China, by Sarah Rose.

Follow me on Instagram @carmenspagnola
Check out my Intuitive Business (And Life) Planning Workshop

TNP143 Bear Hebert on Unlearning Oppression Aug 27, 2020

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Bear is a life coach, artist, and social justice educator who helps socially conscious humans align their actions with their values. In their coaching and teaching, they apply a feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist lens. In this episode, I ask them about their gender journey to using they/them pronouns, and we talk about interlocking systems of oppression, call out culture, and wanting healing for people who cause harm without necessarily wanting to be a part of that healing.

Content Warning: We do touch on sexual violence, capital punishment, and more, but we also take stretch breaks and pauses for breath as we do so. Remember to pause the recording if you feel yourself tensing up or becoming very activated.

Bearcoaches.com
Undoingpatriarchy.com

Caliban And The Witch by Silvia Federici

Combahee River Collective and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Alternate ROOTS alternateroots.org
Info about the online version of ROOTS Week

Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni

Killers Of The Dream by Lillian Smith

The Farm: Angola, USA

13th, Ava DuVernay

bell hooks on “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”

Whiteness At Work, Desiree Adaway with Jessica Fish and Erika Hines

Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? on diversity as an aftereffect of a lifelong commitment to the self-named struggles of people of color

Philly Stands Up zine

Beyond Survival book

"The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture" and Turn This World Inside Out by Nora Samaran

“No one enters violence for the first time having committed it.” -Danielle Sered, quoted by Mariame Kabe

TNP142 Kosmic Tonic Astrology Forecast for 2020 and Beyond Aug 21, 2020

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Jasmine Richardson and Eliza Robertson are an astrology team who make their home online at KosmicTonic.com. Today we’re talking about what the astrology looked like leading up to 2020 that might have revealed something big like a global pandemic was coming, and looking ahead to the outlook for the rest of 2020 and beyond. How did we get here and where are we going?

We begin with a resource round up of highly recommended modern astrologers to follow and learn from:

ISAR
Kaitlin Coppock at Sphere and Sundry
Nina Gryphon
Demetra George
Chris Brennan - The Astrology Podcast
Gray Crawford
Barbara Hand Clow - Journeys Through Nine Dimensions
Fortune’s Wheelhouse Podcast
Wesly Feuquay - Psylogia

We also look at what stands out to be aware of for Fall/Winter of 2020/21. We look at Mars Retrograde (Sept 9 - Nov 13), possible advancements in science, America's progress on its' Pluto return, and eclipses at the end of 2020 (Nov 30 and Dec 14) which set the tone for 2021.

Book consultations with Jasmine and Eliza at kosmictonic.com and follow them on Instagram @kosmictonic and on Twitter @kosmic_tonic

TNP141 Eric Tyrone - Get Woke In Your Dream-Time Aug 10, 2020

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Eric Tyrone is the founder of Soul Dreamers and the creator of the "Get Woke In Your Dream-Time" Masterclass. In the past, Eric ran a non-profit called "Awakening Through Art", founded a mindfulness App, and was a co-facilitator of a nationwide meetup called EcoTuesday. In this episode we talk about the purpose of dreaming, how to interpret your dreams and heal through dreamwork, and we even do a little on the spot interpretation of a slightly anxious dream I had about a tarantula and my son.

Listeners can save $100 off his 4-Week “Get Woke In Your Dream-Time” Live Group Masterclass by using the coupon code: DREAMS333

Find the next start date at www.soul-dreamers.com

Follow Eric on Instagram @_Soul_Dreamers

Find out more about the Threshold community here.

TNP140 Darius Mills on Conjure Oils Hoodoo Manifestation Magic Aug 09, 2020

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Darius Mills is a Conjure Oils expert and to be honest, probably the one of the most charming guests I’ve ever had. In this interview, Darius shares how he used hoodoo conjure magic to manifest a fully paid international move. We touch on Jesus, quantum physics, intergalactic beings, ancestors, and how to make a honey jar.

Follow Darius on Instagram @dariusmills91 to find out when his next Conjure & Create program begins (at time of posting, Sept 2020).

TNP139 Colonial Influence on Hide Tanning Past and Present with Mara Cur Aug 04, 2020

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This is the continuation of my conversation with Mara Cur , a hide tanner, hunter, wildcrafter, herbalist and wilder punk extraordinaire. In this episode Mara talks about the history of hide tanning and the important role that women and femmes played in this vocation. We also circle back to the question I posed in the last episode about how she approaches redress with Indigenous communities as she returns the teachings of hide tanning that were eradicated by colonialism.

The resource that Mara recommends to learn about White Saviorism is NoWhiteSaviors.org.

Mara credits visionary Cree artist, Kent Monkman, for his teachings on the early history of the fur trade.

I’d like to lift up Bruce Alexander’s essay, The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society, as a formative document in my collapse awareness that relates quite directly to what Mara was saying about the first 250 years fo the fur trade. It uses the experience of the Orcadians – that’s Scottish folks from the Orkey Islands, previously renown for their sobriety – employed by in the later days of the fur trade by the Hudson’t Bay company, as a study in how cultural dislocation and attachment rupture were direct causes of alcoholism.

If you really want to geek out on that particular historical niche, you can read my other teacher, Michael Newton’s book, We’re Indians Sure Enough: The Legacy of Scottish Highlanders in the United States.

Check out Mara’s online offerings at liminagathering.com and her own website Crowsnest wildcraft.com

This season of the podcast is brought to you by the Threshold community. If the topics engaged in this episode appeal to you, check out our programming at www.thethresholdcommunity.com

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