Podd: The Numinous Podcast

TNP255 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 8: Father's Night & Spirits of Place (Dec 22)

22 december 2024 | 16 min

TNP254 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 7: Winter Solstice and the Old Woman of Winter (Dec 21)

21 december 2024 | 24 min

TNP253 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 6: Krampus, Lussi & Holiday Horror

4 december 2024 | 25 min

TNP248 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 1: The Anticapitalist Festival of Animism

4 december 2024 | 31 min

TNP249 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 2: Grounding the Season

4 december 2024 | 22 min

TNP250 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 3: Yuletide Plant Lore

4 december 2024 | 15 min

TNP251 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 4: Yuletide Animal Lore

4 december 2024 | 11 min

TNP252 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 5: Yuletide Food Lore with Carmen Spagnola

4 december 2024 | 16 min

TNP247 Intuitive Planning for the Year Ahead with Carmen Spagnola

15 november 2024 | 65 min

TNP246 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Spells for the Apocalypse Preview

1 november 2024 | 41 min

TNP245 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Astrology for the Revolution with Hummingbird Star

1 november 2024 | 106 min

🎉 This episode is for all the collapse nerds! 🎉

🛑 Content warning 🛑: Frank discussion of near-term scientifically accepted and expected climate crises. For all the folks who feel fragile and might be tipped into a downward spiral, maybe skip this one, yeah?

I've invited collapse astrologer, Hummingbird Star, from @astrologyfortherevolution to join us for Witches New Year to do our year ahead overview. 👏🏻

Given where we're at in the grand scheme of things, I asked Hummingbird to scan the medium-term horizon to help us understand what the Hermit year might be preparing us for on a collective scale. We're not only touching on topics we may want to contemplative in our collective Hermit year, but also the personal question of what role we wish to play in the revolution.

In this episode, we touch on the Neptunian shifts we should be tracking and much, much more.

Check out Hummingbird's website: www.astrologyfortherevolution.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrologyfortherevolution
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@collapseastrology

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NOTE: In this episode, we talk about the potential failure of the AMOC (Atlantic meridional overturning circulation) and since I was speaking off the cuff, there's a danger that this could be spread as misinformation.

So to be clear: Here's a really nice, succinct and digestible explanation of what the AMOC is, and a nice, succinct, and conservative interpretation of what the shutdown would do, from The Guardian (Oct 23, 2024):

"AMOC, or the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, is a system of ocean currents that brings heat into the northern Atlantic. Warm surface water from the tropics flows north and releases its heat in the subpolar Atlantic, south of Greenland and west of Britain and Ireland. Then it cools and sinks to a depth of between 2,000m to 3,000 metres before returning south as a cold current. Amoc is one of our planet’s largest heat transport systems, moving the equivalent of 50 times the human energy use, and it has a particularly strong impact on the climate in Europe, affects the ocean’s CO2 uptake and oxygen supply, as well as rainfall patterns in the tropics."

"The effects (of a shutdown) include a cooling of the northern hemisphere, particularly northwestern Europe. There would also be a shift of the tropical rainfall belt to the south, which is bad because the rains will move away from the rainforests to regions that are not used to so much rainfall. So this will mean droughts in some regions and floods in others.

AMOC collapse would also have a major impact on the northern Atlantic sea level, which would rise by half a metre or so, in addition to the rise caused by global heating. It would also reduce the CO2 uptake of the ocean because AMOC sinking in the northern Atlantic takes a lot of CO2 down into the deep oceans where it is safely locked away from the atmosphere.

AMOC collapse would also change the nutrient supply and reduce the oxygen of the deep oceans. This would have a massive effect on marine biology and the entire ecosystem of the northern Atlantic."

Generally speaking, what climate scientists in the past had predicated would not happen until after 2050 is happening now, 30 years earlier. It's not that much of a stretch then, to say that what they predicted would happen *before* 2050 will occur a decade earlier. So the possible range of hitting a tipping point to an AMOC shutdown was predicted to be somewhere between 2030 and 2075, or the end of the century as the very outside possibility of it taking that long.

So that puts the tipping point to shutdown right around... now.

Learn more about the AMOC shutdown from collapse expert, Sharon Astyk

TNP244 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} The Hermit: 2025 Tarot Card of the Year with Carmen Spagnola

1 november 2024 | 36 min

TNP243 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Journey to Eleusis with Carmen Spagnola

1 november 2024 | 67 min

TNP242 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Trancework Fundamentals with Carmen Spagnola

31 oktober 2024 | 61 min

TNP241 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Knot Magic, Witch Ladders and Charms with Carmen Spagnola

30 oktober 2024 | 63 min

TNP240 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} A Brief History of Intuition with Carmen Spagnola

29 oktober 2024 | 25 min

TNP239 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Altars, Shrines + Ancestors with Carmen Spagnola

28 oktober 2024 | 86 min

TNP238 Embracing the Mothershift with Jessie Harrold

26 oktober 2024 | 86 min

TNP237 Building Better Boundaries with Parents with Jordan Pickell

20 oktober 2024 | 102 min

TNP236 Intro to Tarot: The History of Tarot Deck Design with Carmen Spagnola

14 september 2024 | 24 min

TNP235 Intro to Tarot: The Arcane Origins + Mythology of the Tarot with Carmen Spagnola

11 september 2024 | 33 min

TNP234 Unlearning Fatphobia + Embracing Pleasure with Dawn Serra

31 maj 2024 | 75 min

TNP233 Understanding Moral Injury with Dr.Robyn Walser

23 maj 2024 | 63 min

TNP232 Be the Fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

23 maj 2024 | 46 min

TNP231 Attachment in Community Organizing with Aurelie Richards

18 maj 2024 | 89 min

TNP230 Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on Working with Your Guides

10 maj 2024 | 80 min

TNP229 What It Feels Like for A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy

2 maj 2024 | 74 min

TNP228 New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach Chantal Heide

25 april 2024 | 58 min

TNP227 Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis

19 april 2024 | 69 min

TNP226 Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory

11 april 2024 | 61 min

TNP225 10th Anniversary Episode! 3 Secrets + Thoughts on the Mysteries of Life

31 mars 2024 | 42 min

TNP224 The People's Oracle: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign

26 mars 2024 | 85 min

TNP223 Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE

18 december 2023 | 71 min

TNP222 Podcast Playlists for Special Interests 10 Years + 14 Themes

13 december 2023 | 24 min

TNP221 Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

8 december 2023 | 116 min

TNP220 Empower Your Perimenopause with Dr.Kristin Schnurr

17 november 2023 | 89 min

TNP219 The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

26 oktober 2023 | 99 min

Wow, this is a juicy one. My dear friend, Thérèse Cator, is back on the show in this special replay of a session we co-led as a warm-up event for my Witches New Year Gathering happening on October 28, 2023.

Thérèse Cator is a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner who specializes in helping people develop a connection to their bodies that promotes wellness and healing. Cator’s work provides an intersectional and decolonial lens that is rare in an overwhelmingly white and ableist somatics field. Thérèse is also the founder of Embodied Black Girl, a global community that stands for the embodied liberation of Black women and femmes and women of color everywhere. Embodied Black Girl is devoted to creating a safe space for to heal from intergenerational trauma, racialized stress and colonial conditioning in service of our individual and collective liberation and healing. Thérèse has been featured in Forbes and MindBodyGreen, and she has delivered workshops to major tech companies while maintaining her focus on Black women's and femmes' health.

We've been friends since 2017 and over the years have been in trainings together as students, as well as co-facilitated and collaborated on projects. We often independently come up with new directions we want to take with our work, only to find the other was planning the exact same thing. And that's what happened here! We are each offering facilitator trainings in 2024 and we're here to give some insight into our shared philosophical approach.

Referenced in this episode

TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony

Sign up for Thérèse's newsletter on her website

Find out more about Thérèse's background here

Can academic reading be healing?, by Katherine Firth (the Routledge article based off Sedgewick's concept of "reparative reading")

Sedgewick's original essay on "paranoid reading" versus "reparative reading"

TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell

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TNP218 Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

21 oktober 2023 | 81 min

TNP217 Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray

19 oktober 2023 | 66 min

I saw a meme that said, "If I am googling symptoms and the treatment says "mindfulness", I know there's no treatment for my condition". I laughed but...for real, can't we do any better than this??

Let's have a real conversation about the pervasiveness of burnout and the gaslighting of the wellness industrial complex. If you're a regular listener, you know we have a clear line of sight on patriarchy and capitalism and we have long been well aware that they're the underlying cause, as with white supremacy, ableism, all of it. Clearly self-help and meditation isn't enough.

And yet, there is something to it, isn't there? It would be awfully ignorant of me to not recognize that a millenias-old practice probably has some merit. The benefits of meditation on our overall wellbeing and to support restoration of the nervous system are clear, (experientially if not always empirically).

Here to muddle through this with me today is my friend, Annie Bray, a longtime meditation teacher and bodywork practitioner. She's also a somatic coach and one of our Guides in The Numinous Network leading monthly Polyvagal Theory-informed meditation sessions. Annie also studied with Joanna Macy, root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, and we invoke her as a muse in this conversation, reflecting on her spiritual leadership as a woman in later life. It's nice to reflect on those who've inspired us as we navigate our entrepreneurship in the wellness space.

Annie has 20 years' experience as a manual therapist, plus deep study in trauma recovery, applied polyvagal theory, meditation, yoga and trauma-informed coaching. In her work, she aims to support folks to feel reliably well-met, relatively safe and free to engage with life meaningfully.

Check out Annie's website here

Learn more about Annie's 1:1 Somatic Coaching

REORIENT: a 12-week meditation program for midlife caregivers, based deeply in both WTR and in attachment and polyvagal theory, set to run again in January, with increased focus on midlife caregivers dealing with burnout.

Follow her on Instagram

Referenced in this episode

Joanna Macy

Work That Reconnects

Recent studies on burnout

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Donald Winnicott's Good Enough Mother studies

Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time, by Laura Khadouri

Check out The Numinous Network to try Annie's class and more!

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TNP216 Colette Baron-Reid on Success + Spiritual Leadership

13 oktober 2023 | 52 min

TNP215 Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin

9 oktober 2023 | 57 min

TNP214 Pop Culture, Toxic Positivity, and Stuff We Hate with Emily Rose

6 oktober 2023 | 64 min

TNP213 Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan

29 september 2023 | 71 min

TNP212 Shauna Janz on Ancestral Veneration in Child-Free and Queer Lineages

22 september 2023 | 58 min

TNP211 Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger

20 september 2023 | 72 min

TNP210 RCCX Theory of Complex Illness

15 september 2023 | 25 min

This episode is for all the folks who are, for whatever reason, familiar with chronic illness, rare disease and/or autoimmune disorder. The Network was inspired by my work with clients living with chronic illness and rare diseases such as Sjogren’s disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS, PCOS, and MCAS, specifically.

RCCX Theory is a theory proposed by Dr. Sharon Meglathery that may explain overlapping syndromes associated with chronic illness. This mutation creates a stress vulnerability.

In other words, a brain wired for danger and a body primed for stress.

Co-inherited gene mutations of the RCCX module lead to overlapping “rare” genetic diseases and syndromes in families and individuals. This have catastrophic consequences in settings of severe acute, chronic, or prolonged stress, resulting in medical and/or psychiatric illness.

Listeners who may find this episode particularly validating may have experience or be familiar with:

• Post-Covid / Long Covid syndrome
• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
• Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
• Sjogren's Syndrome
• Lyme
• Vasovagal Syncope
• Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
• Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome (IBS) including Crohn's and colitis
• Fibromyaligia
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS)
• Multiple Chemical/Mold/Electrical Sensitivities
• Chronic Pain
• other dysfunction involving the nervous system including gut biome

Deep gratitude to Dr.Meglathery for her research on the RCCX module. We hope her work is carried forward by fellow scientists and advocates.

Notes

https://www.rccxandillness.com

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/rccxandchronicillness

https://medium.com/@elizabethnickson/reading-this-might-save-your-life-rccx-theory-the-vagus-nerve-and-the-end-to-43c9431a8df7

https://www.gro-gifted.org/rccx-theory-and-giftedness-a-promising-new-line-of-research/

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2018/08/09/rccx-chronic-fatigue-fibromyalgia-eds-pots/

https://me-pedia.org/wiki/RCCX_Genetic_Module_Theory

TNP151 Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence

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TNP209 {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants

13 september 2023 | 60 min

What are the steps to spiritual communication with plants?

Do we need to know a lot about horticulture?

How do I know if I'm just making it all up?

In this session, I'm sharing a lightly edited recording of a recent Enrichment session I led within The Numinous Network on connecting with and communicating with plants. I'm offering this sneak peek because it's free Week in the Network from Sept 17-23 - listen in to find out more!

Notes

Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Pam Montgomery

Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, Jen Frey

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive, Martin Prechtel

Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Collin Varner

Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie, Nancy Turner

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Mary Siisip Geniusz

TNP202 Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter

Review The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year

Homework for this Lesson Reciprocity

Ask your plant friend what they’d like. Maybe they want to be tended a certain way, maybe they want you to draw them. Stay with the question – at first they might say something like, I want you to take care of yourself, I want you to relax. That’s all good to know, but stay with this question of what you can do for them or offer to them until you get an answer that is truly something they want just for them. When you have the gift, present it to them. Spend time in this space, speaking aloud your gratitude. What do you notice in the days after?

Plant Limpia

Plant bathing: It can be as simple as placing the plant in water, then sprinkling water on you. After you've cleansed yourself, keep a portion of the water and add to it an equal portion of vodka. Place in a spray bottle to cleanse yourself whenever you need to release energetic build-up (spiritual hygiene) or when you are preparing yourself for ritual (purification). Could also infuse a plant in water that is at least 100F, strain, then keep in the fridge until you want to use it. Add it to your bathwater at particularly meaningful times or whenever you’re in need. (Make sure it’s not made from a plant that can cause contact dermatitis).

Plant Dieting

This is a way to really meld with the energies of a plant over an extended period of time. It will take several days or perhaps even weeks just to prepare all of the items you can with a single plant. Then, once all of the your preparations are ready, you would have a retreat day with that plant, ingesting it in all the ways. You will need to source a good beginner's herbalism book to learn how to make tinctures and oxymels, etc. Some recommendations would be:

Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use

Ava Green and Kate Bensinger's The Comprehensive Guide to Herbalism for Beginners: (2 Books in 1) Grow Medicinal Herbs to Fill Your Herbalist Apothecary with Natural Herbal Remedies and Plant Medicine

To undertake the ritual of plant dieting, first as your plant ally for a good date to enter into this day-long ritual. When the time comes, begin by eating some of the plant, then make a tea from leaves and drink. Then enjoy some tea made from the roots. After that, perhaps later that day, ingest a tincture. After that you might put balm or oil on your body, followed by some essence on your tongue, perhaps some medicine made of honey infused with the plant, then have an oxymel drink or other fermented version of the plant. Finally, do a trance journey to connect with the plant spirit in the Otherworld. Complete your ritual by thanking your plant ally and following any instructions they gave you.

Make a Plant Essence

Flower essences carry the energetic imprint of a plant and are meant to be ingested. They address emotional symptoms, not physical.

Below are some basic steps to making a Mother Essence, Stock Essence, and Dosage Essence - some simple basic herbalism so you can work with a particular plant all month and notice how that not only deepens your understanding but also expands your intuitive awareness of this plant and others.

Begin by asking your plant ally when is the best time to make an essence with them.

Mother Essence: Sterilize a two ounce bottle in boiling water. Fill a small clean glass bowl with about a cup of non-chlorinated water and place it on the ground beside the plant. Collect a few pieces of the plant and place them in the bowl. In order to preserve their pure essence, do not allow the plant parts to touch the ground. Ask the plant for guidance - is there any additional information they'd like to provide about how to make this essence with them? When the plant informs you the essence is ready, fill your two ounce bottle 40%-50% full with good quality brandy* (consisting of 40% alcohol by volume - ABV). Top it up with the essence water, using a fine mesh strainer to ensure no plant material enters the Mother Essence bottle. Your remaining essence water can be poured back into the ground at the foot of your plant, (and you can also take a sip of it, if you feel it's safe and the plant is edible). Label your bottle as Mother Essence and the name of the plant.

Stock Essence: Fill a half-ounce bottle with 60% plain non-chlorinated water and 40% brandy, then add 3 drops of the Mother Essence. Label this bottle as Stock Essence plus the name of the plant. you can use the Stock Essence as a daily point of connection with this plant, trying a single drop on the tongue the morning of one day, noon on another, and night on the next. Journal anything you notice over the weeks, particularly your dreams and coincidences relevant to this plant and its teachings. This stock level of dilution will last at least a year, (some say up to 10 years if stored in a cool, dark place and in a dark glass bottle).

Dosage Essence: Fill a clean, sterilized half-ounce bottle with 70% non-chlorinated water and 30% good quality brandy. To this, add 3 drops of the Stock Essence. Standard dosage is three drops on the tongue three times a day for a month. Notice any changes, synchronicities, messages and dreams. The dosage level of dilution will last for about 2 months. After that, gift the liquid back to the plants and soil.

*If you would prefer not to use alcohol in your essences, you can use vinegar.

TNP208 {Special Class Recording} Contact Nutrition + Attachment

9 september 2023 | 46 min

TNP207 {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times

4 september 2023 | 59 min

TNP206 Alexa Linton on Interspecies Relating and Healing with Horses

2 september 2023 | 68 min

In this episode we grapple with the questions,

Can you ever really be in a consensual relationship with a being who depends on you for food?

How do white supremacy culture and patriarchy show up in horsemanship?

What does non-coercive horsemanship look and feel like?

If you’ve read my book, The Spirited Kitchen, or you’ve been around my work for a while, you know that I come from a long line of horse people - a lineage that wends its way from southern Alberta and rodeo culture to the Scottish Highlands in the late 1800s where my wayback people bred, trained, and worked Highland ponies to labour in the coal mines and to build railroads. It’s been a long and complicated relationship between my family and horses. I am the first generation in as far back as we can remember to not have horses in my life on an everyday basis. It’s a profound source of grief for me.

What has also been a source of grief is that for many of the problems I've supported my child through, (if you don’t know, I have a 19 year old with autism, ADHD, and mental and physical health challenges), the thing that seems to work best is time outside the city with horses.

And this is where my next guest comes in…

Alexa Linton is an osteopathic practitioner with 15 years of manual therapy and energy work under her belt. She also works with animals using kinesiology, cranial sacral therapy, and intuitive communication. She also helps humans navigate pet death. As a horse steward, trainer and healer, Alexa has seen and experienced a lot of changes in the industry over the years but there is much further to go in uncoupling from systems of dominance. Her course, The Whole Horse Apprenticeship, and her show, The Whole Horse Podcast, are places of refuge for horsey people who no longer feel comfortable with coercive horsemanship.

Check out Alexa's book:

Death Sucks: A Straight-Up Guide to Navigating Your Pet's Final Transition

Follow her on Instagram

Equine Cranial Therapy Certification

Referenced in this episode:

The Whole Horse Apprenticeship with Alexa and 25 guest instructors, including myself! (6 month program for horse lovers starting September 15th)

The Whole Horse Podcast

Taming Wild documentary created by Elsa Sinclair

Freedom-based Training with Elsa Sinclair

Emotional Horsemanship with Lockie Phillips

Relationship Horsemanship with Josh Nichol

Nahshon Cook Horsemanship

Balance through Movement Method (Pillar one mini course)

Horsemanship on Vancouver Island - Shannon Beahen (Humminghorse)

TNP205 Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene + Miracles

31 augusti 2023 | 71 min

Sophie Strand is a poet and writer with a focus on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and
ecology. If you love Mary Magdalene and fondly remember Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, you are in for a real treat! Sophie's new book, The Madonna Secret, is a passionate retelling of the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus, rewilding the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied eroticism of a lovable rabbi with appetites and desires, doubts and shame, and a playful sense of humor. Plus, his awesome mom – aka The Virgin Mary – is a raucous and wonderful surprise, giving big time Baubo of Greek myth vibes, (who in my mind could be played wonderfully by Shohreh Aghdashloo of The Expanse fame).

In this conversation, we talk about what it's like to write about miracles while living with an incurable disease, (Sophie lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder - something that many members of the Numinous Network are all too familiar). We also discuss animism, magic, patriarchy, and the realness she brings to the landscape and the characters of her novel.

Sophie's poems and essays have appeared in numerous projects and publications, including Spirituality & Health, Atmos, Braided Way and Art PAPERS. The author of The Flowering Wand, she lives in the Hudson Valley
of New York.

Purchase The Madonna Secret anywhere
(and please do leave a review!)

Follow Sophie:

References in this episode:

older Dev Patel

Louis Garrel

Golshifteh Farhani (Oh now that I see who she is, I LOVED her in that dystopian show, Invasion)

young Javier Bardem

article about Bruce Chilton

Bruce Chilton wikipedia

Honi the Circle Drawer

Hanina ben Dosa

Contemporaries of Jesus who were miracle workers

Mary Renault

Mary Stewart

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TNP204 AstroMagic Miniseries ET Shipley on the Power of Saturn

8 juli 2023 | 53 min

TNP203 AstroMagic Miniseries Kristin Mathis, Venus, and the Orphic Hymns

7 juli 2023 | 70 min

TNP202 Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter

6 juli 2023 | 55 min

TNP201 The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson

6 juli 2023 | 57 min

TNP200 AstroMagic Miniseries Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola

4 juli 2023 | 48 min

TNP199 AstroMagic Miniseries Bronwyn Simons on Moon Magic and Lunar Consciousness

3 juli 2023 | 64 min

TNP198 AstroMagic Miniseries Eliza Robertson and the Sun

2 juli 2023 | 74 min

TNP197 Portrait Of A Marriage Part Four

30 juni 2023 | 96 min

TNP196 Portrait Of A Marriage Part Three

13 maj 2023 | 76 min

TNP195 Portrait of a Marriage Part Two

9 april 2023 | 86 min

TNP194 Portrait Of A Marriage with Carmen and Ruben Part One

7 april 2023 | 56 min

TNP193 How Much Is Enough In Collapse with Carmen and Ruben

24 februari 2023 | 29 min

TNP192 Happily Needy with Mara Glatzel

10 februari 2023 | 82 min

TNP191 Entering Hekate’s Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

4 februari 2023 | 51 min

TNP190 Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy

31 januari 2023 | 58 min

TNP189 Recovering Towards Mothering with Taryn Strong

16 december 2022 | 69 min

TNP188 Fumbling Through...All Of It with Kael Klassen

3 december 2022 | 76 min

TNP187 Sinking into Sacred Truth and Giving it Voice with Velda Thomas

25 november 2022 | 51 min

TNP186 Time As A Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway

17 november 2022 | 71 min

TNP185 Tutorial with Carmen on Trance, Dreams and the Collective

16 november 2022 | 20 min

TNP184 Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte

26 oktober 2022 | 43 min

TNP183 Journey From Maiden to Mother with Sarah Durham Wilson

25 oktober 2022 | 41 min

TNP182 Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie

22 oktober 2022 | 49 min

TNP181 Takeover Episode: Andrea Sexton Dumas Interviews Carmen on the Making of The Spirited Kitchen

18 oktober 2022 | 83 min

TNP180 What Makes A Witch? with Carmen Spagnola

13 oktober 2022 | 14 min

TNP179 Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds

10 oktober 2022 | 39 min

TNP178 Eliza Robertson on Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses

7 oktober 2022 | 62 min

TNP177 Journal As Altar, Pages As Portals with Erin Fairchild

4 oktober 2022 | 43 min

TNP176 Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology, and Chinese Astrology

30 september 2022 | 51 min

TNP175 Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator

26 september 2022 | 51 min

TNP174 Sovereign + Supernatural: Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L’Erin Alta

22 september 2022 | 44 min

TNP173 Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau

20 september 2022 | 52 min

TNP172 A Love Note To Grievers with Angela E Morris

13 september 2022 | 55 min

TNP171 Crystie Kisler Is Connecting Land And Food

2 september 2022 | 39 min

It’s wonderful to have a genuine friend named Crystie Kisler with me on the podcast today. Crystie Kisler is the co-founder of Finnriver Farm & Cidery, (@finnriver) and is a mother, farm wife, and community networker in the Chimacum Valley, on an organic farm located along a salmon stream on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Her partner, Keith, is farming heritage wheat at @finnrivergrain

I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing Crystie’s warmth and generosity in circles together, workshops together, and could feel it in the atmosphere when I visited Finnriver on a trip for my son’s 16th birthday. If I had a farm-based business, I would use Finnriver as the model and template.

Where Crystie and I could spend probably forever talking and visioning and activating dreams together is where land-based spiritual connection and social justice meet, where business ownership and equity and advocacy intersect, where dismantling supremacy culture meets building a worthwhile and beautiful and delicious future.

This is a conversation between two white ladies grappling with what it means to connect to land you don’t come from, and how we might try to learn how to belong there.

Here is the poem that Crystie wrote and read to us:

Belonging (draft)

What will it take to belong here truly

To a land I was not born to, nor my parents or theirs or theirs?

Once I have learned the timing of the swans’ swooping return?

The names of the many feathered ferns?

Once I am on familiar terms with all the wild berries?

Been covered head to heel by nettle stings and blackberry briars?

Immersed myself in the sea wrapped in kelp?

What if I smeared Semiahmoo Muck all over my body? What if I packed it in my mouth?

What if I ate only from this ground? Drank only rainwater and creekrun from these clouds?

What if my feet never left this land again?

If the birds knew me by scent and did not scatter when I went by?

If all my neighbors waved? If I knew the names of all the bones and stones I found on the beach?

Is there any way to belong here? In this place. This time and space?

Will I always feel Extraterrestrial? Invader? What would cedar say about me?

Could I become familiar to here? Make family? Grow roots? On a farm? Can I untangle from harm?

Could I learn the real word for home? Could I assemble myself whole among the mycelium?

Could I find my way by the feel of it under and through me?

Is it morbid to say I feel like I will only fully belong when I am buried here?

When I have given All of myself back? ~Crystie Kisler, 8/2

TNP170 Flower Essences from the Witch’s Garden with Nicholas Pearson

8 augusti 2022 | 51 min

TNP169 Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies

28 juni 2022 | 59 min

Sophie Macklin is an anarchist mystic living on Tongva land, near the Los Angeles river. She’s lived in California for fifteen years but comes from Canterbury, England.

She practises brythonic polytheism, antifascism, devotion to an animate world, and anarchist living. She specializes in topics related to anarchism, mysticism, radical history, communication with the human and more than human world, anti-capitalism, antifascism, reclaiming the commons, anti-ableism, and exploring different ways of knowing.

Sophie is the person I chose to be the first reader of the manuscript for my book, The Spirited Kitchen. From the very earliest kernel of thought I had about potentially writing a book, she came to mind as the person I wanted to give me the first pass of honest feedback. Why? Because I think she might be the smartest person I know. Her cultural analysis is tops and I have learned so, so, so much from her way of teaching and of being in business.

And at the time, I still had some things to unpack in my own mind about what to valorize and what not to valorize in a book about ancestral veneration, as a white settler under capitalism, in a time of increasing fascism. I knew there was nuance needed and also some firmness and boundaries so that my work couldn't be pressed into the service of white supremacy. I’m so grateful for Sophie for helping me see how I could improve my manuscript.

Here we are jamming on anarchy, antifascism, ableism, and ungovernable bodies.

Check out Sophie's work here:

Beyond the Blood

Ungovernable Bodies

Radical Well Tending: Living Folkways of Care with Sophie & Becka

I also mentioned RCCX Theory. This is a model we often use when we discuss sickness in The Numinous Network, particularly within the Sensitive Nervous Systems + Long Covid Connection group.

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TNP168 Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinrichs

21 juni 2022 | 64 min

TNP167 Lessons Learned from Ira Glass, Roxane Gay and the Making of The Spirited Kitchen

19 juni 2022 | 54 min

TNP166 Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans) Midlife with Aurelie Richards

18 juni 2022 | 73 min

TNP165 Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds

11 juni 2022 | 64 min

TNP164 The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood

3 juni 2022 | 74 min

TNP163 Halfway Through 2022

2 juni 2022 | 23 min

TNP162 Entering Hekate’s Garden with Cyndi Brannen, PhD

28 april 2022 | 87 min

TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola

23 mars 2022 | 60 min

TNP160: The Bruce Springsteen Soundtrack

6 mars 2022 | 50 min

Today, I’m going to make a few people really happy because this is the Bruce Springsteen Niche Episode that more than a handful of you have been waiting for. The episode where I explain the long-lasting appeal of Bruce Springsteen as told through select Springsteen tracks arranged in order of progressive maturity of narrative voice. The journey takes us from frustrated youth in a small town, to emergent adult getting into trouble, an adult desire for love and reconciliation with the past, deepening radicalization as the hardships of life are revealed to be so often caused by oppressive systems of class and hierarchy, and finally a swell of hope and resilience as a more mature voice of elderhood emerges. Features 15 of his 60+ albums.

I have created this playlist in Tidal but I’m going to add a list of each track and the specific album it appears on - because the specific recording matters. This is a musician who is known for tireless touring having played over 2,600 concerts since he signed with Columbia Records in 1972. But of course, he had a career before that - Bruce Springsteen has been the front man of a rock and roll band since his first gig as a 17 year old with his band called The Castiles in 1965 and he’s never had any other job since. Never had a workin man job. Not a day. But his dad did. His dad had lots of jobs, it was hard for him to keep jobs. Partially because of declining industrial jobs around New Jersey intensifying in the mid-60s, but also because Bruce’s dad struggled with alcoholism and undiagnosed depression and schizophrenia, and that became a defining feature of Bruce’s life and his music, wrestling with intergenerational demons and the mirroring of one family’s life in the larger decline of America as a country and an idea at the end of the 20th century.

Follow along with the songs with a free trial on Tidal (credit card required) or search the following recordings wherever you get your music, (possibly even YouTube).

Playlist

Growin’ Up, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
Born to Run, Born To Run, (1975)
Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985
The River, The River (1980)
Working on the Highway, Born In The USA (1984)
Johnny 99, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985 (1985)
Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
Dancing In The Dark, Born in the USA (1984)
I’m on Fire, Born In The USA (1984)
Human Touch, Human Touch (1992)
Brilliant Disguise, Tunnel of Love (1987)
My Hometown, Born In The USA (1984)
Born In the USA, Born In The USA (1984)
Bring ‘Em Home, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
Devils & Dust, Devils & Dust (2005)
Shenandoah, We Shall Overcome (2006)
Blood Brothers, Greatest Hits (1995)
O Mary Don’t You Weep, We Shall Overcome (2006)
Pay Me My Money Down, We Shall Overcome (2006)
We Shall Overcome, We Shall Overcome (2006)
This Land Is Your Land, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975 - 1985 (1986)
Reason To Believe, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975 - 1985 (1986)
Better Days, Lucky Town (1992)
Hello Sunshine, Western Stars (2019)

References

Covers and Springsteen Songs by Other Artists

Movie: Blinded By The Light, Gurinder Chadha (2019)

Netflix: Springsteen on Broadway

Album: Traveling Wilburys, Vol.1

Pete Seeger on the Johnny Cash Show: Bring Them Home (1970)

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live at C.W.Post College, Greenvale NY (1975)

Autobiography: Born To Run (2016)

TNP159 Norse Ritual Animism and Seidr with Maris Bergrune

15 december 2021 | 72 min

TNP158 Beyond Crystal Basics with Nicholas Pearson

10 december 2021 | 71 min

TNP157 Ritual and Belonging with Becca Piastrelli

13 november 2021 | 51 min

TNP156 Elaine Alec on Calling My Spirit Back From Trauma

10 november 2021 | 87 min

TNP155 Growing Giant Pumpkins with Dave Chan

27 oktober 2021 | 88 min

TNP154Capitalism But Wait What is Capitalism Exactly with Toi Smith

11 oktober 2021 | 70 min

TNP153 Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri

5 oktober 2021 | 49 min

TNP152 Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan King

4 september 2021 | 37 min

TNP151 Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence

27 augusti 2021 | 84 min

TNP150 Hekatean Witchcraft with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

25 augusti 2021 | 46 min

TNP149 Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola

13 december 2020 | 56 min

TNP148 Seeing Yourself Through The Apocalypse With Lindsay Tunkl

26 oktober 2020 | 43 min

TNP147 Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse + Meaning Through Poetry

22 september 2020 | 68 min

TNP146 Carmen + Holly on Collapse Psychology and the Importance of Grief Ritual Accountability and Play

31 augusti 2020 | 107 min

TNP145 Holly Truhlar on Tending the Threshold of Collapse

30 augusti 2020 | 91 min

TNP144 Mimi Young on Intuition + Pandemic Plant Medicine

29 augusti 2020 | 53 min

TNP143 Bear Hebert on Unlearning Oppression

27 augusti 2020 | 87 min

TNP142 Kosmic Tonic Astrology Forecast for 2020 and Beyond

21 augusti 2020 | 76 min

TNP141 Eric Tyrone - Get Woke In Your Dream-Time

10 augusti 2020 | 62 min

TNP140 Darius Mills on Conjure Oils Hoodoo Manifestation Magic

9 augusti 2020 | 52 min

TNP139 Colonial Influence on Hide Tanning Past and Present with Mara Cur

4 augusti 2020 | 30 min

TNP138 Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphans Journey

4 augusti 2020 | 42 min

TNP137 Sharon Ross Afrovivalist on Emergency Preparedness

4 augusti 2020 | 54 min

TNP135: Danielle Dulsky on Revisionist Storytelling to Tend the Holy Wild

27 februari 2020 | 35 min

TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times

27 februari 2020 | 62 min

TNP134: Decolonizing Scottish Highland History and Radicalizing Gaelic Folk Culture with Michael Newton

3 januari 2020 | 88 min

TNP133 Permission to Grieve With Francis Weller

11 december 2019 | 111 min

TNP132 Somatic Mentoring with Patti Elledge

27 november 2019 | 56 min

This episode is part case consult, part psychoeducation, part storytelling. I'm so excited to share with you a conversation with my Clinical Supervisor and mentor, Patti Elledge, and to announce her new 3-month online program for like-minded therapists of all specialties!

I'll be assisting Patti both behind the scenes and in-class, as well as making myself available for one-on-one participant support through the program which runs January through March 2020.

You may have heard Patti's interview in TNP118: Patti Elledge on the Neurobiology of Attachment, Grieving Together, and Mobilizing Outrage.

In this episode, we talk about principles and techniques for managing Global High Activation States, the difference between "going global" and numinous unity experiences, and why working with the body to release trauma is so critical – especially in this time of increasing collective trauma.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Accessing The Healing Power Of The Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Autism,by Stanley Rosenberg

We-space practices

This is the drawing by Patti's 9-year old client, illustrating a Global High Activation state:

Patti is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) who has specialized in therapeutic application of neuroscience for more than 40 years, and teaches Diane Poole Heller’s groundbreaking work, DARe, which treats adult attachment wounds. She has a broad clinical background in treating developmental and attachment based traumas, offering somatic strategies to access healthy bonding and co-regulatory processes.

She worked directly with babies, children and families for more than 20 years prior to her SE training in the late 90s, and weaves strategies from the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, sensory processing, developmental differences and neurodiversity, coherent narratives and embodiment through movement and creativity. Her blending of a variety of somatic and body-mind techniques helps to treat and resolve over-coupled elements of survival energies (fight-flight-freeze responses) that become so seemingly intractable with the essence of loving/bonding and “belonging.”

Registration for the Somatic Mentoring programis capped at 25 spots.

Nov.26: just 8 spots left!

TNP131 The Twelve Faces Of The Goddess with Archetypal Astrologer Danielle Blackwood

16 november 2019 | 36 min

TNP130: Sigil Witchery with Laura Tempest Zakroff

9 november 2019 | 36 min

TNP129 Palm Reading with Helene Saucedo - sponsored by Elate Clean Cosmetics

31 oktober 2019 | 37 min

TNP128 Scottish Folk Magic with Scott Richardson-Reed of the Cailleachs Herbarium

27 oktober 2019 | 80 min

TNP127 Moon Magic with Sarah Gottesdiener

6 mars 2019 | 70 min

TNP126 Controlled Remote Viewing with Lori Lambert Williams

6 mars 2019 | 63 min

TNP125 Stephanie Papik on Inuit Tattoos and Cultural Reclamation

27 februari 2019 | 46 min

TNP124 Elizabeth Brown on Dowsing + Causative Diagnosis for Optimal Health 2

24 februari 2019 | 60 min

TNP123 Sarah Kerr on Being a Death Doula and Coping With Loss When a Pet or Plant Friend Dies

23 februari 2019 | 64 min

TNP121- Alexandra Stein on Disorganized Attachment in Cults Totalitarian Regimes

23 februari 2019 | 80 min

TNP122 Pashta MaryMoon on Accompanying the Dying Hospice Singing and Preparing for our Death

23 februari 2019 | 55 min

TNP120 Tiffany Joseph on Adaptation

24 augusti 2018 | 99 min

TNP119 John Michael Greer on the Long Descent

18 augusti 2018 | 111 min

TNP118 Patti Elledge on the Neurobiology of Attachment, Grieving Together, and Mobilizing Outrage

18 augusti 2018 | 100 min

Patti Elledge is a Trauma Healing Specialist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with a private practice in Asheville, NC. She's my supervisor and mentor and I'm here to tell the world: I love her and I think everyone should have more Patti in their life. I want that for you. You deserve some Patti.

In this conversation, Patti explains what Attachment is, what different Attachment styles look like in babies and how that translates in adulthood, the role of Evolutionary Biology in our Attachment systems, and how we can heal attachment wounds in a world of persistent precarity, climate change, and social turmoil.

I particularly enjoyed hearing Patti's thoughts on grief, rage, and how Attachment shows up in our spiritual lives.

Here are the resources Patti noted in this interview:

Mary Main

Mary Ainsworth

John Bowlby

Joanna Macy

Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing

Stephen Porges and the Polyvagal System (YouTube)

Allan Schore and the Good Enough Mother

Portrait Of A Marriage: Yes, It's Mine (the article mentioned that I wrote)

Learning To See In The Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy

Patti specializes in somatic healing techniques via organic, instinctual ways of the body and psyche, allowing for more connection with self and other and the emergence of creativity and spirituality. Patti credits her training by Peter Levine, Diane Poole Heller and Raja Selvam. She has assisted more than 40 trainings worldwide and now teaches Diane Poole Heller's pioneering work DARe, (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience).

Patti has specialized in therapeutic application of neuroscience for 40 years and has a broad background in early development (interpersonal, social/emotional, language and cognition), sensory processing disorders, self- and co-regulatory processes and the neurobiology of stress and trauma.

While Patti's work is grounded in current day research on the neurobiology and physiology of the human stress mechanism, it is also infused with embodied intuition and a compassionate heart.

You can reach Patti at:

www.pattiatlarge.blogspot.com

https://dianepooleheller.com/teachersproviders/

https://sepractitioner.membergrove.com/member-details.php?id=1388

TNP117 Monique Gray Smith on the What Why How of Territorial Acknowledgements

16 augusti 2018 | 66 min

TNP116 Matthew Remski on Attachment High Demand Communities and Yogas Culture Of Abuse 1

16 augusti 2018 | 101 min

TNP115 Solara Goldwynn on Edible Landscapes Sustainability Climate Dread

11 augusti 2018 | 47 min

TNP114 Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design Collapse Awareness

11 augusti 2018 | 48 min

TNP112 Tending The Threshold with Holly Truhlar

28 april 2018 | 44 min

TNP111 Tending The Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe

28 april 2018 | 24 min

Tending The Threshold is an event happening in Ashland, Oregon, on May 26 and 27th, 2018. Tickets can information can be found at tendingthethreshold.com

It is a gathering of Change-makers, Bridge builders and Edge Dwellers, with no agenda other than to practice being together, and to learn how to take care of each other and the world, in these challenging times.

The container at this un-conference will be held by a group of ten co-facilitators from three countries and many walks of life. The group includes:

Poet and spoken word artist, Tannur Ali
Conflict Engagement and Resolution practitioner, Aftab Erfan
Equity and Inclusion Consultant, Desiree Adaway
Clinical Psychologist and Author, Bayo Akomolafe
Social Entrepreneur, Donnie Maclurcan
Artist and Death Doula, Rachael Rice
Educator, facilitator and Indigenous rights activist, Aaron Ortega
Videographer and artist, Bec Stupak
Therapist, ritualist and conference founder, Holly Truhlar

And myself, Carmen Spagnola.

***

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) is a renegade academic, lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper-changer. Bayo curates an earth-wide organization, The Emergence Network, for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to the civilizational crisis--a project framed within a feminist ethos and inspired by indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art--exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, and dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics. In short, Bayo has given up his longing for the "end-time" and is learning to live in the "mean time." In the middle, where we must live with confusion and make do with partial answers. He speaks and teaches about his experiences around the world, and then returns to his adopted home in Chennai, India - "where the occasional whiff of cow dung dancing in the air is another invitation to explore the vitality of a world that is never still and always surprising." Bayo has authored two books, ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story!’ and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home.’

http://bayoakomolafe.net

TNP110 Tending The Threshold With Desiree Adaway

28 april 2018 | 21 min

TNP109 Tending The Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak

27 april 2018 | 29 min

Tending The Threshold is an event happening in Ashland, Oregon, on May 26 and 27th, 2018. Tickets can information can be found at tendingthethreshold.com

It is a gathering of Change-makers, Bridge builders and Edge Dwellers, with no agenda other than to practice being together, and to learn how to take care of each other and the world, in these challenging times.

The container at this un-conference will be held by a group of ten co-facilitators from three countries and many walks of life. The group includes:

Poet and spoken word artist, Tannur Ali
Conflict Engagement and Resolution practitioner, Aftab Erfan
Equity and Inclusion Consultant, Desiree Adaway
Clinical Psychologist and Author, Bayo Akomolafe
Social Entrepreneur, Donnie Maclurcan
Artist and Death Doula, Rachael Rice
Educator, facilitator and Indigenous rights activist, Aaron Ortega
Videographer and artist, Bec Stupak
Therapist, ritualist and conference founder, Holly Truhlar

And myself, Carmen Spagnola.

***

Rachael Rice is a full-time artist, musician, writer, educator and death doula. Her work lies at the crossroads of grief, radical togetherness, creative expression, death, learning, and magic. Her background is in critical pedagogy and constructivist theory where she specialized in differentiated instruction and educating for democracy with concentrations in Art and English. She spent over 20 years in the classroom as a certified, licensed public school art teacher, as well as in after-school and out-of-school community-based arts programs that serve primarily at-risk youth, folks with disabilities and low-income communities. She also worked in the social enterprise non-profit startup world implementing systems to support communities our current systems have failed.

http://rachaelrice.com

Bec Stupak is an artist, musician and videographer who's work is based on visioning, magic, ritual and ecstatic play. Her focus has been on depicting liminal spaces and transporting the viewer into the non-ordinary through the experience of her work. She was a Deitch Projects artist, exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and has been a primary member of the Joshua Light Show. Most recently she has been exploring expressions of gratitude and the experience of ceremony through a series of drawings that are transformed into wearable prayers.

http://www.becstupak.com

TNP108 Tending The Threshold with Donnie Maclurcan

27 april 2018 | 22 min

TNP107 Tending The Threshold with Aaron Ortega

27 april 2018 | 22 min

TNP106 Tending The Threshold with Aftab Erfan

26 april 2018 | 30 min

TNP105 Tending The Threshold With Tannur Shewrightz Ali

26 april 2018 | 17 min

TNP104 Magical Cookery Ecofeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson

11 april 2018 | 39 min

TNP103 Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth John Threlfall

10 april 2018 | 54 min

TNP102 Sarah Selecky Radiant Shimmering Light

9 april 2018 | 64 min

TNP101 Layla Kristy Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine

30 mars 2018 | 52 min

TNP100 Cocktail Pairings For Your Listening Pleasure

30 mars 2018 | 79 min

TNP99: John Michael Greer on Monsters + Magical Beings

30 mars 2018 | 88 min

TNP98 Priestess Shaman Mystic Scapegoat with Sarah Kerr

16 mars 2018 | 52 min

TNP97 Ancestry Funerals and Writing at 4am with Leesa Renee Hall

9 mars 2018 | 61 min

TNP96 Secrets of the Temple with John Michael Greer

9 mars 2018 | 43 min

TNP95: Preparing for Quest with Ashley + Patricia

9 mars 2018 | 67 min

TNP94 Mapping Reclamation with Rachael Maddox

2 mars 2018 | 68 min

TNP93 Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd

2 mars 2018 | 98 min

TNP92 Sufism Dreamwork and Belonging with Toko-pa Turner

2 mars 2018 | 48 min

TNP91 Emelia Is Trying To Be Good

2 mars 2018 | 63 min

TNP90 The Celtic Golden Dawn with John Michael Greer

2 mars 2018 | 51 min

TNP89 Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb

16 november 2017 | 44 min

TNP88 Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth

16 november 2017 | 41 min

TNP86 Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson

31 oktober 2017 | 39 min

TNP85 Therese Cator on Shadow Alchemy Life As Ceremony

31 oktober 2017 | 37 min

TNP84 Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice

31 oktober 2017 | 58 min

TNP83 Nora Samaran The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture

7 september 2017 | 54 min

TNP82- The Eclipse The Gleaners And Ruben And I

20 augusti 2017 | 33 min

TNP81: Your Intuition Questions Answered - The Numinous School Tutorial

6 juni 2017 | 59 min

If you've listened for a while, you know that this podcast is a complement to The Numinous School, my online intuition development program. And you'll also know that registration only opens once a year with a limited number of spots because I do a limited print run of customized textbooks.

If you didn't know that, well now you do and you're in a for a treat because today's episode is a peak behind the curtain.

This is a recording of one of our monthly Tutorial calls where I take questions from students about anything related to intuition, divination, and the spiritual path.

Questions answered in this class include:

What's the difference between trance and meditation?
How might I manage difficulties such as hyper vigilance when struggling to get deeper into meditation?
What are some of the best resources for purchasing oracle decks, crystals and essential oils?
What's the deal with reverse cards in tarot and oracle readings? Do we need to read them differently?
My pendulum gives me contradictory answers - am I missing something?
How can I find out what my personal next steps should be in my spiritual exploration?
How can I develop my clairvoyance?

Resources I recommend in this episode are:

The Enchanted Map and The Wisdom of the Oracle decks illustrated by Jena DellaGrottaglia
Instinct Art & Gifts in Victoria, BC or online
Banyen Books & Sound in Vancouver, BC or online
Aeclectic Tarot
Healing Crystals For You
The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
The New Crystal Bible by Cassandra Eason
Silk Road Teas for essential oils in Victoria and Vancouver, BC or online
Floracopeia for essential oils and resins
The Spice School ~ Glynnis Osher
Aromatherapy For The Soul and The Fragrant Pharmacy by Valerie Ann Worwood
The Mary Magdalene Oracle and Angels, Gods and Goddeses decks by Toni Carmine Salerno
The Mythic Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene

Registration for the 2017-2018 cohort of The Numinous School opens Saturday, June 10, 2017!

Hop on my newsletter to receive the announcement and link to secure your spot.

TNP80: Quest Q&A ~ Your Top 10 FAQs Answered By Ones Who’ve Just Returned From The Wilderness

20 maj 2017 | 88 min

TNP79 Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path

13 april 2017 | 40 min

TNP78 Nina Hirlaender on the Uncommon Marriage of Celtic Shamanism and Catholic Mysticism

12 april 2017 | 47 min

TNP77 Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xok

12 april 2017 | 81 min

TNP76: L’Erin Alta on Lineage + Legacy

14 mars 2017 | 46 min

TNP75 Jennifer Jacquet Asks Is Shame Necessary

13 mars 2017 | 66 min

TNP74 Sacred Beekeeping with Nikiah Seeds

10 mars 2017 | 48 min

TNP73 Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming PrePatriarchal Goddesses

10 mars 2017 | 60 min

TNP72 Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft Magic Liberation

24 februari 2017 | 67 min

TNP71 Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

23 februari 2017 | 54 min

TNP70 Sewit Thomas Jones on Lanaguage and Belonging

22 februari 2017 | 41 min

TNP69- Tiffany Jospeh on Language Land and Everything Important

18 februari 2017 | 96 min

TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History and Strong Women

17 februari 2017 | 44 min

TNP67 Confronting Whiteness with Rachael Rice and Marybeth Bonfiglio

14 februari 2017 | 76 min

TNP66 Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces

14 februari 2017 | 66 min

TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between The Worlds

8 februari 2017 | 49 min

TNP64: Learning To See In The Dark

22 september 2016 | 68 min

TNP63: Healing The Abandonment Wound {Special Mini-Series Part 3 of 3}

30 augusti 2016 | 58 min

TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound {Special Mini Series Part 2 of 3}

18 augusti 2016 | 33 min

TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound {Special Mini-Series Part 1 of 3}

9 augusti 2016 | 36 min

TNP60 Lindsay Rose Turner - How The Healer Heals Herself

13 april 2016 | 37 min

TNP59: Ritual + Magic with John Michael Greer

18 februari 2016 | 34 min

TNP58: Carrie Klassen on Kindness + Goodness in Business + Life

10 augusti 2015 | 28 min

TNP57: Homeless + Hopeless to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan

3 augusti 2015 | 25 min

TNP56: Motherless Daughter, Mother, Sheila Webster

27 juli 2015 | 27 min

TNP55: Nicole Foss on How To Build A Lifeboat

20 juli 2015 | 46 min

TNP54: Nicole Foss on Navigating the Perfect Financial Storm

13 juli 2015 | 48 min

TNP53: Astronomy’s Mysteries with John Reid

30 juni 2015 | 30 min

TNP52: Humanism, Atheism + Optimism with Emrys Miller

22 juni 2015 | 29 min

TNP51: Love + Apocalypse with Carolyn Baker, PhD

17 juni 2015 | 25 min

TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality

8 juni 2015 | 47 min

TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief + Love During Collapse

7 maj 2015 | 22 min

TNP48: Christopher Lloyd Clarke on Meditation + Music

2 april 2015 | 16 min

TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness

26 mars 2015 | 25 min

TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery

19 mars 2015 | 16 min

TNP45: Emrys Damon Miller on Graphic Design + Shamanism

12 mars 2015 | 22 min

TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth

5 mars 2015 | 30 min

TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque + Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits)

26 februari 2015 | 25 min

TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism + The Heart of Business

19 februari 2015 | 25 min

TNP41: Elle North on Tarot + Intuition

12 februari 2015 | 33 min

TNP40: Bethany Webster on Healing the Mother Wound

29 januari 2015 | 34 min

TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language + Poetry

23 januari 2015 | 32 min

TNP38: Brooke Semple on Culture, Design + Authenticity

15 januari 2015 | 34 min

TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions {Part 3}

8 januari 2015 | 26 min

TNP36: Carmen Spagnola Answers Listener Questions {Part 2}

18 december 2014 | 15 min

TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions Pt.1

11 december 2014 | 21 min

TNP34: Marketing, Healing + Authenticity with Tad Hargrave

4 december 2014 | 29 min

TNP33: Community, Autonomy + Forgiveness with Michael Phillips

27 november 2014 | 24 min

TNP32: Sex, Spirituality + Intuition with Lesley Stedmon

9 oktober 2014 | 26 min

TNP31: Creating Community with Carolyne Taylor

25 september 2014 | 23 min

TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom

17 september 2014 | 23 min

TNP29: Conscious Parenting with Colleen Adrian

11 september 2014 | 28 min

TNP28: Communism, The Beatniks + the Guru with Michael Phillips

8 augusti 2014 | 22 min

TNP27: Shamanism + The Corporate World with Agneta

30 juli 2014 | 25 min

TNP26: Working with Masculine + Feminine Energy with Judee Gee

24 juli 2014 | 49 min

TNP25: Findhorn + Facilitating Inner Knowing with Kate Sutherland

17 juli 2014 | 30 min

TNP24: Grieving for Susan + Civilization with Michael Phillips

11 juli 2014 | 16 min

TNP23: Georgia Nicols on Making the Most of Mercury Retrograde

2 juli 2014 | 25 min

TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart

26 juni 2014 | 36 min

TNP21: Culture, Colonialism + Spirituality with Josiah Neufeld

19 juni 2014 | 34 min

TNP20: Llynne Phillips + Sacred Poetry

12 juni 2014 | 31 min

TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony + Sacredness with Children

5 juni 2014 | 26 min

TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne

29 maj 2014 | 27 min

TNP 17: Shakti Roumagoux: Catholic, Quaker, Engaged Buddhist

22 maj 2014 | 25 min

TNP 16: Jena DellaGrottaglia on Art + Intuition

15 maj 2014 | 17 min

TNP 15: Lauren Bacon with Tools to Diffuse Imposter Syndrome and Comparison

7 maj 2014 | 33 min

TNP 14: Carl-Greger on Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening + Direct Experience

30 april 2014 | 28 min

TNP 13: Judee Gee on Spiritual Self-Esteem + Professional Integrity as an Intuitive Practitioner

24 april 2014 | 41 min

TNP 12: Georgia Nicols on Astrology + Patterning of Knowledge

17 april 2014 | 36 min

TNP 11: Public, Private + Political with Louise

9 april 2014 | 19 min

TNP 10: Sandra Yancey on Intuition in Business

3 april 2014 | 37 min

Episode 10

The Numinous Podcast with Carmen Spagnola is a show about Intuition & Spirituality, featuring interesting conversations with everyday folks about the mystery of life. The Numinous School is a self-paced online intuition development program for people who want their self-awareness to make a difference in the world.

On this week's show, I'm delighted to welcome the founder of the eWomen Network, Sandra Yancey. I asked Sandra about reconnecting to her centre when she's running a massively successful business. Sandra shared the intimate story of the series of tragedies that finally culminated in a life-changing moment at her mother's bedside as she lay there, at the threshold of death. It's a touching conversation.

In 2000 from a room above the garage of her Dallas, Texas suburban home -- with limited entrepreneurial experience -- Sandra boot-strapped her way to create one of the largest and most decorated business networking organizations in North America. Today eWomenNetwork is a multi-million dollar enterprise in six countries with 118 chapters that helps thousands of women grow their businesses. The organization produces over 1,000 women’s business events each year, including one of the largest 4-day International Women’s Business Conference in North America. Recognized by the International Alliance for Women as one of the world’s 100 Top Difference Makers and by CNN as an American Hero, the eWomenNetwork Foundation she created has awarded cash grants to 94 non-profit organizations and scholarships to 132 emerging female leaders of tomorrow.

If you live in North America, very likely, there's an eWomen network chapter near you. If you're a woman in business, you should really look into membership especially if you hate networking. I have found their very structured Accelerated Networking process gives me something to focus on and do at the events so I'm not just standing there holding up the wall all night. It's how I built my in-person business and forged the deepest friendships of my life. You may not be as lucky as me (the Victoria chapter is particularly wonderful) but isn't it at least worth a look?

Follow Sandra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get up close and personal - she really does engage with her tribe which has now swelled to about half a million members.

TNP episode 9: Meditation, Channeling and Connection with Dr.Jonni Gray

2 april 2014 | 37 min

TNP episode 8: Better Living Through Metaphor with Sarah Selecky

1 april 2014 | 39 min

TNP episode 7: Spirituality + Recovery with Trinity Donnelly MacRae

1 april 2014 | 27 min

TNP episode 6: Divine Self-care with Elena Lipson

31 mars 2014 | 25 min

TNP episode 5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon

31 mars 2014 | 28 min

My guest for today's show is J.B. MacKinnon, author of The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be, and co-author of The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. On today's show, we talk about what people are really seeking in nature, James drops the term "participatory consciousness" as though I ought to have heard of it, and he explains how to will the Universe to present a puffin when you need one. A very cool conversation, indeed.

MacKinnon also works in the field of interactive documentaries. He was the writer for Bear 71, a very cool interactive documentary which explores the intersection of the wired and wild worlds through the true story of a mother grizzly bear. Bear 71 premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was named 2012 Site of the Year at the international Favourite Website Awards. His work can also be read in the app for CBC's epic wilderness documentary, Wild Canada.

As a journalist, MacKinnon has won more than a dozen national and international awards in categories as varied as essays, science writing, and travelogue. He is a past editor of Adbusters, the ‘culture jamming’ magazine that launched the Occupy movement, and a past senior contributing editor of Explore, Canada’s national outdoors magazine. His stories have ranged from the civil war in Southern Sudan to anarchists in urban North America to the overlooked world of old age among wild animals.

You can listen to him read the article to you, Wisdom in the Wild: Why Age Matters Throughout the Animal Kingdom, courtesy of Orion Magazine. It's really beautiful.

James is a rock climber, mountain biker, snowboarder, and—yes—a birdwatcher. He lives with his partner Alisa Smith in Vancouver, Canada.

Keep up with J.B. on Twitter.

Also in this episode, I mention that I'm reading a book by my teacher, Sparrow Hart, called Letters to the River: A Guide to a Dream Worth Living. Sparrow led my vision quest in the Death Valley and I can't thank him enough for his teachings. If you feel called to go on a vision quest, seek him out on his website. Changed my life, in a good way.

TNP episode 4: Love and Angels with Robin Arnold

31 mars 2014 | 29 min

TNP episode 3 (Special Edition) Carmen: Pt.3 Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor

31 mars 2014 | 45 min

TNP episode 2 (Special Edition) Carmen: Pt.2 Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor

31 mars 2014 | 44 min

TNP episode 1 (Special Edition) Carmen: Pt.1 Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor

31 mars 2014 | 46 min

The Numinous Podcast

The Numinous Podcast is a show about intuition, spirituality and the mystery of life.

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TNP253 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 6: Krampus, Lussi & Holiday Horror

TNP248 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 1: The Anticapitalist Festival of Animism

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TNP251 {The Spirit of Yuletide Miniseries} Part 4: Yuletide Animal Lore

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TNP246 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Spells for the Apocalypse Preview

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TNP241 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Knot Magic, Witch Ladders and Charms with Carmen Spagnola

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TNP239 {WNY Retreat Miniseries} Altars, Shrines + Ancestors with Carmen Spagnola

TNP238 Embracing the Mothershift with Jessie Harrold

TNP237 Building Better Boundaries with Parents with Jordan Pickell

TNP236 Intro to Tarot: The History of Tarot Deck Design with Carmen Spagnola

TNP235 Intro to Tarot: The Arcane Origins + Mythology of the Tarot with Carmen Spagnola

TNP234 Unlearning Fatphobia + Embracing Pleasure with Dawn Serra

TNP233 Understanding Moral Injury with Dr.Robyn Walser

TNP232 Be the Fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost

TNP231 Attachment in Community Organizing with Aurelie Richards

TNP230 Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on Working with Your Guides

TNP229 What It Feels Like for A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy

TNP228 New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach Chantal Heide

TNP227 Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis

TNP226 Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory

TNP225 10th Anniversary Episode! 3 Secrets + Thoughts on the Mysteries of Life

TNP224 The People's Oracle: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign

TNP223 Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE

TNP222 Podcast Playlists for Special Interests 10 Years + 14 Themes

TNP221 Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand

TNP220 Empower Your Perimenopause with Dr.Kristin Schnurr

TNP219 The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator

TNP218 Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn

TNP217 Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray

TNP216 Colette Baron-Reid on Success + Spiritual Leadership

TNP215 Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin

TNP214 Pop Culture, Toxic Positivity, and Stuff We Hate with Emily Rose

TNP213 Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan

TNP212 Shauna Janz on Ancestral Veneration in Child-Free and Queer Lineages

TNP211 Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger

TNP210 RCCX Theory of Complex Illness

TNP209 {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants

TNP208 {Special Class Recording} Contact Nutrition + Attachment

TNP207 {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times

TNP206 Alexa Linton on Interspecies Relating and Healing with Horses

TNP205 Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene + Miracles

TNP204 AstroMagic Miniseries ET Shipley on the Power of Saturn

TNP203 AstroMagic Miniseries Kristin Mathis, Venus, and the Orphic Hymns

TNP202 Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter

TNP201 The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson

TNP200 AstroMagic Miniseries Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola

TNP199 AstroMagic Miniseries Bronwyn Simons on Moon Magic and Lunar Consciousness

TNP198 AstroMagic Miniseries Eliza Robertson and the Sun

TNP197 Portrait Of A Marriage Part Four

TNP196 Portrait Of A Marriage Part Three

TNP195 Portrait of a Marriage Part Two

TNP194 Portrait Of A Marriage with Carmen and Ruben Part One

TNP193 How Much Is Enough In Collapse with Carmen and Ruben

TNP192 Happily Needy with Mara Glatzel

TNP191 Entering Hekate’s Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen

TNP190 Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy

TNP189 Recovering Towards Mothering with Taryn Strong

TNP188 Fumbling Through...All Of It with Kael Klassen

TNP187 Sinking into Sacred Truth and Giving it Voice with Velda Thomas

TNP186 Time As A Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway

TNP185 Tutorial with Carmen on Trance, Dreams and the Collective

TNP184 Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte

TNP183 Journey From Maiden to Mother with Sarah Durham Wilson

TNP182 Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie

TNP181 Takeover Episode: Andrea Sexton Dumas Interviews Carmen on the Making of The Spirited Kitchen

TNP180 What Makes A Witch? with Carmen Spagnola