One Book A Moon

An End to Upside Down Living by Mark GoberThe Joy Diet by Martha BeckThe Divine Matrix by Gregg BradenIt's the last podcast of the year! And maybe ever?! I haven't decided how I want to move forward with the podcast in 2021. My focus has definitely shifted elsewhere in life, and my main priority now is completing the KINDRÊD meditation teacher training. I'm also feeling called to start writing again; picking back up on the book I started writing in 2019, and/or blogging once more. THANK YOU for joining me on this journey this year. Here's to diving into the wonderful unknown of 2021 with courage and glee!

I'm so off track! Just gonna post this with no extensive notes cuz I've been sitting on this episode for a week or two.An End To Upside Down Living by Mark Gober is our current read!

Intuition and Octopi and Volcanoes and GREECE.

This channeled text reminds us: We are DIVINE! Everything is divine! Let go of fear and separation.

Exploring what it means to tell a new story.

This lunar phase we'll be diving into the book "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" by Charles Eisenstein!

Let's explore where science and consciousness meet! Why has science traditionally skirted the unsolved issue of consciousness? What happens when scientists try to do serious research in the realms of the paranormal?

Rethink everything you've been taught about reality!

Come join me on a hike on a beautiful summer Sunday in Southern Oregon! This week we continue diving into Of Water and the Spirit, an incredible recounting of a westernized African man's initiation into the esoteric knowledge of his tribe, and discuss the beautiful cycles of birth and death.

From Wiki: “At age four, Somé was abducted from his people, the Dagara by a missionary, and taken to a boarding school where he was inflicted with a Western education. Somé endured sixteen years of physical and emotional abuse by the priests, but he left the school when he was twenty to return to the village of his birth. Upon his return, integration into his traditional tribal religion and customs was difficult, due to his long absence from his culture and his apparent indoctrination into Christianity and a "white man's world". Elders from the village believed that Somé's ancestral spirit had withdrawn from his body and that he had already undergone a type of rite of passage into manhood in the white world. Despite this, they agreed to let him undergo a belated manhood rite with a younger group in the tribe. Having been raised outside of the culture and not speaking the language made the month-long, baor process, believed to unite soul and body, more dangerous for him than for the culturally-Dagara youths also undergoing the rite.Somé writes that each person is born with a destiny, and he or she is given a name that reflects that destiny. Somé says his name, Malidoma, means "friend of the enemy/stranger." Somé believes it is his destiny to come to Western audiences and promote an understanding between Western and African cultures.”

Why do people take on a spiritual name? What is the process like and what is the meaning behind Maya Lila di Vento and Spectra Ma'at Amunari?

Hypnotherapist Spectra Amunari shares a powerful past life story that explains a woman's digestive issues and claustrophobia. Spectra also shares her favorite book, detailing the life of an African boy taken from his tribe and forced into priesthood, only to return and be initiated as a shaman.

Crazy times! Communication, nature, poetry, beauty, ritual.

I had trouble picking a book for this lunar cycle when the book Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver showed up on my doorstep. I'd forgotten I'd ordered it with the intention of having it be the next One Book A Moon book. I wasn't convinced, so I randomly cracked the book open and read a poem that cracked my heart open (and my voice, as you'll hear in this episode). I also reference the Medicine Stories podcast with half Native half white activist Layla June, Herstory: the Fall of Matriarchy by Jane Hardwicke Collins, and the Free Birth Society podcast.

Elizabeth Haich was born in Hungary in 1897 and recalled a past life as an initiate in Egypt. Dig in for a ride through her lives!

I'm excited to introduce my very first guest on the One Book a Moon podcast: Minna News, an accidental medium and spiritualist! Over the past 20 years Minna has had a successful career in journalism, eventually writing for Forbes Finland. While pregnant with a child that ended in a miscarriage, she began to hear voices telling her she would also lose her marriage and her job (which came to pass), and eventually she “accidentally” ended up on a retreat learning how to communicate with the dead. Minna also introduces me to one of her favorite books, Initiation by Elizabeth Haigh, an autobiography of a woman born in 1897 who had past life memories of being a pharaoh's daughter in Egypt.

Now more than ever it's important to remember to connect with Nature! Here's how!

We are out of balance - our bodies, our societies, our economic systems, our relationship with the natural world... but we can start with ourselves, doing the work of just BEING in forests, amongst the trees.

Let's talk about death, bay-bee! And PURPOSE! We're all gonna die, eventually, so what better thing to spend our time on than working towards our purpose?

A deep dive into one book per lunar cycle that moves us toward joy, wholeness and thriving.

Why is the Miracle Morning important? And who am I, always? I share my favorite quotes from the book and tell the story of how I found my name in an olive tree in Italy.

In this first episode, host Maya Lila di Vento shares the book that had the most impact on her life in 2019 - The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. At the time of release, Maya Lila was on day 243 of Miracle Mornings and she goes over the 6 elements and a bit about Hal's story.Join our lovely group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/onebookamoonBecome a Patron and support the goodness: www.patreon.com/onebookamoonMusic by Takki Taro.