Podcasts about Burning times

On this episode:We heard an extract of 3CR's podcast series 'Queer Histories, Queer Futures'; where Richard Watts describes his past as a 'queer punk', and how this spurred him to create the Naarm based queer punk zine 'Burning Times' in 1995.We discussed with Jackie Turner, of the Trans Justice Project, their campaign calling on Federal election candidates to make a public commitment toprotect trans youth from attacks on their health care,make trans healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone who needs it,support reforms that give trans people the same rights and protections as everyone else andinvest in trans lives by combatting homelessness, poverty, and unemployment.  

Get ready to pick your poisoned apple as Susan, Kelly, and Cort dive into the enchanting world of witches in movies and shows! They explore the bewitching themes of empowerment and the often misunderstood portrayal of witches, from classics like "Practical Magic" to the eerie vibes of "The Craft." Susan, Kelly, and Corrt dive into the enchanting world of witches with their discussion on "Pick Your Poison(ed) Apple." They explore various representations of witches across movies and shows, highlighting how these portrayals have evolved over time. From the classic charm of *Bewitched* to the darker tones of *The Craft*, the hosts dissect the cultural significance of witchcraft in media. The conversation touches on the societal implications of witch hunts, both historically and in contemporary narratives, as well as the reclamation of witchcraft by modern feminists. They reflect on how stories about witches have shifted from depictions of evil hags to empowered female characters who are often misunderstood, hinting at a deeper societal commentary on women's autonomy and power. The hosts delve into character arcs, plot twists, and even the moral quandaries presented in these films, encouraging listeners to think critically about what these stories say about society and gender dynamics.They reference the documentary *The Burning Times*, which addresses the gruesome history of witch hunts and the societal fears that fueled them. As they recount tales of witches throughout history, they highlight the stark contrast between fear-based narratives and the modern reclamation of witchcraft as a symbol of empowerment for women. And, remember, say "Happy Birthday" to Cort!-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us on Instagram @GeekGirlSoupContinue the conversation on FacebookListen to Cort's podcast with Brad at PureFandom.comCheck out Susan's movie stats on Letterboxd Email your questions and comments to GeekGirlSoup@gmail.comGeek on!

Join me as we journey into the ancient *Witch Wound*—a collective, psychospiritual wound carried by many healers, mystics, and spiritual seekers. While the name is rooted in the persecution of women during the Burning Times, this wound goes beyond witches and shows up today as some of the biggest blocks keeping you “stuck”. Whether you're just beginning to explore this or have been healing this for lifetimes, this episode will offer wisdom and practical tools to embrace your power and alchemize pain into purpose. In this episode: What the Witch Wound really is Classic signs and symptoms (that often get overlooked) How one therapist denied this wound until her Akashic Records revealed a deeper truth Venessa's personal experience with spontaneous past life memories and surrendering to grief 3 ways to alchemize the Witch Wound A special channeled Akashic transmission offering insight and healing for those carrying this wound FREE VIDEO ⭐️ Access this limited-time private 'Ask Me Anything' call recording where I share exactly how I unearthed my intuitive gifts & transitioned from stuck, confused clinician to my highest calling as an intuitive healer… while also increasing my time, energy and credibility as a practitioner! PLUS I have a special Akashic channeled message just for the intuitives & healers tuning in to this exact call…  ✨WATCH: https://www.wildlyrooted.com/ama    WILDLY INTUITIVE PRACTITIONER PATHWAY

Episode 38 Welcome to The Bell Witch Podcast Witching in the 21st Century After a summer break, Swailes the Friendly Green Witch is tackling a large topic, 'is witchcraft Dangerous?' Tackling the greatest misconceptions about witchcraft by sharing personal experiences and reflecting on The Burning Times historical insights. The episode delves into the societal perceptions and historical treatment of witchcraft, highlighting the patriarchal influences and misconceptions that have persisted into modern times. There is no devil in the craft. Swailes reflects on the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, drawing parallels to contemporary society's fears and misinformation. Emphasizing the empowering and healing aspects of modern witchcraft, the host encourages listeners to challenge societal norms and engage in thoughtful dialogue about the true nature of witchcraft.Made with love and magic by @friendlygreenwitch11.11 of @The_bell_witch_podcast Email- thebellwitchpodcast@yahoo.com The Bell Witch Podcast (@the_bell_witch_podcast) • Instagram photos and videosJoin the Patreon to support the creator The Bell Witch Podcast | Podcast | PatreonMentioned in this episode- https://open.spotify.com/episode/62jdpDDmPox3pZIGjDsvw3?si=fc186a5fdacf4c2chttps://open.spotify.com/episode/3xC1T01S9D75ollsNoedaw?si=64e906e3e7c74078Sponsored by Otley Ghost Tour Turnip Fish Theatre Company (squarespace.com)#PodcastPals The Adventures of Lilly Thystle and her Flower Dragon | Podcastshttps://open.spotify.com/show/0e5i06FKGQPQwCEzhIpaT5?si=541c87d6be234bbdSauces and Research Questions About Salem MA Witchcraft | 1692 Salem Witch MuseumWitchcraft - UK ParliamentThe trouble with witchcraft today - Big Issue NorthWitchcraft – Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (pressbooks.pub)Cover art by Coleen of StarGladeVintage on Pixabay

Twenty years ago, Cali White left a corporate career and followed a calling to the healing path. Initially training in psychotherapy, she spent many years immersing herself in the world of psychological and spiritual development and was privileged to find teachers that opened her up to Native American wisdom through Vision Questing, Sweat Lodges, and Shamanic Healing, and then more deeply into rites of passage work through the Women in Power organisation. From November 2018 she undertook a 13 Moon menopause Pilgrimage around the UK and Ireland to deepen into her indigenous ancestry. Guided by the Ancients, she gathered women every full moon to hold ceremony for those persecuted as witches during the Burning Times and to help heal the inherited trauma wounds of separation that we still carry today. This led to the 2022 I AM WITCH exhibition in Lancaster, out of which The Witches' Revival was born, a now annual healing event in Lancaster, UK, designed to support the healing of the feminine through the reclamation of the Witch Archetype. Cali lives in an old Beatrix Potter cottage on a hillside in the Lake District where she continues to learn through tending the land and by following her menopausal impulse to "create"! www.thewitcheshouse.orgwww.loveisourpower.com We talked about:Living with intention Menopause as portal and rebirth Collective wound and collective healing Ancestral healing The feeling of emerging from the trauma veil Medicine spoons – and how a synchronistic discovery led to her next body of work Creativity as healing and the magic that happens when we share our process Creating experiential spaces The feminine way as collaborative The Witches Revival event Archetypes: witch, creatrix, wise woman archetype, The Cailleach, Hekate, Baba Yaga Evolving our relationship with big and small d death Ways of knowing Resources mentionedJoin my newsletter for your free Bonus ClassReclaim Your Creative Magic ecourseALisa StarkweatherWomen in Power My book Creatrix: she who makesStephen Jenkinson - Orphan WisdomSharon Blackie – If Women Rose Rooted, HagitudeOutside the Box – Liz RothschildKicking the Bucket Follow Creative Magic on Instagram: @CreativeMagicPodcastYour host Lucy H. Pearce – Instagram: @lucyhpearce FacebookWomancaft Publishing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Walpurgis is the night before May Day or Beltane – it is the time of the burning festivals and the mind virus that is released is part of a spell which burns, irritates, and motivates men and women to do the most immoral things. Riotous behaviors have returned to our cities; mainly, targeting college campuses as the purge is gaining momentum into Walpurgis and it appears that it will not let up. It may not surprise many that we shall see night fires sparked by those who wish to bring attention to what they see as genocide —an offering of blood to the highest of demons. The media though is hyper-focused on the protests and in the process, has ignored the bloodshed and burnt offerings that war provides. Tonight on Ground Zero (7-10pm, pacific time), Clyde Lewis talks with author and host of Everything Out There, Steve Stockton about BURNING TIMES – THE PURGE OF WALPURGIS. Listen Live: https://groundzero.radio Archived Shows: https://aftermath.media

Ann Crawford believes in love at first sight, that good always prevails, and that we're here for those wildwonderfulwayoutthere visions of ours to come alive. She is the bestselling and award-winning author of ten life-affirming books that weave tales of love and intrigue and take readers on mystical journeys. Her books include stories about angels, a walk-in, a healer during the Burning Times, Mary Magdalene, and an actor whose BFF committed suicide. Her latest is about: A boomer ex-flower child still living like it's 1969, a Gen X Buick-driving, religious Trumper, and a Gen Z twenty-year-old trans woman—all under one roof….What could possibly go right?  Ann is also an award-winning filmmaker. Her first movie was about a group of vets returning to Viet Nam. Her second movie involved traveling around the world and interviewing people from all walks of life—heads of state, street kids, academics, artists....the folks of this world—on how they envisioned creating world peace. Ann is an award-winning humanitarian, as well.  Her new book is available on Amazon tomorrow, and her website is: https://anncrawford.net/ At the top of the show, it's Anastasia's Starseed News, bringing topics of interest and hope to starseeds, not heard elsewhere!

Today on the show I interview Sylvia Ghazarian, Executive Director of Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, the largest national independent abortion fund. As former Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women for 12 years, she has championed policy advocacy on healthcare, poverty, domestic/sexual violence and human trafficking in Los Angeles. Sylvia is from California, and identifies as middle eastern and a woman of color.We discuss:Importance of our national abortion fund and the need to destigmatize this common health procedure.Thinking Bigger Than Roe as we head into what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade.How leadership development and career paths can be formed in unexpected ways.She recommended the book Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown and the documentary The Burning Times.Some other podcasts about Roe vs. Wade:326 50 Years of Ms Magazine with Kathy Spillar296 Reclaiming Abortion as Healthcare With Joan LaMunyon Sanford I want to personally invite you to the Bioneers Conference. As Bioneers celebrates its 35th-anniversary conference, the urgency of transformative change is starkly evident. It is more important now than ever that we connect and scale brilliant social movements to enact the kinds of breakthrough solutions that this earth needs. The clock is ticking. The call to action resounds: We must recognize our collective power, understanding that what we do to one another resonates with our treatment of the Earth.Previous episode with Nina Simons, the co-founder of Bioneers, https://wellwomanlife.com/captivate-podcast/297show/Register now for #Bioneers2024 at conference.bioneers.org Use discount code WellWoman20!The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from Collective Action Strategies – a consulting firm that supports systemic change so that women and families thrive, and by the Well Woman Life Movement Challenge Quiz at wellwomanlife.com/quiz

Alyssa Calder Hulme: [00:00:00] Welcome to the women of ambition podcast. I'm your host, Alyssa Culler Hume. And today we have a fantastic guest on our show. Nina Simons is co founder and chief relationship officer at Bioneers and leads it's every woman leadership program throughout her career, spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and. Philanthropic sectors. Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust, and leadership development. She co edited Moonrise, The Power of Women Leading from the Heart and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred. A Woman Listens for Leadership, which is the book we're going to talk about here today, was released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied. Practice. Nina received the Goy Peace Award with her husband and partner, Kenny Ausubel for pioneering work to promote nature inspired innovations for restoring the earth and our [00:01:00] human community, which is pretty incredible. So thank you so much for being here, Nina.  Nina Simons: Thank you, Alyssa. It's great to be with you. Um,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: this is your beautiful book. You can see it behind her if you're watching the video. Um, it's beautiful. This artwork is fantastic. Um, and I, I'll just start by saying that, you know, I, I get reached out to by a lot of PR teams and different people wanting me to promote the material. And, I'm really picky, but yours is the first one that I, I read and I really loved and am deciding to share it because, um, I think what your, your message here is, is really incredible. It's really holistic. And I think it's something that we really need to talk about. So thank you so much for, for me, for writing this book and publishing it. And. Talking about being like a feminist as a white woman who's trying to, um, decolonize perspectives, understand privilege, um, and also, [00:02:00] um, someone who's been in that space for so long. You have a lot of wisdom to share and a lot of experience. And I, I'm just really grateful that you're putting that out in the world and being vulnerable. So thank  Nina Simons: you. Oh, it's my honor and privilege. I feel really grateful to get to do it. Thank you, Elisa. Okay,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: so, I, so this book is about women's leadership, um, and you talk about it from your own personal experiences and then in working with other, with other leaders in, In lots of different communities, um, can we start maybe talking about, uh, what Bioneers is and where that word comes from, because I was really intrigued by that. Nina Simons: Sure. Sure. Well, the word was coined by my husband and partner because it's a contraction of biological pioneers. Okay. And the idea behind it was he started looking to find really innovative and effective [00:03:00] approaches. To healing our relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth and what he found was that some of the great innovators out there, many of them were looking to nature to heal nature and so there were nature sourced solutions and that's where the word Bioneers came from. But. Bioneers started as an annual gathering. Um, we started it in 1990 and over the years it has grown and grown and evolved tremendously so that now there is an annual face to face in person conference of about a year. 2500 or 3000 people, but there is also an incredible wealth of media that we put out. So we produce a radio series that wins awards many years and, um, a great newsletter and a lot of what motivated Bioneers in the first place was the recognition. [00:04:00] That the mainstream media tends to carry the bad news, but not the good news of the world. That's being born. And especially in this time when there's so much destruction and violence and coming apart, we all need to remember to give some of our time and energy to the world. That's being born because it's incredibly uplifting and inspiring and full of role models. And, and, um, that's what Pioneers is. And, um, what else did you ask me? I think that was the main question. No,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: it, it was. Um, one of the things that you talk about in your book is the difference between a Bioneer and a Pioneer. And how as in the Bioneer space, you are looking to To create with the world instead of imagining it as a blank space that doesn't have, um, life already living and I don't know, I'm not articulating it very well. Your book says it so much more [00:05:00] beautifully, but, um, co creating in that world with indigenous people with local knowledge with local plants and flora and fauna and all of those things. You speak maybe a little bit. to that? And, and why is that a revolutionary concept to an American white person?  Nina Simons: Oh, that's a great question. Well, and it's interesting as you frame it, it very much parallels my exploration with leadership because, um, what I've realized as a woman with all the privileges that having white skin gifts me in this country, um, and a fierce determination to become a better uh, anti racist, a better white ally, um, and to learn deeply what it means to do that. Um, part of what I've learned is that we actually need to invest in our own humility, and I think that's parallel to what you were asking because, um, [00:06:00] you know, Western civilization Tends to have us think of nature as resources and in fact an indigenous worldview thinks of nature as relatives And imagine how differently you would relate knowing that the trees and the Soil and the mycelium and the, you know, all of the elements are your relatives, rather than just resources to be mined or extracted or used. Um, so it really is about, you know, for me, what I've come to understand from all these years of immersing myself in both the challenges we face and. This amazing fount of solutions has been that, um, that the solutions we need are largely already in form all around us. And that what we need to do is quiet [00:07:00] our egos and our tendency toward hubris to learn from the allies that surround us. And that actually includes, um, people of different backgrounds. People of different classes and ages and orientations that I think a lot of what we're facing right now is a need to transform our culture by shifting our culture within ourselves first so that we relate to difference as a virtue rather than as an obstacle to be overcome. Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah, I, I love that in your book, you talk about a shift in culture and cultural change from a me to a we, and I, I really, I think that's such a succinct, fantastic way to, to talk about that. Um, and so I want to talk now about. In your book, you talk about leadership and being labeled as a leader and kind of your initial, um, being repulsed by that title and kind of your [00:08:00] transformation through that. So I would love to, I'd love to dig into that and then how your position and privilege as a leader has allowed you to exercise that humility and grow and learn with other people with maybe less privilege. Um, so, so talk to us a little bit about. Um, that stigma of leadership and, and maybe in conjunction with ambition, because I think it's a very similar stigma when a woman is trying or is in that place. Nina Simons: I do too. And it's been interesting to think about in relation to your podcast and recognize that, you know, social scientists have long observed that in our culture, when we raise boys, we raise them to crow when they achieve something. Whereas when we raise girls, we tell them not to crow, we tell them to be silent, to hold it to themselves. And really the models of virtue that [00:09:00] boys and girls are raised with are very, very different. And what I found When I was first called a leader, um, I was about 40 years old and I, I really didn't like it. I knew I was supposed to be flattered, but really I felt like it painted a target on my back. It was not a title I had ever aspired to. And. I knew from Bioneers that the earth is calling us all to be leaders now. And so I had to figure out how to reconcile those two things. And as I started convening women leaders, they would all come together immediately disavowing that they ever thought of themselves as leaders. So I found that it was a bigger issue than just me. And I think, you know, it relates to the, what you were just citing of the transition from a me culture to a weak culture, because really, um, I've done two books [00:10:00] now exploring leadership and how we are all co inventing and co creating new models of leadership. And, you know, I did that First, by exploring all of the talks from all of the leaders I most admired at Bioneers, and then deconstructing them to find patterns of how were they similar, and how were they different than my mental model, and, uh, and what I found was that they were all motivated from the heart, not the head. They were motivated by an internal passion to serve or defend or protect something. And not by a title or a graduate degree, um, they were often people who stepped up to do something when they didn't even know exactly what they could do. And it wasn't until they were in it that it began to reveal. And, And they [00:11:00] were, they were also people who, whose concept of leadership was involved sharing authority and sharing power. And so, you know, increasingly, I came to appreciate the Gloria Steinem thing of leaders are those who lift each, who lift others up. No, and, and as I explored that, I realized how important it was to both have your own sense of dignity and self love, but to have that balanced with humility so that you can recognize the gifts and talents and those around you and generously support them without feeling Threatened by the zero sum game of patriarchy that if someone else is good at something it means you're not so uh So I mean this latest book is sort of the latest Evolution of my thinking about leadership. It also talks about a lot of the [00:12:00] data about Women throughout the world and how their leadership is affecting change And, and how much, um, the research is proving that when women lead, everything gets better, you know, and so I think of the old model of leadership as an I model because it was driven by ego and personal achievement, you know, and, and I think of the new model that we're all co creating as a we model. Yeah,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I love that. And that, I mean, it blends so well into my research on ambition, um, in terms of, you know, when we're looking at gender roles where men are socialized to be individualistic and to be competitive and to be climbing and, um, are expected to be in those leadership positions, but from that ego place and from that, um, Stamp of approval of a title or, uh, income or [00:13:00] education or whatever it is. And now women are, are exercising in these places, but we're showing up in new ways and we're showing up with different gifts and with different values and priorities. And then when we're given the title of leader, it doesn't sit right, or it feels wrong. Um, And I, and, or ambition, I ask people to be on the show and they're like, Oh, I'm not ambitious. I'm like, well, let's talk about it. Cause I think you might be. And I think that maybe what you're scared of is actually some of the values that people have linked with those words that, that don't fit. Um, yeah, I love, I, one of the things I love about your book is that you talk and cite so many different. Women and groups and, uh, people from all over the world and talk about how their collaborative community based relational practices and different values are really starting to change the world and how the power of the [00:14:00] grassroots movements across the world and how they are. Are changing our society. Um, how as a leader, uh, with a platform, um, I know you've done a lot of work to create leadership spaces, uh, that account for differences in, um, Class and race and lots of different perspectives and places like that. What was it like to start engaging in some of that work to try and make your spaces more equitable and accessible to people who have been systematically disenfranchised?  Nina Simons: Well, you know, there was a pivotal moment in my learning about that, Alyssa, when I read a book by a woman named Linda Tar Whalen called Women Lead the Way, and what she cites in that book is that until any minority Has reached at least 30 percent in a group, they [00:15:00] don't feel flanked enough to fully show up. And that was revelatory to me and my co facilitators. And at that moment, we agreed that we would set a minimum of 30 percent women of color in our trainings and that we would have a woman of color on our facilitation team. So that one third of the facilitation team was, was a person of color and everything shifted dramatically as soon as we did that. Um, You know, I think in a nutshell, it was in some ways scary to me to embark on that steep learning curve, but in other ways I felt really compelled to do it, and in retrospect, I feel really proud of myself that I embraced it so fully, and that in fact, I've reached a point in my life where I have Profound friendships and [00:16:00] relationships with women from all walks of life, and I feel like it's gifted me, you know, one of the things I think, Elisa, about this work is that people often talk about how hard it is, but they don't often talk about how rewarding it is. And I have found it to be some of the most rewarding work in my life. And it's gifted me some opportunities to experience in an embodied way what Dr. Martin Luther King called Beloved Community. And there's nothing like it, you know. It also helped me to understand Why the patriarchy has been so invested in socializing us to be in competition with each other rather than an alliance with each other. Because I think one of the most powerful things in the world is women in deep intentional alliance who can grow each other's leadership, [00:17:00] um, faster, better, deeper than anything else I've ever seen. So that's, that's some conditioning to get over. Yeah,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: absolutely. I know so many white feminist women of my generation are trying to, uh, be allies and do anti racism work, and there is so much, so much work left to be done. And then, you know, at some point, there comes a time when it's time to start actually enacting some of those things we're learning, and I, it's scary to move from a learning place to an action place, and then it's, I mean, Speaking for myself, like it's vulnerable to try and reach out and, and start that inclusive journey because it will most certainly involve some direct correction and education from the people around me. And, um, [00:18:00] I think what you're saying, it is a very vulnerable thing to, to learn something and then to try and change an organization and to, to make that big shift of who are we inviting and who are we putting in those positions of power and making those shifts. And I see it happening. And, you know, there are all kinds of companies with different quotas and they're trying to get certain rates of leadership in different areas. Um, it sounds like you did it. Fairly quickly and a steep learning curve, as you say, how did you, uh, so one of the phrases in your book is, uh, discomfort, resilience, learned, like that's part of that humility and letting go, um, allowing to be uncomfortable and to be educated and to continue to grow and listen to other people. What was that like? And, uh, you talk about. You know, getting feedback about cultural appropriation and, and [00:19:00] those types of things. Can you speak to that process and the humility or learning  Nina Simons: curve? Yeah. I mean, I think, I think one of the things that it requires is really coming face to face with having been raised by a culture that is deeply embedded in white supremacy. And so, you know, when you face that, when I face that in myself, it causes me to look at the stereotypes I carry, you know, my assumptions that someone may know less than me because they have a different background or a different color of skin. Um, and in fact, The more that the doing has taught me, I mean, I think studying and learning with other white people is really important and really necessary, but also, um, I think it's taught me a kind of [00:20:00] humility to understand that, you know, I'll give you an example. Um, early in my women's leadership work, I remember saying to a room of mixed women that I was raised in a home where anger was not expressed. And as a result, I didn't really know how to have a healthy relationship to anger and that I suspected that that might be true for many or most women. And I had an African American woman immediately push back and say, Not true in our culture. You know, I, I was raised to express my anger in a great and healthy and strong and quick way. And I thought, Wow, okay. Well, that's something I have to learn from you, you know, that's great. Um, so I think Let's see I think the other thing about it that I want to say and I I write about this in a longer essay in the book is that it's one thing to [00:21:00] learn about white supremacy and the racist history of our nation from your head. And it's another thing to feel it in your heart. And some of the hardest anti racism training experiences I've ever had has been witnessing other white people only respond from their heads. And they either get defensive or they have a rationale or, but But the truth is, um, we are living among people who are experiencing painful events due to the racism deeply embedded in our culture every single day, many, many times a day, and sometimes it's it involves fear for the life of their Children, you know, um, and. And so it requires really extending your empathy to somebody else's experience, and similarly, [00:22:00] as I've learned about Indigenous peoples and the horrors that we have inflicted on them, that this nation has, um, I find myself having tremendous amounts of empathy and compassion, and And then the trick is, how do you turn that into some sort of action? Because knowing about it, thinking about it, talking about it doesn't mean squat until you do something about it. And that means helping in whatever way you can. But it also means not falling into the trap of becoming a white savior. Instead, coming in a humble way to say, I want to be of service. How can I help? Tell me how I can help you because only they know what they need really. And, um, and put me to work, you know, I'll wash dishes. I'll take out the trash. Tell me what you need. Um, So, I mean, I guess that's the [00:23:00] best I can do in a generalized form. Yeah.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: So I want to mention today too, we are recording this on Memorial Day in the United States. The day that we remember people have passed away, our ancestors and our loved ones. And For me, a part of this process has been coming to terms with, with my own family history and the complicity in the settler colonizer state and in the patriarchy and, um, a lot of the contradictions that are there, that it's really tempting to paint a really pretty picture of pioneers or pilgrims, or, you know, the settlers that built this cabin and worked so hard to settle this area. And it's, It's, it's so many complicated overlapping truths of also, um, genocide and rape and, um. And land theft. And death and destruction. Yeah. Yeah. Land theft and, and continual [00:24:00] occupation. Here I am. Yeah. In Utah. I have no ancestors from Utah. And I'm still here. Yeah. And, um. It's, it's a paradox and it's hard and it's uncomfortable. Um, and I have children. So part of my work is to teach them about all of that and try and model how to continue to exist and then what to do next. Um, because I think if I'm running away from it in my own family system and my own family culture, like I can't. I'm not going to do anything on a greater scale that's actually helpful, you know. Nina Simons: Yeah, I sure do. And we're surrounded by so many examples of people who, you know, there's a saying, uh, in the healing communities that hurt people, hurt people. Yes. Right. And, and so what you're facing, Alisa, is very much an opportunity to break the chain and [00:25:00] to, um, to really choose something different for yourself and your kids. And I applaud you for doing so. It's a big deal.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Thank you. Yeah, it, it's hard. And it's vulnerable to, to put myself in positions to learn and to be corrected and to be told, um, that I have a limited perspective. But, but like you're saying, there's, it's not just all pain there. Like, there's so much beauty in learning. Uh, one of my. Favorite examples of this recently is, um, in the resistance to the Dakota access pipeline, uh, the Lakota people established a resistance movement and it was led by the indigenous people of the area. And there were lots of activists and other native people that came to help. And proportionately the, the local native people were a very small fraction at the end. Um, but everyone continued to function. under the guidance of that leadership and under that sovereignty. And I, it's such a [00:26:00] beautiful story that is just a fraction of what was going on there, but that, that sovereignty and that leadership and that respect that was able to function, I think for almost like 10 months in that space allowed for a much larger work to happen. And it's a beautiful example of how. Leadership and sovereignty is not, it doesn't have to be this dominating power, but it can be this community agreement to recognize leadership in these beautiful spaces and with indigenous values. And, um, it brings me so much hope. So I can, I can feel what you're saying about the resilience and the hope and the leadership and the learning that comes from engaging with these stories that also hold so much  Nina Simons: pain. Yeah. Well, and, and frankly, there is a, a fierce commitment to surviving and thriving in many Native communities. And [00:27:00] it's huge. You know, I, I recently heard a friend whose son was at Standing Rock, and she's a Native woman, and she said, I'm so grateful for what my son learned there because he learned that you don't ever put lives at risk without checking first with the life givers and the life bearers. So you go to the women first for their permission if you're going to consider something dangerous. And he, she said, I'm so grateful he learned that. You know, and it made so much sense to me. I thought, wow, what if before we went to war, you know, we had part of our constitution was a council of elder women. They would consult before going into war. It would change everything. Revolutionizing. Right?  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah. And in your book, you talk about, uh, the Iroquois Confederacy and the, uh, [00:28:00] The  Nina Simons: Haudenosaunee. Thank  Alyssa Calder Hulme: you. Yes, I read it. It's, it's weird to say it out loud. I'm not used to that. Um, Haudenosaunee and how they have that council of women. Yeah. And that is, you know, that was the inspiration for a lot of the, um, the feminist movement in the United States.  Nina Simons: And the U. S.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Constitution. Yes. And I, I have, I have, um, Iroquois ancestry and I'm so proud of that piece and I, it's, it's a very small fraction, but I'm like, ah, I want to connect with that part of, part of my ancestry as well because, oh my goodness, we have so much to learn. I have so much to learn. Um. Okay, so many things that we could, that we could talk about here. Um,  Nina Simons: You know what? Can I jump in for a sec? Oh, please do. Please do. Okay. I was realizing as I was anticipating being with you today that I was thinking about my own relationship to ambition. Oh, yeah. And, and what I [00:29:00] realized was that I've never had ambition to be rich or a celebrity. I've never had that kind of ambition. The kind of ambition that I have had has been a promise to myself that before I die, I'm going to live out what my soul brought me here to bring. And that's a form of ambition, I realized, you know, and certainly, you know, I enjoy being well used. I enjoy feeling like I've contributed something that's really Helped move something, um, that I care about and I work with a number of women who are quite ambitious and I love that they're ambitious because, you know, they're, they're sort of natural born competitors and, and. Why shouldn't we all have that within ourselves? You know, a [00:30:00] desire to excel. So I think, you know, part of what I talk about in the book is this idea that I call full spectrum leadership, and by which I mean, having access to all of our human capacities at any given time. And if the feminine is the receptive and the masculine is the active, why shouldn't we have all of it? I mean, of course, as whole human beings, that's my aspiration.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: No, I thank you for, for bringing us back to that, uh, cause I, I do want to explore that more. Um, one of the things I'm cautious of is engaging in a binary of, um, and it's ironic because you know, the name of the podcast is. Women of ambition. And so I'm engaging in that in, in a division by calling out experiences of women. Um, so I am cautious of that, but as you're saying, being holistic [00:31:00] people, exploring all pieces of our identity, making sure that's in balance, you know, it's not just women reclaiming femininity, but it's also men reclaiming that part of their leadership as well. And having that holistic experience. Um, Can you maybe speak a little more specifically about the different ways that, uh, feminine leadership comes across? I know there are so many examples in your book.  Nina Simons: Sure. You know, there's There's a phrase from the late 60s feminist movement. I don't remember which number it is, but I can hardly keep track. Are we in the fourth  Alyssa Calder Hulme: right now? I think that's  Nina Simons: what we're in right now. But, um, you know, feminist scholars started writing about all our ways of knowing. And reclaiming all our ways of knowing. And that phrase really [00:32:00] resonates for me. Um, what I've realized as I've explored my own self and cultivating myself to, to full flourishing, which is how I think of it. Um, and I hope I'm continuing to cultivate myself until the day I die, right? So that, that involves taking risks, being vulnerable. Um, what I find is that I almost have practices to turn down the volume on my mental capacities and turn up the volume of the knowing of my heart, of my emotions, of my body's Knowing and intelligence, and also of my intuitive or spiritual understanding and relationship to the sacred, to my ancestors, to the invisible world, you know, scientists are proving all the time that, uh, the invisible world [00:33:00] actually exists, and that in fact, it may have a far greater influence on events than the part that's visible and palpable to our five senses. So, so what I've found is that as I'm growing toward my full flourishing, and I should say all this self cultivation has led me to a place, Elisa, where I'm feeling more, um. authentic, more fully integrated, more free and more trusting of all of the parts of myself than I ever have in my life before. And I want that for everyone. It's just so wonderful to feel. And I, I look back and I think, well, I kind of wish I'd learned it sooner, but I'm not sure I could have, you know, so it, we'll each take whatever time we take. Um, Okay, what did you ask me? Ah, okay. Feminine leadership. So, you [00:34:00] know, what it looks like to me is recognizing that our emotions exist for good reason. Whether we're in a female body or a male body, emotions are communications from nature about something that we need to pay attention to. And in fact, of course, as we all know, in our culture, Hollywood produces movies that they call chick flicks that are all about relationship and emotion and men don't think those movies are for them. But I personally believe that if we could institute publicly acceptable, safe venues for expressing both grief and anger, we could Dial down the amount of violence in our culture almost overnight. I think it's just huge. So, you know, one of my favorite examples was a woman [00:35:00] at one of our, uh, trainings who was a labor organizer. And she described sitting at a table with a room full of men and how she was so passionate about something that she was crying. And she didn't apologize. She was the leader in the room. She didn't apologize. She spoke through her tears. She said, I'm weeping because I care so damn much. And they all really got it. And I thought, wow, what an incredible role model. Um, you know, and, and part of what, uh, we did on those retreats was to unpack the conventional forms of leadership where leaders, think they know the answer to everything, right? And, and to juxtapose it with new models of leadership where it's safe and okay to say, I don't know, does anyone have a better idea? Or does anyone have experience with this who can help inform us? I think we're all [00:36:00] moving toward much more shared, egalitarian, team based models of leadership. And that the more comfortable we can get with that within ourselves. So that we can see it as a, as a accomplishment, not as a failure to be sharing power. Um, the quicker and better we're going to transform our world. Yeah, I,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I totally agree with you.  Nina Simons: That's beautiful. I mean, there's another thing that I would say too, is that, you know, Part of this all was ignited, uh, when I first saw a film online called The Burning Times, and I began to understand through that film and the research that I did, um, subsequent to that, that all of the systems of our society had transformed during this three to four hundred year period in European history that had correlatives all over the world. [00:37:00] And that everything associated with the feminine became devalued, and everything associated with the masculine became elevated. And, uh, and so for instance, you know, being embodied is a gift of the feminine. Um, literally we birth literally . Well, that's right. Exactly. Exactly. And how many men do you know who are comfortable in their own bodies? Yeah. You know? Um, so they can only feel anger. Well, how crazy is that? Yeah, right.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: They're very emotional. But it can only come through in one way. That's not healthy. .  Nina Simons: No, and especially not at a time when there's so much. Lost going on and so much pain and suffering. I mean, honestly, if you're not feeling grief, you're not paying attention. Um, because there is a lot of that going on and it's painful and real. Um, so, you [00:38:00] know, I think, I think that. Uh, freeing ourselves of the old conditioned mental models and then aspiring toward, you know, how can we embody our whole selves? How can our creative self become part of our leadership? How can our playful self become part of our leadership and how powerful that could be really to say, I don't know, what do you think? You know?  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah. I, I really appreciate that. Bye. Bye. humor can be one of those really transformational pieces. Um, I'm learning, I'm learning so much right now from, um, queer and trans people in terms of creation and joy and extravagance and flamboyance. Um, and, and same, especially with, uh, black feminist women, um, in their liberation movements and rest and healing and spirituality and wholeness and all [00:39:00] these textures of self that I. I might not even be aware of or might not even think about bringing forward in those places and, uh, we just, we need each other and, and as we're talking about these emotions and, and lack of touch with ourselves, um, you know, I think about the, the lack of our public ceremonies and, and morning processes and celebrations and these community experiences that we, um, That our people had long ago, or maybe we've lost in our current day. Um, and you talk a lot about the women that are bringing those kinds of ceremonies back and you talk about personal ceremonies. Um, can you speak maybe a little bit to that and how that. Works to integrate those parts of ourselves or or exercises them maybe I don't know. What do you think?  Nina Simons: Well, you know, I think what you're referring to. I refer to as [00:40:00] rituals and I Maybe 15 years ago or so. I was gifted to To experience a ceremony by a Peruvian teacher named Oscar Miro Quesada, and at the end of about an eight hour ceremony, he said, if you remember only one thing, remember this, consciousness creates matter, language creates reality. Ritual creates relationship and even though it was the wee hours of the morning, those words landed in me like, and I have used them to cultivate myself for now a long, long time and found them really helpful. And one of my favorite examples is just a really simple one where I realized one day that when I got out of the shower, I would look in the mirror. And I'd have all [00:41:00] these voices go off in my head about my hips being too wide, or my belly being too round, or my butt being, you know, all of those things, right? And I realized that each day I was doing violence to myself. And that I had to not only stop it, but replace it. And so I made up a ritual where I found a body oil that I really liked and, um, added essential oils to it until the scent really pleased me as a first thing in the morning kind of a thing. And so then I, you know, I held myself accountable for every day getting out of the shower and anointing my body with that oil. And while I did it. pouring love into my body and telling it what I was grateful for and what I appreciate about it and thanking it for all [00:42:00] the ways it supported me. And it, you know, it only took, takes two or three minutes a day. But what I found was that if I invent a ritual to strengthen some part of myself and hold myself really seriously accountable to doing it every day. Somewhere around six or eight weeks, I can feel a change in myself. And, um, so I find that really helpful, you know, and, um, similarly, I realized on our women's retreats that it made me nuts every time I heard somebody refer to a room full of women as guys. I was like, no, we are not guys. I'm a  Alyssa Calder Hulme: California girl. I am totally, I totally do that too. So I'm trying to change my language. It's hard. It's hard.  Nina Simons: Well, I'll tell you what helps. I love calling them guyas. I would be like, look, we're all Gaias, okay? Let's do [00:43:00] that.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I like that. Because then you can change it mid word when you realize it's happening. Nina Simons: Exactly. And how wonderful to be addressed as a planet. Yeah.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: So is, have you, have you moved those rituals and things into? practices with other people. I can see that as being something that's really powerful in friendships or even in like a business setting or a collaboration space. What does that look  Nina Simons: like? Well, you know, a lot of what I talk about in the book is the power of women's circles. There are a lot of great authors who've written about this. Um, but the truth is you can do it. With one or two or five other women and, um, you know, there's a wonderful ritual that we do, we did in our retreats that we called compost and cauldron. Yes, I wanted to  Alyssa Calder Hulme: talk about that because I love the idea of compost rather than like throwing something away. So please. [00:44:00] Right.  Nina Simons: Okay. So basically the ritual is this. You observe each day. What do you want to let go of? What have you observed in yourself that you're ready to give back to the earth because it's no longer serving you? And it could be a self limiting idea. It could be. Uh, a habit that you have, you know, it could be anything, but it's something that you really want to ritually lay down to the earth and know that, like with compost, it becomes food for the earth. It's not waste, it's not trash, it just becomes food. And what you put in the cauldron is what you're cooking on for yourself. And so, you would go around the circle and each woman would say, I'm composting this. that I saw myself do when I compared myself to the woman who walked in the room. And I thought, Ooh, I have the wrong shoes. I'm not dressed right. I, I, I'm not nearly smart [00:45:00] enough compared to her, all those things. I'm composting that and I'm going to put in the cauldron how good I felt. When she appreciated my idea, right? I love that, yeah. I know. So, and what happens is that everyone in the circle benefits from it because we, you realize that these things that we have, so many of them are shared and so universal and it takes it out of the me and the individual and puts it more into the circle of we're all healing from this crazy culture that has given us a lot of conditioning. that doesn't serve our best interests, our best flourishing. And so when we do it together, it becomes more lighthearted. You know, we all can mirror each other. And I think the other thing that I found about working in circles with women is that often others can see us [00:46:00] much more clearly than we can see ourselves. And so it can be very helpful after you're working with somebody in a circle. That you know, or you know pretty well, and you can say to them, you know, when I do my own self assessment, what I notice is that, uh, A, B, and C are some of my strongest gifts or talents, but I don't know if you see me that way. How do you see me? What do you think are my strongest gifts or talents? And what do you think are my areas that I could be strengthening or, or, you know, where I should turn to another for help? Um. Because that's cultivation. That's an investment in each other's leadership. And it's so helpful.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I love that. It's that vulnerability and practice, that humility that we were talking about.  Nina Simons: Yes,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: exactly. Investing in and lifting each other up. Um, Yeah, I, I think that's just another, [00:47:00] another kind of ambition to, to practice that when it, when it might feel so, um, unnatural initially.  Nina Simons: Well, I think, I think like anything, you know, it's a muscle that when we practice, it becomes stronger. And I think also just to tie it back to our earlier conversation in relation to racial justice, you know, it's very important that we as white women don't go to women of color and say, teach me, what's it like to be a person of color or what do I need to learn? Because that's a kind of, um, uncompensated emotional labor that white people tend to lay on the backs of people of color. And so it's really important that we educate ourselves. Both about the history of slavery and colonialism and racism in this country, but also, um, about [00:48:00] our own relationships to our ancestors. So we're not going to them saying, you know, here, fill up my culture cup with your culture. No, we have to have our own. Alyssa Calder Hulme: So that, that was one of the other things that I was thinking about as you're discussing this, um, because I know a lot of. A lot of white presenting people have been very separated from their indigenous cultures and practices and rituals. And so a lot of us are, are seeking them out and we can, um, we can appropriate from other cultures in ways that we might not, in our ignorance, might not realize are damaging, um, and then, and learn and change, but then also in kind of, Trying to create our own rituals, even if we don't realize we're adopting something from another culture, um, but then we can be educated and learn and grow. I think that's kind of my fear in that way is that I will in learning something that's helpful to my spirit and to. Um, learning and growing, then learn that I have [00:49:00] adopted that without permission from another culture unknowingly, um, is that just, do I just need to keep being humble and, and learning? Nina Simons: Well,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: it happens so inadvertently, you know what I mean? And it's genuine. And then the impact is so painful to others. And so I'm just grappling  Nina Simons: with that. You know, one of the things that I've learned from my contact with indigenous peoples is protocols are really important. And what that means is you don't borrow from another culture without citing the source. And so, if you learn something in a book, cite the author. If you learn something from a teacher, ask their permission before you share it again. Because there is something about honoring others sovereignty that is so central. To the dignity of people trying to heal from all these centuries of oppression. And it's when we do things [00:50:00] without citing the source, without asking permission, without honoring where it came from, that's when it's really cooptation.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah. Yeah. I thank you for that. I think part of my, my issue is I don't always realize that something comes from another culture. Yeah. And I guess at that point, all I can do is Ask for forgiveness and learn and adapt in the moment. Nina Simons: Ask for forgiveness if you hurt somebody. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. Culture is a nebulous thing. And we learn from and with each other constantly. We are fundamentally social creatures. And, and culture is always evolving. So, you know, there is a way that that line is not nearly as as clearly drawn as some people would imagine. And so I think you just have to practice witnessing [00:51:00] yourself and being clear about your intentions. And, you know, one of the things I like to remind myself, Alisa, is that doing racial justice work as a white person means having both a thick skin and a thin skin at the same time. Yes, I agree. I love that because I want to open myself to really feel other people's experience and the truth of that and the pain of that. And at the same time, I want to have a thick enough skin that I recognize that when I make mistakes, it doesn't mean I'm a bad person. It means I have to. Pay attention and learn and apologize if it's appropriate, but it doesn't hurt me to make mistakes, really, you know, and, and so I think it's an art that we practice and get better at being thick skinned and thin skinned at the same time. Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah. And then, and then having you taking the privilege and the [00:52:00] position or whatever we have to actually go and act on that knowledge and, and help people. Cause we can't just learn something and crumple inward and not do anything about it and just feel guilt. Like that is not. That's not the point. And I also don't want to be, yeah. And I also don't want to be so scared of doing something wrong that I'm not engaging in reaching out and being vulnerable. So, I mean, it's a, it's a tricky balance, I think, but, um, you know, one of the things you talk about is. Engaging in community and in listening to one another and growing together and it's vulnerable, but that's I think that's part of that leaning into that feminine side that has been so undervalued for so long. Nina Simons: It's true. And I love that you mentioned earlier. That, um, you named rest as part of reclaiming the feminine and, you know, I have a teacher who taught me that spaciousness is where the feminine [00:53:00] flourishes. And I thought, huh, in this culture that is so focused on hyper productivity and, you know, how many of us have to do lists. that are way too long and don't give ourselves spaciousness, even for 10 minutes in the middle of the day to just chill and go quiet or sit, um, and be, be in spaciousness. I think that that's a vastly underrated, undervalued experience that, um, can help all of us who are ambitious and leaders and caring about flourishing into our best selves. Um, that's a practice that's worth cultivating and believing in because it also helps. Me to remember to value myself deeply, you know, not in a hallmark way not in a narcissistic way but in a like [00:54:00] I you know, this body is the instrument of my purpose my soul's purpose and Taking good care of it for the long haul is not selfish it's an act of leadership and one that I I hope we all do because we are living through an epidemic of burnout and um, that doesn't help anybody. It just perpetuates the, the dying system.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I agree. Um, you know, I have three daughters and I, and you're talking about leadership and self care and you know, every time they walk in on me taking a bath or laying down and reading a book. Or painting or something that feeds my soul. It's like, I'm not doing it for show, but they see me and they will take my lead on those types of things. And every time, you know, I burn myself out, it goes that way too. So yeah. Um, yeah, I, I'm remembering now the, some of the rituals that I've created for [00:55:00] myself where when I'm menstruating, I. I slow down and I build in time and space to take a special bath with a special candle and, um, you know, Epsom salts or some things. But, uh, it's, it's been interesting for me to use my own body rhythms to remember that the world is not built for me. Every day is not the same. I'm on a cycle, engaging with the moon, engaging with the stars and being like, yeah, every day is not the same. I'm not a man, I don't have those hormones. And, you know, taking that time to reconnect. with that feminine side that's cyclical and changing is, is really beautiful.  Nina Simons: It is. And it's a beautiful capacity that women have to connect with earth cycles that way, you know? Yeah. So cool. It was very powerful to me to learn. That in many Native American [00:56:00] cultures, the tradition of banning women from sweat lodges when they are on their moon time did not come about because of any belief that the women were dirty. Quite to the contrary, it came about because of the belief that women on their moon time have a more direct connection to the sacred. So there you have it. Yeah, I,  Alyssa Calder Hulme: I have, I have indigenous friends that have been, um, leading and teaching me in some really beautiful ways. And they continue to emphasize that to me and talk about how in their society, women don't need the sweat lodge because they have their own ceremony. It's an excess. It's an extra, but the men. require it because they don't have that in their, in their biology. And, you know, I, it's such an interesting thing to learn about and I'm still just scratching the surface on that, but that's been part of my, my [00:57:00] coming back to self ritual, because then it does allow me to do all the many other. Outward things that I want to do, but yeah, you know, we have to have balance across all parts of ourself. Yep  Nina Simons: Yes, we do  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Okay, well we are gonna wrap up here, but thank you so much for for coming on and sharing these things just a Beautiful, gorgeous book. I can't wait for other people to read it and to share it even more. Um, is there anything in closing that you want to share with listeners, with ambitious women?  Nina Simons: Well, I would say, um, That it's worth checking out Bioneers because the role models there are amazing and the conversations are amazing. Um, the URL that's kind of great is bioneers. org slash NCS book because then you can download a free copy of [00:58:00] the introduction to the book. And. Um, if anyone does do that and does read the book, I would ask humbly that you put a review on Amazon because they count and they're hard to get. And I'm very honored to be offering this book to the world and to your listeners, Elisa, and, and thank you so much. What a treat to be with you.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Yeah, you're very welcome. Um, is Bioneers still, do you still do in person conferences?  Nina Simons: We do once a year, um, in the Bay Area in Berkeley, uh, in late, uh, March of next year. And we also have a great newsletter and radio series. And that's free to any station and, um, just a lot of great resources online. So it's very much worth, and I'll be teaching actually an online course in August on sacred activism. So if [00:59:00] that's of interest, then sign up for the Bioneers newsletter and you'll hear all about it.  Alyssa Calder Hulme: Okay, good. Yeah. I, I really want to go to the March conference. Um, I'm going to be in grad school next year, so I'm not sure how busy I'm going to be, but. How great. Yeah. Well, and I, I'm trying to, I would love to, I'm in sociology and I'd really love to work with nonprofits and grassroots efforts and especially women, um, and gender equity and things like that. So it's all very, very close to home for me. It's very exciting.  Nina Simons: That's so  Alyssa Calder Hulme: great. Well, I love hearing about these resources. So thank you so much. Um, and yeah, we'll point people to your book and to your website and they'll get to check you out there. Thank you so much for being on the show, Nina.  Nina Simons: Thank you, Elisa.

Cet épisode est dédié à tous ceux et celles qui ont choisi, qui choisissent et qui choisiront les chemins les moins fréquentés, l'anticonformisme et la rébellion sociale. En l'honneur de la Saison de Samhain, je vous présente un épisode hors série sur l'archétype de la Sorcière (et du Sorcier!) et sa place dans la culture & l'histoire. Pour les fans d'histoires surnaturelles, j'ai aussi un épisode hors série, parue en octobre 2022, où je vous parle de mes aventures (et mésaventures!) dans le monde de l'invisible. Vous m'en donnerez des nouvelles. Joyeux Halloween, Joyeux Samhain! 1e partie Sorcière et Culture 2e partie Néolithique, Antiquité et Patriarcat Christianisme et Monothéisme Moyen âge et Chasse aux Sorcières Sorcière moderne 3e partie Rituel et Sortilège Merci à mon amoureux, Giuliano Bossa, pour le montage et la musique originale! Merci à Elizabeth Ro pour l'inspiration de la section Rituel et Sortilège et Donna Read réalisatrice de The Burning Times (1990)

Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer of Bioneers. In conversation with Matthew Monahan. Watch this episode on video: https://youtu.be/uysNzM_3XCc Watch a preview: https://youtu.be/z5GiQsGTszI Bioneers: https://bioneers.org/ Nina's website: https://www.ninasimons.com/ THE REGENERATION WILL BE FUNDED Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maearthmedia Community Discord: https://maearth.com/community Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/theregeneration/feed.xml RESOURCES Nature, Culture and the Sacred book by Nina Simons: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Culture-Sacred-Listens-Leadership/dp/1732841403 Women Donors Network: https://womendonors.org/ Daughters for Earth: https://daughtersforearth.org/ The Burning Times film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burning_Times Solidaire: https://solidairenetwork.org/ Fritjof Capra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritjof_Capra Zainab Salbi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainab_Salbi RELATED INTERVIEWS Kenny Ausubel (Bioneers): https://youtu.be/e_1bnUAro0g Lynne Twist (Pachamama Alliance): https://youtu.be/p3yb1jJ48cI Justin Winters (One Earth): https://youtu.be/XWWI0mOBJUc This interview took place during Bioneers 2023: https://bioneers.org SOCIAL Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/maearth X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/maearthmedia Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/maearth.lens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maearthmedia/ Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/maearth.eth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth/ Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/maearth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maearthcommunity TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maearthmedia

This interview with Nina Simons is filled to the brim with yummy wisdom and  beauty! Nina has such a deep, embodied, heart-centred understanding of social and racial injustice and inequality, and shares with such grace about moving beyond her own experience of white privilege and conditioning to better understand the highly nuanced, daily experiences that people of colour go through. She also talks about the wisdom of our bodies; the significance of bio-diversity of life; Mama Earth as a sentient being; mentorship by species other than human; what it means to be a leader in times of change and to build allyship across seeming divisions; sacred activism and the call for greater humility, the ongoing extinction burst, as well as the multi-layered impact of the Burning Times that continues to impact us in so many ways.  Nina's book: Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership Nina's website (Bioneers)Support the showThank you for listening! To hang out with me and the speakers, join us in our private Sacred Feminine Power FB group.Learn more about Emmi's work at Feminine Revered. And to book a complimentary Sacred Energy Activation session with Emmi, click here.

About CaliCali White is an ancestral healing practitioner focused on healing the generational wounds rooted in the European Witch Hunts of 1450-1750. Her work is born out of her own ancestral journey of enquiry, including a 13 moon pilgrimage around the UK and Ireland which she undertook in 2019 as a way of deepening her own ancestral connections. Guided by "spirit" she gathered women in ceremony every full moon to honour the women persecuted as witches and to bring healing to the collective trauma patterns of separation. This led to a pioneering month-long exhibition called, "I Am Witch-Tales from the Roundhouse" in Lancaster UK in 2022, which is being followed this year by a 4-day festival of history and healing called "The Witches' Revival." She believes that ancestral connection is a key to health and wellbeing and is passionate about helping others reclaim their ancestral powers!My links are:www.thewitcheshouse.orgwww.loveisourpower.comAbout AntheaLondon-based Anthea Durand is a shamanic practitioner, alchemist, and nonfiction writer. An authority and expert on ancestral healing, she holds regular meetings with prominent genetic scientists. The aim is to commission a scientific study in the future, using the theme of epigenetics to show the influence of ancestral healing on gene behaviour, and also the influence of sounds on healing.Anthea published her first book, Illumination of the Shadow, Ancestral Wisdom From the Past for the Future on June 25th 2020, this is based on her pioneering ancestral healing work, which illuminates humanity's shadow, and discusses all the ancestral shadow aspects which can feed into a persons reality. This book has won 3 international awards, including the New York Big Book Award 2020. She teaches regular workshops including in ancestral healing and training others to be Ancestral practitioners.website https://www.shamanismandevolvingconsciousness.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Raquel and Jennifer are joined by Nina Simons - co-founder of Bioneers, and a social entrepreneur passionate about reimagining leadership, restoring balance to the feminine and masculine, and helping to heal relations with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. She is also the author of Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership where she offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership on behalf of positive change.How to reach Nina:www.ninasimons.comwww.bioneers.orgMentioned in this episode:The Burning Times - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ow_kNnoroLet Raquel and Jennifer know what you think about this and other episodes of Madness Cafe on IG @madnesscafepodcast or by email at madnesscafepodcast@gmail.com.And don't forget to rate and review the show wherever you listen!Thanks for listening and responding!

Beth Bartlett, Ph.D, is an educator, author, activist and spiritual companion.  She returns to the show today discussing how the Burning Times of yesteryear actually still affects women today.  I'll ask her about this historical trauma and how it operates in the world and why healing from trauma requires a spiritual response.  We'll delve into feminist spirituality and how that movement is a valuable part of this healing, particularly the reclamation of the immanence of the Divine.  Lots to talk about today, including the importance of Carol Christ's piece, Why Women Need the Goddess - as well as the world.  You can check out her previous appearance on the show on February 15 when we discussed Restoring Sisterhood. Beth is Professor Emerita of Women, Gender and sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the author of numerous books and articles, including Journey of the Heart: Spiritual Insights on the Road to a Transplant, Rebellious Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought, and Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.  She's been active in feminist, peace and justice, and rights of nature and climate justice movemts, and has been a committed advocate for water protectors.  

When someone says to me, “would you like to have a conversation about nature, culture and the sacred?” - the answer is always YES, which is how this interview came to be. Today, I get to share a conversation with the dynamic author, leader and organizer, Nina Simons.Nina is the Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. ​She authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—which was released as a second edition in June 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Gold Nautilus awards in the categories of women, intersectionality and social justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms. In this conversation, we talk aboutMeditation as the subtlest form of self-loveArchetypal feminine vs gendered feminine and why this is what is missing from our worldThe intertwining of the sacred and activismGenerational traumaThe overlapping crisis of our time - indigenous issues, racial equity, gender balance and the environmental crisisNina also references a documentary, The Burning Times, that changed the trajectory of her life. You can watch The Burning Times here: https://youtu.be/34ow_kNnoroLearn more about Nina and her work here: https://www.ninasimons.com/Learn more about Bioneers here: https://bioneers.org/Special thanks to today's sponsor: Baronfig - Baronfig's line of “Tools for Thinkers” includes guided journals, notebooks, writing instruments, bags, accessories, and so much more. As an avid journaler, I am obsessed with their guided meditation journal, dream journal and their basic Confidant notebooks! Get one for yourself at baronfig.com and use code MindfulMinute to save 10% on your order by April 27. Trust me, it's worth it!Sign up for my newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dBYEUL to receive free mini meditations each month, creative musings, and more.Make a donation or learn more about my free offerings and live classes by visiting merylarnett.com.IG: @merylarnett #meditatewithmeryl

NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers and leads its Everywoman's Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms. I recently had the gift of sitting with author, speaker and social justice advocate, Nina Simons. Starting with how one of the patriarchy's primary tactics for maintaining dominant control is to prevent women from discovering their full potential as leaders provided a rich and potent conversation. The patriarchy, justifiably, fears that when women come together in relationships built on trust, they have the power to develop each other's leadership skills profoundly and rapidly. As Nina and I discussed, women are moving past the time of letting the patriarchy's fear become their limitation. As Nina shared from her years of study, a primary contributor to the hyper- masculinization in which we have been living starting with The Burning Times. 300 years of persecution of women has left deep-seated epigenetic trauma that still effects all people of our current generations. As the listener will hear, Nina is unwavering in her hearts knowing that as women break free from the labels that have been bequeathed to them, we will all become the powerful leaders who will transform our world. And Nina is committed to opening new pathways for us to make this our collective reality. Email: nina@bioneers.org Facebook profile https://www.facebook.com/nina.simons Instagram profile @1ninasimons LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-simons/ SPECIAL GIFTS FROM NINA: ninasimons.com. bioneers.org/ncs (for a free download of intro to book) SPECIAL OFFER: 20% discount on registration for Bioneers April 6-8 in Berkeley: Use CODE LM20 in registration

It is time for Mother Earth, women, children, water, and all the qualities of the Feminine to be held in esteem once again.— Andrea MenardWomen's leadership roles are changing from the old patriarchal leadership paradigm to a more feminine-inflected style that focuses on a well-rounded, healthier approach to business and community. They show up in the world with integrity, creativity, and a willingness to collaborate and communicate. But even more importantly, Feminine leaders have emotional intelligence. They use their skills in emotional expression, communication and implementation to raise and diffuse any situation. Emotional intelligence quickly being recognized for its importance in the work place and the world we live in today I am thrilled to have this inspiring conversation with Nina Simons: Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman's Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. She authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership released the 2nd edition in 2022 with discussion guides and embodied practices, the first won two Nautilus awards. We will be doing a deep dive into this book on how women can create positive change through embracing thier feminine and leading from the heart.What you will Learn:About co-founding Bioneers and how Nina's being awarded led to a self inquiry on what it means to be a leader as a woman (6:13)Cultivating Leadership Intensives stories of transformation (12:40)"The Burning Times" 300 year dark history, the persecution of women and how the effects are still being felt today (17:04)How epigenetics is showing how trauma is being passed on through the lineages (20:34)A simple self love ritual to pour love into your body (25:18)Questions to ask to develop a clear assessment of your gifts (41:57)The call for the Men as well (50:26)Resources:Book: Nature, Culture & the Sacred Book: MoonriseFilm: The Burning TimesConnect with Nina:WebsiteBioneersInstagramFacebookLinkedin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode we're talking about one of the staples of Halloween, and that would be witches! We explore the history and legends of witches and find out how the real life accused were caught in a terrible tragedy of human history, all the way through current day interpretations of witches. On What We're Watching, we review the 2022 Drama/Suspense show “The Midnight Club,” based on the works of Christopher Pike! And on Layla and Coffee talk, we talk about Layla's visit to the vet. Find us on the web: www.scarysavannahandbeyond.com We now have exclusive content on our Patreon page! This includes audio and video episodes! Please go check it out at: www.patreon.com/scarysavannah Please leave us a 5 star review, and we'll read it on air! You can find a link to do this on our webpage, just click on the links tab. If you do, send us a message through the contact form on our webpage, let us know, and we'll send you some free Scary Savannah stickers! Make sure to enter our monthly merchandise giveaway! It's totally free and you can win a shirt or coffee mug! Find the link on the giveaway tab on our website. Give us a call and leave a voicemail about a story idea, a message for the podcast, or if you in fact are affiliated with Big Witch, (we'll play it on the show!) ph. 912-406-2899 Get some goods at our awesome merch store! We have a huge sale going on through October to celebrate spooky season! https://scarysavannah.square.site Visit us on social media: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/scarysavannah Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scarysavannah Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarysavannah YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/scarysavannah Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scarysavannah LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scarysavannahandbeyond You can follow the show creators on Twitter as well! Brett: https://www.twitter.com/brettlay Crystal: https://www.twitter.com/aquablonde27

When Heinrich Kramer comes to town you have three days to admit your sins. This is the inquisition and Frater Kramer has a book he's written called Malleus Maleficarum: The Hammer of Witches. Inside this book is detailed all the ways you will be inevitably proven guilty of witchraft, the spells and magick you used, what tortures you deserve and, most absurdly, how everything that is about to be done to you is legal. Welcome to The Burning Times.  What happens next is up to Kramer.This week we discuss:-Gendered and Racial “Otherness”-Ancient Witchcraft-Code of Hamurabi-Fake Canadian Witch Laws-Old Testament Witches-Jesus Accused of Witchcraft-Burning of the Cathars-Papal Bull of 1258-Heinrich Kramer-The Malleus Malifcarum-Joan of Arc-How Succubi and Incubi use SemenIn the FULL EPISODE available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go even further to discuss:-Medieval Demonology-Making Penises Dissapear!-Witch Powers-How the Devil Initiates a Witch-Torture Methods Used-Witch Repellant-African Witch HuntsWhere to find The Whole Rabbit:YouTube: https://youtu.be/z4DL6BFdzfMMerch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/thewholerabbit/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitMusic By:Spirit Travel Plazahttps://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:Malleus Maleficarum:https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/35002/341393.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbGf1HGaSg&t=2076shttps://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/mm02a04a.htmCathars:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883611/#:~:text=The%20Cathars%20are%20among%20the,the%20stake%20on%20huge%20pyres.Torture Devices and Methods During the European Witch Trials:https://books.google.bj/books?id=9IQ-AAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&lr=and:https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11823268African Witch Hunts in Modern Times:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19437130Canadian Fake Witches:https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-365-20030101.htmland :https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/witchcraft-criminal-code-charge-1.4951071Support the show

Today we are talking with a very special guest, one who is creating truly healing, inspiring and powerful work. Her current work is The Medicine Spoon Memorial, which we will be delving into today, where she explores ancestral healing, the healing of The Burning Times and how to heal creatively. Caren Thompson is a woman of the land. Exploring and finding her way as an artist, maker and creator. Joining us all the way from the UK is artist, creator and maker Caren Thompson - thank you so much for joining us today! Find more on The Medicine Spoon Memorial below Website -The Silver Spoons Collective - The Medicine Spoon Memorial Facebook @medicinespoonmemorial Instagram @medicinespoonmemorial Connect with Caren Thompson Website-Made on the Moors Instagram @madeonthemoors Support Turns Out Network Here Visit Asha Moon, and Shannon Cotterill websites. Have a witchy question to ask? Get in touch, we would love to hear from you! tospsychic@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @turnsout_shesawitch Presented by Shannon Cotterill & Laura Turner. Production & original music by Matt Turner @turnzout_media

In this 1 hour episode Cali White shares her journey of exploring ancestral and collective trauma with a focus on the Burning Times. Throughout 2019 she travelled the UK and Ireland on a life-changing 13 Moon pilgrimage, exploring her indigenous roots found in the Neolithic stone circles and burial chambers, and following ancestral guidance to gather women in 13 Full Moon ceremonies to honour the Ancestors of the Witch Hunts of 1450-1750 and help heal the inherited trauma passed down through over 20 generations. Cali believes that ancestral connection and understanding is vital to our health and wellbeing. Her pilgrimage journey led to guiding a group of 32 women, known as the Silver Spoons Collective, through a creative process which explored more deeply the ancestral wounds of the Burning Times. This work was woven together into an experiential healing exhibition, "I AM WITCH - Tales from the Roundhouse" which ran at The Storey in Lancaster throughout January 2022 attracting 3000 visitors.

https://geminimoonpress.com For a long time it wasn't safe for women, healers, and lightworkers to be seen or heard, and while we often immediately think of the Burning Times, the truth is that our silence has continued to be kept and encouraged through the evolution of modern society. So much of the innate wisdom that was passed down through the ages has been lost and continues to be lost through suppression and disconnection from our inner knowing and awareness of the intertwining of the natural rhythms throughout our bodies and into the world around us. Gemini Moon Press seeks to provide a safe platform for women to speak their truth and share their stories—but even more than that, heal the sisterwounds that have kept us separate and hoarding our wisdom as secret for fear of betrayal, criticism, and judgement. Our collaborative book projects are carefully curated to ensure that all contributors are energetically aligned to inspire, empower and lift each other.

https://youtu.be/JXp1pdUt9MQ  https://geminimoonpress.com For a long time it wasn't safe for women, healers, and lightworkers to be seen or heard, and while we often immediately think of the Burning Times, the truth is that our silence has continued to be kept and encouraged through the evolution of modern society. So much of the innate wisdom that was passed down through the ages has been lost and continues to be lost through suppression and disconnection from our inner knowing and awareness of the intertwining of the natural rhythms throughout our bodies and into the world around us. Gemini Moon Press seeks to provide a safe platform for women to speak their truth and share their stories—but even more than that, heal the sisterwounds that have kept us separate and hoarding our wisdom as secret for fear of betrayal, criticism, and judgement. Our collaborative book projects are carefully curated to ensure that all contributors are energetically aligned to inspire, empower and lift each other.

Healing the Witch Wound is some of the deepest and most relevant work I have done thus far in my healing journey. On today's episode of the Ambitchious Podcast, we are going to talk about The Burning Times. What is the Witch Wound? How it shows up and manifests in today's days and times and of course how to heal it if you are afflicted with it.  This podcast is all about redefining the word “bitch” from a derogatory one to the acronym Being In Total Control of Herself. Katie Boyd will teach you how to use the very stones thrown at you to power your purpose and build your empire. You and only you can create and curate a life of happiness, abundance and magic. Join Katie for some truth bombs, life tools, laughs and spiritual smack talk. If you want personal empowerment with respect to your lifestyle, spirituality, health, fitness, and nutrition this is the podcast for you! Ambitchious Buddy Week:  http://bit.ly/AmbitchiousAcademyBuddyWeek Clarity Call:  http://calendly.com/Ambitchious/claritycall Go to http://www.ambitchiousacademy.com/ to learn all about Ambitchious Academy and join today. Head to kbmfc.com for the inside scoop on everything Ambitchious. Check out the Bitch Box at https://www.kbmfc.com/ambitchious-bitch-box-book-and-bundle/ If you love this podcast, we invite you to join our Ambitchious community over at https://ambitchious.mn.co

Brick and Cindy talk about the horrific tests women were put through to prove they were witches.  Most of these are not even passable and all of them are torturous.  Article referenced in this episode:https://www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-testsThis is our last episode together since Brick needed to get a "real job" and start full time work.  She may still guest host on occasion but join me in wishing her all the best!  She is still in the Facebook group as an admin and interacts with us when she can.  Love you, Brick!www.TrueHauntings.comwww.Patreon.com/TrueHauntingswww.Facebook.com/groups/TrueHauntings/Etsy - TrueHauntingsShopTwitter - @TrueHauntingz 

Cali can be described by many titles including Eco-Therapist, Ancestral Healing Practitioner, Artist, Producer and more recently Creator of The Silver Spoons CollectiveHowever it wasn't where she started out. She spent the first 13 years of her adult life working for a large American multinational company and climbing the corporate ladder to burnout! Her interest in people development led to a change in direction and 13 years training in complementary therapies, transpersonal and eco-psychotherapy, and ancestral healing. Her transformational coaching and women's empowerment programs have helped transform the lives of hundreds of women.Since 2018 Cali has been exploring ancestral and collective trauma with a focus on the Burning Times. Throughout 2019 she spent a life-changing year travelling around the UK/Ireland, exploring her indigenous roots found in the Neolithic stone circles and burial chambers, and hosting workshops to help women heal the inherited trauma passed down through over 20 generations since the European Witch Hunts of 1450-1750. In her recent role as Head of Business Partnerships for TreeSisters, she managed the charity's Partnership programmes, working with businesses to embed reforestation into sustainable business models. She was passionate about taking the TreeSisters' Feminine-Based Leadership model out into the Corporate world to support humanity's evolution from a consumer to a restorer species, and was instrumental in helping the charity reach 20 million trees planted worldwide, via her work generating corporate donations.Cali believes that ancestral connection and understanding is vital to our health and wellbeing. Alongside her work at TreeSisters, she has been guiding a group of 32 women through a creative healing process and is now working full-time on curating this work into a month long experiential and educational exhibition called, I Am Witch – Tales from the Roundhouse, at the Storey Institute, Lancaster in January 2022.She now lives near Coniston in the Lake District and can be contacted on Facebook or her Website, Love is Our Power. The I am Witch Exhibition is in Lancaster January 2022, more details check out The Silver Spoons Collective websiteMy passion is Inspiring Women to Inspire Women. So if you love these podcasts, please share them with those you love, and if you can leave me a review. It helps me to reach more women. And you can Join the UnMasking the Feminine Community here.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RachaelT)

Then Belonging Podcast episode is about adult friendships — how to cultivate them and why they're so dang hard to create and maintain. I dedicate a whole chapter to community in my book, Root & Ritual, particularly as it relates to friendships, but it's one of the topics I get asked about most, so I thought I'd bring it here to the podcast as well. I share about the importance of human connection (even if you're an introvert), making meaningful connections, feeling mistrust in building new relationships, the practice of fertile listening and witnessing, the lingering effects of the Burning Times, disclosure and agreements, not only using social media to keep up with friends, and making new friends in a new place.Find show notes for this episode here: https://beccapiastrelli.com/adult-friendships/My book Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self is now available wherever books are sold! My intention with this book is for it to be your guide to reconnecting with the earth, your ancestors, and your communities as you come home to your whole self. Despite our best efforts, our modern world leaves so many of us feeling isolated, unworthy, and alone. We're unrooted from the land, untethered from our lineages, disconnected from our communities, and separated from our deepest sense of self. Root & Ritual is meant to be a pathway back to connection and wholeness through rituals, recipes, and ancestral wisdom. Find more information at: http://rootandritualbook.com/Follow Becca on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/

Merry Meet Witchy people! In the Southern Hemisphere we are approaching Litha, the Summer Solstice or the Feast of the Faeries, and so Lucy put together a special blessed being on how the faeries can connect with us, and help us with our wellbeing. There’s Cauldron answers to questions about when the veils thin, the process of Oracle Card Publishing, and why one listener had a special interaction with Dragonfly and Bee. Lucy brings news of the Japanese tradition of Doll Funerals - and of why dolls are so often considered to be alive and ensoulled. There’s an update on the forthcoming the forthcoming Scottish Apology to the Witches of the Burning Times, and why celebrities (looking at you, Jennifer Aniston and Paris Jackson) starting covens and going public with their Witchcraft gets so poo-pooed - when it may not be a bad thing at all. There’s brilliant music in this episode - rock out to Amulet by Seawitch (the lyrics - Fiona Horne, you are a word witch indeed), and be enchanted by not one but TWO Wendy Rule songs to take you far away from the mundane and into the realms of the elementals. It’s a joyous Witchcast this week, magickal ones, and Lucy would LOVE to have your company in the sonic sacred circle. If you are feeling love for the Witchcast please do leave a rating or a review on iTunes, or Spotify, or wherever you get the Witchcast. It make a huge difference - very grateful for the support.Songs: Amulet - SeawitchAre You Coming With Us - Wendy Rule and Gary StadlerThe Infinite Shore - Wendy Rule and Gary StadlerThankyou to the sponsors of the Witchcast - Kohli Tea, Primal Healing, Blue Angel Publishing and our new sponsor, Hemlock and Dagger by Kellie Pixie Ashton.Thankyou as always to Georgia Allison, to Shayne Brian for his production magick, and to ALL the PATREON supporters - you are gems! The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.com Music throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rainSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What it's All About:Believe it or not, there are still Witch Hunts going on in the world today. I am not talking about the figurative ones. I am talking about real-life witch hunts around the world where people are still getting arrested or even killed for practicing witchcraft. I'll mention where these are still happening today. Maybe I will speak about the history of it as well. The Spirit Guide of the week is Ogun. The Dream Symbols are cancer, carnival, and carpet.Songs Featured:1. Burning Times by Charlie Murphy2. Witch Hunt (Still Seeking Sarah) by Inkubus Sukkubus3. No More Burning Times by Shining Wheel Pagan Chorus4. Iron by Within Temptation5. Song of the Witches by S. J. Tucker6. Sweet Magick by Assembly of the Sacred Wheel7. Witch Up! | Cloud The Pagan Rapper (bandcamp.com)8. I Am Pagan by Spiral RhythmLinks Mentioned:- Modern witch-hunts - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_witc…%20witch-hunting- Witches: Real Origins, Hunts & Trials - HISTORY - www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches- Why Europe was overrun by witch hunts in early modern history — Quartz (qz.com) - qz.com/1183992/why-europe-wa…early-modern-history/- The Long, Brutal History of Witch Hunts - WSJ - www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-b…h-hunts-11614877614- List of people executed for witchcraft - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peo…0of%20witchcraft- 7 Bizarre Witch Trial Tests - HISTORY - www.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests- Anna Göldi - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_G%C3%B…%20G%C3%B6ldi%20- 3 women arrested for witchcraft in Chechnya over Halloween weekend - pennlive.com - www.pennlive.com/nation-world/202…een-weekend.html- Modern witch-hunts - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_witc…%20witch-hunting- Witch hunts: A global problem in the 21st century | Africa | DW | 10.08.2020 - www.dw.com/en/witch-hunts-a-gl…-century/a-54495289- The Witches' Excursion - sites.pitt.edu/~dash/witch.html#revenge- Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac - YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5KesH3dzM&t=1s- European Witch Trials and Forgotten History - YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4rYVvKaXI

It's all Hallow's Eve - Oíche Shamhna, The Festival of Samhain - The night when the Ancient Celts believed that the old spirits came back to walk the face of the Earth once a year! Tonight explore the witchy song 'Burning Times', and discuss the burning of witches in the Middle Ages!What did they do about it? Who is Darby O' Gill? Why is Kristian cursing in the Church!? What did Sean Connery sound like with an Irish accent? And wtf is going on with Mr. Jack O' Lantern!?Tune into our 'Toora Halloween Loora' Special for Banshees, Ghosts, Norwegian Leprechauns, lilting, and above all a bit of craic!Try not to be too scared by the two lilters from Clare, Ireland and Horten, County Norway ;)Happy Halloween Everybody!Some Honourable Mentions:Darby O' Gill and The Little People (Trailer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86llfo2AooBurning Times (Christy Moore Version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASORLE6dPYUAll Soul's Night (Loreena McKevitt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RooTTuLCfNM

The witch hurtling through the air on her broomstick is a familiar image around this time of year. So too is the image of the medieval period as full of angry and ignorant peasants roaming around looking for innocent people to accuse of witchcraft (she turned me into a newt!) and burning them at the stake. But is the reputation of the medieval period as the “Burning Times” when 9 million women went to the stake really justified? And just what did medieval people really believe about witches and witchcraft anyway? Find out in this week's episode of Castle Stories as Dave dusts off his grimoire and looks at the medieval witch.

In this episode, Elizabeth travels back to the eras between the 15th and 17th Centuries, a time when witch trials plagued both Europe and colonial-era America.  She also dares to stare into the eyes of the Blair Witch legend and dives deep into its mysteries. Disclaimer: gore, graphic description, phobias, and mentions of psychological illnesses.Social Medias:Instagram: @lizhepburnconnerWattpad: @lizhepburnconnerTikTok: @lizhepburnconner & @thedarktruthpodcastofficialNew Book:The Gilded Age of Youth | Paperback & Pre-order of Ebook (Pre-order Ebook with 33% off until 9/27/2021)  https://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Age-Youth-Härley-Darlin-ebook/dp/B099QFTY7N/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=harley+darlin&qid=1631309818&sr=8-4References:The Legend of the Blair Witch: Myths that Created an Infamous Curse | Ancient Origins https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/legend-blair-witch-myths-created-infamous-curse-006978 The Fear of Witchcraft or Wiccaphobiahttps://www.verywellmind.com/fear-of-witchcraft-2671821How Mass Hysteria is Related to Groupthinkhttps://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-groupthink-2671595

    BURNING TIMES is our 'Song To Chew' today, written and performed by Charlie Murphy, one of the strong clear voices of the early feminist men's movement.  It's about the plight of women in Europe in the Middle Ages, who were labeled as witches by establishment men who feared the influence they had as community organizers.  It's from my "Ebenezer's Make Over' album which is a story with songs by Holly Near, Geof Morgan and many other feminist writers.  There's a wonderful, short book I recommend by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, called "Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History Of Women Healers" that exposes how 'women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.  It explores today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches'.  We can know the facts about historical stories of the past like this, but we don't really understand them until we feel them in our hearts.  I'm Peter Alsop.  Please check out this podcast and subscribe so you can join me every week with other "Songs To Chew".  Bye for now! ~ Subscribe to my Songs To Chew podcast = https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-alsops-songs-to-chew/id1446179156  ~ CAMPING WITH DADS = https://www.amazon.com/Camping-Dads-Peter-Alsop/dp/B08CS871QW/ref=sr_1_1  ~ www.FaceBook.com/WeLikePeterAlsop  ~ Youtube.com/peteralsop = videos ~ Patreon.com/peteralsop = support my music & other artistic endeavors ~ www.peteralsop.com/music  = CDs & downloads

Ann Crawford is a lightworker and an award-winning and bestselling author of six books with a couple more on the way. With her trademark optimism, her life-affirming books weave tales of love and intrigue that take readers on mystical journeys. Her characters live radiant lives touched by magic, an ability Ann believes we all have. In particular, she loves writing about Starseed subjects:       Fresh off the Starship: a romantic comedy about a starbeing sent to help humanity       Life in the Hollywood Lane: about an actor dealing with the suicide of her best friend, but also funny and quirky       Spellweaver: a mystical story about a healer during the Burning Times       Angels on Overtime: a romantic comedy about angels and the humans under their watch       Mary's Message: about Mary Magdalene and Yeshua       Visioning: about manifesting the life of your dreams Her books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. Ann has traveled the world -- to all 50 states and 75 countries so far, including 2 complete circumnavigations of the planet. She has lived "Oh, all over," in every continental time zone, and now she and her husband live in Colorado with a view of the Rocky Mountains out the window. Her hobbies include improv and stand-up comedy. She's also an award-winning documentary filmmaker.  https://anncrawford.net/ You can also connect with her on Instagram @anncrawfordauthor, Twitter @acrawfordbooks, and Facebook @anncrawfordauthor. At the top of the show, it's Anastasia's Starseed News with topics of interest for starseeds!

As I researched the 13 witches for The Return of the Witches pilgrimage, I started learning about the witches in Scotland and sensed deep in my body that Scotland had an essential place in the pilgrimage. I began to read about the Burning Times in Scotland and stumbled upon an organization called Witches of Scotland which is seeking an apology, pardon, and memorial for everyone persecuted as a witch. One of the founders introduced me to Sheila Gaul of RAWS, Remembering Accused Witches of Scotland. When I told Sheila about the pilgrimage, she told me to stop what I was doing and contact Cali White in England immediately. And OH was she right! Cali has done the work: explored the history, found the wounds, led women’s healing circles across the UK and Ireland, and created the Silver Spoons Collective to honor women murdered as witches. In this powerful healing conversation, Cali shares: how the collective unconscious from the Burning Times emerged in her body why she was obsessed with the Standing Rock community in South Dakota what happened at Stonehenge when a voice said, “You have your own ancestors.” what she discovered in her 13 cycle Full Moon ceremony pilgrimage how the vestiges of fear, grief, sadness, rage, and terror still show up hundreds of years later the interconnection between colonialization, Burning Times, and the Land how the Burning Times shattered our natural feminine sisterhood how to find and heal the witch wounds in your body

What it's All About: The idea for this show came from an article by John Beckett on patheos.com. There might be confusion with another cliché, "Fake it, 'til you make it." How does the Imposture Syndrome relate to paganism? Plus do you have that doubt in the back of your mind that you are not worth what you are preaching or teaching? The Spirit Guide of the Week is Anansi. The Dream Symbols are Woman and Wallet. Songs Featured: 1. Creature of the Wood by Tricky Pixies 2. Origin by Leslie Hudson 3. Silly Magic by Ginger Ackley 4. Spider Song by Unto Ashes 5. This Pen by Cloud the Pagan Rapper 6. Pagan Woman by David Wood and Lady Bridwen 7. Mindfulness Guided Meditation by Guided Meditation 8. Burning Times by Inkubus Sukkubus Links Mentioned: - Fighting the Imposture Syndrome - www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett…ws&utm_content=37 - Fake It 'Til You Make It- embraceyouradhd.ca/fake-it-til-you-make-it/ - People Who Brag About Their Paganism and Witchcraft - www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett…h_PAG_ChannelFeed - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome -hbr.org/2008/05/overcoming-im…%20their%20competence

K-State researcher KC Olson discusses the effects of late-summer and early fall burning on Flint Hills rangeland.

Back in 2017 I was made aware that Calvin College's seminary was hosting an event that focused on interfaith/multi-faith engagement that had no hidden agenda of conversion attempts. Needless to say, this intrigued me. It happened that I had to attend a funeral on this particular day; otherwise, I'm sure I would have been there. Fortunately, I was able to make a connection with 2 of the presenters. One of them was John Morehouse. This was a great conversation. John Morehead is our guest. John is the Director of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy and the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies. John is co-editor and contributing author for ‘Encountering New Religious Movements' and editor of ‘Beyond the Burning Times a Pagan and Christian in Dialogue.'

Last week I sat down and had a brilliant conversation with siblings Maeve and Matt Devine. Maeve and Matt have both played in bands like Abandon Ship, Daskinsey4 & Burning Times together. There is also a plethora of other bands that they played in separately, like The Querelles & Turn Cold. It was really interesting talking through so many of the experiences they shared together, and how their perspectives may have varied. we talk about how they grew up playing and learning their instruments together, playing in bands and navigating different punk scenes and so so much more too of course.I hope you all enjoy this. Feel free to hit me up on the socials, im @culturefearX See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

29 October 2020 at 7 pm was the date and time that Episode 11 of season 3 of The Story of Rock and Roll aired.   It was quite a show, unusually chatty and with only one little balls-up which I left in there in the interests of reality. Don't adjust your set after Iced Earth's 'Burning Times' it just takes me 30 seconds to twig that the mic wasn't on :-)  The joys of live radio.  It was a very lively show with plenty of people chatting on the Discord server and on Whatsapp.  We kicked off with 'Majestic' the traditional Journey opener but instead of more Journey, we cracked on with Metallica and Dio.  I started the local stuff early with another track off Johnathan Martin's amazing album Into The Nebulous Night.  Following up with Jack Hammer just made sense.  Punk happened in the form of The Stranglers and The Clash and there was plenty of classic metal and rock such as Iron maiden with 'The Trooper' and Judas priest with 'Hell Bent For Leather'.The highlight for me was Bruce Springsteen with 'If I Was the Priest', as I said he's not called The Boss for nothing.  We also learned how to pronounce Bonamassa and took a listen to a track off his new album called 'Royal Tea'.   All in all, it was good fun and we had a lot of laughs.  Oh P.S. if any of you eve read this I'd like to know because I am not sure if I am wasting my time :-)Artists featured:  Ozzy Osbourne, Journey, Metallica, Dio, The Cult, Social Distortion, Wolfmother, White Zombie, Johnathan Martin, Jack Hammer, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Audioslave, L.A. Guns, Bullet For My Valentine, the Clash, The Stranglers, Armored Saint, Joe Bonamassa, Blue Oyster Cult, Sixx A.M. Pearl Jam, Zakk Wylde, Bruce Springsteen, The Burning, Cold Chisel, Van Halen, Judas Priest. Jorn, Fokofpolisiekar, Kiss, Hanoi Rocks, the Black Crowes, Motörhead. 

Shivers down a Witchy spine! When was the last time a movie really scared you? Lucy found the Witchfinder General, a cult classic of folk horror, one of the most chilling filmic experiences she's had. Not because it's gory, or even particularly "horrifying" - but because it's based on the real-life witch hunts of Witchfinder General of England, Matthew Hopkins - one of the villains of the Burning Times. It is a great film, and so worth seeing, but it still has the ability to get right under a Witches skin…. On an enchanted note, Adrienne Piggot, the talented lead singer of legendary pagan band, Spiral Dance joins the Witchcast to chat to Lucy about Awen, the Old Ways and how she found her heart's path in Druidry. And who knew that the famous Four Thieves Oil has its origins in the plague pandemic of the 1600s - Lucy delves into its history, and shares how you can make your own version of this renowned remedy… Songs are by Spiral Dance because, well, we love them! The Children of Lir, by Spiral Dance, from Land and Legend Spirit of Albion/Wooden Box from Through a Sylvan Doorway - and Damh the Bard appears on this track! King Orfeo, from Land and Legend…a rather bewitching album by Spiral Dance. The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.comMusic throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rainSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Moon peaks in Aquarius this coming week, explore five crystals and essential oils for thriving during this time as well as three important spiritual practices that have become underutilised.FOLLOW ADAMhttps://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralethttps://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and morehttp://www.adambarralet.com/BRING MAGICK HOMEMy books, oracle cards and morehttps://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shopMy monthly online crystal salehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/My favourite essential oilshttps://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterraKEEP IT SIMPLE!All my detailshttp://linktr.ee/adambarralet

A very brief intro to witch history specifically burning times. Thank you to "In praise of shadows" YouTube channel for inspiring this ep with their doc series on witches. Please contact me with any questions or concerns. My youtube: https://youtu.be/-KcjeDFSn-g email:massielnh@gmail.com The doc series by In Praise of Shadows: https://youtu.be/BMbGf1HGaSg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/massiel-hernandez/support

In this podcast learn: Why healing past lives is very important and if often the missing key that helps shift places in your life where you feel blocked or stuck; especially if you've had past-lives of traumatic deaths (such as the Burning Times), genocide, being "owned" by another, or more. How to tell the difference between a past life memory and that which arises from the collective unconscious. Receive a powerful transmission from Divine Mother Sophia which helps you connect to your oversoul and a significant "knowing" of your past lives. Also, receive a grace-filled transmission that helps you align to healing your past lives with ease and grace.

In this episode I'll be discussing some basic facts about witchcraft history and the burning times. I will go over why mythology is an important part of our journey and how to introduce yourself to the gods.

On this installment of the podcast we tackle probably one of the more controversial topics in the modern witchcraft movement: The Burning Times. What were the actual “Burning Times,” where […]

On this installment of the podcast we tackle probably one of the more controversial topics in the modern witchcraft movement: The Burning Times. What were the actual “Burning Times,” where […]

Millennial Pagan Podcast Episode 36! This episode, Jera and Autumn talk with returning guest Tim Shafer about what led up to the “Burning Times”. This episode is history-heavy on the who and the why in Europe that led up to one of the most historically remembered government sanctioned mass murders of innocents.   To follow Tim and Far From Home:  https://twitter.com/werfarfromhome, https://www.facebook.com/WeRFarFromHome/   To follow Millennial Pagan Podcast https://www.facebook.com/MillennialPaganPodCast/, https://twitter.com/MillennialPagan, and Instagram @paganpod. Email us at millennialpaganpod@gmail.com.   To find Jera: https://twitter.com/JeraStone.   To find Autumn: https://twitter.com/AutumnIronWolf, https://www.facebook.com/autumn.wolfe.9216, and https://ironwolfcircle.wordpress.com/.   #millennialpaganpodcast #millennialpaganpod #millennialpagan #mpp #paganpod #wearefarfromhome #farfromhomepresents #burningtimes #witchtrials #history 

Millennial Pagan Podcast Episode 35! This episode, Jera and Autumn talk with returning guest Tim Shafer about what led up to the “Burning Times”. This episode is history heavy on the environment of Europe that led up to one of the most historically remembered government sanctioned mass murders of innocents.   To follow Tim and Far From Home: https://mobile.twitter.com/werfarfromhome   To follow Millennial Pagan Podcast https://www.facebook.com/MillennialPaganPodCast/, https://twitter.com/MillennialPagan, and Instagram @paganpod. Email us at millennialpaganpod@gmail.com.   To find Jera: https://twitter.com/JeraStone.   To find Autumn: https://twitter.com/AutumnIronWolf, https://www.facebook.com/autumn.wolfe.9216, and https://ironwolfcircle.wordpress.com/.   #millennialpaganpodcast #millennialpaganpod #millennialpagan #mpp #paganpod #wearefarfromhome #farfromhomepresents #burningtimes #witchtrials #history

Episode #29: Halloween Homecoming 2019 - Part 1 ...with special guest Amy (AmylynnAmylynn). Kat discusses spooky Fort Ticonderoga, Amy tells the tale of "The Trick or Treat Slaying", and Leslie educates the masses on The Burning Times, and what would get you accused of being a Witch, and consequently executed. 

Yes! I pronounce "Malleus" wrongly quite a few times. I assure you, nobody cringed more than myself while editing the show. If you care to take pitty on us, there is always the option of becoming at "bunny" on our Patreon for $5 / month. You'll get all these episodes a few days early, our high res art-work, a shout-out and, of course, ONE EXTRA SHOW A MONTH! Besides, you'll be helping some idiots afford more chances to make better shows...THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM The notorious best-seller next to the Bible for over 200 years!Why? Because the infamous "Hammer of Witches" text not only outlines all the fantastic ways to hunt down, torture and ultimately snuff out witches it details the following:-How to take an Oath to The Prince of Darkness in person. -How to obtain the favors and powers of The Devil.-What demons rule over what sin?-Demons don't live in Hell? wait, WTF?-Where do incubi and succubi get all the juice to make babies?-Who empowers witches, demons, Satan, God or both? -How can you tell when The Devil is aiding a torture subject?-How ought you to torture a suspect of witchcraft anyway?-Can witches make you go flaccid? HINT: "YES THEY CAN!" and so much more... We're not historians but we DID read the source document so, by-golly, we're gonna tell you what we thought about it. The Malleus Maleficarum was the creation of a frustrated Dominican priest who, upset that he was unable to persecute women the way he wanted, retired to write the Malleus and lobby for official papal recognition of the witchcraft problem. In short; this snowballed to create a legacy of witch burning and persecuting the innocent that would spread, as madness does, cropping up here and there, for hundreds of years - always with the Malleus Maleficarum as its justification. If you would like to support the show please subscribe to our Patreon for just $5 a month. Members get episodes before anyone else, a members-only show each month and of course, a shout-out at the end. https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmocfH13BzwsAb62xmp-LAiTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-rabbit/id1457163771Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVGooglePlay:https://play.google.com/music/podcasts/portal/u/0#p:id=playpodcast/series&a=1274929319Stiwtcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/buzzsprout-158/the-whole-rabbit?refid=stprInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/Twitter:https://twitter.com/h4ckrabbitSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)

Female friendships are bitchy, competitive and not to be trusted right? After all, that's what society has told us for decades now.But what if that's all a lie? What if those are ideas that go right the way back to the witch trials of old when women had to compete against one another - not just for success or popularity but for their lives, and the lives of the people they loved?Reflecting on the witch wound, stereotypes and the personal experiences that are typical for so many of us, join Ceryn for a deep dive into the subject of relationships - particularly friendships between those who identify as women, as we re-think the concept of friendship through a Divine Feminist lens.Episode notes There are countless books and other information sources available on the witch wound. Some of my favourites are:The Burning Times documentary, available to watch here.The work of Starhawk, whose website can be found here.Witch by Lisa Lister, available here.Roxane Gay quote from Bad Feminist, available here.Caitlin Moran quote from How to be a Woman, available here.Music is Start again, copyright Alex (2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here.If you want to know more about working with Ceryn, and about Soul-Led Therapy, her approach to talking therapies, click here.

A young, righteous man in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1500s is drawn into hell-on-earth and erotica when his wife is falsely accused of witchcraft and is hanged as the real witches seek him out, indulging in taboo delights.

Welcome to Ask A Medium, where Intuitive Medium and Occult Specialist Rachel Stiles answers your questions about relationships, loved ones from beyond and the paranormal. Call now for FREE (long distance calls may incur local charges) at +1-204-417-GLOW (4569).The Holocaust of women is what the Witch Trials were referred to in the old days, Rachel gives more insight on that awful period of time. Can mediums read a death clock? Relationship and job questions, and the weekly tarot card pull. If you'd like to learn more about the Witch Trials, check out The Burning Times.Book a live reading with Rachel if you live in the Greater Winnipeg Area by visiting her website RisingMoon.caSocial Media:Visit Rachel on InsatagramCheck out more great Podcasts on the SafetyNetStudio.com podcast network!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/safetynetstudio)

On this episode of, The Sofa King Podcast we peel back the blinds and howl at the moon as we undress each other and talk about Werewolves.Come witness the tales of modern-day werewolf hunters, some history lessons on the Burning Times, Castle Times, and scratch a shared itch as we try to figure out why South America has Wereopposum legends and myths. We take a look at a few different regions and their werewolf beliefs and traditions and discuss a handful of 30,000 executions that happened in France where much like witches the accused werewolf was tortured and burned at the stake. Did you know that Lapland has Werereindeer? No? Then come learn a thing or two and explore with us the history and myths surrounding one of the earliest tales of man and monster. We also discover that Terry (who we invited onto the podcast to fill in for Dave out of the goodness of our hearts) hasn’t ever truly listened to a single episode of the podcast. Come witness the wild ways of the werewolf and also witness the firing of our first guest host as we dive deep into the lunacy of the Lycanthrope.

You can access the transcript for this interview here. This interview was originally conducted by Alison Ramsay and Clare Dakin as part of our Back to the Wild series. You can access the other interviews in this series by choosing "Natural Lifestyle" at WISHRadio.com. What exactly is a woman? How do we describe the feminine principle? With over 3,000 media messages per day, the majority directed specifically at women telling us how to look, think, be, what to wear, how to make him want you more, how to be successful, slim, funny and fabulous, it’s no wonder there is a lot of confusion, convolution, frustration and depression from both sexes. For the last few centuries the feminine has fallen into the background of a masculine driven patriarchal world, devalued and even used. This has created a deep imbalance on a micro and macro level of our lives. So how can we restore this balance and accelerate the revaluing of the feminine, which we desperately need right now? Just like we can look to nature and the wild to restore our physical health, we can also look to nature to restore the balance of the sexes and the balance in how we interact with the natural world. I am so thrilled to welcome one of my most favorite women ever. Someone who I am privileged and honored to know and share with, and one of the most soulful and courageous women I have ever met. She founded the women-powered global reforestation campaign, TreeSisters, after being delivered a life-changing message in a car crash. She is here to talk with us about nature and the feminine, the importance of environmental stewardship and the audacious campaign that will change the world – TreeSisters. Clare Dakin ... is here to talk with us about nature and the feminine, the importance of environmental stewardship and the audacious campaign that will change the world Dear, dear Clare Dakin. Thank you so much for being here to get a little wild with us today. In this interview, you'll discover: What is the sacred feminine, and how can we tap into it! What really happened during the "Burning Times" and how does it affect our confidence as women still. What can we understand about the power of our menstrual cycles. The most empowering thing every woman needs to know about her relationship to the moon. The unsuspecting start to Clare Dakin's Tree Sisters and their mission! And much, much more about how to tap into the power of the sacred feminine! You can learn more about Clare Dakin and her work with the Tree Sisters here!

Lucy Cavendish joins us to share the vast and fascinating history of Witches and Wizards. She reveals the real-life stories of the most notorious and powerful occult personalities of all time including amazing stories behind the legends: from King Arthur's Merlin to the infamous Aleister Crowley, right through to the modern icons of Witchcraft. Shining light on the Salem witch trials, the Burning Times, the Magickal Battle of Britain, and beyond. http://www.lucycavendish.com.au/ https://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Cavendish/e/B004MWL1BE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lucy Cavendish joins us to share the vast and fascinating history of Witches and Wizards. She reveals the real-life stories of the most notorious and powerful occult personalities of all time including amazing stories behind the legends: from King Arthur's Merlin to the infamous Aleister Crowley, right through to the modern icons of Witchcraft. Shining light on the Salem witch trials, the Burning Times, the Magickal Battle of Britain, and beyond. http://www.lucycavendish.com.au/ https://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Cavendish/e/B004MWL1BE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join KaliSara and RevKess as they address some of the headlines from across the country and around the globe in this edition of the Pagan Weekly News. Warnings of what Trump could do as early as day one have been trumpeted through the headlines (or praised, depending on the media source); solar energy can (and does) produce more enough than enough; rumblings of 2020 are already niggling at liberals and progressives alike. All of this, and much more as well as KaliSara's News in a Flash. While you are listening, check out Laura Tempest Zakroff's post on Patheos.com about using art to convey a deep message: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tempest/2016/12/burning-times-fire-drills.html

What is the biggest challenge facing today's Fifth Dimensional women? What is the Mother Wound and how does it hold us back? How do we get 'initiated' without ancient temples? Plus: Matriarchy vs Patriarchy! Women in the Ice Age (and Burning Times)! Why gender doesn't matter! Feminist spirituality! 'Stunted girl' energy! The original Virgins! It's […] The post 04 GODDESS WOUNDS appeared first on Soul Doctor.

To learn more about Butterflies of Wisdom visit http://butterfliesofwisdom.weebly.com/ Be sure to FOLLOW this program https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wins-women-of-wisdom/id1060801905. To find out how Win walk and about Ekso go to http://www.bridgingbionics.org/, or email Amanda Boxtel atamanda@bridgingbionics.org.   On Butterflies of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles and Juan Carlos Gill welcomes Starhawk. Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality.  She is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development for film and television.  http://www.thefifthsacredthing.com/ Starhawk’s most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Forthcoming in winter of 2015 is City of Refuge, the long-awaited sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing. Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. The Spiral Dance has been continuously in print for thirty years and revised twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for nonfiction in 1988. Starhawk’s first novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, won the Lambda award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Many of Starhawk’s political essays were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, which won a 2003 Nautilus Award from the trade association NAPRA. Her first picture book for children, The Last Wild Witch, earned a silver Nautilus from NAPRA in 2010. Starhawk is one of the prominent leaders in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work in close collaboration with the Reclaiming community. Her archives are maintained at the Graduate Theological Union Library in Berkeley, California. In the late ’80s, she consulted on and co-wrote the popular trio of films known as the Women’s Spirituality Series, directed by Donna Read Cooper for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. The trilogy was in the top ten of sales and rentals for the Film Board for over a decade.Starhawk and Donna Read Cooper formed their film company, Belili Productions, to make documentaries on women and the earth. Their first release was Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar who made major discoveries about the Goddess cultures of Old Europe. Starhawk and Donna’s second documentary, Permaculture: The Growing Edge, was released in 2010. Starhawk has also made several short documentaries which can be found on YouTube: The Spiral Dance Ritual, Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance: Three Decades of Magic,  and Permaculture Principles at Work, with nearly 200,000 views. Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. She is a founder of Earth Activist Trainings (EAT), teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and activism.  Together with Charles Williams and others, she co-teaches EAT courses in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She also champions ‘social permaculture’: the application of permaculture principles to social organizations, policy, and strategy. Since its first course in May of 2001, Earth Activist Trainings has graduated over 1000 students who now shepherd projects that range from community power-down strategies in Iowa City to water catchment programs in Bolivia, from inner city gardens in San Francisco to programs in the West Bank of Palestine. Starhawk’s tapes and CDs include “Wicca for Beginners” (2002), “Wiccan Rituals and Blessings” (2003), and a four-CD set “Earth Magic” (2006), all produced by Sounds True. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from U.C.L.A. In 1973, as a graduate student in Film at U.C.L.A, Starhawk won the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award. She received an M.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Feminist Therapy from Antioch University West in 1982. She has taught in many Bay Area colleges and universities, including John F. Kennedy University, Antioch West, the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, and Wisdom University. She is presently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.Starhawk travels internationally, lecturing and teaching permaculture, earth-based spirituality and ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends.  But much of her time is spent on Golden Rabbit Ranch in Western Sonoma County, where together with land manager Charles Williams she is developing a model of carbon-sequestering ranching, incorporating holistic management rotational grazing with sheep and goats, restorative forestry, food forests and perennial systems. To learn more aboutStarhawk visit http://www.starhawk.org/. To find out more about Win Kelly Charles visit https://wincharles.wix.com/win-charles. Please send feedback to Win by email her at winwwow@gmail.com, or go to http://survey.libsyn.com/winwisdom andhttp://survey.libsyn.com/thebutterfly. To be on the show, please fill out the intake athttp://bit.ly/1MLJSLG. To look at our sponsorship go to https://ssekodesigns.com/buttfly?acc=537d9b6c927223c796cac288cced29df. To learn about the magic of Siri go to https://www.udemy.com/writing-a-book-using-siri/?utm_campaign=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email. If you want to donate Butterflies of Wisdom, please send a PayPal donation toaspenrosearts@gmail.com. Please send a check in the mail so 100% goes to Bridging Bionics Foundation.    In the Memo section have people write: In honor of Win Charles.    Send to:  Bridging Bionics Foundation  PO Box 3767 Basalt, CO 81621   Thank you Win  

At this powerful Equinox[!] Caroline welcomes long-time ally, Starhawk (“Build a city of refuge in the heartland of the enemy.”) Starhawk is the author of 12 books on earth-based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, City of Refuge and The Empowerment Manual. Through her work with Regenerative Culture, Earth-based Spirituality, and Permaculture  Earth Activist Trainings, Starhawk is one of the leaders in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. In the late '80s she consulted and co-wrote the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality Series, directed by Donna Read Cooper for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle.   Find more about Starhawk on her website and on Facebook.   The post The Visionary Activist Show – Caroline Hosts Starhawk appeared first on KPFA.

Today I discuss witchcraft's more modern history - specifically Wicca's origins - and the disturbing trend of perpetuating wiccan mythology as real history! From the mythology of The Burning Times, to Gerald Gardner and the invention of Wicca, to Doreen Valiente's cateye glasses, the Lady Liberty League, Wiccan Prisoners, Silver Ravenwolf, and even The Craft, we're exploring the real history of Witchcraft in the 20th century. The Blog: http://thefatfeministwitch.wordpress.com Facebook: The Fat Feminist Witch Twitter: @fatfemnistwitch Instagram: FatFeministWitch Pinterest: FatFemnistWitch FatFeministWitch@gmail.com Happy Holidays to all of my listeners!

Betsy Chasse is an internationally known author, filmmaker, and speaker.  She's the co-creator of the film What the Bleep Do We Know?! and the author of 3 books, including Tipping Sacred Cows, Metanois - A Transformative Change of Heart and the companion book to What the Bleep...Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality.  She blogs for Huffington Post, Intent.com and other sites and continues to make films exploring human potential.  In our discussion tonight discussing her book Tipping Sacred Cows, we'll ask Betsy when she realized she didn't have it all figured out, the trends or themes discovered about the stories we tell ourselves and see if Betsy believes she has it all figured out now - including what she's learned about love! Crossing the threshold, Sharon Riegle Maynard is with us discussing A Mystic's View of Goddess which has us delving into perhaps a different view of Goddess and the Burning Times.  Sharon believes we can stand in our present and look back or we can look at the beginning place and look ahead.  We'll discuss how Sharon's quest to go to the cause of humanity's entrapped state of pain was the beginning of a journey that required the capacity of a Mystic....a she sees herself as a curious one at that!

Episode 92 is dedicated to the memory of Danelle Dragonetti aka. WinterHawk. WinterHawk was the founder of WPBN; the Wiccan Pagan Broadcast Network, founder and co-host of Full Circle the first online pagan program that I ever heard.  Long before there were podcasts, there was WinterHawk and Full Circle. She was a musician and recording engineer and a pagan media pioneer. Tonight's first music set is also dedicated to WinterHawk. Dionysus by WychKraft and Hymn to Herne by Sooj, both songs featuring WinterHawk as both player and producer. Thank you, Danelle, you blazed a trail for the rest of us to follow.   Thank you everyone for downloading the show, we are so glad that you did. Tonight, Sparrow updates us on some new research being done at Newgrange and we talk about book religion vs. traditional religion. Shamans, Sorcerers and Saints by B. Hayden Feature album is From the Mist...a retrospective (2010) by Spiral Dance. We play Holly Lord and Burning Times and we end the show with Voodoo Bayou. PodKin Love! Have a cool Yule everyone, please be careful out there!  

Episode 5 of Inciting A Riot: the Podcast!!! Today deals with tough-to-swallow history concerning the modern evolution of paganism as created by a woman named Margaret Murray. The news articles deal with a recent article published on the Wild Hunt concerning Christian license plates and American Big Business fighting to keep slavery alive. The word of the day is "perspicuous." The poem is "Picking." In the main topic we look at Margaret Murray and how she helped to ingrain the incorrect theories of the Burning Times, the Old Religion, and a host of other supposed pagan history into pop culture. Make sure to check out Lizzie's Logic and VOTE FOR THE WIGGLIAN WAY! Also, vote at Podcast Alley and iTunes. (links below) Email the show at IncitingARiotPodcast@gmail.com. Promos played: Valley Witches, Ariel's Druidic Craft of the Wise, and Geek Witch. Love and Lyte, Fire Lyte -- Podbean: http://FireLyte.podbean.com Podcast Alley: http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=86829 iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=337689333 Blog: http://Fire-Lyte.blogspot.com RSS Feed: http://FireLyte.podbean.com/feed

Ariel discusses how the "F" word can give us ultimate power and magical effectiveness. Musical selections: Change the Way Things Are by Gaia Consort off the album Evolve; The Burning Times by Charlie Murphy off the album Ebenezer's Make Over.

Ariel discusses how the "F" word can give us ultimate power and magical effectiveness. Musical selections: Change the Way Things Are by Gaia Consort off the album Evolve; The Burning Times by Charlie Murphy off the album Ebenezer's Make Over.

Welcome to.....The Wigglian Way. Episode 9, thanks for listening. Tonight, Sparrow and Mojo discuss the tricky topic of rumours. We've been the subject, and the monger, it's tough to not take part in it. We also talk about the term 'skyclad'. What it is and why we do it, or don't do it.This evenings first musical artist is Elaine Silver from her album, Faerie Goddess. We hear By the Earth and Burning Times. Our second artist is the great Green Crown. We hear The Witches Reel and Willow's Song. Our special third artist is a local lad, Akashik, please enjoy All But Fine. Please support pagan artists!