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The poetic and deep Samantha Sweetwater joins us to talk about her substantial new work “True Human.” We explore how our a human obsession with power over life (control, separation, and abstraction) has pulled us away from harmony with the power of life itself—and what becomes possible when we return to integrity, sovereignty, and kinship with the living world. This is an invitation to re-enchant your perception, tend your own soul's role in the web of life, and step into your future‑ancestor self with courage, wonder, and devotion.Samantha Sweetwater is a master facilitator, executive mentor, and wisdom guide who has spent three decades helping thousands navigate personal and collective transformation. Founder of Dancing Freedom, Peacebody Japan, and One Life Circle, she has trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. She partners with leaders in business, health, and technology to navigate awakening and align impact with regenerative futures. Her work invites you to come fully alive and to remember your soul's collaboration with the living world. Samantha lives on the fog-kissed slopes of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California.She carries a certain frequency of transmission in this work and in her words.In this episode, we cover so many topics including:This moment in the human relationship to planetBio spiritualityRites of Passage, Integrity and SovereigntyWonder, Joy and Grief Power Over Life vs Power of LifeEnlifenmentKinship ConsciousnessProtopiaHer Sophia TransmissionsFuture VisionsCeremonies for a Small PlanetHelpful links:Samantha Sweetwater - Author of True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World. Get your copy now on AmazonJoin upcoming Retreats and Events with SamanthaNEW Book by Christine: The Mystic Heart of Easter: A Four-Day Journey Through Love, Death, and Rebirth. Available on AmazonEaster Intensive: A Holy Week Journey with Christine Mason and Elizabeth Arolyn Walsh on April 2-5, 2025Bhakti House Immersion with Christine Mason and Adam Bauer, with Special Guest Christopher “Hareesh” Wallis on May 17–27, 20262026 Living Tantra Online Course: An Introduction to Tantra, Neo Tantra and Sacred Sexuality, Starts March 10, 2026.@christinemariemason@rosebudwomanFounder, Rosebud Woman, Award Winning Intimate and Body CareCo-Founder, Radiant Farms, Sundari GardensNEW BOOK: The Mystic Heart of Easter: A Four-Day Journey Through Love, Death, and Rebirth. Available on AmazonThe Nine Lives of Woman: Sensual, Sexual and Reproductive Stages from Birth to 100, Order in Print or on KindleSubscribe: The Museletter on Substack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samantha Sweetwater is a master facilitator, executive mentor, and wisdom guide who has spent three decades helping thousands navigate personal and collective transformation. Founder of Dancing Freedom, Peacebody Japan, and One Life Circle, she has trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. She partners with leaders in technology, health, and finance to navigate awakening and align impact with regenerative futures. Samantha's work invites you to come fully alive and to remember your soul's collaboration with Gaia's Song. She has just published, True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World. She lives on the fog-kissed slopes of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California.Episode Highlights▶ True Human is inspired by a dream about harmonizing with nature and our role within it▶ Technology is part of evolution, not separate from nature, though it often disrupts ecological processes▶ Disconnection is a core crisis of modern life, and community-focused kinship offers a path beyond individual heroism▶ Humans can act as a keystone species, creating reciprocal relationships that support the planet▶ The current meta crisis brings both danger and unique possibility for transformative change▶ Hope for the future rests on quality relationships, new communication platforms, and localized action▶ We are biologically wired for connection, and the story of separation no longer serves us▶Cognitive sovereignty and embodiment are essential in the age of AI, which can mimic emotion but lacks empathy▶Real-life experiences, ritual, and plant medicines support healing, joy, and mental wellbeing Samantha Sweetwater's Links & Resources▶ Website: https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthasweetwater/▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnLifenment▶ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasweetwater/▶ Get a free copy of Life Code available at https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/ Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth's Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz ▶ Join the free Psychedelics & Purpose Community: / psychedelicsandsacredmedicines

Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practices and philosophies that might counteract them –  such as focusing on kinship, intimacy, and resilience – to help pave the way for a better future. How might we nurture the foundations of a different kind of society, even while the end of our current civilization plays out around us?  In this episode, Nate is joined by guide and author Samantha Sweetwater to explore how separation is at the root of the metacrisis and how nurturing interconnection, relationships, and ecological maturity act as foundational components for systems change. Samantha delves into the distinction between power of life and power over life, emphasizing the need for personal transformation that aligns with collective evolution. She also describes how we could shift our cultural focus from the hero's journey to a kinship journey through the practices of remembering, reconnection, and tending to collective emergence. How might we reimagine humanity's ecological role as that of stewards, rather than domination? Could focusing on reconnection, rather than separation, help us bridge the polarizing divides that currently prevent many of us from working together? And how might this work of remembering, which begins with ourselves, ripple out into stronger connections with our loved ones, communities, and ultimately to humanity and life as a whole?  (Conversation recorded on October 1st, 2025)    About Samantha Sweetwater: Samantha Sweetwater is a wisdom guide, author, and founder of One Life Circle—a ministry of remembering. She works at the fertile nexus where unraveling systems make way for emerging forms of kinship, leadership, and value. For over three decades, she has facilitated individuals and organizations across five continents through journeys of personal, cultural, ecological, and spiritual emergence. She mentors leaders in business, technology, and finance, helping them to navigate awakening, develop systemic wisdom, and align impact with regenerative futures. Founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, she sparked a global movement of embodied awakening and has trained hundreds of facilitators. She has also been a seed farmer—a practice that taught her the rigors of tending the real. She holds an MA in Wisdom Studies, a BA in Social Theory and Dance, and has been initiated into indigenous lineages of Africa, Latin America, and Turtle Island.   Show Notes and More Watch this video episode on YouTube   Want to learn the broad overview of The Great Simplification in 30 minutes? Watch our Animated Movie.   ---   Support The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future   Join our Substack newsletter   Join our Hylo channel and connect with other listeners  

Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practices and philosophies that might counteract them –  such as focusing on kinship, intimacy, and resilience – to help pave the way for a better future. How might we nurture the foundations of a different kind of society, even while the end of our current civilization plays out around us?  In this episode, Nate is joined by guide and author Samantha Sweetwater to explore how separation is at the root of the metacrisis and how nurturing interconnection, relationships, and ecological maturity act as foundational components for systems change. Samantha delves into the distinction between power of life and power over life, emphasizing the need for personal transformation that aligns with collective evolution. She also describes how we could shift our cultural focus from the hero's journey to a kinship journey through the practices of remembering, reconnection, and tending to collective emergence. How might we reimagine humanity's ecological role as that of stewards, rather than domination? Could focusing on reconnection, rather than separation, help us bridge the polarizing divides that currently prevent many of us from working together? And how might this work of remembering, which begins with ourselves, ripple out into stronger connections with our loved ones, communities, and ultimately to humanity and life as a whole?  (Conversation recorded on October 1st, 2025)    About Samantha Sweetwater: Samantha Sweetwater is a wisdom guide, author, and founder of One Life Circle—a ministry of remembering. She works at the fertile nexus where unraveling systems make way for emerging forms of kinship, leadership, and value. For over three decades, she has facilitated individuals and organizations across five continents through journeys of personal, cultural, ecological, and spiritual emergence. She mentors leaders in business, technology, and finance, helping them to navigate awakening, develop systemic wisdom, and align impact with regenerative futures. Founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, she sparked a global movement of embodied awakening and has trained hundreds of facilitators. She has also been a seed farmer—a practice that taught her the rigors of tending the real. She holds an MA in Wisdom Studies, a BA in Social Theory and Dance, and has been initiated into indigenous lineages of Africa, Latin America, and Turtle Island.   Show Notes and More Watch this video episode on YouTube   Want to learn the broad overview of The Great Simplification in 30 minutes? Watch our Animated Movie.   ---   Support The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future   Join our Substack newsletter    Join our Hylo channel and connect with other listeners

On this episode, thought leader and ceremonial guide Samantha Sweetwater joins Nate to share her journey through mysticism and guiding others through their own unique spiritual paths. Strengthening relationality is a critical component for fostering deeper connections to nature - including fellow humans - and subsequently creating more cooperative, peaceful societies. Within a culture which predominantly values linear processes, Samantha's work has centered around finding a balance between convergent thinking and the relational intelligence we've neglected. What can we learn from the various indigenous cultures who understand their entanglement with the land? Is it possible for future societies to value a more balanced development across the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical aspects of its people? How can we - as individuals - nurture the subjective, intersubjective, and objective within ourselves to create more holistic sensemaking within a complex world?  About Samantha Sweetwater:   Samantha Sweetwater is a writer, soul mentor, strategic partner and deeply loved ceremonial guide. She has facilitated transformational experiences in diverse communities, cultures and industries on five continents for over 30 years. Her work bridges spirituality, science, psychedelics, indigenous wisdom, transpersonal psychology, embodiment and deep ecology. She leads experiences and conversations about our relationship with the earth, spirituality and systemic change that transform the way we think about what it means to be human. Samantha is the founder and director of One Life Circle, a plant medicine ministry tending our intimacy with and belonging to Life. She also advises companies and organizations in the areas of technology, health, materials economy and psychedelics. As the former founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, she pioneered the conscious dance movement—facilitating tens of thousands of people and training hundreds of facilitators to seed communities around the globe. She holds an MA in Wisdom Studies and a BA in Social Theory and the Dance with a minor in Legal Philosophy. She has been initiated by indigenous teachers in Africa, South America and the US.    Her first book, True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World, will be available Fall Equinox 2024. For Show Notes and More visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/112-samantha-sweetwater To watch this video episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-D_y4jqxnmM

Samantha Sweetwater is civilization designer, plant medicine guide, spiritual executive coach and writer. For over 30 years, Samantha has pioneered Embodied Awakening through the creation of soul-centric businesses, communities, art and evolutionary culture. As the founder of Dancing Freedom & PeaceBody Japan, she built a global movement touching tens of thousands of lives and training hundreds of facilitators on five continents. She have developed a unique ability to support people in the courageous re-alignment of your relationships, career and leadership with their souls. Find out more at www.samanthasweetwater.com and on IG @samanthasweetwater 1.) Origin of the name Samantha Sweetwater - 1:09 2.) What does mean to "come home"? - 7:00 3.) What is San Pedro Cactus? - 13:04 4.) Some the effects of San Pedro Cactus - 27:32 5.) Why are San Pedro medicinal effects underground? - 34:39:13 6.) What is Iboga? - 44:22   If you're enjoying this podcast and would like to show your support please subscribe, comment, rate us 5 stars, and share with others that you think this will resonate with. Thank you for your support.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“What's an unmet niche in my neighbourhood? Or what's an unmet niche in my country that's actually about a movement that isn't here or that needs my voice?” On this week's episode of the Boldly Now Show we speak with Soulucent coach, ceremonial guide, author and founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, Amanda Sweetwater who offers multiple perspectives on how to be an agent for change on a hyperlocal and global scale. She speaks with us about the current world shake-up, humanity's awakening to its global purpose and the call to rewrite the narratives of our time.  Watch the video on Youtubehttps://youtu.be/496xxap7TFw ( here)

Join immersive journalist Rak Razam and Samaya Storm (aka. Samantha Sweetwater), a coach, guide and medicine woman as they discuss the planetary zeitgeist as we move into 2019 and the collective shadow coming to the surface. Is our current global culture one strand in the Gaian biome, shot with inflammation and poor signaling response? Do we need a planetary probiotic to reboot us from the duality of perpetrator/victim? Is it time to risk it all and play the God game with genetics, the environment and hacking the human potential? Is that part of our role as Apex Predators on planet earth? Or is there an organismic response moving through us as a species that is gestated by the planetary crisis? Will climate catastrophe draw us together into a collective generosity of spirit, a Yolk of Union? Can we remember our original instructions to tend to nature and be in the Wego, not the Ego? Listen to this far-reaching and provocative discussion to find out! Learn more about Samaya at: https://www.facebook.com/SamayaStorm . Samaya Storm (aka. Samantha Sweetwater) is a globally loved facilitator of embodied awakening who has initiated people into life-centric love & leadership for over 30 year. She is known for her past work as the founder of Dancing Freedom - a transformational movement practice that pioneered the global conscious dance industry and trained hundreds of facilitators, and as the co-Founder of Peacebody Japan - an integral school for embodied awakening, community development and leadership in Japan. As the current co-founder of Soulucent Transformative Technologies, she works with individuals and communities as a coach, ceremonial guide, experience architect and speaker. She also consults with leaders in in tech, media, governance and blockchain to integrate life-centric, embodied principles into meta-design architectures. Her life is dedicated to the evolution of humanness, happiness and consciousness ultimately measured by the emergence of Civilization 2.0 - an evolutionary pattern for human life that co-creates a truly awesome world for all beings on our planet and beyond. And please support this podcast and the emergence of new paradigm media by contributing to: https://www.patreon.com/rakrazam , gracias! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Open me to Higher Wisdom and More Love. That is the prayer of my heart. I continue to feel and listen, feel and listen. Riding the waves of Change as they buffet and cleanse my Being. New Consciousness is showing itself to me. Ancient Awarenesses making itself Known. I am grateful and willing. I am Witness to the Great Unfolding and the tenderness of the moment. Each of Us finding Her Way - sometimes angry, despairing, loving, fighting, praying, losing faith, and finding it again. I will continue to hold this space as Sanctuary for All Of Life. Welcoming Every Experience of What is So for each woman who brings her Wild Soul here. This week we continue our series of conversations with the Wisdom Sisters of my Heart. Vast, multi-dimensional women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition. Offering perspective, opening our hearts and minds to sit in council with One another - to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to love and be loved. What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours? What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are? What are the prayers of your heart? On Wild Soul Medicine today, we are honored by the Presence of Samantha Sweetwater. Samantha is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist, culture coder, and the creator of a global movement called Dancing Freedom™ which spans six continents and has touched thousands of lives. A lifelong experiential physicist (ie. a choreographer, community leader, nature wanderer, permaculturalist, yogini and medicine woman) her expertise lies in facilitating a living bridge between states experience and stable embodiment. An American woman currently on pilgrimage to South Africa, she brings transmissions from the White Lions of Timavatu an Zep Tepi, line of first time. One of the most brilliant and powerful women I know, Samantha will share with Us what is moving through her, where her faith is being tested and restored, and what she is experiencing in this Now moment. Women on the front lines, gathering to share the Wild Medicine of our Souls as we seek to reconnect with Truth and with each other.

Open me to Higher Wisdom and More Love.That is the prayer of my heart.I continue to feel and listen, feel and listen.Riding the waves of Change as they buffet and cleanse my Being.New Consciousness is showing itself to me. Ancient Awarenesses making itself Known.I am grateful and willing.I am Witness to the Great Unfolding and the tenderness of the moment.Each of Us finding Her Way - sometimes angry, despairing, loving, fighting, praying, losing faith, and finding it again.I will continue to hold this space as Sanctuary for All Of Life.Welcoming Every Experience of What is So for each woman who brings her Wild Soul here.This week we continue our series of conversations with the Wisdom Sisters of my Heart.Vast, multi-dimensional women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition.Offering perspective, opening our hearts and minds to sit in council with One another - to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to love and be loved.What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours?What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are?What are the prayers of your heart?On Wild Soul Medicine today, we are honored by the Presence of Samantha Sweetwater. Samantha is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist, culture coder, and the creator of a global movement called Dancing Freedom™ which spans six continents and has touched thousands of lives. A lifelong experiential physicist (ie. a choreographer, community leader, nature wanderer, permaculturalist, yogini and medicine woman) her expertise lies in facilitating a living bridge between states experience and stable embodiment. An American woman currently on pilgrimage to South Africa, she brings transmissions from the White Lions of Timavatu an Zep Tepi, line of first time. One of the most brilliant and powerful women I know, Samantha will share with Us what is moving through her, where her faith is being tested and restored, and what she is experiencing in this Now moment.Women on the front lines, gathering to share the Wild Medicine of our Souls as we seek to reconnect with Truth and with each other.

Open me to Higher Wisdom and More Love.That is the prayer of my heart.I continue to feel and listen, feel and listen.Riding the waves of Change as they buffet and cleanse my Being.New Consciousness is showing itself to me. Ancient Awarenesses making itself Known.I am grateful and willing.I am Witness to the Great Unfolding and the tenderness of the moment.Each of Us finding Her Way - sometimes angry, despairing, loving, fighting, praying, losing faith, and finding it again.I will continue to hold this space as Sanctuary for All Of Life.Welcoming Every Experience of What is So for each woman who brings her Wild Soul here.This week we continue our series of conversations with the Wisdom Sisters of my Heart.Vast, multi-dimensional women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition.Offering perspective, opening our hearts and minds to sit in council with One another - to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to love and be loved.What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours?What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are?What are the prayers of your heart?On Wild Soul Medicine today, we are honored by the Presence of Samantha Sweetwater. Samantha is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist, culture coder, and the creator of a global movement called Dancing Freedom™ which spans six continents and has touched thousands of lives. A lifelong experiential physicist (ie. a choreographer, community leader, nature wanderer, permaculturalist, yogini and medicine woman) her expertise lies in facilitating a living bridge between states experience and stable embodiment. An American woman currently on pilgrimage to South Africa, she brings transmissions from the White Lions of Timavatu an Zep Tepi, line of first time. One of the most brilliant and powerful women I know, Samantha will share with Us what is moving through her, where her faith is being tested and restored, and what she is experiencing in this Now moment.Women on the front lines, gathering to share the Wild Medicine of our Souls as we seek to reconnect with Truth and with each other.

Open me to Higher Wisdom and More Love.That is the prayer of my heart.I continue to feel and listen, feel and listen.Riding the waves of Change as they buffet and cleanse my Being.New Consciousness is showing itself to me. Ancient Awarenesses making itself Known.I am grateful and willing.I am Witness to the Great Unfolding and the tenderness of the moment.Each of Us finding Her Way - sometimes angry, despairing, loving, fighting, praying, losing faith, and finding it again.I will continue to hold this space as Sanctuary for All Of Life.Welcoming Every Experience of What is So for each woman who brings her Wild Soul here.This week we continue our series of conversations with the Wisdom Sisters of my Heart.Vast, multi-dimensional women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition.Offering perspective, opening our hearts and minds to sit in council with One another - to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to love and be loved.What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours?What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are?What are the prayers of your heart?On Wild Soul Medicine today, we are honored by the Presence of Samantha Sweetwater. Samantha is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist, culture coder, and the creator of a global movement called Dancing Freedom™ which spans six continents and has touched thousands of lives. A lifelong experiential physicist (ie. a choreographer, community leader, nature wanderer, permaculturalist, yogini and medicine woman) her expertise lies in facilitating a living bridge between states experience and stable embodiment. An American woman currently on pilgrimage to South Africa, she brings transmissions from the White Lions of Timavatu an Zep Tepi, line of first time. One of the most brilliant and powerful women I know, Samantha will share with Us what is moving through her, where her faith is being tested and restored, and what she is experiencing in this Now moment.Women on the front lines, gathering to share the Wild Medicine of our Souls as we seek to reconnect with Truth and with each other.

Have you ever had a moment when you just needed to “show up” but couldn’t feel any less like being there? Many of us have, whether it be obligations to our jobs, families or friends. But oftentimes, “putting on a happy face” can be the least constructive approach. In this episode, actress and producer Michelle Barton shares tips from the acting world about how we can find authenticity and power in those difficult moments through play. In this episode, you’ll hear: How to connect with what it is you need to show up for, even when you don’t feel like it That we’re not prisoners to our patterns of thinking How play creates a “bridge” from one mind-set to another, allowing us to be truly present for the other people in our lives, regardless of our circumstances How knowing ourselves more intimately helps us to live a life of freedom from the tyranny of negative thoughts Show Notes! Shelene Atanacio's book Act From The Inside Out: Powerful Acting Tools to Transform your Real Life To book Michelle Barton as a Dancing Freedom facilitator, feel free to email her at michelleleebarton@gmail.com For booking Michelle an actress, please contact: Danita Florance at Salt Talent: 403-233-4644