Podcasts about imaginal realm

You're invited next September 20-26, 2026, to The Tender Harvest, a week-long retreat amidst the golden hues and organic bounty of the world-class Ballymaloe House in County Cork, Ireland. Each day will feature yoga, meditation, farm-to-table meals, and curated excursions—plus ample time for rest, self-nurturance, and imagination.The sound of flowing water soothes most nervous systems, but particularly those acclimatized to the desert, and particularly upon waking. I have struggled with sleep disturbances for most of my adult life, so it's rare for me to experience the weight and metabolic satisfaction of a good night's rest. But twice last month, I found myself receiving what we can call river medicine: first while visiting friends at their cabin in the Pecos Wilderness, and again east of Aspen, Colorado, while teaching at Beyul Retreat, a guest ranch along the Frying Pan River, a tributary of the Roaring Fork River.River medicine is like this: surrounded by tall, sappy pines, I found myself one early morning in the atmospheric valley between sleeping and waking, an integrative field of frequencies and forms. You know the place. Even now, I do not know for certain: did the river, by some charm of consciousness, stream into my dreamscape and stir me awake? Or was it the dream that pulsated forward into the matrix of a new day? What I can say is that I felt a bright, hydrous intelligence moving in ripples and waves through my body—clarifying and tonifying, calming neurons and glial cells in their watery beds, clearing layers of baked-in tension like grit loosened from a soaking pan. And for a time, I floated above the push of the day, appearing and disappearing and reappearing to myself.In the wake of hours that followed, to my delight, I noticed a quiet reverberation—an elemental answer quelling a wordless, needful thirst.Science offers a partial explanation for this. Water has a high dielectric constant, meaning it reduces the electrostatic attraction between charged particles, which helps substances like salt crystals separate and dissolve more easily. I would also propose that water's properties of solubility, absorption, and transmission apply to its natural ability to clean and balance the bioenergetic forces of being human.When a river twists and turns, it releases negative ions into the air. Microscopically, this process is dynamic—even violent. Molecules spill over rocks and tumble forward, rushing and colliding, breaking apart, and thereby transferring electrons and charging the surrounding air. But I find comfort in this science of fluid revitalization. New, more supportive structures can form when old ones give way, pointing to how, beyond turmoil and devastation, we too can hope for vital transformation.Years ago, I read a New York Times article called “Where Heaven and Earth Come Closer,” in which journalist Eric Weiner wrote about “thin places,” locations where the gap between the ordinary and extraordinary—or, better yet, transordinary—thins out.“Thin” seemed to me a strange choice to describe where the air thickens with meaning. But Celts and early Christians held that a small but distinct distance, like three feet, separates heaven and earth—and that distance dissolves in “places that beguile and inspire, sedate and stir, places where, for a few blissful moments [we] loosen [our] death grip on life, and can breathe again.”Many a thin place has been built by human hands. Early in my career, I worked for the United Nations Foundation in collaboration with UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, and developed the sensible habit of visiting the most treasured cathedrals, temples, and sanctuary sites wherever I found myself in the world. Jama Masjid in Delhi, Sacré-Cœur in Paris, Tirta Empul in Bali, Newgrange in Ireland, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: each has a distinct energetic signature that lives in my memory, a resonance born of its purpose and the accumulation of countless prayers that infuse the surrounding air.But thin places are more often found than made. Mountains, canyons, coral palaces—they are organic monuments to mysticism and ready reminders of our humble size before nature. As Weiner writes, “Thin places relax us, yes, but they also transform us—or, more accurately, unmask us. In thin places, we become our more essential selves.”In this sense, thin places evoke qualities of alchemy and revelation. In traveling to Beyul Retreat, I recalled how the Vajrayana Buddhist term “beyul” refers to hidden valleys believed to be sanctuaries blessed by enlightened teachers, places where the land itself is animate. A beyul holds the wisdom that rivers, trees, and even rocks are not objects but mandalas — living altars, ineffable and intricate in their aliveness.Aptly named, Beyul Retreat is a place where the boundary between perception and imagination feels more permeable. The land electrifies with new growth as summer approaches: dandelion confetti bursts open in the meadows, aspen trees shimmy, and fresh sage scents the air. Each morning, as the river's murmur moves through the valley, calypso orchids bloom in the shade while the pointed ears of silver fox pups perk up from behind cool, wet stones.In the imaginal realm of childhood, there are many such beyuls, many thin places. There are fern groves and swallow lairs, stars nestled in apple cores and galaxies in lightning bugs, and lobe-handed sycamore leaves at the wild end of the yard.We tend to think of nature as speaking in symbols, but its directness transmits rather than approximates. “The world is not made of objects; it is a communion of subjects,” writes Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. “To enter the imaginal realm is to give permission to the ineffable within us, to allow the world to speak through our senses, our dreams, our longings.”To commune is to listen with our whole body, to notice the most basic and vital exchange of breath and circumstance that underpins our existence. To allow for a metamorphosis of our attention. And when we realize the subjectivity of the world, we can discover strange and wonderful ways of joining the conversation. Like us, the aspens drink water and eat light. They have instincts and work to protect their lives. And did you know that the dark spots resembling eyes on the smooth, pale bark are scars left behind when the tree sheds lower branches that receive less sunlight? Look how this porous watchfulness is directed in our direction, how the forest offers us its attention.Together, we are making sense of being human in an era of radical change. Your presence here matters. Thank you for reading, sharing, ‘heart'ing, commenting, and subscribing to The Guest House. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shawnparell.substack.com/subscribe

The imaginal realm is a space of inner vision and imagination. It is not mere fantasy or daydreaming but a profound level of consciousness where symbolic and archetypal experiences unfold. It is also intimately connected to the Akashic Records and astral journeys. But in this episode I am going to teach you a very simple, playful practice that you can use daily to transform your life and get un-stuck. You are going to create your own magical sanctuary!This episode is for you if you:feel stuck in your career or relationships;can't seem to connect to the Spirit Guides, Akashic Records, and are in the "I am not getting anything, I don't see anything" mode;long to return to childhood playfulness and ease which used to come so naturally;need a daily spiritual practice that is not torturous but actually fun;want to become a conscious co-creator of your life.This work with the imaginal realm is the precursor to my healing sessions and guided journeys.

John Seed and his colleagues are helping people all over this country and overseas  find their ecological self.Plus:  John gives practical suggestions on how to find direction in life.Music: A new recording of Johns Seed singing his song Expanding Universe.Links:John Seeds Deep Ecology workshop schedule on The Rainforest Information Centre(link is external) website.Falling in Love with the World - Active Hope Spiral - free online, Sundays @5pm AEDT. (link is external) Hosted by Nettie Hulme"Active Hope is a practice that encourages us to find and offer our best response to global issues during this time of unfolding crisis. It's about facing the mess we're in and playing our role in the collective transition toward a society and way of being that supports the flourishing of life(link is external)1(link is external)." [OpenAI, 2024]Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, x10 Week Online and In-Person Study Group(link is external). Hosted by Skye Cielita Flor(link is external)"A deep dive into this profound body of work by renowned master herbalist, earth poet, bardic naturalist, deep ecologist and prolific award-winning author of 25 books, the late Stephen Harrod Buhner(link is external). Stephen was a radical thinker, polymath and synthesiser whose work continues to have a deep and lasting impact on Plant People and Deep Ecologists all over the world."           Skye Cielita Flor(link is external)Earth Matters Episode #1483 produced by Bec Horridge on Darkinjung Country at Narara Valley Ecovillage, NSW. 

Click here to send me a text message ...We dwell within a realm of spacious possibility; and it dwells within us. The mystic experiences this firsthand. So does any seeker alert to the subtle movements of the heart. Cynthia Bourgeault knows the territory well. She's lived it, and she's written about it. But, being human, she's also continuing to learn about it, sometimes by trial and error. Fortunately, our spiritual education is not completed in this lifetime. ResourcesCynthia's Websites: https://wisdomwaypoints.org; https://wisdomwayofknowing.orgCenter for Action and Contemplation: https://cac.orgA Sampling of Cynthia's Books"Love is Stronger than Death;" Random House, 1997"Mystical Hope;" Cowley Publications, 2001"The Wisdom Way of Knowing;" Jossey-Bass, 2003"Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening;" Cowley Publications, 2004"The Wisdom Jesus;" Shambhala, 2008"The Heart of Centering Prayer;" Shambhala, 2016"Eye of the Heart;" Shambhala Publications, 2020Personal LinksMy web site (where you can sign up for my blog): https://www.brianepearson.caMy email address: mysticcaveman53@gmail.comSeries Music Credit"Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison, performed by Colin James, from the album, Limelight, 2005; licensed under SOCAN 2022

I invite you to broaden your understanding of the Akashic Records and think of an Akashic Experience. Beyond a fixed "book of records," let's delve into the world of the imaginal, the language of signs and symbols that is common not just to all humans, but also to plants, animals and even crystals. Let's open the definition of the Akashic Records to mean the Akashic Field. A never-ending field of the Divine mind, where we can receive healing, wisdom, and see the oneness of the Universe. Read my article on altered states on ingakastrone.substack.com. If you've never connected with me before, an Akashic Record reading is a good place to start (no altered states necessary ;) !)

I invite you to broaden your understanding of the Akashic Records and think of an Akashic Experience. Beyond a fixed "book of records," let's delve into the world of the imaginal, the language of signs and symbols that is common not just to all humans, but also to plants, animals and even crystals. Let's open the definition of the Akashic Records to mean the Akashic Field. A never-ending field of the Divine mind, where we can receive healing, wisdom, and see the oneness of the Universe. Read my article on altered states on ingakastrone.substack.com. If you've never connected with me before, an Akashic Record reading is a good place to start (no altered states necessary ;) !)

In this Podcast Short, John delves into the topic of plant consciousness and intelligence. John talks about how plants are not just passive organisms, but possess significant cognitive abilities and responsiveness. Drawing inspiration from Stephen Herrod Buhner's works, particularly "The Lost Language of Plants," John discusses how plants demonstrate informed decision-making capabilities and can react to human intentions. John also cites additional scientific findings that assert plants have sophisticated neural networks contained within their root systems, similar to human neural systems, which are capable of learning and memory. Additional Resources: Click here, to get your copy of “Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm” by Stephen Harrod Buhner Click here, to get your copy of “The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life” by Stephen Harrod Buhner Click here, to get your copy of “The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature” by Stephen Harrod Buhner To read more about John's other book recommendations, please visit: https://johnkempf.com/johns-recommended-reading-list/ About John Kempf John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it. Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology. Support For This Show & Helping You Grow Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.  AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most. AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits. Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide. Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com

Reconnecting with nature; the living world,  through Deep Ecology workshops is taking off in Australia.   John Seed and his colleagues are helping people all over this country and overseas  find their ecological self. The Deep Ecology workshops are booked out and participants  are  much more mainstream than in the past.   Plus:  John gives practical suggestions on how to find direction in life.Music: A new recording of Johns Seed singing his song Expanding Universe. Links:John Seeds Deep Ecology workshop schedule on The Rainforest Information Centre website. Rising Tide: A national network currently mobilising ten thousand people for ten days of non violent action using  smalll boats to block the shipping channelto close down Newcastle coal kexport faciltiy for  48 hours.10,000 people, over 10 daysTues Nov 19 — Thurs Nov 28, 2024“2023 is a year of reckoning. It must be a year of game-changing climate action. We need disruption to end the destruction. No more baby steps. No more excuses. No more greenwashing. No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.” — Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Falling in Love with the World - Active Hope Spiral - free online, Sundays @5pm AEDT.  Hosted by Nettie Hulme "Active Hope is a practice that encourages us to find and offer our best response to global issues during this time of unfolding crisis. It's about facing the mess we're in and playing our role in the collective transition toward a society and way of being that supports the flourishing of life1." [OpenAI, 2024]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, x10 Week Online and In-Person Study Group. Hosted by Skye Cielita Flor "A deep dive into this profound body of work by renowned master herbalist, earth poet, bardic naturalist, deep ecologist and prolific award-winning author of 25 books, the late Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen was a radical thinker, polymath and synthesiser whose work continues to have a deep and lasting impact on Plant People and Deep Ecologists all over the world."           Skye Cielita Flor Earth Matters Episode #1451 produced by Bec Horridge on Darkinjung Country at the Narara Valley Ecovillage, NSW. 

#6 Re-Imagining Omnipresence, Omnipotent and Omniscience ( Living From the Imaginal Realm) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dr-kay-fairchild/support

In this episode I lay how what Showmanship is, as I see it. If we are to work out what the origins of something is, particularly if the origins lay deep in prehistory, then chances are there has been a great deal of change to the thing. Sometimes so much that it is hard to recognice it. SO, to be able to know what the origins are we must know what the relevant and unchanging elements of the evolving thing we seek to understand. Last episode I talked about the evolutionary history of the whale and how one of the key elements that's used to trace its transformation from land animal to sea animal is some bones in its inner ear. In this episode I describe a Show as related to Henri Corbin's Imaginal Realm. And I make the claim that what a Show is, which is a different level of reality, other than normal life, where ordinary objects and words and images become symbolic and poetic and filled with meaning. It is a purely human kind of relation and a uniquely human experience. So, this realm of experience we call show, is the thing we will use as our lodestone to keep us on track as we venture back into prehistory.links:Henri Corbin and the Imaginal Realmthe Cabaret sensation and huge part of my life: La Soiree & La CliqueSupport the show...Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.You'll find the store here: https://thewayoftheshowman.printdrop.com.auIf you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comor find out more on the Way of the Showman website.you can follow the Way of Instagram where it is, not surprisingly thewayoftheshowman.If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Immersed in coincidental energetic love fusion with a stranger, Alan faced shocking contact experiences that shook his hold on his view of reality. You can order Dr. Beitman's new book here! https://www.innertraditions.com/books/meaningful-coincidences Alan Steinfeld has been the host of the Manhattan cable program New Realities for over 25 years. In that time he has interviewed the leading experts in human potential, health, spirituality, and UFOs. His most recent book Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of ET Existence debuted as the #1 best seller in the field when it was released in May of 2021. In that book, he makes it clear that only when we combine the outer wisdom of the mind with the feeling nature of the soul- will we find our true connection to the cosmos. http://www.MakingContactSeries.com Connecting with Coincidence with Bernard Beitman, MD (CCBB) is now offered as both an audio podcast--anywhere that podcasts are available--and in video format on the Connecting with Coincidence YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE to our channel to be notified when future episodes are posted! Also available, there are 138 archived episodes of the CCBB podcast available, HERE [https://www.spreaker.com/show/dr-bern...] Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Learn more at https://coincider.com

In this episode I speak with world-renowned Professor of Depth Psychology, Imagination Specialist, author, and founder of Dream Tending... Dr. Stephen Aizenstat. Stephen and I discuss his latest book, 'The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose'.. This book details how we, as humans, can use techiniques to gain deeper access into the imaginal realm to increase our knowledge and growth. We begin our interview talking about his relationship with the legendary Joseph Campbell, who Stephen befriended during lectures given to a young Stephen and his friends, We then talk about the nature of imagination; its origins, it's functions, and how it could be our greatest ally. Steven also shares with us some of his personal stories which led to him unlocking his innate genius and imaginal power. Drop In!www.dreamtending.comDr. Stephen Aizenstat Bio:Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dream Tending, and the Academy of Imagination. For more than 35 years, he has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology. He has collaborated with Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, James Hillman, and Native elders worldwide. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. For more, visit dreamtending.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom Cheetham is an author, teacher, biologist, and poet. Throughout his life, he has navigated various fields from philosophy, to systematic entomology, complexity sciences, and eventually depth psychology. Today his work explores the ideas of Henry Corbin, Carl Jung, James Hillman, and creative imagination in human life and culture. He writes and lectures on these topics internationally. His books include Boundary Violations, All the World an Icon, and Imaginal Love among others. In this episode, we speak about Imagination in James Hillman, Carl Jung, & Henry Corbin, the pathology of literalism, distinguishing feelings from emotions, integrating the central insights from psychedelics, Buddhism & the Imaginal as well as aliveness, eros, and death. 

Are you Ready to Manifest like a Witcher? The Witcher's Way to Manifestation is OPEN . . . Are You IN? Join HERE! This weeks Guest Audio Artist is Dr. Amber Tariq, she has been a practicing physician since 2005, and recently turned into a "Depth Coach!" She has a passion for Depth Psychology, Dreams and the Imagination! (Sounds like my Avenue!) She loves sparking conversations that are insightful and pose those self-reflective quesitons. She is enthusiastic about connecting the world behind the world, through the imagination, and honoring that connection to bring peace and prosperity to our communities. To continue on and connect with Amber you can find the links below. You can also Direct Message her on Intstagram and Facebook too!! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amber.tariq.7/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ambertariq_depth.coaching/ Website: https://ambertariq.com   Email: support@ambertariq.com If you are curious and feel called to explore the Imaginal Realm, I have options for YOU!!

In this episode, I speak with Sheila about her lifelong work of working with clients with shame. She explained that she got interested in this subject from her experience as a child and being shy, but overcoming it by becoming a children's magician and performing. She explained how she trained in a number of approaches such as Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Drama Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, AEPD, Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy, Hakomi and others, but wasn't finding a particular approach really addressing shame. She discussed how she helps clients to understand that shame has an evolutionary purpose, both in protecting us when we are young, but also helping us to evolve in the present, using it as a signal the client to set boundaries, make changes, and take risks to be more of their authentic self. Sheila talked about how shame is evolutionary by subduing an anger response towards a parent, because it might not be safe, or threaten the connection with parents. She talks about the continuum of shame, which goes from stage fright or imposter syndrome, to never feeling good enough, having a lot of shoulds and perfectionism, and all the way to experiences of humiliation. She discussed how PolyVagal Theory was a great addition to the puzzle, where she was able to have language and a biological explanation for the freeze or shut down that happens for someone when shame comes up. Sheila discussed noticing it in the moment, in the session, when the interpersonal bridge breaks, and helping clients to see the shame, and how it shifts their nervous system. She talked about working with the inner critic, the parent who might have been the critic, using parts work and drama therapy to help clients replay those experiences and becoming the person that could be the hero and protect and save their younger parts. Sheila discussed how helping clients to use mindfulness to notice when the shame comes up, sitting with it, and using compassion for themselves, leads them to be able to be open, rather than shutting down. Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a marriage and family therapist and a leading authority on Healing Shame. She developed the Healing Shame Therapy work over the last two decades and is the co-director, with Bret Lyon, of the Center for Healing Shame. in Berkeley, California. Sheila has delivered talks, presentations and workshops across the country and around the world, at conferences from Canada to Romania. She is a Board Certified Trainer through NADTA and past adjunct faculty for the CIIS Drama Therapy Program and JFK University's Somatic Psychology Department. Sheila's expertise, teaching, and writing contributions have been featured in numerous publications, including seven books. Her writings on shame include the chapter “Women, Food and Feelings: Drama Therapy with Women Who Have Eating Disorders” in the book The Creative Therapies and Eating Disorders, the chapter “Almost Magic: Working with the Shame that Underlies Depression: Using Drama Therapy in the Imaginal Realm” in the book The Use of Creative Therapies in Treating Depression, and the chapter “Unpacking Shame and Healthy Shame: Therapy on the Phone or Internet” in Combining the Creative Therapies with Technology: Using Social Media and Online Counseling to Treat Clients (all books edited by Stephanie L. Brooke). Sheila offers therapy through her private practice in Berkeley and online via Zoom. She also provides consultations to therapists via Skype and leads workshops in Berkeley, internationally, and online. You can learn more about her workshops, writing, and on demand trainings at www.HealingShame.com

Coincidence Interpersonal Energy and The Imaginal Realm

I am ending the year on a high note! This was one of my favourite interviews of all time. Becca is brilliant as we she speaks of Tolkien and Jung's Red Books, the Imaginal Realm, shadow and healing, astrology and so much more! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!Our Black Friday Sale is NOW ON!Get 50% of all Magical Egypt Filmshttp://www.magicalegypt.com

MomentsBecca's Origin StoryConnecting mathematics, mythology, and astrologyA mythic interpretation of the December 2021 Venus-Pluto conjunction. Beauty, sexuality, and the arts meet the underworld extremes.Beauty and the Beast themes in the story of Pluto and VenusThe story of Eros and Psyche plays out in the skyNew tellings of myth from women's perspective. Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes. Retelling of myths from vilified women's perspectives as shadow work and integration.The Queen's GambitThe Lord of the Rings as an inner journey into shadow and addiction.On encountering Tolkien and making the journey to Middle Earth.How The Lord of the Rings can be applied to real-world experience. Idealism in the face of waning optimism.How astrology can support humanity in turbulent times. (Saturn-Pluto alignment as an augur of global conflict and strife.)A break in the storm Spring 2022-2023Jupiter-Uranus conjunction as a herald of positive change in 2024. Hidden births. The influence of Uranus — revolution, insight, technology, innovation What is the difference between imaginary and the imaginal?The term **genius** once referred to a spirit that seized a person, but now it is applied to the person. How can astrology apply?qMentionsStanislav GroffEsalen InstituteRichard TarnasCIISPacifica Graduate Institute[Enantiodromia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiodromia)The Queen's GambitThe Bioneers ConferenceMatthew StelznerPrometheus James HillmanCarl JungHenri CorbanSamuel Taylor ColridgeMundus ImaginalisThe Biographia Literaria

Show Notes: Schuyler Brown left a life of enormous achievement and success by our culture's standards when a series of events led her to the realization that her livelihood was not in integrity with her soul.Join us for a conversation about the courageous path she followed out of that life, the wisdom of embodiment, the creativity and power of magic, and cultivating the skill of tuning in to the emergent field to perceive guidance about how best to move in our lives.It's a deep and playful exploration into:becoming embodied in a culture that values intellect over felt perception how the qualities of the divine masculine and feminine support creativity ~ and how to recognize their toxic manifestationswhat magic is, and why it is an essential ally in our path forwardbecoming adept at moving between the subtle and material realmscultivating and trusting the ground of our being vs: an endless quest for safety and happinessthe emergent field: perceiving it, trusting it and skillfully responding to its unwavering guidancethe practice of creating mandalas as a portal into connection and dialogue with the natural worldToday's Guest: Schuyler Brown offers spiritual guidance, meditation, coaching, and facilitation through The Art of Emergence. She is a former futurist and strategist in the business world who has dedicated herself to the emergence of enlightened culture and commerce. She works with individuals and groups to heal trauma and become more embodied. Her work is grounded in Buddhist Tantra, yogic philosophy, embodiment, and feminine wisdom. She writes about it all and offers guided meditations and embodiment courses on Substack.Schuyler Brown Website                         Schuyler's Substack: Art of EmergenceConnect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogInstagram  The story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I'd so appreciate it if you'd follow and share it with people you know would love it. It's an unpaid labour of love, and your support encourages me to keep it coming!

Like bunny slopes for novice skiers, we begin in easy terrain before going on to Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced areas in this work. I invite you to join me on a guided meditation. Here we explore sights, sounds, tastes, and smells in the active imagination before moving forward in our work together. Enjoy! And, as always, THANKS FOR TUNING IN!

Face to Face with Mick CollinsLive on OMTimes Radio Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 10:30 PST / 1:30 PM ESTWatch the Livestream on the No BS Spiritual Book Club on Facebook, OMTimes Radio & TV Facebook, or OMTimesTV YoutubeTHIS WEEK ON THE NO BS SPIRITUAL BOOK CLUB … Author, transformational coach, and visionary activist Mick Collins shares the 10 books that inspired his life journey from builder's laborer and wayward teenager to the British Army to his present work as a transpersonal occupational therapist, transformational coach, and author of three ground-breaking books on human evolution in a time of Global Awakening.Join us this week and hear what inspired Mick Collins to leave his wild days behind him and explore, write, and teach about spirituality, spiritual emergency, and the global ecological crisis? Mick Collins is the author of The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis, The Visionary Spirit: Awakening the Imaginal Realm in the Transformocene Age, and The Restorative Spirit: Illuminating the Soul in a Time of Global Awakening.https://www.facebook.com/sandiesedgbeer | https://www.facebook.com/groups/nobsspiritualbookclubhttps://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.comVisit the NO BS Spiritual Book Club Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/the-no-bs-spiritual-book-club/Join the No BS Spiritual Book Club mailing list https://forms.aweber.com/form/93/758545393.htmConnect with Sandie Sedgbeer at https://www.sedgbeer.com#MickCollins #SandieSedgbeer #NoBSSpiritualBookClubSubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Examines the role that machines play in the struggle between spiritual man and mechanical man throughout the ages In this sweeping exploration of the history of the machine as a tool, as a transpersonal object to assist human activity, and as a transitional artifact between spirits and the humans who interact with them, Lafitte examines the role that machines play in the struggle between spiritual man and mechanical-man throughout history. He interprets the messages, archetypes, and language of the unconscious in the first popular stories related to mechanical-men, and he demonstrates a direct connection between consciousness and the history of machines in American history, specifically between the inventors of these machines and the awakening of our imaginations and our powers of manifestation. Although the term mechanical-man is a catch-all phrase, Lafitte shows that the term is also a meeting ground where extra-dimensional communications between different forms of matter occur. Every machine, android, robot, and cyborg arose from consciousness, and these mechanical-men, whether real or fictive, offer us an opportunity to free ourselves from enslavement to materialism and awaken our imaginations to create our own realities.Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

Dr. Mick Collins has had a diverse career since leaving school in 1972 at 15-years old. He has worked as a builder's labourer, infantryman and heavy goods truck driver, as well as travelling and working around the world for six years from 1977-83. He also lived in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the UK between1983-6. Mick's personal transformative journey includes working through an experience known as spiritual emergency. This deep encounter catalysed his vocation, and inspired him to train as an occupational therapist, which led him to work in an acute mental health setting and in a specialist psychological therapies team. During this time he spent nine years training in Process Oriented Psychology, incorporating humanistic and transpersonal methods into his therapeutic practice. Mick also worked for ten years as a Lecturer and Director of Admissions within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He retired from academia in 2015. Mick is the author of several books: The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis (won the 2014 Scientific and Medical Network book prize); The Visionary Spirit: Awakening to the Imaginal Realm in the Transformocene Age – 2018); The Restorative Spirit: Illumination of Conscience and Soul Progression in a Time of Global Awakening – 2022). www.ClaudiuMurgan.comclaudiu@claudiumurgan.comyoutube.com/channel/UC6RlLkzUK_LdyRSV7DE6obQ

In this episode, I am joined by Luke Lafitte, author of "Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm." In our conversation, Luke and I discuss the archetypal machine-man, overcoming the fear of eternity, resolving dualities, Neville Goddard, the American Dream, Philip K Dick, Gnosticism, and agape. You can contact Luke at drlucaslafitte@gmail.com Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm Inner Traditions https://www.innertraditions.com/books/machine-intelligence-and-the-imaginal-realm Bookshop.org https://bookshop.org/books/machine-intelligence-and-the-imaginal-realm-spiritual-freedom-and-the-re-animation-of-matter/9781644114063 Support Rebel Spirit Radio https://paypal.me/rebelspiritradio Connect with Rebel Spirit on Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebelspiritradio Twitter: @RebelSpiritRad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebelspiritradio/ https://www.rebelspiritradio.com

Episode 51: Money and the Imaginal Realm   How can we tap into the imaginal realm with money and allow our bodies to access the possibility of what can be available to us if we desire it?   In this episode, we explore the role the imaginal realm plays in creating the pathway to you receiving the money in your business that you desire. We talk about money as an expander of your essence, feeling safe in the imaginal realm of money, letting go of the how, the generative receiving paradigm, money as a relationship, and how to ground into what we access in the space of infinite possibility with money.   I also share my own journey of intimacy building with money, and how my practices and strategies within the spiritual and 3D realms have allowed me to book out my newest program in one week and unlock money flow in my business for 50K months. I would love to hear any insights or breakthroughs that come through for you when you listen to this episode or do this practice, feel free to reach out to me on Instagram @iamanakinkela.   — Nectar Waitlist   Even though the doors to Nectar are closed until next year, if you'd like to receive a very special offer that will only be available to those already on the Nectar waitlist, click here to add yourself to the waitlist now. This program will book out again for next year, quite possibly even before I open the waitlist, so the current waitlist is the best place to learn about accessing enrolment for the next cohort of Nectar. — FREE Community Event   Join us LIVE for - Healing Your Receiving Paradigm & Quantum Leaping with Nervous System Business Growth™ - A FREE 2-day event taking place on November 21st + 22nd at 3:00PM PST/ 6:00PM EST.   In this 2-day live event we will dive into: How to heal and expand your receiving paradigm How to activate quantum level receiving in resonance with ease and pleasure The power of your nervous system to create resonance in how you market and magnetize clients Why integration and resonance with your body shapes the embodied strategy that is most effective and easeful for your unique energy How to burnout proof your business through Nervous System Business Growth™ The behind the scenes of a failed launch and a successful launch in my own biz and what shifted to create quantum level results And so much more!   This 2-day live event will be hosted via Zoom, and each day will include a live training with an additional 30 minutes of coaching and Q+A at the end of each session. Register here to secure your spot! — P.S. If this episode resonated with you, I invite you to share it with your friends and loved ones, and to subscribe to and review The Magick Weaver Podcast on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts!

Today on the podcast, we are graced with the highly cultivated holistic healer; Erin Lovell Verinder for an intimate discussion around her devotion to the plant path, the world of herbalism, and why we are witnessing a timely resurgence of this revered profession of healing. A Herbalist, nutritionist, energetic healer, mentor, and author of two incredible bodies of work, Erin's the kind of woman that leaves you wondering; How does she do it all? Birthed consecutively amidst a pandemic, Erin's books, Plants For The People (Thames & Hudson 2020) and The Plant Clinic (Thames & Hudson 2021), are modern classic guides to the world of plant medicine and herbalism, endowed with elegant visual codes of your favourite coffee table book. This is the second time we've had Erin on the podcast, and we're so thrilled to have her back. Both versed in the love language of plant medicine, this conversation between Tahnee and Erin is a celebration of herbalism, filled with nuance and some progressive insights on not gendering herbs through their application. Erin discusses what she calls her pillars to thrive, supporting the immune system during the pandemic, and the profound effect of having a gentle approach to healing and detoxing. A remembering, a becoming, and unfolding of the world of holistic herbal healing; This episode is one for everyone. Tune in.      "You have to be a savvy business owner as well. I've had different iterations of having a healing space, my own multi-modality wellness space, which sold and successfully ran for many years. Then being a head-practitioner at a busy, busy clinic in Sydney, and then being digital and writing books. I've had all these different iterations, and it's given me a lot of perspectives. But there's a lot of things I wished that I knew when I came out, and if I can help people in that way, I'm really excited to do that because it's a big job".     - Erin Lovell Verinder      Tahnee and Erin discuss: Immunity protocols. Drop dosing for kids. Herbal remedies for kids. The gendering of herbs. Detox and cleansing culture. Viewing fear as a mental virus. Herbs as the people's medicine. The matriarchal lineage of herbalism. The process of healing and becoming. Knowing yours, and your child's constitution type. Healing the gut; An energetic core of our constitution.     Who is Erin Lovell Verinder? Erin is a fully qualified Herbalist, Nutritionist, and Energetic Healer who has worked in the healing realms for twenty-one years. Erin holds a Bachelor of Western Herbal Medicine, an Advanced Diploma of Nutritional Medicine, and a Diploma of Energetic Healing and is a member of the (ATMS) Australian Traditional Medicine Society. Walking the plant path, Erin is a woman in tune with the natural world. On a full-hearted mission to educate, assist, and up-level how we can all heal with the rhythms of nature. Marrying the wisdom and philosophy of naturopathic medicine as the golden compass to treat the whole- not just the symptom is the pure guiding force in Erin's practice. Getting to the roots of ill health is the solid intention and directive of her work. Through her practice, Erin addresses the drivers and encourages the body to gently return to balance, using food as medicine, medicinal plants, lifestyle changes, functional testing, and energetic healing; Delivering a wholesome, high vibrational experience. Erin has written two phenomenal books: Plants For The People (Thames & Hudson 2020. The Plant Clinic (Thames & Hudson 2021).   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Erin's Instagram  erinlovellverinder.com The Plant Clinic Book Plants For The People Book Plants For The People SuperFeast podcast   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee: (00:00) Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the SuperFeast podcast. We have one of my favourite guests. You're Mr. Guest of the show now, Erin. Erin Lovell Verinder, who is a beautiful Herbalist, she's also an author, and we're here really today to talk about her new book, The Plant Clinic, which has already gotten pre-discussed in my house. It's, again, a stunning book, but also a really practical manual. Even for someone who's like trained in herbalism, I'm using it all the time because it captures all these protocols and concepts and ideas in this really beautiful and succinct way. I want to congratulate you on your new baby. Well done.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (00:39) Thank you so much. That's so sweet.   Tahnee: (00:42) Yeah, and welcome back to the show. It's great to have you.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (00:44) Thank you for having me.   Tahnee: (00:45) Yeah, I'm so happy to have you here. Your first podcast was one of the most popular, so it's really great to have you.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (00:51) Oh, that's so sweet.   Tahnee: (00:52) Yeah, I know. We're like aww. I think people just love... and that's something we've always been really passionate about is like, yeah, it's great to buy products and we love that you can buy SuperFeast from the shelf or whatever. But when you start to make your own herbal medicines, I think there's something, I don't know, that connects you to herbalism in a different way and connects you to the energy of the plants in a different way. I use pre-made stuff and I make my own stuff. I think it just depends on where I'm at in my life. But, yeah, I think having books like yours, especially, modernising herbalism because a lot of the old books can... like they're awesome, but they can be a bit retro [crosstalk 00:01:28]. How's it been going since publication? Have you been getting any positive feedback or?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (01:37) Yeah, it's been lovely. I've done two books now in the pandemic which has been like fairly wild and interesting. That they're being birthed at this time when actually I feel like they've been really needed and the spirit of plant medicine is like singing, I think, at this time within the pandemic and everything that we are moving through as a collective. Yeah, so Plants for the People came out in my March 2020 when the pandemic hit, and then The Plant Clinic just came out August 31st in Australia when we were all basically in lockdown. We were in the eye of it, so there were no stores open. Which was strange and I had to add a real block around that initially like, "Oh, I can't do in-person and people can't go see it at the stores."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (02:22) But I moved through that and it's actually, of course, it's been really well received and people are finding it and ordering it, and yeah, giving me such beautiful feedback. There's nothing more rewarding than that. Honestly, I get so much from those messages and emails about how the book has impacted their life or their little ones life or how they're working with their family in health and herbs and how they learn how to do this from the book, or I came at the right time. Like a lot of people say that I picked the book up and it's just at the most perfect time and that really thrills me. Yeah, it's been beautiful, it's been a beautiful exchange of putting the book out and what's coming back to me, which is beautiful.   Tahnee: (03:02) Yeah, it must be really rewarding, and how much work goes into these things. Yeah, incredible to see it in the flesh.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (03:13) So much work.   Tahnee: (03:13) Yes, so much work.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (03:13) Sorry, I was going to say this book really held us captive for over a year, and Noah, my husband, designed it so it was this real family effort and creation from our little family to you all. It was a major, so much work. So I'm so proud of it to see we did it, we did it, we made it.   Tahnee: (03:33) Yeah, well it's quite encyclopaedic in a way of like it really... I think Plants for the People was this amazing introduction to the world of plants. But then this is almost like working with a herbalist. It's got almost protocols and what a day would look like if you're working on a specific issue? And there's pillars of health that you might get introduced to working with a clinicians, so for me it felt a bit more actually going and seeing a practitioner. Like this book's almost like one in your house.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (04:05) Yes. No, really, that was truly my intention of writing it, for sure, was taking all of my years of clinical practise and knowledge, and as best as I could, distilling it down onto the paper to support and guide people with these daily protocols and how to work with plants as if you were working with the herbalist. Because the truth is like not everybody can access that one on one care and afford to weave that into their support team and whatnot, or access it. I just wanted to create a body of work that was super accessible and had all of those. Oh, so much in there, there's just so much in that book, for sure.   Tahnee: (04:44) Yeah, well, I think and I really appreciated like you have got a lot there for children and around dosing. I think that's stuff we get asked about a lot at SuperFeast. There's a lot of fear around working with herbs and children, and at different stages of pregnancy and postpartum and things. It's quite confusing on the internet. Like I saw you made a note in there around like you're going to read different things and they're going to conflict sometimes. Like I wonder do you have any overarching philosophies around working with kids and how do you approach that? You've got some dosing guidelines in here, but I'm just interested to flick that out a little bit.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (05:22) Yeah, for sure. I wanted to shed light on that because, yeah, you're right, I get asked all the time as well. When I started my practise as a herbalist, I was really specialising in paediatrics. And for years I really worked very closely with kids and their parents because you're always working with parents when you work with kids too. Which sometimes is the harder piece, to be honest. But so dosing was important and shedding light on working with children was important to me. I'd say that one of the biggest pieces around dosing with kids is that often less is more. So really even looking at drop dosing and working with more this energetic concept of dosing herbs, then these big wacky, not wacky, but big therapeutic dosing.   Tahnee: (06:10) Mamado herbs.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (06:10) Yeah, I had a whole section on drop dosing in the book, which I feel like can be really helpful. That more ease, using your intuition to start it just like these small little drops. You might start with five drops in a little bit of water for your little one, or instead of doing like a big meal dropper, it might just be like a few drops and see how your little one responds in that way. Drop dosing's a really good one to consider with kids because I feel like kids are so responsive often to herbs, to the plant world. Yeah, so I always start more with a drop dose approach, but there's a bunch of different rules in herbal medicine that you can calculate doses based on...   Erin Lovell Verinder: (06:52) So there's Clark's rule, but there's also Young's, and excuse me, so I would look at those and I've actually highlighted Clark's in the book because I feel like that's you're looking at... There's ones that look at age and weight and there's all these different methods that you can use. But I feel like Clark's is just really easy.   Tahnee: (07:12) Really simple.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (07:13) Yeah.   Tahnee: (07:14) Yeah, I've noticed that in my treating my daughter, because we've not really had much more than colds and she had a sore ear last night actually at 3:00 in the morning and gave her some immune herbs and put some Colloidal Silver in her ear and gave her a little limp massage and she woke up like, "Oh my ear's fine now, mommy." I'm like it's amazing to me how fast they heal, and I'm like, "If that was me, I'd probably still be in bed going ugh."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (07:42) Totally [crosstalk 00:07:43].   Tahnee: (07:42) She's like, "I'm good, I'm good. I'm ready to go to school and I love just..." Yeah, I hardly gave her, I probably gave her eight drops of this little immune tincture that we have. Which it's a bit stronger than the mushrooms like to give her sometimes things that pack a bit more of a punch if she's properly unwell. But, yeah, I really noticed that you just don't need much and homeopathics are so effective for them and those kinds of things.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (08:05) Yes, absolutely. Responsive, so responsive, and they shift really quickly, really quickly. Like a stupid charged shift with kids. I would say like really go low dose and just read a bit more about it. Like in the section of The Plant Clinic, get familiar with that, and then you do have to use your intuition a little bit knowing your little one like what's their constitution like? What do they respond from? Are they really... I've outlined the constitution piece in the book and there's only a little section on it.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (08:39) But I feel like it's so helpful to think about whether someone has a more robust constitution or a more sensitive constitution. Because it really changes how you approach dosing with plant medicine based on that. I would even implement that ethos into looking at your little one, are they quite robust? Are they sensitive and how would you dose them as well around that?   Tahnee: (09:00) I think that for adults too, it's something we speak about a lot when people come to us with dosing issues. Like they might take a quarter teaspoon and be like, "Are you sure these aren't psychedelic?" I'm like, "No, they're not. But you're obviously very sensitive, so for you, you're not going to need a very large dose at all. You can get away with like probably an eighth of a tea spoon or a pinch or something." That's great, good value, off you go. Then you're going to deal with people that are stronger, more robust, less sensitive to their energy body and they're going to be able to take much higher doses and not be affected by it. Yeah, I find that a lot that people miss that bio individuality piece of like you are going to behave and perform differently to everybody else.   Tahnee: (09:43) It's tricky like we were chatting before we came on with the compliance and regulations that we have to meet as herbalists. When working with a product like ours where we're selling it directly to the public, we have to state dosage and this isn't always aligned to what I believe to be true. I would actually prefer it to be a lot more nuanced, I suppose. But, yeah, just the way it is. Energy's kind of that was your first domain, I suppose, like working in that more subtle realm. How has that come into... has that been coming into clinic more for you lately with all this stuff going on? I imagine you probably need some protection yourself.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (10:29) I [inaudible 00:10:30]. Yeah, that's so interesting. On lots of levels, it's been coming in strongly. For my own practice because what has been presenting... so clients, what people are moving through and what we're moving through collectively, I really do believe it's a whole new paradigm and people are operating on a really different level than they were operating on pre-pandemic. As a practitioner, definitely it has impacted how I show up and what is needed? What's the demand on me to hold that space, and it's like I have to cast a bigger circle to hold it. That's been interesting in my own process and witnessing what that's bringing out in me and how I can show up. Yeah, for sure, that's been a whole thing.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (11:25) But in terms of what people are moving through and whether or not I have to call on those energetic parts, for sure. I'm always, in everything that I do as a practitioner, I'm always doing my best to honour the unseen forces and the subtle anatomy of it all. That means even if I'm working with somebody on their gut, I'm also honouring the emotions of the gut and the energy systems of the gut. I'm not just looking at it in a very black and white physiological anatomy and physiology, or like even the action of the herb or the action of the nutrient of food that we're working with, I'm more thinking about to the energy of it and the energy of what that person's moving through.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (12:13) Yeah, it's always a consideration and it's for sure a big consideration right now. Because what people are moving through is far... Like obviously people present with physical symptoms or imbalances that need support. But I really do believe that things are driven by our emotional bodies and spiritual bodies and our mental bodies too. I do believe that there's always involvement, right? I do believe that those aspects aren't... it's a lot going on right now. There's a lot of deep emotion that's tied into the physical right now. Yeah, I'm for sure working on those realms and levels always.   Tahnee: (12:51) I know you're seeing that in presentation more around adrenal type stuff or is it like... Personally, in myself, I can feel like a tendency to withdraw a lot more in a lot more sensitive just in general to people and energy. I'm also pregnant, so it's hard to know how much of that's pregnancy and how much of that's COVID. But, yeah, I've really noticed that in myself, like I just have a much smaller buffer between myself and the world and I'm having to be quite protective of that. Which was unusual for me because normally I'm quite comfortable with big groups and people, and now I'm like, "Oh, no, there's like 10 people [inaudible 00:13:33]." It's that stuff. I don't even know what you call that, like sensitivity and maybe anxiety and a bit of that.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (13:44) Yeah, I would say that there's... Like really what's coming forward, it's got a lot to do with the nervous system, and for sure, I would say that there's a lot more anxiety and a lot more deep fatigue. But like sensitivity, a lot of sensitivity, sensitivity to stimulation, depression, or low mood, low vitality. And just a lot of fear, there's a lot of fear that's going around, and I think fear can be a bit of a collective thought virus as well? There's like people are dealing with the fear and how that's cycling in their body, and fear of being unwell. There's just a lot of fear. I think that that's what I started talking about and referring to that new paradigm. Like everyone's just operating on a very different level right now.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (14:43) As a clinician, having been in practise now solid for like over 10 years, of course, I've never seen anything like it where everyone's experiencing the same thing in some way, in such a way. Obviously, we're experiencing similar things by being alive on the planet at the same time, but not like this.   Tahnee: (15:01) Acutely.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (15:03) Acutely, so people present with being maybe they want to talk about what they can do to support their immune systems, or their concerns about the vaccination, or which is very hard to navigate as a practitioner, for sure. Because actually this is a space that we are legally meant to step back from. There's just a lot of like what people are curious about and what they're worrying about. But the anxiety and the depression and the adrenal stuff, it's all like nervous system adrenal system, fight or flight survival mode stuff big time.   Tahnee: (15:48) Yeah, we're activating the sympathetic nervous system.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (15:50) Absolutely.   Tahnee: (15:51) Yeah, I can see that like we've got a team of about 30, so I can see different waves of things move through, and yeah, I've noticed those kinds of things in our team. I think I really... like that's one of the things I love about this book and would really recommend to people if you are thinking about immune protocols, you're thinking about anxiety and managing that with herbs. Like you've got calls for those listed out in here like whole chapters devoted to them. I think just having, I know for me, having things that I can lean on that support me, it's like a bomb.   Tahnee: (16:26) It's like you might be aware of that feeling and that sensitivity, but you don't have to lean into it too far because you've got these things to prop you up. It's where I think herbs can really store on all these beautiful, calming, gorgeous herbs that we have of access to reishi. I'm loving all these [inaudible 00:16:44] lately. I can just feel this real need to nourish that inner aspect.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (16:50) Absolutely. Yeah, and personally, it's funny, even oat staw are like I've got a little milky oats tincture on my table here, on my desk. Yep, and I've also been taking reishi myself as well. The two that you mentioned are very much like present in my field, in my body. Because I think the biggest thing is how can people shift from that sympathetic nervous system state to that parasympathetic rest and digest state? And how can I support them to do that? That's a lot of the work I'm doing right now, for sure. A lot of it is about our herbal helpers and how our plant medicines that calm the nervous system, and even can gently sedate the nervous system when you're in a really acute state of anxiety or panic or fear.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (17:42) It's I just feel for everyone. I feel for everyone so much right now. There's just so much of that going around, so that's why I actually... Obviously, I didn't... Well, I was writing, so I was writing the book in the depth of the pandemic. But, yeah, that was a part of why I wrote the emotions, mind spirit section, in The Plant Clinic. Because, as a clinician, even pre-pandemic, I was always treating lots of anxiety and working with people with anxiety, panic, depression. Just that low vitality as well, and all stemming from more of a mental, emotional place. Yeah, so I'm really proud of that section because I just really feel like it's rare to come across a body of work in herbalism that addresses that directly. I feel like often we're not talking so much about the spirit in, at all. Sometimes-   Tahnee: (18:39) I completely agree. It's all physical and often very... Like it's something I really love about your work is obviously you have the background of the energy medicine and then you've also got the more chemical constituents like biomedical background.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (18:54) Yeah, herbals and nutritional medicine.   Tahnee: (18:55) Yeah, and like this nice intersection of... which I think is where medicine really needs to go is like, and what has drawn me to Chinese medicine and Ayurveda and these things in my life is like we need to acknowledge that subtle realm and their unseen forces, as you call them. That's a really potent part of healing and a potent part of why we often have anxiety and things like that. We disconnect from what we really need or what we're really calling for in our deepest selves. Yeah, I think herbs really help with that, and I think even the action of preparing your own medicine and preparing your own tonics and things like there's something very nourishing and soothing in that.   Tahnee: (19:40) I don't know, just like it's a small, simple process that moved you toward maybe where you want to be. I think that was something I really noticed and loved about the book was it was that section, and you should be proud of yourself. It's important and I know it's hard to speak to those things as a practitioner sometimes because people can sound woo woo. It's something we struggle with a lot. Like we want to be woo woo.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (20:06) Totally. Yeah, girl, I'm just so at a point where I'm like, "This is what it is, guys. I'm not even worried if I sound woo woo."   Tahnee: (20:14) Totally.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (20:14) I'm just like, "This is my message. This is what's coming out. Receive it or don't."   Tahnee: (20:19) Well, I love it. You're a little bit more evolved than me. I'm still [crosstalk 00:20:24]-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (20:24) No, no, no.   Tahnee: (20:26) Bit, no. I think it takes some confidence though, and some like, probably, like you've had these 10 years in clinic. You're like it's this little experience of this is what I see and it's proven to me over and over again and I can't avoid it.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (20:40) Well, it's just that thing of like you can't compartmentalise health. It's like we're whole beings. If you're going to, like I said, just example of the gut that I'm circling back to that, if you're going to work on the gut, of course, you have to work on it from a very physical level. What's going on in the gut and how can we heal the gut? What are we eating? What are we feeding? But what are we thinking? What are we, actually, what are we absorbing from self-talk? What's our environment like that impacts our digestive systems? What are the roots of the gut dysbiosis? Is there trauma there? I think working on the gut, it's like the deepest seed of like our actual beginning of our root system. The beginning of us-   Tahnee: (21:23) Yeah, like our, what's the word, evolution in the womb as well-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (21:27) Absolutely, it's the beginning.   Tahnee: (21:28) ... with primal layers.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (21:30) Yeah, and it's like so I often feel like when people are working deeply on healing their guts, and I do a lot of digestive healing with clients, we're going back to the roots and it's so powerful. There's people always go through really big, almost like deep initiation and rebirth canals when they're working on the gut in a way. And I'm like, "Well, it would be like I'm going to get half of the results if I don't honour those other parts of what someone's going through and support them through that too." I know this from doing it for so many years, so yeah, I'm like I'm all in, I'm all in.   Tahnee: (22:04) Well, that's enough.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (22:06) I'm all in.   Tahnee: (22:06) Here I am and I noted that page in your book where you talk about on unfolding and healing isn't pretty, and I think that's something I often try and emphasise for people. It's like it's not just these detox reactions or herb reactions and things that we get. But it's like if you are... I know this personally, like my work around my gut was deeply connected to a lot of stuff from my childhood and it was not fun. It was not fun at all to start actually acknowledging the pain and the stuff that was brought forward from remembering and acknowledging those things. But the outcome being have a great digestive system in these days and it's like, yeah, it's worth it but it's not always nice.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (22:54) Absolutely. Yeah, that's really important in my process working with people, and I think my ethos is healing is not always pretty, it's not always straightforward. It takes time, you're unfolding and allowing that to be a process. It's the process of becoming. I think becoming is a real theme in my work, and when I mentor people too who want to walk the plant path it's like we're a little bit I'm geared towards like this a little, a lot. Geared towards instant culture, like this instant culture, instant gratification culture, and we just want to do the thing and then that's that. That's what we are, and I'm like, "Ah, there's a whole process."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (23:42) For me to show up who I am, I've walked these 20 something years now to get to this place where I can confidently say to you all, "Hey, take it or leave it. Like this is who I am and this is what I've got to say." I'm not saying I'm... I've got work to do still, I'm just saying this is who I am at this point. But-   Tahnee: (24:03) It's still unfolding.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (24:04) It's still unfolding. Like I've become to this point and healing is like that. It's a becoming and it's just an unfolding and it's gentle and it can be gentle, sometimes it's not. But you have to be gentle with yourself in that process.   Tahnee: (24:18) I was going to say, and I noticed a tendency toward gentleness in your work, which I like. There's not these extreme, like your detox protocols and things, they're not these extreme crazy things that we've all... Maybe not everyone's tried, but I've definitely tried some of it [inaudible 00:24:33]. Look, there's space for them in the world and I'm not trying to say they're wrong, but I think, especially in times like this, where people are so sensitive and there's so much collective for like angst and fear and stress. Like gentleness is probably the best medicine we could give ourselves at this point. I hope I'm not speaking for you, but that's-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (24:54) No, I totally agree. Yeah, for sure. Gentle is definitely my approach, and in writing a book that I know that is going to be accessed by all these different people and they're not going to be guided by me personally. As in they can just call me up and ask a question. I really wanted to write a book that I knew would be gentle for people and they could have a really soft pace with it, but also get results. I think that kind of concept, detoxification as well, because, yeah, there's a whole detoxification section in the book. I wanted to dispel a bit of myths around like this whole cleansing culture and detox culture.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (25:38) Yeah, the whole section explains it well around like your body's naturally detoxifying all the time, so how can we just, every minute, so how can we support those systems to just give them a little extra lift? But in a way that just actually flows with what they're already doing. So you might find that, "Oh, my liver is stagnated." Well, your liver is still doing its thing, it just needs a little bit of help. Yeah, that was my approach of like, "We're not going to do anything drastic. We're just going to be really gentle." But it can often be so profound when you are gentle in your approach.   Tahnee: (26:15) Yeah, I definitely like preconception with Ayo was pretty hectic, and this baby, I made a real effort to not be like that and I focused a lot more. I still did a bit of preparatory work that was very gentle, and then I focused a lot more on building and nourishing myself. Which I think I neglected that part a little bit with Ayo was a bit more like gung-ho with the cleansing. Like I didn't get any morning sickness at all this time. I did get a lot of rage, so maybe I did quite of both.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (26:50) [crosstalk 00:26:50] rage.   Tahnee: (26:53) But it was interesting having like just that really different first trimester experience of like with Ayo was like if it wasn't salty and crunchy, it wasn't going in my mouth. Whereas with this baby I was like, "I can eat pretty much everything." Yeah, it was a lot more gentle to navigate that first trimester, and yeah, except if you were Mason Taylor because you were not having a gentle time, but [inaudible 00:27:18] high oestrogen perhaps. Yeah, really I thought that was really interesting just personal anecdote. Yeah, and again, like you speak to hormones a lot in your book and it is a gentle approach.   Tahnee: (27:35) I think especially with women, we are cyclical beings and we are very sensitive and I think a lot of... and I've read a lot of books by male herbalists and that can be very gung-ho. It can come in hard and it can come in a little bit aggressive, and I think it's nice to bring some of that gentleness into that space as well.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (27:58) Yeah, I think, yeah, fully, and I think herbalism has been... I think there's a heavy matriarchal lineage running through herbalism. The OG lineage perhaps.   Tahnee: (28:10) Yeah.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (28:10) The OG lineage, exactly. So I think there's also a really different lens of perspective when you've been trained in that lineage as well. That's definitely been my lineage, and all my teachers were women, which women identified which felt correct learning with this softer... I mean not all soft but-   Tahnee: (28:35) Yes, I've had Susan Weed on the [inaudible 00:28:37]-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (28:37) Not soft, Susan, not all soft. But, yeah, the teachers I really resonated with were just very, very soft. So that really also expanded my path around how important that felt for me to have that gentleness as a teacher and a writer and a clinician as well. I just I really want people to feel held in whatever I do, and there's a softness to that, whatever that is. That matriarchal maternal instinct to want to be soft and to want to hold that space.   Tahnee: (29:16) Yeah, and I think that's really aligned to... One thing I think we both have like as a theme in our belief systems is this idea of herbs is people's medicine. If you think about like traditionally women are going to hold the kitchen, they're going to hold the garden, and they're going to be holding the medicine in a way. I think there's this real sense of something I've always said to Mason, like I want to be 60 and I want to be old and I want people to come and be like, "I've got this," and I always give them something. It's like a potion. I think there's this real beautiful ancestral line of women healers that I think we're seeing this resurgence in like...   Tahnee: (29:57) I just had Asia Suler on the podcast, and she's very feminine in how she works. Yeah, I can feel this, I don't know, this softening in the herbal world. When I started with Mase, it was guys doing tablespoons of mushrooms and it's bio hacky. It was really hectic, and I was like, "Whoa." I wasn't drawn into that, like I was drawn into working with the herbs and the mushrooms, for sure, but not in that way. Yeah, it's been interesting to watch that space change as well. It's a lot more feminine now and a lot more soft.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (30:29) Yeah, for sure. Then on the flip side of that too, I feel like what's fascinating is as we let go of these concepts of gender, and gender is a construct as well, how people, non-binary people, might be practising herbalism. And bringing it into this space that, they're definitely practising herbalism, but bringing it into this space that is like neither that nor that. As we upgrade our language and the love language of herbalism just keeps expanding from different voices who have different perspectives. I think that's also really interesting. And just also thinking about plants, not in their male or female plants. I think that's really limiting in terms of my idea of how I think about plants, and that's changing and growing, and as I grow. But, yeah, I've really been feeling more into that.   Tahnee: (31:36) I'm interested in this, because we come from a modulus tradition where there is a lot of genderizing of everything. I definitely had that bias, and I would obviously love to... I've done some workshops, actually, I did a really amazing workshop with a non-binary teacher in Oregon and she was like... Well, she wasn't a she, but she looked feminine to me, but I think she was a they, and they were speaking a lot about female bodied people and herbal abortions and working in that space around trauma to do with birth and miscarriage. Look, it was one of the best workshops and trainings I've ever done, and they spoke a little bit about the non-...   Tahnee: (32:26) Like this person's clinic really served that community, so they spoke a bit about issues in that community. But I don't see a lot of representation of that in the herbal world, maybe you do more because you might be a bit more exposed to it. But, yeah, I'd be interested in your experience. Like how are you now relating to plants through that energetic realm if you are not choosing binary terms?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (32:50) Yeah, look, it's really interesting because I think that, first of all, I think herbal culture in Australia is really... and we've talked about it. We went into this in the last podcast, which I really loved because I thought it was just a really interesting perspective for you and I to talk about that. Because we both have a lot of experience with American herbalism and that spirit of herbalism in the States. Having you train there and me spending so much time there, and because my husband's American and having such a kinship with America. But Australian herbalism is just so, so different because we have to study in these private colleges or university settings, and essentially, it's a health science degree, or whether you do a health science naturopathy degree or whatnot. And you're learning herbs or you become a herbalist at Western Herbal Medicine.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (33:39) So that in itself already puts herbalism in a really inaccesible place for a lot of people here in Australia. Because unless you've got... My debt from school is from training is insane, let alone what they're paying now and that mine was so long ago. I'm just saying that because it like casts an awareness on not all types of people would have access to doing this kind of training here in Australia. Obviously, you can learn herbs in different ways, but if you were to go out and practise and learn in a structured setting. Whereas in America, and this is what we went into on the last podcast, it's like it's the people's medicine. It's like essential to have that medicine in the system where there is no universal healthcare.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (34:28) Therefore, I think herbalism reaches a lot of different types of people, and not just privileged people. Not just people of privileged who can go and do those kind of degrees. There's a different spirit to it. I think that there's a lot of exciting things happening in the States with non-binary people who identify non-binary, but are herbalist and they're practising in ways that are undoing some of those structures, which I think is really fascinating. I'm still listening. I'll continue to listen and learn, and yeah, I'm curious. But the way that, for me, how it's impacted, I think I just always felt like those systems didn't feel super true and resonate with me.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (35:15) Some of the systems of like these are women's herbs and these are the men's herbs. I know these are ancient traditions, so I'm not saying that they don't have a place and there's not a lot of gold in all of that, of how we can treat female body people or male body people, or let's use those terms just to streamline this conversation. But I do feel that I didn't deeply resonate with that. So there's a section in The Plant Clinic that's Mums & Bubs, and there's a section that's hormone health. I was like, "How do I be more inclusive in those spaces?" But I'm trying to convey what I'm trying to convey. I had to use certain terminology like Mums & Bubs, or like this is first-   Tahnee: (36:01) [crosstalk 00:36:01] people and-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (36:01) ... Birthing people and mensturating people. Yeah, so that was a little tricky, but I wrote a little note in the book on gender terminology and I was like, "Oh, this is going to really shake it up, isn't it?" Maybe this is going to shake it a little bit up, but hey, I think that's what we're all here for as well to open conversations and to get people thinking about a different layer, a different perspective. And how boring if we all just felt like we all knew it all and it was the exact same way forever. The times are changing, and that means herbalism is changing too. I've witnessed it changed dramatically from when I started studying to now. There was really like it was so wacky, if you're a herbalist. It was like, "Oh, good luck. Like get onto the world, let's see what happens?"   Tahnee: (36:55) All in three months.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (36:58) Totally. Yeah, exactly. You might not have a job real soon or your clinic probably will fail because there's not that many people into this. It felt like that when I got out and now it's like it's in a totally different place where I feel like it's having this epic renaissance.   Tahnee: (37:15) I agree, yeah.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (37:16) Yeah, and it's just so rich. But so rich in action, in movement, in growth. I just feel like... Oh, so back to your question about how I'm practising it, it's more about the energy. It's just, honestly, it comes down to the energy and the presentation of what someone's going through and how I would meet them with herbs. It's like a herb like Shatavari, which is a very beautiful I think central herb that is very much linked in with a woman's herb. Because it has such an effect on the menstrual cycle, and it is a beautiful herb for women. But it's a beautiful herb for everyone in many different ways. Even like those really we think of them as really Yang ginseng like Panax ginseng or Korean ginseng.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (38:12) We think more to apply those to men. But, absolutely, I just do not think that is true in terms of how we can apply it to all people just in... If it suits, if the presentation's correct, if the energy's correct, if the dose is correct, it's just about listening. I think it's just about listening. Like I might think, yeah, a herb like Rose is just really feminine. We use that like soft, feminine, the unfolding, the petals of Rose. But I know a lot of people who could do with Rose, and it's just heart medicine. I just challenge that a little bit in The Plant Clinic, but it's just it's my own perspective.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (39:04) But it doesn't mean it has to be true for you, and I do think that aeons of information around herbs that would be supportive for our menstrual cycle, and say, supportive for sperm motility. Of course, I understand that they're applied to like this male identified person or this woman identified person. But, at the same time, I'm just challenging that idea of that actually isn't everybody as well. There's just this nuances, so we just need to open up space for nuance.   Tahnee: (39:36) Yeah, and I think it comes down to the intention of the person ingesting the herbs as to what kind of energy shifts they want to experience in their body? I can imagine if you're a male body person who identifies as female, you might not care about your sperm motility so much. So you might not be interested in working with those herbs. But then, again, I'm very clunky in this space, so anyone listening please feel free to write me an email about it. But I definitely have had like a personal experience of the universe having a binary, like two binary forces that are constantly in motion. It's hard to explain in words, but it's more of a visual or a felt sense that I have.   Tahnee: (40:26) I can understand that there's a spectrum between an extreme of each, whether you want to call it yin and yang or gender and male-Feminine, whatever, the Shiva-Shakti from the yoga traditions. Like I can feel this real truth in that sense of the binary is always in motion between one another, and that creates this experience that we live in. We're going very deep right now.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (40:51) Yes.   Tahnee: (40:53) But for me that-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (40:54) Unexpectedly deep into this area.   Tahnee: (40:57) [crosstalk 00:40:57] on the radar today. We haven't had enough sleep for this conversation, but yeah.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (41:01) Totally, forgive us if we're stumbling through this. But I think it's important to talk about it. It's important.   Tahnee: (41:09) It is, yeah. This has formed my, like cosmology, has formed my worldview. This sense of this dance between these two poles creating this manifest reality. That's literally how I've ended up explaining to myself how all this is here. I can understand that those like masculine and feminine terms aren't necessarily useful, but I think what you're pointing to, and I've had this experience in myself. Like postpartum, Deer Antler is not a herb I relate to normally. Postpartum, I'm like, "Give me that stuff." It's like I can see that I've gone through this big depletion of my yang of given birth. It's like a huge journey, and it's like to pull some of that masculine or yang energy or whatever you want to call it into my being is a really powerful medicine for me at that point.   Tahnee: (42:02) I don't keep doing it for long, it just it's a period of time and then I'm done with that again. I think I can relate to what you're saying there. It's also I think I often, for me, I've really related to ratio's a very feminine energy, but I would always expect men to take it because I think it can connect them to that softer part of themselves, like what you're saying with Rose. Yeah, and I remember you... I might not remember it word for word, but you said something to the effect of this book is for older people. There are some sections that are working toward women's reproductive stuff, and yes, they might not be useful for everybody. But, in general, herbalism is for everybody, like just about tuning into what's right for you in the moment.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (42:51) That's it, that's ultimately what it is. I think I'm just curious as well about out doing, undoing old paradigms. I think there must be something with that [crosstalk 00:43:08]. What's that?   Tahnee: (43:11) Just in like paradigm breaking mode right now.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (43:13) Yeah, make it all [inaudible 00:43:14]. No, I know, I'm just curious about these things that sometimes I think... Look, I know that that's even in writing these books, I felt like that was actually breaking down a bit of a paradigm in herbalism. Because, personally, my experience of, and I think most people would agree with this if you've got a big herb collection of books, you would know that most of your books are written by older people. There's a real sense of like, which is beautiful, of course, the elders in the community and these people that have lived all these years and all this experience to put it down in a book, what a gift. But being a younger person, and I'm nearly 40, I'm not super, super young, but being a younger person, writing a book about herbal... It was like breaking the boundary there a little, and I think I just maybe like doing that. I don't know.   Tahnee: (44:10) I think that's a theme in your work, and I think I also see a lot of courage in that. Like that you were able to so young guide yourself. If you haven't listened to our first podcast, Erin did a lot of really early training in energy work and things before training to be a herbalist. For a young person to have the courage to fuller those paths, I think that takes a lot of, I don't know, self belief or faith or whatever you want to call it. Is that something, you know, did you bump up against that in putting these books together? Was it like there's a self-worth thing here or like an imposter syndrome thing or were like, "No, I'm feeling strong and solid in there."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (44:52) I was really supported, so I think that feeling really cheered and supported was a huge piece of feeling like I've got this as well. Well, I just felt like someone had to do it. I felt a bit like, "Well, someone's got to do this, someone's got to do this."   Tahnee: (45:12) You're an Aries, aren't you?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (45:15) Yeah, [crosstalk 00:45:16].   Tahnee: (45:15) That's why.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (45:18) Yeah, I don't know.   Tahnee: (45:19) Aries runs a lot, "Yeah, of course, I can do it."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (45:21) Yeah, totally.   Tahnee: (45:22) Everybody else is like, Oh my God, it's so scary."   Erin Lovell Verinder: (45:25) Well, and like it's so classic me as well to just like... even when I enrolled in herbal medicine and nutritional medicine, which was like a double degree vibe is what I was doing at the same time. I didn't even read the syllabus, I was just like, "Yeah, I'm going to do this. I've got this." It was like, "I really want to be this. I wonder what's going to happen?" Then I got it and I was like, "This is a science degree."   Tahnee: (45:45) What am I doing?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (45:46) Yeah. What is this biochemistry and pharmacology? I really didn't know. I think, in a way, probably anyone doing their first book feels that way too. Like you're so excited about it, you sign up, you do it, and then you're like, "Oh my goodness, this is so much work. This is so demanding and hard." I think I did that with the first book, I just dove in and was really excited and eager. I was like, "Yeah, someone's going to do this. It's going to be great. I'm just going to tell the stories of the plants again and just introduce people back to that remembering." Then I got there and was like, "Oh, this is just this is hard." But I felt confident, and I was like... I sound like such an Aries right now.   Tahnee: (46:31) [crosstalk 00:46:31] a lot of it.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (46:35) I felt confident that I could pull it off, even though it also brought out other parts of myself. I'm a Liberian rising, and I think that I'm so such an aesthetic person and I really love things to look beautiful and be visually like visual eye candy and pull you in. That was actually really fun for me because both books, I got to strengthen that muscle in me of making things beautiful. I think too that has been missing in the modern herbalism space of bringing books to life that people want to put on their tables and the coffee tables and having the kitchen because it's beautiful.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (47:16) I think that there's just no denying that we're all very aesthetic creatures these days, and particularly, with Instagram and the social media channels where we're all pulled in from the visual of everything. Yeah, I just think it was timely to just bring a book to life that both books that are just visually pretty. But, yeah, for sure, that's definitely my nature just to be very much like just jump in.   Tahnee: (47:44) Yeah, I love it there. I think like you have brought it up, more than brought it up, and it's you're completely right in the visual. I think I've got your books at home, but I think we've also got both of them in the office and people just go straight to them. We have like, I don't know, I want to say thousands of books on herbalism and-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (48:04) You have lots of books [crosstalk 00:48:06]-   Tahnee: (48:08) I've got more even at our house, and people would just go straight for them and it's, to me, I'm like, "Oh, that's like the plants are being sung into people's hearts through the visual storytelling as well as your words." I think that's really powerful because images they connect us in a different way. Just I was looking into the moustache and picture in here and I'm like just that joy and that bright laugh that these sessions bring to a space. I think there's something really magical about that. I think what I really also liked about this one, I'm trying to remember your first book which I haven't read in a little while. But you talk about the pillars to thrive in this and I'm not sure that was in the first one. I don't think it was.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (48:55) No, it wasn't at all.   Tahnee: (48:55) Yeah, could you talk a little bit about that? Obviously, get the book for the in-depth look at it. But I'm just interested in right now we've talked a lot about where everyone's at, sensitivity, we're feeling a bit un-hinged [inaudible 00:49:10]. We've gone deep into the cosmos. We've tried to navigate gender issues in terms of some really practical stuff. Like not that none of that is practical, but-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (49:21) Not really.   Tahnee: (49:23) ... like how would you say to people like, "Yes, we've got herbs," but what are those lifestyle pieces that are non-negotiables for you that need to be honoured to be well in this time?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (49:34) Yeah, I think I feel like that's such a foundation of the book are those pillars. I wrote the book really with all of those elements in mind in every single daily planner.   Tahnee: (49:47) [crosstalk 00:49:47].   Erin Lovell Verinder: (49:47) Yeah, I wrote it around them and that's it. In my clinical practise, I've learnt that, like we talked about before, you can't compartmentalise a person's healing process and you can't pull them apart and say, "Just do this and you'll be great." What I've learned is that we've taken the herbs to really allow them to sink into a deeper state of received healing in the body. We need to do other elements and to take care of the body. We need to make sure that we are hydrated, we're eating good nourishing food that's healing for us, we're resting, we're connecting to nature. We're really mindful of what we're saying to ourselves. So our self-talk and we're moving our bodies. The pillars are just those elements, and the rest, the good food, moving your body, connected to nature, self-talk, body movement. No, I missed one.   Tahnee: (50:41) Yeah, I think you got them all.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (50:41) Drinking water.   Tahnee: (50:41) Diabetic.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (50:41) Diabetic.   Tahnee: (50:41) Connected with nature.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (50:48) Yeah, those pillars are super important. It's very naturopathic thinking about what are the elements that the body needs to, the body being, needs to be supported with to heal. You'll see in every protocol. Like let's say there's a protocol for an acute cold, it will say practise the pillars, and then it says which pillars to practise. You might want to do, obviously, like to do them all, but you really focus on rest and really focusing on hydration and eating good food. Then I suggest some foods that could be really helpful too. The book was really written around those because I really believe that to work with plant medicines, you need to also work with those elements. I felt like it was seriously negligible of me to write a book about healing with plant medicine without mentioning all those elements of how we can heal holistically and truly.   Tahnee: (51:36) It's something that comes up so much for us where someone will call and be like, "Oh, I run 50 kilometres a day and I work 80 hours away. Can I do this essentially at work? Can you give me for my adrenals?" I'm like, "Hmm." I just would like to say that I'm happy to help you and support you, but really that's not a sustainable way to live forever. These hormonal issues you're experiencing in this insomnia and all of these things that are coming up for you like we can't avoid looking at our lifestyles. I think, again, this gentleness, that was something that I've certainly learned and I felt in your... You're not preaching anything, you're not trying to say like there's a right way or a wrong way.   Tahnee: (52:21) It's just like, look, these are pretty basic foundations that we all need to acknowledge are essential to living. And you have to sleep at some point and you have to drink water. Yes, I think they just become... and it's nice to have them laid out in such a simple way, I think. I think it was really I liked that you had like say with the code immunity one, like rest is a priority now instead of maybe moving your body. I think it's important for people to remember that it's okay to not do your physical practise some days if your body needs to rest more than anything else.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (52:54) Absolutely. Yeah, they're just so fundamental to really working with healing your body and your being. It's just the simple reminders to return back to those practises and a gentle guide. That's really what it is, like those pillars to thrive when you read them and get to know them. But I can't tell you how many times in clinic I returned to those, and then constantly I'm just repeating myself around, "Let's drink more water, let's rest more, let's move the body more, let's eat these foods." It's amazing how simple it is, but we need to be reminded. I know, personally, I've got my big water bottle here and I fill it up and I'm going to really work to hit three of those a day and drink three of those a day.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (53:43) If I don't have my water bottle there, I forget. I'm just not an amazing natural water drinker. That really helps for me, and so I have to put my intention and energy towards weaving that in. Because I feel way better when I'm hydrated. It's just, yeah, it's always those elements, those little things in that book where it says, "There's a little tip on how to drink more water." I hope that really helps.   Tahnee: (54:07) That's what we get in clinic. Again, I remember being... I know we've both had adrenal crash in our lives and mine came I must've been about 23 or '4. I was pretty young. And I remember going to see this naturopath and she was like, "Okay, babe, you're going to put a bottle of water on the front seat of your car. You're going to put a bottle of water in your hand like this." Then she's like, "If you're stuck in traffic, you drink a sip of..." I had to be coached through, God it's embarrassing now, but like having enough water. Then she's like, "I know you're going to eat three meals a day and you're going to have some protein in everything."   Tahnee: (54:45) It was just this stuff that now obviously has become integrated and is stuff I'm trying to teach my kid, and constantly stay on top of it. But, yeah, I'm the same, I'm not someone that would go and reach for a glass of water unless I'm dehydrated, basically.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (55:01) Yes, to the point of dehydration.   Tahnee: (55:04) It's like, yeah, it's good. I'm like just have a jar, always there, refill it regularly. I've even had to have apps at points in my life, but it's just like that's how you get through it. Same with [inaudible 00:55:16], I was talking, a lot of moms can probably relate, you get to like 9:00 and your kid's asleep and you're like your house is clean and then you're like, "Ooh, me time." It's like-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (55:26) Yeah, and then you sit up and watch three hours of shows.   Tahnee: (55:29) [crosstalk 00:55:29] I've had to just be really tough and no fucking computers in the bedroom. Like, no, we don't have a TV, so it's like I have to be tight with that stuff or else one slip and I'm doomed. I appreciated having that, it was a good reminder even after all those years and all this money spent.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (55:55) That's the thing, these pillars really they're free. Obviously, we pay for our food, but a lot of them are super accessible and pretty much free. It's like that concept too that "wellness" is this big thing and it has to be expensive, and it's like that's actual bull. It's about coming back to these really foundational, fundamental practises that make our bodies and being seen and thrive and they are so simple. That's really what the pillars to thrive are, and yeah, you very much heavily referred to throughout the whole book to bring you back and keep reminding you how to practise them.   Tahnee: (56:41) Again, like you would have with Erin in face to face [crosstalk 00:56:44]-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (56:44) Exactly. Can you imagine me being like, "You can do it. Drink your water."   Tahnee: (56:49) Take care of yourself.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (56:50) What are you saying to yourself?   Tahnee: (56:53) You could record me a go to bed Tommy lullaby, that'd be good.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (56:59) I like that you like a-   Tahnee: (56:59) Got to sleep.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (57:01) ... little note, like a little alarm that just says, "Honey, switch off."   Tahnee: (57:05) Yeah. I've been good with pregnancy. I'm trying to really honour that I need about two more hours than I used to need at night. But, yeah, I know definitely it's an easy thing. Literally, every week at daycare pick up I chat with some mom and she's like, "Oh my God, I just started watching something I'm sure and I shouldn't have and now I had everybody..." I'm like, "I know, I've been there." I really like you're not taking clients at the moment, and you're in this liminal space. Obviously, you've had birth to book, it's not a minor thing, but I know you're still very busy with your clinic. But, obviously, don't have space for new clients. But you mentioned, is it okay if we talk about the mentoring things that are going to come? Yeah, could we talk through that one?   Erin Lovell Verinder: (57:50) Yeah, so I've got a wait list for clients, just for new clients. At this point, it's closed so we'll see when it will open up again. But, yeah, for the mentoring. So I've been doing mentoring one to one for, gosh, years and years and years, and I've loved it and I've learnt so much mentoring so many people. I really wanted to do that before writing a programme to just get this deep sense of what people are seeking, and they absolutely are themes that have come through to what I share and what people are going through. I'm in the midst of writing the mentoring programmes now in the hopes they'll be released. These things sometimes take time, but early 2022.   Tahnee: (58:36) Okay.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (58:37) Yeah, there'll be two different strains of mentoring and how you can mentor with me. It's really exciting because it's the first programmes I'll have done. Though I've taught many groups over the years, this is my first group digital offering and I think it's going to be really exciting and new ways for me to work with people and reach more people and be able to support more people and spread myself into those different spaces. It's exciting, yes.   Tahnee: (59:05) Yeah. Well, as a clinician, I could see a limited as to how many people you can see. But if you're teaching teachers and people that are working with people, then yeah, you're able to make a bigger impact.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (59:20) Sure, I mean... Oh, go ahead. Sorry.   Tahnee: (59:20) Well, I was just going to say that what are the qualifications? Is it for people who are trying to settle or studying or that what's your-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (59:23) There'll be two different streams, so one is more for people who are studying or graduated, and the other one is more people who are curious to step onto the plant path. Because they have two very different ways to teach and audiences to speak to. I'm really, really passionate about doing my very best as well to shape, or whatever I could do to help support and shape someone into feeling like a really capable and strong presence as a practitioner because it's a big job. I think that we come out of our studies, particularly here in Australia, and it's... I don't know. I was flabbergasted at how I didn't learn so much at school and I felt really unprepared. Then it's like, "Oh my God, I'm working with people. Is this right? How do I do this? And how do I set up these basics elements of my business?"   Erin Lovell Verinder: (01:00:22) You really have to be like a savvy business owner as well. I've had different iterations of having a big healing space like my own multi-modality wellness space for many years and selling that successfully and running it. Then being a head practitioner at a busy, busy clinic in Sydney, and then being digital and writing books. I've had all these different iterations and it's given me a lot of perspective. But there's a lot of things I wished that I knew when I came out, and if I can help people in that way, I'm really excited to do that because it's a big job.   Tahnee: (01:00:56) I guess like that, is that business aspect part of one of the streams? Like your-   Erin Lovell Verinder: (01:01:05) Yeah, we're definitely weaving that in and I'm so lucky to have my husband who's like-   Tahnee: (01:01:12) Mr. Noah.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (01:01:13) Mr. Noah, he's a virgo who is so amazing at... He really can show up with a skill set that I do not have and I am totally okay about not having that skillset. He's amazing at that. I sounded like I was talking myself out before, but I really I'm lacking much of that [crosstalk 01:01:31]. But, yeah, and he has a marketing background, so that's been really helpful to have his input into the course as well and how to run a business and the marketing aspect. It's huge, right? It is a huge element.   Tahnee: (01:01:48) Yeah, I only know it from yoga, but like similarly you do a teacher training and they're like, "Okay, you're a teacher now." And you like, "well, and like how do I go to class? What do I..." That worked for a studio, so I had a silver platter, like I was very fortunate. But a lot of my friends never ended up teaching because that jump from education to actual practise was really difficult.   Erin Lovell Verinder: (01:02:11) Really difficult and overwhelming.   Tahnee: (01:02:15) Yeah, and I was lucky to have worked and then managed other businesses so I had a bit of a business brain. Like I often think, God, if I didn't h

Mystic, Episcopal Priest, and Author Links Cynthia Bourgeault's website Books by Cynthia Wisdom Waypoints Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) Spiritual Gifts from the Imaginal Realm, an on-demand e-course available through Spirituality & Practice Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journal into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault If you'd like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what's my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is available at Audible Podcasts. Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

We spend so much time trying to be profound that we forget to be present. But where does this desire to be profound come from? Why does it seem to block our unique creative expression? Where are we pressuring ourselves to be profound in order to manage other people's experiences of us? Resources mentioned in this episode: Register for Free Immersion: Cultivating Relationship with the Imaginal Realm / https://www.braveschool.co/cultivating-relationship-with-the-imaginal-realm Join the Waitlist for Building Brave 2.0 / https://www.braveschool.co/building-brave-2 About Cultivating Relationship with the Imaginal Realm Perhaps you're here because you're looking for permission to do your dreams. Perhaps you're here because you want to find like-hearted folks who are doing their dreams shamelessly all over the the world and you're mustering up the courage to find the moment to say Yes to yours. Yes to the winding, bendy, lovely world you're dreaming of full of art and wholeness and brave-hearted people who just want to bring joy and healing to this plane through their creations. In this immersion for artists and creative entrepreneurs, we will collectively discuss some of the weird rules and stigmas that creators experience in the marketplace when they just want to share their magic with the world. We'll go in together, with gentleness, to open up the conversation many of us wish that more of us were having in a safe and non-judgmental way. SESSIONS Deconstructing Weird Rules in the Online World A Gentle Look at the Fear of Being Seen Getting to Know the Uninhibited Creator in You (plus, not everything has to make $$$ and we also have to stay alive: the pursuit of nonduality in the creative process. let's talk about it.) SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Easter Standard Time via Zoom A recording will be available via Kajabi after each session

Resources mentioned in this episode: Register for Free Immersion: Cultivating Relationship with the Imaginal Realm / https://www.braveschool.co/cultivating-relationship-with-the-imaginal-realm Join the Waitlist for Building Brave 2.0 / https://www.braveschool.co/building-brave About Cultivating Relationship with the Imaginal Realm Perhaps you're here because you're looking for permission to do your dreams. Perhaps you're here because you want to find like-hearted folks who are doing their dreams shamelessly all over the the world and you're mustering up the courage to find the moment to say Yes to yours. Yes to the winding, bendy, lovely world you're dreaming of full of art and wholeness and brave-hearted people who just want to bring joy and healing to this plane through their creations. In this immersion for artists and creative entrepreneurs, we will collectively discuss some of the weird rules and stigmas that creators experience in the marketplace when they just want to share their magic with the world. We'll go in together, with gentleness, to open up the conversation many of us wish that more of us were having in a safe and non-judgmental way. SESSIONS Deconstructing Weird Rules in the Online World A Gentle Look at the Fear of Being Seen Getting to Know the Uninhibited Creator in You (plus, not everything has to make $$$ and we also have to stay alive: the pursuit of nonduality in the creative process. let's talk about it.) SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Easter Standard Time via Zoom A recording will be available via Kajabi after each session

I am thrilled to present my guest on today's show:  Professor Allan Combs, PhD.Professor Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, and systems theorist at California Institute of Integral Studies where he is the Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies. He is the author of over 200 articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain, and is the founder and past President of the International Society for Consciousness Studies, as well as the recent recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award for advances in consciousness studies. This award was personally delivered by Deepak Chopra. He is Editor of the journals, CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century, and The Journal of Conscious Evolution. He was also the winner of the 2002-2003 National Teaching Award of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies.Professor Combs' most widely read books include Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness; Synchronicity: Through the Eyes of Science, Myth, and the Trickster (with Mark Holland); and Thomas  Berry: Dreamer of the Earth (with Ervin Laszlo).Show Notes:Animal consciousness; past lives; morphic resonance; ghosts; sacred places and spaces; the Imaginal Realm; Virginia Woolf and phenomenology; consciousness is not confined to the brain; brain is a transceiver; the relationship between fractals, consciousness and poetry, and what this tells us about the nature of RealitySUPPORT ME ON PATREON -->https://www.patreon.com/sacredwisdompodcast?fan_landing=truehttps://www.arabellathais.comFor more information about Professor Combs visit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Combs 

In the latest episode of The Life Purpose Podcast I talk to Stuart Davis. Stuart is a writer, director, actor, comedian, podcaster and songwriter. He has recorded more than 15 albums, and made TV shows like Sex, God and Rock'n'roll and The Stuart Davis show. In our conversation we talk about purpose in the context of being a creative artist. In the first part of the conversation we talk about the fundamental creativity of the universe, about how our calling usually tends to lead us outside of our comfort zone, and about the somewhat surprising direction where his purpose has taken him recently. In this part of the conversation we talk about mythopoetic identity, how to actively connect to the imaginal realm, and about how to find ones purpose. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. I hope that you will too! Find out more about Stuart at stuartdavis.com and at theliminalmuse.com. You can find Stuarts podcast, Aliens and Artists, at aliensandartists.com. If you want to check out The Experiencer Group, go to experiencergrouplab.com. About Pauli: Pauli Saari is a purpose guide, and as such he helps you, an experienced spiritual seeker who is turning your attention from the inner work to the outer work, to get to a place where you are fully engaged in contributing towards a better world in a way that feels deeply meaningful to you. Find out more at paulisaari.com. Free online workshop about purpose discovery: paulisaari.com/webinar.

"Imaginal knowing is the only way that the unconscious can move into consciousness [... it happens through pictures, events, and well-told stories. It happens through poetry, where well-chosen words create an image that, in turn, creates a new awareness [...]" In this episode we do something a bit different, in celebration of National Poetry month.Here is a kaleidoscope of poems and voices, of topics and perspectives, a short journey beyond conventional wisdom, to deeper knowing and recognition, to appreciation of the gift of living in this time. There is loss and pain, there is grief and helplessness mixed in. Let's not pretend otherwise, and let it also be fuel for creative fires. May synchronicity, or a moment of grace or attention, gift you with a poem that lifts you up today and helps you see that you are not alone.Thank you to the Myth Matters patrons and supporters who contributed their voices and poems to this episode. They give life to our virtual story circle.A complete transcript of this episode--and links to the featured poets and poems-- are available at www.mythicmojo.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mythmatterspodcast)

Connect with Biotemple Hawaii and register for classes at: https://www.instagram.com/biotemple.hawaii/ or email jenningsingram@gmail.com Follow the Regenerative Revolution podcast at https://www.instagram.com/regenerativerevolutionpodcast/ Show Notes All about Biotemple Hawaii: A combination of spirituality, art, science, and lab work Opening our minds to allow us to heal so that we can help the planet, which psychedelics help us with The possibility that these same compounds that are there to incite creativity in plants, allowing them to create new possibilities for thriving in their environment, are there to help us do the same thing Proven health benefits of psychedelics such as neuroplasticity Some of our personal experiences with microdosing, overcoming stuck thinking, and overcoming depression with the use of psychedelics The law of intelligent nonconformity and plants using quantum effects to overcome entropy Biotemple and other alternative, empowering models growing up out of the decomposition of outdated systems Worldwide mushroom consciousness developed over 7-10 million years Psychic connection to plants Metamorphic thinking & becoming a society of alchemists How to connect with plants no matter where in the world you are If a plant shows up in a neighborhood, it's for the needs of someone there - it's the intelligent consciousness of nature communicating with us Approaching plants in the right mindset, with gentleness & reverence for the sacrifice plants give us Foraged & homegrown foods and herbs ad a meaningful point of connection & entry into the plant world Making medicine out of invasive species: a medicinally relevant and abundant resource How Biotemple teaches people to make an affordable, accessible DIY medicinal plant lab & understand the chemistry to create extraction strategies based on what compounds are in the plant, plus spiritual connection Bryen's story of rural upbringing & how he got onto the path of working with plants Resonance as explained through my story with rosemary and how hawaiian medicine people used it to find plants to heal people Books Bryen recommends: On Growth & Form by D'Arcy Thompson and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Buehner How to sign up for classes at Biotemple Hawaii! Resources for the safe use of psychedelics: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org Psychedelic peer support line https://firesideproject.org call or text 623-473-7433 https://zendoproject.org/resources/ https://michaelpollan.com/resources/psychedelics-resources/

Join Ellen and Jennifer as they talk about the book: Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Buhner.

Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, and theologian. For thirty years she worked closely with Fr. Thomas Keating as a student, editor, and colleague and has taught and written extensively on Centering Prayer. She is a core faculty member at the Center for Action and Contemplation and founding director of an international network of Wisdom Schools. In addition to her work on Centering Prayer, she is the author of numerous other books on the Christian Mystical and Wisdom tradition, including The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind--A New Perspective on Christ and His Message, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity, and her most recent, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm. Websites: cynthiabourgeault.org northeastwisdom.org wisdomwayofknowing.org Other Books: The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity Love is Stronger than Death: The Mystical Union of Two Souls Main points discussed in this interview: The Imaginal Realm is an objective reality belonging to the spectrums of consciousness within the Great Chain of Being which transcend, surround, and penetrate the denser realities. “Imaginal” does not mean “imaginary”. Heaven and Hell represent opposites on the spectrum of consciousness which runs from freedom and connectedness on one end to constriction and alienation on the other. Both are experienced here, too. Our important task is to become cosmic servants integrated into earthly reality. Our work done in this realm feeds and informs the subtler realms which then process it and pour it back into our realm so that all realms evolve as a single reality. The Kingdom of Heaven can be interpreted as seeing ourselves as wormholes that act as portals into the wholeness of the cosmic matrix. Encountering the Kingdom of God opens us up to the holistic nature of reality that informs and invites us to walk within the congruity of our individual will and the will of the Wholeness that seeks to become manifest. Developing discernment requires equanimity and open-heartedness grounded in humility so that the ego doesn’t take the lead by creating roles that toxify and stagnate the path towards love and understanding. Remaining teachable while being willing to risk self-exploration is essential to balanced development. Creation is God’s way of communicating Love that gives, receives, sees, and is seen. This relational field has as its telos the eternal generation of diversity held together and protected by Love. The great work is to fully show up in the laboratory of our lives and awaken into higher stages of consciousness. We courageously and graciously accept the presence of “tough grace” which comes to us packaged as apparent obstacles and even suffering. From the depth of humility and spiritual maturity, we learn how to appreciate pinnacle spiritual states without getting attached to them. Our emotional transactions have an energetic signature. We can learn how to “sniff the odor” of the energy in events, places, the dynamic between people, and even in concepts and ideas. This “sniffing” is an encounter with the Imaginal Realms. We are in the birth canal of the collective emergence into the integral but the labor is difficult due to divisions between the “structures of consciousness.” We need to honor and re-engage with the magical and the mythical, ritual, the spirit of repentance, a lifestyle of moderation, and heart-centered living in order to create the spaciousness needed for global metanoia. Jesus came to “line the anguish [of our human experience] with love.” The entire cosmos, from the dense to the subtle, is set up to experience burning restlessness—which becomes the driveshaft propelling the ...

In this episode we speak with community herbalist, writer, earth poet and animist mystic Stephen Harrod Buhner about using the heart as an organ of perception, following the "Golden Thread", having plants as primary teachers, pantheistic animism, becoming your own authority, and a bit about his own journey. Stephen has written a lot of books, and you should check them all out, but the ones that form the basis of our conversation are "The Secret Teachings of Plants", "Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm" and the others in that series. These books give exercises for developing the heart as an organ of perception, adjusting sensory gating and communicating with plants. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plantcunning/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/plantcunning/support

Part Two of Our 2020 Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault.

Cynthia Bourgeault returns to Encountering Silence to discuss her new book, Eye of the Heart. Part one of a two-part interview.

Pa'Ris'Ha and the Quantum Leap Book Club Co-Hosts continue their discussion of "Mind Into Matter: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirituality”, by Fred Alan Wolf, Chapter 4, p 57, "Inertia: The Mysterious Resistance". In this episode, the co-hosts enthusiastically challenge each other about how resistance can be a positive sign in our lives and allowing our bottled up "don't wants" expression to free up access to the Imaginal Realm. Join Pa'Ris'Ha and her international team of Co-Hosts next week as they read and discuss this exciting journey with Fred Alan Wolf’s book “Mind Into Matter”. https://loaradionetwork.com/quantum-leap

Pa'Ris'Ha and the Quantum Leap Book Club Co-Hosts continue their discussion of "Mind Into Matter: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirituality”, by Fred Alan Wolf, Chapter 4, p 57, "Inertia: The Mysterious Resistance". In this episode, the co-hosts enthusiastically challenge each other about how resistance can be a positive sign in our lives and allowing our bottled up "don't wants" expression to free up access to the Imaginal Realm. Join Pa'Ris'Ha and her international team of Co-Hosts next week as they read and discuss this exciting journey with Fred Alan Wolf’s book “Mind Into Matter”. https://loaradionetwork.com/quantum-leap

Modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, and scholar Cynthia Bourgeault joins Terry to explore what it is to live and imagine from the “eye of the heart” in a seemingly apocalyptic world. They reflect on how each of them is relating to death and also discovering new strength and guidance by keeping the company of saints, sages, and our courageous ancestors — one of the most important spiritual fruits of awakening into the “imaginal realm.” Cynthia suggests we aspire to “live the laws of the next world”, like those who began building great cathedrals they knew they wouldn’t live to see completed.  Cynthia Bourgeault has been a way-shower for many thousands of people around the world, sharing the riches of Christian, Sufi, and Gurdjieffian contemplative practices, as well as serving as a fierce constructive critic. She is a long-time teacher of the meditative practice of Centering Prayer, having worked closely with Thomas Keating, Bruno Barnhart, and Richard Rohr, and many other contemplative teachers and leaders, as well as a core faculty member of the Center for Action & Contemplation. She is also a member of the Global Peace Initiative for Women Contemplative Council and a founding Director of both The Contemplative Society and the Aspen Wisdom School. Cynthia is the author of many books including The Heart of Centering Prayer, The Wisdom Jesus, The Wisdom Way of Knowing, and Love is Stronger than Death. Her newest book, Eye of the Heart, is a spiritual journey into the “Imaginal Realm” — an energetic realm well known to the mystical traditions and associated with the world of dreams, prophecy, and a higher vision of our human purpose that is both evolutionary and collective.  Here are some additional questions they explore: Can we become so intimate with our inevitable death, that we become impartial, courageous, and more profoundly alive? How can we “keep the good company” of the great contemplatives and our now-deceased mentors during times of darkness? How can we “live the laws of the next world” and become the “strange attractors” of wisdom to which others can gravitate? What is the imaginal realm according to Christian mysticism? How might we learn to see with “the eye of the heart”? For more information on Cynthia Bourgeault and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Cynthia’s New Book – Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey Into the Imaginal Realm Cynthia Bourgeault’s Website Center for Action and Contemplation The Contemplative Society Wisdom Way of Knowing Northeast Wisdom Terry Patten's website A New Republic of the Heart website I hope you appreciate this week’s episode with Cynthia Bourgeault on State of Emergence. If you believe these conversations are important and want to support them, please join us as a monthly contributor and become part of our community of listeners. Thank you so much!

“Each of us, in our own infinite precious particularity, will be led to what’s to be done next in our own time and space,” says Cynthia Bourgeault. The modern-day mystic and Episcopal priest is the author of several brilliant books, including Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm. Today, she joins us to discuss a question that comes forth for many of us at some point: Are we all just irrelevant specs? Does our life actually have meaning? According to Bourgeault, while humans are not the center of everything, our actions have profound influence on the well-being of the planet (and a system that extends beyond it). She says that a lack of consciousness has led to much of the mess we’re currently in, and she explains how we all play a particular role in amending the damage. She talks through how our fear of dying is problematic (and what a different approach to death could look like), what it truly means to live virtuously, and whether or not she’s hopeful for the future. (Spoiler: Mostly, she is.) (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our discussion of the most "dangerous" aspects of the Dimension Approach, the Imaginal Realm, begins by contrasting the imaginal realm and the conscious. While it is potentially threatening, it can't be eliminated and turning back to it and looking at it consciously is essential to depth psychotherapy and shamanic/alchemical approaches.   (Part 1 of 3) Photo by Felipe G via FreeImages https://www.freeimages.com/photographer/el_pulento-32315

Linear thinking is a buzzkill to the dream… Author, poet and sublime dreamer, STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER, dives deep and wide in his latest book, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm http://www.gaianstudies.org

Linear thinking is a buzzkill to the dream… Author, poet and sublime dreamer, STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER, dives deep and wide in his latest book, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm http://www.gaianstudies.org

    In this episode we speak with Dr Angela Voss, scholar, artist, musician and Program Director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred at Canterbury Christ Church University. Our topic centered around the imaginal realm, the nature and function of the daimon, and the importance of symbol with a shifting perspective more focused on the luminous for the development of theurgic apotheosis.      Secrets of the Heavens CD Dr Angela Voss and the Marini Consort use the Orphic hymns as translated by Thomas Taylor. Between the invocations there are instrumental pieces from the 15th century, and readings by Mark Rylance from the Letters of Marsilio Ficino. http://www.godstowpress.co.uk/secrets.htm?fbclid=IwAR1fXQsJNiuVJtERPkFobzx2jNfFbAcuOKlAbd7wuynW7KLj4xdf15IGpcA  

Do you have a sense of what it means to “listen from the ear of the Heart?” When we do listen from this new place within ourselves, the results can be dramatic. Listen as Thomas recounts a recent encounter with the Imaginal Realm—what Cynthia Bourgeault calls the “realm of cosmic assistance.”

Also titled "Don't hump Noah" by Darcy, who listened to us recording the episode and that's his takeaway. This episode travails into the landscape of creation that exists in our imaginations, and we share some different tools / games on how we navigate this landscape: gridding, pivoting, metaphor, poetry, being Queenly AF. If you want to listen to a song that encapsulates the HoneyLa Art Space closure, here you go. Thanks to Darcy and Natalie Kinsey for our outro song, and to The Cowtown Serenaders for the intro. We're so blessed to be in this love-sandwich with y'all. For the price of a coffee you can give the gladgirls a big ol kiss each month. We're loving the dance.

My guest for this episode is Dr Becca Tarnas, who joined me to discuss her work exploring the concept of the imagination. Becca is a scholar, artist, counselling Astrologer and an expert in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Carl Jung, with a PhD in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies. We talked about her background in researching and exploring the nature of imagination, how the work and theories of Tolkien and Jung can help to offer an insight into that, and how it might be applied to further understanding paranormal phenomena. Really intriguing stuff, I hope you’ll agree. Enjoy! To find out more about Becca and her work, please visit https://beccatarnas.com/.   The Some Other Sphere theme is from Purple Planet Music. ‘Hubbub’ by Chris Martyn/Geoff Harvey    

Today on Mushroom Hour we have the joy of interviewing Mandie Quark AKA Mushroom Madman. Mandie is an intriguing blend of artist and scientist who has been completely taken over by mushrooms. Our journey takes us to the temperate rainforests of North Carolina - one of the only rainforests in North America. We start our chat with a brief history of Mandie Quark. Her impressive academic career saw her explore pharmacognosy, ethnobotany and eventually receive a Masters Degree in Biochemistry. Mandie made the decision to hang up her academic lab coat in 2018 to pursue an alternative career path centered around mycology with her partner-in-mushrooms, Michael Weese of MushroomLife. Our conversation takes us into mushroom foraging, mushroom identification, genetic sequencing of mushrooms how Mandie is sharing her vast knowledge of chemistry to further other citizen scientists' endeavors in the world of mycology. We wrap up talking about her upcoming "Chemistry for Mycologists" classes and an amazing "Rainforest Mycology Convergence" educational bonanza planned for Summer 2020. Thanks for listening and Mush Love! Directed, Recorded, Produced by: Mushroom Hour (@welcome_to_mushroom_hour) Music by: Ancient Baby Art by: Wyn Di Stefano Episode Resources Mandie Quark IG: https://www.instagram.com/mushroom_madman/ Mandie Quark Website: https://www.mushroommadman.com/ Michael Weese IG: https://www.instagram.com/mushroomlyfe/ Michael Weese Website: https://mushroomlife.com/ NAMA: https://namyco.org/ Book - Mushrooms of Northeastern North America: https://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Northeastern-North-America-Bessette/dp/0815603886 Book - Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Intelligence-Imaginal-Realm-Perception/dp/1591431352 Mushroom - Terana Caerulea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terana_caerulea

Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him clinically dead in a hospital in Hobart, Tasmania, when he was three years old. This happened again when he was nine and left his body under a surgeon's knife during an emergency appendectomy to live what seemed like a whole life in another world. From his experiences in many realities, he created his School of Active Dreaming, his original synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic and mystical practices for journeying to realms beyond the physical. He leads popular workshops all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and online courses for The Shift Network. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and independent scholar. His many books on dreaming, shamanism, and imagination include Conscious Dreaming,Dreamgates: An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination and Life beyond Death, The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, The Boy Who Died and Came Back, and Sidewalk Oracles. His latest book is Mysterious Realities: A Dream Traveler’s Tales from the Imaginal Realm. He has lived in upstate New York since he received a message from a red-tailed hawk under an old white oak. His website is www.mossdreams.com.   Robert is also a keynote speaker for the 2020 Afterlife Awareness Conference June 4-7 in Chicago, IL. https://afterlifeconference.com

Becca Tarnas is the author of Journey To The Imaginal Realm: A Reader's Guide To J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As a PHD scholar of philosophy and religion, Becca guides us through the deep symbolic archive and wisdom of Tolkien's great works. In this episode we explore the source of human imagination, the Atlantis mystery in Middle-Earth, the parallels between Carl Jung and Tolkien, and the mechanism by which great stories are able to immerse us in an enchanted other-world.In the Plus+ Extension, we look at Tolkien's use of Venusian symbolism, the archetype of the syzygy (union of sun and moon), Tolkien's critique of industrialization, the enigmatic character of Tom Bombadil, and much more.JOIN INNERVERSE PLUS+ FOR EXTENDED EPISODES!https://www.patreon.com/posts/34548350FIND BECCA TARNAS ONLINEBecca Tarnas Website Journey To The Imaginal Realm (Book)Archetypal Prism Astrological CounselingArchai: The Journal of Archetypal CosmologyInstagram @becca.tarnasWE TALKED ABOUT…How Becca got swept up into the world of Middle-EarthNumerology symbolism in The Lord of the Rings taleThe Matrix and the esoteric meaning of the One RingTolkien's dream-visions of Atlantis and how it appears in his fiction"The Inklings" Tolkien's club with other authors of his timeUnfinished stories like The Lost Road, The Notion Club PapersHow Tolkien predicted England's Great Flood of 1987Ancestral memory and inherited traumaSynchronistic parallels between Carl Jung and JRR TolkienThe Music of the Ainur, a cosmogony of Middle-Earth (Creation Myth)Samuel Coleridge, Idealism, the primary imagination and sub-creation, the mechanism used by artistsEnchantment - being immersed in a believable world of fantasyWitnessing to co-create with the divine imagination instead of trying to be the God of creation ONLY IN PLUS+ (Subscribe!)The etymological roots of "invention"Discovering one's sense of awe and wonderAlchemical as above so below mysteries of stars, water, and languageThe story of Eärendil the Mariner, the first and most prevalent character in Tolkien's sagaFrodo's star-glass and Venusian archetypal symbolismA Jungian perspective on the archetype of the syzygy, uniting solar and lunar qualities to individuate as the Higher SelfUnderstanding the difference between gender and polarity and seeking the balance betweenMordor and Saruman as symbols of the consequences of industrialization and scientific reductionismThe tree-people known as Ents and Tolkien's perspective on nature as a conscious entitySolving our problematic effects on the environment with personal responsibility and communityTom Bombadil, the most anomalous character in Lord of the Rings, and the self-realized individual in relation to natureThe curious incident in the barrow downs and consciousness time-travelThat awesome moment where the Lady Eowyn shanks the Witch King of the NazgulSUPPORT INNERVERSE WITH SECRET ENERGY POWER-UPSBlessed Herbs Colon Cleanse Kit Shilajit - "The Destroyer of Weakness"Become a Secret Energy affiliate and generate Karma Free wealth - Link To Spiritech Specialist ProgramMUSIC IN THIS EPISODEIntro: "Foggy Dreams" by Wisdom TradersOutro: "Incandescent EP" by MioWnize See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(Discussion begins at 19:00) Dan and Scarlet open the episode with an astrology and Tarot forecast for the week of January 27, 2020, to February 2, 2020, followed by an interview with astrologer, author, and scholar, Becca Tarnas.  We talk with Becca all about her introduction to spirituality and astrology, her metaphysical views on what archetypes are and how they work, her study of the connections between the Red Books of both Carl Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien, plus a whole lot more!  This was an amazing conversation that you wont want to miss!  Check out Beccas links below: Website: beccatarnas.com New Course "Songs of the Spheres" : https://music-as-medicine-project.teachable.com/p/songs-of-the-spheres/?fbclid=IwAR128Tk2wIDOx_7qYHacBsTIPwrZo__aQrwh-r0u-fKSNQyVZmjCvuSGnd0 New Book "Journey into the Imaginal Realm: A Reader's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings" : https://revelore.press/product/journey-to-the-imaginal-realm/ Archai, The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology: http://www.archai.org/ Instagram: @becca.tarnas Twitter: @BeccaTarnas Don't forget to enter our January giveaway!  To enter, simply write a review for our podcast on Itunes and tag your social media handle.  Winners will be announced next week!  

In this show, Becca joins me for the third time.  So far we have discussed the Red Books, Jung, and Tolkien.  In this hour, we explore more of the imaginal realms together, discussing her new book Journey to the Imaginal Realm and then, well, we get lost in there.  It will hit home for many of you. Enjoy www.Holestoheavens.com ...to sign up for Readings, Classes, and the rest www.Patreon.com/adamsommer ...to support the work and be gifted many hidden things Becca's site: https://beccatarnas.com/ Glacier photo by Nicolas Brousse 

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and the award-winning author of books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, has been his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911. He has been the senior researcher for The Foundation for Gaian Studies for the past 30 years. In that time he has explored Gaia's complex organism interactions and how human beings can reinhabit their interbeing with the Earth, taking their place once more in the circle of life. All of his many books deal with that exploration and what he has discovered on the journey, among others, “Herbal Antivirals, “Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Co-infections”, “Sacred Plant Medicine”, “The Secret Teachings of Plants”, “Ensouling Language” and “Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm”. The post Eldering into Hope appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.

We're on a weird release schedule these days due to circumstances beyond my control, but I'm glad to be back! This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome to the show my friend West Ardere! West is an astrologer and former evangelical based out of Seattle, Washington. Our lovely conversation today circles the drain on ritualized prayer, folk catholica, ancestor veneration, Tolkien, and the role of the imaginal in spiritual practice and the development of a constellation of mythic narratives—aka, a jailbroken engagement with the sacred. West's work can be found at ardorastrology.com, and you can connect with them on Twitter @westardere.

Alatar is a genderfluid digital artist who creates character-driven adult illustrations. Their work includes both fanart and original content, and attempts to explore a wide range of body types, ethnicities, gender identities and sexualities (with perhaps slightly more attention paid to abs). They are also the host of the podcast Blue Magic, where they interview other creatives in the erotic field. In this episode, Alatar discusses: -What their Miracle Morning has looked like recently. -Realizing that they might have ADHD and some of the methods and hacks they have been using in order to stay more focused. -How working on yourself is the greatest creative act you can embark upon. -The way in which the creative process has become a religious experience for them. -Writing your own Gospel and living your own Myth. -Their recent experience with magic mushrooms. -Taking the “Journey to the Imaginal Realm” course with Becca Tarnas. -Cultivating a relationship with our unconscious. -How SESTA/FOSTA changed the landscape for adult artists. -Dealing with the emotional despair of sites changing the landscape for adult artists. -Bugs Bunnying your way through any situation. Alatar's Final Push will inspire you to take that first step and just GO!   Quotes: “Working on yourself is just another creative act.  It might not be a pretty piece of art, but it’s YOU.  And you are your best work, when you come right down to it.” “To me, pursuing art has become the path that teaches me how to pursue life.” “Our unconscious is extraordinarily powerful.  What we think of as the self is the tip of the iceberg.  And it goes all the way down to the root.” “What are you waiting for?  This is your chance.  You don’t know if tomorrow is going to come.” “Take one step right now.  Your soul is on the line.  This is the most important thing you can do for your life.  So just do it, already.  You have permission.  Go.” Links mentioned: The Disorganized Mind by Nancy A. Ratey Organization Solutions for people with ADHD by Susan Pinsky Yoga With Adriene Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio Journey to the Imaginal Realm (Becca S. Tarnas) Becca Tarnas on Rune Soup [1] [2] Tolkein “On Fairy Stories” Stop SESTA/FOSTA Alatar on YCP Episode 232 Alatar on YCP Episode 296 Connect with Alatar: Website / Newgrounds / Podcast / Instagram / Tumblr / Patreon / Twitter On the next episode: Nick Ulivieri : Website / Instagram Join the discussion in the Facebook group!

Join artist J Swofford and host Erik at Hopworks Urban Brewery for a discussion on the Picatrix Decans. J is the creator of the Picatrix Decans talisman deck. They discuss astrological magic, homebrewing, astrological brewing, and the Picatrix Decans. When we look at the Picatrix decans, we compare descriptions and notes from both the Warnock-Greer Picatrix and the Attrell Picatrix. We discuss the origins of magical images and how talismans can be created from the imagery of the decans. We are also joined briefly by Scotty, our server at Hopworks, who shares with us some interesting facts about Ancient Egypt and the stars! I love Portland. Links Picatrix Decans card deck on Etsy J’s Blog J’s artist website Support My Alchemical Bromance on the Arnemancy Patreon! “And we’re all looking forward to your Picatrix beer — your Beercatrix.”

No live show this week, we continue our journey with a replay of Stephen Buhner – plant ally, herbalist, brewer, and cooperator in the field of creation. Show aired: October 23, 2014 Caroline hosts Stephen Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, during the actual New Moon Venus in Underworld Solar Eclipse (2:57 pm pdt – on October 23, 2014), that our humbled human ingenuity be guided by Nature's greater genius. www.stephenharrodbuhner.com   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post April 4, 2019 – Archive: Cooperating with the Choreography of Creation appeared first on KPFA.

First-time guest Robert Moss. Mr. Moss is the author of multiple books including "Mysterious Realities: A Dream Traveler's Tales from the Imaginal Realm." http://www.mossdreams.com/ . http://mossdreams.blogspot.com/ . https://www.facebook.com/activedreaming/ https://www.facebook.com/robert.moss.332 . We'll star the EUP program with Charleen and "Pet Talk" with dogs and cats for adoption from the Capital Humane Society of Lincoln, NE. The second opening segment is "UFOs, ETs and Exopolitics" with Paola Leopizzi Harris. She is a "boots-on-the-ground" journalist who travels all over the world. The main guest segment with Robert Moss begins about 40 minutes into the broadcast.

Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and lively online courses for The Shift Network. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His many books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreamgates, Active Dreaming, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, and "The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse." His latest book is "Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols and Synchronicity in Everyday Life."Moss is also the author of Here, Everything Is Dreaming: Poems and Stories (Excelsion Editions, 2013). Moss describes himself as "a dream teacher, on a path for which there has been no career track in our culture." He identifies the great watershed in his adult life as a sequence of visionary events that unfolded in 1987-1988, after he decided to leave the world of big cities and the fast-track life of a popular novelist (already the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Moscow Rules) and put down roots on a farm in the upper Hudson Valley of New York. Moss started dreaming in a language he did not know that proved to be an archaic form of the Mohawk language. Helped by native speakers to interpret his dreams, Moss came to believe that they had put him in touch with an ancient healer - a woman of power - and that they were calling him to a different life.His latest book is called, "Mysterious Realities: A Dream Traveler's Tales from the Imaginal Realm "

If you're anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the dream world. Sure, it can be fun to dream and some whacked out cool things can happen, but nightmares can randomly develop and turn something unusual and strange into something terrifying and soul-crushing in the blink of an eye. I've felt ecstasy inside … Continue reading 221 – The Imaginal Realm: Active Dreaming and Synchronicities with Robert Moss → The post 221 – The Imaginal Realm: Active Dreaming and Synchronicities with Robert Moss appeared first on See You On The Other Side.

If you’re anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the dream world. Sure, it can be fun to dream and some whacked out cool things can happen, but nightmares can randomly develop and turn something unusual and strange into something terrifying and soul-crushing in the blink of an eye. I’ve felt ecstasy inside … Continue reading 221 – The Imaginal Realm: Active Dreaming and Synchronicities with Robert Moss → The post 221 – The Imaginal Realm: Active Dreaming and Synchronicities with Robert Moss appeared first on See You On The Other Side.

Join Christine and guest Robert Moss on an excursion into the furthest reaches of the imaginal realm, a place where the improbable is commonplace. Whether beautiful, terrifying, or whimsical, these stories remind us that dreams have much to teach us if we are willing to listen and watch. Discover hope from these luminous tales of those who travel between the worlds.

What is the way of the dreamer? Robert Moss not only knows the answer—he lives it wholeheartedly. As a storyteller who had a sequence of visionary events that unfolded from 1987-1988, Moss started dreaming in a language he did not know that proved to be an archaic form of the Mohawk language. This led to leaving behind a more conventional life and seeking the creation of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of contemporary dreamwork and shamanic methods of journeying and healing. Robert Moss guides you to believe that dreams are more than just in your sleep—they are healing and creativity into the beyond.

Welcome back, Scott Gosnell! Scott was our guest way back in episode 18, where we mainly focused on his translations of Giordano Bruno’s works. In this episode we touch on that material again, but we really get into a wide variety of topics revolving around free will, enlightenment, imagination, the default and executive networks, hallucinogens, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alchemy, and more. It is pretty dense. Links Scott Gosnell’s Amazon author page, where you can find all of his translations of Giordano Bruno Startup Geometry Podcast and Scott’s blog De Umbris Idearum website Scott is @infinite_me on Twitter Support My Alchemical Bromance by becoming an Arnemancy patron! Also, don’t forget to check out Nick Arneson Music, where you can download his new album, Midlife Crisis! “I wonder, what’s the deal with pancakes? Why are they flat and round?”

This week’s encore episode opens up a plethora of curiosities around human's relationship to art, creation and mind altering substances. An evergreen classic chosen by Research Director, Madison Magalski. Stephen Harrod Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He so beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants. Humans have always made things more beautiful than they perhaps had to have been for functionality. We dialogue with Stephen about what is the particular role of art in these times and how humans have used intoxicants to create that which comes forth from spirit and moves through us. Art allows us to shift. Art acts as a depatterning figure. Art shifts the perceptual frame of the people experiencing it. Art upsets. “Art is an amazing thing. For example a poem, when someone is able to capture something that cannot be captured in words and put it in words. It causes one to have an experiential perception of the world that is not in the words, but rather gather momentum and then land in another frame of reference. This is a crucial element of Art.” As always, listen in weekly on forthewild.world/listen and subscribe & review our podcast on iTunes.

Join us as Erik interviews Seyta Selter, ancestral healing practitioner and professor of consciousness studies and dreams at The Evergreen State College. Seyta was once the head lady at Duchess Clothier and now does incredible healing work with ancestral lineage work. It is pretty amazing stuff. Listen and see! Seyta has learned to listen to her intuition and dreams to guide her life in incredible directions. The Beer We were so busy talking that we only drank one beer, Ancestry Brewing‘s Oatmeal Stout. Links, Books, Notes Seyta’s Ancestral Healing website Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Martin Luther’s 95 Theses in 1517 (500 years of crap!) Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Schools Weleda biodynamic products Epigenetics Yoruba people By the way, Erik was wrong again this episode. Ancestry Brewing is located in Sellwood, which is a neighborhood in Portland, and not in Estacada, a city completely separate from Portland.

Our discussion is with Bardic PHILOSOPHER Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of the Earth and at least 19 other books related to transcending the shortcomings of the linear, reductionist, corporate world view Stephen Harrod Buhner is a tireless advocate for the reincorporation of the exploratory artist, independent scholar, amateur naturalist, and citizen scientist in American society - especially as a counterweight to the influence of corporate science and technology. Like Rudolf Steiner before him, Stephen Harrod Buhner is a student of Goethe's natural history work. Again, like Steiner, who gained insights into spiritual realm of Nature through the undomesticated herb gatherer Felix Cogutzki he met on a train at the age of 21, Stephen was initiated into the non-linear, non-academic perception of nature that preceded the industrial mindset through his great grandfather, C.G. Harrod a botanical physician. Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm is the fourth in a series that began, long ago, with Sacred Plant Medicine , and which includes The Lost Language of Plants and The Secret Teachings of Plants ). All of these books contribute to developing sensibilities important to the biodynamic farming practitioner and attempt to teach the reader how to escape an anthropogenic world view.     The show notes for today's conversation, as always, are at bdnow.org   If you appreciate hearing programs on topics as important as this one, please take the time to leave The Biodynamics Now! podcast a positive review on iTunes OR ... at least stop by bdnow.org and say 'hi' in the comments for this show. believed – and tapped into – the magical energy transfer that happens within great rock and roll.

If you've ever wanted a completely different way to look at, perceive, and connect with the world, then do we have the Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm show for you. Today I'll be talking with Stephen Harrod Buhner author of Herbal Antivirals, Herbal Antibiotics and at least 17 other books including one of the most important, profound, and paradigm shifting books I've ever read, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, our connection to the natural world, how to cultivate a completely a completely new realm awareness, and what it means for our day-to-day lives. That plus we'll talk about Barbara McClintock, Tom Sawyer Syndrome, butterflies and first grade, sharing a metaphysical moment with grandpa, Lyme disease and Japanese knotweed, White Pine, and Clark's Nutcracker and what in the world can happen if it's the sixties and you long hair in Texas. Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: What's the importance of Einstein's words “We can't solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”? What does it mean to look with luminous or child-like eyes? What happened to people with long hair in Dallas in the sixties? What are emancipation papers? What did he learn from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross? What do butterflies have to do with Nazi concentration camps? How do we abandon our preconceptions? What does it mean to see and hear in the old way? What does it mean to truly become aware? What are the challenges with science and a deconstructionist way of perception? How do we override our gating, or our limited scope of awareness? What does it mean to shift our consciousness? How do we develop our senses? What does it mean to follow golden threads? What do indigenous cultures understand about awarenss? Where does imagination fit into awareness? How do we see what is right in front of us, rather than merely looking at it? What is seeing with caring or seeing with friendship? To find out more visit www.gaianstudies.org  Stephen Buhner on How to Step Outside Your Paradigm by Connecting with the Natural World + Guided Meditation! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

The conversation from last week continues. What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How is science changing as it moves out of reductionism? What do the heart, the brain, and the gut have in common? Stephen Harrod Buhner is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. His most recent book is Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. Before retiring from the road in 2013, he taught for more than 30 years throughout North America and Europe. He lives in Silver City New Mexico.

This week’s interview is a mosaic of mind-shattering insights from Earth-poet-philosopher Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. His most recent book is Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. Before retiring from the road in 2013, he taught for more than 30 years throughout North America and Europe. He lives in Silver City New Mexico.

Caroline hosts Stephen Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and  the Imaginal Realm, during the actual New Moon Venus in Underworld Solar Eclipse (2:57 pm pdt), that our humbled human ingenuity be guided by Nature's greater genius. (Show originally aired October 23, 2014) The post Cahooting with the Choreography of Creation (Replay) appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline hosts Stephen Buhner, author of Plant Intelligence and  the Imaginal Realm, during the actual New Moon Venus in Underworld Solar Eclipse (2:57 pm pdt), that our humbled human ingenuity be guided by Nature's greater genius. The post Cahooting with the Choreography of Creation appeared first on KPFA.