Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Moss

(May 13, 2025 - Show notes)9:14pm - Fresh off my first trip to Las Vegas (recap at the top of the show) and we have lined up a great show. Kicking it off is the BBQCS official cigar expert, Mr. Jonathan from The Cigar Authority podcast. Tonight we dive deep into the latest releases from show sponsor Micallef Cigars and also cigar powerhouse Perdomo!9:35pm - Then, after Mr. J, our friend and BBQ historian/educator, Robert Moss, joins the show. Tonight e talk about a completely different topic than we have for the past 4 months...so you may or may not be happy about that? In a word...SIDES!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardMicallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

Book: Dreamgates by Robert Moss https://amzn.to/4jbDS28 Near Death Experience (NDE) episodes of Soul Elevation: https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/categories/nde/  #neardeathexperience #nde #ascension #consciousnessexpansion Connect with me:  https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com https://www.karagoodwin.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kara_goodwin_meditation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karagoodwinmeditation LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoodwinmeditation/ 

(April 8, 2025 - Hour One)9:14pm - The beginning of Q2 brings another visit from our pal over at The Barbecue Lab, David Gafford. Tonight we discuss his visit to the HPBExpo in New Orleans, Black Erath Gas grill, best grills $400 and under and the Ninja Flex Fire.9:35pm - After David, our monthly visit with Robert Moss heats back up as we continue to talk about the Michelin Star Guide...and something newly announced! What could it be??The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardPit Barrel CookerMicallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(April 8, 2025 - Hour One)9:14pm - The beginning of Q2 brings another visit from our pal over at The Barbecue Lab, David Gafford. Tonight we discuss his visit to the HPBExpo in New Orleans, Black Erath Gas grill, best grills $400 and under and the Ninja Flex Fire.9:35pm - After David, our monthly visit with Robert Moss heats back up as we continue to talk about the Michelin Star Guide...and something newly announced! What could it be??The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardPit Barrel CookerMicallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

Use your dreams for pure magic!  Slip into a lucid state and create the life you want effortlessly.Nikki Wardwell Sleath is a formally trained witch and long time occult teacher.  She is the founder of the Society of Witchcraft and Old Magic and holds a Master's degree in Integrative health and healing. Nikki is also a Reiki Master/Teacher, and is trained through the highest level of shamanic dream teacher/facilitatortraining in Robert Moss' School of Active Dreaming. She has worked with clients and students for many years, focusing on dream work, shamanic-style healing sessions, tarot readings, addressing spirit issues, and more. Visit her at NikkiWardwellSleath.com.

(February 11, 2025)9:14pm - Our official cigar expert, Mr. Jonathan from the Cigar Authority Podcast, joins me tonight for his first quarterly visit of the year. Tonight we talk about what's hot to smoke, what lighters are cool, what makes you a cigar douche, what the best humidity is to keep your humidor at and much more. Mr. J always comes prepared ad always has hot takes!!9:35pm - After we get our cigar game honed, we will have a monthly visit from our pal Robert Moss. Lat month he shocked all of us with his take on the Michelin Star guidebook. Tonight, we build on that a bit, toss in some James Beard award talk for fun and see where that takes us. Robert starts out at a blistering pace in 2025...which, as we all know, is rapidly coming to a close!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(January 14, 2025 - Hour One)9:14pm - 2025 Sees the 2nd Tuesday of the month take a bit of a turn from what you have come to know over the past 12+ years. We are kicking off this segment with 3 quarterly guests. Up first is David Gafford from The Barbecue Lab. Next month, Mr. Jonathan from The Cigar Authority and then our pal Meathead. Tonight, David and I will talk all about chamber sealers, vacuum packers and what his experience with testing some has been recently. This will be especially good if you are currently in the market for a "sucker".9:35pm - After David, our pal Robert Moss joins the show. We missed Robert last month but tonight we start back up. Have you noticed a decline in restaurant reviews across the nation? Is it something that no one cares about anymore? Is it too much for a paper to support? Join Robert and I for an interesting discussion on this topic and why one part of the country might be bucking the trend.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(November 12, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Meathead is out tonight and tending to some WAY MORE important personal matters! Filling in is the ever capable and highly entertaining (and smart) creator of Combustion Inc., Chris Young. We'll talk about the new big grill thermometer they are launching and we will also talk about the new video he did that describes how to cook sous vide (sous speed) 4 times faster than normal9:35pm - After Chris, 2nd Tuesday of the month regular guest and BBQ historian, Robert Moss, joins me to talk all about Southern Style Thanksgiving...you won't want to miss this!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Grills - Use Code BBQCENTRAL for $150 off!Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout for a free spice pack.Big Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE15” for 15% off your entire purchase!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

In this Season Finale, Agent Weaver and Sheriff Taylor confront the the monster responsible for the missing children, they are armed and have each others' backs, but will that be enough? This season featured: Writer J.D. Dennis as Sheriff William Henry Taylor, Supervisory Special Agent Harriett Hodgeman, Chase Newell, and additional voices. Editor K.D. Lalonde as Agent Orion B. Weaver, Chad Billings, and additional voices. Steve Rau as Senior Deputy Roy Huckabee, Special Agent Lukas Wesker, and Edward "Byers" Mars. Steven H Dennis as Mark Lanford. Langston Styles as The Pirate Captain, Le Chat Noir, and Travis Parsons. T. Davis as Deputy Hunter Washington, and Douglas Fry. Guy Gunn as Jupiter Moss. Logan F. as Ty Campbell. Trey Fuquay as Officer Troy Swinton and Officer Bill Waters. Jenny Walters as Melissa Harding. Joan Wisenbeck as Pearl Nash. Meredith Knowlton Dennis as Lottie O'Neal. Jessica Stalvey as Doris Taylor. Jane Walters as Virginia "Ginny" Turner. Christopher Bridgman as Deputy Chetan "Chet" Sisseton. Marshall Pritchett as Chip Allman. Allison Pritchett as Diana Fuquay. JB as Tanner "Tanner Tunez" Tills. Steven Dennis as Craig Roberts. Robert Moss as Agent Benton Fawkes. Mark Walters as Supervisory Special Agent Gideon Hearns. Christine Z. Dennis as Abigail Newhouse. Justin Daniels as Jack "Frohickie" Brown. Paige Ohnesorge as Cassandra Laikos. Matthew Kraus as Drew "Langley" Marlow. Mya Logan as Asia Baker. and C:D as Fred Duplas. With special thanks to Liam P. Vaughan for The Starport Inn's theme - find his music @ https://www.patreon.com/LiamPeregrine - to Kelly Brennan on Patreon, consider joining them @ http://patreon.com/TheStarportInn - and to Creature from the Haunted Sea, Produced by Roger Corman and Charles Hanawalt, and Written by Charles B Griffith. No animals, insects, or otherwise living creatures were harmed in the making of this podcast. The Starport Inn will return with Season Two, after a well earned break. In the mean time, find us at linktr.ee/thestarportinn - Consider supporting us at https://www.redbubble.com/people/thestarportinn/shop - Questions? email us at TheStarportInn@Gmail.com

(October 8, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Our pal Meathead from Amazingribs.com stops by to talk about the new book that will be coming out next year. There have been some big progress made, secrets to tell and information to give out...so stay tuned!9:35pm - After Meathead, our good friend Robert Moss stops by to talk about Southern BBQ and how race and marginalized cultures have both been affected by and have contributed to the BBQ scene. As always, this will be a great segment!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Grills Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

Happy Spooky Season babes! Starting with Cane Sugar seemed like such a suitable way to start the SACRED SUGAR series. We sit with our relationship with the sacred plant, how we became separated from source, and how we can get back into a wholesome relationship! This episode gets extra petty and we LOVE to see it!  As always, we want to thank you for all of your support, in all the ways! we're trying to build up this patreon, so that we can sustainably fund the work we already do with the podcast. so if you're not yet a patreon, join today @ ⁠patreon.com/pettyherbalist⁠. Sources and what's In the episode: (audiobook) Working Conjure by Sen Moise (author, dream master) Robert Moss (plant) Cane sugar (Saccharum officinarum) (article) Phytochemical Profile of sugarcane Transatlantic slave trade Lowering possibilities for glucose spikes Panela, Jaggery, Rapadura Suni Reid - Auntie's Coffee Mars Molina - Siendo Yoga Bones Bugs and Botany Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bonesbugsandbotany Soul Food Genius Course by Bones, Bugs and Botany - https://www.bonesbugsandbotany.com/course/soul-food-genius ________________________ Follow us on social: ⁠@pettyherbalist⁠ ⁠@bonesbugsandbotany⁠ Join the Patreon Community to fund this amazing POD: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/pettyherbalist⁠ Join the bonesbugsandbotany Patreon Community to fund support all of Asia's work: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/bonesbugsandbotany⁠⁠ Rate us to show your support! Thank You! #StayReady #BePetty ***if you read this far, send me a dm @pettyherbalist for a shoutout!***

(September 10, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - The creator of Amazingribs.com, Meathead, stops by for a monthly visit and he is ready to talk about his favorite BBQ meat...PASTRAMI! We will talk about what pastrami really is, how to make it and a few other things as well. If you have always wanted to know more about pastrami, this is the segment for you!9:35pm - After Meathead, our BBQ history expert Robert Moss joins us, but we take a month off to talk about some of his new projects before we get back on track in October. There is a new BBQ list out that he has put together so we will definitely go over that. Robert also has a new book coming out today...and if you like cocktails...you'll want to have this book at your side!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Grills - Use Code BBQCENTRAL for $150 off!Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

Contributing Barbecue Editor Robert Moss from Southern Living Magazine goes into detail about the top 15 of "The South's Best New Barbecue Joints Of 2024." Here's a link to the article we reference: https://www.southernliving.com/new-barbecue-restaurants-2024-8643046 See all things Robert Moss here: https://www.robertfmoss.com/ Southern Living on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southernlivingmag Subscribe to Southern Living Magazine here: https://www.magazines.com/southern-living-magazine.html?utm_source=southernliving.com&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=i208slr1w2926

(August 13, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Leading off tonight is the creator of Amazingribs.com, Meathead! New to the world of BBQ? Sooner or later (probably sooner) you will hear the term "Brining", so tonight we will cover all the aspects of what this process is, what it does and where the misconceptions lie. We will also hit on pickling, injecting and dry brining as well. Lots of info ready to come your way!9:35pm - After Meathead, we have our pal Robert Moss, contributing editor to Southern Living Magazine. Tonight we will cover the topic: Tracing the influences and adaptations of Southern barbecue outside the region. This year, Robert has brought content to the show each month that is second to none and this month will be no different.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsWinners Products  Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(July 9, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Leading off tonight is our pal Meathead from Amazingribs.com. Meathead fell into some technical issues last month, but, we did a complete sound/tech check Sunday afternoon and we appear to be back on track. We will get an update on the integration of the BBQ videos he bought a few months ago into the AR website . Then, Meathead will set out to offend many of us who enjoy cast iron pans and stand alone griddles...get ready!9:35pm - Robert Moss joins me to talk about another new topic of 2024. Robert has really been bringing some incredible content this year and July promises to be no different. Tonight we will tackle the complex relationship between race, class, and barbecue in the American South. Joins us for what is sure to be an increible conversation!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsWinners Products  Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

(June 11, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - We are back and better than ever tonight as we lead off the 2nd Tuesday of June with the creator of Amazingribs.com, Meathead! Meathead is burning on a few topics that might throw you for a loop! What is popular with the masses might not be so popular with the BBQ HOF'er himself and we will dig into this to see what's really going on!9:35pm - After Meathead, I will be joined by Robert Moss. Tonight we will discuss the upcoming "Juneteenth" holiday and we will also talk about the customary dish served during this day. Did you know there was a "Juneteenth" dish?? I did not but we will all learn about it tonight! We will also talk about some other historical BBQ items as well during the segment.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsWinners Products  Schwank Gills ­ Use promo code BBQCENTRAL and get $150 OFFPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(May 14, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - The 2nd Tuesday of the month brings a visit from our pal Meathead from Amazingribs.com. Tonight we briefly discuss the BBQ HOF, me being left off the list (again) and what it will take for me to get over the fence. We will also talk about Chris Young's "resting steak" video and how he was an inspiration for Chris to do this set of experiments.9:35pm - After Meathead, our favorite contributing editor to Southern Living magazine, Robert Moss, joins me to talk about the 10 finalists for the 2024 BBQ HOF. We will also dive deep into the history of rubs and seasonings in Southern Style BBQ. Robert has been giving great interviews and information on the show this whole year and this segment will be no different.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsWinners Products  Schwank Gills ­ Use promo code BBQCENTRAL and get $150 OFFPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsFamous Dave's All Star BBQ SeriesPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!Micallef Cigars – Premium Hand Rolled Cigars

(April 9, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Meathead stops by for his monthly segment and as we left his appearance last month, he teased that Amazingribs.com was close to buying another website but wouldn't give any details. Well, a month later, the deal is done and he is coming on the show tonight to talk about the purchase and what it can mean to you as a member of his "Pitmaster Club". Any idea what it could be?? Let me know what you think!9:35pm - After Meathead, Robert Moss joins me to talk about our new monthly topic: Tracing the cultural and social significance of barbecue beyond a meal. Robert and I will dive into this and explore some other additional questions that this topic is sure to bring up as we go through it.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Gills ­ Use promo code BBQCENTRAL and get $150 OFFPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

(March 12, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - Stop me if you've heard this one before: "Meat closer to the bone has more flavor". Indeed, it's a statement made by many folks year after year but what kind of truth actually sits behind those words. Tonight we will get the real information to this statement and see if it holds water or not. Meathead from Amazingribs.com joins me to go in-depth on this topic. We will discuss where the saying came from, what bone is and does, how it does or does not impart flavor and if we need to drop this saying from the American lexicon of live-fire cooking.9:35pm - After Meathead, I will be joined by our pal, Robert Moss. Topic tonight: Evolutions of different cooking methods in Southern Style BBQ. Seems like a pretty tame subject, but be prepared to be blown out over the information that is going to be shared during this segment tonight. If it's half as good as last month's segment, you're in for a BBQ lesson you won't soon forget.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Gills ­ Use promo code BBQCENTRAL and get $150 OFFPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

(February 23, 2024 - Show Notes)9:14pm - Meathead, from Amazingribs.com, leads off tonight, as he normally does during the 2nd Tuesday of the month, and we are talking about the recent rash of articles written by reputable websites/news outlets that are promoting the "poke your beef to tell when it's done" method vs using any other tool. This is bad information and we are here to put a stop to it. Meathead also thinks The BBQ Central show has an identity problem...we'll discuss. There are other topics as well, like the guy eating raw chicken every day until he gets a tummy ache...he loves that guy!9:35pm - After Meathead, Robert Moss will join me in his monthly segment and tonight, we start an 11 month journey of going over many detailed BBQ topics that you may or may not know too much about. Tonight, we are discussing cuts of protein that aren;t the normal BBQ that you hear about everyday. Were there lesser known cuts that were the king of the BBQ back in the day? What happened to them and why did they fall out of favor? What about lamb? These are going to be great segments for the balance of 2024 and this kick off topic is going to be great!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsSchwank Gills -  Use promo code BBQCENTRAL and get $150 OFFPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

(January 9, 2024 - Hour One)9:14pm - The 2nd Tuesday of the month in 2024 brings a visit from an old favorite, Meathead from Amazingribs.com (He yells at you when you don't say "dot com"). There is plenty to discuss tonight, not the least of which is my new rule of 2024. I will see if Meathead is the latest person to buy in on this and join my movement as we lead the charge to stop spreading misinformation across all media platforms in 2024.9:35pm - After Meathead, I will be joined by BBQ scholar and monthly guest, Robert Moss. Tonight we cover some new topics but we are also working on a concept that will, more or less, take us through to the end of the year. Given Robert's expertise in the BBQ field, especially "southern" BBQ, we will go over a number of topics in-depth that will be of great interest to the beginner, intermediate and experienced BBQ lover. These will be segments you won't want to miss in 2024!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

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. From his experiences in many worlds, 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 and growing creative imagination. He has led 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, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, The Boy Who Died and Came Back, Sidewalk Oracles, and Mysterious Realities. His latest book, Growing Big Dreams: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires through 12 Secrets of the Imagination is a passionate and practical call to step through the gates of dreams and imagination to survive hard times, travel without leaving home, and grow the vision of a more abundant life so rich and strong that it wants to take root in the world. He has lived in upstate New York since he received a message from a red-tailed hawk under an old white oak.   Visit Robert Moss's Website: MossDreams.com Click here for Books by Robert Moss __________________________________ Subscribe to Dr. Lotte's Newsletter Visit Dr. Lotte's Website Stay Connected on Social Media, follow Dr. Lotte on Instagram & Facebook  

(December 12, 2023 - Hour One)9:14pm - Welcome back our pal and creator of Amazing Ribs website, Meathead! He graciously took last month off as we did the "Origin Story" of Robert Moss but tonight he is back and better than ever and we tackle the gift list of 2023, what he wants the most this year, what 2024 looks like and much much more!9:35pm - After Meathead, we will be joined by monthly guest Robert Moss. We didn't get to the topic last month because we were deep diving on him, but Robert has his own thoughts and hot takes on the Memphis in May situation and what this new event in Tom Lee Park will mean to this whole weekend in 2024. As time allows, I will ask Robert about the history of some of the most cherished main dishes for the Holiday season.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I'm incredibly psyched to share with you my conversation with science writer and medical intuitive Allison Clark. Allison is a heart-centered, holistically-minded healer who takes into consideration all aspects of a person—not just their body and not just their soul. Her approach is an alchemy of years of training, scientific research, and personal mind, body, and spirit work. She's studied clairvoyant and energy healing techniques for well over a decade and has learned from experts including Cyndi Dale, Kelly Meehan, Bruce Lipton, and Robert Moss. She also graduated with honors from the Open University of Catalonia with a master's degree in nutrition with a focus on clinical nutrition and nutrigenomics and is also triple-certified as a functional nutritionist, a culinary nutrition expert, and a holistic health coach. Her current mission as a healer is to help women learn to trust their intuition and embrace their unique spirit so that they can live a fulfilled life.

In today's episode, Erica decides to jump into her time machine and share an episode from 2019. In it, Erica talks about dreams and how they can be one of our greatest guides along our path to ascension. She also shares a Robert Moss clip on the dream realm.   Check out our newly updated page instagram.com/positive_head   Care to play a game with the youniverse? Ask the universe the episode you would most benefit from hearing next and click positivehead.com/game.    Download The Golden Key audio or e-book at GoldenKey.Gift with the Code: POSITIVEHEAD   Text Brandon to receive regular golden nuggets of wisdom at 310.564.0750  

(November 14, 2023 - Hour One)9:14pm & 9:35pm - Not too long ago, the show inducted a new class of Guest Hall of Fame'ers. Tonight, I wrangle one up for the always popular "Origin Story" segments. Kicking the 2023 class off is our monthly guest, Robert Moss. Yes, you usually see him on a 2nd Tuesday anyway, however, our pal Meathead graciously bowed our of his spot so we could enjoy the full hour getting to know the story of Robert Moss.The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

  In this fascinating conversation, Lisa M. Gunshore, a multifaceted spiritual guide, shares her remarkable journey. She's a tantric yogini, quantum coach, psychic medium, and she's had initiations by the Dalai Lama. Lisa discusses her near death experiences, the connection between astrology and tarot, and her favorite paranormal and spiritual tools. She also dives into her nightly lucid and often prophetic dreams, offering tips on dream recall. The episode concludes with a glimpse of her upcoming revised edition of her book, Enlightenment Pie. Visit BigSeance.com/237 for more info. Other Listening Options Direct Download Link   In this episode: Intro :00 Lisa M. Gunshore is a tantric yogini, certified quantum coach, and functional Ayurveda wellness coach with initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Lisa is also a medium and shaman, and a certified yoga instructor. If that's not enough, she's a psychic medium, she has a culinary background, and she's had several Near Death Experiences. She's a blogger, she has a podcast, the Buddhist Biohacker, and a YouTube channel by the same name. She's the author of Enlightenment Pie, with a second edition is coming soon! :49 Lisa's last time on the show was in episode 176. Topics included 11:11D, Enlightenment Pie, food sensitivities, Spirit photos, and Near Death Experiences (NDEs). 1:48 Welcome back to the parlor, Lisa M. Gunshore! 2:38 Catching up with what Lisa has been up to in the last three years. 3:16 Slowing down during the pandemic, the After Death documentary (2023), surviving a hurricane, and NDEs. 8:16 Patrick brings up a fascinating episode of the Buddhist Biohacker where astrologers discuss the forecast for the United States in 2022. How does Lisa work with astrology? 12:47 The link between astrology and the tarot. 14:50 Chatting about other paranormal/spiritual tools. 19:50 “[Negative spirits] can't bother you unless you let them.” 24:52 Dreaming and journals. Lisa says she has amazing lucid dreams every night. She also has prophetic dreams. She recommends a book called Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss. 28:27 But how do you document and remember your dreams? 38:54 Mantras and using the “Hu” technique for remembering dreams. 40:32 Lisa's experiences and lessons from the Dalai Lama. 43:56 About the upcoming, revised edition of Enlightenment Pie. 58:36 Final thoughts from Lisa M. Gunshore. 1:00:20 Outro 1:03:39 A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 1:04:56   For more on Lisa M. Gunshore BuddhistBiohacker.com YouTube: @BuddhistBiohacker Instagram: @Lisa_M_Gunshore Enlightenment Pie (Amazon) Lisa's previous appearance on the Big Seance (Episode 176)   Patrick's Previous Appearances on the Buddhist Biohacker 10/30/20 – Paranormal communication with Patrick Keller (Halloween Edition) 8/7/20 – Paranormal Communication with Patrick Keller     The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! You can also call the show and leave feedback at (775) 583-5563 (or 7755-TELL-ME). I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!    

Our guest today has a unique window into the vast creative potential contained in the world of dreams. Della Burford has recorded her dreams as “dream mandalas” for the past 40 years!   Della Burford is an award-winning painter and best selling author of 7 books, she is based on Vancouver Island, Canada. She studied the Mische Technique of painting in Vienna and showed in many of the Society of Art of Imagination shows in Montreal, Ottawa, New York, London, and Peru. She won a prize as the best Graphic Art in an Art Show in Moscow and spoke on Art and Dreams. Her artistic stories have been performed in New York at the Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Citycorp, in Washington at the Smithsonian Institute, Korea, Guatemala, and Bali. Her play, Magical Earth Secrets has been performed for seven years in Japan, and Miracle Galaxy is now being performed. Her book “Journey to Dodoland” was turned into an e-zine and a website that was sponsored by Switfshire and has had more than 22 million views worldwide. Della was mentored by a shaman who studied with Carl Jung and also studied dreams with Robert Moss and Dream Yoga with Tenzin Wagyal Rinpoche. She started painting her dream wheels in 1975, creating one complete wheel for every year. The dream wheels have 3 rings: the center ring is for important everyday events following the seasons; the outer ring is dreams that are creative, inspirational and wise dreams (you can write a title for the dream); and the middle is small drawings which are symbols and like the title reminds you of the dream and is a portal to return. Her work is for the World, Humanity, and Spirit. For full show-notes and photos (Apple users), go to https://languageofcreativity.substack.com/p/paintingyourdreams-dellaburford Guest: Della Burford Websites - dellaburford.com, dellaburfordartist.ca Dodoland - dodoland.com, on Facebook Dream Wheels book (Amazon, Canada) Della Burford on Wikipedia Social Media: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIN ArtStarts Eductational workshops (ArtStarts) Topia (virtual) Worlds: https://www.topia.io/dodoland https://www.topia.io/stargalaxyfortheworld Episode Music Sagpipa, Double Flute, Kou Xian (with piano by Steven Leavitt), Atabaque and Bansuri by Richard Struppi Pohl (From Star Galaxy For the World). In This Together, A Quiet Place, and Place courtesy of Descript Library. Episode References Della Burford on The Spaceship Earth Mission Log podcast (with Steven Leavitt), (YouTube) Robert Moss - The Way of the Dreamer Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Ligmincha Community) Carl Jung's book “Man and His Symbols” (Goodreads) Sergio Magaña Rights of Nature (Columbia.edu) Design Science Studio Buckminster Fuller Institute The Vision Train (Join the 24/7 Art Jam!) Amanda Sage Earnest Fuchs Mischtechnik (Wikipedia) Jack Shadbolt (National Gallery of Canada) Dream Journaling The Hero's Journey (Wikipedia) Don Oscar Mira de Quesada (heartofthehealer.org) Andrew Gonzales Cynthia Re Robbins Irene Vincent Kuba Ambrose Roland Proulx (Galarie Molinas) The Spirit of Writing and Art (YouTube) Dale Bertrand (bio on DodoLand) Druidical Quest (website | Facebook Page) John Hugh Roberts (Thrift Books) Western Canada Wilderness Committee Della's Collaborators Merian Soto – who danced and choreographed for Dodoland in New York. I Made Sidia – who collaborated on dances of Dodoland and Magical Earth in Bali and wants to do Star Galaxy for the World. Wayan Karja (Life As Art Asia) – collaborated in art shows of Dream Wheels, Dream Gifts, workshops. Kazuko Asaba – who created many art projects around Della's books in Japan and co-produced “Magical Rainbow” and Magical Earth Secrets. Ruu Ruu (Amazon books) – Costume Designer & Producer of Magical Earth Secrets and Miracle Galaxy. Julie Lyon Lieberman – Musical Director of Dodoland in New York. David Walsh – always supported Della's work. He has made major commitments to Community. Vern Harper (The Canadian Encyclopedia, Article: Indigenous Toronto) – Della did many projects at the Wander Spirit Survival School. Pauline Shirt (aabaakwad) – co-Founder at Wandering Spirit in Toronto. Cultural Keeper. Aaron Zerah – collaborated in the Spirit Storybooks in British Columbia. Paul Vrenken – created a video of Magical Earth Secrets in Holland. Marijke translation. Julian Ramirez – worked in co-designing with Della/Dale Star Galaxy for the World (YouTube), and making a 3-D animation for the immersive environment of New Art City. Thanks to Tom & Sal Williams family & the Burford family: Murray, Glen and Warren. Sister Norah Burford – for organizing Bali workshops. Thanks Glen Burford for media advice. Russell Coull for being there and giving support. About the host Language of Creativity's host Steven Leavitt enjoys discussing the ins and outs of all aspects of creating, creativity, and life with his fellow creators: artists, inventors, designers, producers and more. Along the way he hopes to gain perspective and multiply our understanding of what we share in common while creating, living, and learning. Steven is also an accomplished music producer (website) and helps others learn music production and podcasting through his company I Create Sound. Please review this podcast on Google Play, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Spotify and Stitcher to help other creatives find their tribe!   Tags: dreams, creativity, storytelling, painting, mandalas, lucid dreaming, dream journaling, healing journey, dream work, dream yoga, milam, Nyingma, dream symbols, dream interpretation, archetypes creative expression, artistic journey, dream shamanism, symbolism, power animals, nature inspiration, environmental art, transformational art, mythology, ancestral wisdom, Aborigines, inner journey, spiritual art, visionary art, dream collaboration, dream guidance, magic, art, non-local consciousness, dream visitations,  intuition, peaceful art, creativity in storytelling, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, ancient wisdom, ogham stones, druids, healing the world, life balance, creative process, inspired by nature, inner balance, sacredness, ancestral connections, spiritual journey, artistic expression, dream narratives, cultural wisdom, environmental protection, dream collage, divine creativity, dream magic, dream teachers, dream manifestation, co-creation

Traveling without leaving home. A shamanic dreamer and author of over two dozen books, we speak today with Robert Moss in this special replay from April Fool's Day. Robert describes himself as a story teller who helps people find their story. He begins with the tale of what happened when he was pronounced dead at age 3 and about how dreaming is preparation for dying. We speak about the power of imagination and about the practice of living by synchronicity which he calls kairomancy. He urges us to remember to play. We explore a dream from Steve Popp of Santa Cruz in which his dad offers him a horse which ultimately turns into a deer, and a call from Elizabeth from Bellingham who asks about how to stimulate more dreams. She mentions a dream of her own about a blue horse. We also take a call from Beth Ann from the Central Valley who asks about how to find humor and playfulness around dark dreams. Synchronistically, she also mentions dreams about horses. BIO: Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him dead in a hospital in Tasmania when he was three years old. His School of Active Dreaming is a synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic practices for journeying to realms beyond the physical. He leads adventures all over the world, including a three-year teacher training and popular online courses for the Shift Network. He is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and independent scholar. His latest book is Growing Big Dreams: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires through 12 Secrets of the Imagination. Find our guest at: MossDreams.com and on Facebook @RobertMossBooks @ActiveDreaming Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired October 14 as a replay of a show broadcast live on April 1, 2023. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

(October 10, 2023- Hour One)9:14pm - Are you new to the BBQ/Grilling game and have heard the term "aging" when it comes to beef? Tonight I will be joined my 2nd Tuesday of the month regular guest Meathead from Amazingribs.com and we will cover the topic to get you up to speed. Dry aging and what happens to the meat to get you those flavors over time that are sought after by high end beef lovers, wet aging and what that does to your beef as it happens and all points in between. We might also discuss why, according to Meathead, griddling should not be classified as any kind of BBQ/Grilling cooking method.9:35pm - After Meathead the contributing BBQ editor to Sothern Living Magazine, Robert Moss, joins me to talk about the upcoming Jack Daniel's competition this weekend and he will also address the comments from Daniel Vaughn last month telling him to "Leave Texas BBQ joints to Texas Monthly" and that will be better for everyone involved. Other topics are sure to come up as well so be ready to see what happensThe BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!

It's undeniable that pork steak was popularized in St. Louis, but the identity of its inventor is sizzling with debate. The local supermarket chain Schnucks claims it deserves the title. Robert Moss, contributing barbecue editor for Southern Living, and restaurant critic for the Post & Courier, says that claim needs to be sent back to the kitchen. Moss investigated the controversy over the origin of the humble pork steak, and he shares why the pork steak is special, where it came from, and why Schnuck's, Google, and Wikipedia struggle to get the history right.

(September 12, 2023 - Hour One)9:14pm - The 2nd Tuesday of the month brings a visit from our pal, BBQ Hall of Fame'er and creator of Amazingribs.com, Meathead. Tonight we talk about what really happened at the airport last month when he was on his way to Cleveland, what makes a good BBQ rub, going through technical issues on live streams and much more!9:35pm - After Meathead, Southern Living BBQ editor, Robert Moss joins me to talk about his freshly released Southern Living Top 50 BBQ Restaurants. spoiler alert...there is a new #1 spot that will be revealed on the show this very night! We will also talk about where the value might be for spending $60 on a streaming BBQ video channel vs. a BBQ newsletter, the history of the infamous "potted meat" and much more!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers – Use promo code “REMPE” for $10 off your purchase of $50 or more!FireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerFranklin BBQ PitsThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JRE Tobacco – Makers of the Aladino (and other) line of premium cigars!JC Newman Cigars – Try Perla Del Mar Corojo or Centro Fino No. 60 Today!

Carolyn Jones is a Holistic Health Educator and Chaplain who teaches the art of self-care and practices a ministry of presence. She is licensed by the New York State Chaplain Task Force and serves the community as an herbalist, a certified aromatherapist and reflexologist. In this episode Carolyn shares her insights on the power of deepening our relationship with plants beyond culinary uses to medicinal and spirtual applications. This episode we explore:☀️How to get started with herbalism☀️Spiritual uses for plants☀️Medicinal uses for common herbs and spices☀️Rootworker belief systems Episode Resourceswww.daliakinsey.comDecolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body LiberationConnect with Carolyn https://www.behealed.info/Episode edited and produced by Unapologetic AmplifiedThis transcript was generated with the help of AI. Thank you to our supporting members for helping us improve accessibility and pay equitable wages for things like human transcription.Have you ever wondered why almost all the health and wellness information you see out there is so white, cis able-bodied and het? I know I have. And as a queer black registered dietitian, I gotta tell you, I'm not into it. I believe health and happiness should be accessible to everyone. That is precisely why I wrote Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation and why I host Body Liberation for All.The road to health and happiness has a couple of extra steps for chronically stressed people, like queer folks and folks of color. But don't worry, my guests and I have got you covered. If you're ready to live the most fierce, liberated, and joyful version of your life, you are in the right place.Body Liberation for All ThemeThey might try to put you in a box, tell them that you don't accept when the world is tripping out tell them that you love yourself. Hey, Hey, smile on them. Live your life just like you like itIt's your party negativity is not invited. For my queer folks, for my trans, people of color, let your voice be heard. Look in the mirror and say that it's time to put me first. You were born to win. Head up high with confidence.  This show is for everyone. So, I thank you for tuning in. Let's go.Dalia Kinsey: Welcome to the show Carolyn. I'm so glad to have you.Carolyn Jones: Thank you for having me, Dalia.Dalia Kinsey: I have been really interested in herbalism for years, but I always felt like I wasn't a plant person. I thought I didn't have a green thumb, and only since 2020 have I realized that I just wasn't slowing down enough to pay attention to when the plants were asking for more water or more light, and just suddenly it feels like being connected to the plants has been a little demystified for me.But of course, I'm a total. Baby when it comes to understanding herbalism, the spiritual uses of herbs, any of that. So when I saw you recently in a replay of a webinar that you did for another institute that I've been just studying, like their library, I haven't even gotten that deep yet. I was just fascinated that this institute in particular looks at the spiritual aspect of plants in a way that I really had never seen before, but it really resonates with me that the plants are not seen as just something we take things from.They're not seen as inanimate. They're seen as really powerful and as teachers that are always trying to speak to us. So when I saw your workshop on the African American relationship with herbalism and root work in particular. I was just blown away, and so I'm so glad to have you here to share some of your story with us and maybe how the listeners can get started exploring some of our traditions that maybe feel a little lost to us right now. Carolyn Jones: Well, I'm so happy that you enjoyed my presentation and I'm even happier that you were interested and curious enough to invite me on so we could talk about this in more depth. I love the subject and we are all babies when it comes to the plant world. We'll never know everything. It's always a learning process.The interesting thing is, I seemed like I could kill plants to look at them, you know? Oh, wow. I went to a workshop at a Brooklyn Botanic Garden one day, and I said to the gardener, I feel so guilty because it seems like I touch a plant and dies. He said, don't feel guilty. You know how many plants we kill around here?It becomes like an experiment, but I still feel that sensitivity because for me, the love of plants started early. My mother had a rose garden in the front of the house. We grew up in Bedstuy. I grew up in Bedstuy, born in Harlem. We moved to, uh, Brooklyn when I was six, and in the back she grew corn, tomatoes, college, she had a beautiful garden, you know, a Georgia peach.So she brought all that knowledge from her sharecropper parents and. Who unfortunately I never got the chance to meet. They died when she was 16, but she certainly took their knowledge seriously and brought it with her as a form of survival. Now, when I was younger, I didn't really pick up on it. Like I loved looking at it, but worms bothered me.Dalia Kinsey: As much as I love being outside, I really have a thing with spiders. That was another barrier. I thought, if I'm gonna be spending time with plants, I need to be comfortable with everything that's out there. It's good to hear that not necessarily so.Carolyn Jones: Yes. And I'm gonna tell you, just as of last night, I connected with a neighborhood garden, the Q Garden here in Brooklyn, and I actually sat next to someone who was digging out a pot and centipedes were running all over, and I didn't run screaming into the night.Dalia Kinsey: How'd you get to that point? Carolyn Jones: I don't, I don't know how it happened. Okay. When they were talking about a garden bed that had jumping worms, I held a full interview. How do they jump? Where do they jump? Where are they? You know, because I wanted no part of it, but luckily we didn't see any worms. We did see some of, I think it was a Japanese beetle, but that didn't even send me running.But I was really amazed that I didn't run away from the, well, they didn't get on me. So that's a start. They were on the pot. So being around people, I think who. Are not fearful that way. Mm-hmm. I think some of their courage may rub off. I'm not quite sure. We'll see next week, but you know, for now, so that it kept me from gardening.It really did. Mm-hmm. So as I began to develop a community of herbalists around me, more experienced herbalists, and they began to explain how medicines are better when you have fresh plants, you know, not always dealing with the dry herbs, then my mind began to open up more and more. So over time, as you expose yourself to people with different levels of knowledge, I guess this transformation takes place that you're really not aware of.That's the way we grow anyway. You don't think about it unless you really sit down, slow down, as you said. I thought that was very profound. You do have to slow down now. In order to cultivate my love of plants, I started collecting bamboo shoots. I can keep bamboo alive in water. I have like a bamboo garden all the way through the apartment here, the bedroom and living room.It's in here and they're flourishing. So I feel very happy about that. But I also incorporate that I'm a bereavement chaplain and I incorporate plants into that service as well because I find that plants are very comforting. And I just received a, a picture of someone's memorial garden. She had lost her son.I was doing some consultation with her and recommended that she use their backyard or the area that they have. Space. They have to designate it as an altar for him and she Oh, that's beautiful. She a picture of him beautiful memorial garden that the family has created in his memory. So plants will bring peace and depending on the type of plant, it will comfort you.It will dispel loneliness. And it's no secret that you can talk to plants and if you listen, they talk back, you know, energetically. Dalia Kinsey: How does that usually come through? Okay. Energetically, yes.Carolyn Jones: As far as we are talking about herbalism and root work, there are a few herbs that are used for root work. Hiss is one, but it also has many whole body wellness properties as well.It's used for other things.Dalia Kinsey: So how would you recommend somebody get started? Because that is something that's been intriguing is how vast the uses for a plant can be, and that once you start adding in spiritual uses too, from where I'm standing now, it looks like it might be easier for me. To remember the essence of a plant when I'm looking at it in a spiritual way also.But when I look at all of the, it's almost like medication with off-label uses. There's so many different things that one plant can do. Mm-hmm. How do you start getting your feet wet with this? Or how would you recommend somebody even start learning? Carolyn Jones: Most of the healers healing practitioners that I've interviewed, and I must include myself, started from the point of view of how do I want to heal?How do I need to heal? What could I use to heal myself? Who do I want to be? You know, they ask children, what do you wanna be when you grow up? Who do you wanna be when you grow up spiritually? Not what job you wanna have, how much money you wanna earn. None of that. Who and how do you want to be remembered?When it's all said and done, in order to ask that question, I found for myself that I had to get in touch with my own mortality and my own immortality. How do I wanna be remembered? When people think of me, how do I want people to feel when they think of me? Oh, that's really telling. I worked at a funeral home for two years at the height of Covid.Hmm. So I saw a lot of who I consider our libraries. A lot of elders Pass on the kitchen is as Queen of four. I love her. Always taught is your laboratory and having the wisdom to know. Which plant to use for what ailment. Like today, I woke up feeling a little lethargic. I thought I was just a little overtired of something and I saw it was the sun was shining beautifully outside.I said, okay, come on. You gotta go outside. You can't sit in front of the computer all day. Because I had a lot of writing to do and I went outside and that was good, but I was still dragging a little bit and I had some B propolis in my bag in the form of a spray that I felt a little congested and I sprayed it.The dosage is three sprays in the throat, and I had spoken to a colleague of mine yesterday, Amy Anthony. She's was my aromatherapy. Well, she will be my aromatherapy teacher for the rest of her life, but she's also my friend now and team member in the clinic. That we manage. And I sprayed the bee propolis down my throat, remembering that she said how highly antibacterial it is.And next thing you know, everything started clearing up my energy level rose. The congestion expelled itself, and I felt myself again. So the reason that we wanna know about these things from a spiritual point of view and a physical point of view, is for preventative care. When we feel down or lethargic and don't really know where that's coming from to be able to treat yourself, or if you, you're not getting a deep enough sleep to know that you can use lemon balm or mug wart.You might wanna dream your way to a solution. So you'll drink some mug wart tea or. Use a mug board tincture in your water to enhance your dreams. Mm-hmm. It helps you dream lucid dreams, but it also, I always describe it as helps you sleep beneath that sleep. You know that first layer of sleep well, it helps you get down deep into the sleep and you wake up feeling refreshed.You don't feel dragged out. I went to do a house call yesterday and you know, she put her aspirins and stuff in front of me. She said, I don't want to take these, you know, so I offered her some Valerian tincture, valerian, and she recognized right away, Valium. I said, right, that's what they make Valium for.So now you'll not only get rest, but it's gonna help the pain. But I didn't learn that from studying. I learned that. From healed thyself when I called them after surgery and told them I did not wanna take the codeine aspirin and I needed my circulation and my legs to come back. So I had a masseuse come to the house and got a massage for the circulatory problem.And I was given Valerian teacher and I didn't have to touch the codeine aspirin. So it's just a matter of having the resources and tapping into them, but believing same thing. It's all the same thing with rootwork. And one thing that one of the authors from one of the books that I researched before I came on said that it's not logical.If you try to think about this logically, then you lose the magic of it.Dalia Kinsey: See, I wondered if that was an important component, because you mentioned that you thought about what your aromatherapy teacher had said it was good for, as you were essentially giving yourself the medicine. Does that usually go hand in hand?Carolyn Jones: Well, uh, a reference point is always good, but imagine if you just had a book. The first herbal book that I started studying from was Back to Eden. That was usually the entry point for people from my generation. And then, you know, it expanded and expanded along the way. So now I have book cases of books about self-care for different healing modalities, sound included, color, light included.But in speaking about herbs, which to me I just love them. My home is overrun with them to know that I have that plant friend that will help me be it for a spiritual reason. Something as simple as sage to, you know, smudge the homes. Yeah. Yes. Or even boil for a bath.Dalia Kinsey: What are some of the different ways to use it?So you mentioned tinctures, essences. Mm-hmm. How do you know what you could just boil and drink versus what needs to be a tincture? Or is every plant able to be basically worked with different ways?Carolyn Jones: I don't wanna say every, because some plants are poisonous, so we are just gonna reference the general look at plants that.Edible. The reason I mentioned tinctures is because for me, I love tinctures when my schedule gets so busy that I don't really have time to make a cup of tea, but I want to fortify my body so I do have time to open up a bottle and put a couple of droppers full of the tincture in my water or under my tongue to help myself along.Same way I did with the Be propolis, four sprays in my throat and changed my whole body system and the way I was feeling for the day.Dalia Kinsey: Okay, that makes sense. I tried to make my first tincture, multiple tutorials made it sound like it can be as simple as you want it to be, but it came out so bitter that now I'm thinking maybe I should try tease.Carolyn Jones: The thing that we have to know first is our own habit and our own schedule and our own ability to stick to a program, but also have different ways to approach because we change, sometimes I feel like a cup of tea right before bed or in the morning for two weeks, and then I might want tinctures instead, you know?Or I might put it in a cream. Now you were talking about making the tinctures and how it could be simple depending on the recipe. And Amy and I made, we just strained and bottled about 12 tinctures. Yesterday Rose was the most exciting one for us and she used organic corn spirits for some and I brought Benedictine to the table, which the priest, the Benedictine priest used.It has 26 herbs in it and it's delicious. Now you mentioned bitter. That's okay. That something is bitter. Bitters are good for the system. Some things need to be bitter 'cause it helps your digestive system. It helps the enzymes in your body and also it helps cleanse your blood. 'cause look at apple cider vinegar.It's bitter, but it can be mixed with herbs. I know brags actually has a line of drinks that are delicious, but it has a base of apple cider vinegar. They add cinnamon to it. And the main thing people have to remember with that is add water. You know, have more water than the apple cider vinegar 'cause you'll irritate your stomach.Mm-hmm. But you know, he used as many different flavorings, natural flavorings in his drinks. But when I saw that, I like, I could do that myself. So I recommend to people who need that little bit of boost of taste good because sometimes if someone's having a bitter experience, they don't need to taste something that's bitter as well to compound it.So you might wanna put a little honey in there, little bit of cinnamon to soothe it out just so that it'll be more inviting to ingest. Dalia Kinsey: That makes sense. If you've made a tincture and you wanna have it in water, but you want it to be hot or warm, could that destroy what you've already done or.Temperature's. Not a big deal. You can make something into drink that's hotCarolyn Jones: if you want to. Yeah. I've added it to my tea. And when I was at a conference one time at a workshop on tincture, I was amazed we were taking tincture, taste of tinctures that had to be about 30 or 35, 1 after the other. We were passing it down, you know, everybody would shoot a drop under their tongue or something, and we kept it going.So sometimes I will sit on the edge of my bed and pull out my box of tinctures and decide what I'm gonna do for the day, and just take them one by one according to what I wanna do, be it respiratory, digestive, my mood. I learned that Manta was used by the Native Americans for when somebody died. Oh, sof or grief on a handkerchief.Yes. Well, to dispel spirits. Oh, okay. Mm-hmm. So, it's used and, and each culture, maybe each tribe, each tradition does things differently. So, I don't wanna make a blanket statement that all Native Americans do this or whatever. I'm just saying that as an example because one thing that is stressed in my research it said, be aware of the ceremonial practices of different cultures, how they may differ.So, you can't make a blanket statement about that. Now I want to talk about frankincense a little bit. 'Cause you know, frankincense was used in mummification and also it was used by the Egyptians for arthritis in an essential oil form. But it is antibacterial. That I was introduced to by Amy, 'cause she made frankincense water.She put the tears, they're called tears, the resin balls, and she put it in water and did a coal infusion overnight, so it turns the water milky. But you can also to speed it up, heat it. And I remember she served it in class. And I had respiratory issue. Well, really it was sinuses. I couldn't get rid of this sinus congestion, and after I drank that frankincense water, it went away.So sometimes you discover healing in the process just by trying something new, just by keeping your mind open. As an herbalist, I believe that most of my struggle and the people who work with herbs, so discuss the fact that our biggest struggle and disappointment is when people close their minds and their hearts to nature.I do believe in integrative medicine, however, when you take an herb, it's gonna build your body up. The contraindications will come when it is possibly say like St. John's wart. That seems to be the herb with the highest level of contraindications to pharmaceuticals. So, I don't recommend that people, you know, in my consultation, I don't recommend that they ingest it.I may put it in an oil for them or a cream, you know, add it to a cream 'cause it's great for pain and it's great for soothing and your skin will soak it in so you'll get the effect you need without ingesting it and having it have cause a contra ending in your body. Dalia Kinsey: Now when you put it in a cream, is that something you could do with it as a dry herb or it's more you make the tincture and then you can put it in a cream?Carolyn Jones: That would be an oil infusion. Yes. So, in studying aromatherapy, you get to learn base oils and essential oils and how to use them. But also I. You learn about oil infusions in herbalism and tea infusions, so that's with water. But you can also do kitchen herbal infusion like you see garlic oil. Yes. That means that they infuse the oil with garlic or garlic.Honey, you can make garlic honey infusion. I'm looking forward to doing some make and take courses. I'm especially in love with honey, you know, and that's a great antibiotic as to weather, you know, comes into winter. So you cure the garlic in the honey and then you can add it. To tea or just take a spoonful of it and eat it.Dalia Kinsey: Yeah. That's one of the few remedies I do remember in a crystal clear way from my grandma, like she never really was big into cough medicine. Like one, she thought it was too expensive and then had a lot of questions about all the unnecessary ingredients and all of the dyes and stuff. But she would say, you need the entire bulb of garlic, not a clove.She said, put the whole thing in there. Okay. And then a cup of honey. You blend that together and she would put 10 drops of eucalyptus oil and she's like, that's all you need, but when you take it, people will smell you from a mile away. But it tastes delicious to me. So I still do it and people just have to deal with the smell.Carolyn Jones: That's right. I love garlic. I do. As a matter of fact, I just had some garlic last week. I think I had to talk to someone up close. I was trying to turn my head, but I, I was saying to myself, look, deal with it because I feel great. Well, yeah,Dalia Kinsey: It really is one of those things where it just tastes so good, you know, it's doing something good for you. And then because it also reminds me of grandma, I just feel like as soon as I'm blending it up, I'm like, I'm already healed, I can just feel it coming. But I've been sitting in an office and heard my coworker come in the front of the building. And she's like, you're at again from the front. So I know it's pretty loud. Ad breakHave you been kicking around the idea of starting your own podcast? If you have started doing the research, or if you already have a show that you know how many moving parts there are involved in podcasting? From learning new tech to clarifying your message, to overcoming your fears about saying what needs to be said.Speaking truth of power. 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I was always told, I was raised in a very conservative Christian household, and so there was always a high concern about possession and so anything that had to do with plants or nature or.Spirits that you don't know by name. It was something you're supposed to be very, very careful with and probably stay away from, but I've always been drawn to it. Yes,Carolyn Jones: yes, because it's a natural curiosity. So I grew up in a very conservative and religious home as well. My mother did allude to spirits a bit.I'll tell you a story in a minute, but she had a book from Edgar Casey on her bookshelf, the famous psychic healer, and at the age of 10, I was reading this book. So my mind was already opened up and I remember one time my mother told me that we were living in Harlem and in a rooming house, and she saw, this is what she told me.Now, I don't know. She heard and saw the door open and she heard footsteps. Coming in the room, but nobody, she saw nothing and she pulled the covers over her head. She said, I was in the bed with her. She pulled the covers over her head and she said, Lord, have mercy on me in the name of Jesus. And she heard the footsteps turn around and run out of the room.I did. I, I had no judgment. I still don't have any judgment if that's what she experienced. 'cause she said she felt the, the covers moving back. If she had that, that's her experience. I don't wanna dispute that in my studying. I love to read books, especially by surgeons who have a certain spiritual sense about them and they talk about death and spiritual phenomenon.And in my studies, uh, with Robert Moss who died or had a near death, death experience as a child, two or three times, I can't remember right now, but I know it was at least two. And he talks about. Near death experiences a lot, and I read a lot about near death experiences. Who am I to judge if a spirit? Are we not living in a physical form as spirits?Don't we talk about souls regardless of how we are brought up? I don't know if atheists referred to souls. I've had a couple of atheist students in my lifetime, you know, in academia, and they were very interesting people, you know, very clear minded in their thinking as far as I was concerned. To me, that's a personal, my question is what do you need at the moment of transition?Have you taken care of feeding your spirit, the spiritual food it needs in order for you to make transition? Also, how do other cultures so-called primitive cultures look at death? From a child, I read National Geographic magazines and my mother would bring them home. And that was a fascination for me as to how other cultures look at death.I was like, you mean only Baptists are gonna go to heaven? Like, how do other people get there? You know? Right. Heaven full of Baptist. I, I can't imagine. You know, and also, how do you interpret Christianity as an individual? If you're living the principles? Are you living it by convenience? Like you're a Christian one moment and then you're doing something untoward the next whatever untoward is.I don't know what unto is. You know, everybody has, everybody has their own definition of what untoward could be. But meanwhile, my main concern when I'm seeking a spiritual space, Are the people joyful? Because if you are not joyful to me, your spiritual food is not working because you should not be living a life of despair.I find it hard to believe that the creator, an all knowing creator, would put all of us here to live in despair.Dalia Kinsey: Yeah, and it seems like if you, at the end of the day, you get to choose which spiritual tradition is going to feed you, which one is gonna nourish you. I don't really understand why you would pick one that doesn't really support you like in all of your identities, and support your happiness and make your life, enhance your life.You know, add ease rather than make your life even harder. But I know a lot of people are in traditions that make them feel, I. Burdened.Carolyn Jones: Yes. I watched it happen to my aunt. My aunt, God rest her soul is the reason why we had lipstick today. Ooh. I thought she was so pretty with the red, bright red lipstick and the straightened hair with the curls and everything.And all of a sudden she joined this church. And not to say she didn't look good in the natural, but she was dowdy. And by that time, you know, admiring people like Diana Ross and Gina Lola Brita and Sophie Lauren and Diane Carroll and all of them, I'm like, oh, that's not working for me. That look you have now back to that red lipstick.So I then began to analyze why would somebody allow an institution to make them change their whole being? And what is wrong with having red lips? It's a color. So I have to credit Caribbean people for showing me that wearing vibrant colors was beautiful because back in the day, we were supposed to tone ourselves down, you know?Mm-hmm. I'm like, no, but I like that right there. Okay. And that's what I'm gonna be, and I'll just have to be the bane of everyone's existence because I'm going to do it the way I wanna do it, you know? And I'm so glad that I was stubborn that way.Dalia Kinsey: Now, would you say like people were encouraging all women or people assigned female at birth to tone it down, or people putting pressure on black people to turn tone it down?Carolyn Jones: Not necessarily Black people, you know, like in the corporate world, you had to wear black, blue, dark suits, you know, that's, they never tell you, oh, wear, uh, some orange and pink and light up to the room. You know what I mean? Right. You could tone it down without wearing black and. Maybe a dark brown or something, you know, those are pretty colors.They're nice and they have their place, but colors change your aura and it helps people see you better, you know, see your soul better. What are you representing? I remember. And, and, um, sure it's not hard to find a toxic person on a job. And what I would do to counter that, to make myself feel better, I would decide what, what, especially when I was studying holism, decide what color I was gonna wear that day to make myself feel healed all day in spite of.That energy. So it gave me a constant feeling of self care, and this is my message to everyone. Regardless of what you are going through, you deserve to love yourself. And if you don't feel it, act as if my newest emotional wellness package includes salt cave, auricular, massage, flower essences, and aromatherapy to teach people how you don't need a lot of people around you to heal.You can be by yourself. I want to show people places that they can go and be themselves to heal botanic gardens. Listen to the birds. They're talking. If they're not talking to you, they're talking to each other and they couldn't be cursing each other out. As beautiful as they sound. Maybe they are, I don't know.But usually when a bird is angry, you could tell, right?Dalia Kinsey: Yes. We have some really territorial ones that like our bird feeder.Carolyn Jones: Yeah. So you know, listen to the birds singing and watch the animals, how they're handling their lives. You know, take a lesson from the animals. I had even done some research for this podcast to see how animals were used in the root world.Would you like to hear some things?Dalia Kinsey: Oh, yes, please. Carolyn Jones: The first animal that sim used as a symbol is snakes. Okay. And they're seen as powerful symbols of transformation and wisdom and healing. They're associated with spiritual knowledge and the ability to shed all patterns and emerge renewed. So just having that desire to shed what is not working, be it a relationship.Don't be afraid. Yes, it's bumpy. Yes, you could lose everything, but look at how much you could gain in the end, because the piece that surpasses all understanding has no monetary. You can't, you can't buy it. It's all internal. You need your peace of mind. I, I often tell this story that one day I was sitting in my living room when I was deep into trying to transform my life.I was living alone, but I sat down. I had read a book. I used a lot of biblio therapy books to heal myself. I remember just breaking down and crying and resolving that. The next day when I got up, I was going to approach life differently and pick up the pieces where they lay and continued the thread of what was good.Mm-hmm. About what I was doing before and leave the rest behind. And that was the day that my life began. Its full transformation. Dalia Kinsey:I do think it's really empowering to know that even when it feels like you don't have any say, that there's probably still some autonomy there and there's probably still a way for you to take control, but it's.Hard sometimes to see it. I know patterns from childhood can follow you. And it's almost like, I mean, we've, most of us have seen this happen when you train a pet. Mm-hmm. You don't have to always keep the fence locked, they'll just assume it's locked after certain point. And we get stuck in similar patterns.We don't know that we could make a change. It doesn't even occur to us that there might be something we could do to make our lives a little better.Carolyn Jones: Yes. And that happens when we, when mistakenly give our power to someone else who has no interest in preserving it, you know? Right. So a lot of times people, Amy and I were laughing about that yesterday.She said, yeah, Carolyn, you always say, See it for what it is, because Maya Angelou made that statement, when a person shows you who they are, believes them the first time. And I have joked in the past and said, okay, I'm up to about the 16th time now I'm getting there, but now I can honestly say, mm, maybe you have two times.More than likely you have one. Yeah. You know, so it took years for me to get that way because, you know, we brought up, oh, it don't hurt anybody's feelings, so, you know, but what about your feelings? Why are, do you have to be the sacrificial goat? Dalia Kinsey: That's a hard one because yeah, some of us are raised to just keep trying to be polite, put other people's feelings.Ahead of our own. And I know even now as we're all, a lot of people are trying to be more compassionate, more kind. Mm-hmm. They give people a lot of grace and realize like, oh, well maybe someone's coming into this conversation with a lot of trauma, but at what point are you going to prioritize your own wellbeing?And if you aren't for you, who else is gonna do it? Right? Like that's, that's our job is to prioritize our own care and to prioritize our own feelings. And yeah, you care about other people's feelings too, but not more than your own. And it makes some people really uncomfortable to even say that out loud or.I've been called selfish many times, and when I was younger it would hurt my little feelings. But now I'm like, oh, well you've been conditioned to think it's bad to look out for number one. Yeah. But I understand that I am best equipped to do it, and I can offer people more love and more care when I do it.So you can call it selfish. And I guess technically it is because I'm looking out for my own self. Self-care. Self-care. Mm-hmm. Certainly not evil or bad, but some of us were raised to think that it is.Carolyn Jones: Yes. Mm-hmm. And that's how things got the way they are from that mistaken mindset. You know, and, and I wanna say this, especially with women, you know, I, I was so happy when back in the day, women started burning their brass.I didn't like 'em anyway. You know, and claiming their own freedom and their own rights, because I didn't think, I never thought that. I thought the phrase old made was misplaced, you know? So what if someone decides they wanna live in their own world as a woman? You know, why should she be powerless? Why should she choose powerlessness in place of her freedom?The freedom that she has defined that she wants to have? You know, so those old philosophies of what a woman should be or what a man should be, we've just outgrown them. But whether we have learned how to navigate it fully yet is still up for grabs. But at least we're on our way. It seems to me that one has to decide what's more important.Do you wanna stay and suffer and create the definition that's killing you? Just like Judge Judy said on a reel that I saw, when a woman gives up her ability to earn money and choose her career, she's forced to live in unpleasant circumstances many times. You know? And I guess that could go for men too, but I'm speaking from the point of view of someone who had to make that choice and lose everything.'cause I didn't wanna lose my soul. Hmm. Because you can get material things back. You, once you get too far out there, you can't call yourself back. And one thing I would not want to do is die not knowing myself and not having nurtured myself and given myself the love that I deserve. So I feel that you're absolutely correct in being able to take care of yourself.And yes, everyone has had trauma and I don't think it's right for people to compare traumas. Why is the other person's trauma more important than your own? And different traumas, like what is a small trauma in your world, may totally devastate me according to my personages,right? Dalia Kinsey: Yeah. I recently. Well, maybe a few years ago.Mm-hmm. Heard somebody explain that trauma isn't a thing that happens, it's how your body responds to something that was too much for you to handle at the time. Mm-hmm. So you could be going through the same experience with a family member, and it is not traumatic to them, but it is traumatic to you. And it doesn't become less significant because someone else says, well, that's not traumatic enough.That's not big enough. You have to prioritize this other person's emotional experience. Carolyn Jones: So that's a selfish statement. Oh yeah. That, you know what I mean? To just brush somebody off and say, yeah, all right, but that's, you know, you're a cry baby. We all have our inner child that gets wounded. But that inner child, if it was abused, if you were abused as a child, that inner child is damaged and you as an adult, Need to gain the knowledge and the wisdom it takes to nurture that inner child back to health for your own good.Dalia Kinsey: How would you speak to a child that is upset or emotionally devastated? Would you tell them you're being stupid for crying or would you try and soothe them? Maybe try to explain to them that they are safe? Can't we give ourselves that? Yes.Carolyn Jones: Yeah, exactly. We, we, and a lot of people walk around not believing that they deserve that kind of kindness, or maybe they've never seen it.But that goes back to my point of opening one's, mind expanding one circle, go places that you've never been, that looks like people are. You know, growing through their pain as opposed to remaining stagnant. When I first started studying Kundalini yoga, we would meet every Friday strangers for a community circle.And I'm proud to claim at least four people still as close friends, even though we don't see each other often. But we grew through our pain and as I look at each person's life, we benefited from that time together. And we know deep down inside when we have a moment to have one, we go through the salt cave together sometimes, or another one, we had tea together lunch.But that's that connection. It's a lifetime connection where we know that whatever it is we had to come through, we did it together in that time and space. And we can discuss the transformation and we thank each other. For support us during that time, you know, each one of us during that time. So it sounds like it's all about community,Dalia Kinsey: rSo it sounds like it's both. 'cause you mentioned you want people to understand how much healing they could do alone, but then also there's a lot that you can do in community, right?Carolyn Jones: Right. It spreads to community eventually. That's how healers and healing practitioners are made. It starts from one trying to heal themselves, and then as the modalities are introduced, then it expands into this big, beautiful world.Right now, the things that are in my life, I didn't even know they existed 20 years ago, you know? But now it's filled to overflowing and the possibilities are endless. Because each person, as I mentioned, always keeps someone in your life who knows more than you do. That's very important. A lot of people wanna live on ego.Oh, you know, we know the dialogue. No, that's toxic dialogue. Invite people who know more 'cause they'll know more people and they'll introduce you to new things. Open yourself up to new experiences, worms and all these things have, because I opened up my mind to worms. So many new things have happened and so many new people have come into my life.Now I can join a community garden, which is a learning garden. So, and it just happened last night where I now know I have a place that I can go and learn. What this is, what this plant looks like, what a jumping worm is, you know, how not to be afraid of it. What other people know and what other people don't know, and how I can fill in the blanks for them and how they can fill in the blanks for me.Hmm. Yes. Because that's what makes life interesting. Not the part, you know, the part you don't know.Dalia Kinsey: I think that is wisdom in itself. It, like you said, there's a lot of ego driven or maybe fear driven posturing that people do online where they want to act as though they know everything and they keep reiterating.I'm an expert. I'm an expert. I'm an expert. When. In reality, we're never done learning. And if we are, then I guarantee you, you have a knowledge deficit if you think you've finished. And it's more wise to understand that it's normal. It's human not to know everything. And everybody knows something you don't know.And you can learn something from anyone. You can learn something from a child. You can learn something from somebody who's 102 and you think, oh, they're out of touch. Carolyn Jones: There's always something. My favorites are the seniors that I visit. I'm an elder myself, but they're my seniors. And I visit a woman who is 91 and we play phase 10 together.You know, she beats me sometimes. Yeah, whatever. And then, you know, I have others in their eighties and so forth who want to live. They want that longevity. And I was just a part of my. Feeling today was I, I lost my friend recently. We would always talk politics and health. Mostly politics because he wasn't taking care of taking care of his health.He was in his fifties and I found out he died about two months ago and that thing was weighing on me so badly today. I said, I miss my friend. I feel like talking politics 'cause it got so bad at a point we were just saying it's over. That's, that's all we would have to say about politics. We wouldn't even talk about the details anymore.You know, it is done. That sustains me when I step out of my building and someone's there for me to say, good morning too. We didn't have to wake up or at least take a moment to look at the sky and not worry about whether it's gonna rain or whether the sun is shining. Just. Look into the stratosphere knowing that you didn't create it, but you're a part of it. Dalia Kinsey: And that looks like a way that some people are using root work, seeing that like everything as having an energy or having life inCarolyn Jones: it. Yes. And I'm glad you said that because there is something that I grabbed for the purpose of this podcast, the common beliefs of root workers. One, there is one God and angels and ancestors and such support the work of the one God, they supplement religious beliefs.Okay, two, the Earth is sacred, living and breathing. It's a sacred living, breathing entity, so everything is alive around us. Physical death is not final. Acknowledging that the soul is eternal is what the root worker does, and the future can be foretold with divination. So here's what I wanna share with you.When I was in my twenties, I don't know, I was walking down the street and this young Caucasian woman was reading poems for $5. I'm like, why not? You know? So I sat down in the chair and gave her my hand. Mine was open. I didn't do it as a skeptic. And she read my palm and she told me, you know, I see a lot of sons here.I said, but I have daughters. She's like, yeah, but I see sons, you know? And she said, you're gonna have a nice long life, but you're gonna have a lot of hardship and your life is gonna begin to open up after 60. So, you know, I kept all that in the back of my mind, didn't really pay any attention. And then after 60, my life began to open up in such a way, and now I'll be 74 this year.And it's wildly exciting. Just by virtue of me speaking with you about this topic is wildly exciting to me. You know, so all the things that I would think about, I'm an only child, so I didn't have people to discuss all this stuff with, and a lot of these thoughts that we're discussing today, I usually just keeping to myself and study on my own and have my own feeling about it.And then when I'm in light company, we have these wonderful conversations that I go back in my shell, my shell about it, because everyone doesn't subscribe to it. And I'm not trying to argue about it. I believe what I believe and let you know. I let other people believe what they want to believe and, and I think that it, it is a private matter that our deepest beliefs are private matters.You, you know, and it is, our choice is a privilege when somebody shares their belief system with you. Mm-hmm. That's what makes being a death doula so important and being able to help people move to the other side, make their transition in peace. Not in despair, not with regrets, just in peace. It's great work and it's work that people shy away from, but it's spiritual work and I think that is what we are lacking a lot in society today.We've forgotten to do the spiritual work well.Dalia Kinsey: People don't wanna do what they would consider the shadowy side of it. They definitely don't wanna think about their own mortality. Generally speaking, I find people don't even wanna consider that this body urine isn't gonna last forever. That's where it's interesting to see all of this fear that people have around like working with what they see as an unknown, which is.Plants because most of us haven't been raised to really be able to recognize them or forage the way, maybe a few generations back. People might've been able to, they're afraid that they're gonna accidentally kill themselves. And it's like the fear of the unknown and the fear of death. Like it's depicted in like more than what a film, I think about how many movies have I seen where somebody mis identifies a plant and they kill themselves.Carolyn Jones: Oh, I see. Dalia Kinsey: You would think that every other plant is poisonous when in reality, depending on what part of the world you live in, it's not that many compared to all the plants that you could ingest. Nature is not as dangerous as some of us think nature is. I mean, sure nature kills people every day.Mm-hmm. But it's not as dangerous as we think. And then also, when are we going to just lean into living? Are we just gonna focus on fear of death? Are we gonna lean into fully experiencing our life? And for me, that's got to mean fully experiencing nature.Carolyn Jones: Yes. And including death. Right. How can you accept the death of your pet?But you can't accept. You might suffer, you might grieve, but you still know the pet's gonna live a certain amount of time, probably less time, you know, probably die in your lifetime. Right. But you don't wanna accept that you are in that same predicament, you know? And it doesn't have to be a predicament based on how you approach it.There is a, a discussion group that I participate in through the Brooklyn Society of Ethical Culture, where we actually have death discussions. What is that like? It's refreshing, you know. And also there is a museum called The Museum of Morbid Anatomy. They have wonderful workshops, and I took a course through them where you actually had to do an artistic symbol of remembrance for yourself.Oh wow. And the beautiful things that people are doing who are unafraid to breach and approach these subjects. Right.Dalia Kinsey: I think it's a real barrier to fully experiencing your life is continually avoiding your own mortality, because it makes you make kind of strange choices if all you're thinking about is just avoiding death.Instead of thinking about what do I wanna do with my actual time in this particular body? Like you said earlier, getting started with your healing work. No matter what modality you're using, you should know what you're trying to do. What do you wanna do with this life? And if you haven't accepted that, it's finite.I think it really changes a lot of your choices, like you hear all the time that when people were told that death was near, it suddenly made them feel free. To actually do what they wanted with their life. But if you understood early in life, like in your twenties or in your thirties when a lot of people still feel immortal.Mm-hmm. If you understand then that you are in fact mortal, that you can go ahead and take that invitation to live your life right now.Carolyn Jones: Yes. Yes, and I believe that it also helps a person be more empathetic. I think more people should either consider volunteering or have an internship at a funeral home or in a hospital, or even with people who are invalids or even visit some of these senior centers just to make seniors happy.Everybody, you know, sitting in a wheelchair and, and debilitated in some way or another, they weren't always like that. And you can't look at it as a us and them kind of thing, a me, a, me and them kind of thing. You have to see humanity as. Stand before the grace of God go.Dalia Kinsey: Right now, you mentioned before we got on the call that you teach a class about kitchen medicine.So I know a lot of people that there are a lot of people that wanted to explore more natural ways to build up their immune system. Mm-hmm. For just all the time so that they'd have less coals and you know, less inflammation year round. Yeah. But people have been complaining or saying they're concerned that alternative medicine options and herbalism in general is very expensive or difficult for them to access.But if there's some things that are just common that could be found in any kitchen that we are just not aware of how we could be using it, that seems like a really missed opportunity. So I would love to hear more about what type of plants that are around us all the time. That we're not understanding could also function as medicine.Carolyn Jones: Okay. To start, you know, we had mentioned sage and things like that before basil cardamon, like what I love about Ayurvedic medicine is that, uh, east Indian modality of medicine, there are three recognized systems of medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and western medicine. So to that end, we can use Ayurvedic medicine because it speaks to mostly how you cook the manifestation.Stage of a disease is the last stage. Accumulation is the first where we're piling on, and then we are experiencing symptoms. That we don't really pay attention to. It's like, oh, my back hurts, but it'll be okay. It doesn't have to show up the way we expect it to. It could be some other way. Or I'm feeling a little lethargic.I'm feeling a little dizzy. Right? So we have things like garlic we spoke about before and I like to tell people what it could be used in like, I like to play a a, a game. It's called Did I miss something? So Garlic, we can use that in soups, meats, poultry, sauces, and tea. You know, ginger soups, salads, sauces, fish.Tea and rice. Today, I just went to a Thai restaurant and had ginger soup and I didn't want them to put any vegetable in other than scallions. I just wanted to cleanse my digestive system and my blood and everything. And I felt for something very light nutmeg. Oh, and by the way, I'm just gonna throw this in there.When you're making rice, you can squeeze some lemon juice in it and make lemon rice. It's delicious. Mm-hmm. Throw a little parsley. And you know, the thing behind that is learn to love cooking. You know, you don't feel like cooking all the time. True. But at least when you cook, make it count. For your health.Dalia Kinsey:Now that sounds like a tall order. Learn to love cooking. Did you always like cooking or did you have to get into it?Carolyn Jones: Well, yeah, I, I always love cooking because I, I mean, I love experimenting and I love to eat, you know.Dalia Kinsey: So you'd try cooking without a recipe? Carolyn Jones: I, I always cook without a recipe. Oh, okay.Because I mean, I feel like how many mistakes can you make once you just know the basic, once you have the seasoning down pat, and you know whether it's gonna be spicy or, you know, you experiment, you might wanna taste a piece of parsley before you use it, or taste a piece of cilantro before you use it.And also when you go to a restaurant, observe how they season their food. When I go to certain vegan restaurants, I learned, that's how I learned about liquid smoke, the mushroom bacon, and I was spending $8 for a side of mushroom bacon. I said, this has got to stop. I asked waiter one day, what's giving it that taste?So it made me realize that we are not addicted to pork, we're addicted to the hickory taste of pork. Mm-hmm. Pork has no flavor. Dalia Kinsey: Yeah, in general, when I think about it, there's very few types of meat that people like to eat with no seasoning. Mm-hmm. It's usually just all preparation. And so you could do that with whatever products you actually wanna eat.Like I do know some people, maybe they do want to eat meat, but if you don't want to eat meat, but you just are afraid of losing out on the taste. Mm-hmm. It's just a matter of mastering the flavors. Carolyn Jones: It is. And with mushroom bacon, you slice the mushrooms up real quick and I wanna try it with, there are a couple of other mushrooms that I want to try, but I did it with portobello, slice it thin, put enough oil in the frying pan just to layer, you know, so the mushroom will get brown.And I throw some garlic, you know, powder, garlic powder onions on there and said, I like to use paprika 'cause I like color in my food. And the last thing is the liquid smoke and it puts that hickory in there and there you have your, your mushroom bacon and it's absolutely delicious. Oh, that sounds pretty easy.It is. So, you know, a lot of things. It's not like when being a vegetarian and being a vegan, when it, it first started out, the food really was terrible to me. So getting back to what you were saying, Paprika I mentioned meat, dairy, fish, and rice. You could put it on pink Himalayan, sea salt salad, greens, meat, poultry, dairy, rice, fish, soups and sauces and aloe, you know, to cleanse your blood.And it also helps one move. I mean, look, it doesn't work for everyone. Delicious on poultry, pasta, salad, soups, and also you can make tea. Turmeric helps with inflammation. You could put it in soups. You can make a tea with it with golden milk. That's a five spice formula with turmeric, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and a touch of black pepper to help the cinnamon and turmeric get through your system.And that can be used with sauces, poultry, rice, salads, pasta. And you can use it in place of paprika sometimes just to color your food.Dalia Kinsey: Well, I can taste turmeric. I can't taste paprika.Carolyn Jones: True. Yeah. Unless it's smoked paprika. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a nice taste. Dalia Kinsey: Now what can paprika do? Turmeric's grown in popularity and it's being sold more as a supplement here in the States.Mm-hmm. But I don't know what medicinal properties paprika has.Carolyn Jones: Well, first of all, as I mentioned, I love that it colors the food, right? And anytime you make the food look more appetizing, that's always great. But it is also, it has antioxidant properties and you can usually tell when a spice or a fruit or vegetable is red, it has that reddish color.It works as an antioxidant, like, uh, cherry, you know, the black. The tar cherries that they use to inflammation. Mm-hmm. It improves immunity and alleviates gas. It also is high in vitamin C and E and protects against cardiovascular disease. Once again, looking at the doctrine of signatures, that red color, it helps create healthy red blood cells.And it reminds me if you wanna talk about that of beats, right? Mm-hmm. Because beats wonders for the blood and, and iron content and everything of the blood. Oh,Dalia Kinsey: I do remember hearing that. Now. You said the doctrine of signatures. Can you explain what that is?Carolyn Jones: Well, the doctrine of signatures in is when you can look at a and surmise what organ it, it will help.So according to the physical, characteristics of the plant, like the shape, the color, texture, and the smell, it could reveal their therapeutic value. And that's a whole, that's a whole study. You know, I can imagine that goes deep. Mm-hmm. It does. So you could look at maybe something like Mullen and look at the leaf, and it may have the shape, or you may see the lung, you know what I mean?The shape of the lung in there, or various other plants that might be shaped like the organ that it actually helps. So that's what the, the doctrine of signatures is about.Dalia Kinsey: That's so fascinating to me because it seems like the plants are trying to communicate how they can support us. Visually. But they've looked like that since before we knew what our own lungs look like.Right. So I wonder how people used to figure it out aside from just experimenting.Carolyn Jones: Well, that's what fascinated me about this phase of herbalism where I learned that, and I believe it was the Native Americans used to watch the animals to see how they would heal themselves, and then they would use that plant for healing on them.So really we learned, as I mentioned before, we learn. From each other. And I, we just covered snakes before, but I wanted to share with you about they're associated with wisdom, intuition, and hidden knowledge. So, you know, if you think about it, they're usually used in some type of oc cult setting. Mm-hmm.And they're often seen as messengers from the spirit realm and guides in navigating the unseen they see in the dark. Tra and cats do too. It's it, it speaks about cats being mysterious. We know that. And it speaks to black cats. You know, how many years it took me to get over that black cat thing, even though I didn't believe it, I never believed it.'cause I love black cats. I mean, I thought something was wrong with me because I love black cats. They're sweet and they're beautiful, that they're associated with luck, psychic abilities, and spiritual guardianship. I, I, uh, I don't understand when people don't love cats. 'cause I actually love that movement that they do in root work.Dalia Kinsey: How do people work with totem animals? They're more likely to have an animal around, or they're looking at the animals for notes and messages.Carolyn Jones: It happens different ways. One audio book that I was listening to in preparation for this interview, I was tickled because the author said that root work evolves over time, mainly because a lot of ingredients.For the ceremonial activities may not be available unless you know someone with a possum tail laying around. Right? So, you know, there's no telling what what can be used in and everything based on what belief system it comes from. I've had two encounters. The first time I wanted to reverse something that was happening in my life that someone had inflicted upon me, and I went with my girlfriend who was seriously into it.I won't name the religion or anything type of ceremony, but I got to see people being mounted by spirits and I got to sit with the priests. What I was told to do was, in my mind, untenable. Hmm. So, my girlfriend was very angry with me 'cause she felt like I should do it. But what was very interesting was that life had presented me with a dilemma.I had a choice of either pudding, $400 out for the work or paying my rent, which was $400. And to me, because of what I was told to do, I felt like it would reverse itself on me. 'cause that was my Christian upbringing, right? That it can bounce back really, right. If you wanna talk about karma, which those words weren't used at that time.But now I would say I felt that there would be karmic consequences, which would include me losing the roof over my head. My intuition told me this, so I left it alone and I just let her be angry with me. Yeah, so went and paid my rent and dealt with whatever I had to deal with in other ways in so many other ways that didn't include ritual.Mm-hmm. Except maybe the burning of incense in my home and some other prayers and stuff like that. Something I was comfortable with. Right. I feel that whatever root work one does, you have to be comfortable with it. You can't be scared. I don't believe in viciousness either. It's powerful stuff. The other experience that I had, I've had many, but I'm talking about ritualistic experiences, not like intuitive or psychic experiences.Those are plentiful, but this particular time I had gone to a love feast. It was African love feast, and it's there that I became a true believer in do not play or do not. Go in like now. I wasn't playing, but when I say play, I mean know what you're doing. So they were dancing, they were doing tribal dances in the ceremony.And I got up because I'm thinking as a dancer, and when I danced, all of a sudden it's like I lost, I had no hands and feet that I knew of that were operating. You understand? It was just a swirl. Like if you saw water swirling down the the drain. I was just a swirl of energy. And I remember screaming and they gathered me, and I remember I went back to my Christianity.I said, Lord, that'll do it.Dalia Kinsey: You're like, this is the demon possession they told me about.Carolyn Jones: If you allow me to get up and walk outta here, you don't ever have to worry about me again. And you know, like a dough stands up for the first time when it's born. I remember my legs feeling like that and I dowed my way right on out of there, but I never forgot.And I have a, a healthy respect 'cause it's real. Mm-hmm It's just, you have to choose if that's the route you wanna take to worship. 'cause I see nothing wrong with it for those who understand it. The problem is if you do it and you don't understand it, I believe that initiation is very important when you're dealing with the shamanic world.Dalia Kinsey: I think that's something that a lot of us have lost access to, I think. Well that's why I think who do appeals to a lot of people. 'cause there's not as many rules around formal initiation. It's like passed on by mouth, by books, by wherever you get it. But yeah, that's a good reminder for everyone to really just slow down and pace yourself and make sure that everything you're doing feels right in your body.'cause you're going to get information that way too.Carolyn Jones: That's right. And make sure that you have a trusted teacher if you're going to go the shamanic route. A lot of people are using psychedelics at this time to get in touch with that realm. And all I can say is be sure that you're dealing with trusted individuals.Dalia Kinsey: Yeah. Thank you so much for coming. God, I think that's great parting advice for everybody.Carolyn Jones: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Body Liberation for All ThemeThey might try to put you in a box, tell them that you don't accept when the world is tripping out tell them that you love yourself. Hey, Hey, smile on them. Live your life just like you like itIt's your party negativity is not invited. For my queer folks, for my trans, people of color, let your voice be heard. Look in the mirror and say that it's time to put me first. You were born to win. Head up high with confidence.  This show is for everyone. So, I thank you for tuning in. Let's go. This is a public episode. 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If you've ever had a tomato sandwich, then you know this is the best time of the year! In honor of *tomato season* (and host Rachel Belle being on vacation) we are re-airing this episode from 2019. Iron & Wine sounds like a band but in fact there is just one man behind the music: a soft spoken, North Carolina singer-songwriter named Sam Beam, who unintentionally stumbled into a music career later in life. A true Southern boy, Sam wants a stack of tomato sandwiches for his last meal. Just ripe summer heirlooms, squishy white bread and mayonnaise. A simple summer snack so sacred in North Carolina, locals get riled up at the mere mention of adding bacon or lettuce. We called upon a couple North Carolina culinary queens to talk about the do's and dont's of the tomato sandwich: veteran food journalist Kathleen Purvis and chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, Vivian Howard. And sticking with the Southern theme, food historian Robert Moss joins the show to tell the true history of the boiled peanut.Lucky for us, tomatoes are still hanging heavy on the vines, because you'll be hankering for a tomato sandwich by the end of this episode.Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast and follow host Rachel Belle on Instagram!Subscribe to Rachel's newsletter!Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(August 8, 2023 - Hour One)9:14pm - The 2nd Tuesday of the month means we visit with BBQ Hall of Fame'er and BBQCS Guest HOF'er, Meathead from Amazingribs.com. As the summer is drawing to a close, one of the most popular ways of cooking is getting ready to start! Tailgating signifies the beginning of fall, football and other autumn based activities. Meathead and I will make sure you are ready to go this tailgate season with the best gear and best recipes!9:35pm - After Meathead, I will be joined by our pal Robert Moss. Tonight we talk about the soon to be released (September) Southern Living Top 50 BBQ list. Coincidently...or not coincidently, the latest Texas Monthly "25 Best New and Improved BBQ Joints" was released a few days ago so we might chew on that topic a bit as well!The BBQ Central Show SponsorsPrimo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "charcoalcentral" at checkout for $150 Off Charcoal GrillsBig Poppa Smokers Use Code REMPE at check out for $10 off a $50 or more purchaseFireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JC Newman Cigars - Try The Angel Cuesta Brand

George Noory and author Robert Moss discuss his research into dream interpretation, using dreams to manifest things in your waking life, why many people do not remember their dreams, and how dreams can provide warnings about dangers in real life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk about his new podcast, and Robert plays a game where I am the participant and not the host...how did I do??BBQ Central Show Sponsors:Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout ($500+) for free spice packBig Poppa SmokersFireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JC Newman Cigars - Try The Angel Cuesta Brand

Anna's been on a big adventure and she's still here to tell the tale. After receiving a cancer diagnosis she decided to heal her body (mind and soul) in a natural way, rather than go down the clinical route. She wrote a journal to document everything she has done, and she's published it into a book called “A Wild Adventure on the Big C: My Journey of Natural Healing for Cancer”Anna joins me to talk about her healing journey, her book, and why she feels we need to challenge our conditioning and look at other ways to heal ourselves. I really enjoyed talking with her, there are many insights here, you might just have to listen twice! About Anna Bromley: Anna lives in Herefordshire, U.K. and is a Shamanic Practitioner, studying with Sandra Ingerman and Robert Moss. She offers healings over zoom or in person, and also offers trainings. You can find her here: https://anna-bromley.com And you can buy her book here:  https://amzn.to/46M2lFI About Abby:Abby is a Shamanic Psychotherapist and author who has written more than 10 books. She offers healing programmes, downloadable and live group healing sessions and runs a healing circle, all on her website here: https://www.abby-wynne.comSupport the showFind out more about Abby on her website https://www.abby-wynne.comJoin her on her telegram channel: https://t.me/abbywynneauthor

Visit GaiaPodcast.com for more information.Have you ever travelled to another reality, or met an alternate version of yourself? As science comes to terms with the many worlds theory, Robert Moss has already identified a means of exploring parallel realities through dreaming. He explains, that as we move between different states of consciousness, we can move through different realms and worlds. Doing this, we can interact with spirits, egregors, and daimons who inhabit these realms. A deft mind, who has developed dreaming as a spiritual practice, can learn to traverse parallel realities, encounter different versions of themselves, and connect with different types of beings.Host: Regina MeredithGuest: Robert Moss 

9:14pm - Normally we find Meathead in the 2nd Tuesday of the month lead-off spot, but tonight, we welcome another BBQ Hall of Fame inductee instead. Have you ever heard of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce? OF course you have, but do you know the story behind it and what the former owner does with his time since the sale of it back in the early 2000's? Join me as Dave Raymond stops by to talk about the history of the sauce, the business decisions he made while running i and what getting into the BBQ Hall of Fame means to him!9:35pm - After Dave, I will be joined by our pal Robert Moss. In keeping with te first guest, Robert and I will discuss more on the topic of Sweet Baby Ray's, we will also talk about the difference between Potted Meat from the USA and Potted Meat from Europe. We will also touch on the newest class of 2023 BBQ Hall Hall of Fame inductees.BBQ Central Show Sponsors!Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout ($500+) for free spice packBig Poppa SmokersFireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JC Newman Cigars - Try The Angel Cuesta BrandPrimo Grills

This episode was brought to you by Zavala's Barbecue Distribution. Rubs and sauces from some of the best BBQ joints in Texas and beyond now just a click away from being at your doorstep! Sign up for their new BBQ subscription box service launching this summer! Check out http://bbqdistro.com/tales for all of your BBQ needs and be sure to follow zavalasbarbecuedistribution on Instagram.   We were elated to once again sit down at the Charleston Wine and Food Festival with esteemed author and culinary historian Robert Moss. Tune in for a wide ranging discussion on the food and drink history of commercial dining in the south, Robert's job as the restaurant critic for Post and Courier, and of course his role as contributing barbecue editor for Southern Living.    Robert's incredibly well-researched books are a must read for any food lover and his knowledge on all things in the southern culinary realm are enlightening.    Order Robert's books via https://www.robertfmoss.com/   Plan your trip to next year's Charleston Wine and Food Festival via  https://charlestonwineandfood.com/

Greg Friedman discusses different paths for personal empowerment. Greg Friedman is a spiritual guide and intuitive mentor, who leads people on journeys to work with indigenous elders in the jungle of Peru, North America and Australia. Greg hosts the nationally syndicated radio program, “Inner Journey with Greg Friedman”, number one on KX93.5fm for two years running, interviewing some of the greatest thought leaders of our time including: Marianne Williamson, Don Miguel Ruiz, Jack Canfield, Gregg Braden, Caroline Myss, Dan Millman, James Redfield, Robert Moss, Bruce Lipton and many, many more. Whether Greg is working as a guide through the airwaves or through the jungles, he helps people live empowered, authentic lives on a path to self awakening. www.gregfriedman.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3589860/advertisement

9:14pm - The second Tuesday of the month launces with our pal from Amazingribs.com, Meathead! Last week, Sam The Cooking Guy and I got into a nonsense conversation about eating raw foods and which might be safer to eat over the other. I mentioned "Mrs. Meathead" during our segment and then I asked the actual Meathead if she might weigh in on this topic and he's ready to go with all kinds of info tonight. We might also hit on the progress of his new book as well to see if it's still on track or not!9:35pm - After Meathead, I will be joined by contributing editor to Southern Living Magazine, Robert Moss. Yesterday, the 10 BBQ Hall of Fame finalists were announced and we will go a bit further in depth on how these names were arrived upon and maybe we will also pontificate on what the class of 4 might look like. We will also hit the topic of "Brunswick Stew", get the history of it and also learn about other stews that are in the same realm.BBQ Central Show Sponsors!Primo GrillsPitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout ($500+) for free spice packBig Poppa SmokersFireboardCookin PelletsPit Barrel CookerThe Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"JC Newman Cigars - Try The Angel Cuesta Brand

(May 8, 2023 - Live Airing)Elizabeth Gunter & Robert Moss joined me for the exclusive announcement of the 10 names that will now be in consideration for the 2023 BBQ Hall of Fame. Of these 10, the top 4 vote getters will be inducted this year. We will find out the final results along with the names on May 24th at 3pm Eastern.Do you have reaction to the names on the list? Please send me an email with your thoughts! greg@thebbqcentralshow.com

Robert Moss is a dream teacher and the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanic methods of journeying and healing. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist, and independent scholar. A central premise of Robert's approach is that dreaming isn't just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind. We discuss dreaming as a form of travelling, how there are different types of dreams, and his initiation into other realities. We consider dream etiquette, the transformational power of symbolism and imagery, and the potential diagnostic function of dreams. Robert shares the idea of dreams as a form of soul communication, and how we can learn to “talk and walk our dreams”. We consider what aspect of ourselves might survive physical death, the subtle or astral body as the vehicle of dreaming, and the importance of psychic protection. He shares the great importance of dreaming in many cultures, and how in indigenous North America the dominant word for shaman (and also for healer or spiritual elder) means dreamer. Robert has published twelve books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination, including Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life (Harmony, 1996) - his first and foundational book introducing his marriage of shamanism and dreamwork. Born in Australia, Robert survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He has led seminars at the Esalen Institute, Kripalu, the Omega Institute, the New York Open Center and many others, and offers a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. He has appeared on many TV and radio shows, including the Today Show and Coast to Coast. His books have been published in more than twenty foreign languages.www.mossdreams.comLiked what you heard? Help us reach more people! Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts Start Energy Healing Today!Unlock your healing potential with our informative and fun introductory 10 hour LIVE online class in energy healing Our Flagship Training is Setting the Standard in Energy HealingThe next 100 hour EHT-100 Energy Healing Training is open for enrollment! LIVE & online - 10th February - 21st July 2024. Join us in Bali in 2024 - Our Retreat AND first in-person EHT-100 Training are now booking! Contact Field Dynamics Email us at info@fielddynamicshealing.com fielddynamicshealing.com Thanks for listening!

It's April Fool's Day, and we are talking with dreaming's biggest trickster Robert Moss. Moss is a shamanic dreamer and author of over two dozen books. Today talk about traveling without leaving home. Robert describes himself as a story teller who helps people find their story. He begins with the tale of what happened when he was pronounced dead at age 3 and about how dreaming is preparation for dying. We speak about the power of imagination and about the practice of living by synchronicity which he calls kairomancy. He urges us to remember to play. We take a dream from Steve Popp of Santa Cruz in which his dad offers him a horse which ultimately turns into a deer, and a call from Elizabeth from Bellingham who asks about how to stimulate more dreams, who mentions a dream of her own about a blue horse. We also take a call from Beth Ann from the Central Valley who asks about how to find humor and playfulness around dark dreams. Synchronistically, she also mentions dreams about horses. Robert announces that he will lead a course called Adventures in Soul Travel which will be released on the Shift Network in May, BIO: Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him dead in a hospital in Tasmania when he was three years old. His School of Active Dreaming is a synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic practices for journeying to realms beyond the physical. He leads adventures all over the world, including a three-year teacher training and popular online courses for the Shift Network. He is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and independent scholar. His latest book is Growing Big Dreams: Manifesting Your Heart's Desires through 12 Secrets of the Imagination. Find our guest at: MossDreams.com and on Facebook @RobertMossBooks @ActiveDreaming Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today's ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on April 1, 2023. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Post and Courier Food Editor Parker Milner and contributing food critic Robert Moss debuted the Post and Courier's newest food and dining podcast live from the 2023 Charleston Wine and Food Festival.This episode features recently named James Beard Finalist and owner of Tuk Tuk Sri Lanken Bites Sam Fore and owner of Mansueta's Filipino Food, Nikko CagalananCharleston's Menu will be a podcast discussing dining, restaurants and all the food that lands on Parker and Robert's plate across South Carolina. Hosted by Parker Milner and Robert MossProduced by Eric Russell

Akiva Silver has been studying and working with nature for the past 20 years. His endeavors have ranged from primitive wilderness survival to planting and maintaining diverse fruit and nut orchards, and to running his nursery business at Twisted Tree Farm. Akiva raises tens of thousands of trees every year, propagating from seeds and cuttings. He is an avid forager and observer of wildlife. Akiva has written three books, Trees of Power, The Conversation, and The Ocean of Dreams. In this episode… An approach to creating change through inspiration and alternative solutions rather than opposition…Bringing opposition to those in service only to self can interrupt their agenda, but building new and better systems lays the groundwork for change from a place of love. What we put our focus on often grows, and that includes world problems as well as alternative solutions. One alternative solution Akiva has been working on is cooking oil…using the oft-maligned bitternut hickory as a source of cooking oil, instead of relying on an annual monocrop like canola whose production creates a biological desert on the land. The story about Akiva's experience with wilderness and survival skills, how the guilt of taking from the earth, the plant and animal bodies to fuel his own body, was transformed into gratitude, paired with a realization that we are part of nature and the carbon cycle, we have the same value and right to be here…”you are taking life to have life. Something is killed for you to have energy. When I kill a deer and eat it, I have that energy in my body. What I do with that energy matters more to me when I remember this.” You can take that energy and wallow in self pity and self doubt, or you can take that life in order to create beauty and kindness and propagate life. A certain responsibility enters the picture. The joy of doing work that is directed by the seasons, the patterns of nature, instead of by a human schedule. “Having an attitude of curiosity would lead to a totally different world” The best way to be mentally healthy and happy is to know that you have a purpose, know that you're helping others…finding how you can be of service is the best thing you can do for yourself and the world. Resources Twisted Tree Farm website and nursery online store Akiva Silver - Twisted Tree Farm YouTube channel Trees of Power, The Conversation, and The Ocean of Dreams by Akiva Silver Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America; The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants; and Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden by Lee Reich Books by Robert Moss

(February 14, 2022 - Hour One) 9:14 - Leading off the show tonight is our monthly guest and creator of Amazingribs.com, Meathead. Tonight, the topic of discussion is the difference between "drip pans and water pans". Before that, or after that, we will talk about the production of his 2nd book and how that's going. As many of you know, I have been extremely critical of this book and if it is actually going to happen, however, it does appear that I will be proven wrong after 10 years or longer (maybe not that long). 9:35 pm - Also in the first hour is our pal, Robert Moss, the contributing BBQ editor to Southern Living magazine. We have plenty of live-fire topics to discuss that include different cooking styles, different cooking vessels and this whole "4th slice of brisket being the best" that whipped around social media a few weeks back BBQ Central Show Sponsors! NBBQA - 2023 National Conference Link Primo Grills Pitts & Spitts BBQ Pits - Use "bbqcentral" at checkout ($500+) for free spice pack Big Poppa Smokers Green Mountain Grills Fireboard Cookin Pellets Pit Barrel Cooker David Leans / DoWellness - GET FIT for $200/month) The Butcher Shoppe - Save 10% When You Mention "The BBQ Central Show"

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the process of selecting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:   At the time of our recording, the House of Representatives was still without a Speaker. Niki referred to Timothy Shenk's new book, Realigners. Natalia cited this National Review article, and Neil drew on this NPR piece.     In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia recommended the new social reading app, Threadable. Neil discussed the southern tradition of the “groom's cake,” explained in Southern Living magazine. Niki shared Robert Moss' Epicurious article, “How Celery Went From Victorian Centerpiece to Football Snack.”