It's that time of year again! And for the traditional Halloween special, we are joined by astrologer, witch and counsellor, Sasha Ravitch. Sasha joins us to talk about star spirits, astrology and the dead, and what sort of ancestral curses and blessings can show up in your natal chart. Awesome stuff.  Show Notes Sasha's website. Sasha's Linktree. Sasha's Instagram. Sasha's Twitter. Sasha's Patreon. AstroMagia conference website. 

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Halloween Special: Curses From Outer Space (Necro-Astrology) | Sasha Ravitch

This week, we welcome to the show author, teacher and herbalist, Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue. Seán joins us today to talk about his journey to animist herbalism, how he defines it, and what constitutes health in a living framework. Really good, timely stuff. Enjoy! Show Notes Seán's website, Otherworld Well. Seán's course, Holistic Pharmacology for Herbalists. 

Talking Animist Herbalism | Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue

A long-overdue solo show this week, telling the story of Rune Soup from its beginnings as a blog in Bristol, through the books, through the development of the podcast, and the membership and the events and so on. At the end, there is also some discussion of where to next. Subscribe to Rune Soup on Rumble. Subscribe to Rune Soup on Odysee. Check out Fortune's Fools. 

The Story of Rune Soup | Solo Show

Author, magician, returning guest and friend, Ivy Bromius, joins us again this week on the occasion of the publication of her completely free book, The Cancer Grimoire. We talk about her experiences treating and overcoming cancer, blending allopathic and holistic methods, and finding meaning in our own health crises. An important discussion at the best of times. Probably more so now. Download the episode directly here or watch along on YouTube below. Show Notes Find everything Ivy has going on at Circle Thrice. 

Talking Health Crises as Initiations | Ivy Bromius

This week, we are joined by the hosts of one of my very favourite podcasts, Fucking Cancelled. Clementine and Jay talk to us about their own journey to activism, through what they call the nexus -that toxic combination of social media bullying and neoliberal group thing- and out the other side to a genuine left they call 'socialism with freaky options'. Along the way we discuss what cancellation is, how old it is, why it works and whether or not its efficacy is fading. Super fun show with some super fun people! Show Notes Fucking Cancelled on Patreon. Fucking Cancelled on Libsyn. Fucking Cancelled on Instagram. Clementine's website. Clementine on Instagram. Jay on Instagram. 

Talking Cancellation | Clementine and Jay from Fucking Cancelled

This week, we welcome back to the show Dr Matthew Segall. Matt joins us to talk about his recently released book, Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology. So we chat about the shortcomings of materialism, what science could be like and how it could be done. We also discuss the concept of the Anima Mundi -or World Soul- and what the point of the universe might be. Show Notes Get Matt's book, Physics of the World Soul. Matt's blog. Matt's YouTube channel. 

Talking Whitehead and the World Soul | Dr Matthew Segall

This week we welcome to the show Karen Johnson. Karen is a shaman, healer, and former judge. She was catapulted into the life of a healer when her son died suddenly of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty seven. Leaving her old life behind, Karen embarked on a multi-year spiritual quest around the world, ultimately discovering -among many modalities and sources of spiritual nourishment- shamanic energy medicine. (Karen is actually my teacher at the Four Winds Academy, which comes up a couple of times in the show.) She joins us today to talk about her brand new book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. A really great chat about a really powerful topic. Enjoy. Show Notes Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. Karen’s energy medicine website and blog. Karen's Instagram. 

Talking Grief and Healing | Karen Johnson

Christmas only comes but once a year, which makes the half-yearly astrological forecasts twice as good as it! Big thanks to the one and only Austin Coppock -as well as the premium members and patrons who join the call. As is now tradition, we look at the previous six months, the upcoming six months and situate our discussion in the context of longer cycles. I always look forward to these chats!

H2 2021 Astrological Forecast | Austin Coppock

Something a bit different and exciting this week in lieu of a normal show. One of the things the premium members will be doing over the coming month is participating in calls and Q&As with thinkers who have something to share or contribute to this notion of operating at the level of the living field. First cab off the rank is none other than Rhyd Wildermuth. Finding The Ekumen gets its name from Ursula K. Le Guin's space utopia, effectively an anarchist version of Star Trek's far more militant United Federation of Planets. So if we are going to have a series of discussions beyond traditional politics, we should begin with a discussion of what politics is, what it isn't and where it might be that you come in. I can think of no one better than Rhyd for that chat, so here it is!   Big thanks to Rhyd and the members for participating! This is obviously a video discussion if you would prefer to watch on YouTube or Odysee.   Further Reading Rhyd's Substack. Rhyd's essay, Here Be Monsters. Saul Newman's Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment. The works of Silvia Federici. Human Scale. Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. Against Identity Politics. 

Politics As Religion, Ressentiment and Identitarianism: Finding the Ekumen with Rhyd Wildermuth

Comedian, author, ceremonialist and healer, Nick Sun, joins us this week. Back in January, Nick wrote a piece on Medium called Watch Your Dreams Die And Be Happy Now. It's about how childhood dreams in general and the insistence we all follow them is not always a good thing. In fact, it can even be pathological. Obviously that sort of piece has Big New Year Energy given the world is awash with resolutions at the time. But it is also good and insistent medicine for now -particularly for younger readers. There is a lot about this in the wealth magic course in the members area, but desire is very poorly understood and even more poorly experienced in the modern world. Given the dramatic changes to how society functions we have all been through these past sixteen months have barely begun to be felt, the work of sitting with, parsing and simply showing up to your dreams, desires, goals -as well as how they all differ- takes on a different form of urgency. So that's what Nick came on to discuss ostensibly. We also talk about a bunch of other stuff too, I hasten to add. Encountering different plant spirits, prophecy, healing from trauma, all very good times. Show Notes Nick on Medium. Nick's Patreon. 

Talking Entheogens, Dreams, Prophecy and Releasing the Past | Nick Sun

This week, we welcome to the show the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World -genuinely one of my favourite books ever- Tyson Yunkaporta. In addition to being an author, Tyson is a poet, an artist, a wood carver, a linguist and and is senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University. I had a fantastic time with this chat. We talk about ceremony, metaphor, the pitfalls of the new age, right relation and all that good stuff. We also talk about communicating via body odour, getting fat and 80s movies. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Sand Talk. 

Talking Indigenous Thinking | Tyson Yunkaporta

Author, speaker and Scarlet Imprint co-founder, Peter Grey, returns to the show this week to talk about his latest book, The Two Antichrists. This means we explore the Babalon Working(s), the influence of Jack Parsons on science fiction and science fiction's influence on Jack Parsons, the sophistication in Parsons's later work, L. Ron Hubbard's fascination with Aleister Crowley -as well as some of the ways he managed to out-Crowley the Beast himself. We also talk about what witchcraft could and should do now, as well as the urgent necessity of coming into relation with the stars. Enjoy!   Show Notes Get The Two Antichrists. Scarlet Imprint on Instagram. 

Talking The Two Antichrists | Peter Grey

This week, we are speaking with Danish historian and animist, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen. Animism is the main topic of our discussion, inevitably. We talk about what it looks like in the doing, and what academic work does and still might come from operating within an animist framework rather than a materialist-naturalist one. We also examine both some of the opportunities and risks inherent in learning from and with indigenous ways of thinking and being. Absolutely killer chat. Enjoy! Show Notes Rune's website, Nordic Animism. Nordic Animism on YouTube. Nordic Animism on Patreon. 

Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

Microbiologist, teacher and ritualist, Dr Siobhan Watkins joins the show this week. We have a really great chat about the how and why of coming into right relation with the microbial world, what all forms of biology look like from an animist perspective and the ancestral implications of being a composite being. Awesome discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Microanimism website. Thinking Like A Plague course. Siv on instagram. 

Talking Microanimism | Dr Siv Watkins

Ethnobotanist, ecologist, author and teacher Jonathon Miller Weisberger joins us this week. We talk about growing up in Ecuador, living among various Amazonian nations, ecology, eco-spirituality, environmental activism and the difference between ayahuasca and yagé -among many, many other topics (including being dispatched by Terence McKenna to buy a paddleboat). This is an amazing and lengthy chat which I have wanted to have since reading Jonathon's book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago. And we are having the conversation now because Jonathon is convening three upcoming series of yagé ceremonies at his amazing facility in Costa Rice known as Ocean Forest Ecolodge in April, May and June 2021. I mention it at the opening of the audio-only version of the show and then we discuss it again toward the end of the episode in both the audio and video versions. Details and dates in the show notes! Show Notes Details on Rainforest Medicine the book, as well as the yagé ceremonies. April 24 – May 1 (option to add 3 days til May 4) May 29 – June 5 June 6 – June 12 Learn more and book your ceremony. Don Pablo's copal ceremony. Ocean Forest Ecolodge video tour. 

Talking Yagé, Ayahuasca, Spirits and Ecology | Jonathon Miller Weisberger

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