Interviews
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Performance Special: Maui Trickster #57
Maui, the taboo-thrashing sun-subduing demigod of the Pacific islands, takes center stage in this episode, a force of erupting and disruptive nature that has been haunting podcast host and performance […]
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Valter Kinbom: Sacred Drums #56
The traditions of the Yoruba people in modern day Nigeria transformed into the religions of Voodoo, Candomblé and Santería in Haiti, Brazil and Cuba respectively. Valter Kinbom is an initiated […]
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Jo Blake: Chthonic Wisdom in the Odyssey #55
"…set out again, with an oar on your shoulder, and travel to a contry where people have never heard of the sea…" Why do most modern retellings of the Odyssey often choose to leave out the actual ending? We look at the deep, dark, feminine underbelly of the greatest voyage of all time.
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Kristina Aspeqvist: Vodou Queen #54
How does a Swedish percussionist raised on Balkan music end up as a Vodou queen in Ghana? That is a question Kristina Aspeqvist is more than happy to answer, in […]
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Laura Burns: The Ancestral Field #53
We are delighted to welcome Laura Burns back into our podcast grotto. This multidisciplinary artist working within the vast mythopoetic landscape of relation to the invisible presences all around us, the more-than-human, the unknown, the forgotten and the lost, take us on a meandering journey on a free-flowing river of resonance.
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Dodo Kitching: The Art of Health #50M
For our fiftieth episode we are joined by homeopathic practitioner Dodo Kitching. We explore different perspectives of health, the underappreciated art of dying well and learn to view the periodic table in a completely new and mythopoetic light.
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AI vs AI – with special guest Fredrik Høyer #49
Carl Gustav Jung, the mythopoetic mirror to Freud’s trauma-focused psychology, spoke of a concept he coined Active Imagination. An intuitive process of letting your own imagination unfold by drinking from the waters of the collective consciousness. In this conversation we juxtapose both this "AI“ and the more commonly known "AI“ aka Artificial Intelligence.
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Johan Nilsson: Farming as Ceremony #48
Johan Nilsson: Farming as Ceremony #48 In the US, there’s a prediction that if the current traditional farming practices continue, there’s 60 harvests remaining before the topsoil is completely eroded. Is there another way? Biodynamic farmer and dancer Johan Nilsson offers one alternative. What if we transform our entire mindset and instead of viewing the soil as dead matter we enter into a relationship with it?
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Susanna Salo: Kalevala Tarot #44
Susanna Salo was looking for a deck of Tarot cards inspired by Finnish mythology, but could not find one. So she decided to make one herself.
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen & Petter Madegård: The Return of the Yule Goat #43
The practice of dressing up like a Yule Goat for Christmas has many examples in Scandinavian history. Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen has for the past few years aimed to remake a new tradition. Inspired by animism, carneval, Krampus processions in the Alps and samba he has started a Yule Goat Parade.