How do we honour diverse ways of life and all that we are?

In this episode entitled ‘Mysterious Riddles', Amisha Ghadiali talks with Dr Andy Letcher, Senior Lecturer at both Schumacher College, Devon UK, where he is Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology, and at the University of Exeter, where he teaches on the PGCert Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine and Culture. He is the author of “Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom”, and numerous papers on psychedelics, ecology, animism and paganism. Andy researches the contemporary use of psychedelics with a particular focus on the role psychedelics might play in our cultivating an ecological self. He is currently researching ritual and animistic usage of psychedelics by contemporary British Druids, and the contemporary use of the Fly Agaric mushroom. A folk musician, he plays English bagpipes, low whistle, and Dark Age lyre.

We explore

:: folk music and birdsong

:: deep listening and living in seasonal interconnectedness with nature

:: psychedelics and plant ceremonies

:: Animism and Druidry

:: pilgrimages and Rights of Passages

Links from this episode and more at allthatweare.org

Dr Andy Letcher on Rights Of Passage, Folk Music and Animism - E216