This Podcast is a Ritual

This summer, I released a meditation on how we as individuals and a community can dismantle white supremacy and support people of color by focusing on consistency, not complacency. This episode returns to the topic to see how I've done, and how the cultural conversation has shifted, in the 134 days since.

Musician, artist, and healer Johanna Warren joins our ritual to talk about adjusting to post-covid-19 creative practices and the magical quest that inspired her latest record, Chaotic Good. Tune into Johanna's frequency at: https://www.johannawarren.com/ And check out a very special hypnosis tape on "Creating your own reality" at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42683231

Writer and teacher Bob Doto, author of "Sitting with Spirits," leads us into the untamed margins of Christianity and shows us how to commune with the spirits we find there. Tune into Bob's vibrations at: https://www.instagram.com/newoldtraditions Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and leave a message to have your question answered in an upcoming episode.

Special bonus episode for a very special ritual participant who's turning 30! Happy birthday Jason, and anyone else who has or will complete 30 loops around this blazing sun of ours.

Tarot reader, astrologer, and host of the "Love, Sex, and Magic" podcast Bri Renee joins the ritual for a sensual discussion on the intersection of sexuality and spirituality. Tune into Bri's vibrations at: https://www.lovesexandmagic.co/ And donate to the Bail Project - Louisville at: https://bailproject.org/louisville/

Your wizard returns with a meditation on the ways we can return to ritual in moments of doubt, uncertainty, and crisis. Become a ritual participant at: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual

Enjoy a delirium-inducing dialogue with Dr. Katherine Keeney about the history and practice of diagnosing and treating delirium and how medicine's understanding of it continues to evolve. Become a ritual participant at: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual

Expand your mind beyond the limiting barriers of knowledge with this hypnotic meditation on "not knowing" by the know-nothing-est wizard of 'em all, Devin Person. Note: This episode uses hypnotic language. We recommend listening to it in a time and place when you can close your eyes and relax. Become a ritual participant at: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual

Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine offers art and magic for tea-drinking anarchists, convivial conjurors and closeted optimists. It's a gorgeous zine lovingly curated and crafted by Berkley-based wizard, Clint Marsh, who joined the ritual for this chat in the now curiously quaint days right before covid-19 ruined everything. Tune into Fiddler's Green's frequency at: https://www.fiddlersgreenzine.com/ Become a ritual participant at: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual

A new time-twisting installment of THIS PLAYLIST IS A RITUAL looks to AFROFUTURISM's past to help us imagine a better, blacker tomorrow. Tracklist: 1. Carl Craig - Bonus Untitled Track (0:00) 2. Nina Simone - 22nd Century (4:40) 3. Alice Coltrane (w/ Pharaoh Sanders) - Journey in Satchidananda (13:16) 4. Sun Ra - Door of the Cosmos (19:42) 5. William Onyeabor - Why Go to War (31:00) 6. Francis Bebey - Bissau (39:58) 7. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (45:00) 8. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (55:19) 9. Jonzun Crew - Space is the Place (59:45) 10. Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (1:06:10) 11. Cybotron - Clear (1:14:38) 12. Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings of Life (1:19:31) 13. Inner City - Good Life (1:27:02) 14. Carl Craig - Es.30 (1:31:04) 15. Sun Ra - Intro to Space is the Place 1974 film (1:33:50)