Rune Soup

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of our most popular returning guests joins us again this week. Denmark's very own Queen of Swords is back to talk about the latest book in her Read Like The Devil series, which is about something near and dear to my own heart (and diamonds), fortune telling with playing cards! So we discuss the in's and out's of the various suits, how significators work in playing card readings, which questions might be better 'suited' to playing cards and which ones to tarot, which spreads play to their various strengths and weaknesses and what can happen when, you know, you just read the damned cards. A great chat with a great person about a great book. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Read Like The Devil: Playing Cards. Camelia's website. Camelia's cartomancy blog.

This week, my Fortune's Fools cohost and Lenormand deck artist, Colin Alexander joins the show. Inevitably, we discuss fortune telling, and Madame Lenormand herself, as well as creativity, growing up weird in the 90s, comics and that other magical comic creator from the Glasgow area you may or may not have heard of. And, naturally, because we are launching a live video show in a couple of days, this one is best consumed on YouTube, but you can certainly download it here instead. One thing I keep forgetting to mention is that the Telegram group for Fortune's Fools is already up and kicking and you should definitely join us there. (Also in the Rune Soup one for main blog banter.) Show Notes Fortune's Fools Telegram group. Fortune's Fools Episode 0. Hit the bell icon so you know when we're live! Fortune's Fools main site. Colin's main site. Colin on Instagram.

Life coach, author, teacher, athlete and host of the Inspire Nation show, Michael Sandler is our guest this week. Michael joins us to discuss his latest book, AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience. Along the way, we also explore different forms of spirit contact, what it's like to have had two Near Death Experiences, the importance of ceremony, sweat lodges and -topic du jour for the premium members- angels and how to contact them. Quick note if you’re listening to the audio version, this was in fact recorded as a video discussion. So if you like looking at people while they talk, this is one to watch on YouTube.  Enjoy!   Show Notes Get AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience, along with bonus material. Michael's podcast, Inspire Nation. Inspire Nation on YouTube. Michael's training programmes; Inspire Nation University.