Rune Soup

Continuing our dialogues with and about different energy healing frameworks, this week we welcome to the show Pranic Healer, Trisha White -who also happens to be my mother. We chat about the origins of Pranic Healer, Trisha’s career as a professional healer, how the system works and what it works best for. And if you would like to participate in the energy healing course, join the Rune Soup Premium Membership here. Enjoy!

Poet, author, taiji instructor and intentionist (this will make sense shortly), Brian Wilkins joins the show this week, on the occasion of the publication of his book, A Wheel of Small Gods. We discuss how poetry can be a container or place for spirits, different methods of experiencing and understanding energy, healing magic, magic-as-time-travel as well as the how's and why's of coming into relation with star spirits. Super fun discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Get A Wheel of Small Gods. Brian's website.

The Q3 premium member course beginning shortly is on energy healing and -to go alongside it- we'll be doing a series of dialogues with practitioners from various energy modalities. First cab off the rank is fellow Newcastle boy, Lance Baker, to talk about certainly the most well-known (and perhaps the least understood?) modality, Reiki. Lance is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, author and teacher. Definitely the right person to talk me through it! Show Notes Lance's website and business, Branches of Healing. Lance's YouTube channel.

The one and only Matawhero Lloyd returns to the show this week. More specifically, while I am in New Zealand, I returned to Whetu Ariki to spend some time with Matawhero and to see what’s been happening with his pā project over the past couple of years. This is a project many of you will be familiar with from Ani.Mystic, where it gets a whole chapter of its own. I’m releasing this one as an audio version as well as the video tour because -while I definitely think you should actually watch it so you can put images to the words- Matawhero goes really deep on Maori metaphysics, indigenous philosophy and all kinds of powerful topics. So there’s still a lot to pick up just in the conversation. But if you do want to watch it, jump over to YouTube and watch it there. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ani.Mystic.

It's that time of half-year again! Forecastapalooza. With returning champ, Austin Coppock. You know you want it. Get in. Note: This was a video show so you can watch along on YouTube if you prefer. Enjoy!

An Amazonian solo show this week, exploring the one-year anniversary of providing shamanic energy healings. One of the things I mention during the episode is how I consider some of the seemingly bolder claims of shamanic healing from a different perspective having been in the jungle a number of times now. There’s certainly a shared underlying metaphysics there. Note: As mentioned at the top of the episode, this is a video one. So you may want to jump over to YouTube instead. Show Notes Register to be notified for the next availabilities for healing sessions here.

Something different -and personally very exciting- this week. In the few days in between my Ecuadorian ayahuasca retreat and a return to my Peruvian jungle dieta, I got to visit the art school founded by my favourite artist, Pablo Amargino. Even better… I got given the tour by Pablo’s son, Juan! Juan is himself an artist, so I also got to see some of his work, and some of the work of Pablo’s students. Plus I got the opportunity to ask some questions about Peruvian shamanism and curanderismo, and have some of the amazing concepts depicted in the painting spelled out. This is very much a video episode, rather than an audio on, so be sure to head over to YouTube and check it out.  Enjoy!

The one and only Jenx returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Supernatural Thailand. And so of course we discuss graveyards, Naga caves, boy spirits, dying for one’s city and a whole bunch more. Then we end the show looking at some of Adjarn Apichai’s forecasts for the next few years and where they precisely align with our own. Great stuff, as always! Please note I’m still in the Andes so there are a few audio dropouts. Also this was recorded as a live video discussion if you would prefer to watch rather than listen. Enjoy! Show Notes The Thai Occult. Get Supernatural Thailand.

A solo show this week, in which I explore Ani.Mystic now that it's about two months out from launch, and how it has been immensely helpful in coming to terms with Mexican and explicitly Mayan sense making. As I have basically been travelling since the thing came out, I've been remiss in sharing some of the shows that have kindly had me on to discuss the book. So let that be your show notes for this week. Each episode is remarkably, remarkably different in a way that shows I've done for Star.Ships or The Chaos Protocols or Pieces of Eight weren't. And I genuinely think that's down to the material in the book. Which means, if you are so inclined, you have hours of material to enjoy! (And hopefully that makes up for the travel-based radio silence.) This week's solo show is the audio of my presentation and discussion with the guys from Watkins -the most recent discussion of the book- for reasons spelled out in the opening of the episode. Show Notes Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on The Higherside Chats. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Coffee and Divination. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.

I joke at the beginning of the episode that James wrote the best book I read this year that I didn’t write. But actually, it’s true. Ways of Being is an excellent book that toils in many of the same vineyards as Ani.Mystic. So James and I discuss our notions of technology, artificial intelligence, publishing, language and how these all interrelate and are interdependent. We also have an excellent discussion on the true significance of randomness as well as speculating on political and technological futures. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ways of Being. Get Ways of Being on audiobook. James's website.