End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Maja is a practicing Oracle and Witch who performs public rituals and educational lectures.  Maja's interest in Alchemy, magic and the esoteric sciences spans her entire lifetime.  She has studied Biochemistry, oriental medicine, martial arts and acupuncture, and earned her Masters Degree in Transformational Psychology.  She worked for 11 years as the librarian of Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society.  Currently, Maja is starting a public educational non-profit called The Well Wishers which focuses on teaching wellness and esoteric sciences to the community.  Maja is the author of several books, most recently The Occult I Ching which is the primary subject of this podcast.  For more information about her fascinating work and activities, please go directly to her website at:  www.witchofthedawn.com Happy holidays!

Dr. Kaberi Kar Gupta is a Research Affiliate at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Founding Director of the Urban Slender Loris Project.  While completing her PhD in anthropology (from Arizona State University) studying sexual behavior in non-human primates, and in subsequent conservation work in India and the US, she conducted extensive field research in remote locations including spending a year at a tiger reserve in Southern India with a young daughter in tow.  Drawing on her field experience and conversations with colleagues, she co-organized one of the first workshops on sexual harassment in field ecology during the 2001 meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology.  She remains engaged in addressing issues of various forms of harassment in academia and non-academic settings especially in fields related to nature conservation .  As an interdisciplinary scholar, her current work focuses on issues of nature education, environmental equity, and community based conservation in India and the US.  She recently received the Paul Shin aware for unsung heroes of science education and communication from the Coalition for the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS).  

Professor Boris Gershman has been on the faculty of American University since 2012.   He earned his PhD in Economics from Brown University.  His primary research focuses on the deep determinants of long-term economic growth and development and the economics of culture.   Professor Gershman's recent work has been published in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Macroeconomic Dynamics.   For detailed information about his work and contact information, please see his website: http://www.borisgershman.com/ In this podcast, we mainly discuss his recent paper:  "Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade" which is available here:   http://www.borisgershman.com/research/witchtrade/witchtrade.pdf

Shailly Agnihotri is the founder and executive director of the Restorative Center in New York City.  Previously, she spent more than 20 years as an attorney, and has developed an expertise in criminal justice through working as a prosecutor (Orleans Parish), teaching (Georgetown Law) and as a public defender (New York City).  She has come to understand the power for individuals and communities to come to a deeper emergent wisdom of justice through facilitated circles.  She is a trained facilitator in Restorative Practices and a Certified Mediator, has a J.D. (cum laude) from Tulane Law School and and a LL.M. (Pettyman Fellowship) from Georgetown Law.  She has presented at conferences around the world.   Shailly also completed advanced training in yoga and meditation teaching (500 RTA), and studied techniques of breath work, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, yin yoga and meditation.   As an artist, Shailly directed a documentary Three Soldiers, published stories, and has a play in development Cosmic Dancer. To contact this amazing attorney, please see the Restorative Center, https://www.therestorativecenter.org/   or her email:  shailly@therestorativecenter.org. Cheers!    

Professor Bartke is the Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, USA.  The focus of his research is on genetic and hormonal control of aging in mammals.  His current work is aimed at identifying mechanisms that link reduced growth hormone action with delayed aging and extended longevity.  For this work, he is using mutant mice that live longer than normal mice and show various symptoms of delayed aging, including retention of cognitive function and protection from age-related disease. His career includes work at the Jangiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio, and SIU-Carbondale.  He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, the American Society of Andrology and the American Aging Association.  Dr. Bartke has published more than 750 research papers, review articles and book chapters dealing with reproductive endocrinology, prolactin, growth hormone and aging, and has received numerous awards, in addition to 45 years of continuous NIH funding. His laboratory was the first to show that mutation of a single gene can extend mammalian longevity and to suggest that the remarkable increase in the lifespan of Ames dwarf mice is due to growth hormone (GH) deficiency.  During the last 20 years his lab has extensively characterized phenotypic characteristics of long-lived hypopituitary and GH-resistant mice.  Contributions of his group to reproductive endocrinology and the hormonal and genetic control of aging include nearly 600 peer reviewed publications and more than 150 book chapters and review articles.  According to the Web of Science Alert, his work has been cited on an average of 490 times per year since 1975 and more than 774 times per year since 2004.    

Stephen Edred Flowers is a former American Professor, scholar, runologist, runosophist, and proponent of occultism, Odianism, esoteric runosophy, and Germanic mysticism.  He has over three dozen published books and hundreds of published papers and translations on a disparate range of subjects. In this episode, we discuss his newly published work:  The Magian Tarok, which explores the historical roots and mythology of the Tarot, revealing the genesis of the Tarot's symbolism in the great Hermetic tradition and in the initiatory rituals of Mithraism.  Dr. Flowers explains the original meanings of the Major Arcana using Mithraic symbolism and how the Tarot relates to the magical alphabet of the Stoeicheia.   For further information about Professor Flowers, please consult his website:  https://seekthemystery.com/

Leia Friedman is a teacher, writer, and permaculturist.  She is the host of the Psychedologist: Conscious Positive Radio," co-founder of the Boston Entheogenic Network, a psychedelic integration support provider, and an activist.  Her work focuses on phenonmena related to the human experience of consciousness through the lens of social and environmental justice.   Here website and podcast can be found at:  https://thepsychedologist.com/ On Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ThePsychedologist/ Or email at: Leia Friedman In this episode, Leia also discusses the following references: https://www.therestorativecenter.org/ www.thebodyisnotanapology.com https://www.lauramaenorthrup.com/inside-eyes-podcast Enjoy!      

Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D., has a master's degree in religious studies with a focus on Mesoamerican shamanism from the University of California at Riverside.  A practicing curandera for over 20 years, descended from a long line of grandmother curanderas, she has studied with curanderx in Mexico, Peru, and Los Angeles and gives presentations on curanderismo in many settings, including UCLA.  She lives in Tijunga, California In this podcast we discuss her new book Curanderismo: Soul Retrieval which is a step by step guide based on the ancient shamanic healing traditions of the Mexica and Maya. Buenaflor describes how to use the 5 cardinal directions to connect with lost soul fragments that have escaped during trauma or stressful situations, create the idea place for them to return, and ensure a lasting soul retrieval.   For more information about Erika, please see her website:  http://www.realizeyourbliss.com/about-erika/ or connect with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erika.buenaflor_curandera/?hl=en or Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ErikaBuenaflor

Tara Rose is the host of the Green Goddess podcast, a divinely guided media project which explores sacred medicine, philosophy and the evolution of consciousness.  She brings a deep love for Pachamama to her work as an initiated medicine woman, facilitating kambo frog medicine ceremonies to purify and raise the vibration of consciousness on the planet.  Tara is based in Portland, Oregon where she also offers intuitive services, kambo and shamanic cannabis transformation sessions, soul purpose alignment consulting, and offers private mystical plant walks.  Tara also holds a MFA in creative writing as is the author of Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wildness which discusses the wondrous and healing qualities of plants.  This book was written under her birth name. For more information about Tara, including information for her upcoming events, contact information, blog, podcast, and YouTube channel please see:  https://peacelovetara.com/

Tom Hatsis writes and speaks on psychedelic and entheogenic history.  He is the author of Microdosing Magic: A Psychedelic Spellbook, The Witches' Ointment:  The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic and  Psychedelic Mystery Traditions:  Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States.  He has appeared on the GaiamTV shows Pychedelica and Open Minds with Regina Meredith, and has articles published in Psychedelic Press U.K. and the Journal of Psychedelic Studies.  He teaches an online course on medieval magic and witchcraft at https://thehouseoftwigs.com://thehouseoftwigs.com Along with partner Eden Woodruff, Hatsis co-runs Psanctum Psychedelia, a psychedelics education and harm reduction group.  When not fully engaged in spreading psychedelia, he writes and performs music, and plays roller derby.  For more psychedelic history, check out: https://psychedelicwitch.com/ @witchydelic on IG psychedelichistoryproject.com facebook.com/psychedelichistorian