The Passing Through Podcast

This week Annie Blackstone is passing through! Annie is a seasoned hypnotherapist, Reiki healer, and shamanic practitioner with a robust ecology of healing modalities at her disposal. She works with Biofield tuning, EFT, EMDR, Brainspotting and a host of other techniques under the umbrella of Integrated Healing. Join us as Annie shares her insights on energy & spirit work, ancestral healing, shamanic practice and the unseen forces that shape our lives. Discover the interconnectedness between our souls, nature and the unseen world around us, while learning a few practical tips for enhancing your spiritual and emotional well-being. Tune in and explore these mystical realms with Annie Blackstone! Learn more about her non-profit at www.sionfonds.org You can contact Annie on her website https://www.annieblackstone.com/ You can find her on HCH You can find out about her upcoming animism course at Ancestral Medicine

This week I'm passing through Szczawnica, Poland! Join me for a quick ramble about van life, vision quests and a spooky story about a man in the forest.

This week the incredible Douglas Rushkoff is passing through! Douglas is a personal hero of mine, so it was an honor to spend a little time with him. He needs no introduction. He has had a seminal influence on media theory and critiques of technology and the internet, he's an author, educator, musician, activist, environmentalist and broadcaster. MIT even named him one of the most influential thinkers in the world! Join us for a chat about community, finding the others, Timothy Leary, death, elders, the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding presidential immunity, animism, magic and most importantly, love! You can find Douglas on his website at rushkoff.com, or his podcast Team Human. Also be sure to check out a few of his many books such as Media Virus or Survival of the Richest. References: Design for Dying by Timothy Leary

This week Eimear Burke is passing through! If you've ever been curious about druids, bards, or the ancient mystery traditions of Ireland, you're gonna want to tune in. Eimear has an impressive set of credentials. She's the chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. She is also a psychologist, a harpist, a guide to Ireland and a seanchaí - a storyteller specializing in Irish myth and legend. She's studied energy healing, herbalism and shamanism, as well as indigenous healing and medicine traditions in Africa. She's an absolute wonder to talk to and I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did. Join us for an illuminating talk about Druidry, the difference between bards, ovates and druids, meditation, nature, animism, connecting to guides and ancestors, and a bunch more. It was an honor to get to speak with Eimear and I'm grateful she was so willing to share her wisdom. You can find more about Eimear at her website kilkennydruidry.com. You can find out more about the mystical world of druids at druidry.org. If you're enjoying this show, please, rate it!

This week Robert Falconer is passing through...for the second time! Bob is a leading IFS therapist, author, healer, and all-around wonderful human being. If you want to learn more about him, visit his website or check out our previous conversation. Join us in this episode as we discuss Bob's new book, If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going. We talk about spirit, giving love and blessings, shame, how to age well, death, and most importantly, farts. If you like quotes from Mark Twain, Viktor Frankl, or a bunch of other wise folks, I think you're gonna like this episode. If you enjoy our talk please visit Bob's website and consider grabbing his new book, or his previous one, The Others Within Us. Please also consider registering for his upcoming IFS event on healing trauma through spiritual connection.

This week I'm passing through with a brief one which kicks off with William Blake's poem, Mad Song. Join me for a short update on how I'm dancing with one foot to this mad song, with a little music at the start and the end. There's also some stuff about ants in Australia, and a reminder to protect your joints.

This week I'm passing through with an experimental episode. No edits, no cuts, no fake advertisements, no funny-business. Just straight, uninterrupted stream of consciousness...and some reading. Join me while I talk briefly about Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, fiction in general, mythology, and a whole bunch of other stuff including Ice Age burials of hunchbacks, giants and dwarfs! To find the others, please take a peek at this.

This week, I'm passing through beautiful Austria! I'm now officially unemployed, homeless and disabled! Join me for a special tale of woe where I discuss Iron John by Robert Bly, The Wild Man archetype, the role of The Trickster, broken bones & sacred wounds, Australian sweat lodge massage and acupuncture, bowel movements and other scatological subjects. This episode is brought to you by Feca-Lax.

This week Agata Nienajadło is passing through! Agata is a lovely human being that I met during a previous stay at Osada and since then she has become a core team member. I'm super excited for her to share a bit of her story in this episode! This is a special episode for me since it's the first ever episode recorded in person. Thanks Agata for making that possible! Join us for a talk about community, living in community at Osada (and other communities such as Schloss-Tempelhof in Germany and Tamera in Portugal).

Third time's the charm! I'm passing through from Osada again this week. I'm under-slept and have had little time to recharge. Join me for a quick and dirty ramble about earth beings in this third installment of my stay here. Prosinko: Episode III - Revenge of the Myth.