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AEWCH 280: LISA ROMERO / HOW DOES YOUR INNER LIFE DIRECT WORLD EVENTS?
19 november 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Our inner lives do matter, more than ever, in this moment. But how do they matter, and how can we offer them up to the tasks of our time? And what if some of us get those inner conditions properly oriented to the spiritual work of the world we're in, but most people don't? Will any of it make a difference?
To discuss this, I welcomed author and teacher Lisa Romero back to the show.Lisa and I talked about these themes before on the show, on AEWCH 257, but now we develop them more deeply here, particularly in relation to how the world is unfolding. Lees meer -
AEWCH 279: THE FEELING OF POLITICAL DEATH
13 november 2024 · 33 min
Friends,
In the wake of Donald Trump’s second election win, amongst those who didn’t vote for him at least, calls for mourning and grieving have been issued all around. The idea being that something has been lost, that it may be irretrievable, that a brokenness must be felt and that we should honor that feeling. Lees meerBut what if instead of making room to mourn, we notice that we’ve already made plenty of room for feeling — too much, in fact — and what if all that expression of feeling has become part of the problem?
On this episode, I look into the problems with our feelings about politics when they don't meet our thinking and action correctly. Rather than make lots of predictions about what's next. or try to figure out who to blame, or even assume that anyone who listens to the show voted one way or the other, I consider
1. The problems with the intense expressions of emotion.
2. How Trump was elected again anyway (with as little speculation as possible).
3. Why the political realm is dead in its current form.
4. Where we can draw strength from to create a new political life that can adapt to individuals and economies.
5. What to do about the fact that a lot of people are our "enemies."
6. The path that we're on in the world and in our own development.
Together and in each of our individualities, we will create a new way.
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AEWCH 278: EIVØR on THE MUSIC OF THE ELEMENTS
31 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
I talk with Faroese songwriter and performer Eivør about music, water, The Faroe Islands, and myth!
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AEWCH 277: DEAN SPADE & SHULI BRANSON / HOW TO THINK BIGGER THAN THE STATE IN OUR TIME OF CRISES
24 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
I talk with authors/teachers/organizers DEAN SPADE (Mutual Aid) & SHULI BRANSON (Practical Anarchism) about how to get out of the mindset of the state as the election approaches, and how to think about creative and real engagement with the political instead. Lees meer
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AEWCH 276: GEOFF FARINA on MUSIC AS A CONVERSATION OF IDEAS
20 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 46 min
On the heels of the release of their first album in 20 years (!) I talk with Karate frontman GEOFF FARINA about music as a conversation with ideas, and how music creates a lens for life.
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AEWCH 275: THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
29 september 2024 · 58 min
Michaelmas is the esoteric christian celebration of the Archangel Michael. How can connecting with the impulses of the holiday show us how to co-share their burden of those who are suffering; strengthen love through our will; and leave the path of empowering violence? Lees meer
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AEWCH 274: ON WHITE MAGIC / PART TWO: 7 POINTS OF WHITE MAGIC
12 september 2024 · 37 min
Why is white magic so ill-defined? And why is it vital for our spirituality today AND if the occult is going to continue to matter? This is the second episode in a two part series on white magic, and on this one, I strive towards a definition by giving seven points. Lees meer
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AEWCH 273: ON WHITE MAGIC / PART ONE: SAINT BRENDAN
29 augustus 2024 · 41 min
Why is white magic so ill-defined? And why is it vital for our spirituality today AND if the occult is going to continue to matter? I begin this short series of episodes by looking at Saint Brendan the Navigator and how his seven-year voyage from Ireland to North America, as well as my encounters with him, can help us understand what white magic is. Lees meer
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AEWCH 272: A SPIRITUAL LOOK AT HOW TO LIVE NOW / PART TWO: SPIRITUAL LESSONS IN THE RUINS
23 juli 2024 · 1 uur
Part two in a two part series on figuring out - from a spiritual rather than materialist starting point - how to live in our moment.
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AEWCH 270: BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) / HOW DOES MUSIC BECOME MEANING?
9 juli 2024 · 2 uur 27 min
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How does music become meaningful? How does it become meaning? And what can we learn about reality from music without reducing music to its function?
Rudolf Steiner said “The music of the spheres is a reality. As soon as we come into the spiritual world which lies beyond the soul-world, we are in a world which lives altogether in sound and song, in melody and harmony, and harmonies of spoken sound. Out of these inner relationships of sound the human ear is formed. “
I invited guitarist and songwriter BEN CHASNY AKA SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE on the show to discuss all of this. Ben last appeared on the show way back on AEWCH 45 when we talked about Rudolf Steiner and the spiritual aspects of intervals. Well... sort of. Ben's actually been on every episode for quite some time because we recreated the AEWCH theme song (originally co-composed with AEWCH guest, Jeb Havens) together. On this episode, he plays the song live and we discuss writing it together. We talk about the essential aspects of music, if there are any. And we look at the spiritual influencer culture of podcasting that has eroded its credibility over the years.
At the end, Ben plays "The Mission" from the recent Six Organs of Admittance album Time Is Glass, which is, as it turns out, about me and my boyfriend. -
AEWCH 269: ON TRANSFORMING TIME
2 juli 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
Why is transforming time the most urgent task? I examine this through the works of Jean Gebser, Rudolf Steiner, Byron Katie, Jeff Vandermeer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Emmanuel Swedenborg, and more.
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AEWCH 268: TOM KRELL (HOW TO DRESS WELL) / HOW DO WE CONNECT WITH THE ALL & THE NOTHING?
25 juni 2024 · 2 uur 1 min
I talk with legendary experimental pop musician and philosopher TOM KRELL, AKA, How To Dress Well, about art, spirt, and connecting with each other in the vast distances between us.
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AEWCH 267: JOHN HOLLOWAY / WHAT IS RADICAL HOPE?
18 juni 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Hope is dead. Long live hope! Whereas once hope was simply an audacious wish that we turned over to representatives of power, hope now can be a radical act through which we erode power. Lees meer
But how? How do we leverage hope to help us direct and engage rather than simply wish and spectate?
To investigate this, I asked one of the most exciting and influential political thinkers of our time, JOHN HOLLOWAY.
John is the author of many influential and internationally recognized books, including Hope in Hopeless Times (the last in a series of books about how to find new strategies of flourishing and living away from capitalism, starting with Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today and its sequel, Crack Capitalism.) He teaches sociology in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and has worked with the Zapatista movement.
In this episode, we talk about hope without delusion. Dreaming big without forgetting to act, acting small without forgetting the big vision, how and why we need to get rid of money, and more. I'm so happy to have spoken with John and to share this with you!
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AEWCH 266: JANINA WELLMANN on WHAT IS MOTION?
28 mei 2024 · 1 uur 16 min
“The study of movement is a science of the imperceptible...” In the final episode of my series on scientific concepts, I talk with historian of science and culture, Janina Wellmann, about the mystery of motion, movement, and stillness.
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AEWCH 265: ANDREA WULF on WHY ARE THE ARTS VITAL FOR SCIENCE TODAY?
21 mei 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
I talk with author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Andrea Wulf about the meeting point of science and art... and why it matters so much. Episode six in my series on how science intersects with our lives! Lees meer
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AEWCH 264: PREDRAG SLIJEPČEVIC on HOW CAN SYMBIOSIS SAVE THE WORLD?
14 mei 2024 · 1 uur 52 min
I talk with Predrag Slijepčevic, biologist and author of Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life about the radical potential of biology and symbiosis! This is the fifth episode in my series on how scientific concepts intersect with our lives. Lees meer
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AEWCH 263: WHY DOES WILHELM REICH MATTER NOW? feat. JAMES STRICK
7 mei 2024 · 2 uur 1 min
I do a deep dive on the work of scientist, psychoanalyst, Marxist, and criminal, Wilhelm Reich... both on my own and with Dr. James Strick. It's a whole episode examining Reich's theories and experiments, as part of my series of episodes on how science intersects with our daily lives! Lees meer
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AEWCH 262: ERICA BERRY on WHAT DO WOLVES TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN?
30 april 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
I talk with cultural theorist and nature philosopher ERICA BERRY, author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell about Fear. Lees meer
This is the third episode in a series of episodes about how science and scientific concepts intersect with our lives!
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AEWCH 261: WES LARSON / TOOTH & CLAW PODCAST on WHY ARE WE SO FASCINATED BY ANIMAL ATTACKS?
23 april 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
I talk with wildlife biologist and the co-host of my favorite podcast, Tooth & Claw, about what happens when animals attack people, and why it makes for such a good story. The second episode in my series of episodes on how science and scientific concepts intersect with our lives. Lees meer
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AEWCH 260: MARJOLIJN VAN HEEMSTRA on HOW CAN THE EXPANSIVENESS OF SPACE HELP US LIVE TODAY?
16 april 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
In the first episode in a series of episodes about how scientific concepts intersect with our lives in surprising ways, I talk with author of In Light Years There's No Hurry, Marjolijn van Heemstra about the way that conceptualizing space differently can heal and transform us in the face of the challenges that confront us today. Lees meer
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AEWCH 259: AVGI SAKETOPOULOU on WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF CONSENT & TRAUMA?
9 april 2024 · 1 uur 31 min
On this challenging episode, I talk with author and psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou about how to reframe what trauma is, and how to think beyond consent.
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AEWCH 258: SREĆKO HORVAT, UNA MULLALLY, MARK O'CONNELL on APOCALYPSE & RENEWAL
3 april 2024 · 1 uur 47 min
On Thursday, March 28, myself and journalist & organizer UNA MULLALLY, presented the event THE BEGINNING IS NEAR in Dublin, where we talked about the end of the world and what comes after that. It marked in person with frequent AEWCH guests, philosopher and activist SREĆKO HORVAT, and cultural critic and writer MARK O'CONNELL.
The event marked Srećko's first speaking engagement in Ireland, and also my first attempt at creating an "AEWCH event" in Ireland. I'd love to do many more. Lees meerThe night was broken into halves: first, we talked about apocalypse. Then we had a short break and spoke about renewal. What arose was a challenging set of indications and prospects, failures and pathways.
Some questions that came up:
Is the apocalypse always happening?
What does the esoteric tell us about how to live beyond apocalypse?
What is the role of art in renewal?
Why is it important to evade the political realm?
What is the use of hope?
Enjoy the episode!
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AEWCH 257: LISA ROMERO on CAN MY OWN DEVELOPMENT CHANGE THE WORLD?
26 maart 2024 · 2 uur 4 min
On this personal, spiritual, and worldly episode, I talk with spiritual teacher and writer Lisa Romero - using events in my own life - about how turning point in our lives, and our relationships, can offer opportunities to help the world's development... if we work through them properly. Lees meer
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AEWCH 256: SARAH SCHULMAN on HOW DO VISION AND ACTION FIT TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING AND ART?
21 maart 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
I talk with novelist, essayist, playwright, and organizer Sarah Schulman about bringing utopianism and reform together in the political and cultural realms.
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AEWCH 255: UNA MULLALLY on WHAT COMES AFTER COLLAPSE?
14 maart 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
I talk with journalist, activist, and artist Una Mullally about what happens after collapse and how we can learn to draw strength from the destruction of who we once were.
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AEWCH 254: SHULI BRANSON - WHAT DOES AN ANARCHISM OF PEACE LOOK LIKE?
5 maart 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
After a short break, we're back - and AEWCH 228 guest SHULI BRANSON returns to discuss anarchism, spirituality, and peace. This is a special crossposted episode with Shuli's excellent new podcast, The Breakup Theory!
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AEWCH 253: DAN SINYKIN - WHO DECIDES WHAT GETS PUBLISHED?
8 februari 2024 · 1 uur 30 min
I talk with author of BIG FICTION: HOW CONGLOMERATION CHANGED THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, Dan Sinykin, about how the aesthetics of what we read is shaped by big business decisions.
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AEWCH 252: SARAH MARIA GRIFFIN - WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A WORKING WRITER?
1 februari 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
I talk with fantasy and horror novelist Sarah Maria Griffin about what it takes - and what it takes from you - to be a working writer.
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AEWCH 251: JONAH EVANS - WHAT IS SPIRITUAL WORK?
25 januari 2024 · 1 uur 42 min
I talk with Rev. Jonah Evans about what "spiritual work" is, how it differs from other kinds of work, how it differs from spiritual practice, and why we probably can't just call everything spiritual work.
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AEWCH 250: CAITLIN DOUGHTY - WILL YOUR DREAM JOB RUIN YOUR LIFE?
18 januari 2024 · 1 uur 43 min
Friends, Lees meer
Leftists and progressives more broadly are becoming increasingly aware of the lie of "loving what you do." And we're also becoming more aware of the ways corporations try to ameliorate real reflection and demands for higher wages via "perks" like organic cereal dispensers and "funny hat day" and other forms of glitzy dross.
But conversations about all the above, as important as they are, can sometimes reduce fuller conversations to a political/rights dimension, which don't consider feeling, culture, the individual, or even economy. One of the sites of labor where this is evident is the "dream job." That's a category that includes YouTube "stars," writers, podcasters, adult performers, and more.
My friend - regular AEWCH guest, the bestselling author and mortician and YouTube star of Ask A Mortician - Caitlin Doughty and I have been "making content" for over a decade. We talk about how the landscape has changed, where it's going, but mostly how this particular form of work is emblematic for the "dream job" that is at once elevated and belittled in our society, free and exhausting, life-giving and soul-killing.
My hope is that you'll reflect on your own work and dreams as you listen. And that we'll all talk more about how to make our artistic efforts more free and easier to engage with, while at the same time dissolving the "grind" of it.
Happy 250 episodes to this crazy, exhausting, fun, enlivening thing. Thanks for being along for the ride.
XO
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AEWCH 249: WHY WOULD ANYONE START A PODCAST?
11 januari 2024 · 56 min
Why would anyone start a podcast? Doesn't everyone have a podcast? Is podcast work actually work? Is there a spiritual aspect to podcasting? (And also, why do we all have to work, even with all this crazy stuff going on in the world?)
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AEWCH 248: HOW CAN I FIND PEACE IN A TIME OF WAR?
3 januari 2024 · 44 min
Is peace possible? If so, is it possible or even okay to find it in a time of extreme conflict and violence? Is it ethical to work towards your personal goals in a time of crisis? I look at this from a spiritual perspective on the first episode of the year. Lees meer
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AEWCH 247: DANIEL HIGGS - THE SPIRITUAL LANDS OF SOUND, ART, AND FRIENDSHIP
12 december 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
I talk with visionary artist and front person of Lungfish, musician Daniel Higgs about friendship, perceiving spiritual beings in a spiritual landscape, the way a presence appears in the middle of a concert, and the role trust plays in relationship and creating art. Lees meer
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AEWCH 246: MICHAEL HARDT on HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD WHEN CHANGING THE WORLD SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE
5 december 2023 · 1 uur 53 min
Political philosopher of empires and subversions, Michael Hardt returns to the show to discuss how to walk on water when we're drowning.
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AEWCH 245: SREĆKO HORVAT on HOW TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE IN THE APOCALYPSE
28 november 2023 · 1 uur 41 min
I went to the island of Vís in Croatia to talk with visionary philosopher, author, and organizer Srećko Horvat about living a good life in the midst of madness, and his new project (with Bifo Berardi and Pamela Anderson), the Island School of Social Autonomy. Lees meer
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AEWCH 244: LISA ROMERO on THE ESOTERIC PATH FORWARD
14 november 2023 · 1 uur 56 min
I talk with Lisa Romero about the esoteric answer to the question of our time: What is to be done?
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AEWCH 243: ARE THORESEN on THE END OF MATERIALISM
7 november 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
I invite my favorite Norwegian occultist acupuncturist veterinarian, Are Thoresen, back on the show to encounter materialism and see where it falls short. Time, space, physics, animal communication, healing... nothing is off the table in this episode. Lees meer
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AEWCH 242: PILAR LESKO on THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, ECONOMY, AND NUMBER
1 november 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
I turn to my favorite money-worker, Pilar Lesko, for a spiritual perspective on quantities, financial integrity, and spiritualizing money beyond "abundance."
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AEWCH 241: ALAN CHAPMAN & DUNCAN BARFORD on WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT FOR?
24 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 43 min
I talk with Duncan Barford and Alan Chapman - authors of the Baptist's Head trilogy and co-hosts of the WORP FM spirituality/magick/paranormal podcast - bout misunderstanding magick, spiritual development, and practice...and how to re-connect to destiny and peace. Lees meer
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AEWCH 240: MITCH HOROWITZ on WHY THE OCCULT MATTERS IN A TIME OF CHAOS
17 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 49 min
I talk with scholar and author Mitch Horowitz about why the occult matters in a time of chaos. We talk about the radical possibilities it might offer today, the ethics (and the unethical) of esotericism, and more.
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AEWCH 239: NINA PERSSON (THE CARDIGANS) on THE MUSIC WE CAN'T GET OUT OF OUR HEADS OR HEARTS
26 september 2023 · 1 uur 38 min
I talk with my favorite live singer, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, about earworms, songs we sing at home, the power of singing, and more in the third episode in my series of eps on musicians talking about music.
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AEWCH 238: IAN LYNCH (LANKUM/FIRE DRAW NEAR) on THE HORROR, LANDSCAPE, AND REBELLION OF IRISH MUSIC
19 september 2023 · 1 uur 48 min
In the second episode in my series talking about music with musicians, Ian Lynch (LANKUM + FIRE DRAW NEAR podcast) and I discuss how traditional Irish music pulls from the earth and horror and rebellion to vitalize itself and its listeners, both boozy and sobered. Lees meer
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AEWCH 237: WILL OLDHAM (BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY) on THE LIFE OF MUSIC AND DEVOTION
12 september 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
Kicking off my series of episodes talking about music in our lives and world with musicians is prolific musical artist Will Oldham AKA Bonnie "Prince" Billy!
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AEWCH 236: THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF HORROR
5 september 2023 · 43 min
Concluding my series on HORROR, I talk about horror's offerings to the world - which go much deeper than most people (even horror scholars!) suggest.
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AEWCH 235: CJ LEEDE & PAUL TREMBLAY on SEX, VIOLENCE, EVIL, AND WRITING HORROR
29 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 57 min
In the fourth of my episodes on horror, I talk with new horror star CJ Leede (Maeve Fly) and seasoned master Paul Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World, The Beast You Are) about the burdens and pleasures of writing such dark material.
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AEWCH 234: JOHN LANGAN & SOPHIE WHITE on HORROR'S MONSTERS OF TIME & PLACE
22 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 50 min
In the third episode on HORROR, I talk with two award winning horror authors - John Langan (The Fisherman) and Sophie White (Where I End) - about the way horror inheres in places and in the bodies of everyone we know!
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AEWCH 233: NATHAN BALLINGRUD & SARA GRAN on THE DELIGHT & CRUELTY OF HORROR
15 augustus 2023 · 2 uur 2 min
In this second episode on a series on horror, I talk with masters of the genre Sara Gran (Come Closer, The Book of the Most Precious Substance) and Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, The Strange) about creating forceful and frightening art, the fear of not knowing the truth (and the fear of investigating), why horror films scare us in a different way than horror novels/stories, and more. Lees meer
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AEWCH 232: MATT CARDIN on HORROR, COSMIC & PERSONAL
8 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 37 min
Kicking off a series of episodes on horror, I talk with cosmic horror writer and scholar Matt Cardin!
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AEWCH 231: TRUE AND FALSE SPIRITUAL PATHS
2 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
How to identify and avoid false spiritual paths, and how to cultivate true ones (without judgment!)
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AEWCH 230: UNA MULLALLY on HOW TO STOP CATASTROPHIZING AND STARTING CHANGING YOURSELF & THE WORLD
25 juli 2023 · 2 uur 12 min
I talk with journalist, artist, and activist Una Mullally about how catastrophizing helps keep things on the wrong track, and how to face four challenges of our time - fascism, climate change, AI, and the groomer moral panic - with new ways of thinking/feeling/acting. This is a transformative conversation! Lees meer