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Bliss Brain with Dawson Church

Best-selling author Dawson Church joins me to discuss his most recent publication "Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy. "Among many other topics, Dawson talks about overcoming the brain’s negativity bias, reverse engineering enlightenment, and how the evolution of the human brain can transform society.
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Bliss Brain Hay House
https://www.hayhouse.com/bliss-brain-hardcover
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/bliss-brain-the-neuroscience-of-remodeling-your-brain-for-resilience-creativity-and-joy-dawson-church/14428574?ean=9781401957773
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Tarot Life Lessons with Julia Gordon-Bramer

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Julia Gordon-Bramer to discuss her book Tarot Life Lessons: Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana. Julia discusses how tarot is a tool of transformation, finding stories in the cards, the benefit of reading reversals, reading for difficult people, and how tarot imagery is found in the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
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Julia Gordon-Bramer
https://juliagordonbramer.com/
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Tarot Life Lessons
Inner Traditions
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/tarot-life-lessons
Bookshop.org https://bookshop.org/p/books/tarot-life-lessons-living-wisdom-from-the-major-arcana-julia-gordon-bramer/19658271?ean=9781644118177
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Reunion with Brad Wells

Brad Wells, founder of Reunion, a non-profit plant medicine retreat center in Costa Rica joins me in this episode. Brad shares his life-altering experience with ayahuasca and how the medicine reunites us with who we are at our core. He also discusses the specialized retreats offered at Reunion, including the Cultivating Pride retreats designed exclusively for the LGBTQ community.
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Why Can't We Be More Like Trees? with Judith Polich

In this week's episode, author Judith Polich joins me to discuss her book, "Why Can't We Be More Like Trees? The Ancient Masters of Cooperation, Kindness, and Healing." Among other topics, Judith discusses the importance of recapturing the magic of seeing the world through an unconditioned lens and the many virtues that trees teach, including learning how to be together in community.
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https://cuttingyourcarbonfootprint.com/
Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees?
Inner Traditions https://www.innertraditions.com/books/why-can-t-we-be-more-like-trees
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-can-t-we-be-more-like-trees-the-ancient-masters-of-cooperation-kindness-and-healing-judith-bluestone-polich/19663855?ean=9781591435044
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Spirits, Seers & Seances with Steele Douris

Author Steele Alexandra Douris joins me in this week's episode to discuss her book Spirits, Seers & Seances: Victorian Spiritualism, Magic, and the Supernatural. Steele discusses the history of spiritualism, how it was sometimes a force for social justice, the archetype of the gothic heroine and the final girl, and how Christmas was the season for ghost stories.
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Spirits, Seers, & Seances
Lewellyn
https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738774619
 
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/spirits-seers-seances-victorian-spiritualism-magic-the-supernatural-steele-alexandra-douris/19878136?ean=9780738774619
 
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The Gentle Art of Spiritual Discernment with Pierre Pradervand

In this week’s episode, author Pierre Pradervand joins me to discuss his book The Gentle Art of Spiritual Discernment: Your Guide to Discovering Your Personal Path. Pierre talks about the importance of living an examined life, the spiritual experience of non-duality, the connections between gratitude and a blessing heart, and how we are all expressions of God smiling.
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Pierre Pradervand
https://gentleartofblessing.org/
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Roger McGowen
https://www.rogermcgowen.org/
 
The Gentle Art of Spiritual Discernment
Inner Traditions
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-gentle-art-of-spiritual-discernment
 
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gentle-art-of-spiritual-discernment-a-guide-to-discovering-your-personal-path/18862478?ean=9781644118054
 
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Wyrdcraft with Matthew Ash McKernan

In this week’s episode, psychetherapist and author Matthew Ash McKernan joins me to discuss his book Wyrdcraft: Healing Self and Nature Through the Mysteries of the Fates. Ash explores the answer to the question “what is wyrd?” and discusses tricksters, unverified personal gnosis,  the wild and the wyrd, the importance of remembering our wholeness, and the necessity of feeding our inner fire.
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Matthew Ash McKernan
https://www.wyrdwildweb.com/
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Wyrdcraft
Llewellyn
https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738771779
 
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/wyrdcraft-healing-self-nature-through-the-mysteries-of-the-fates-matthew-ash-mckernan/18528704?ean=9780738771779
 
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Veneration Rites with Curanderismo with Erika Buenaflor

In this week’s episode, curandera and author Erika Buenaflor joins me to discuss her book Veneration Rites of Curanderismo. Erika shares her training and background and how she is the epitome of the wounded healer. She talks about ancestors and social justice, the distinction between cultural appropriation and misappropriation, and how we all need to decolonize our minds.
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Erika Buenaflor
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Veneration Rites of Curanderismo
Inner Traditions
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/veneration-rites-of-curanderismo
 
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/veneration-rites-of-curanderismo-invoking-the-sacred-energy-of-our-ancestors-erika-buenaflor/19663851?ean=9781591434962
 
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Modern Occultism with Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book Modern Occultism. In a wide-ranging conversation, Mitch talks about why older isn’t necessarily better, why we may have entered a new Renaissance informed by esoteric ideas, the different ways that Gnosticism speaks to our cultural moment, and the history of parapsychology and its importance to the emerging paradigm.
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Mitch Horowitz
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Modern Occultism
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/modern-occultism-history-theory-and-practice-mitch-horowitz/18638074?ean=9781722506261
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https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Occultism-History-Theory-Practice-ebook/dp/B0B69JSJTX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=24VNWO1RXL8VY&keywords=modern+occultism&qid=1701470200&sprefix=modern+occultism%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-1
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The Persistence of the Soul with Mark Ireland

In this episode, I am joined by author Mark Ireland to discuss his latest book, The Persistence of the Soul: Mediums, Spirit Visitations, and Afterlife Communication. Mark talks about being the son of the internationally known psychic medium Richard Ireland, some of his own psychic experiences, developing a process to certify psychic mediums, pseudo-skeptics and debunkers, and how psychic mediumship can aid healing in the grieving process.
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Mark Ireland
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Helping Parents Heal
https://www.helpingparentsheal.org/
 
The Persistence of the Soul
 
Inner Traditions
https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-persistence-of-the-soul
 
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-magic-of-the-orphic-hymns-a-new-translation-for-the-modern-mystic/18862436?ean=9781644117200
 
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