The Corpus Callosum Chronicles Podcast

Welcome Voyagers Thank you for finding your way to the Coracle, an alchemical vessel of individual and collective change powered by the spiritual technology of fairy and folk tales. A few logistics before we dive in to the Journey 1 with the Handless Maiden. This is a long email packed with information and reflection. I hope you’ll take the time to absorb these words and come back to them as the s...

Thank you for tuning into the first journey of the Coracle, an alchemical vessel for individual and collective change powered by the spiritual technology of folk tales. Before you go on to read ways to collaborate with the story of the Red Bead Woman, from the Yakut people of Siberia, please take a moment to subscribe to the Corpus Callosum Chronicles so you get each journey in your inbox. You can...

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My computer is down so instead of typing with two fingers on phone I’m sending you an audio of the Saami story, Akanida, Daughter of the Sun. All the indigenous cultures I know of are pattern-makers. Clothes are embellished with patterns. Dances and songs follow set rhythms and forms. These patterns are shared communally and express sacred truths and laws received from nature, reminding the people...

Hello Friends, I’m speaking to you tonight through the words of others, keeping vigil a continent and an ocean away as my tribe gathers to be with a dear sister as she bears down in the hard labor of dying. Most days go by one after the other without much notice, don’t they? At least for me. I may have a moment here or there of appreciation, but I realized today, thinking of my friend and all the...