bECOMING MAGIC

In lieu of No Nut November, if you dare, come explore the latent potential of masturbation. - Song is from Mimesis by Fontaines D.C.

In this episode I attempt to build a tiny fire in the woods, and I bring you along on the journey. This episode contains new music from a new band named clic , old poetry of William Wordsworth, and livestream observations of natural phenomena. AND THAT'S ONLY HALF OF IT. If I can ever get this fire built, you're in for a surprise!

Michael Kuepfer is the force and being behind the band Sol Nights. Here he is! to play some songs and offer a glimpse into the life of a musician searching and finding his way into purpose, collaboration, and optimism. It Was There All Along

Jonah Evans leads the only esoteric Christian seminary in the English-speaking world.

Maryn Spangler is a certified VITA Sex, Love and Relationships coach and executive director of the Lorian Association . I am someone who finds bringing sex and spirituality together a little challenging.

This season of bECOMING MAGIC began with an episode called, "Some Stars at the Start". The idea was: What are the guiding lights for us on our way? Numba one was me being myself and you being yourself. Framing growth as becoming MORE ourselves. Second, number two, we had ASKING QUESTIONS. The magical power of a question is that it begets an answer which, in turn, begets another question....

I have some questions about weed. Gene has a lifetime passion for T'ai Chi. From these two sources (not to mention the Eternal Source) doth flow this conversation. To free love-lsd-1960's-NYC, to the living reality of the yin-yang symbol, to prison, to Spirit-led-roadtrips, to the heart of it all! come one, come all! Thank you for listening. If you are local to Bellingham, Gene teaches T'ai Chi he...

Roberta Mackrill is an absolute delight! Here's her YouTube and Facebook .

I don't know if you will, I don't know if you won't, listen to this episode... but you may! Also, you may be a guest on bECOMING MAGIC. I would love to have you if you're vibin with this thing. Ok, some citations: Countrie Hoodlums on Instagram Peter Rollins on YouTube That's it. Now it's up to you, baby. May...

I dream of a future without any jobs. Nobody ever tellin' anybody else what to do. Instead, work and action that overflows from our hearts becoming free and connected to what we love. A 'course it ain't set up like that quite yet. Maybe that's part of the problem: it's a little too set up, engineered, conjuncted to a profit margin. But that's where we at ain't we. We&#3...

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His dad was an alcoholic. A lost sheep. The bad guy. That was the portrait of him painted by the conservative religious (Mennonite) culture that Charlie married into, and which was then framed and hung, as it were, on the wall over his son's childhood. Behold your dad. In his book, Charlie's Boy, Justin travels back through time to his 12th summer, and he meets his dad all over again. Like...

Hello! This one about how do we become more of who we are more and more grow in time and patience and persistence. It goes a lot of places: What happens when we die? Is destiny a thing? What about God? Who dat, and what like? We do some reading too: Moby Dick, Hermetic texts, the Gospel of Matthew. Also, there's a special guest or two. - Works Uncited Fighting My Demons by Ken Carson (Where da...

New Season of bECOMING MAGIC begins April 4.

Maryn Spangler returns to the show! Why? For an adventure in the Mary field. What? An energy field of Mary. Mary who? Mary. How? When? Just listen when you’re ready, my friend. - Episode art: Etruscan sculpture (pre-Christian). Branch from the stump of Jesse.

It's Struggle Bus Season, aka Advent, The Most Won— Difficult Time of the Year. Drawing on Anthroposophy, Lisa Del Alba helps us cut through the Christmas clamor to enter a darker and deeper reality that is connected with why human souls choose to come to planet earth in the first place. Special thanks to Melissa Ramer for the episode art! And special thanks to said art for inspiring the episo...

Psychedelics are one way to trip, but there are other ways too. Imagination is a portal, I'm a tellin' ya, boo. What are these other worlds beyond the gates of imagination? Who inhabits them? Are they dangerous to visit? These questions are a bit of the ground we traverse on this episode. Maryn Spangler runs an online school for spiritual education and exploration called The Lorian Associa...

This episode is about people. Why the hell are they so scary and so interesting at the same damn time? Expect a very special guest by the name of Lydia! And another surprise guest further in. Also! We'll have Emily Dickinson, Ibn Arabi, and Jean-Paul Sartre chiming in. Thanks for listening. - A person is a window With insufficient veil— A dark and yawning opening Where tattered curtains blow, - Or...

We all feel stuck at times, am I right? I was just experiencing this a bit ago, matter of fact. I know there’s something different, something more, something new. It’s utterly unique. It’s beautiful and, and wonderful! It’s out there ahead of me in the future somewhere. Much more than that I cannot say. I don’t have the deets on it. What I do have is what I have. My current identity. My habits. Me...

Introducing half of The Radio's new name! And what's underneath it. And above it! A big thank you to Sol Nights for allowing me use of their song ⁠Keep Comin' Back⁠ . And one thing yet before you go. Take with you this... - "Into this happy night In secret, seen of none, Nor saw I aught, Without other light or guide, Save that which in my heart did burn." (St. John of the Cross) - WORKS CITED Let...

Now, this episode is about how and where to find the hiding magic in the modern world. And this episode let me tell ya... We've got Islamic mystics that'll take you out of your mind. We've got a Hans Christian Anderson story sublime. We got highways to drive. We got rivers to swim. We got mountain paths, baby, come on in. WORKS CITED Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to The Radio, where we explore how to live creative and connected. This episode is a journey into the wild, weird, and wonderful. The Imagination. You have one. I have one. The what are they for? That's what we begin to explore. Well, just begin to get a feel for. No real clear answers just yet, alright. Learn from it. Not about it. That's the idea here. So i...