King Hero's Journey with Beth Martens

We’ve entered death season. The final quarter of the year is here. The growing season is ending. Plants die back. Leaves fall. What has completed its cycle begins returning to the earth. And human attention turns toward death too. Halloween arrives with its ghosts, skeletons, monsters, gore, murder, cannibalism and fascination with everything frightening, grotesque and macabre. Why? This week on B...

No matter where you're at there was an origin, where seeds were planted, successful and failed experiments were made. Exploring how things have grown and developed gives the explorer a sense of place, coherence, and greater self awareness.  In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm sitting down with  Micah Ellars  to hear more of his origin story and explore how his years in filmmaking,...

In Part 1 of my conversation with Bernhard Guenther, we explored personal and planetary purification, Gurdjieff's cosmology, inner work, and the relationship between the state of the individual and the state of the world. For Part 2, I want to bring the conversation closer to home: What happens to our inner work when we actually have to live with other human beings? Gurdjieff's Fourth Way...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air ,  Micah Ellars  and  Dagmar Stansova  join me to unpack the many layers of the Netflix series  The OA . If you've seen it, you already know this isn't a show that easily leaves you. There are stories within stories, symbols within symbols, and characters whose meaning seems to shift depending on which layer you're looking through. Both Micah and D...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm hosting  Lisa Marie Redl , a woman who has paid the price for speaking out and learned a thing or two about navigating noise, attention, and discernment along the way. Our conversation is called  Focus , and we're talking about ADHD. Lisa Marie was diagnosed with ADHD, and I want to hear what that experience has actually been like for her. How di...

In this second  Beth of Fresh Air  on recapitulation, I have the pleasure of hosting  Joel Schafer—wolf pack leader, Toltec teacher, and adventurer in the uncharted territory within. After our recent  Luminous Beings  experience together in the Redwoods, Joel and I are going to continue following the threads that emerged there and see where they lead us. We'll explore how the Toltec teachings—...

Fresh back from a three-day workshop in the Redwoods with Joel Schafer and the Wolf Pack, this week's  Beth of Fresh Air  is a recapitulation of the journey. Wonnita MacDonald, meditation teacher and gorgeous soul who shared the adventure with our wolf pack of 9, will be joining me!! Recapitulation is more than remembering. It's a way of gathering experience, seeing what was revealed, recl...

Join me for a live King Hero interview with one of the original voices in the truth community who helped shape my own path of inquiry. I first discovered  Bernhard Guenther  in 2015, when I finally allowed myself to go down the rabbit hole and take an honest look at the state of humanity at this point in history. While many voices focused on exposing problems, Bernhard consistently returned to the...

Red. You can love it, you can hate it, but you can’t ignore it. In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm joined by returning guests  Dagmar Stansova  and  Marisa Love  for a conversation about the many faces of red. Red carries a remarkable range of meanings and emotional responses. It can evoke passion, love, vitality, danger, rage, urgency, courage, sacrifice, and life itself. We'll e...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm joined by cell and molecular biologist and Nutrition Detective practitioner  Kelsey Kenny  for another deep dive into the nickel rabbit hole. Kelsey was instrumental in uncovering evidence from the scientific literature that suggests nickel toxicity has been hiding in plain sight for decades, often labelled as an allergy instead of being recognized f...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , we're enacting a  flippening . After joining me as a guest a few episodes ago,  Marisa Love  is returning with a twist—she'll be interviewing me on my own show. I love asking the questions. Guiding a conversation, discovering something I hadn't seen before, and seeing life through another person's eyes is one of my greatest joys. I also love...

In our first conversation, Banjo Glass and I laid the groundwork for asking a bigger question: How does a culture create itself? For Part 2, we're going deeper. Banjo has spent decades inside two remarkable cultural phenomena. One emerged around the Grateful Dead, creating a community that continues to ripple through generations. The other is one he helped bring into being himself: the world o...

Get De-Nickeled 3, PEA  (with Dagmar Stansova) The nickel detox journey continues! In this third installment of the  Get De-Nickeled  series, returning guest  Dagmar Stansova  joins me to explore one of the most exciting discoveries to come out of Dr. Garrett Smith's community: PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide). PEA is a substance your body already makes. It has been studied for its anti-inflammatory, a...

"Leave moods alone. Do not cope. Carry on." "You're the remedy." These simple statements point to a radically different way of understanding ourselves and the challenges we face. In this King Hero interview, I'm joined by  Garret Kramer  to explore his worldview and how he applies it in his own life and in his work with others. I've been following Garret's work for several years after hearing peop...

Join me for a King Hero interview with  Will Keller , who has passionately pursued many avenues of freedom, including reality itself. While Will is best known for teaching  Natural Law , this conversation explores a different question: What does it even mean to be real? We'll look at the difference between reality and philosophy, reality and hope, reality and what we think should be, along wit...

" Make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. " That simple meme I posted on Instagram led to one of those conversations that seems to have a life of its own. Marisa Love responded with a reflection on what it's like to carry a worldview that has often lived outside the mainstream, to keep creating when very few people seem to understand, and to discover that making beauty is its own nourishment....

What happens when you realize no one is coming to do what you know needs to be done? In this King Hero interview, I'm joined by  Ben of Cambridge , whose path led him from quiet observation to direct action during the rollout of 5G technology in the UK. After researching the technology for himself and concluding that it posed serious concerns, Ben chose to act. He equipped himself with the evi...

The nickel rabbit hole goes deep. That's one reason Dr. Garrett Smith has spent more than  34 hours  live streaming on the subject and he's not done lol. If that feels overwhelming, this episode is for you. Returning guest  Dagmar Stansova  and I are getting together to share the highlights, our own experiences, practical tips, and the basics of nickel detox to help you get oriented. For t...

"All the world's a stage." This familiar quote has many layers of meaning, and this week Micah Ellars returns to  Beth of Fresh Air  to unpack them with me. The stage has become a powerful symbol in our culture. It's a place where our attention is drawn outward, toward the performers and away from ourselves. In freedom movements, the word  actor  has even become synonymous with ...

In this episode of  Beth of Fresh Air , I'm joined by returning guest  Dagmar Stansova  to talk about the process of detoxing what may be the most heinous of all the toxic metals: Nickel. Who knew?? For most people, nickel only comes up in conversations about skin reactions, jewelry allergies, or metal sensitivities. Yet the medical literature is filled with research on nickel toxicity and its...

More than 25 years ago, I left what I now openly call a cult. If you've followed my work for any length of time, you've probably heard me mention my years in India and the spiritual organization I devoted myself to in my twenties. In 1999, when victims began coming forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the group's leader, I left immediately. At the time, I was fighting for my life w...

The emergence of culture. The synergy of human beings creating together. And the mysterious process by which something seemingly comes from nothing. In this episode of the King Hero's Journey, I'm welcoming pioneering glass artist  Banjo Glass  for a conversation about creation, culture, and what happens when people gather around shared values. Our connection began through my recent interv...

What becomes real when sight extends beyond the eyes? In this King Hero interview, I'm welcoming back  Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan  for our third conversation together. Over the past several years, I've watched Edith conduct extraordinary explorations into consciousness, blindfold vision, telepathy, healing, and human potential. Her work raises profound questions about perception, awareness, and...

Story is food for humans. We spend a lot of time thinking about what nourishes us physically, emotionally, and mentally, yet many people are starving for story. Not only for information, instructions, and guidance. But authentically told story that carries something real and can be the food for something else real to grow. There are all kinds of stories in the world. Stories that shape cultures. S...

In this episode of the  King Hero’s Journey , we’re deep diving into the Hero’s Journey through the lenses of  sound, film, stage, archetype, and creation  with an extraordinary panel: Roy “FutureMan” Wooten Kery KG Greene Micah Ellars What brings us together is a shared fascination with the Hero’s Journey as a living structure moving through human experience. FutureMan and Kery explore where  sou...