Howl in the Wilderness

Martin Shaw is widely regarded as one of the most exciting teachers of the mythic imagination. He is the author of the award winning A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (2016) , Courting the Wild Twin (2020), and the upcoming Smokehole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass  (2021). He is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the...

Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, author and farmer who now prefers the term practitioner rather than teacher. In this, our third conversation, he explains why the distinction is important and why he quit being a teacher. We also talk about a question he posed to me a number of years ago when I attended his Orphan Wisdom school that has stuck with me ever since, and continues to provoke new insigh...

On this episode I speak with Jungian analyst and astrologer Christina Becker. We discuss the intersection of Jungian psychology and astrology, and how astrology can help us navigate our medicine path toward wholeness and enjoy a more meaningful and purposeful life. Christina Becker is a registered psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, a clinical member of the...

Anne was born in London in 1931. Educated in the UK, France and America, with a BA Oxon 1953, MA 1981 in Modern History. Honorary Ph. D. from Ubiquity University 2018. Anne is the author and co-author of 7 books, and a Jungian analyst who trained with the Association of Jungian Analysts, London. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in history as well as the spiritual, mythological, shaman...

Dr. Ryan Westrum PhD is a nationally recognized psychedelic integration expert. For more than 15 years, his primary focus has been working with individuals and groups facilitating experiential therapy and integrating psychedelic journeys into healing and personal transformation.   Ryan is a registered integration therapist for Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and is th...

James Hollis, Ph. D. , was born in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught Humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. James has writt...

Tom was born and raised on the Suffolk-Norfolk border in East Anglia, but lived in Scotland for almost twenty years before gravitating to Dartmoor in the Southwest of England. Tom has been storytelling publicly for over 15 years and writing for much longer.  He now teaches storytelling for Hedgespoken and has been known to mentor a writer or two. Tom is also occasionally still a craftsman, having...

Jason Smith is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston (now the C.G. Jung Institute of New England) and currently serves as a training analyst and faculty member for the New England Institute. Jason is the host of the podcast, Digital Jung, and the author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life publ...

Buck Angel is an American pornographic film actor and producer, sex educator, and a motivational speaker. Buck's message of empowerment through self-acceptance and the mission to encourage everyone to be comfortable in their own skin – whatever that means to them – has struck a passionate chord with people around the world. His mission is to inspire people to redefine gender and to foster a new ge...

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist, author, and Director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies. Her work draws influences from Jungian psychology, trauma research, feminist theory, and the study of race and racism worldwide. Her clinical work focuses on the time of life between adolescence and adulthood that she calls Quarterlife, what Jung referred to as the “first half of life.” In our...

John Lee is a pioneer in the fields of self-help, anger, codependency, creativity, recovery, relationships and men’s issues.  In the mental health field, he is considered the therapist’s therapist and regularly trains and mentors therapists on how to work with clients and how to work on themselves. He has taught his techniques and theories to thousands of individuals, couples, families, groups, co...

Talking Andean traditional healing, plant medicine and cultural appropriation with Jhaimy Alvarez-Acosta. Jhaimy is a traditional healer from Cusco, Peru who has been trained and initiated in the wisdom teachings of the Northern region of Peru, home to the ancient lineage of the Sacred Plant medicine known as Wachuma or San Pedro. He began his initiation onto this path at a young age and has appre...

Talking yoga therapy, TKV Desikachar, yoga sutras, community and kinship with Amy Wheeler. Amy Wheeler, Ph. D. is a Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, San Bernardino for 21 years. Amy's degrees include a B.A. and M.A. in Health Promotion, and a Ph. D. in Education and Psychology. Amy has extensive Yoga training in the Krishnamacharya Tradition and was certified as a Yoga Teac...

It was my great honour and joy to have a conversation with my teacher Srivatsa Ramaswami, who I studied with back in 2014 during one of his trainings at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Ramaswami has an encyclopedic knowledge of yoga, having spent over 30 years learning from his guru, the great Sri T Krishnamacharya, considered by most to be the grandfather of modern yoga. Ramaswami car...

I had the chance to sit down with ambient music pioneer and laughter yoga guru Laraaji on his recent stopover in Montréal. In this enlightening and laughter-filled conversation, we chat about music as a way to tap into the eternal now, laughter as medicine, the key to aging gracefully and the power of saying 'no' to heavy language. Toward the end of our conversation his partner Arji adds some beau...

Livia Cohen-Shapiro holds a masters of Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She has practiced and taught yoga for nearly two decades and her dedication to understanding the human experience is life-long. Through yoga teacher training modules and online courses, Livia educates teachers on ethics, emotional literacy, psychologically sound and trauma aware teaching. In...

Santiparro, aka Alan Scheurman is someone who I've been crossing paths with for a long time without actually meeting, so it was a real pleasure to finally sit down and connect with him. We covered a lot of ground in this one, beginning with his start in the Detroit indie music scene, his initiation into the peyote and ayahuasca medicine paths, why his brand of spiritual music isn't "cheezy", the s...

In this episode I speak with Jerónimo Mazarrasa about ayahuasca best practices, the sustainable use of sacred plants, cultural appropriation and much more. Jerónimo Mazarrasa works with the International Center of Ethnobotanical Education Research and Services (ICEERS Foundation) as Social Innovation Coordinator, he’s also a coordinator of the Platform for the Defense of Ayahuasca (Plantaforma). I...

Jason Grechanik is a former New York City actor now living in Peru studying and practicing tobacco and ayahuasca shamanism. In this episode, we chat about the misconceptions about tobacco, its role in South America as a master plant teacher,  and his own experience apprenticing as a tabaquero. From his website: "My journey through life has led me around the world in search of the questions I have...

Anne Baring is a former Jungian analyst and author of many books, including Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine with Andrew Harvey, and her final book, Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul. From her website: "I feel we are living now in a mythic time of choice - a time of stupendous scientific discoveries which are enlarging our vision of the universe, shattering the vessel of our old conce...

Erik Davis is an author, scholar, podcaster, and award-winning journalist. In this conversation we talk about the new science of psychedelics; the loss of the mystic in the mainstreaming of psychedelics and spiritual practice; and the tricky business of marketing yourself as a yoga teacher or spiritual teacher. From his website: His most recent book is Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (...

Robert Tindall is the author of The Jaguar That Roams the Mind, The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience and Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth.  In this conversation we talk about his exploration of indigenous healing traditions of North and South America, including his work with ayahuasca and peyote, and get into a discussion about mythology and the...

Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist, teacher, author and ceremonialist. In this thought-provoking and soul-stirring conversation we speak about elderhood, initiation and uncovering your ancestral roots. Stephen Jenkinson Bio Stephen teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. With Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Th...

Zoe Helene, M.F.A., is a classically trained artist, cultural activist and psychedelic feminist, working for women’s self-liberation, healing and empowerment through intentional journeying with natural psychedelics. Bearing witness to the state of women, wilderness and wildlife as a frontline sustainability advocate called Zoe to found Cosmic Sister (@CosmicSister), an eco-feminist advocacy group...

Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who has conducted medicinal plant research in over 45 countries and lectures worldwide about holistic wellness and botanical medicines. As a guest expert on TV in U.S. and international markets, he advocates for traditional botanical medicines, including psychoactive and psychedelic plant medicines such as cannabis. Chris' webs...