The Passing Through Podcast

Some people dedicate their lives not just to imagining different futures, but to deliberately, courageously crafting and inhabiting them — long before the mainstream catches up. This week on The Passing Through Podcast , I’m very excited to introduce Anna Kovasna. Anna is a systems thinker, creative convener, and passionate weaver of local resilience and kinship with all life. She works with commu...

This week, in this special 100th episode, I’m passing through Laski, Poland with a bunch of ancestors; living and dead. Join me (and a few special guests) for an episode dedicated to giving thanks and honoring those who’ve come before us as we explore gratitude and reciprocity as possible doorways through which we can unchain ourselves from modernity’s shackles of violence, isolation, alienation,...

We live in a world consumed by code, and advanced by algorithms. For all of our technological prowess and alleged progress, we’re still haunted by the oldest questions; about love, meaning, loss, suffering, and what it means to be human creatures in times of precarity and collapse. My guest today — returning to The Passing Through Podcast to contemplate these questions — is our friend Douglas Rush...

Beneath the noise of harrowing headlines and persistent propaganda, I suspect there’s a deeper movement growing: people remembering their collective power, refusing erasure, refusing silence and, choosing instead to tell their stories.  My guest today is Rolla Selbak — a Palestinian-American filmmaker and storyteller whose work is rooted in resistance, solidarity, and the imagination of freedom. A...

This week we’re passing through with the lovely Grace Rachmany where we’ll take a look at the relational, emotional, and ecological connective tissue that binds us to every living thing on this planet. Grace is a field representative dedicating her energy toward addressing the metacrisis. She’s a pioneering thinker, writer, consultant and coder whose work bridges decentralized technology, digital...

This week I'm passing through Berlin, Germany! Back in September my partner and I attended a 5-day training in Portugal, on Peace Building. Since then I've been meaning to record an episode about the experience and discuss the topics we explored. As you might imagine, distilling five days of training down to less than 60-minutes means I won't be able to cover everything we learned abou...

This week, Josh Schrei is Passing Through! Josh is the creator and host of The Emerald Podcast — one of my own personal favorite podcasts. Josh isn’t just an educator, storyteller, music-maker, writer and pioneer in the field: in terms of podcasting he’s one of the best to ever do it. If you’re curious about spirituality, Buddhism, the collision of Western consciousness with eastern animist cosmol...

This week, Diarmuid Lyng is Passing Through! Many of us simply speak. Others load their language up with love, respect, humor, humility, kindness, poetry and play. Today’s guest, Diarmuid Lyng, is one of the latter. Diarmuid is an educator, former Wexford hurling captain, facilitator and lover of nature with a great passion for the Irish language. His work is rooted in a deep commitment to helping...

In this episode I’m joined by someone whose life is steeped in sound: musician and creative, Dan Barracuda.  Dan is a passionate musician with a gift for peeling back the layers of music we thought we knew, offering illuminating breakdowns of classic songs that reveal their hidden textures and timeless beauty. He brings both heart and craft to his work, reminding us that music is not just entertai...

This week Doctor Patricia June Vickers is Passing Through! Dr Vickers is a poet, artist, writer and internationally respected psychotherapist specializing in trauma of first nation peoples. She is a member of the Eagle clan from the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia and carries a traditional name from her village as well as from the Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola, British Columbia.  Dr Vickers h...

In this episode, the phantastic Gabriel Durham is Passing Through — for the second time! Longtime listeners will remember Gabriel as the meticulously learned Buddhist meditator and martial artist from episode 24. Gabriel is now a dad and we teamed up for a discussion as part of an upcoming publication called Outside The Center , which explores the topic of non-duality.  In our conversation we talk...

This week I'm passing through Lake Balaton, Hungary. Join me for a brief sweaty ramble after the Global Eco-village Network Gathering, musings about being beset by a biblical swarm of midges, murmurating starlings, animacy, and whatever else I was talking about when I recorded this episode. In loving memory of the one and only, Mitch the Midge.

Not all heroes wear capes.  In this episode, we go straight to the streets of central Gaza where I speak with Khalid Qadas : photographer, medical student, and humanitarian volunteer with the Gaza Soup Kitchen .  Khalid is heroic and unwaveringly human — full of hope, heart, and determination to help — even in the face of incredible loss and genocide. Khalid moved from the United Arab Emirates to...

In times of genocide, when silence is complicity, some courageous people are stepping forward to take action, and empowering others to do the same.  This week, I had the honor of speaking with Ahmed Bashbash, a Palestinian developer using his skills to build tools that help people around the world take a stand against atrocity. Ahmed is the creator of No Thanks , a free mobile app designed to supp...

This week Manda Scott is Passing Through! Manda is not only a bestselling author, podcaster and teacher, she’s a lovely and passionate human championing values like integrity, compassion, and generosity of spirit in a quest to envision the kinds of emergent futures we’d be proud to leave behind.  In our talk we explore the power of story, the myth of separability and powerlessness, the importance...

This week, the lovely Lydia Schamschula is Passing Through! I had the privilege of meeting Lydia in April during my first experience with Holotropic breathwork. She organizes and facilitates events with the team at Holotropic Breathwork Berlin, and has spent over a decade deepening her practice. Her background includes other modalities such as Zen and Osho meditation, Qigong, and yoga, which all i...

This week I'm passing through Warsaw, Poland! Join me for some thoughts about an elderly shamanic cat, dreams, the nature of ownership and control, the weird mystical magical madness of the human body, grief, Slot Art Festival, and an odd encounter with members of a religious cult! This episode is sponsored by Cat-A-Pult and The Milk Shrimp & Nuts Food Emporium.

This week David Holmgren is Passing Through! In this episode I was honored to sit down with one of the leading voices in ecological wisdom and regenerative culture — David Holmgren. David is best known as the co-originator of permaculture: a design philosophy that has blossomed into a global movement, offering practical possibilities for living in right relationship with the Earth. In 1978, he and...

In this episode, we step into the wilderness with legendary landscape photographer Marc Adamus . His images have graced the pages of magazines like National Geographic , Outdoor Photographer , and Popular Photography . But more than prestigious awards or publications, it’s Marc’s presence in wild places that sets him apart.  Known for chasing light across storming glaciers, trekking alone in the h...

This week Robert Rient is Passing Through! Robert Rient, a powerful voice at the intersection of activism, spirituality, and environmental justice, joins Passing Through for his first interview in English! Robert is the founder of the Odra Person Foundation and the visionary behind the movement to recognize Poland’s Odra River as a legal person. He also established the Odra Tribe and organized the...

This week Michael Meade is Passing Through for one of my all-time favorite episodes! Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. For decades, Michael has paired hypnotic storytelling with sharp, soulful reflections on the crises of our time. He’s the creator and host of The Living Myth Podcast and founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foun...

This week A'ida Shibli is Passing Through, for the second time! A'ida is a courageous, wise, passionate Palestinian Bedouin peace activist, educator, eco-villager and mother living at Tamera eco-village in Portugal.  She has dedicated decades of her life to making the world a better place. Join us for a discussion about Israel's illegal abduction of Greta Thunberg and the rest of the crew of The M...

This week, Moureen Kaki is Passing Through. Moureen is a Palestinian American on the ground in Gaza. For nearly a year she's been working with humanitarian aid organizations like Glia International and Shabab Gaza to provide desperately needed medical assistance and food to the besieged population of Gaza. She's proof that when our governments fail to step up and intervene on behalf of a p...

This week Eimear Burke is Passing Through, again! Eimear is a druid, the chosen chief of OBOD — the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids — a seanchaí, lover of bees, and a beautiful human.  Join us for a chat about Beltane, pre-Christian Pagan history in Ireland, the feats of Saint Patrick, storytelling and myth, animism, how to enter into respectful dialogue with a forest, the importance of intention...

This week Robert Falconer is Passing Through!  Bob is an influential IFS therapist with five decades of experience in a diverse set of healing modalities. He’s an international educator, author and an incredible human being. It’s always a privilege to chat with him. In this conversation we discuss the power of healing in groups. Bob talks about his work with ecstatic dance, the importance of Spiri...