A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

Listen now (115 min) | Christopher Ryan (co-author of Sex at Dawn, author of Civilized to Death, and host of Tangentially Speaking) returns to the podcast to discuss spirituality, and the ways we’ve engaged in this realm in different, yet parallel ways. We speak about psychedelics, astrology, synchronicity, and magic, and how these tools and practices have informed our approach to life. We touch on integration, ego, and humility, plus discuss the conflict between scientific worldviews/mechanistic thinking and the exploration of subjective meaning and belief. Plus, I talk about my inspiration for The Lunar Circle and why I approach and teach astrology in such a nuanced and experiential way.

Find Chris at chrisryanphd.com, on Twitter and on Instagram

Songs featured: “Bathroom Dance” by Hildur Guðnadóttir from the movie Joker and "Inside I’ll Sing” by Shards & Isolation Choir

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Lisa is a writer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified Jungian Analyst. She is a co-host of the podcast This Jungian Life and the author of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. She joins me on the podcast to talk about motherhood (both literally and figuratively), and how it offers us a meaningful path toward our own individuation. We speak about projection, the process of creativity, the dangers of victimhood, the fallacy of control, and distinguishing the difference between intuition vs. anxiety. We also discuss the power of mythology as a warehouse of psychic patterns and their capacity to give us language for things that are notoriously hard to language.

Find Lisa at LisaMarchiano.com and at ThisJungianLife.com

Lisa's Book Recommendation: The Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith (Aka J.K. Rowling)

Songs featured: "Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)" by Phospherescent and "One More Cup of Coffee" by Frazey Ford

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Rachel Krantz is the author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy. She is also one of the founding co-editors of Bustle, and a recipeint of the Peabody Award. Rachel and I discuss the complicated and overwhelming process of finding safety and authenticity within the world of unconventional relationships. While being careful not to dismiss non-monogamy outright, we do our best to lend some much needed nuance to the topic. We discuss power dynamics, discernment, abuse, safety, trust and intuition, among many other things. Rachel's book is incredibly courageous, vulnerable and nuanced, and I was honored to discuss it with her in this conversation.

Find Rachel at RachelJKrantz.com and on Twitter

Songs featured: "River" by Bishop Briggs and "Invocation (Chaitanya Mantra)" by The Hanumen

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My friend Jenny Kellogg returns to the podcast, this time to speak about the Akashic Records. Early scientists said that there was a fifth element beyond fire, air, earth, and water. It was called “ether.” The information field of the universe could also be called ether, and this information field is what the Akashic Records are said to contain - a dynamic, neutral reservoir of information including every thought, emotion, experience, and intention of your soul through all lifetimes. Jenny and I discuss the difference between accessing the Akashic Records vs. psychic/past life regression readings, and, in true form, we bring a hefty portion of discernment, nuance and groundedness to yet another extremely complex spiritual topic!

Jenny's Book Recommendations: Science and the Akashic Field by Ervin Laszlo and Journey of Your Soul by Shepard Hoodwin

Find Jenny at Amalthea.guide and on Instagram

Songs featured: "A Spark, A Beginning" by Corre and "Spinning Away" by Brian Eno and John Cale

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This week, I bring you a conversation with my Grandma Barbara. From cleverly cheating on a vision test in order to become an airplane stewardess, to becoming a psychotherapist, sex and relationship therapist, and a Jungian therapist, to buying land in Colorado and building a cabin in the mountains, to raising her son (my Dad) and embracing his homosexuality from a young age, my Grandmother has lived her life with an open heart and open mind. We speak about her life, the lessons she's learned and how she's embracing the inevitability of death. If you've heard my Dad on the podcast (episode 21 and episode 73), this conversation will certainly add some depth and insight.

Song featured: "Good Woman" by the Staves and "Virginia in the Rain" by the Dave Matthews Band

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"If you asked her to identify the moment she knew she was lying to herself, she could tell you..."

This week, I decided to take a break from my regularly scheduled programming to read you a story. From unrequited love, to hero complexes, codependency, the erotic energy between teachers and students, eros, fantasy and delusion... I think you'll find this story relatable.

Song featured: "Show Me Love" by Hundred Waters

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Orleatha Smith, M.Ed is a serial entrepreneur, biologist and certified holistic lifestyle coach. Both of us spent years in the paleo/ancestral health world, had paleo food blogs, adhered to a strict paleo diet and worked in the wellness industry. We also both developed orthorexia and an extremely antagonistic relationship toward food and our bodies in the process. We discuss the complexities of our individual journeys and what it took to re-prioritize happiness, pleasure, and a fiercely honest, stress-free and individual approach to health and wellness.

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Orleatha's Book Recommendations: The High-Five Habit by Mel Robbins, Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon and the Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

Songs featured: "Rise" by Dominique Fils-Aimé and "Enough" by Aisha Badru

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Timo and I have too many things in common to list. From an obsession with Tony Kushner's Angels in America, to the importance of recognizing and building personal mythologies, to neo-tribalism and the importance of community, we spent two months in Antigua, Guatemala philosophizing late into the night about all our favorite subjects. Timo was raised in Mormonism and had a successful career in political consulting before focusing on a project around a return to tribal living, where small groups of people live in committed community that gives equal weight to both the individual and the community. If you're interested in spirituality, mythology, tribe, community and belonging, this episode is not to be missed.

Timo's Book Recommendation: Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Find Timo on Instagram, at storyofexistence.com or email him [email protected]

Sign up for Whitney and my Retrograde with Intention course by clicking here. Enrollment ends December 8th and space is limited!

Songs featured: "The Truth About the World" by Andrea Marie, "Bethesda Fountain" and "More Life" from Angels in America and "MANGO" by KAMAUU feat. Adeline

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Whitney Will is a psychological astrologer and writer. She has a B.A. in the History of Math and completed her M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Jungian and Archetypal Studies at Pacifica. Whitney returns to the podcast, this time to chat with me about planetary retrogrades. We discuss what's really happening in the sky when a planet "goes retrograde", dispel false narratives about what retrogrades mean and delve into the archetype and mythology behind Mercury, Mars and Venus. We also expand on what it means to be born during a planetary retrograde and to have a retrograde planet in your natal chart. Lastly, we discuss our upcoming course "Retrograde with Intention" where we will be helping participants track the upcoming Venus retrograde in Capricorn through their charts and creating community and ritual around the transit, honoring Venus the best way we know how. 

Find Whitney at at StarHearthAstrology.com, Youtube and Instagram.

Sign up for our Retrograde with Intention course by clicking here. Enrollment ends December 8th and space is limited!

Songs featured: "Love Like a Sunset, pt. 2" by Phoenix and "Southern Star" by Gregory Alan Isakov

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Chris is a Spiritual Mentor and Master Energy Worker. He has extensive education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Medical QiGong, Reiki, Pranic Healing, & Sexual Alchemy. We discuss our shared experience of identifying as spiritual and yet feeling alienated by most spiritual communities and unpack why that is. We also do a deep dive into Feminine and Masculine Polarity, how they exist within each of our us and how we enact this energy balance and exchange within relationships. We talk about the physical and psychological effects of trying to neutralize and deny the natural flow of energy in our bodies, and how when yin & yang are in disharmony, true vitality and health can never be fully established. We also speak about the ways both men and women can step up to the plate support each other in this process.

Find Chris on Instagram and at AwakenedIntent.com

Chris' book recommendation: Tantric Orgasms for Women and Tantric Sex for Men by Diana Richardson

Songs featured: "Can't Help But Fly" by Climbing PoeTree, be steadwell & Luqman Frank and "Medicine Man" by Dorothy

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