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.

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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 episode title. Take a moment with it, I suggest. It has some things to say.

WORKS CITED

The Depression Suite by The Tragically Hip

(The two little songs I sing are both from this song.)

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 Association, and her Substack is Love Walks Here.

Music this episode by, the one and only, Patrick Matey.

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.

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A person is a window

With insufficient veil—

A dark and yawning opening

Where tattered curtains blow,

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Or where celestial beams

Of brightness run in veins,

To every part from every heart,

To smash the window panes.

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WORKS CITED

Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi by Henry Corbin

Like Eyes That Looked on Wastes +

A Light Exists in Spring +

Ample Make This Bed +

There Is a Finished Feeling by Emily Dickinson

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

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. What I always do in this situation that I’m stuck in. Plus distraction. Many invitations to distraction. Many which I’ve followed and found myself even stucker!

Oh is there any way forward into the new? Into the new next version of me? How do I soften, open, expand?

Listening to Spring’s story helps me understand.

Indeed, there's a path that is more like a flow. Indeed, there's becoming once I'm letting go.

You can find Spring at Resonance Path Institute.

And you can sign up to get invited to becoming magic hangouts here.

Thanks for being here.

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.

Special Announcement: Come one, come all, to a video call on Sunday, October 19 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern for all listeners of this podcast. More info at the end of the episode. Or, if you missed it this time, sign up here to get invited to the next one.

Oh, one thing yet before you go. Take with you this...

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"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)

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WORKS CITED

Let It Go by James Bay

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Episode Art)

Hello everyone! You are invited to a video call meetup, for all listeners of The Radio, on October 19 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Let's get to know each other!

Now, this episode. 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 'Arabi by Henry Corbin

The Sea Within the Fish by Rumi

The Little Match Seller by Hans Christian Anderson

The Thought of the Heart by James Hillman

Cruise by Florida Georgia Line

Blue Clear Sky by George Strait

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 it will take some time. Take a personal approach. Experimentation.

Teach a man to imaginate. Teach ourselves. Like we did when we were a kid. What made you who you are?

Ok, I'm getting a clearer answer even as we speak. Imagination: a magic portal through which we can travel to encounter and experience what we need to learn and grow.

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The lines of song that come between Part One: The River and Part Two: The Wind are from Nick Cave's song, Final Rescue Attempt.

Julia Polter is a priest of The Christian Community, a movement for religious renewal. We discuss nighttime anxiety, death, learning how to love, and the meaning of life.

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Episode Art:

Night Thoughts Or, The Complaint and the Consolation, engraving by William Blake, 1797

Rage, the Flower Thrower, Banksy mural in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, 2003

this is just a picture

this a first few steps is all

this a kid blowing bubbles

down at Boulevard Park

come find out

this a this a this a

there are worlds inside some bubbles

bigger inside than on out

that's the wild for ya

weirder

wilder

quieter

it gets deeper in you go