FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home

FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home

By Julie-Roxane Krikorian, Alasdair PlambeckSociety & CultureReligion & SpiritualitySpiritualityPhilosophyPersonal Journals
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FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home episodes

  • FAR OUT #88 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Shaman Zach Poitra on the Path of Pura Medicina (Episode 6)
    What's it take to be a shaman?
    Zach Poitra comes back on the show to take us deeper into the medicine. You can think of this conversation as ayahuasca 200 :)
    Zach shares with us the fundamental role that icaros and shamanic dietas play in becoming an ayahuascero. We also dive into the importance of ancestors and lineage when working with such a powerful plant (or any spiritual practice).
    From there conversation veers off into all sorts of interesting places, including the teacher/student relationship, witchcraft, cultural appropriation and the challenges Zach sees for westerners who start down this path.
    1 hr 36 min
  • FAR OUT #87 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: 1500+ Ceremonies Later, Shaman Zach Poitra's Journey (Episode 5)
    We continue our deep dive into ayahuasca and plant medicine this week by inviting our friend and shaman, Zach Poitra on the show.
    What Zach does is hard to put into words...that's just the nature of his work. But we can say this from experience: it's incredibly powerful.
    On this episode Zach shares his journey from stockbroker in the USA to four and a half years in the jungle's of Peru to ayahuasca facilitator in Guatemala. Along the way we explore the spirituality of ayahuasca, some of the challenges and pitfalls along the path and the hard work of integration.
    1 hr 41 min
  • FAR OUT #86 ~ Rest as a Revolutionary Act
    What's rest got to do with it? Quite a lot actually.
    Alasdair and Julie-Roxane explore the power of rest through the framework of the four seasons. Julie-Roxane shares her experience learning to embody her cyclicality and how those lessons have permeated and influenced most areas of her life.
    Your cohosts also explore the way our current society has lost touch with the rhythms of nature and why learning to connect to them is such a radical (and liberating) thing to do in our modern age.
    Let's get into it!
    57 min
  • FAR OUT #85 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Shaman Jess Poitra on Kambo, the Warrior Frog Medicine (Episode 4)
    What exactly is Kambo and why would you want frog venom in your system?
    After finishing up three days of medicine work with the frog we invited our shaman, Jess Poitra to join us on the show to share with us the healing power of this medicine.
    We explore what Kambo is, how it's administered, how Jess was called to the medicine (hint: ayahuasca helped!), how she works with it and why one might want to work with it.
    Let's get into it!
    1 hr 20 min
  • FAR OUT #84 ~ Death Celebrant Blanche Colson on Reclaiming Death and Grief
    Death might be the most important and costly conversation we're not having.
    Blanche Colson thinks so. She joins us on today's show to share her journey with grief and dying that's led her at 67 to train as a death celebrant, also known as a death doula.
    When Blanche lost her mother at 27, she turned to alcohol and pot. Later, when her children's dog died she disposed of the body and promised they'd get a new one. These days Blanche has turned to face death and her work helps others do the same.
    In this week's conversation we talk about death, why our society's avoidance of grief is killing us and what we can do about it.
    1 hr 18 min
  • FAR OUT #83 ~ 3 Reasons to Look at your Triggers
    Want to be more effective in your life and work, improve your relationships and cultivate compassion?
    Work with your triggers. Yep, that's right.
    Alasdair and Julie-Roxane explore what triggers are, how we can work with them and why it's worth the discomfort.
    54 min
  • FAR OUT #82 ~ Wading through the Chaos: Update from our Lives
    While the individual circumstances of our lives differ, Change is challenging for all of us.
    Collectively, we're going through a lot of change right now. The world has seemingly turned upside down, revealing assumptions we've made about how the world works that are now proving problematic.
    We share our recent move and some of the assumptions in our life and work that we're now questioning and how we're dealing with these challenging times.
    56 min
  • FAR OUT #81 ~ Derek Sivers on Identity, Freedom & Singing the Counter Melody
    Is there such a thing as too much freedom?
    If anybody were to know, Derek might be the guy. Derek quit his last job in 1992 and in 2008 he sold his business, CD Baby, to the tune of $22 million.
    Over the years he's been a professional musician, a circus ringleader, an entrepreneur, a world traveler, a popular TED speaker and a book publisher. He writes at www.sivers.org.
    We explore with Derek how to move on from an expired identity, what does freedom mean anyway, how to follow what's interesting to you and how we might travel in the future.
    1 hr 24 min
  • FAR OUT #80 ~ How to make money online doing fulfilling work
    There's an old marketing joke that goes something like this:
    Two men are in a bar. The first turns to the second and says "Hey, give me a dollar and I'll show you how to make money."
    The second man thinks that's a pretty good deal, so he hands him a dollar. The first man says "Thanks. OK, now go ask someone else in this bar to give you a dollar if you show them how to make money."
    There's a lot of postering, questionable advice and empty inspiration on the topic of how you actually make money online. In this episode, Alasdair and Julie-Roxane weigh in on the topic and share they're experience creating seven different revenue streams online over the course of a year and a half.
    48 min
  • FAR OUT #79 ~ Via negativa: the road to the good life
    On this episode we talk about the ancient art of the negative way, and how removing things has been a major part of the life we live today. We explore why this approach which has been commonly used in wisdom traditions to approach God, is also an effective and practical way for approaching your ideal life---whatever that is.
    It might seem strange to suggest that such a negative approach might lead to major positive change. It's certainly not what our mainstream culture would have us believe.
    In the second half of the show, Alasdair and Julie-Roxane share some of the big and small things they've given up over the last ten years. You might be surprised!
    1 hr 6 min

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FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves.