Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking & Ending Violence

Join me and my brilliant guest, Erika Robinson, author of "The Language of Lenormand" and the creator of "Erika's Lenormand of Hope". Erika and her colleague, Erica Peebus, designed this new and beautiful 36-card deck as a modern version of the old European tarot.  Erika uses her deck for divination about and insight into current political, racial, cultural and social issues. Her Substack YouTube Channel, In the Company of Cards, reaches an international audience where she has 33K viewers and growing, including my enthusiastic self. In this second podcast of Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking & Ending Violence, Erika shares her journey into discovering and using Lenormand, her passion for helping others, and how white supremacy and racism are the root soul sickness in the United States. 

Take in Erika’s bright spirit, forthright style, empathy, and pragmatism. She is brilliant and often correct in her predictions. As a lifelong anti-racism activist and educator, I particularly enjoy her commentary on and education of her audience about the challenges and issues facing people of color, although that is but one part of a wide range of social, political and cultural issues she covers. 

To connect with Erika, here is her email: [email protected]

To tune into her brilliance, here are the places to go: 
https://lenormandwitherika.com
https://youtube.com/@inthecompanyofcards
https://erikarobinsonlenormand.substack.com  
https://lapantherestudio.com/collections/oracle/products/erikas-lenormand-of-hope

Here is how to find me and what I offer, in particular my YouTube Channel:
Website:
https://www.rachelmannphd.com
YouTube: https//youtube.com/@rachelmannphd
Contact Email: 
[email protected]

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

Maryann Weston, former award-winning, Australian journalist, author, and YouTube psychic-astrologer shares her wisdom on the importance of staying spiritually awake as we stand up to oppression in all forms, and how to keep up hope and faith during these chaotic and dangerous times. She is a clairvoyant and psychic medium, who combines these gifts with journalism and research skills to interpret how universal and spiritual truths apply to diverse subjects such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the authoritarian takeover of the US by Trump and his allies, and more. Not only does she give insight, but her powers of prediction are phenomenal.  

Maryanne also uses astrology to look at major planetary movements and conjunctions impacting our world, and channels messages from passed-over, inspirational souls and spiritual themes. With 151K subscribers to her YouTube channels, including Revealing Light - Tarot, Astrology & Spirituality and Random Sage, she brings a particular focus on events in the US and its chaotic, reverberating effects across the planet.

She shares in this interview the story she tells in her amazing and inspiring new book, Revealing Light – How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint about her evolution from a mainstream career in journalism and government consulting to a successful YouTube psychic-astrologer.  She has a Bachelor of Communications, a Bachelor of Social Sciences, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education, and a Diploma of Community Service who also studied mediumship, shamanism, astrology, tarot, and Wicca.

Here is how to find her:
Revealing Light-Tarot, Astrology & Spirituality
 https://you.tube.com/ @revealinglight-tarotastrology 

Random Sage with Maryann from Revealing Light
https://youtube.com/@randomsagepodcast 

Revealing Light Tarot
https://revealinglighttarot.com/

To order her book, Revealing Light - How Cancer Illuminated My Divine Blueprint
Revealing Light Books – Revealing Light Tarot

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

Rachel interviews author, shamanic healer and teacher, Christina Pratt, founder of the Last Mask Center about the importance of healing trauma, our ancestral lines, and the initation of our young into spiritual adulthood. She discusses how the resistance we feel both individually and collectively to undertaking the steep incline to what she calls spiritual adulthood both normal and yet must be faced if we are to create a world of peace.

Christina Pratt is a healer, author and teacher of exceptional clarity, humor and practicality. At the Last Mask Center, which she founded, she is pioneering new shamanic techniques to deal with complex trauma, the healing of our ancestral lines and initiation of our young into spiritual adulthood. The Center offers healing sessions, online classes and in-person retreats. She is the author of The Encyclopedia of Shamanism and the host of radio show, “Why Shamanism Now?” She can be contacted through the website lastmaskcenter.org. 

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

Rachel opens the floor to the indomitable, inspiring and wonderful P.M.H. Atwater, author of a dozen books, near death researcher and expert on the new children being born in these times, as well as a lover of life. Be inspired by the story of her life as she navigated the aftermath of several near-death experiences and was called on spiritual adventures and into fascinating areas of work. In a time when there is so much trauma and turmoil in the world, P.M.H.'s vitality, optimism and full embrace of her unusual life and calling is inspiring and refreshing in a time when there is so much heaviness in people's hearts.

To order her most recent book, Edge Walker: The Many Lives and Deaths of PMH Atwater, click on this link.

To learn more about her work, click on:
http://pmhatwater.com/

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

My heart weeps for my Jewish friends and all Jewish people in the wake of Hamas' attack on innocent Israelis and for all they and their ancestors have endured. My heart also weeps for innocent Palestinians who are caught in the grip of oppression and terror, as well. Compassion is merited for all concerned. Listen in as I grapple with the moral, geopolitical, and spiritual complexities of the unfolding war. How we can call out Hamas for its brutality, while holding an eagle's eye view of how through decades, an unending, transgenerational cycle of perpetration and victimization continues?  How do we hold our shock and grief in a way that creates a healing vibration for all concerned and for all of humanity? Here I try to honor the pain and loss and call for us to find more creative, new solutions to resolving conflict and to creating a space of safety for all peoples. 

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

I love Payam. He is a man who lives in his heart and walks his talk. With all the many people offering entheogens, I know him to be a skilled and ethical practitioner. In our talk, we not only explore what healing is and how his work facilitates the transformation of trauma, but also how every effort spent doing this sacred work affects the whole planet in this time of peril and promise. 

Here is his website and read below for his bio: payam.com

You can also find this podcast on a variety of popular platforms at this link:

https://www.rachelmannphd.com/sacred-activism-podcast-with-rachelmannphd

Payam is a Psychedelic Somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner and Medicine Carrier, who interfaces with various traditional and non-traditional psychedelic compounds in the treatment of trauma and chronic pain. 

He collaborates internationally with world-renowned Surgeons, Physicians, Psychiatrists and Therapists in the treatment of an underserved population. Additionally, he has presented his work at numerous medical conferences reporting on the nature of pain through the unitary Mind-Body paradigm while also demonstrating how to alleviate pain at the intersection of traditional shamanic psychedelic medicines and Western evidence-based practices. 

His work factors in the biopsychosocial (BSP), spiritual and energetic elements of healing. By acknowledging and addressing the totality of the human experience, he has seen firsthand how it can have a dramatic effect on mitigating the patient’s affective experience of trauma and pain.

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

 The devastation and loss to the people of Maui in the wake of these terrible fires has penetrated the hearts and minds of all of us around the world. It is also just one more sign of how the climate and other processes around the planet are intensifying. Rachel offers her prayers of support for the people of Maui and reflects on how to navigate all of this intensity.

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

To awaken is part of our spiritual and human nature. Evolution is built into our DNA and our soul. Join Rachel here as she unpacks the controversial term, "woke" and redefines it as "awakening into a radical compassion for and kindness to all beings, stepping into service to heal our families, communities, nations, and the planet.”  Hear how, according to new laws in states such as Tennessee, Florida and Alabama here in the United States, she has taught seditious, divisive content for years in her university and spiritual classes and why.  Her university courses have covered topics such as the historical harms of slavery in the United States, of authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union, and the systematic genocide of Native Americans, theft of their lands, and destruction of their cultures. Students explore in a deeply personal way the dynamics of racial injustice, war, genocide, and violence. Even in her courses teaching the spiritual cosmology of the mesa tradition from the Q’ero people of the Andes in Peru, these topics are never far from my lips. Rachel shares the trauma-informed, healing, ethical, caring and gentle way she leads her students into delving personally and in community into the harms of history and the present with the goal of finding inspiration, building compassion, resilience, and wisdom. She reclaims "woke" as not simply sociological and political, but spiritual. 

Read the transcript here. 

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

Joe Weston, author of Fierce Civility: Transforming Our Global Culture from Polarization to Lasting Peace, shares his powerful framework for healing the world through and out of these times of intense conflict and polarization. He redefines the concepts of "fierceness" and "civility" in his definition of Fierce Civility: "An unrestrained zeal and furious, active determination to communicate and build relationships motivated by our highest principles, thereby igniting hope, honor and respect for each individual and the planet." Learn about how Joe proposes how to break the gridlock of stagnant polarization, foster healing and reconciliation, find new alliances, set the groundwork for inclusive, diverse collaborations, design new, resilient and sustainable solutions, while utilizing them as a blueprint for lasting peace.

Joe Weston is an international trainer, author, lecturer, consultant, coach, professor, and—above all else—an advocate for lasting peace. With a career spanning 30+ years in the fields of conflict prevention, leadership, stress management, and communication, he is a highly sought-after facilitator for individuals, as well as corporations, government agencies and nonprofits around the world. He has been on a lifelong quest to understand the source of conflicts and polarization and to find solutions. This led him to develop a methodology called Respectful Confrontation. Through a network of 30+ certified trainers, and even more allies and collaborators in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, people from all walks of life have greatly benefited from Joe’s highly effective methodology—from corporate innovators and entrepreneurs, government agencies, INGOs, educators, healthcare workers, parents and young adults. He has consulted with NASA, the World Bank, Oxfam, Booz Allen Hamilton, PBS, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KLM, The National Cancer Institute, The National Health Institute, The United Nations, and Mitsubishi Motors. In 2020, he founded the Fierce Civility Project, a nonprofit that further carries out the Weston Network’s programs and message across all sectors by helping others reclaim and reframe of concept of civility for the 21st century, activate deeper levels of civic engagement and respectful civil discourse, and break the gridlock caused by extreme polarization. Joe’s work with women’s rights and other humanitarian organizations in the Middle East and United States focuses on empowerment and leadership. He has also worked with various veterans’ organizations in processes of integration and healing, as was a volunteer facilitator for the Liberation Prison Project, teaching meditation and leadership to inmates. Joe is a the author of two groundbreaking books. Mastering Respectful Confrontation: A Guide to Personal Freedom and Empowered, Collaborative Engagement, and his most recent book, Fierce Civility: Transforming Our Global Culture from Polarization to Lasting Peace.

Click here to order his books.
For more information about Joe's work: joeweston.com.
For more information about the Fierce

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com

Elizabeth Soltis shares with Rachel her passion for building heart-based, respectful relationships and authentic collaboration, often between diverse parties who might otherwise never connect or who may even consider themselves to be adversaries. Authentic Collaboration is a holistic vision that cultivates respectful bridge-building with self and others and Earth. She discussed how we are often hindered in this process by thought forms of competition, mistrust, competitiveness, defensiveness, power struggles and polarized thinking. Elizabeth shares her RELATE method and her experience working in diverse contexts for the United Nations. Her book, Authentic Collaboration: A Bridge to Meaningful Connection can be found at this link. 

Elizabeth the Founder/Director of Bridges Global, a social enterprise that supports leaders and groups with inner empowerment and outer bridge-building. By elevating the art of collaboration, people are better able to sense-make complex issues and discover creative, sustainable solutions. Her book entitled “Authentic Collaboration: A Bridge to Meaningful Connection” will be published in April 2023. In all sectors, Elizabeth has served as an organizational development practitioner, learning specialist, group facilitator, leadership coach and social change architect. When supporting change-makers, she is awe-inspired by the synergy of teamwork, the courage of vulnerable expression, the uplift of new perspectives, the choice towards alignment and the liberation that comes from living one’s heart truth. Her purpose is catalyzing transformation. For many years, Elizabeth has supported United Nations teams to strengthen their processes of learning, change and effectiveness. As a global citizen and advocate of social and eco-justice, Elizabeth has had the privilege of traveling to, working in or volunteering in over 80 countries. Elizabeth’s global experience is complemented by a Master of Arts (International Relations) degree, a diploma in Human Resource Management and certificates in Adult Education, Life Skills Facilitation, Empowerment Coaching and Shamanic Wisdom.http://www.bridgesglobal.net

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
Healing is Peacemaking
Rachel Mann PhD
sacred activist | healer | spiritual teacher | social scientist
rachelmannphd.com
rachelmannphdconsulting.com