In the first episode of Nouveau Shamanic Cinema we watch 'Mandy' starring Nicolas Cage, whom Rosa is fascinated by and who we named the podcast after – "Cage said that, at a certain point in his career, he realized that he had developed his own method of acting, which he described as 'Nouveau Shamanic'."

Mandy has been described as a 'primal, psychedelic rage-scream of a movie', in which Cage goes on a wild revenge-killing spree against a religious cult.

This evokes discussions on dark imaginal practice, narcissism in spirituality and what happens when you fuck with people who know what really matters in life.