Packing for Crazy Town

Packing for Crazy Town

By Sarah L. Allen
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Packing for Crazy Town episodes

  • #8_Not Your Mother's Synchronicity

    For the Mayans, Native Americans, and Aborigines, synchronicity was a food group. They were beyond mindful of the moments. They understood that the combination of an internal readiness to act, or to be moved to a richer place - and an external sign ( what Jung dubbed Synchronicity,) and the resulting breakthrough in consciousness and explosion of deep meaning infused their lives with direction and made their days more meaningful, richer, and freer.  The Holy Web has got our back.  Even as the national smoke and mirrors show swings into cartoon head shaking form, In this IV drip of Ancient Wisdom with Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and poet, we explore packing our go bag for crazy town with ancient, ancestral and flat-out practical mindsets, rituals, and regimens to offset the national crazy.  July is in the rear view mirror.  Whether you went for it, or it went for you -  today we reset for August and remember how to unhook from broken things, from the narrative meth lab in the sky - and how tune into the time of Late Summer like our Grandparent's and their parents did.  Practice looking up from the screens and into the faces of our children and friends, and elders.  Let's  fill ourselves up to the brim with as much good food, good friends, laughter, and the beauty of late summer as possible in preparation for a Fall to remember.

     

    Welcome to the backstage pass that is the clown car pileup of America. 

    We've got this.

     

    www.packingforcrazytown.com for show notes  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    29 min
  • #8_Not Your Mother’s Synchronicity

    For the Mayans, Native Americans, and Aborigines, synchronicity was a food group. They were beyond mindful of the moments. They understood that the combination of an internal readiness to act, or to be moved to a richer place - and an external sign ( what Jung dubbed Synchronicity,) and the resulting breakthrough in consciousness and explosion of deep meaning infused their lives with direction and made their days more meaningful, richer, and freer.  The Holy Web has got our back.  Even as the national smoke and mirrors show swings into cartoon head shaking form, In this IV drip of Ancient Wisdom with Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and poet, we explore packing our go bag for crazy town with ancient, ancestral and flat-out practical mindsets, rituals, and regimens to offset the national crazy.  July is in the rear view mirror.  Whether you went for it, or it went for you -  today we reset for August and remember how to unhook from broken things, from the narrative meth lab in the sky - and how tune into the time of Late Summer like our Grandparent's and their parents did.  Practice looking up from the screens and into the faces of our children and friends, and elders.  Let's  fill ourselves up to the brim with as much good food, good friends, laughter, and the beauty of late summer as possible in preparation for a Fall to remember.


     


    Welcome to the backstage pass that is the clown car pileup of America. 


    We've got this.


     


    www.packingforcrazytown.com for show notes  


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     

    29 min
  • #7_ The Shaman's Tech Support on Why BEE VENOM is all that

    “Give me a fever and I can cure anything"

    Hippocrates 

     

    "And that’s just what bee venom does," says Shonagh Home.  “It activates the body’s healing mechanisms on many levels. Nature has a cure for all our ills, and illness is big business. You just have to be open minded.  Way back in the day, it was obvious."  

    Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and Poet expounds on the profound healing powers of bee venom WHILE I sting her with 8 bees.  
    We had a really good time last week doing a little IV drip of Shamanic Wisdom, so we're doing it again, and it's the conceptual pilot of a new podcast: "The Shaman's Tech Support," which will be ancient wisdom to offset the national crazy launching in August. 
    Why not? It's 2017. We can do anything that we feel like

     

    What does normalizing manifesting experiences that are better than you can imagine look like?

     

    Medicine is whatever helps us live

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    24 min
  • #7_ The Shaman’s Tech Support on Why BEE VENOM is all that

    “Give me a fever and I can cure anything"


    Hippocrates 


     


    "And that’s just what bee venom does," says Shonagh Home.  “It activates the body’s healing mechanisms on many levels. Nature has a cure for all our ills, and illness is big business. You just have to be open minded.  Way back in the day, it was obvious."  


    Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and Poet expounds on the profound healing powers of bee venom WHILE I sting her with 8 bees.  
    We had a really good time last week doing a little IV drip of Shamanic Wisdom, so we're doing it again, and it's the conceptual pilot of a new podcast: "The Shaman's Tech Support," which will be ancient wisdom to offset the national crazy launching in August. 
    Why not? It's 2017. We can do anything that we feel like

     


    What does normalizing manifesting experiences that are better than you can imagine look like?

     


    Medicine is whatever helps us live

     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     

     


     


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    24 min
  • #7_ The Shaman's Tech Support on Why BEE VENOM is all that
    “Give me a fever and I can cure anything"
    Hippocrates 
     
    "And that’s just what bee venom does," says Shonagh Home.  “It activates the body’s healing mechanisms on many levels. Nature has a cure for all our ills, and illness is big business. You just have to be open minded.  Way back in the day, it was obvious."  
    Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and Poet expounds on the profound healing powers of bee venom WHILE I sting her with 8 bees.  
    We had a really good time last week doing a little IV drip of Shamanic Wisdom, so we're doing it again, and it's the conceptual pilot of a new podcast: "The Shaman's Tech Support," which will be ancient wisdom to offset the national crazy launching in August. 
    Why not? It's 2017. We can do anything that we feel like
     
    What does normalizing manifesting experiences that are better than you can imagine look like?
     
    Medicine is whatever helps us live
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    24 min
  • #6 ish_YOUR MIND IS A MAGIC WAND, BREAKING SPELLS, JUST LOVING YOUR PARENTS, AND WHY YOU MIGHT CONSIDER GOING THE EXTRA MILE FOR YOUR WATER: A MINI POD IV DRIP OF WISDOM FROM SHONAGH HOME
    The future is behind us. The energy is unprecedented, and If you don't do it, it'll do you. Enjoy thus, this 20 minute spontaneously acquired IV drip on breaking spells, remembering that your MIND is the ORIGINAL MAGIC WAND, that your prayer can just be: "Surprise me baby,"and how to not curl into a fetal position at the thought of dinner with your parents with Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and Poet.  
    www.packingforcrazytown.com for a video of us getting our off road water on.

     

     

    21 min
  • #6 ish_YOUR MIND IS A MAGIC WAND, BREAKING SPELLS, JUST LOVING YOUR PARENTS, AND WHY YOU MIGHT CONSIDER GOING THE EXTRA MILE FOR YOUR WATER: A MINI POD IV DRIP OF WISDOM FROM SHONAGH HOME
    The future is behind us. The energy is unprecedented, and If you don't do it, it'll do you. Enjoy thus, this 20 minute spontaneously acquired IV drip on breaking spells, remembering that your MIND is the ORIGINAL MAGIC WAND, that your prayer can just be: "Surprise me baby,"and how to not curl into a fetal position at the thought of dinner with your parents with Shonagh Home, Shamanic Therapist, Author, and Poet.  
    www.packingforcrazytown.com for a video of us getting our off road water on.

     


     

    21 min
  • #5_Middle School Samadhi and Putting your Spirit Animals to Work_Part 2 of my conversation with Andy Forrest
    PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO the beginning of this episode OUT LOUD with Kids around because I say "fuck you" 1:45 into the podcast  and I uploaded this a couple of days ago, but didn't listen until now.  In the moment, it felt appropriately to scale, and i thought kind of funny, but I think I underestimated how much - for someone who is clearly getting some enjoyment out of the turn of events - it annoys me to be taken for a fool by the "Narrative Meth Lab" in the sky. I could re-edit and re-upload but fuck that ha ha, so, I was going to upload a short addendum to this episode exploring the nature of that moment,  but, do you ever feel like you've just fallen out of the boat on a class 3 rapids, and the best you can hope for is to grab a stick or a tree branch?  Ya, so - that tree branch is now in the rear view mirror, so, while I find it jarring coming out of my mouth, (and nobody needs jarring, especially tender ears) everything after 1:45 is pleasant as apple pie, so let's leave it at that, and have a relaxing and happy as possible 4th of July.  

    Back to our regularly scheduled podcasting of part 2 of my "conversation (it's really more like two long-time friends and collaberators poking each other with sticks in between declarations of mutual admiration and mockery)" with "MORE ALIEN THAN DUDE OR BRO ANDY ROO FORREST"  And BTW, after considering why I was so mad in that moment, I'm doubling down on the "Fuck you" at 1:45 and adding a "you fucking fuckwads." 

    ________ Breathing in 2, 3, 4.  Hold 2, 3, 4.  Exhale 2,3....

    Andy's highest self takes our call,  and we get into that time in 7th Grade where he had a drug-induced speed date with God to mixed results until a chance meeting with one of my sorority (wait, I can explain!) sisters in a pool in Phoenix.   I find his Spirit Animals (hint - one of them is extinct,) and we spin them into a Saturday morning cartoon.  I dish on his whiteboard content,  We ruminate on Jesus as a Toddler, Tin Tin, Life Coaches, disconnecting, and how I/Sarah can't get out of bed in the morning without KNOWING that there is a squad of unseen beings, pom poms in hand, ready to go go go, Andy discovers he prays after all, I share the the proper salutations to conclude a passive aggressive email to Catholic School Teachers, how to BE LOVE, no nonsense prayer, and good parenting advice on how to raise children who can cry if they need to. 

    Go to www.packingforcrazytown.com for full show notes. 

     

     

     

     

     

    56 min
  • #4_The Willie Wonka of Table Top Gaming Packs his Go Bag_Part 1 of 2
    The ability to lean into the unknown and make it your home is at the heart of the first of two episodes wtih Andy "Roo" Forrest, my first boss out of college, vocalist for the underground Bay Area improv band, "Chained Down Cheese," and co-founder of the hottest board game design company on the planet.
    Andy gets into how being the descendant of Holocaust Survivors is informing how he packs his GO BAG for Crazy Town (super charged Winnebago's, Guns, Gold in the walls of his Grandfather's booby-trapped Palo Alto Home,) and how to stay out of the national crazy by focusing on doing good work. We get into why practicing NEGATIVE CAPABILITY in uncertain times feels right right about now, and why the J curve is a good jumping off point for a musical about Overpopulation and consumption. 

    Also, ignore it when I say, "I hate Bob Dylan." I just find his son, Jacob, way more listenable. 

    The Wall Street Journal called the  interactive playpen/nightclub ENTROS that Andy and his partner, Stephen Brown founded in Seattle in the 90's: "The Future of Entertainment." Like most mid 90's prognostications, they were totally wrong, but unless you were across town discovering Nirvana, it was the most fun you could have with your clothes on in those days. Andy is a songwriter, a taiji practitioner, and a serial entrepreneur. He was all of 23 when he hatched Pearl's Oyster Bar in his home town.  Now, Forrest Pruzan Creative, the board game design company he started with Alan Pruzan spawns 50 games a year, invented most of the early Cranium games, and is responsible for many of the games on the shelves at Target, Wal-Mart, and your favorite game store. 
    I think this conversation, above all, will remind you about those friends that you have in your life that maybe you don’t see very often, but when you do – it’s a soul connection of love and respect run through a $h!t flipping machine nestled in a holy web.*
    www.packingforcrazytown.com for full show notes.
    1 hr 12 min
  • #4_The Willie Wonka of Table Top Gaming Packs his Go Bag,

    Andy is the first boy/man/but--more-Alien-than-Dude-or-Bro guest, and coincidentally(?) the first person to cry(!) on the podcast which he (fairly) claims "was just a matter of time." bUT tears don't happen until episode 5 when we take a trip down memory lane/Death Valley, and I find Andy's totem animals

    Note, I don't hate Bob Dylan. decades of history there that you can't know, but suffice to say Andy and Bob Dylan are responsible for the fact that the first words I heard as married woman from my husband as we were walking out of the church were: "We'll talk about that later." 
    Andy relays how being the descendant of Holocaust Survivors prepared him for Crazy Town (super charged Winnebago's, Guns, Gold in the walls of his Grandfather's booby-trapped Palo Alto Home)  and how to stay out of the national crazy by focusing on doing good work. And why practicing Negative CABILITY in uncertain times makes a lot of sense. 
    I think this conversation, above all, will remind you about those friends that you have in your life that maybe you don’t see very often, but when you do – it’s a soul connection of love and respect run through a $h!t flipping machine nestled in a holy web.*
    www.packingforcrazytown.com for full show notes.  Thank you, Sarah
     
     
    1 hr 12 min

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