Sacred Stories

Explore fascinating insights into the myth the Descent of Inanna, with host Seana Zelazo and her guest Dr. Analissa Derr. Reframe your connection with the female body, learn how to move into an empowered relationship with your life blood, use performance art as ritual, and the many ways you can unapologetically resurrect the Divine Feminine.

The powerhouse that is Rev. Valerie Love is a perfect embodiment of the unapologetic heroine. Like the Goddess Inanna, Rev. Love’s wisdom teachings on being a Christian witch provide us with the permission to accept the truth of who we are.

The trials and tribulations of her initiatory process forced Rev. Love to figure out how to cultivate and honor her throat chakra so she could prioritize speaking her truth. She has since taught countless others how to do the same through her ministry and her writing.

Together we explore how to reclaim our true voice, heal our ancestral lineage, and find our footing when the ground beneath us erodes.

Host Seana Zelazo is the author of the bestselling book The Way of Inanna: A Heroine's Guide to Living Unapologetically is available from booksellers worldwide and at https://amzn.to/3dUelO5  https://www.seanazelazo.com/

Valerie Love is the author of 24 books, a Christian Witch, ordained minister, public speaker, retreat leader and women’s empowerment guide, Valerie Love supports individuals in remembering and aligning with their destiny. valerielove.com

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What Is Your Offering to Sacred Activism for Peacemaking with Rachel Mann, PhD.

In this final podcast of the series, Rachel provides a luminous teaching about how just the act of coming into incarnation and breathing, you are in service in sacred reciprocity. She dismantles the ways our world may lead you to feel that if you are not doing something big and grand, that you are not doing enough. Listen to this podcast and drink in the Love-Light that is yours. Go with Rachel as she leads you on an exploration of what your offering of sacred activism is.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Does fascism have appeal today?

Rachel Mann, PhD interviews Martin Winiecki, a lifelong sacred activist for peace, about his understanding of the great shift we are going through, including how and why at this time fascism has such appeal. Martin talks about the way people feel isolated and unable to show their authentic experience and their grief so they look towards leaders and movements that will give them a sense of this lost belonging. He discusses the fact that the system of patriarchy, white supremacism, and capitalism is dying.

Martin enjoins us to gather together to hospice modernity through this transition by gathering together in transformational communities to imagine new possibilities and new ways of being together. He discusses how we can shift the psycho-social force field that entrains us into this old system through healing, addressing trauma in safe spaces, and through connection with the Earth. He gives a  message of hope from a younger generation who are carrying forward the work that was started in the Countercultural Revolution.

Martin Winiecki was born in Dresden, Germany in 1990. He has been politically engaged since his early youth. He completed a 3-year training in peace studies at the Tamera Institute in Portugal. Since 2013, he has led the Institute for Global Peacework to help establish a global network for Tamera, networking, campaigning, organizing international events and providing online education. His writings have been published in Kosmos Journal, TruthOut, CommonDreams, and Tikkun. Since 2017, he’s been engaged in raising the Defend the Sacred Alliance together with with Indigenous, social movement and intentional community leaders from around the world.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Activism for Change in the Prison System through Healing Trauma

Jesse Crosson speaks with Rachel about his experiences as an inmate for 22 years in Virginia prisons and his perspectives on how there is better way to address criminal justice, a way that respects victims and prioritizes both public safety and genuine rehabilitation for offenders.

He also shares how learning meditation and a spiritual experience when hitting bottom as an alcoholic radically changed the trajectory of his life and how such resources should be made available to all inmates.

Jesse Crosson is a former inmate in Virginia correctional facilities, a writer and activist on behalf of reforming the way the justice system works and the way inmates are treated. While in prison, he received a degree in psychology from Ohio University. He volunteered as a mentor in the mental health treatment unit, he learned job skills, taught programs, connected with other people, and as he puts it, passed on the love and support that was so steadily given to him by so many.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Rachel discusses with Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility, about the  power of trustbuilding to transforming misunderstandings, prejudices and even ending violence between groups.

He shares how his work in Richmond, Virginia over several decades broke down barriers to interracial friendships and collaboration on projects illuminating and healing the city’s history of slavery.

He reflects on the spiritual underpinnings of the work in compassion and love.

Rob Corcoran is a trainer, facilitator, writer, racial healing practitioner and international consultant, who has led workshops and dialogues among diverse and polarized groups across North America and in Europe, South America, Indian, South Africa and Australia. From 2006 to 2016, he served as US National Director of initiatives of Change International, a global network of people of all faiths, and social backgrounds dedicated to building bridges of trust across racial, religious, political and class lines. In 1993, he founded Hope in the Cities, the Initiatives of Change national flagship program based in Richmond, Virginia. His book, Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility is about this journey and the process. He was co author of a dialogue guide for President Clinton’s Race initiative and he consulted with the WK Kellogg Foundation in the creation of its national truth, racial healing and transformation enterprise. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Collective Healing program of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People project, a collaboration with the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace; and on the National Episcopal Church’s Advisory Committee for Beloved Community Implementation.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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When Rachel Mann, PhD was in her early 30s, she started through the onset of physical and mental pain. Rachel sought out energy healing and a spiritual world opened up to her. She learned to transmute her own suffering even as she was given visions and images of how to heal the traumas of past lives and of humanity as a whole.

Rachel shares how this made her understand on a visceral level how we are all interconnected and how there is a vibrational frequency of violence, as well as one of peace. Through sharing her own story, she hopes to inspire others to share their own and learn from them what their calling to sacred activism to peacemaking is.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Most recently in Ukraine and in almost every nation around the world, we are experiencing the rising shadow of authoritarianism and increasingly violent rhetoric and conflict. Rachel speaks in this special episode of her podcast her reflections on the actions of Russia in Crimea, Syria and Ukraine based on the 15 years she spent studying the former Soviet Union with her BA in Russian Studies, MA in Soviet Studies and PhD in Slavic languages and literature. She weaves into her thoughts her understandings of how the shadow dimensions of human consciousness are being revealed from a spiritual, healing and shamanic point of view.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Sacred activist, Chris Saade, author of and contributor to more than 6 books, including The Quest for Individual Authenticity and Global Solidarity, shares his reflections on the power of honoring our sacred wounds, finding our individual authenticity, pleasure as a pathway to tapping into our individual authenticity and how this is the key to peacemaking worldwide.

Chris Saade is an author, a psychological and philosophical teacher, trainer, and life coach. After years serving as a psychotherapist in private practice, Chris spent two decades training therapists coaches and the general public and two of his models, Integra: 6 Keys for Heart Centered Living, and The Quest for Individual Authenticity and Global Solidarity. Born in Beirut, he was involved in peace and humanitarian work for 14 years before and during the Lebanese war. The difficulty of those times led him to develop a great respect for freedom, authenticity, diversity, peace, and a passion for justice, and solidarity, especially for children. Chris co-authored his 5th book, Rebellion of the Heart: Deep Authenticity, Bold Love, Passion, Strength, & Global Solidarity, and a new 6th book with co author Mandy Bird, Tears Are the Source of Your Passion: The Power of Authenticity & Grief. He can be found at facebook.com/ChrisSaadeAuthor.

Rachel Mann, Ph.D., is a sacred activist, social scientist, healer and spiritual mentor. Learn more at https://www.rachelmannphd.com

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Join the conversation with Dr Joanna Kujawa and Elena Bensonoff on the vibrational frequencies of human consciousness, Goddess Consciousness, and women who carried their sexuality with dignity and grace.

Learn how vibrational frequency is measured and how we can uplift the shadow-energy and fear energy around sexuality.

Elena Bensonoff, together with her partner Alejandro Ferradas, is the founder of the Wholistic Inc.  She is the author of a bestselling book Wholistic Wisdom: Awakening Your Inner Healer. wholistic.com

Dr. Joanna Kujawa is a spiritual detective and author of The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge. https://www.joannakujawa.com/

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