The Explorer Poet Podcast

My guest today is Jared Janes, a coach, podcaster, community builder, and meditator. From an early age, Jared has had a deep interest in human development, and has been willing to endure quite a lot to learn about and experience that development for himself. Jared spent six years exploring a handful of popular meditation methods and spiritual traditions, but still sensed that something was missing. With the guidance of his friend & teacher Charlie Awbery, he moved from a renunciative practice to the life-affirming path of a yogi. And in 2020, the two of them co-founded a contemporary community of practice called Evolving Ground. I found Jared to be open, warm, and full of helpful knowledge based on personal experience. I truly enjoyed our conversation and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation we discussed facing mortality, Jared’s personal experience facing adversity from a young age and how it shaped his behavior growing up, religion, adversity, privilege, pain, morality, good and evil, Buddhism, stoicism, differences between East and West, non-duality, humility, vulnerability, finding truth, distance from oneself, equanimity, individual stories, detachment, mythology, the bible, the garden of Eden, the two trees, symbolism, reincarnation, meditation, the endless pursuit of ‘something’ and the evolution of our own stories. 
Episode Details:
Guest Name: Jared Janes
Website: https://www.jaredjanes.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaredJanes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredjanes/
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My guest today is Béa Gonzalez, an author, podcaster, lecturer, educator, and one of my favorite social media follows. I’m a fan of Béa because of her passion for teaching people about the importance of a metaphorical approach to life. As an author, Béa’s novels have been published in seven countries. Her titles include The Bitter Taste of Time, The Mapmaker’s Opera, and the recently published Invocation, which is available now. Béa recently launched a podcast called Gatherings, with her friend and musician Jay Redelsperger, in which they sit down to discuss subjects they are both passionate about—books and music. Whether reading her books, watching her lectures, or listening to her podcast, Béa always has something deep, relevant, and interesting to say. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and hope you do as well. 

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In our conversation we discussed storytelling, active imagination, the benefits of pushing known boundaries, human evolution, history, psychology, Carl Jung, creativity, writing, individuality and our inner need for connection.

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Guest Name: Béa Gonzalez; Sophia Cycles

Website: https://www.sophiacycles.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophiaCycles

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiacycles/

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My guest today is Bernie Taylor, a naturalist, author and archaeoastronomer whose research explores the origins of mankind’s creativity and awareness of the natural world. He’s authored several books, including Biological Time and Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero, which explores mankind’s creative capacity by looking at Paleolithic cave art from 40,000 years ago. Bernie proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of astronomy, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us today. I found Bernie to be deeply knowledgeable and enthusiastic. I truly enjoyed our conversation and I hope you do as well.

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In our conversation we discussed ancient cave art, human history and evolution, Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious, animism and its impact in modern society, spirituality versus projection, the psychological significance of stories, how stories relate to dreams and myth, the Hero archetype and its evolution throughout time.   

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Guest Name: Bernie Taylor

Website: https://beforeorion.com/

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My guest today is Dr. Alicia Colson, an archaeologist and ethnohistorian, who’s conducted fieldwork in Canada, the UK, the US and Antigua, all in an effort to understand our human past. In her work, Alicia collaborates with indigenous communities in an effort to understand differing viewpoints, while also using AI computing to make scientific discoveries. Alicia’s a member of The Explorers Club's Class of 2022. She’s a Wiley Digital Archive Fellow, and the co-founder and co-Editor of Exploration Revealed, the Scientific Exploration Society's digital hybrid publication, which showcases advances in knowledge and peer-to-peer support for those engaged with scientific exploration and adventure-led expeditions. In addition, Alicia is the commissioning editor for the Great Britain and Ireland Chapter of The Log Magazine, a quarterly publication of The Explorers Club. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Alicia and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation we discussed archaeology, history, the past and what we can learn from it in the present, human connection, spirit, empathy, greed, control and money, what it is to be human, superimposing our own moralities in situations where they don’t belong, evolution, animism, mysticism, tolerance, how languages and cultures can allow beautiful expression in ways others can’t, and artificial intelligence being used to give an objective unbiased view the human eye might not see.

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Guest Name: Dr. Alicia Colson

Website: https://aliciacolson.wixsite.com/aliciacolson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/colson_alicia

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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-c-891b001b

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My guest today is Charles Pezeshki, a professor of engineering at Washington State University, and self-described world traveler, husband, and father of two. Charles has published in the field of design theory and high performance work teams. He runs a large Design Clinic and has worked on large-scale projects in various fields: from organizing sustainability education in Europe, to understanding nonlinear dynamics and complex system theory, to environmental policy and experiential education. Charles has a fascinatingly-scary way of looking at the world, but it’s a message of hope, because empathy is at the heart. For all of Charles's thoughts you can check out his website empathy.guru. I truly enjoyed our conversation and hope you do as well.

In our conversation, evolving vs. devolving societies, psychopaths, sociopaths, the biological and evolutionary drivers of our social behavior and order, narcism, gods, stories, myths, authoritarian regimes and their foundations, different types of leadership according to a given social context, several forms of trauma, empathy and the emotions that are derived from it.

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Guest Name: Charles Pezeshki

Website: https://empathy.guru/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PezeshkiCharles

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My guest today is Dr. Angela Puca who’s research focuses on magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, shamanism, and related currents. Angela holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Philosophy and has lectured at Leeds Trinity University for several years. In 2021, The University of Leeds awarded her a PhD in Anthropology of Religion, which will be published in the upcoming year. Author of several peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of the forthcoming ‘Pagan religions in five minutes’ for Equinox, she hopes to bridge the gap between academia and the communities of magic practitioners by delivering related scholarly content on her YouTube Channel and TikTok ‘Angela’s Symposium.’ I truly enjoyed my conversation with Angela and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation, we discussed Eastern and Western ways of approaching religion and their main differences, searching for meaning as a basic human need, magic, finding meaning and establishing a sense of connection to a whole, monotheistic and polytheistic religions and how they relate with the concept of truth, and the importance of separating valid personal experiences from historical proven facts.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Dr. Angela Puca

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My guest today is Maija Haavisto who guides and teaches somatic work, imaginal practice, loving-kindness meditation, nondual practices and hypnosis. She is also a novelist, journalist, translator, poet, medical writer, playwright, artist, photographer and disability activist. Maija has written 17 books published in Finland. She maintains the Discord community ‘Mind Is the Gap’, which focuses on the subjects discussed in her books. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Maija and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation, we dive deep into meditation and mindfulness, the impact these practices can have on chronic illnesses, how some people often misuse meditation as a form of escapism, the Alexander Technique, Western and Eastern approaches to overall wellbeing, and the importance of human connection.

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Guest Name: Maija Haavisto

Website: https://lovingawakening.net/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/diamondie

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiamonDie

Medium: https://maija-haavisto.medium.com/

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My guest today is a fantastic human being, artist, and teacher named Shea Stanfield. Shea is author and publisher of the Starlight Scribe series, in which she highlights artists and their work, in an attempt to explore their sources of inspiration. Writing the stories of artists and their creative expressions is Shea’s way of celebrating the creative spirit and the artists who allow it to bring their vision to us. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Shea, and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation, we discussed art, religion, creativity, culture and the stories behind them, people being creative and how it influences culture, how our physical reality now could one day be seen as fiction, the conservative nature of society and the ones that break these conservative rules to progress, the sharing of stories and ideas can be the key to letting those thoughts manifest into something beautiful, the symbolism that’s been in human life that predates spoken language yet stays with us even now, spirituality vs religion, east and west, virtues and emotion, following the middle path, the great way, familiarity in rituals, cognition, patterns, prophets, evolving or not evolving, being told what IS and what ISN’T, taking information at face value, asking why?, mysticism, nature, the biggest equalizing force, mother nature always wins, natural disasters, the line between our abstract reality and our physical one, conflict, living harmoniously, community, individualism, compassion, the human image of god, god is energy, being human, love, stories through history, stories repeating themselves and stories in everything we do.

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Guest Name: Shea Stanfield

Website: https://www.starlightscribe.com/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/starlightscribe/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starlightscribe/

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Music: Ben Sound, Paper Plane

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My guest today is a fascinating person and a true explorer, named Patricia Morgan. A conceptual artist based in Tucson, Arizona, she begins each piece with the concept, then searches for a medium through which to share it. Using sculpture, photography, and materials relevant to the concept itself, such as concrete, coal, or baby-bottle nipples, she creates outsized interdisciplinary installations that evoke deep human emotions. Patricia was warm and welcoming, as well as insightful and well spoken. I truly enjoyed our conversation and I hope you do as well.

In our conversation, we discussed how stories are seldom forgotten and always renewed, as we go through life we keep collecting information, past events and pasts memories that we add to, understanding how groups act and the species acts by observing the human psyche, the concept is always very important, if something doesn't fit with the concept let it go, the purpose of the Explorer poet Podcast is to explore the blurry line between our physical world and our abstract realities, myths having been created to help us solve problems we don't have answers for, we can't predict the future and we are led astray, the Judeo-Christian world, science and mythology, literalism in America, need to be heard to heal from trauma, everybody on the planet is playing out some myth in their head, we all need to share in the same story, less of a common myth, Antarctica, Greenland, glaciers, how stability is based on memory, how we use memory to frame our lives in the present,  Half Dome, taking comfort in insignificance, life taking a different perspective, how our story is collapsing and we need someone to write a new mythology, and how to how being thought provoking is the contribution artists can make today.

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Guest Name: Patricia Morgan

Website: https://www.patriciacarrmorgan.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patriciacarrmorgan/

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Music: Ben Sound, Paper Plane

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