The Passing Through Podcast

This week I'm passing through Granda, Spain.

Tune in for a special Christmas episode about the solstice, paganism and polytheism, Greek mystery cults and Christian cannibalism.

Happy holidays!

This week I'm passing through a string of countries starting from Northern Italy and arriving in Spain!

Join me for a quick update on our near-death experience, a lengthy ramble about a majestic mountain-range which was once a coral reef, as well as a few other scattered musings on croissants.

This week I'm passing through Rivignano, Italy...probably for the last time this year!

Join me for a ramble on the 2025 gathering I alluded to in a previous episode. I'm trying to weave together an ecology of practice which includes Community Building, Internal Family Systems, Vipassana and Permaculture. Listen for more on this.

In the second half of the episode I talk a bit about Community Building and read a few excerpts from Scott Peck's book The Different Drum.

This week's episode is a special edition Thanksgiving episode!

Join me for a 34-minute ramble about pumpkin pie, togetherness, community, and how New York City shaped my somatic body, making me suspicious of one of our most vital senses.

This week I am (or have been) passing through the in-between spaces from Bratislava to Italy.

Join me for a quick ramble about M Scott Peck's Community Building, what it means to me, and why I think it might be one of the things which can help save the world.

If you're curious and want to learn more on Community Building, I encourage you to go back to episode 32 with Edward Groody.

This week I'm passing through Rivignano, Italy!

Join me for a brief update on where I'm at and where I've been, a quick few words on the US election, and an experience I had during a recent Community Building workshop in Budapest, and a little eco-tip about bidets.

This week Ashira Darwish is passing through, with a special guest!

Ashira is a Jerusalem-born award-winning Palestinian Journalist; activist; trauma survivor and founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing.

She's been a TV and broadcast journalist for the past 15 years in Palestine working with The BBC, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. Last year she produced and starred in the incredible documentary film Where Olive Trees Weep - which catalogues the struggle of the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation.

Join us for a discussion on dehumanization, resistance, violence, trauma, and healing.

You can find Ashira on Instagram @premashira, or on her website at ashirapremrachana.com. Please, please check out her documentary film, Where Olive Trees Weep. You can find it at whereolivetreesweep.com.

For further reading:

Sde Teiman Torture Camp

Israel Harvesting Organs of Palestinians

This week I'm passing through Terény, Hungary...again! Except this time from an old Hungarian home.

Join me for a sick solo ramble. Not sick like cool, or awesome, but like sinus and respiratory infection. Fear not, I've edited out the coughs and sniffles and sanitized it for your consumption. Also note that this podcast was recorded at night. Under a full moon.

I should warn you though, this episode is messy. I talk about some of the gross human stuff that Big Vanlife doesn't want you to know about. If you're squeamish, consider skipping this one. Otherwise, buckle up for a ride about story, listen to the sound of Hungarian cowbells, or screaming baby chicks as a contemplative backdrop to the death of James Bond.

This week I'm still passing through Hungary!

Join me for an educational solo ramble where I argue that a Hungarian engineer named József Galamb, with the help of Henry Ford, inadvertently set into motion the climate collapse we're seeing one hundred years later, in 2024.

Also, here's that article on AI I mention at the end.

This week A'ida al Shibli is passing through!

A'ida is a Palestinian Bedouin peace activist born under Israeli occupation. She’s a feminist, an educator, and, as a long-term member of one of the world’s most pioneering intentional communities at Tamera, she’s proof that we can live differently; that we can organize ourselves in configurations which better serve life and champion our own humanity, love and interconnectedness – both with one another and the universe around us. A'ida is an incredible human being and an inspiration. It was a true honor to speak with her.

For decades A'ida has worked at raising awareness about injustice while trying to break cycles of political violence. She helped to launch initiatives like Global Campus, Palestine, and more recently, The Women in White project. She has upcoming activist work in Rojava, in northeastern Syria, which you can donate to. Please mention the Palestinian Fund when donating to ensure proceeds go to A'ida's projects.

In our conversation A'ida emphasizes the importance of love, community, and solidarity in resisting oppression and creating a life-affirming future. She calls for a deeper understanding and greater collective action against systematic racism, colonialism, and capitalist exploitation, while stressing the need for unity and the political power of collective love and non-violence.