Modern Animism Radio, a holistic spiritual path

What if self-sufficiency isn't about needing no one — but about having something real to offer the land? In Episode 5, we explore animist self-sufficiency as reciprocal competence: the skills, craft, and material fluency that let you enter right relationship with the world around you.We dig into the difference between subsistence (dependence on systems) and sovereignty (fluency with materials), why crafting with your hands is a form of spiritual practice, and how Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk reframes hands-on, pattern-based thinking as a way to solve problems holistically — not just abstractly.Topics covered: embodied knowledge, the gift economy, ancestral skills (fermentation, foraging, fire-making, fiber work, building), and why craft is inheritance, not nostalgia.🌱 Field Practice: Learn one hands-on skill this week that turns raw material into something tangible.

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Ever feel like there's more than one voice inside you? In this episode, we explore how animist traditions around the world — from Hawaiian Huna to Mongolian shamanism to Lakota soul teachings to West African concepts of the double — understood the self as a council, not a single "I." Learn the difference between being ruled by your inner voices and learning to govern them, how dreams and symptoms are council members trying to speak, and how this ancient idea shows up today in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and the trauma model of structural dissociation. Plus, a simple journaling practice to help you hear your own inner parliament clearly. If you've ever wondered whether your intuition, your wounds, and your ancestors are all talking to you at once — this one's for you.

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Musician Mark shares his "think like a proton" philosophy — a way of channeling energy, ritual, and presence into songwriting and performance. We explore how science, poetry, and family shaped his sound, and how staying energetically attuned lets him connect deeply with every audience.

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Where are you, right now — really? In your body, or a step outside it? Living in this moment, or replaying the past and rehearsing the future? This episode maps three layers of "where am I": embodiment, time, and relational position — above, below, behind, in front, beside, with — then zooms out to ask the same questions of our place among rivers, trees, and animals. Includes a three-part field practice for finding your way back to here, now.

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What happens when you ask permission from a mountain — and then ignore the answer?
In 1996, eight people died on Everest in a single storm. The movie captures the chaos, the courage, and the heartbreak. But it misses the deeper story: the mountain herself.
In this episode, we sit with Chomolungma — the Goddess Mother of the World — and ask what she saw that day. We talk about the Puja ceremony the Sherpas held before the climb, what it actually meant, and what happened when the Western climbers nodded politely and then went right back to their spreadsheets.
We talk about the trash. The bodies left behind. The Sherpas who were treated like pack animals by people who would later write bestselling books. And the quiet, devastating truth at the heart of all of it: the mountain doesn't care about your reasons.
She was here before us. She'll be here after.
This one's for the animists. The ones who knock before they enter. The ones who know the land is listening.
🌿 Topics covered:
The Puja ceremony and what "asking permission" actually means in practice
Sherpa cosmology and the goddess Miyolangsangma
50+ tons of trash on Everest and what that says about us
The human motivations that sent people past their limits
Beck Weathers, Yasuko Namba, and the ethics of leaving someone behind
Why Nature is the only story that was never going to end with us

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