Apricot Jam Castos https://apricotjam.castos.com/ Welcome to the Apricot Jam! Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz. In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us. We never know what will emerge from the long-form improvisation, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality. We hope you enjoy these jam sessions! The Apricot Jam – context, connection, conversation Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:37:00 +0000 en © 2021 US https://episodes.castos.com/60761b34001c64-81554597/images/original.png Apricot Jam https://apricotjam.castos.com/ Welcome to the Apricot Jam! Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz. In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us. We never know what will emerge from the long-form improvisation, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality. We hope you enjoy these jam sessions! The Apricot Jam – context, connection, conversation Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf episodic Welcome to the Apricot Jam! Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz. In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us. We never know what will emerge from the long-form improvisation, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality. We hope you enjoy these jam sessions! The Apricot Jam – context, connection, conversation Lukas Wolf theapricotjam@gmail.com true https://feeds.castos.com/x8251 yes <![CDATA[Johan Hausen]]> Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:37:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/24496/episode/1652274 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/johan Johan has a martial arts background which eventually brought him to the Five Immortals Temple where he spent more than 5 years under the tutelage of Li Shifu. There he studied a variety of subjects including Tai Ji, longevity exercises, Dao Yin (guiding and leading of Qi), alchemy, swordsmanship, martial arts, Feng Shui, Yi Jing (The Book of Changes) divination, Daoist healing, and entering the 24th Dragon Gate lineage. Johan currently works as a Chinese medicine practitioner, taiji and qigong teacher in a psychosomatic clinic near Cologne. He also co-founded Purple Cloud Press with the mission statement to preserve the ancient knowledge of China, especially in regards to medicine, martial arts and philosophy.

 

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]]> full 40 2 true Johan has a martial arts background which eventually brought him to the Five Immortals Temple where he spent more than 5 years under the tutelage of Li Shifu. There he studied a variety of subjects including Tai Ji, longevity exercises, Dao Yin (guiding and leading of Qi), alchemy, swordsmanship, martial arts, Feng Shui, Yi Jing (The Book of Changes) divination, Daoist healing, and entering the 24th Dragon Gate lineage. Johan currently works as a Chinese medicine practitioner, taiji and qigong teacher in a psychosomatic clinic near Cologne. He also co-founded Purple Cloud Press with the mission statement to preserve the ancient knowledge of China, especially in regards to medicine, martial arts and philosophy.

 

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]]> 01:15:36 <![CDATA[Julia & Jonathan - Heartward Sanctuary]]> Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/24496/episode/1425938 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/julia-jed-heartward-sanctuary Jonathan (Jed) H Edwards, LAc practices East Asian Medicine with a focus on internal medicine. A longtime student of divination traditions from the Yijing to Jyotisa (Vedic astrology), he also deals with subtle/spiritual aspects of health. He finds that disease often falls away when people reorient their lives to include an understanding of karmic currents or the patterning of fate. 

Jonathan makes his home at Heartward Sanctuary, a center in the NC Piedmont that he co-founded with his partner. His writing can be found at Seeds from the World Tree on Substack. For clinical consultations and divination, visit heartward.janeapp.com. 
 
Julia Hartsell is a dancer, writer and ritualist who has been catalyzing community around healing and movement for two decades. With a background in performance art and world religions, Julia has spent her life immersed in embodied practices.  With an animist worldview, her work is focused on reclaiming relational ways of living and ancient forms of medicine in service of personal, ancestral and cultural healing.

Julia is Co-founder, Director and Liturgist at Heartward Sanctuary. She also founded The Flowjo and lovingly tended  the creative communities that gathered there for a decade. Passionate about movement as a healing practice, she facilitates movement and somatic-based grief work, ancestral healing practices, seasonal cycles and threshold work.

Julia is a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner, Death Doula & Home Funeral Guide and is an Initiate of Osun and Obatalá in the Ifá/Òrìsà traditions of Yorùbá speaking West Africa. She currently resides in Silk Hope, traditional lands of the Shakori, Sissipihaw and Catawba tribes, with her beloved partner, canine companion and a wake of vultures.

 

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]]> full 39 2 true Jonathan (Jed) H Edwards, LAc practices East Asian Medicine with a focus on internal medicine. A longtime student of divination traditions from the Yijing to Jyotisa (Vedic astrology), he also deals with subtle/spiritual aspects of health. He finds that disease often falls away when people reorient their lives to include an understanding of karmic currents or the patterning of fate. 

Jonathan makes his home at Heartward Sanctuary, a center in the NC Piedmont that he co-founded with his partner. His writing can be found at Seeds from the World Tree on Substack. For clinical consultations and divination, visit heartward.janeapp.com. 
 
Julia Hartsell is a dancer, writer and ritualist who has been catalyzing community around healing and movement for two decades. With a background in performance art and world religions, Julia has spent her life immersed in embodied practices.  With an animist worldview, her work is focused on reclaiming relational ways of living and ancient forms of medicine in service of personal, ancestral and cultural healing.

Julia is Co-founder, Director and Liturgist at Heartward Sanctuary. She also founded The Flowjo and lovingly tended  the creative communities that gathered there for a decade. Passionate about movement as a healing practice, she facilitates movement and somatic-based grief work, ancestral healing practices, seasonal cycles and threshold work.

Julia is a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner, Death Doula & Home Funeral Guide and is an Initiate of Osun and Obatalá in the Ifá/Òrìsà traditions of Yorùbá speaking West Africa. She currently resides in Silk Hope, traditional lands of the Shakori, Sissipihaw and Catawba tribes, with her beloved partner, canine companion and a wake of vultures.

 

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Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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]]> 01:24:18 <![CDATA[Tyler Phan & Lisa Rohleder 2]]> Sat, 04 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/24496/episode/1424875 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/tyler-phan-lisa-rohleder Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

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]]> full 38 2 true Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

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]]> 01:49:44 <![CDATA[Robert Coons]]> Sat, 07 May 2022 10:07:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/robert-coons https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/robert-coons Robert Coons is a resident of Toronto where he teaches Tai Chi, Meditation, and Tea Ceremony. He studied with secular Daoist disciple Hai Yang, and various teachers in China such as Yin Qin (Yang Style Taiji), He Caitong (Taiwan Cha Dao), Yu Jiang (Xin Yi Liu He Quan), and others. Today he continues to cultivate the Golden Elixir and is very happy to talk to you, so send him an email or visit his substack Immortality Study. You can also buy his tea at tcmsix.com/shop/

And check out his newest online class: https://courses.qigongmeditation.online/tea-mastery-course

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]]> full 37 1 true Robert Coons is a resident of Toronto where he teaches Tai Chi, Meditation, and Tea Ceremony. He studied with secular Daoist disciple Hai Yang, and various teachers in China such as Yin Qin (Yang Style Taiji), He Caitong (Taiwan Cha Dao), Yu Jiang (Xin Yi Liu He Quan), and others. Today he continues to cultivate the Golden Elixir and is very happy to talk to you, so send him an email or visit his substack Immortality Study. You can also buy his tea at tcmsix.com/shop/

And check out his newest online class: https://courses.qigongmeditation.online/tea-mastery-course

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

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]]> 01:42:32 <![CDATA[Lisa Rohleder & Tyler Phan]]> Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:03:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/lisa-rohleder-tyler-phan https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/lisa-rohleder-tyler-phan Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

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Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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]]> full 36 1 true Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> 01:34:08 <![CDATA[Loan Tran]]> Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/loan-tran https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/loan-tran LoAn Guylaine TRAN is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Complete Reality Dragon Gate Pure Yang lineage of Mount Wudang, under the name Sincere Phoenix 誠鳳. First an activist and professional project manager for humanitarian organisation with a focus on women’s rights in the context of anti-trafficking and prostitution, her spiritual quest took her through year-long immersions in Buddhist and Yogic practices throughout Asia, before leading her into a 9 years Daoist apprenticeship at the Five Immortals Temple, Wudang, China. She now teaches Daoist arts of Energy and Spirit and practices Chinese medicine and Daoist healing, with an ever-renewing interest for the interactions of the form and the formless. www.featherbeings.com

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]]> full 35 1 true LoAn Guylaine TRAN is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Complete Reality Dragon Gate Pure Yang lineage of Mount Wudang, under the name Sincere Phoenix 誠鳳. First an activist and professional project manager for humanitarian organisation with a focus on women’s rights in the context of anti-trafficking and prostitution, her spiritual quest took her through year-long immersions in Buddhist and Yogic practices throughout Asia, before leading her into a 9 years Daoist apprenticeship at the Five Immortals Temple, Wudang, China. She now teaches Daoist arts of Energy and Spirit and practices Chinese medicine and Daoist healing, with an ever-renewing interest for the interactions of the form and the formless. www.featherbeings.com

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 00:53:55 <![CDATA[Isaac Saul]]> Sat, 26 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/isaac-saul https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/isaac-saul Isaac Saul is an independent political journalist and the founder of Tangle, a politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the right and left on the big news of the day.

 

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]]> full 34 1 true Isaac Saul is an independent political journalist and the founder of Tangle, a politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the right and left on the big news of the day.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

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Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:00:21 <![CDATA[Lindsey Wei]]> Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/lindsey-wei https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/lindsey-wei

Lindsey Wei, Daoist Name -Wei Cheng Ling, 魏诚灵, is a 24th generation lay disciple (俗家弟子sújiā dìzǐ) of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism.  She trained Traditional Chinese Gong Fu in a remote mountain temple in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei Province, China under her master Li Song Feng for over 9 years before returning to the US in 2010 to start her martial teaching career.  She is a practitioner of Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Ba Gua, Double Edge Straight Sword (Jian), as well as other weapons arts.  Her passion is combining ancestral skills and indigenous world views of how to steward the earth, exist and thrive in wild places, with the life way of internal martial arts cultivation and health practices.  She leads martial training camps in wilderness settings as the context of studying the Dao as it follows Nature.  

Wei is the author of The Valley Spirit —A Female Story of Daoist Cultivation, a personal memoir published by Singing Dragon in 2012.  Her second book is a biography of one of her martial mentors, Path of the Spiritual Warrior –Life and Teachings of Muay Thai Fighter Pedro Solana, published through Purple Cloud Press in 2020.        

Lindsey teaches online courses as well as in person camps at varying locations in southern Oregon on Takelma and Klamath native lands.  

Her website is: www.wudangwhitehorse.com

You can also follow her work on Youtube, IG @lindsey12wei and FB @lindsey.wei 

 

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]]> full 33 1 true

Lindsey Wei, Daoist Name -Wei Cheng Ling, 魏诚灵, is a 24th generation lay disciple (俗家弟子sújiā dìzǐ) of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism.  She trained Traditional Chinese Gong Fu in a remote mountain temple in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei Province, China under her master Li Song Feng for over 9 years before returning to the US in 2010 to start her martial teaching career.  She is a practitioner of Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Ba Gua, Double Edge Straight Sword (Jian), as well as other weapons arts.  Her passion is combining ancestral skills and indigenous world views of how to steward the earth, exist and thrive in wild places, with the life way of internal martial arts cultivation and health practices.  She leads martial training camps in wilderness settings as the context of studying the Dao as it follows Nature.  

Wei is the author of The Valley Spirit —A Female Story of Daoist Cultivation, a personal memoir published by Singing Dragon in 2012.  Her second book is a biography of one of her martial mentors, Path of the Spiritual Warrior –Life and Teachings of Muay Thai Fighter Pedro Solana, published through Purple Cloud Press in 2020.        

Lindsey teaches online courses as well as in person camps at varying locations in southern Oregon on Takelma and Klamath native lands.  

Her website is: www.wudangwhitehorse.com

You can also follow her work on Youtube, IG @lindsey12wei and FB @lindsey.wei 

 

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]]> 01:31:44 <![CDATA[Ken Crouse part 2]]> Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:14:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/ken-crouse-part-2 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/ken-crouse-part-2 Ken Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived for
most of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,
tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Having
always had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture and
mycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.
Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in the
mountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken was
introduced to the concepts of permaculture and decided to adopt
these principles whenever possible. Living and working on the land
allowed him to bring together his plant knowledge and more than forty
years of study devoted to the field of mycology. Peaceful Valley is
now a botanical collection, garden, and food forest where he lives
with his wife Cindy, two cats, and a small flock of chickens. Ken often
teaches classes on mushroom identification and cultivation as well as
permaculture topics.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

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Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 32 1 true Ken Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived for
most of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,
tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Having
always had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture and
mycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.
Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in the
mountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken was
introduced to the concepts of permaculture and decided to adopt
these principles whenever possible. Living and working on the land
allowed him to bring together his plant knowledge and more than forty
years of study devoted to the field of mycology. Peaceful Valley is
now a botanical collection, garden, and food forest where he lives
with his wife Cindy, two cats, and a small flock of chickens. Ken often
teaches classes on mushroom identification and cultivation as well as
permaculture topics.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:31:10 <![CDATA[Scoutleader Wiley]]> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:23:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/scoutleader-wiley https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/scoutleader-wiley Scoutleader Wiley is a semi-nomadic theory and ritual artist. She does not like touching slimy things, and her favourite food is potatoes. She was raised by two artists amongst the underground hip-hop and house dance community in Brooklyn, NY. She now plays freak-folk guitar music for her friends and writes systems poetry for the internet. She is the Maestra Magica at Metamodern Magick, a collaborative education platform that seeks to integrate the wisdom traditions of pre-modernity into the post-conventional world.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

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]]> full 31 1 true Scoutleader Wiley is a semi-nomadic theory and ritual artist. She does not like touching slimy things, and her favourite food is potatoes. She was raised by two artists amongst the underground hip-hop and house dance community in Brooklyn, NY. She now plays freak-folk guitar music for her friends and writes systems poetry for the internet. She is the Maestra Magica at Metamodern Magick, a collaborative education platform that seeks to integrate the wisdom traditions of pre-modernity into the post-conventional world.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:33:18 <![CDATA[Henry Andrews]]> Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:10:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/henry-andrews https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/henry-andrews Henry Andrews stumbled into interactive theater and performance in 2015, and became enamored of its ability to invite people into meaningful authentic experiences. He performed with Barron Scott Levkoff’s Mystic Midway over the next several years and became involved with several other interactive projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. These experiences eventually combined with his interests in metamodern philosophy, Gravesian developmental theory, and Batesonian warm data in the form of HELLAMETAMODERNISM, an experiential approach to metamodernism. With an intentionally ridiculous name derived from an art project for an interactive theatrical party, HELLAMETAMODERNISM is a still-emerging set of concepts that brings our attention to the power of shared experience, while reminding us not to take ourselves too seriously along the way.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 30 1 true Henry Andrews stumbled into interactive theater and performance in 2015, and became enamored of its ability to invite people into meaningful authentic experiences. He performed with Barron Scott Levkoff’s Mystic Midway over the next several years and became involved with several other interactive projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. These experiences eventually combined with his interests in metamodern philosophy, Gravesian developmental theory, and Batesonian warm data in the form of HELLAMETAMODERNISM, an experiential approach to metamodernism. With an intentionally ridiculous name derived from an art project for an interactive theatrical party, HELLAMETAMODERNISM is a still-emerging set of concepts that brings our attention to the power of shared experience, while reminding us not to take ourselves too seriously along the way.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:35:36 <![CDATA[Amba Sepie]]> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/amba-sepie https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/amba-sepie Amba J. Sepie works in the realm of cultural ecology, soul medicine, and decolonisation. She is also a research fellow at the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand, teaching, writing and collaborating on projects grounded in traditional knowledges and respect for Earth’s sentience.

 

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]]> full 29 1 true Amba J. Sepie works in the realm of cultural ecology, soul medicine, and decolonisation. She is also a research fellow at the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand, teaching, writing and collaborating on projects grounded in traditional knowledges and respect for Earth’s sentience.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:28:58 <![CDATA[Josh Paynter part 2]]> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:57:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/josh-paynter-part-2 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/josh-paynter-part-2 We're back at it with Josh Paynter, diving deeper into his specific Taoist lineage. It's an incredible and wild ride. Please enjoy responsibly.

 

Josh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 28 1 true We're back at it with Josh Paynter, diving deeper into his specific Taoist lineage. It's an incredible and wild ride. Please enjoy responsibly.

 

Josh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:36:17 <![CDATA[Dare Sohei part 2]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:08:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/dare-sohei-part-2 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/dare-sohei-part-2 Dare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.
They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.
www.bodyaltar.org
www.patreon.com/animistarts 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 27 1 true Dare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.
They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.
www.bodyaltar.org
www.patreon.com/animistarts 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:51:52 <![CDATA[Josh Paynter]]> Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:53:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/josh-paynter https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/josh-paynter Josh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.

 

]]> full 26 1 true Josh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.

 

]]> 01:28:13 <![CDATA[Ken Crouse]]> Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/ken-crouse https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/ken-crouse Ken Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived for
most of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,
tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Having
always had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture and
mycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.
Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in the
mountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken was
introduced to the concepts of permaculture and decided to adopt
these principles whenever possible. Living and working on the land
allowed him to bring together his plant knowledge and more than forty
years of study devoted to the field of mycology. Peaceful Valley is
now a botanical collection, garden, and food forest where he lives
with his wife Cindy, two cats, and a small flock of chickens. Ken often
teaches classes on mushroom identification and cultivation as well as
permaculture topics.

]]> full 25 1 true Ken Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived for
most of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,
tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Having
always had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture and
mycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.
Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in the
mountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken was
introduced to the concepts of permaculture and decided to adopt
these principles whenever possible. Living and working on the land
allowed him to bring together his plant knowledge and more than forty
years of study devoted to the field of mycology. Peaceful Valley is
now a botanical collection, garden, and food forest where he lives
with his wife Cindy, two cats, and a small flock of chickens. Ken often
teaches classes on mushroom identification and cultivation as well as
permaculture topics.

]]> 01:25:58 <![CDATA[Monica Rodgers]]> Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:16:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/monica-rodgers https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/monica-rodgers Bringing an infectious warmth and playful levity
wherever she goes, Monica Rodgers is a tireless
advocate for the full actualization of women,
inspiring women everywhere that saying “YES to
the MESS” is the missing link to self-love and
personal awakening.

From Monica: Patriarchy impacts all people, regardless of gender, all over the world. 

This unjust construct is defined by the dictionary as a "system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it” has caused inestimable harm throughout the centuries, and yet we learn almost nothing about it in school. Deconstructing patriarchy in our minds, relationships, and communities benefits everyone because in doing so, we stop perpetuating the unconscious generational cycle that keeps the system in place.  
 
Manbox: A term that researchers use to describe the dominant form of masculinity in the United States at this time is known as Hegemonic Masculinity, which Mark Greeneand others have described as the “Man Box.” The term implies a rigid set of expectations, perceptions, and behaviors of what is “manly” behavior.
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 24 1 true Bringing an infectious warmth and playful levity
wherever she goes, Monica Rodgers is a tireless
advocate for the full actualization of women,
inspiring women everywhere that saying “YES to
the MESS” is the missing link to self-love and
personal awakening.

From Monica: Patriarchy impacts all people, regardless of gender, all over the world. 

This unjust construct is defined by the dictionary as a "system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it” has caused inestimable harm throughout the centuries, and yet we learn almost nothing about it in school. Deconstructing patriarchy in our minds, relationships, and communities benefits everyone because in doing so, we stop perpetuating the unconscious generational cycle that keeps the system in place.  
 
Manbox: A term that researchers use to describe the dominant form of masculinity in the United States at this time is known as Hegemonic Masculinity, which Mark Greeneand others have described as the “Man Box.” The term implies a rigid set of expectations, perceptions, and behaviors of what is “manly” behavior.
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 01:31:55 <![CDATA[Kathy Yang]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:56:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/kathy-yang https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/kathy-yang Hello audience! (Lukas here) I just wanted to apologize straight away for the sound quality of this episode. We will do our very best to maintain better standards in the future. It's a great conversation with someone I've admired for a long time so I think you'll enjoy it regardless.

Thanks for listening!

Some background from Kathy herself:

I have been practicing Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi, and Qigong for over three decades. I began training at the age of six under the guidance of my father Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming.

I received my Master’s degree with distinction in Chinese Medicine from Middlesex University in London, UK with a joint degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. I also hold my BSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University and was honored with the Scarlet Key Award, one of the University’s highest academic honors. I bring a wide range of clinical experience and knowledge working in a Beijing hospital and in neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

 

I created TCM Time as a resource for you to discover Chinese medicine through videos, online classes, blog posts, podcast, and much more. With this platform I will introduce you to some of my favorite topics such as:

  • Stress relief and pain management
  • Acupressure massage and meridian health
  • TCM body clock: How to regulate your lifestyle
  • Food as medicine
  • Medical Qigong

I specialize in a mind-body approach to achieving health and wellness. I am trained in Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment modalities such as:

  • Acupuncture
  • Chinese herbal medicine
  • Tui Na massage
  • Tai Chi & Qigong
  • Diet & lifestyle therapy

Send me a message if you are interested in learning more about private lessons, personal health consultations, classes and workshops. Subscribe to my mailing list for the latest news and announcements. Kathy@tcmtime.com

 

Also we mention ways to inquire about purchasing the YMAA Retreat Center

Please follow the link for more information. It's absolutely gorgeous!

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 23 1 true Hello audience! (Lukas here) I just wanted to apologize straight away for the sound quality of this episode. We will do our very best to maintain better standards in the future. It's a great conversation with someone I've admired for a long time so I think you'll enjoy it regardless.

Thanks for listening!

Some background from Kathy herself:

I have been practicing Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi, and Qigong for over three decades. I began training at the age of six under the guidance of my father Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming.

I received my Master’s degree with distinction in Chinese Medicine from Middlesex University in London, UK with a joint degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. I also hold my BSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University and was honored with the Scarlet Key Award, one of the University’s highest academic honors. I bring a wide range of clinical experience and knowledge working in a Beijing hospital and in neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

 

I created TCM Time as a resource for you to discover Chinese medicine through videos, online classes, blog posts, podcast, and much more. With this platform I will introduce you to some of my favorite topics such as:

  • Stress relief and pain management
  • Acupressure massage and meridian health
  • TCM body clock: How to regulate your lifestyle
  • Food as medicine
  • Medical Qigong

I specialize in a mind-body approach to achieving health and wellness. I am trained in Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment modalities such as:

  • Acupuncture
  • Chinese herbal medicine
  • Tui Na massage
  • Tai Chi & Qigong
  • Diet & lifestyle therapy

Send me a message if you are interested in learning more about private lessons, personal health consultations, classes and workshops. Subscribe to my mailing list for the latest news and announcements. Kathy@tcmtime.com

 

Also we mention ways to inquire about purchasing the YMAA Retreat Center

Please follow the link for more information. It's absolutely gorgeous!

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 02:07:05 <![CDATA[Dare Sohei]]> Sat, 09 Oct 2021 10:57:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/dare-sohei https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/dare-sohei Dare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.
They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.
www.bodyaltar.org
www.patreon.com/animistarts 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> full 22 1 true Dare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.
They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.
www.bodyaltar.org
www.patreon.com/animistarts 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
 
]]> 02:07:05 <![CDATA[Zoey Gong]]> Sat, 02 Oct 2021 10:02:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/zoey-gong https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/zoey-gong Zoey Gong is a Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) chef and nutritionist. Born in Shanghai, China, she grew up with the wisdom of medicinal cooking. She now resides in New York City, where she hosts pop-up medicinal dinners and educates the public on TCM food therapy. With a background in both western and eastern clinical nutrition, she founded Five Seasons TCM in 2021, a boutique wellness brand that shares and modernizes the knowledge of TCM food therapy.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> full 21 1 true Zoey Gong is a Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) chef and nutritionist. Born in Shanghai, China, she grew up with the wisdom of medicinal cooking. She now resides in New York City, where she hosts pop-up medicinal dinners and educates the public on TCM food therapy. With a background in both western and eastern clinical nutrition, she founded Five Seasons TCM in 2021, a boutique wellness brand that shares and modernizes the knowledge of TCM food therapy.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> 01:38:45 <![CDATA[Michael Garfield]]> Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:13:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/michael-garfield https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/michael-garfield

Artist and philosopher Michael Garfield helps people navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice fed by and and feeding back into his fifteen years of synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, avant-guitar, and live painting. Bearing the standard for a new generation of mystic-scholars and refusing to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, Michael walks through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing everywhere from Moogfest to Burning Man, SXSW to Boom Festival, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Long Now's Ignite Talks to The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> full 20 1 true

Artist and philosopher Michael Garfield helps people navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice fed by and and feeding back into his fifteen years of synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, avant-guitar, and live painting. Bearing the standard for a new generation of mystic-scholars and refusing to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, Michael walks through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing everywhere from Moogfest to Burning Man, SXSW to Boom Festival, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Long Now's Ignite Talks to The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> 02:01:59 <![CDATA[Tyler Phan part 2]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:11:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/tyler-phan-part-2 https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/tyler-phan-part-2 Like many guests we had so much to talk about we had to have a part 2.

 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> full 19 1 true Like many guests we had so much to talk about we had to have a part 2.

 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

 

Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 
]]> 01:31:55 <![CDATA[Carrie Melmoth]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:07:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/carrie-melmoth https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/carrie-melmoth Bio: Carrie Melmoth is based in Southampton (UK). She generally tries to elude definition, but the following statement are nevertheless true. She sometimes writes about Philip K. Dick (with particular empahsis on him as a neoplatonist). She spends much of her time reading and walking parks and meadows and by the sea (sometimes at the same time because audiobooks exist). She is fascinated by tarot, and by signs and symbols in general - metaphors are moreish! She is in a (very protozoan) band called Venn. Websites are a faff but she has a tumblr that performs the same function: https://carrie-the-scrivener.tumblr.com/

The daily practice I find most nourishing is nidra yoga. I have struggled with anxiety since I was little, and a couple years ago at a writing retreat I discovered nidra yoga and it's been really transformative. While knowing that there is a way to soothe my mind and sink into a perfectly peaceful featherbed of calm is a relief, it's also increasingly deepening the sense of peace there is in other sources (sitting in the garden meditating listening to classical music, for instance), and in ... tuning into to Source (is the best way I can think of putting it). So that's an unexpected bonus! There are lots of nidra yoga videos online, and I'd recommend Tanis Fishman's videos.
 
I'm *always* reading 'The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick' (the 2011 edition predominantly). It's tantamount to being my bible. It got me much more deeply into philosophical questions than any book ever had before, and continues to be a book I have an ongoing dialogue with. Do I agree with everything Dick writes in there? No, and neither does he. But the core concepts are sound. This is basically neoplatonism in the 1970s, a (hefty) footnote to Plato, and as good a lamp as any to lead the way out of the cave.
 
'Cromwell and Communism: Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution' by Eduard Bernsein (1930) is both really interesting in terms of how Britain could theoretically have become a very early uptaker of (neo)communism à la Gerrard Winstanley, and just historically fascinating because it includes sizeable quotes from the seventeenth century from people who were considering (when it come down to it) the same political questions that we're considering today. It's all surprisingly relatebale.
 
'The PDA Paradox: The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum' by Harry Thompson (2019) is about something that I ... I wouldn't say have so much as am. The whole autism discourse, however well-intentioned (and it isn't always), usually annoys the life out of me. It's a very important subject, particularly at a time when there is a lot of debate, even within "the autistic community", around whether autism is a disability/pathology, or whether pathologisation can itself be a form of disablement/discrimination. For one thing, the statistics are that in the UK 22% of ("diagnosed") autistic adults are employed. The vast majority of the rest have to subsist on a benefits (welfare) system that the UN has said violates human rights obligations. So clearly there's a lot to be addressed and written about in terms of autistic rights (and maybe I should write something). But this is just a memoir by someone who is quite a lot like me, talking about a way of being that is very like my own, and that's really refreshing. There are lots of books about autism, but not very many specifically about PDA.
 
And last but by no means least The Red Book by Carl Jung. It's a lot like The Exegesis. The visual imagery is striking (even in the edition without the illustrations - the illustrated edition is very expensive but the"reader's edition" in more accessible and also beautifully produced). Readi...
]]> full 18 1 true Bio: Carrie Melmoth is based in Southampton (UK). She generally tries to elude definition, but the following statement are nevertheless true. She sometimes writes about Philip K. Dick (with particular empahsis on him as a neoplatonist). She spends much of her time reading and walking parks and meadows and by the sea (sometimes at the same time because audiobooks exist). She is fascinated by tarot, and by signs and symbols in general - metaphors are moreish! She is in a (very protozoan) band called Venn. Websites are a faff but she has a tumblr that performs the same function: https://carrie-the-scrivener.tumblr.com/

The daily practice I find most nourishing is nidra yoga. I have struggled with anxiety since I was little, and a couple years ago at a writing retreat I discovered nidra yoga and it's been really transformative. While knowing that there is a way to soothe my mind and sink into a perfectly peaceful featherbed of calm is a relief, it's also increasingly deepening the sense of peace there is in other sources (sitting in the garden meditating listening to classical music, for instance), and in ... tuning into to Source (is the best way I can think of putting it). So that's an unexpected bonus! There are lots of nidra yoga videos online, and I'd recommend Tanis Fishman's videos.
 
I'm *always* reading 'The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick' (the 2011 edition predominantly). It's tantamount to being my bible. It got me much more deeply into philosophical questions than any book ever had before, and continues to be a book I have an ongoing dialogue with. Do I agree with everything Dick writes in there? No, and neither does he. But the core concepts are sound. This is basically neoplatonism in the 1970s, a (hefty) footnote to Plato, and as good a lamp as any to lead the way out of the cave.
 
'Cromwell and Communism: Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution' by Eduard Bernsein (1930) is both really interesting in terms of how Britain could theoretically have become a very early uptaker of (neo)communism à la Gerrard Winstanley, and just historically fascinating because it includes sizeable quotes from the seventeenth century from people who were considering (when it come down to it) the same political questions that we're considering today. It's all surprisingly relatebale.
 
'The PDA Paradox: The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum' by Harry Thompson (2019) is about something that I ... I wouldn't say have so much as am. The whole autism discourse, however well-intentioned (and it isn't always), usually annoys the life out of me. It's a very important subject, particularly at a time when there is a lot of debate, even within "the autistic community", around whether autism is a disability/pathology, or whether pathologisation can itself be a form of disablement/discrimination. For one thing, the statistics are that in the UK 22% of ("diagnosed") autistic adults are employed. The vast majority of the rest have to subsist on a benefits (welfare) system that the UN has said violates human rights obligations. So clearly there's a lot to be addressed and written about in terms of autistic rights (and maybe I should write something). But this is just a memoir by someone who is quite a lot like me, talking about a way of being that is very like my own, and that's really refreshing. There are lots of books about autism, but not very many specifically about PDA.
 
And last but by no means least The Red Book by Carl Jung. It's a lot like The Exegesis. The visual imagery is striking (even in the edition without the illustrations - the illustrated edition is very expensive but the"reader's edition" in more accessible and also beautifully produced). Reading it is like dreaming someone else's dream. But he emphasises that it's important to dream your *own* dream. I think that's what writers like Dick and Jung are for me, examples of people who have done the sorts of things I do and want to do. People with lanterns in a relay race. 
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
 

 

]]> 01:19:31 <![CDATA[Sophie Strand]]> Sat, 21 Aug 2021 10:16:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/sophie-strand https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/sophie-strand Bio: 

Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Inner Traditions. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: cosmogyny. 

 
What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?
 
Every morning I call on every being - ancestor, plant, mushroom, type of stone, animal, geological formation, river, bird, invasive species, weather system - in a twenty mile radius of my home. I gather around me the beings that "constitute" me so that when I make decisions throughout my day I know my choices include more than just the "fiction" of an individual me. 
 
What are you reading? As much or as little as you would like to share.
The list is insane. But currently I am enjoying a return to Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality paired with Bayo Akomolafe's These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. 
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
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]]> full 17 1 true Bio: 

Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Inner Traditions. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: cosmogyny. 

 
What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?
 
Every morning I call on every being - ancestor, plant, mushroom, type of stone, animal, geological formation, river, bird, invasive species, weather system - in a twenty mile radius of my home. I gather around me the beings that "constitute" me so that when I make decisions throughout my day I know my choices include more than just the "fiction" of an individual me. 
 
What are you reading? As much or as little as you would like to share.
The list is insane. But currently I am enjoying a return to Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality paired with Bayo Akomolafe's These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. 
 

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]]> 01:33:28 <![CDATA[Tyler Phan]]> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 10:58:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/tyler-phan https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/tyler-phan Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

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He has also been engaged with a postcolonial discourse on whiteness and religion in the search for “Eastern” enlightenment as well as the role of “practice” in almost a decade-long research project called "Counter Culture Orientalism." The work examines members of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture who were jaded by the mid-20th century’s model of religion and ventured “East” throughout Asia to explore heterogenous practices of what the members viewed as a homogenous “enlightenment.”

Outside of Pitt, he is the director of the Goldman Institute of Social Research where he chairs Critical Dharma, a study group examining critical theory and contemplative thought. Recently, he has helped oversee the joint partnership with over a dozen groups in Western Pennsylvania called the Braddock Food Collaborative, which focuses on creating accessible foodway systems distribution throughout Braddock and North Braddock. Additionally, he runs an underground comic book press with world renowned artist Frank Santoro called Phantoro Press (Hype Pup Jr.). He is also a coffee roaster and tea trader with beverage companies in both the East and West Coast of the United States.

Lastly, Dr. Phan is also a fifth-generation Vietnamese medical practitioner and has been practicing acupuncture and herbalism for more than the past two decades. He opened Pittsburgh’s first community acupuncture clinic in 2010 and has worked as an acupuncturist serving people throughout the world. He has taught workshops on traditional medicine, meditation, as well as anthropological research on astrology (“Western,” Vedic, Lunar, etc.), numerology, eight characters destiny charts (ba zi), and geomancy for the past fifteen years.

 

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Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
]]> full 16 1 true Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.

https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037

He has also been engaged with a postcolonial discourse on whiteness and religion in the search for “Eastern” enlightenment as well as the role of “practice” in almost a decade-long research project called "Counter Culture Orientalism." The work examines members of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture who were jaded by the mid-20th century’s model of religion and ventured “East” throughout Asia to explore heterogenous practices of what the members viewed as a homogenous “enlightenment.”

Outside of Pitt, he is the director of the Goldman Institute of Social Research where he chairs Critical Dharma, a study group examining critical theory and contemplative thought. Recently, he has helped oversee the joint partnership with over a dozen groups in Western Pennsylvania called the Braddock Food Collaborative, which focuses on creating accessible foodway systems distribution throughout Braddock and North Braddock. Additionally, he runs an underground comic book press with world renowned artist Frank Santoro called Phantoro Press (Hype Pup Jr.). He is also a coffee roaster and tea trader with beverage companies in both the East and West Coast of the United States.

Lastly, Dr. Phan is also a fifth-generation Vietnamese medical practitioner and has been practicing acupuncture and herbalism for more than the past two decades. He opened Pittsburgh’s first community acupuncture clinic in 2010 and has worked as an acupuncturist serving people throughout the world. He has taught workshops on traditional medicine, meditation, as well as anthropological research on astrology (“Western,” Vedic, Lunar, etc.), numerology, eight characters destiny charts (ba zi), and geomancy for the past fifteen years.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
]]> 01:32:15 <![CDATA[Brandt Stickley]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:08:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/brandt-stickley https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/brandt-stickley Brandt Stickley is an Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific Rim College, Five Branches University, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Yo San University and Maryland University of Integrative Health.  As a Senior Instructor and Board member of Dragon Rises Seminars he teaches Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis.  Brandt is a graduate of Cornell University and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  He has worked closely with Dr. Leon Hammer for 20 years, and is considered an authority on the model of Chinese medical Psychology developed by Dr. Hammer.  In his own development of this school of thought, he has relentlessly pursued a synthesis of Classical Han and Tang Dynasty herbal medicine and acupuncture, Chinese magical medicine, philosophy and religion, with concepts of psychosomatic medicine, body-oriented psychology, neuro-phenomenology, process-oriented philosophy, imaginal, integral, and consciousness studies.  He brings all of these disciplines to play in striving to intend the impossible as a clinician, teacher, writer and speaker.  In theory and in practice, Brandt's work seeks to establish Classical Chinese medicine as a vital psychosomatic and physiosemiotic current in the evolution of consciousness and the alleviation of suffering. 

 

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Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
]]> full 15 true Brandt Stickley is an Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific Rim College, Five Branches University, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Yo San University and Maryland University of Integrative Health.  As a Senior Instructor and Board member of Dragon Rises Seminars he teaches Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis.  Brandt is a graduate of Cornell University and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  He has worked closely with Dr. Leon Hammer for 20 years, and is considered an authority on the model of Chinese medical Psychology developed by Dr. Hammer.  In his own development of this school of thought, he has relentlessly pursued a synthesis of Classical Han and Tang Dynasty herbal medicine and acupuncture, Chinese magical medicine, philosophy and religion, with concepts of psychosomatic medicine, body-oriented psychology, neuro-phenomenology, process-oriented philosophy, imaginal, integral, and consciousness studies.  He brings all of these disciplines to play in striving to intend the impossible as a clinician, teacher, writer and speaker.  In theory and in practice, Brandt's work seeks to establish Classical Chinese medicine as a vital psychosomatic and physiosemiotic current in the evolution of consciousness and the alleviation of suffering. 

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
]]> 01:33:30 <![CDATA[Wes Tasker]]> Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:04:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/wes-tasker https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/wes-tasker Bio: Wes Tasker has been practicing various martial arts since 1981 and is currently focused on Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Qilinpai and Pekiti Tirsia Kali with some supplementary training in Boxing and Catch Wrestling. He also studies Chinese Medicine in relation to martial arts training, traumatology and orthopedics. His philosophical and spiritual areas of study include but are not limited to Buddhism, Neidan (Daoist internal alchemy), and Western Philosophy.

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]]> full 14 1 true Bio: Wes Tasker has been practicing various martial arts since 1981 and is currently focused on Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Qilinpai and Pekiti Tirsia Kali with some supplementary training in Boxing and Catch Wrestling. He also studies Chinese Medicine in relation to martial arts training, traumatology and orthopedics. His philosophical and spiritual areas of study include but are not limited to Buddhism, Neidan (Daoist internal alchemy), and Western Philosophy.

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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]]> 01:30:14 <![CDATA[Jeremy Wolf]]> Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:06:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/jeremy-wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/jeremy-wolf Jeremy Wolf, along with being one of the host's older brother, is a lifelong learner and educator. Jeremy has been a high school teacher, pre-service teacher trainer, college professor, little league coach of nearly every sport, and has had a side-hustle in nearly every industry. As a part of a multi-generational family of educators and helpers, Jeremy's world view has been focused on community and mind/body health. His current areas of research/interest are neurobiochemistry, the connection between the brain and mind, homebrewing beer, and the universal connectivity of mythology.

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]]> full 13 1 true Jeremy Wolf, along with being one of the host's older brother, is a lifelong learner and educator. Jeremy has been a high school teacher, pre-service teacher trainer, college professor, little league coach of nearly every sport, and has had a side-hustle in nearly every industry. As a part of a multi-generational family of educators and helpers, Jeremy's world view has been focused on community and mind/body health. His current areas of research/interest are neurobiochemistry, the connection between the brain and mind, homebrewing beer, and the universal connectivity of mythology.

https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037

 

]]> 01:36:38 <![CDATA[Ed Neal]]> Sat, 10 Jul 2021 10:10:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/ed-neal https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/ed-neal Edward Neal, MD, MSOM is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the practice, research and teaching of Chinese medicine for over 30 years. As part of this work, he has consulted with the World Health Organisation on matters of traditional East Asian Medicine and has been a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego medical school. He is currently the medical director of the Apricot Grove Project and director of the Xinglin Institute. These organisations study traditional forms of knowledge to find innovative solutions to current global challenges.

 

https://neijingstudies.com/

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]]> full 12 1 true Edward Neal, MD, MSOM is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the practice, research and teaching of Chinese medicine for over 30 years. As part of this work, he has consulted with the World Health Organisation on matters of traditional East Asian Medicine and has been a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego medical school. He is currently the medical director of the Apricot Grove Project and director of the Xinglin Institute. These organisations study traditional forms of knowledge to find innovative solutions to current global challenges.

 

https://neijingstudies.com/

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:30:51 <![CDATA[Mushtaq Ali Al Ansari]]> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 10:09:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/mushtaq-ali-al-ansari https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/mushtaq-ali-al-ansari Bio: 

Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari?

This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring.

If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning.

He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his teacher’s students, he did not receive his Ijaza (permission to teach) until 1999.

He has managed to travel extensively to some interesting places and to hang out with some remarkable people, and can be coaxed into talking about this on rare occasions. 

In 2018 he was dragged kicking and screaming from a quiet retirement in order to found The Nine-Sided Circle (a no mystery school) with his partner Noor Kyle George.

It is rumored that he lives somewhere on the West Coast.

  

Nine Sided Circle YouTube Channel

https://ninesidedcircle.com/

FB page

 

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]]> full 11 1 true Bio: 

Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari?

This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring.

If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning.

He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his teacher’s students, he did not receive his Ijaza (permission to teach) until 1999.

He has managed to travel extensively to some interesting places and to hang out with some remarkable people, and can be coaxed into talking about this on rare occasions. 

In 2018 he was dragged kicking and screaming from a quiet retirement in order to found The Nine-Sided Circle (a no mystery school) with his partner Noor Kyle George.

It is rumored that he lives somewhere on the West Coast.

  

Nine Sided Circle YouTube Channel

https://ninesidedcircle.com/

FB page

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:04:24 <![CDATA[Nigel Dawes]]> Sat, 26 Jun 2021 10:15:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/nigel-dawes https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/nigel-dawes Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, France, Israel and the U.S. Since 1994, New York City has been his home, where he has continued his involvement in undergraduate and graduate OM education and administration, political work in the field, clinical practice, research and publishing. In 1999 he founded the NY Kampo Institute whose mission is the dissemination of traditional Japanese medicine through teaching and practice.

These days Nigel divides his time between clinical practice, teaching, and publication & research. He is currently considered one of the leading experts in the practice and teaching of Kampo, lecturing widely throughout the US and abroad including Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia, He is a regular contributor to various peer-reviewed journals in the field and has published 4 books including a translation of a modern Japanese Kampo classic Kampo Igaku by Otsuka Keisetsu. His fourth book, Fukushin and Kampo, on the topic of Abdominal Diagnosis in East Asian Medicine, was published in October 2020. He has been on the faculty of both Tristate College of Acupuncture and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where he taught courses in both Kampo and Japanese Acupuncture as well as supervising in clinic.

Nigel's private practice is located in New York City and incorporates Acupuncture, Shiatsu massage and Kampo herbal medicine. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

Upcoming events:

Kampo Management of G.I. Disorders hosted by Sun Ten Labs 6/27/21

 

Most recent book:

Fukushin and Kampo

 

For more about Nigel please check out his website:

Kampoherbology.com

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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]]> full 10 1 true Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, France, Israel and the U.S. Since 1994, New York City has been his home, where he has continued his involvement in undergraduate and graduate OM education and administration, political work in the field, clinical practice, research and publishing. In 1999 he founded the NY Kampo Institute whose mission is the dissemination of traditional Japanese medicine through teaching and practice.

These days Nigel divides his time between clinical practice, teaching, and publication & research. He is currently considered one of the leading experts in the practice and teaching of Kampo, lecturing widely throughout the US and abroad including Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia, He is a regular contributor to various peer-reviewed journals in the field and has published 4 books including a translation of a modern Japanese Kampo classic Kampo Igaku by Otsuka Keisetsu. His fourth book, Fukushin and Kampo, on the topic of Abdominal Diagnosis in East Asian Medicine, was published in October 2020. He has been on the faculty of both Tristate College of Acupuncture and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where he taught courses in both Kampo and Japanese Acupuncture as well as supervising in clinic.

Nigel's private practice is located in New York City and incorporates Acupuncture, Shiatsu massage and Kampo herbal medicine. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

Upcoming events:

Kampo Management of G.I. Disorders hosted by Sun Ten Labs 6/27/21

 

Most recent book:

Fukushin and Kampo

 

For more about Nigel please check out his website:

Kampoherbology.com

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:34:30 <![CDATA[Amy Edelstein]]> Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:18:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/amy-edelstein https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/amy-edelstein Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her work in Violence Reduction and an IPPY Award for her #1 bestselling education book The Conscious Classroom. She began her own contemplative practice in 1978 and continued studying and practicing transformational tools and philosophies ever since. She is a Cornell University College Scholar and cofounder of the transformative learning platform Emergence Education. More at: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org and www.TheConsciousClassroom.com 

Favorite practice these days: Sitting in fullness; writing; and cherishing the beauty and living presence of the plants, animals, rivers, ocean, rocks and sky
 
Books: I think everyone should read The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward. 
(Right now I'm knee deep in writing summary research reports, board reports, and school district reports for the Inner Strength program so I'm not reading, but if I were, I'd be reading about the Neanderthals, finishing Caste (also by Wilkerson) and My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakhem, and something by some wild female sufi mystic that I haven't identified yet.)

 

 

Just a quick word from Lukas.

The music this week is a tribute to my cousin Chris Sener. Chris was a beautiful vibrant young man and a truely inspiring artist. This week is Chris's birthday so rather than dwelling on our loss we're celebrating his life. He is a major reason why I had to confidence to launch this podcast. I am continuously working through my insecurity about expressing myself intelligently. But we only have one life to live. Why not just go for it? 

Intro: "Ketto" - Chris Sener

Outro: "Good Day" - Chris Sener

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 9 1 true Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her work in Violence Reduction and an IPPY Award for her #1 bestselling education book The Conscious Classroom. She began her own contemplative practice in 1978 and continued studying and practicing transformational tools and philosophies ever since. She is a Cornell University College Scholar and cofounder of the transformative learning platform Emergence Education. More at: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org and www.TheConsciousClassroom.com 

Favorite practice these days: Sitting in fullness; writing; and cherishing the beauty and living presence of the plants, animals, rivers, ocean, rocks and sky
 
Books: I think everyone should read The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward. 
(Right now I'm knee deep in writing summary research reports, board reports, and school district reports for the Inner Strength program so I'm not reading, but if I were, I'd be reading about the Neanderthals, finishing Caste (also by Wilkerson) and My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakhem, and something by some wild female sufi mystic that I haven't identified yet.)

 

 

Just a quick word from Lukas.

The music this week is a tribute to my cousin Chris Sener. Chris was a beautiful vibrant young man and a truely inspiring artist. This week is Chris's birthday so rather than dwelling on our loss we're celebrating his life. He is a major reason why I had to confidence to launch this podcast. I am continuously working through my insecurity about expressing myself intelligently. But we only have one life to live. Why not just go for it? 

Intro: "Ketto" - Chris Sener

Outro: "Good Day" - Chris Sener

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:24:49 <![CDATA[Noor Kyle George]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2021 06:10:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/noor-kyle-george https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/noor-kyle-george Bio:

Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit of human adulthood and conscious Awakening. She co-hosts live public talks via Zoom every week -- anyone interested can join by connecting with The Nine-Sided Circle on Facebook or signing up for the NSC email list for updates. The replays are all posted on YouTube. Get in touch with her personally via Facebook or Instagram to talk about sex and gender in modern Sufism, the death(s) of “identity”, singing as an embodied spiritual practice, and/or the virtues of ice cream. (She's provisionally open to other subjects too.)

Practice:
Currently, I'd say I'm taking renewed benefit from just remembering throughout the day to breathe well, as in breathe deeply and with good pauses after the exhale. It's easy for me to get caught up in the limited routine of pandemic life while staying at home all the time and not moving around much. Shallow breathing is part of how that manifests for me. Challenging that sneaky pattern feels good.
 
Books:
Recently I finished a book in audiobook format called "To Be Honest: A Memoir" by Michael Leviton, narrated by the author. It was so educational! A guy raised to be chronically, guilelessly, brutally honest in a way that most of us can't imagine tells us all about how that's played out for him and what he's learned about himself and others through the experience. It's hilarious and painful in terms of its revealing how much we lie to one another and ourselves. Certainly relevant for those interested in deep growth work even if that's not the target audience.
I'm reading or listening to a bunch of books concurrently, but one that stands out is called "Building Thriving Resiliency: Resistance in Toxic Times" by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery. I'm generally kind of disillusioned/fatigued with the activist languaging used therein, but the notions of freedom, friendship, ethics, affinity, trust, and responsibility resonate hard. I'm sticking with it to see what inspirations emerge that I can incorporate into my practices and communication as a teacher and a community member.
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 8 1 true Bio:

Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit of human adulthood and conscious Awakening. She co-hosts live public talks via Zoom every week -- anyone interested can join by connecting with The Nine-Sided Circle on Facebook or signing up for the NSC email list for updates. The replays are all posted on YouTube. Get in touch with her personally via Facebook or Instagram to talk about sex and gender in modern Sufism, the death(s) of “identity”, singing as an embodied spiritual practice, and/or the virtues of ice cream. (She's provisionally open to other subjects too.)

Practice:
Currently, I'd say I'm taking renewed benefit from just remembering throughout the day to breathe well, as in breathe deeply and with good pauses after the exhale. It's easy for me to get caught up in the limited routine of pandemic life while staying at home all the time and not moving around much. Shallow breathing is part of how that manifests for me. Challenging that sneaky pattern feels good.
 
Books:
Recently I finished a book in audiobook format called "To Be Honest: A Memoir" by Michael Leviton, narrated by the author. It was so educational! A guy raised to be chronically, guilelessly, brutally honest in a way that most of us can't imagine tells us all about how that's played out for him and what he's learned about himself and others through the experience. It's hilarious and painful in terms of its revealing how much we lie to one another and ourselves. Certainly relevant for those interested in deep growth work even if that's not the target audience.
I'm reading or listening to a bunch of books concurrently, but one that stands out is called "Building Thriving Resiliency: Resistance in Toxic Times" by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery. I'm generally kind of disillusioned/fatigued with the activist languaging used therein, but the notions of freedom, friendship, ethics, affinity, trust, and responsibility resonate hard. I'm sticking with it to see what inspirations emerge that I can incorporate into my practices and communication as a teacher and a community member.
 

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Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
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Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:26:20 <![CDATA[Tyson Yunkaporta]]> Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:10:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/tyson-yunkaporta https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/tyson-yunkaporta Bio:

Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.

 

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

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Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com

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Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.

 

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

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Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com

]]> 01:53:05 <![CDATA[G William Barnard]]> Sat, 29 May 2021 06:11:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/g-william-barnard https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/g-william-barnard Bio:

Dr. G. William Barnard, (B.A. Antioch University; M.A. Temple University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. His primary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies. Professor Barnard’s new book Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Visions and Embodying Divinity in the Santo Daime Religious Tradition, on a syncretistic, entheogenically-based new religious movement that emerged in Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, is currently in production with Columbia University Press.  Professor Barnard is also the author of Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson as well as Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism, both published by State University of New York Press. In addition, Professor Barnard is the co-editor of Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism. Professor Barnard has also written many journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, such as pedagogy in religious studies, the nature of religious experience, issues in the psychology of religion, and most recently, entheogenic religions and spirituality.

 

I’m reading LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache.  Fascinating, intriguing text.

My most nourishing daily practice is chanting a sutra from the Radiance Sutras (a free-form “translation” of an important Hindu Tantric text, the Vijñana Bhairava); then reading various commentaries on that sutra; then meditating while aligning myself with that metaphysical/practice orientation.  I do this every night before bed, the same sutra for a week, leading up to me leading a study group on that sutra on Monday night.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 6 1 true Bio:

Dr. G. William Barnard, (B.A. Antioch University; M.A. Temple University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. His primary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies. Professor Barnard’s new book Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Visions and Embodying Divinity in the Santo Daime Religious Tradition, on a syncretistic, entheogenically-based new religious movement that emerged in Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, is currently in production with Columbia University Press.  Professor Barnard is also the author of Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson as well as Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism, both published by State University of New York Press. In addition, Professor Barnard is the co-editor of Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism. Professor Barnard has also written many journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, such as pedagogy in religious studies, the nature of religious experience, issues in the psychology of religion, and most recently, entheogenic religions and spirituality.

 

I’m reading LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache.  Fascinating, intriguing text.

My most nourishing daily practice is chanting a sutra from the Radiance Sutras (a free-form “translation” of an important Hindu Tantric text, the Vijñana Bhairava); then reading various commentaries on that sutra; then meditating while aligning myself with that metaphysical/practice orientation.  I do this every night before bed, the same sutra for a week, leading up to me leading a study group on that sutra on Monday night.

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:25:13 <![CDATA[Tom Bisio]]> Sat, 22 May 2021 06:14:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/tom-bisio https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/tom-bisio Bio:
 
Tom Bisio began his study of the martial arts at age 14, achieving a Black
Belt in Isshin Kempo. He later trained in the Filipino Martial arts for
many years before going on study to Chinese medicine and internal
martial arts. Tom made numerous trips to China and South East Asia
where he studied both medicine and martial arts with many different
masters. Tom has taught martial arts since 1979. During that time, he
apprenticed with Chinese herbalists and experts in acupuncture, qi
gong, Chinese Medical massage (Tui Na) and bonesetting (Zheng
Gu). He went on to become a licensed practitioner of traditional
Chinese medicine and for many years a busy clinic specializing in
trauma, Chinese sports medicine, and orthopedic conditions.
 
Tom is the founder of New York Internal Arts (NYIA) and Internal Arts
International (IAI). These organizations teach and promote the
Chinese Internal Arts of Ba Gua Zhang and Xing Yi Quan and their
connections to both Chinese medicine and the healing arts. NYIA and
IAI offer classes and both live and online seminars in Qi Gong and
Nei Gong, Internal Martial Arts, Daoist Meditation, worldwide. In 2015
he founded Practical Chinese Medicine, in order to create a new
teaching method and curriculum aimed at imparting practical clinical
skills in traditional Chinese medicine.
 
Tom is the author of the popular book, A Tooth From the Tiger’s
Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of
the Great Chinese Warriors (Simon and Schuster) Zheng Gu Tui Na:
A Chinese Medical Massage Textbook, which he co-authored with
Frank Butler. He has also written and collaborated on more than 18
books on Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan Daoist Meditation and Nei
Gong. 
 
As for Books at this moment:
 
Tower of Skulls: A History of The Asia-Pacific War July 1937 - May 1942 by Richard Frank
The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao by Xing De
Rereading sections of A Walk Along the River by Yu Guo Jun
 
I will probably simultaneously pick up and read an entertaining SCi-Fi book for relaxation.
 
 
Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!
 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact - theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 5 1 true Bio:
 
Tom Bisio began his study of the martial arts at age 14, achieving a Black
Belt in Isshin Kempo. He later trained in the Filipino Martial arts for
many years before going on study to Chinese medicine and internal
martial arts. Tom made numerous trips to China and South East Asia
where he studied both medicine and martial arts with many different
masters. Tom has taught martial arts since 1979. During that time, he
apprenticed with Chinese herbalists and experts in acupuncture, qi
gong, Chinese Medical massage (Tui Na) and bonesetting (Zheng
Gu). He went on to become a licensed practitioner of traditional
Chinese medicine and for many years a busy clinic specializing in
trauma, Chinese sports medicine, and orthopedic conditions.
 
Tom is the founder of New York Internal Arts (NYIA) and Internal Arts
International (IAI). These organizations teach and promote the
Chinese Internal Arts of Ba Gua Zhang and Xing Yi Quan and their
connections to both Chinese medicine and the healing arts. NYIA and
IAI offer classes and both live and online seminars in Qi Gong and
Nei Gong, Internal Martial Arts, Daoist Meditation, worldwide. In 2015
he founded Practical Chinese Medicine, in order to create a new
teaching method and curriculum aimed at imparting practical clinical
skills in traditional Chinese medicine.
 
Tom is the author of the popular book, A Tooth From the Tiger’s
Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of
the Great Chinese Warriors (Simon and Schuster) Zheng Gu Tui Na:
A Chinese Medical Massage Textbook, which he co-authored with
Frank Butler. He has also written and collaborated on more than 18
books on Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan Daoist Meditation and Nei
Gong. 
 
As for Books at this moment:
 
Tower of Skulls: A History of The Asia-Pacific War July 1937 - May 1942 by Richard Frank
The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao by Xing De
Rereading sections of A Walk Along the River by Yu Guo Jun
 
I will probably simultaneously pick up and read an entertaining SCi-Fi book for relaxation.
 
 
Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!
 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact - theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:34:26 <![CDATA[Bonnitta Roy]]> Sat, 15 May 2021 06:05:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/bonnitta-roy https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/bonnitta-roy Bio:

Bonnie is an integral process philosopher and Daoist Horse Whisperer. She hosts collective insight retreats at her home/farm, Alderlore Insight Center, and teaches a Master's course in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute, is an associate editor of Integral Review and an associate at Perspectiva. 

 

What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?

In terms of "formal practice" I do a breath practice slow and deep (3 breaths per minute)
I also do a gratitude practice when I wake up and when I go to sleep
I love to listen to the birds in the pre-dawn morning and the peepers in the evening
Watching fireflies and bats
Cooking
Feeding birds, ducks, horses, gardening...


What are you reading (other than The Brain from Inside Out)?

Oh, that's a very long list. Let's see what's around my desk currently
Chandler and Reid: Becoming Indigenous
Chandler and Reid: The Neoliberal Subject
Connolly: A World of Becoming
Cayley: Ivan Illich an Intellectual Journey
Newen, DeBrun and Gallagher: The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition

A stack on Buddhist ontology and perception:
(These are part of a project of translating Mipham's Beacon of Certainty from Pettit's translation)

Amar Singh: The Sautrantika Analytical Philosophy
Anne C Klein: Knowing, Meaning & Negation
Elizabeth Napper: Dependent Arising and Emptiness
David Hinton: China Root, Taoism, Ch'an and Original Zen
David Chai: Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness
Duckworth: Mipham on Budda-Nature   

For research on a paper on transformative education
The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education

Contemporary Events:
Mudge: Leftism Reinvented
Bratton: The Stack
Parag Khanna: The Future is Asian

I also have this cool book by Taschen Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism
and the current I-Ching Dao-de-ChingI am using is the set by Liu Ming (highly recommended)   https://www.dayuancircle.org


OK. That's a big chunk of it

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 4 1 true Bio:

Bonnie is an integral process philosopher and Daoist Horse Whisperer. She hosts collective insight retreats at her home/farm, Alderlore Insight Center, and teaches a Master's course in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute, is an associate editor of Integral Review and an associate at Perspectiva. 

 

What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?

In terms of "formal practice" I do a breath practice slow and deep (3 breaths per minute)
I also do a gratitude practice when I wake up and when I go to sleep
I love to listen to the birds in the pre-dawn morning and the peepers in the evening
Watching fireflies and bats
Cooking
Feeding birds, ducks, horses, gardening...


What are you reading (other than The Brain from Inside Out)?

Oh, that's a very long list. Let's see what's around my desk currently
Chandler and Reid: Becoming Indigenous
Chandler and Reid: The Neoliberal Subject
Connolly: A World of Becoming
Cayley: Ivan Illich an Intellectual Journey
Newen, DeBrun and Gallagher: The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition

A stack on Buddhist ontology and perception:
(These are part of a project of translating Mipham's Beacon of Certainty from Pettit's translation)

Amar Singh: The Sautrantika Analytical Philosophy
Anne C Klein: Knowing, Meaning & Negation
Elizabeth Napper: Dependent Arising and Emptiness
David Hinton: China Root, Taoism, Ch'an and Original Zen
David Chai: Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness
Duckworth: Mipham on Budda-Nature   

For research on a paper on transformative education
The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education

Contemporary Events:
Mudge: Leftism Reinvented
Bratton: The Stack
Parag Khanna: The Future is Asian

I also have this cool book by Taschen Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism
and the current I-Ching Dao-de-ChingI am using is the set by Liu Ming (highly recommended)   https://www.dayuancircle.org


OK. That's a big chunk of it

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:22:47 <![CDATA[Amashé Etz Alon]]> Sat, 08 May 2021 06:27:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/amashe-etz-alon https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/amashe-etz-alon

Who is Amashé Etz Alon?

I am first and foremost a human being. Born in Northern Florida, and grown as a teenager in Southern California, I was raised with deep Jewish roots, and connectivity with the African American and Native American communities where I lived. I was also in the front wave of gender spectrum children daring to live openly, having expressed my Intersex/Intergendered nature from age four and becoming as an adult, one of the first Non-Binary Transgender rabbis of the Jewish people.

 

I began my training in Jewish spiritual leadership as a young child and have been learning and working in spiritual and energy healing contexts for 45 years, almost my entire conscious life, 20 years of which have been as an ordained rabbi and Jewish tribal leader.

 

In addition to my Jewish training, I have spent my lifetime studying and working with peoples of many backgrounds, with a special love and connection with Native American communities with whom I have grown deep Alliances. Always a student of life, firmly committed to my own path of healing and transformation, I have grown an ability to transcend a singular religious view and work always with a deep willingness to relate to all people’s and all true spiritual lineages on Earth.

 

One of the truly remarkable points of my life has been my encounter with Indigenous and Spiritist paths from Brazil and the intersection of these spiritual lines with my Native Jewish spirituality. All of which translates directly into my work as a spiritualist, activist and healer, making in me someone who can work with people from diverse backgrounds and faith traditions.


What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?

My daily practice right now that is rooting my forward growth is, believe it or not, going to the YMCA every day to work out. It's so important to be grounded in our body, and also a good workout can serve in huge ways to release all that somatic stuff we were talking about

 
Who are three awesome people that we don't know that you think would enjoy being in dialog with us?
 
THIS person, Menachem Cohen, a rabbinic colleague of mine would be a fantastic person to interview- but not because of his rabbinic work, he's kind of a freaky rabbi like me btw, but because of his groundbreaking work using Role playing games for spiritual and personal growth. He's a super out of the box thinker, a good talker and has an amazing heart.
]]> full 3 1 true

Who is Amashé Etz Alon?

I am first and foremost a human being. Born in Northern Florida, and grown as a teenager in Southern California, I was raised with deep Jewish roots, and connectivity with the African American and Native American communities where I lived. I was also in the front wave of gender spectrum children daring to live openly, having expressed my Intersex/Intergendered nature from age four and becoming as an adult, one of the first Non-Binary Transgender rabbis of the Jewish people.

 

I began my training in Jewish spiritual leadership as a young child and have been learning and working in spiritual and energy healing contexts for 45 years, almost my entire conscious life, 20 years of which have been as an ordained rabbi and Jewish tribal leader.

 

In addition to my Jewish training, I have spent my lifetime studying and working with peoples of many backgrounds, with a special love and connection with Native American communities with whom I have grown deep Alliances. Always a student of life, firmly committed to my own path of healing and transformation, I have grown an ability to transcend a singular religious view and work always with a deep willingness to relate to all people’s and all true spiritual lineages on Earth.

 

One of the truly remarkable points of my life has been my encounter with Indigenous and Spiritist paths from Brazil and the intersection of these spiritual lines with my Native Jewish spirituality. All of which translates directly into my work as a spiritualist, activist and healer, making in me someone who can work with people from diverse backgrounds and faith traditions.


What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?

My daily practice right now that is rooting my forward growth is, believe it or not, going to the YMCA every day to work out. It's so important to be grounded in our body, and also a good workout can serve in huge ways to release all that somatic stuff we were talking about

 
Who are three awesome people that we don't know that you think would enjoy being in dialog with us?
 
THIS person, Menachem Cohen, a rabbinic colleague of mine would be a fantastic person to interview- but not because of his rabbinic work, he's kind of a freaky rabbi like me btw, but because of his groundbreaking work using Role playing games for spiritual and personal growth. He's a super out of the box thinker, a good talker and has an amazing heart.
 
 
 
THIS person would be at the tippy top of my list for you all as an interview potential- one of the freshest young upcoming thinkers I know of, and super sophisticated in his analysis and views
 
 
Chase Iron Eyes would be an amazing interview, I met him in Counsel with Chief Crow Dog at Standing Rock
 
 
And this person, someone you might not expect to want to interview, but who is a spectacular human being with a ton of relevant experience working with marginalized peoples- he introduced me to Miles Horton and The Highlander Folk Center way back when I was in college, so recomended.
 
 
For more information: www.etzalon.com
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 01:27:37 <![CDATA[IntroCast]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:13:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/introcast https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/introcast Welcome to the Apricot Jam!

Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz.

In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us.

We never know what will emerge from these long-form improvisations, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality.

We hope you enjoy the jam sessions!

https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> trailer 1 1 true Welcome to the Apricot Jam!

Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz.

In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us.

We never know what will emerge from these long-form improvisations, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality.

We hope you enjoy the jam sessions!

https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> 00:06:01 <![CDATA[Brad Kershner]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 06:33:00 +0000 Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/brad-kershner https://apricotjam.castos.com/episodes/brad-kershner Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity (available from amazon and Brill). His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lectures are available on YouTube. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon. 

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
]]> full 2 1 true Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity (available from amazon and Brill). His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lectures are available on YouTube. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon. 

 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove!

 
Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037
 
Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com
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