In this episode, host Erik Jampa Andersson sits down with Lian Brook-Tyler, a shamanic healer and co-founder of the Be Mythical Academy. They discuss the importance of living a soul-led, heart-centred, and sovereign path, reclaiming our wildness, and actualsing our deepest gifts. They explore the limitations of modern spirituality and the need to integrate relational dynamics into our spiritual practice. They also touch on the challenges of language in recognising the personhood of non-human ...
In this episode, we are joined by author and journalist Mike Fiorito to discuss his upcoming book, 'For All We Know' (now available for pre-order), and to chat about UFOs, enchantment, spirituality, music, and the manifold ways that humans metabolise extraordinary and anomalous experiences. Mike is a freelance journalist and the author of The Hated Ones, Falling from Trees, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habits and Hallucinating Huxley. His most recent book, ...
In this episode, Erik is joined by his good friend Anna Raithel, an emotional intelligence coach and ritual arts specialist in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. They discuss the potency of ritual to create rhythm and spaciousness in our lives, to engender authentic relationship with a wide range of 'others,' and to foster a deeper sense of embodiment in one's spiritual practice. They also discuss the power of ritual to transform our perception of simple and mundane things into something sacred ...
In this episode, I'm joined by Tatyanna Wright, a spiritual transformation coach, author, and host of The Conscious Diva podcast, for an enchanting discussion about nature spirits, Nepali shamanism, and the lived experience of being in relationship with unseen beings. A former television producer, Tatyanna now supports clients around the world to spiritually transform their lives through meditation and deep healing. After decades of study in the Vedic tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, Tatyanna...
In this episode of the Unseen Beings Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jack Hunter, an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor with the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal P...
A solocast about the complex interweavings of religion, myth, and belief, and their roles in addressing the so-called 'big questions' of life. Subscribe to Erik Jampa's Substack - https://erikjampa.substack.com On Unseen Beings and Erik Jampa - https://www.unseen-beings.com Shrīmāla - https://www.shrimala.com
In this episode, Erik Jampa discusses the first section of his book, Unseen Beings, which approaches the 'diagnosis' of our complex and multi-faceted ecological crises. He discusses the terminology used to discuss our crisis, and breaks down some of the key arguments and criticisms of the so-called 'Anthropocene' designation. In order to begin to understand the root causes of our climate crisis, and in order to establish an effective method of treatment, we first must co...
In this episode, Erik Jampa discusses the notion of ecological 'recovery,' and the ways that stories can draw us deeper into enchantment or deeper into delusion. With reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal essay 'On Fairy-Stories,' Erik talks about the three functions of 'fairy-stories' - Recovery, Escape, and Consolation - and how the process of enchantment can help us recover a sense of what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. Please visit https://www.unseen-beings.com to ...
In this short introduction to the Unseen Beings podcast, author Erik Jampa Andersson talks about his upcoming book, Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human, and some of the ways that our human-centred worldview has blinded us to the fundamental root causes of our climate crisis. Episodes will be coming this Spring, so please subscribe and stay tuned for a new kind of 'environmental' conversation. Join us as we venture into the wondrous and perilous...