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Charlotte Dune's Lagoon
by Charlotte Dune
Hosted by psychedelic fiction author Charlotte Dune, The Lagoon explores mind-expansion, self-experimentation, healing modalities, books, and big ideas. charlottedune.substack.com
Episodes
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The Freedom Log with Scott Britton
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Future Tripping, Magnetic Geodes, and AI Soulmates with Rochonda Ferrelli and Charlotte Dune
In this episode, I sit down with artist and executive coach Rochonda Ferrelli, creator of the mesmerizing Magnetic Geodes, to unravel the trap of future tripping: the exhausting swirl of overanalyzing, comparing, and projecting ourselves into “what’s next.” *If you caught us live, you can skip…
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What is “A Functional”? with author Rachel Mack Martin
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Liminal Trickster Mystics with Creekmasons
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Live with Charlotte Dune
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Is humanity shifting or shitting?
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How to Shame a Rapist with Novelist Caitlin Avery
In this episode, authors Caitlin Avery and Charlotte Dune discuss how Avery outed and publicly shamed her rapist. She explains why and how she did it, what happened, the public's reaction, social media activism, and her novel Life of Cyn, inspired by the experience. She also reads from her latest...
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Literary Ticking Clocks
In today's episode of Charlotte Dune’s Lagoon, we're winding into the world of "ticking clocks" in literature and how they're not just gripping plot devices, but also mirrors to our real-life motivations. Counting down to my own book launch, I share thoughts on these suspense-building tools. I…
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Recovery Yoga, Life of a Seeker, and Creative Clusters with Lauren Richardson, Episode #16
In this episode, I speak with Lauren Richardson, Recovery Yoga Expert, Artist’s Way Creative Cluster Host, and founder of Source Recovery Yoga about her practices and philosophy. Recovery in this context means recovery from addiction, though Lauren is also a survivor of child sexual abuse....
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An American Expat in China with Melanie Duhon, Episode #15
In this episode of Charlotte Dune’s Lagoon, I speak with American expat and trailing spouse, Melanie Duhon about her years living in Beijing, including her time during the Covid-19 pandemic and her experience of WeChat, and “The Brickening,” plus, a lot of amazing food, travel, and culture.…
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Happy Bicycle Day!
Happy Bicycle Day folks! Today is the day we celebrate the discovery of LSD, and I’ve got a brief message for you about the secret Black history of LSD and MK-Ultra, the torture of Black men by the CIA, and the value of civil disobedience. For more on this topic, check out this article by...
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Interview with a Vampire Author and Psychedelic Activist: Nicholas Powers
Nicholas Powers, author, teacher, and psychedelic activist, discusses the future of psychedelic therapy, his release from PTSD, and his vampire political novel, Thirst: The Rich are Vampires. Read the interview below, or if you prefer to watch the interviews, please subscribe to my new YouTube...
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Ayahuasca, Birth, and Betrayal: Walking Each Other Home
Folks, I hope you enjoy this episode with psychedelic fiction author Violet De Luna. My apologies for the sub-par audio quality. We had some technical/microphone/zoom issues and I’m working on improving this for next time. Or, watch a video version with captions and visit my new Youtube channel.…
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I Need an Army Of Me
It’s Labor Day in the U.S. today, and so, I offer you a poem and a writing prompt about work — creative, paid, unpaid, hard, easy, etc. This is also the first installment in a series I’ll present on what I call, la vie midi, AKA middle-age. Remember that Bjork song — “Army of Me”? In the music...
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I dream of cages, tethers, and chains
This doesn’t read like non-fiction, but everything is true. (I think.) A Monkey Dream My father, Fred, had a pet monkey named Peaches growing up that his father, Zane, won in a poker game. Though this story is apparently not quite true. According to my own mother, Carol — Zane did not win…
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Stranger Conversations: A Cult Classic and the Simultaneous Discovery of Novels
In science, there is a phenomenon known as “simultaneous invention,” or “multiple discovery.” This occurs in rapid-fire frequency these days, but in the past, sans Internet, it was stranger and more noticeable. Simultaneous discovery is just as it sounds— people in different places who don’t know...
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Banana Bread Vs Writing: Inside Intimations with Zadie Smith Part 3
“[Writing] is a psychological quirk developed in response to personal failings.” — Zadie Smith Read Part One. Read Part Two. Do I even have original ideas? Why do I write? Why do you? Haven’t all the stories already been told? If there are 1,000 types of bananas can we make infinite kinds of…
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American Suffering: Inside Intimations with Zadie Smith Part 2.
Listen to part one here. I don’t know what Zadie Smith looks like. I’ve never googled her, and I don’t want to know the truth. Instead, I see my own stereotype of the “Black Woman Writer,” one equally composed of the visuals Smith’s writing generates and my own preconceived notions of…
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The Monkey Paints the Bars: Inside Intimations with Zadie Smith Part 1
*All quotes are from the essay “Peonies” from Intimations, by Zadie Smith, unless otherwise noted. All views are my own and do not reflect the views of Zadie Smith unless quoted directly. “Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” - Zadie Smith In this piece, I’ll…
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Misdiagnosis, Nocebo, and Two Poems
Introduction: Have you ever experienced the repercussions of a lie that amplified in your own mind? Let’s call this lie a nocebo. A nocebo has a negative psychogenic (mind-to-body) impact. With the nocebo effect, your negative beliefs and thoughts cause physical harm to your body. The nocebo…
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The Age of Imagination
Humans are hardwired to be storytellers, story consumers, testers and builders, listeners, learners, communicators, and designers. Since the dawn of humankind, we’ve relied on stories to unite and separate communities and to spread lies and truths. The metaverse will expand our capacity to create...
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MetaRats
“The Botapocalypse” refers to the proliferation of “bots” on social media and the internet and the tipping point we’ve reached where there are more bots online than humans. But what will we call bots in the metaverse? Louis Rosenberg, Ph.D., the founder of a company called Unanimous.Ai, calls...
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The Botapocalypse
Sometimes we think we’ve seen it all, done it all, but technology is constantly evolving; there are always new things to do and understand. For example, we may be living through The Botapocalypse. What do I mean by this? The Botapocalypse is the end of the living internet, the transition into an...
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Welcome to the Lagoon
Hello fantastic folks and wonderful listeners, learners, dreamers, and readers! Welcome to Charlotte Dune’s Lagoon. I’m Charlotte Dune and I’m a writer. More specifically, I write fiction books, like The Psychedelic Love Series, and creative non-fiction, as well as short stories and the…
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Hosted by psychedelic fiction author Charlotte Dune, The Lagoon explores mind-expansion, self-experimentation, healing modalities, books, and big ideas. charlottedune.substack.com
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