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The Knowing
by Ciel Grove
Dedicated to the pursuit of healing, personal insight + collective transformation, The Knowing is a conversational deep dive into the application of Shamanic and Integrative medicine in modern life.
Episodes
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Season 4 Episode 4: The Lens you Look Through
Part 2 of 3: Self-Importance and the Sovereign Self This one starts with yet another strange, unbidden moment in the life of Ciel— the kind that arrives in the middle of what feels like life falling apart around its edges, when every strategy has run out and something else steps in. This was not…
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Season 4 Episode 4: Beyond Self Importance
What if: you are not too much, and you are not too little. You are just turned the wrong way. That's the claim this episode makes, and it might not be a comfortable one to sit with. Self-importance gets talked about like it's vanity — too much ego, too much me. But what if it's the opposite of…
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Season 4 Episode 3: Jeremy Christopher
Today I'm joined by Jeremy Christopher, a Toltec practitioner based in Brazil who has walked this path since 2006, apprenticed to a nagual for seventeen years, and helped build one of the most active online Nagualismo communities through his site, Nagualismo.com.br. His work — offered through...
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Season 4 Episode 2: Death As Ally Pt. II (the practice)
Part One of this two-part episode ended with me in the dark, having made peace with dying. This episode finishes the story, and offers the second half of the story that changed everything. In the middle of that acceptance, a small set of feet came padding down the stairs. A daughter crawled into...
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A NEW SEASON/aka SEASON 4: Death as Ally Pt. 1
Most of us have been taught, in a thousand subtle ways, to treat death as the enemy: the thing to outrun, outwit, or simply not think about. In this episode, I want to offer you something different, and something so fundamental to Shamanic (and most other wisdom tradition) practice. This is the...
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Initiated practice 5: Shape Shifting
When attempting to work with the deceptive adversary that is our self importance it is necessary to have many tools. Practices like shadow exploration, working with the voice of impeccability, and virtue-based work can be immensely helpful (we’ll explore these a little later in the process), but...
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Initiated Episode 5: You only have one enemy.
In this episode of the Initiated Series, we move from an exploration of initiatory tools and perspectives into a more direct focus on who and what helps and hinders us on this path. Episode 5 is an introduction to our ‘one true enemy’. This enemy is elusive, wily, deceptive, and relentless, and…
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Initiated Practice 4: Prayer
Patience is profoundly connected to faith—faith in something larger and more wise than ourselves, and thus that knows when and how things should be happening better than we do—and to the willingness to be humble in contact with the unknown. Therefore, the most beautiful practice I know of to...
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Initiated Episode 4: Patience
I have made many, many jokes on the podcast about what an awful student I was to my primary teacher. And I deserve the mockery. Of the five years that I studied with her at least two of them were spent learning one thing: patience. Again and again, every time we met for instruction, the lesson...
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Initiated Practice 3: Gratitude
Let’s go on a gratitude-expressing journey.
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Initiated Episode 3: Investigating your Lens, and Gratitude
“We don’t see the world as it is. We see it as we are.” - Anäis Nin Today’s episode focuses on the biological and perceptual truths behind the idea that we ‘create our own reality’. Each of us has a ‘lens’ in our brain that filters our experience. The purpose of this lens is to limit the amount…
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Initiated Practice 2: Tonglen
Tonglen is, by far, my favourite blessing and compassion practice, all rolled into one. I’ve offered this practice previously on the podcast, but here’s an updated, cinematic soundscape version to hopefully walk you further down the path of open-heartedness, generosity, and presence.
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Initiated Episode 2: Compassion & Blessing
In the Shamanic tradition (and others) there are very specific tools that we are guided to use to meet reality. These tools both form a framework and containment for the difficult process of Initiation—when you’re going through hell they provide a structure and reliable practice that will ground...
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Initiated Practice 1: Meditation
This week's floating, peaceful practice track will take you into a 30 minute seated meditation practice, and includes a brief introduction at the start, extended silence, and a dedication of practice at the close. I hope it serves you well.
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Initiated Episode 1: The Framework
Life is beckoning all of us onto this initiatory path in anticipation and support of the next phase of our species’ experience. We are being transformed by life (as life has the habit of doing), calling us into alignment with our surroundings and into the potential for a truly interdependent and...
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Season 3 Episode 2: Stella Osorojos Eisenstein and Serving the Soul
As I mention in this episode, many years ago my teacher told me that in the course of human evolution we would split, as a species, and walk down two roads. I have heard this sentiment echoed by many other teachers and lineages. It has never felt more true than in the last two years, and I feel...
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Season 3 Episode 1:What is medicine?
Well, hey friends. It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? I’m not entirely sure where the last six months have gone, but my apologies for the abrupt and extended and unexplained absence. I’m so happy to be back here in this space with you all, and to share the powerful conversations and explorations…
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Season 2 Episode 16: Asia Suler
Amidst the craziness of spring up here there hasn’t been a lot of time for podcasts around here, but I was so very pleased and honoured to get to sit down with my guest for this episode, Asia Suler. Asia is a brilliant teacher and practitioner based in West Virginia, and the creator of One Willow...
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Season 2 Episode 15: To Know Yourself is to Forget Yourself
I hope this finds you all well, and enjoying the movement and release of the liver/spring/eclipse season if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere! It certainly seems to be a time of great awareness and expression of energy, coinciding rather perfectly with the easing of restrictions in many people…
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Season 2 Episode 14: Choosing New Currencies
Hey there lovely people. We’ve been having some crazy technology issues in recording over the last while, but finally got things together to be able to have this fantastic conversation (minus a blip at the beginning where we had to switch to the ol’ school telephone…We’ll blame the moon, maybe)....
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Season 2 Episode 13: Let's give Ciel some therapy.
Lovely humans! So happy to be back here in this space, and, apparently, using an entire hour of Allison’s life to get her to try to help me navigate the chaos in my life. Ahhh…it has been a time. A very good and potential-filled time, and a time with a lot happening as well. In this episode we...
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Season 2 Episode 11: How to be an Adult, with David Richo
I first encountered David Richo’s work many years ago, amidst a period of my life where I was, admittedly, not much of a functioning adult. Crippled by fear and self doubt and seemingly unable to offer consistent presence to the people in my lives, I ordered his book, ‘How to be an Adult’ praying...
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Season 2 Episode 10: Emptiness and Discovering Your Gifts
My teacher always told me that each person had three unique medicine gifts that they were to figure out in this lifetime, and that our gifts are just as variable as human nature. It has been my journey to come to know and practice my gifts, and now to help others in articulating and offering…
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Season 2 Episode 9: Hope, Faith, and Chickadees
I have a most complex relationship with the idea and experience of ‘hope’, and Allison & I have had many conversations over the past few years about this complexity. I’m pretty sure this is the first time we’ve had one on air, however! Hope can be a beautiful and powerful energy to have in our...
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Season 2 Episode 8: The Wisdom of Stephen Harrod Buhner
I could not be more pleased or feel more honoured that the first guest in this space is none other than Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen Harrod Buhner has been an indescribable influence on my path. His books, perspectives, and basic nature are such an inspiration for me (and for many others I…
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Season 2 Episode 7: Claiming Responsibility, Moving out of Scarcity, and the D-Word.
Well hey there, everyone. What a fun conversation this was! I feel like a LOT has been coming through within this liminal space we are currently occupying—this space of being not what we were, but not quite yet what we are becoming...—and Allison & I explored several themes that seem to be…
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Season 2 Episode 6: What is Healing?
Hello friends, and happy holidays. I hope this has been a beautiful time for you all, and I wish perhaps especially that the Solstice and depth of this winter season has been clarifying and meaningful. It certainly has been for me. This is a great episode. Allison & I explore the idea of what...
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Season 2 Episode 5: Adulting
I think that Shamanic practice offers a very beautiful (albeit difficult) perspective on what it means to really ‘grow up’, as in this work being an adult is not so much related to whether or not we can pay our bills and maintain a job (though, yes, that it still important..) as it is to whether…
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Season 2 Episode 4: The Challenge with Choices
This was such a fun conversation to have, all about how we make choices, whether we are REALLY making conscious choices and being honest with ourselves, and how to engage with making better choices in every area of our lives. My apologies again for the lack of show notes (I might take up those...
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Season 2 Episode 3: THAT card.
Oh man. It has been quite a time. I’m so sorry for not posting podcasts the last while, for those of you who might be waiting on these! I explain a bit more in this session about what has been going on, but omitted a lot of other life craziness that has prevented things from happening!
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Season 2 Episode 2: Sacred Water
As human beings, our relationship to water is essential, and sacred. And yet it seems like we take this element for granted or don't acknowledge what a lack of water or even connection to water will create in our lives. This episode is dedicated to the practice of conscious connection with water,...
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Season 2 Episode 1: Into the Vortex
Hey friends- welcome back. We’re so happy to be back in this space with you all. Let’s dive right into here, shall we? In today’s episode we’re exploring the realities of this ‘initiation’ that we are moving through while transiting the intense vortex energies of this time. We talk about: - how...
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Episode 15: This is the end.
Wellll…at least for now. Welcome to the Season Finale, folks. We will be returning to this space in a few weeks (stay updated on Instagram with me @cielgrove), but I felt that this was a good time to pause, create some very deliberate content, and return with some specific practices, teachings…
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Episode 14: Spiritual Ownership, and Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
We recorded this last week on a morning when both Allison and I were feeling really good. The heaviness of the previous while had lifted for a bit, and we had some good laughs and explorations of a wide range of topics (how unusual…) Some things you can look forward to exploring with us this…
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Episode 13: Where are we trying to get to?
This is likely to be the first of many, many episodes where we will attempt to explore the ‘purpose’ of Shamanic medicine, of healing, of spiritual practice, and of pretty much everything we engage with as modern seekers. Where are we trying to get? Who are we attempting to become? And if all the...
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Episode 12: A little bit of Ciel Story
In Shamanic practice the medicine of each person and practitioner is profoundly different, and has been shaped and honed through the experiences of their lives. I thought, therefore, that it might be interesting to provide a bit of back story for my life and experience--and resulting…
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Episode 11: Letting go of the rope
This conversation is apparently what you get when both Allison and Ciel have had little sleep, a bit too much caffeine, and a healthy dose of social chaos. We explore a wide range of topics here, including: - Why we swing from rope to rope of what is familiar for us, and why it's important to let...
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Episode 10: Building the Bones
Welcome to Episode 10, friends! This is probably my favourite episode so far. Not only did I get to use the term ‘batshit asshole’ in a complete sentence, Allison brought forward the Bones card from the deck, which is one of my favourites to work with and explore in the Soma section. The bones…
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Episode 9: Tonglen Practice
As far as transformative practices go, Tonglen is certainly up there with the most profound and powerful ones. There has been nothing so potent in helping me shift my relationship to suffering (both mine and that of those around me) than this ancient work of ‘sending and taking’. Tonglen has…
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Episode 8: Beautiful Conversations
At this moment of great uncertainty and transformation there is so much to explore, and so much more that will become available to us over time, disclosed to us all as we explore our racial biases, limits in perspective, and unconscious orientations towards the valuing of certain people over...
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Contemplations 1: Right Relationship
Allison + I will be back with more conversational-style podcasts soon, but thought I’d try out a new format this week: ‘The Knowing Contemplations’. Brief, pithy, and hopefully meaningful, Contemplations will aim to offer a bit of perspective and insight into topics relevant to healing +…
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Episode 6: Animal Spirits (Part 1)
If you have questions or would like us to focus on a particular topic here, please reach out! Ciel Grove Allison Strickland
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Episode 5: Making Peace with Vulnerability and Reality
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Episode 4: Cultivating Joy + Magic
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Episode 3: What does Anger have to do with Transformation?
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Episode 2: Sitting with Uncertainty
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Episode 1: Welcome to The Knowing
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Dedicated to the pursuit of healing, personal insight + collective transformation, The Knowing is a conversational deep dive into the application of Shamanic and Integrative medicine in modern life.
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