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25: Constitutional Fog
A short, poorly edited episode of me stating the obvious. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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24: Josh Schrei from The Emerald
In this episode we are graced with Josh Schrei. Josh is a writer. A teacher. A lifelong student of world mythologies and cosmologies. He hosts a very high quality podcast called The Emerald: Currents and Trends Through a Mythic Lens. Offering perspectives on everything from current global events…
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23: Becca Tarnas & The Imaginal
Dr. Becca Tarnas is a scholar, artist, counselling astrologer, and an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She is the daughter of renowned psycho-cultural historian, Richard Tarnas. Becca received her PhD in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies...
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22: Dean Harrison | Australian Yowie Research
Following an intense, life changing experience, Dean Harrison has dedicated himself to researching Yowies (Australia's Bigfoot). Dean's journey has spanned decades and he has circled the globe to pursue the truth of these elusive beings. In addition, Dean created Australia Yowie Research which is...
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21: The Rebirth of Nuance with David Holmgren
David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator with Bill Mollison of the permaculture concept following the publication of Permaculture One in 1978. Since then he has developed three properties, consulted and supervised in urban and rural projects and presented lectures, workshops and courses…
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20: Nick Allbrook and the Antenna Erection
Nicholas Allbrook is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter. After growing up in remote, north Western Australian town, Derby, Nick eventually became the frontman of the psychedelic rock band Pond (who have recently released their 9th studio album) and a member of musical duo...
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19: Eliza Greenman & The Fruit Explorers
Eliza Greenman is a fruit explorer, horticultural historian, and designer /implementer of agroforestry plans that integrate livestock (and humans) into tree crop systems/orchards. Outside of her farming endeavours on leased land, She is currently looking to purchase a location (in Virginia) to...
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18: World Building with Joe McKee
Joseph Dennis McKee. UK born Australian musician/sound artist. Once key member of Snowman, now living in LA. We wax lyrically about: -The effect of environment upon creativity -World building -Californian geomantics -The current, acute bifurcation of world views -Discord and resolution in US...
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17: Lore de Angeles
Writer, psychic, initiator and master storyteller, de Angeles has been in print for decades. She facilitates the immersive, initiatory Rivers in the Skin experience: a deeply moving and life-altering ceremonial awakening of ancestral presences and the rewilding of a Celtic ancestry long thought...
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16: Gordon White | Country Calling
For those who have already been introduced to him, Gordon White needs no introduction. For others, he is the curator of Rune Soup, a blog and podcast about magic and a thriving member community of people right across the world interested in the doing of magic; the intellectual and performative...
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15: Harry Greene | The Economics of Agroforestry
Harry Greene is an agroforestry economist, a land steward, and an athlete. He strives to awaken human capacity by planning and planting the trees that improve our lives and our landscapes. Before graduate school he spent two years as a resident athlete at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training...
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14: Richard Weller | Tensile Strength
Richard Weller is an Australian landscape architect and academic. He is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also holds the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, is on the Board of Directors of...
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13: The Spice of Life with David Spicer
Having taught and worked on various projects extensively within Australia and internationally, such as Morocco, Jordan, Palestine and New Caledonia, David Spicer has covered a broad array of different soil types, topography and climatic zones. David is a valued member of the Permaculture...
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12: The Mythopoetics of Extra-sapiens Hominids
Of all the myths and stories we find shared ubiquitously around the globe one of the most persistent and captivating is that of hairy, wild, human-like creatures living in the wilderness. How are they represented in different cultures? Are they merely myth or is there a physical reality to them?...
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11: Scott Cane | Australian Anthropology
Scott Cane, Australian archaeologist and anthropologist, grew up in southern Tasmania before moving to Canberra to study at The Australian National University. There he completed his PhD examining the relationship between human behaviour and material culture among Ngarti and Kukatja people living...
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10: Monica Gagliano | The Perennial Herbaceous
In todays episode we speak with groundbreaking botanical researcher Monica Gagliano. In collaboration with various disciplines across the Sciences and the Humanities, Monica's research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to...
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9: Scott Hall | Syntropic Agriculture
Scott Hall is a 5th Generation Grain Farmer, Market Farmer, Holistic Management Consultant and leader within the Australian syntropic agriculture movement. Syntropic Agriculture is, as the listener will discover, tricky to define. It's simplest definition is a systematised approach to…
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8: Pat Simmons Jr | Ancient Systems of the Hawaiian Islands
Pat Simmons Jr. was born on the Northern California coast but was raised from age 6 on the north-shore of Maui, Hawai’i; a life full of organic farming, surfing, skateboarding, exploring the country, and playing music. He also grew up on tour with his father’s band The Doobie Brothers. As well as…
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7: Mark Jones and the Vegetable Queendom
Mark Jones: Filmaker. Mystic. Ranga. Mark has been living and working extensively in the Kimberley for 27 years and started out as a camera operator with adventure film maker Malcolm Douglas. His curiosity led him into the edit suite and then into developing stories and creating films with deep...
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6: Secrets Of Sahul | Crypto-homonology in South East Asia & Australasia
ls it scientifically plausible that other Hominid species inhabited the Australian mainland before Homo sapiens? Following on from his presentation on the global “Wild Man” phenomena, in this talk researcher Byron Joel explores the fascinating topic of Homonid (modern Humans and their relatives)...
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5: Neal Spackman | The Greening of Mecca
Neal Spackman is not only a scholar and a gentleman, but also an internationally recognized pioneer of hyper-arid agroforestries. He was cofounder and Director of the Al Baydha Project in Saudi Arabia, where he lived and worked with tribes of bedou to convert deserts into savannahs. He founded…
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4: The Indefatigable Darren Doherty
Darren is a 5th generation Bendigo region land manager, developer, author & trainer and has been involved in the design & development of well over 3000, mostly broadacre projects across 6 continents in more than 50 countries, ranging from 1 million hectare cattle stations in Australia’s Kimberly...
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3: An Introduction to the Relict Hominoid Hypothesis
Of all the myths and stories we find shared ubiquitously around the globe one of the most persistent and captivating is that of hairy, wild, human-like creatures living in the wilderness. How are they represented in different cultures? Are they merely myth or is there a physical reality to them?...
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2: Dr Jeff Meldrum | Adventures In Cryptohomonology
Dr Jeff Meldrum is a Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and a Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy. Meldrum is an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates. We explore... - the...
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1: The Octarine Tree | An Introduction
Introducing the Octarine Tree, an interview-based podcast exploring the meaning of ecology, spirit and human relationship. Hosted by Western Australian agro-ecologist Byron Joel. This has been a LONG time coming. The content of this first episode speaks for itself. I look forward to sharing…
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The Octarine Tree. A podcast exploring the meaning of ecology, spirit and human relationship. Hosted by Western Australian agro-ecologist Byron Joel.
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