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The Passing Through Podcast
by Danny
I currently live in a German-made van named Wilma with my partner. We’ve given up our old way of life and are touring Europe – passing through farms and eco-villages while I record a rambling, ranting podcast examining consciousness, mental health, ecology, philosophy, mindfulness, literature, language, and the human condition. Fasten your seatbelt and come along for the ride!
Episodes
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E125 | Dan Burgess | Ramble On Spaceship Earth
There's a heatwave passing through, and we're passing through it. At least here in Europe. I was delighted to ramble through part of it with the lovely Dan Burgess. Earthling, father, partner, and brother, Dan is a regenerative practitioner, creative strategist, action researcher, co-designer,...
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E124 | Dr. Louise Hecker | Can Psychedelic Mushrooms Slow Aging?
My guest this week is pioneering psychedelic researcher, Dr. Louise Hecker. Under her guidance, a team of scientists made shocking clinical discoveries for the first time in history. Studying a group of elderly mice, the scientists observed that administering heroic doses of psychedelic mushrooms...
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E123 | A Finger in Your Ear
This week I'm passing through the space between your ears! Join me for a liminal stream-of-consciousness ramble into the unknown, as I hunger for your wax and comb the murky depths of what's bubbling up through my mind.
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E122 | Tristan Gooley | Natural Navigating: Reading Nature's Signs
This week I had the chance to speak with Tristan Gooley — a man who’s been called The Sherlock Holmes of nature by the BBC. Tristan is the author of a series of books exploring the topic of natural navigation. Now, you may not have heard this term before. What is natural navigation? Well, to…
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E121 | Francis Weller | Grief, Ritual and Holding Space for Sorrow
This week Francis Weller is Passing Through! How do we work with grief? Why is it important to metabolize our sorrow in a group setting? How does grief work and grief ritual differ from group therapy or support groups? What is grief asking of us? To help us answer these questions, I’m honored to...
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E120 | Listening to Grief & the Emotions Modern Culture Casts Aside
This week I’m passing through southern Poland with a little preamble about grief (stay tuned for a more thorough investigation to come). This episode is a short, stream-of-consciousness exploration of the difficult emotions that we cast aside into liminal space in modern culture: inadequacy…
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E119 | Big Other | The Surveillance Episode
Did you ever get the feelin’ you was bein’ watched? This week I’m passing through a network of Flock Safety cameras that are all watching my every move and making me wonder what my Fourth Amendment rights are for. This is the surveillance episode. This episode is all about how the most powerful...
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E118 | Time Away
This week I’m passing through remembering the past couple of weeks. Join me for a chat about time spent with my father in Portugal, reflections on child-parent relations, Community Building, and Asia and I's first time on our own as facilitators.
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E117 | Jeremy Lent | Envisioning Ecocivilization and Exiting the Anthropocene
Jeremy Lent, visionary thinker, founder of The Deep Transformation Network, and author of books like The Patterning Instinct, The Web of Meaning, and most recently, Ecocivilizaiton: Making A World That Works For All, joins us this week on The Passing Through Podcast. He takes a systems-thinking...
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E116 | Weekend Updates | New Website & Substack
This week I'm passing through with some news! We've got a website! Now you can stream episodes, search content, watch animated transcripts, comment, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts without having to use Spotify or pay for any apps. Check it out: https://thepassingthroughpodcast.com...
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E115 | Werner Herzog | The Texture of the Moment
Filmmaker, writer, and philosopher Werner Herzog is Passing Through (he's always passing through) for a conversation about the state of the world — oil, artificial intelligence, borders, and what lies underneath all of it. He discusses H.P. Lovecraft, the moth that drinks from the tears of…
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E114 | Grace Rachmany | Leaving, Belonging & the Courage to Compost
What does it mean to build a new world when you haven't figured out how to leave the old one behind? Grace Rachmany returns to The Passing Through Podcast for the second time, this time calling in from Malaysia, where she had been living inside a crypto-bro utopia not entirely dissimilar to the...
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E113 | Vipassana Meditation | Inside a 10-Day Silent Retreat
In this solo episode of The Passing Through Podcast, we dive deep into the ancient meditation practice of Vipassana. After completing my third 10-day silent retreat, join me for a talk where I unpack what really happens inside a Vipassana course: the intense physical pain, the psychological...
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E112 | David George Haskell | Listening to the Living World
This week I’m joined by biologist, author, educator and deep listener David George Haskell. David is a contributor to publications such as the New York Times, Scientific American and The Guardian, he has produced sound projects with Emergence Magazine, and he has a brand new book coming out later...
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E111 | Jeffrey Epstein | Power, Corruption, and the Global Elite
Join me for a different kind of episode this week, and it's a long one. Lots of people are talking about Epstein—not enough, in my opinion, considering it’s quite possibly the biggest, most disturbing scandal in modern history—so I’d like to share some thoughts. I’m going to explore this with a...
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E110 | Doug Tallamy | The Little Things That Run The World
In this episode of The Passing Through Podcast, entomologist, ecologist, educator and author Doug Tallamy reveals why insects are the foundation of life on Earth, and what happens if they disappear. From caterpillars and chickadees to invasive species, deer, and global insect decline, we explore...
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E109 | Dr Lyla June Johnston | Love, Beauty and Empire
Right now the world feels like it’s unraveling—politically, ecologically, spiritually. We’re at a time when love can feel naive, beauty can feel fragile, and the word empire is painfully alive and present. In this episode, I’m honored to be joined by Indigenous scholar, scientist, musician, and...
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E108 | A Broadcast From the Sickhouse
This week I'm down with the sickness (Oh, ah-ah-ah-ah). I'm ill! Part man, part exotic virus. Join me for a very quick and delirious update from the non-ordinary state of consciousness we collectively call sickness.
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E107 | On Thin ICE | Fascism, Ecology, and the Ethics of Resistance
In this solo episode, I reflect on stillness, resistance and the use of force, as well as what it means to live through times of ecological and social crisis. I talk about the pressure of weekly creation, the value of slowing down, and the tension between offering something out of obligation…
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E106 | Ethan Tapper | How To Love A Forest | Ecology, Re-Enchantment & Responsibility
What if learning to love a forest could change how you see responsibility, courage, and your place in the living world? From trees that sweat clouds to foxes guided by invisible forces, today’s conversation invites us back into a world alive with wonder. Joining us today on The Passing Through...
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E105 | For Those Listening From The Liminal
This week I'm passing through the snowy mountains of southwestern Poland. Join me for a meandering ramble that begins with dissolution and letting go. What does it mean to let go of everything and dissolve? In this episode I ask questions like: What is this podcast about? Who is it for? What's...
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Episode 104 - AI, Spotify & Social Media
Hello and welcome to 2026! Join me for a quick current events update at the start, followed by a deep dive into some of the environmental, socio-cultural and cognitive impacts of artificial intelligence and social media and how these things have been passing through my existence recently. Here's…
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Episode 103 - The Winter Solstice
This week we're passing through the winter solstice; perhaps our most ancient human holiday. What is the winter solstice? What is nature doing in the winter time? What is it asking of us? What can it tell us? What does letting go of your leaves look like? Step into the darkest day of the year…
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Episode 102 - Sara McFarland
My dance partner today is the lovely and soulful Sara McFarland. Sara is a storyteller, ritual performance artist, an improvisational singer, a soul initiation guide, a wild mind mentor, and a death doula for The Great Dying. Sara’s views are rooted in an animist understanding of the world where...
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Episode 101 - Anna Kovasna
Some people dedicate their lives not just to imagining different futures, but to deliberately, courageously crafting and inhabiting them — long before the mainstream catches up. This week on The Passing Through Podcast, I’m very excited to introduce Anna Kovasna. Anna is a systems thinker…
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Episode 100 - Giving Thanks
This week, in this special 100th episode, I’m passing through Laski, Poland with a bunch of ancestors; living and dead. Join me (and a few special guests) for an episode dedicated to giving thanks and honoring those who’ve come before us as we explore gratitude and reciprocity as possible…
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Episode 99 - Douglas Rushkoff Returns!
We live in a world consumed by code, and advanced by algorithms. For all of our technological prowess and alleged progress, we’re still haunted by the oldest questions; about love, meaning, loss, suffering, and what it means to be human creatures in times of precarity and collapse. My guest today…
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Episode 98 - Rolla Selbak
Beneath the noise of harrowing headlines and persistent propaganda, I suspect there’s a deeper movement growing: people remembering their collective power, refusing erasure, refusing silence and, choosing instead to tell their stories. My guest today is Rolla Selbak — a Palestinian-American...
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Episode 97 - Grace Rachmany
This week we’re passing through with the lovely Grace Rachmany where we’ll take a look at the relational, emotional, and ecological connective tissue that binds us to every living thing on this planet. Grace is a field representative dedicating her energy toward addressing the metacrisis. She’s a...
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Episode 96 - Mindful Bridges (A Peace Building Training)
This week I'm passing through Berlin, Germany! Back in September my partner and I attended a 5-day training in Portugal, on Peace Building. Since then I've been meaning to record an episode about the experience and discuss the topics we explored. As you might imagine, distilling five days of...
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Episode 95 - Josh Schrei
This week, Josh Schrei is Passing Through! Josh is the creator and host of The Emerald Podcast — one of my own personal favorite podcasts. Josh isn’t just an educator, storyteller, music-maker, writer and pioneer in the field: in terms of podcasting he’s one of the best to ever do it. If you’re...
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Episode 94 - Diarmuid Lyng
This week, Diarmuid Lyng is Passing Through! Many of us simply speak. Others load their language up with love, respect, humor, humility, kindness, poetry and play. Today’s guest, Diarmuid Lyng, is one of the latter. Diarmuid is an educator, former Wexford hurling captain, facilitator and lover of...
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Episode 93 - Dan Barracuda
In this episode I’m joined by someone whose life is steeped in sound: musician and creative, Dan Barracuda. Dan is a passionate musician with a gift for peeling back the layers of music we thought we knew, offering illuminating breakdowns of classic songs that reveal their hidden textures and...
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Episode 92 - Dr. Patricia June Vickers
This week Doctor Patricia June Vickers is Passing Through! Dr Vickers is a poet, artist, writer and internationally respected psychotherapist specializing in trauma of first nation peoples. She is a member of the Eagle clan from the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia and carries a traditional...
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Episode 91 - Gabriel Durham
In this episode, the phantastic Gabriel Durham is Passing Through — for the second time! Longtime listeners will remember Gabriel as the meticulously learned Buddhist meditator and martial artist from episode 24. Gabriel is now a dad and we teamed up for a discussion as part of an upcoming...
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Episode 90 - Lake Balaton, Hungary
This week I'm passing through Lake Balaton, Hungary. Join me for a brief sweaty ramble after the Global Eco-village Network Gathering, musings about being beset by a biblical swarm of midges, murmurating starlings, animacy, and whatever else I was talking about when I recorded this episode. In...
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Episode 89 - Khalid Qadas
Not all heroes wear capes. In this episode, we go straight to the streets of central Gaza where I speak with Khalid Qadas: photographer, medical student, and humanitarian volunteer with the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Khalid is heroic and unwaveringly human — full of hope, heart, and determination to help…
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Episode 88 - Ahmed Bashbash
In times of genocide, when silence is complicity, some courageous people are stepping forward to take action, and empowering others to do the same. This week, I had the honor of speaking with Ahmed Bashbash, a Palestinian developer using his skills to build tools that help people around the world...
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Episode 87 - Manda Scott
This week Manda Scott is Passing Through! Manda is not only a bestselling author, podcaster and teacher, she’s a lovely and passionate human championing values like integrity, compassion, and generosity of spirit in a quest to envision the kinds of emergent futures we’d be proud to leave behind.…
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Episode 86 - Lydia Schamschula
This week, the lovely Lydia Schamschula is Passing Through! I had the privilege of meeting Lydia in April during my first experience with Holotropic breathwork. She organizes and facilitates events with the team at Holotropic Breathwork Berlin, and has spent over a decade deepening her practice....
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Episode 85 - Warsaw, Poland
This week I'm passing through Warsaw, Poland! Join me for some thoughts about an elderly shamanic cat, dreams, the nature of ownership and control, the weird mystical magical madness of the human body, grief, Slot Art Festival, and an odd encounter with members of a religious cult! This episode…
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Episode 84 - David Holmgren
This week David Holmgren is Passing Through! In this episode I was honored to sit down with one of the leading voices in ecological wisdom and regenerative culture — David Holmgren. David is best known as the co-originator of permaculture: a design philosophy that has blossomed into a global...
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Episode 83 - Marc Adamus
In this episode, we step into the wilderness with legendary landscape photographer Marc Adamus. His images have graced the pages of magazines like National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, and Popular Photography. But more than prestigious awards or publications, it’s Marc’s presence in wild...
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Episode 82 - Robert Rient
This week Robert Rient is Passing Through! Robert Rient, a powerful voice at the intersection of activism, spirituality, and environmental justice, joins Passing Through for his first interview in English! Robert is the founder of the Odra Person Foundation and the visionary behind the movement…
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Episode 81 - Michael Meade
This week Michael Meade is Passing Through for one of my all-time favorite episodes! Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. For decades, Michael has paired hypnotic storytelling with sharp, soulful reflections on the crises of our...
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Episode 80 - A'ida Shibli
This week A'ida Shibli is Passing Through, for the second time! A'ida is a courageous, wise, passionate Palestinian Bedouin peace activist, educator, eco-villager and mother living at Tamera eco-village in Portugal. She has dedicated decades of her life to making the world a better place. Join us...
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Episode 79 - Moureen Kaki
This week, Moureen Kaki is Passing Through. Moureen is a Palestinian American on the ground in Gaza. For nearly a year she's been working with humanitarian aid organizations like Glia International and Shabab Gaza to provide desperately needed medical assistance and food to the besieged…
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Episode 78 - Eimear Burke
This week Eimear Burke is Passing Through, again! Eimear is a druid, the chosen chief of OBOD — the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids — a seanchaí, lover of bees, and a beautiful human. Join us for a chat about Beltane, pre-Christian Pagan history in Ireland, the feats of Saint Patrick…
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Episode 77 - Robert Falconer
This week Robert Falconer is Passing Through! Bob is an influential IFS therapist with five decades of experience in a diverse set of healing modalities. He’s an international educator, author and an incredible human being. It’s always a privilege to chat with him. In this conversation we discuss...
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Episode 76 - Geoff Lawton
This week Geoff Lawton is passing through! Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture designer, consultant and educator who’s taught tens of thousands of students all across the globe. Since the 1980’s he’s been involved in regenerative agriculture and ecological design, designing sustainable systems...
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I currently live in a German-made van named Wilma with my partner. We’ve given up our old way of life and are touring Europe – passing through farms and eco-villages while I record a rambling, ranting podcast examining consciousness, mental health, ecology, philosophy, mindfulness, literature, language, and the human condition. Fasten your seatbelt and come along for the ride!
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