The Pastor & Priestess
by JT Smiedendorf
The Pastor and Priestess are bringing it all together; pagan and Christian, ancient and future, soul and body, masculine and feminine. Join them to explore the deep psycho-spiritual roots of what ails us and what we need for healing and justice in the 21st century.
Episodes
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The Arc of Ego - Beena Sharma - Pastor and Priestess 0204
Our series on integral philosophy and adult development continues with Beena Sharma who combines the worlds of adult development and polarity wisdom. Beena shares moments of mystical insight and conceptual breakthrough that married ego development with polarity wisdom. For us, such an…
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Developing Spiritual Intelligence - Cindy Wigglesworth - Pastor and Priestess 0203
Our series on Integral Spirituality continues with Cindy Wigglesworth, corporate veteran, consultant, and bestselling author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence. She proposes that there are skills to be developed that can make us more like those great exemplars of Spirit,...
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From Adulthood to Maturity - Rob McNamara - Pastor and Priestess 0202
How does one move from simple adulthood to maturity? As a former Harvard lecturer and now Senior Monk and Integral Zen Dharma Holder, Rob McNamara brings the academic and the subtle spiritual to the question. Moving from basic stages of development to the farther reaches of growth, McNamara...
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Big Mind, Big Heart - Santiago Jimenez - Pastor and Priestess 0201
To kick off our series on integral spirituality and adult development is guest Santiago Jimenez, a Zen monk who teaches in the lineage of Zen Master Genpo Roshi, and Shinzen Young. Santiago is also an accomplished musician, industrial engineer, integral facilitator, and serves as the current...
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Psychedelics and Christianity - Hunt Priest - Pastor and Priestess 0121
A Christian psychedelic society? Yes, there is one! After his own experience in a psilocybin study of religious leaders, The Rev. Hunt Priest founded Ligare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the church about psychedelics and their potential benefits. Hunt shares his psychedelic and...
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Spirituality IS Healing - Joe Tafur - Pastor and Priestess 0120
Joe Tafur is not your everyday physician. Both a trained physician and a trained Ayahuascero, Dr. Joe Tafur researches mind-body healing, leads a new kind of spiritual community, and directs a nonprofit. In this episode, he shares his understanding of healing and spirituality and of the role of...
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Field Trip to Inner Divinity - Randy Scharlach - Pastor and Priestess 0119
Dr. Randy Scharlach is a radiation oncologist, trained at Yale and UCLA medical schools. Randy holds a unique position as both a medical doctor and a spiritual guide offering support for those seeking healing from psychedelic medicines. Having personally recovered from a deep depression thanks to...
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Psychedelics and Spirituality - Pastor and Priestess 0116
This episode begins a series on Psychedelics and Spirituality. In this episode, Pastor JT and Priestess Allison share their own stories of sacramental prayer and explain how and why plant medicines can be a powerful spiritual practice, when held wisely. If you're interested in the psychedelic...
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I Am That - Anahita Joon - Pastor and Priestess 0114
Anahita Joon has known both the darkest oppression and fullest expression of the feminine. She was born in Iran during the revolution and grew up during the Iran Iraq war, where women were highly oppressed. As a young girl, she only wanted to dress up and dance, and longed for more…
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Leadership as a Sacred Calling - Kimberly Aset Firewalker - Pastor and Priestess 0113
Kimberly is the Founder of Wildfire Global, a boutique firm for high-impact, conscious leaders and entrepreneurs. She envisions a world where a diverse slate of empowered, intuitive leaders are guiding the top corporations, businesses and political offices. Kimberly has mentored, advised, coached...
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Earth Guardianship - Grandmother La'ne Sa'an Moonwalker – Pastor and Priestess 0112
Grandmother La'ne Sa'an Moonwalker hails from a lineage of healers from her Yaqui grandmother. Holding a vision to train teachers, healers, oracles and ministers under the umbrella of environmental guardianship she sought and found her main teacher Grandmother Tu Moonwalker, the holder of an...
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Earth, Love and Grief – Clare Dubois - Pastor and Priestess 0111
17 million trees planted. That's what Clare Dubois, founder and CEO of TreeSisters, has helped to happen after she ran into a tree, literally. Her tree planting accomplishment is inspiring all by itself. Yet, the power of Clare's message – and the potency of the Tree Sisters movement – is really...
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Earth Peoples United - Tat Erick Gonzalez - Pastor and Priestess 0110
Spiritual Leader, Teacher and Earth Wisdom Keeper of the Maya, Tat Erick Gonzalez shares his passion for unification of all lineages for healing of humanity and earth. In this episode, we focus on the urgent spiritual imperative to serve the unification of all peoples of the earth, to The Sixth…
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Sacred Feminine Sovereignty - Rima Bonario - Pastor and Priestess 0109
Rev. Dr. Rima Bonario talks about different aspects of the archetype of Sovereignty expressed in the feminine to realize embodied power. Connecting 7 areas of Sovereignty to the seven chakras, she discusses the dynamics of running energy in a balanced way, uniting masculine and feminine within…
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Finding the Third Way - Brian Emerson - Pastor and Priestess 0108
Brian Emerson, Ph.D. is Principal and founder of Andiron, a firm committed to helping leaders navigate organizational complexity. He has an impressive history of partnering with organizations around the world to achieve sustained results in leadership development, aligning organizational culture...
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Anchoring Sacred Activism in Love
On the matter of social justice and spirituality, Lettie Sullivan is a force and a voice of experience. After George Floyd's murder, she offered space for community lament and to seek the strength to be resilient. Her offer went viral, expanding her circle of connection one hundredfold. As a...
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The Feminine Rising: Gaia Codex
As the visionary author of the eco-feminist novel, GAIA CODEX, Sarah Drew catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. Sarah has been a featured speaker at the graduate level and at organizations such as Google, ABC Deepak Homebase, The Assemblage and...
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A Couple's Story of Sacred Union
Lila Sophia Tresemer and David Tresemer, Ph.D., are founders of The StarHouse. They work together, grow together and love living LIFE together, and have grounded collaborative visions for sustainable community. Together for the past 25 years, they have taught and facilitated at The StarHouse and…
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Healing Divisions Through Polarity Wisdom
After living for 5 years in Harlem in the late 60s, Barry Johnson became passionate about changing organizations, communities, and nations so that protest was not the only option to improving the consequences of unjust systems. In his quest to learn, he studied Gestalt psychology and, in the…
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Creativity and Spirituality
Brooke McNamara is author of Bury the Seed and Feed Your Vow, and is co-director of Eunice Embodiment, which offers cutting-edge performances, embodiment education and creative practice workshops and retreats. She is passionate about teaching poetry meditation and creative practice. She has this…
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Sophia Rising
The Divine Feminine is and must be on the rise. The current challenges of environmental distress, racism, sexism, and inequality are all the result of a repression and neglect of the Divine Feminine and the archetypal feminine values and energies. The Pastor & Priestess share about their personal...
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Psychedelics in Antiquity?
In an exploration of the relationship of religion and spirituality to drugs, Allison and JT speak with Brian Muraresku, author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name. Do we need a psychedelic renaissance? The ties with plant sacraments and prayer and mystical...
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Meet the Pastor and the Priestess
Welcome to the introductory episode of Pastor and Priestess. Meet co-hosts Allison Conte and JT Smiedendorf. They'll share a little bit about their backgrounds, and get us started on what they aim to achieve with this podcast, as they seek to combine their seemingly divergent religious…
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About this show
The Pastor and Priestess are bringing it all together; pagan and Christian, ancient and future, soul and body, masculine and feminine. Join them to explore the deep psycho-spiritual roots of what ails us and what we need for healing and justice in the 21st century.
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JT Smiedendorf
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