Zach is an educator and founder of Agora Academy, guiding young people in cultivating a meaningful life, deeply connected to the natural world.

In this conversation we explore the role of "The Underworld" in one's growth and maturation, how we can use dreams and symbols to make sense of our path, and what soul maturation means in the context of these challenges.

You can find more of Zach at agoraacademy.org

Some books to go deeper on the thinkers Zach references:

1. Wild Mind - Bill Plotkin
2. The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
3. Of Water and the Spirit - Malidoma Somé
4. Long Life, Honey in the Heart - Martin Prechtel

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Matthew Duffy (Duffy) is a myco-poet, writer, musician, and cultural alchemist. From 2018-2023, Duffy was instrumental in making Denver the first city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, and later making Colorado the first state to fully decriminalize psilocybin and other entheogenic plants.

We explore the initiation Duffy went through that led to this calling, as well as the trials and tribulations that followed it.

Through it we discuss mythopoetics, human development, and what it means to wake up, grow up and show up.

You can find more of Duffy at:

• Duffy's substack: Our Will to Live (OWL)
• Duffy's instagram @mycelial_mischief
• Duffy's interview on Life's a Festival Podcast

Links to dive deeper on the people/topics discussed:

• Stephen Jenkinson Interview: Elderhood: Coming Of Age In Troubled Times
• Joanna Macy interview: On the World as Love and Self

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Meghan Walla Murphy is a wildlife ecologist, educator, and guide who helps people remember their ancestral kinship with the more-than-human world.

In this conversation we move between the wisdom of elephant seals and bears and the ecosystems we share with them, experiments in wilderness solitude and animal tracking as a path to remembering.

Links mentioned in the conversation:

• Meghan's fundraiser to Help Kalahari Bushmen Keep Their Indigenous Wisdom Alive
• Meghan's website
• Article on The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath

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