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The Initiation is a podcast for those who sense the gravity and possibility of this moment in human history - a threshold marked by converging crises and a call to rise to the occasion.As exponential technologies accelerate, the global monetary system strains, climate disruption intensifies, and geopolitical orders shift - humanity stands on the edge of something vast and unknown.This is our collective initiation: a rite of passage that will shape whether we evolve into a mature planetary species or falter at the edge of our potential.In The Initiation, we explore both the systems shaping our ...

Born in West Africa in the early 1950s, Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Somé underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism.

Strange lands, peculiar animated beings, and altered perceptions created to entertain and confuse. White rabbits, a mad queen, a baby transforming into a pig, and conundrums by the score - what on earth does it all mean? Lewis Carroll was the enigmatic man who created a magical and surreal reality populated by characters mined from the depths of his imagination. Were they simple tales of fantasy to entertain children, or something considerably more profound?

From a classified location just down the street from off the grid in the Pacific Northwest comes Dekana, Witch, Priestess and devoted wife and dog-mom and from a civil war era cabin camouflaged under the massive White Oaks and Hickories of the Lake of the Ozarks, Dawn,a Catholic Mystic and, oddly enough, another dog mom......Both women invite you to a conversation about all those things that lurk under the bed or hide in the shadows of the mind. Mystic Initiations is a peaceful exploration of the Spiritual life where you, the listeners, are also invited to pour a glass and join in. Welcome to ...