Creative Magic Lucy Pearce
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Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity.
Lucy is known for giving real and raw interviews, and now she shares this form of deep dive conversation with many of her favourite creative people.
The first season of Creative Magic is the Wild Initiations series, featuring her immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of her 12th book Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods... She will also be joined by some new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic.
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Hilary Rose - Creative Evolution
Hilary Rose, the charismatic host and CEO of Live Wild is a two-time IFTA nominee for her contributions to the entertainment industry, notably her role in the BBC TV show "The Young Offenders."
Beyond her achievements on screen, Hilary is deeply connected to nature, embodying a love for living wild and free. Rooted in a desire to be of service to those seeking empowerment, Hilary brings a wealth of expertise and experience from her extensive career in media. Hilary's passion extends beyond the screen as she aspires to share the spirit of living wild with a wider audience through the enlightening conversations on Live Wild.
www.livewild.ie and her podcast is Live Wild.
The Young Offenders BBC iPlayer RTE Player
We talked about her move from being known in the mainstream as an actor, into a different more personal space with her Live Wild blog and podcast.
Waiting to be chosen as a creative vs the joys of being your own gatekeeper and having creative control of your work.
Acting and facing rejection.
Beyond linearity – embracing the cycles of creativity.
Her spiritual awakening that led her to see the world differently.
Listening to nature.
Feeling like the only weirdo in the village.
The way the word witch has been used against women.
Ancient Ireland and the landscape.
The Young Offenders and its celebration of Cork.
How she feels about watching herself on screen.
Being multipassionate creatives and the need to define ourselves – or not – as creatives.
My next book, Wired Weird.
Resources we mentioned
If Women Rose Rooted
Womancraft Publishing
Burning Woman
Witch – BBC podcast
Staigue Fort, Kerry
The Wild Atlantic Way
The English Market
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My most recent book Crow Moon
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Womancaft Publishing
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Looby MacNamara - Quantum Sheep: working with the emergent
Looby is a permaculture teacher and author. She has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and specialising in the people care ethic of permaculture. She has written 4 books People and Permaculture, 7 ways to think differently, Strands of Infinity and Cultural Emergence. She is co-founder of the Cultural Emergence project - developing a toolkit for personal and collective transformation. Her latest creation is the CEED deck - the Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She lives on a 20 acre smallholding with her family, Applewood Permaculture Centre in Ludlow, UK, where they run courses She is mother to 2 daughters. And is one of the partners of the Mother Nature project, co-creating resources to empower mothers as natural leaders.
She enjoys gardening, being creative, sitting round fires singing and listening to owls.
Looby on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loobymacnamara/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/looby.macnamara
Join thenewsletter to get a free download of the Cultural Emergence principles colouring book and enjoy some easy creative magic www.cultural-emergence.com
Her website for courses www.applewoodcourses.com
We Discussed
Permaculture and creativity.
Cultural emergence and emergency.
The importance of pattern-seeing.
Expanding our view from breakdown to breakthrough.
Quantum sheep – the fabulous slip of the tongue and where it came from.
Move Your Tools – stop waiting for inspiration to strike.
The emergence of AI art and the increasing need for the human touch.
The power of agency and permission.
The cyclical nature of creativity.
Resources and People mentioned
JUNO
People and Permaculture
Tracy Breathnach
Jules Heavens
Cultural Emergence
Spiritual Emergency
Strands of Infinity
CEED Deck
Creatrix
Jennifer Louden
WORD+image e-course
Womancraft Compendium
SARK
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Sushmita Mukherjee - The Dark Woods of the Psyche
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I am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.
· Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.
· We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.
· We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.
· Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.
· Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.
· She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?
· How she discovered the beauty of our biology.
· Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.
More About Sushmita:
Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.
Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com
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Molly Remer - Everyday Enchantment
My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, including Walking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment.
WORD + image ecourse
Crow Moon
Walking with Persephone
In the Temple of the Ordinary Volume 2
Womancraft Publishing
Molly's Interview on the Womancraft YouTube channel
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Toko-Pa Turner - Courting Our Inner Symbols
My guest today is Toko-Pa Turner, Canadian author, teacher, and dreamworker who blends the mystical teachings of Sufism with a Jungian approach.
· We started out talking about dreamwork – what it is…and how Toko-Pa came to it
· We share our mutual love of Carl Jung and why his work matters so much.
· The mundus imaginalis - the imaginal world
· How Sufisim – the tradition of mystical Islam that Toko-Pa was raised in - informs her work
· Pre-cognitive dreams and visions
· Practical guidance on working with our dreams
· Courting the images and symbols that emerge through our dreams
· The initiation of illness…
· Creativity and suffering
· The inner journey and challenges of writing and publishing books…and more about her second book.
More About Toko-Pa
Toko-Pa founded The Dream School in 2001, through which thousands of students have passed. She is also the author of the award-winning book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and belonging through the lens of memoirs, mythology, and nature. This book has resonated for readers worldwide, and has been translated into 10 different languages so far. Her work focuses on the relationship between psyche and nature, and how to follow our inner wisdom to meet with the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time.
www.toko-pa.com
Instagram.com/tokopa
Resources:
Belonging - Toko-Pa Turner
Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark wood - Lucy H. Pearce
Medicine Woman: reclaiming the soul of healing - Lucy H. Pearce
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Amanda Yates Garcia - Your Calling Will Never Leave You
Today’s guest, Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, The London Times, CNN, BRAVO, as well as a viral appearance on FOX. She has led rituals, classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, The Getty and many other venues. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals online, and the popular Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens. Her book, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. To find out more about her work become a member of her Mystery Cult on Substack. https://amandayatesgarcia.substack.com/
www.Oracleofla.com
instagram.com/oracleofla
We talked about
Hearing and following the inner call.The vital role of artists and poets in our culture.Magical realism and living a magical life.Witchcraft, what it actually is. I love her focus on creativity and reclaiming.Overcoming fears that prevent you stepping into your creative magic.Migraine, illness and creativity.The empowerment of having a secret life.
Books Mentioned:
Initiated - Amanda Yate Garcia
Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods - Lucy H. Pearce
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