The Passing Through Podcast

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 the in-betweens of consciousness, ecology, animacy, and the human condition. Fasten your seatbelt and come along for the ride!

  1. Aug 11

    E129 | Leaving On a Jet Plane

    I'm leaving for a little while for a brief adventure. I'll be back again in about a month. Enjoy the down time!

    E129 | Leaving On a Jet Plane

  2. Aug 5

    E128 | Skye Cielita Flor | Curanderismo, Ayahuasca & Animist Perception

    When you think of plant medicine, one of the first things you think of is probably ayahuasca. An Intensely psychedelic kaleidoscopic weekend of hallucination and vomiting hopefully accompanied by profound shifts in consciousness. You may know someone who’s attended an ayahuasca ceremony, you may have even attended one or more yourself, but you probably haven’t heard the stories of someone who’s studied with indigenous Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon. This week’s guest spent 5 years in the jungle, embedded in an animist culture, undergoing plant dietas while learning medicine songs called icaros as she deepened her understanding of both plant intelligences and the ancient practice of Amazonian Curanderismo. Skye has also spent three years apprenticing with Chinese medicine, she’s a Grief Ritualist, a facilitator in Experiential Deep Ecology. Skye currently co-facilitates Josh’s yearlong study group The Mythic Body, and leads her own events focused on reclaiming animist perception, developing mythic imagination and helping people reconnect to the living, breathing, more-than-human world all around us. She leads various study groups on Practical Animism and Grief work, as Nature Connection Mentor, Folk Herbalist, Plant Medicine Ritualist, Naturalist and as someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, in ritual or in focused practice on the land. Honestly, I can’t think of a more fitting guest than Skye. This is one of my favorite conversations on this show and I hope you enjoy it too. Skye’s Website Blogs Curanderismo Plant Dieta Icaros Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Skye's Upcoming Events Skye’s Upcoming Workshop on Plant Intelligence References Robert Johnson’s Inner Work Stephen Harrod Buhner’s Plant Intelligence And The Imaginal Realm Josh Schrei’s The Emerald Podcast — Animism Is Normative Consciousness Previous Episodes John Seed Francis Weller Josh Schrei Bayo Akomolafe

    E128 | Skye Cielita Flor | Curanderismo, Ayahuasca & Animist Perception

  3. Jul 15

    E127 | Funkadelic | 55 Years of Maggot Brain

    On July 12, Funkadelic's Maggot Brain turned fifty-five. Mommy, what's a funkadelic? Join me for a very quick reflection on this enormously influential psychedelic funk rock album. Frontman George Clinton and guitarist Eddie Hazel are musical heroes, and to commemorate this special anniversary George Clinton landed the mothership in New Orleans at the Essence Festival. If you too share visions of one nation under a groove, then sit down, tune in, free your mind, and your ass will follow. Links https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/album/maggot-brain https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/album/funkadelic https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/track/biological-speculation https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/track/i-bet-you https://funkadelic.bandcamp.com/track/good-thoughts-bad-thoughts https://georgeclinton.com

    E127 | Funkadelic | 55 Years of Maggot Brain

  4. Jul 8

    E126 | John Seed | Deep Ecology & Community Therapies | Are We Entangled With The Living Earth?

    This week John Seed is Passing Through. A pioneering environmentalist, musician, activist and writer, John has played a formative role in shaping Deep Ecology globally. Beginning back in 1979 he began putting his life on the line to defend rainforests and would later found and direct The Rainforest Information Center to continue this important work. Since then he’s initiated projects protecting rainforests in South America, Asia and the Pacific, providing sustainable development and working with indigenous inhabitants to protect their forests. During his more than 40 year career John has worked alongside prominent figures such as Vandana Shiva, Starhawk, the late Ram Dass and Joanna Macy to name a few. In 1988 John, writing with Joanna Macy, Arne Naess and Pat Fleming, published their seminal deep ecology book Thinking Like A Mountain. In collaboration with Joanna Macy he created a ceremony aimed at reconnection called The Council of All Beings, which we’ll talk about in our conversation. I speak with John about a landmark court case involving the Los Cedros rainforest in Ecuador. In a groundbreaking move for legal and environmental history, the MOTH (More Than Human) Life Collective is submitting a petition to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognize the Los Cedros cloud-forest as the co-creator of a song titled "Song of the Cedars,” composed in collaboration with musician Cosmo Sheldrake, writer Robert Macfarlane, field mycologist Giuliana Furci, and legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito. It will be the first legal attempt to recognize an ecosystem’s moral authorship in the co-creation of a work of art. This case aims to disrupt traditional anthropocentric copyright frameworks by granting creative rights to a non-human natural entity. This is the first known attempt in any jurisdiction to establish the 'moral authorship' of an ecosystem as a co-creator in a work. John is an absolute legend who’s dedicated his life to protecting animals, endangered species and rainforests, while writing, lecturing, facilitating workshops and campaigning & petitioning governments all over the world to protect ecologies. It was a true honor to speak with John, and if you want to learn more about him and his work you can find him at johnseed.net, or https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/. John’s Links https://linktr.ee/gaiaseed Los Cedros https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ9eKB8mlyu/?img_index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_timp2S3E Thinking Like A Mountain https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-like-a-mountain-towards-a-council-of-all-beings-arne-naess/304b0d83848eb74e?ean=9781897408001

    E126 | John Seed | Deep Ecology & Community Therapies | Are We Entangled With The Living Earth?

  5. Jun 30

    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, un/learning guide, facilitator, activist, writer, speaker, podcaster and DJ working at the intersections of ecology, culture, and transformation. Dan is creator and host of The Spaceship Earth Podcast, as well as many other environmental projects like We Are Avon, Becoming Crew, and Famous For Five Miles. He's an inspiring person in this space, and he's doing good work. In our conversation we talk about weathering the storm, the importance of reconnecting with the land, of creativity and art as vehicles for feeling, the importance of community - both human and more-than-human. Dan speaks about pilgrimage, threshold moments and possible ways for us to step out from our stuckness. This was one of my favorite conversations, and I think you'll enjoy it, too. If you want to find out more about Dan and his beautiful and encouraging work, check out his links below: https://www.danburgess.earth/ https://www.instagram.com/dan__burgess https://www.thespaceship.earth

    E125 | Dan Burgess | Ramble On Spaceship Earth

  6. Jun 17

    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 conferred geroprotective benefits to their cells and appear to slow down aging. Her research is paving the way for a new understanding between the role of psilocybin in health and aging. Repeatedly giving mice hallucinogenic doses of psilocybin over tenth months produced profound, observable changes in the mice. Other studies found that human lung fibroblasts saw a similar dose-dependent relationship between psilocin (the primary psychoactive chemical compound in psychedelic mushrooms) and aging. Of course more research needs to be done, and as I type this, Dr. Hecker and her team are soon to release additional findings showing how psychedelics positively impact many of the cells and organs of our bodies — with promising outcomes concerning diseases associated with the lungs. Many more intriguing and trippy facts are shared during our conversation — like mice not only living longer, but regrowing bald spots and reversing grey hairs. So if like me you’re old, grizzled and balding, I hope you’ll find this topic as fascinating and far out as I did. Fun fact: if you take the starting letter of each of the previous sentences and line them up, it spells out the word mushrooms. Research Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-025-00244-x Louise on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-hecker-69ba1915/

    E124 | Dr. Louise Hecker | Can Psychedelic Mushrooms Slow Aging?

  7. Jun 10

    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.

    E123 | A Finger in Your Ear

  8. Jun 3

    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 answer that question we'd have to ask, what did people do before maps and compasses were invented? Curious question. I hadn’t thought of it before. What did our ancestors do to successfully navigate the world for pretty much all of human history? They learned to listen to nature and read its signs. That’s exactly what Tristan has spent his life doing. He’s studied with indigenous trackers such as the Dayak in Borneo or the Tuareg while walking across the unforgiving landscape of the Libyan Sahara — and he’s the only living person to have sailed alone and flown alone across the Atlantic. He’s developed an extensive knowledge of bushcraft and animal tracking and meteorology, geology, dendrology, hydrology and the list goes on. I’m reading one of his books right now called The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs where he teaches you how to listen to tree roots tell you about prevailing winds, or how a patch of colorful lichen might tell you things not only about air quality and moisture, but also about which way south is. Tristan uses flowers as thermometers, and fungi both as indicators of soil pH and predictors of surrounding tree species. His work is a wonderful and enchanting bridge back to rebuilding fluency in the language our world is speaking to us all the time, if we’re willing to slow down and listen. So if you want to learn more about natural navigating check out Tristan’s website at https://www.naturalnavigator.com or read one of his many books. Tristan also offers courses and in-person workshops. You can also follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thenaturalnavigator.

    E122 | Tristan Gooley | Natural Navigating: Reading Nature's Signs
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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 the in-betweens of consciousness, ecology, animacy, and the human condition. Fasten your seatbelt and come along for the ride!

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  • Creator
    Danny
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    109
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Danny | The Passing Through Podcast
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