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The Hagstone PodcastAwakening Yule: Troubling the Monsters of Cultural Redemption with Rune Hjarnø RasmussenHappy Winter Solstice Northern Spirit House community.Today we are sharing a conversation between Chaise Levy, John Wolfstone, and Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen on From the Dragon Heart, which took place just before Yule in 2023. We are so thankful for John hosting and sharing the original episode, and to Rune for his deep generosity of both knowledge and spirit.As we deepen into this dark season we are reminded that in the Old Solstice traditions it was the beings of the darkness who brought the light. At this very apex of the ritual year the processions o...
2025-12-211h 36
From Boys to Men: A Journey Through Masculinity[S2 10] Courting the Sacred Hunt w/ John WolfstoneIn this powerful episode, John Wolfstone (https://www.thresholds.earth/facilitator-training) welcomes listeners into the heart of a men’s rite-of-passage unlike any other — “Courting the Sacred Hunt.” Drawing deeply from ancestral wisdom and wilderness initiation, John illuminates how the hunt serves as a mythic map for mature masculinity, leadership and cultural renewal. Enjoy!
2025-10-2358 min
Enjoy Your Piping! With Gary WestEpisode 104 - Shoulder to ShoulderSend us a textJoin Gary as he invites you on another journey through the riches of the bagpipe traditions of the world.PlaylistDaimh with Donnie MacGillivray’s Welcome to the 21st Century, Malcolm Johnston and Barbara’s Welcome Home from DiversionsMajor Gavin Stoddart with The Braes of Castle Grant and The Lochaber Gathering from The Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series Volume 3.Vicki Swan and Johnny Dyer with Logan Rock from Sliptease.Aust...
2025-06-0453 min
Metaviews to the Future29: Fugitive Futures: Reimagining Community in the Age of IsolationJesse Hirsh engages in a thought-provoking dialogue with John Wolfstone, centered on the concept of community in today's increasingly fragmented world. As they explore the notion of intentional communities, John shares insights from his experiences at Tamera, a thriving polyamorous village in Portugal that emerged from the trauma of fascism in Europe. The conversation delves into how communities can serve as a counterbalance to rising authoritarianism and alienation in society, emphasizing the need for inclusivity and solidarity among diverse groups. John articulates that true community goes beyond mere friendship; it is about shared responsibility and mutual care, where individuals...
2025-01-2354 min
Clown Spirit PodcastJohn Wolfstone: Eros and the Sacred ClownIn this episode of the Clown Spirit Podcast, I chat with John Wolfstone about the power of clowning and the trickster archetype in transforming culture and healing the world. The episode delves into the importance of humor, irreverence, and vulnerability in tackling societal crises, while also introducing John's 10-year film project, 'The Village of Lovers,' centered around the Tamera eco-village in Portugal. The discussion covers themes of regeneration, emergence, and the influence of Eros. We also talk about upcoming events, including the Fugitive Futures Summit. Filled with profound insights and lively conversation, this episode highlights the potential of clow...
2025-01-0453 min
Kitchen Party CeilidhKPC 2024 07 07 PodcastOur 515th episode, which aired on July 7, 2024.
Daimh – If It Plays, Sula
The Elders – Lucky One Time, Gael Day
Ten Strings and a Goat Skin – Maid Behind the Bar, Ten Strings and a Goat Skin
Richard Thompson – From Galway to Graceland, Acoustic Classics
Carlos Sweeney McCartin – John Joe’s/The Ladies Step Up to Tea/Byrne’s Mill, The One After It
Ken Perlman – Bee's Wing Hornpipe/President Garfield's Hornpipe, Devil in the Kitchen
JigJam – Water’s Hill, Across the Pond
Heidi Talbot – Glenlogie, In Love & Light
Qristina & Quinn Bachand – Loch Mountain/Yellow Tinker/The Girl Who Broke My Heart, Family
Gatehouse – Spail...
2024-07-1458 min
Astrology for the SoulAstrology for the Soul July 10, 2024It's time for me to set myself free,
In what I say and do.
Not fear my fire but express my desire,
And make my dreams come true.
☉
Are you ready for Mars to charge into Uranus? Yikes! We can call this the train wreck week, LOL! The future is not upon us, it is in us. As emissaries of the future, our mission is to envision, invent, and create the future. Having it done for us or to us is the result of entropy, fear, and unconsciousness. Well...
2024-07-1146 minEnjoy Your Piping! With Gary WestEpisode 53 - The Ceilidh KingSend us a textGary pays tribute to the late Fergie MacDonald, the Ceilidh King, who passed away recently. There's more sets from this year's Wheel of Fortune competition, and a brand new award-winning pibroch from Regina's Iain MacDonald.PlaylistFergie MacDonald with Highland Jigs from The Ceilidh King Angus Nicholson with Cearcal a Chuain, Duncan Johnstone, Hag at the Churn, Humours of Whisky, Polka, Speeding in the Desert from the Wheel of Fortune 2024 Gary West with Kilworth Hills from The Islay Ball...
2024-05-0157 min
Mangu.TV Podcast59. John Wolfstone on Mythology, Eros, Rites of Passage & Cosmic GuidanceWe are delighted to host John Wolfstone for this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series.
John is an Initiatory Witch, Emergence Facilitator, Wilderness Guide and Transmedia Bard focused on the work of cultural redemption. Holding space for the great grief of our times, he designs and facilitates rituals and rites of transformation, in service to regulating the personal and collective nervous systems back to belonging with the Earth. In 2021, John co-founded The School of Mythopoetics dedicated to the Initiation of Soul. In 2024, his decade-long award-winning documentary, The Village of Lovers, about the Tamera Peace Village in...
2024-04-051h 24
Jock's Celtic CalamityJCC Show No 471Send us a text | Patrick Street | Music For A Found Harmonium | Celtic Music Today | Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies | Ballad Of tasker Jack | Honesty Box | Altan | Dulaman | Celtic Music Today | Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton | Annabel | Summer's Lonesome Tale | Gary Innes | Big J.D. Set | How's The Craic? | Capercaille | Alasdair MhicCholla Ghasda | Celtic Music Today | Cherish the Ladies | Broken Wings | Celtic Music Today | Tom Rush | Toy Boat Song | Gardens Old Flowers New | Enda Kenny | Colours Of Australia | Twelve Songs | Déanta | Ready For The The Storm | Celtic Music Today | Eileen Ivers | On Horse...
2024-02-092h 00
Life is a FestivalJulia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers Does open relating always lead to polyagony? Or is there a way to heal the wounds of gender and experience love free from fear?
Today we are revisiting an episode originally released in 2019 with Ian McKenzie and Julia Maryanska about the Love School at Tamera. Their documentary "Village of Lovers," will be available at a global streaming premiere on February 7th. We revisit this discussion about love, relationships, and intentional communities today in a new edit.
In this episode, we dissect the complex dynamics of free love, the challenges and solutions prototyped by Tamara, and the...
2024-02-061h 12
Frühlingserwachen#01 | Für eine Kultur des Friedens - ein Gespräch mit Sabine Lichtenfels
In dem weitgespannten Gespräch dieser Episode gibt Sabine Lichtenfels Einblicke in ihren eigenen Weg und ihre tiefe Vision einer neuen Kultur des Friedens, die sie seit mehreren Jahrzehnten in Form eines dezentralen und autarken Dorfes in Gemeinschaft modellhaft entwickelt und erforscht.
Sabine Lichtenfels ist Friedensforscherin, Mitbegründerin des Heilungsbiotops Tamera, Autorin mehrerer Bücher und Leiterin der globalen Liebesschule in Tamera. Mit ihrem eindrücklichen Lebenswerk ist Sabine Lichtenfels ein grosses Vorbild für gelebten Frieden und Pionierin einer neuen Zeit.
Im Gespräch geht es um Wahrhaftigkeit in allen Lebensbereichen, nicht zuletzt in der Liebe, um tiefe Verbun...
2023-03-181h 02
Embodiment Matters PodcastInitiation and the Markings of Adulthood: A Conversation with John WolfstoneIn this conversation, Carl speaks with John Wolfstone. John is third-generation settler, working on the Traditional and Unceded territory of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok Peoples. His blood and bones hold Hebraic, Norse and Celtic ancestry, and his spirit is from the Stars. As a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, ritualist, community consultant, relationship coach, and transmedia story-teller, John is on a mission to reclamate adulthood initiation rites-of-passage. Holding space for the great grief of our times, John designs and facilitates rituals of transformation, in service to regulating the personal and collective nervous systems back to...
2022-11-091h 00
The Crow's Nest with Ian MacKenzieJOHN WOLFSTONE on Launching Our New Ritual Apprenticeship Program /13Learn more about the full year long Adulthood Initiation Ritual Apprenticeship Program https://www.schoolofmythopoetics.com/ritual-apprenticeship
John Wolfstone is a wilderness rites of passage guide and ritual artist dedicated to revitalizing cultures of initiation. He is also co-founder of The School of Mythopoetics.
2022-10-1330 min
Story PathsTending Toward Community (or, Community is a Pain in the Ass)With Tyson Yunkaporta, Daniel Robert, Chay Beriault, Jessie White, and John Wolfstone.In part two of Community, we get into the path toward community, a zigzag and emergent pathway that can be confusing and extremely challenging. Which is why the alternate name for this episode is Community is a Pain in the Ass. It's not easy to be building community while dealing with ancestral grief and despair over living in a fragmented, partial society.And yet people make this effort, with goodwill and humor, and I doff my patchy hat to them.We get i...
2022-08-031h 18
Story PathsCalling CommunityWhat does community mean to you?Is it wonderful? Complicated? Community is the container for storytelling, and for so much of what we do. It exists in healthy and broken forms, in motion, in transition. It’s critical to our survival, and our flowering. Did I mention it's complicated and frustrating too? Community is infuriatingly, thankfully, necessary. It is a vast landscape, and today we venture out to explore a wee bit. Featuring interviews with John Wolfstone, Jessie White, and Chaitanya Beriault.The supplementing voices of Jessie, Blair, Boots, Sophi...
2022-07-031h 35
Simply ScottishJohn Muir and the Grand CanyonYou've probably heard of Scottish naturalist and conservationist John Muir, but did you know he almost lost his eyesight in an accident that changed the course of his life? Find out what happened, and listen as we share some stirring passages from Muir's essay describing the magnificence and wonder of the Grand Canyon. Plus, enjoy a mix of brand new and classic Scottish music from Tina Jordan Rees, Wolfstone, the Scott Wood Band, and Alistair Ogilvy.
2022-05-3133 min
The Crow's Nest with Ian MacKenzieSession | From Hero to Trickster - Humanity's IntiationThe reign of the Hero has come to an end. As humanity faces increasing crisis and collapse, we come to a threshold where the archetype of the Hero can no longer be our saviour. We have entered a liminal time – a space between stories – and so we must bend and instead look to, and learn from, the boundary-crossing, shape-shifting Trickster.
Join Ben Murphy and John Wolfstone as they explore the significance of this cultural transition and how it applies to each of our lives.
2022-05-251h 14
The Crow's Nest with Ian MacKenzieSession | Reclaiming Initiation: Rites of Passage in a Modern EraAdulthood Initiation Rites were found throughout nearly every ancestral and indigenous culture across this planet – which is how the culture continued to stay healthy, generative and life-serving. In a modern world, shadow runs rampant while new-age spirituality only points us to love and light. What about a spirituality that brings us into the dark?
How can we craft rites-of-passage containers that can support us to transform our wounds into gifts and bring our own unique medicine to life? Join School co-founders John Wolfstone and Ian Mackenzie as they unpack their own reclamation of initiatory rites and how modern...
2022-05-191h 28
The Jeffrey Van Dyk ShowRevitalizing Adulthood Initiation Rites of Passage in a modern context with John Wolfstone and Jeffrey Van Dyk - EP#25John Wolfstone is a burgeoning leader on a mission to help revitalize adulthood initiation rites of passage in a modern context. We talk about the need for adult initiation, the role they can play in our contemporary lives, and how they support leaders in learning to trust themselves with power, so they can use it honorably. We also discuss The Sacred Matrix, a feature length documentary film John is releasing this year about the work of the Tamera Peace Research & Education Community in Portugal, which is one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism.Jo...
2022-03-231h 04
A tu Ritmo - Running PodcastATR Música para Correr - Folk-rock con mucho ritmo - Episodio exclusivo para mecenasAgradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! En esta ocasión os proponemos una sesión musical (todas las canciones unidas, del tirón, ya sabéis) de canciones de grupos de folk rock, con mucho aire celta... y con mucho ritmo. Los grupos y canciones que suenan (en orden) son:
-Runrig - Year of the Flood
-Celtas Cortos - Rock & Rola
-Tide Lines - Far Side of the World
-Ret Hot Chilli Pipers - All these Things that I Have Done
-Los Niños de los Ojos Rojos...
2022-02-251h 02
The Wild and WiseThe Lost Art of Adulthood Initiation with John Wolfstoneep # 32 John Wolfstone is back for another conversation with Ashley! They dive deep into the exploration of adult initiation, its function and its presence as a missing link to a more integrated and meaningful life. John is a storyteller, filmmaker, community organizer and a mentor for Rites of Passage work. John is a curious explorer and question asker.You'll here us talk about:The loneliness of modern adulthoodAlmost all indigenous culture have rites of passage ceremonies into adulthoodThe functions of rites of passage : 1. Connecting people to their purpose in community 2. to mature the pe...
2021-06-241h 03The Wild and WiseDeath, Ancestors and Relational Liberation with John Wolfstoneep. #16John and Ashley recorded an emergent conversation for today's podcast episode. The conversation is packed with so much wisdom while still retaining a flow and easeful aliveness. There are SO many amazing quotable nuggets in this one.John Wolfstone is a storyteller, filmmaker, community organizer and a mentor for Rites of Passage work. John is a curious explorer and question asker. Here are some of the questions I (Mallika) hear being held in this conversation and the work that John is doing In the world:How do we do the work, the healing and...
2020-11-031h 12
Spaces Between with Al Jeffery#12: John Wolfstone — Queering Masculinity & the Paradox of WholenessIf we are come to live and lead in a way that truly nourishes life, allows for creativity to flourish, and mends our relationship with both place and people, integrating opposites and learning to live at the threshold of polarities is crucial. John Wolfstone and I embark on a wild journey here from an adolescent leadership to a more integrated, humble, and reverent leadership. Touching on many nuanced and subtle threads of what it means to embrace our brokenness, transition to adulthood, and exist at the threshold of binaries. We land on some exciting emerging conversations around ‘que...
2020-07-271h 02
Strippers and SagesIan MacKenzie & John Wolfstone On Love School: Systems Change & SexualityFilmmakers Ian MacKenzie and John Wolfstone discuss their upcoming documentary Love School, which is about the Tamera Institute, a communal research village founded on and dedicated to systems change in love and sexuality as a foundation for planetary healing. Together, Ian and John produce new paradigm films and events through their media collaborative, Re/Culture Media.
Ian MacKenzie’s work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic TV, CBC Documentary, The Globe and Mail, Adbusters, and film festivals around the world. He is the director of the shorts Lost Nation Road (2019), featuring Stephen Jenkinson; Reactor (2013); Sa...
2020-03-131h 14
The Mythic Masculine#2 | A Saga of Sexual Initiation: John Wolfstone (The Village of Lovers)John Wolfstone is a filmmaker, wilderness rites-of-passage guide, and sacred clown focused on the work of cultural redemption. Over the past 10 years, he has been in service toward restorative justice, ancestral healing and peace building in conflict zones from rural Guatemalan villages, to Middle Eastern refugee camps and inner cities of the United States.In 2015, John and I began work on our feature documentary Love School, exploring the radical research community of Tamera in southern Portugal. Since then, we have been on a deep journey of collaboration and brotherhood - complete with many bumps along the way.I am...
2019-11-2655 min
Last Born In The Wilderness204 / The Village That Heals / Ian MacKenzieIn this episode, I speak with visionary documentary filmmaker Ian MacKenzie. We discuss his two most recent projects: Love School—an ongoing film project, made in collaboration with John Wolfstone and Julia Maryanska, that explores the revolutionary research village and healing biotope Tamera in Portugal; Ian's recently released short film Lost Nation Road—which follows culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson and Canadian musician Gregory Hoskins on their unlikely collaboration with the Nights of Grief and Mystery tour.
“In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism.”...
2019-08-051h 41
Life is a Festival#27 - Can Free Love Save the World? | Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie (Love School Film)The most important political revolution of our time may be connected to how we love, at least that’s what the erotic visionaries of the Tamera community in Portugal believe. According to Tamera, the revolutionary peace research eco village in Portugal, liberating love from fear violence and lies is the root solution for a true system change. Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Ian MacKenzie and Julia Maryanska about their upcoming documentary Love School: The Film about Tamera’s radical work in healing sex, love, and the relationship between genders.
We discuss Tamera’s Love School and the powerful...
2019-08-011h 33
Kitchen Party CeilidhKPC 2019 04 21 PodcastOur 300th episode, which aired on April 21, 2019.
Wolfstone – Queen of Argyll, Almost An Island
J.P. Cormier – The Stranger, The Messenger
John Doyle – Crooked Jack, Evening Comes Early
Dmitri Alano – The Middle Reel/The End of the Evening
Bill Spence & Fennig All-Stars – Smash the Windows/Colerane/Haste to the Wedding, The Hammered Dulcimer
Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain, Nobody Knows: The Best of Paul Brady
We Banjo 3 – The Fox, single release
We Banjo 3 – Happiness, String Theory
The Gloaming – The Sailor’s Bonnet, The Gloaming
Andy Irvine – The Close Shave/East of Glendart, Abocurragh
Dmitri Alano – Inisheer/Phyllis’ Birthday, The End of the Evening
De Dann...
2019-04-2859 min
Lucid Vibe RadioCoyote News - Episode 1 of ReCulture with John WolfstoneA primary Trickster dedication is the cultivation of language, myth, metaphoric agility, the art of blessing and story-telling skills – so that we Compassionate Trickster Aspirants can be irresistibly eloquent in our weaving of the all-inclusive story.
The Only News to Trust is the Mythic News https://coyotenetworknews.com
John Wolfstone's passion for storytelling stems from hearing the call for a New Story in our culture. The challenges of our times are at their root, stories, which have become too small. My fundamental work then is to help others and myself step into larger, more meaningful an...
2018-11-2800 min
Kitchen Party CeilidhKPC 2017 05 28 PodcastOur 201st episode, which aired on May 28, 2017.
Beolach – Scott Skinner’s Welcome to Inverness/Mary MacDonald/Angus Ronald Beaton's/Creignish Hills/Sandy Cameron's/Cecily Ross, Beolach
Wolfstone – Close it Down, The Chase
Nathan Gourley & Joey Abarta – John McGrath’s/Miss Monaghan, Copley Street
We Banjo 3 – This is Home, String Theory
Matt Molloy, Tommy Peoples & Paul Brady – The Creel of Turf/Tom Billy’s, Molloy Peoples & Brady
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – Ellin Polka, One
Fairport Convention – The Cuckoo’s Nest/Hardiman the Fiddler/Papa Stoor, Angel Delight
Tannahill Weavers – Gloomy Winter’s Noo Awa’, The Old Woman’s Dance
Goitse – First Class Bananas, Inspired By Chanc...
2017-06-0458 min
Roman's WorldEpisode 20 - That Hairball Is My SonRoman's son, Ryan, has been exploited for free labor. Not only does Roman make him write out playlists, enter CDs, double check shows and do the dishes but now he is doing Music News as well.
1.Transatlantic - Black As The Sky
2.Autumn Moonlight - The Eternal Smile
3.Steve Hackett - Reconditioned Nightmare
4.John Beagley - When The Dawn Comes
5.Art In America - A Tale Of The Unexpected
6.IZZ - Almost Over
7.Fates Warning - I Am
8.Strunz And Farah - Selva
9.Spiral Key - Colder Than Heaven
10.Bad Haggis - Get Out Reel
11.Ticket To The Moon - Deadly...
2014-03-112h 11