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KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Good Medicine Confluence
Confluencing of Allies! Full Moon – Reverence for Life magnetized into incarnational actuality:
Caroline welcomes Jesse Wolf Hardin founder of “Good Medicine Confluence”
Aug. 17-20th Ghost Ranch, New Mexico,
and long time ally and presenter at conference Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue…..
“Your Storied Mission…”
Healing and beautifying our lives and our world in these harrowing times might seem like a fairytale, but it’s a tale we can embrace, embody, and help right now to make come true…
by adding to your knowledge, learning crucial skills...
2025-07-1059 min
KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Art of changing the story
Composting Tyranny into Nutrient for Democracy ……
Caroline welcomes, encore, fellow Celtic Mytho Politico Animist, Sean Padraig O’Donoghue -together we suck the “g” out of Kingdom, blow it everywhere, leaving “the Kindom of Heaven is at hand.”
Prep for Friday the 13th magic, and June 14th No Kings Day, welcoming storms and the Haboob
(giant dust storm Genie from Africa), weaving in June 14 2006!!! “the day the police were driven out of Oaxaca”, inviting in spicy tricksters who outwit the devil…
Art of changing the story, assuming cultural narrative lead
*Woof...
2025-06-1259 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Dedication to the Desirable OutcomeDisciplined dedication to the desirable outcome in dangerous times
Welcoming the return of Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as Mythic News co-cahooter….
We be honoring Pluto, through the smokin’ embodiment of Letitia James, weaving to the chart of Kilmer Abridge Garcia (on the theme of “how we rescue our kin from Underworld”), and the US chart… “and grief, beauty and remembrance as currencies for liberation… from the Underworld. Three coins,” sayeth Seán
ongoing -Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animism…
Composting the con of cults into nutrient for egalitarian Community……
Rising to the Occasion, to dree our w...
2025-05-2959 min
The Alchemi-Culture PodcastAncestral Irish Philosophy & Cosmology In The Modern Era with Seán Pádraig O'DonoghueOn this episode of the Alchemi-Culture Podcast, join Phoenix and Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue as they discuss topics including:The complexities and living nature of Irish history, and how it is best understood through various regional traditions and oral narratives, rather than a single narrative. Each region in Ireland has its own unique mythology and knowledge, often diverging from written records. Irish gods and goddesses, often misinterpreted as traditional deities, were more like revered ancestors with attributes such as shape-shifting.Overlapping stories between Christian and pagan practices in IrelandHow the cultural transition to Christianity affect...
2025-05-011h 42KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – All in this Dream Together
All in this Dream Together, at a “Time of Useful Consciousness”
Dark O Moon convening encore with Seán Padráig O’Donoghue to further honor Pope Francis,
That we may compost the nefarious into nutrient for the desirable good
To convene in the Alam-al Mithral – the Dream world available and eager to be invited into the realm incarnational actuality..
Sean Writes:
Thank you, Pope Francis, for your courage, your compassion, and your decency.
Your devotion to the poor, to the Earth, and to the Mother were rare, b...
2025-04-2459 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Inauguration AuguriesInauguration Auguries
all our relations are Strictly Plutonic….
Caroline & bardic herbalist wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astromytho narrative to magnetizeanimate all of our participatory skills …
Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark in the dark…
Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and con...
2025-01-2359 min
Rebel Spirit RadioThe Silver Branch and the OtherworldHerbalist and author Sean O’Donoghue joins me this week to discuss his book" The Silver Branch and the Otherworld: Forest Magic with Plant and Fungi Allies." Sean discusses animism, deep ecology, human connections with nature and tradition, the influence of plant medicines like cannabis, psilocybin, and ayahuasca, the balance between commercialization and genuine engagement with these plant allies, and the transformative power of magic.
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Seán Pádraigh O’Donoghue
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2024-10-181h 11KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Voting for the EarthWe be voting for the earth- in our Fund Drive
while answering Antonio Machado’s query “What have we done with the garden entrusted to us?!”
We are available to Mystery & Willing to Participate!
Woofing the dedicated work of Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue
and John Perlin…
So, deftly, once again to guide us, be Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, with his latest book The Silver Branch and the Otherworld: Forest Magic with Plant and Fungi Allies.
“Braiding together insights from herbalism, ecology, ne...
2024-09-2659 min
The Mushroom's Apprentice FREEThe Silver Branch and the Otherworld • Episode 42 • Free •Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue joins me once again to discuss his new book, The Silver Branch and the Otherworld, which is a kind of user's manual for real and profound connection to the spirits and cycles of nature, the ancestors, the trees and plants and the Otherworld inhabitants. That such a book would come forward at this time when the world is falling apart at the seams is notable. One might ask how such a book would have any relevance to us today. Thus, this episode where Seán speaks to how we, as people, possess the innate abili...
2024-08-091h 02KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Lughnasadh Radio“Hail to the Sun God – he is a fun god- Ra! Ra! Ra!”
Lughnasadh – Mid-Summer – Ritual Fire or arson?! – take your pick…
Propaganda seeks to discourage participation (we play some great de-bamboozling clips from Igor Sushko, and Rep Ruwa Romman, Palestinian state Rep in Georgia )
The tonic antidote to propaganda is participatory animism…
So, deftly, once again to guide us, be Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, with his latest book The Silver Branch and the Otherworld: Forest Magic with Plant and Fungi Allies. “Braiding together insights from herbalism, ecology, neurobiology...
2024-08-0159 min
KnotWork Myth & StorytellingBeing Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5Please Support Our Show: Join us on SubstackLove KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons.Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine.Calling All Writers & Creative: Reweave Your Own MythsJoin us on August 1 for HARVEST: An Online Lughnasa Retreat for Writers and Creatives: marisagoudy.com/lughnasa-writers-retreatOUR STORYMannanán was the god of the sea. He was also a shapeshifter wh...
2024-05-2958 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Good Medicine and Rewilding
Caroline welcomes Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue (encore encore) with his ally, Jesse Wolf Hardin, conjurer of the Good Medicine Confluence.
Jesse Wolf Hardin is an influential author, ecosopher, ecological and societal activist, personal counsel, graphic artist, musician, and historian – a champion of both human and bio diversity, as well as of nature’s medicines. Wolf was a leading organizer of and presenter for Earth First!, becoming a featured presenter at hundreds of conferences and universities, and was the creator of cross cultural ecospiritual collaborations appropriately called “Medicine Shows” that melded his powerful spoken word with live...
2024-05-0259 min
The Mushroom's Apprentice FREESeán Pádraig O’Donoghue on His Roots, Feri, Mushrooms & More • Episode 33 • Free •
2024-03-151h 07KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Weaving the Themes of NowSt Patrick*Stormy Daniels*Equinox*Eclipse-
Caroline re-re-re cahoots with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue,
as the Celtic Car Talk Gaias, with this week’s puzzler (so many)
Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.
Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a politic...
2024-03-1459 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Women in Greek Mythography
Waxing Full Moon
Awooooh- welcoming Max Dashu, honoring her deep delving deft – resonant, latest book
Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides
excavating liberating counter narratives to orthodoxy….
“This richly illustrated ethno-historical sourcebook uncovers what they didn’t teach us about women in Greek myth, including pre-patriarchal cosmogonies of the titanides (female titans); women’s dance and ceremony, shapeshifting, Gorgons. How patriarchy transformed the goddesses over time.”
Max Dashu has been restoring women & women’s history to cultural memory, political analysis, spiritual awareness since 1970. Through the Suppressed Histories Archives and her books she prov...
2024-02-2259 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Brigid ~ Trickster Peace-makerCaroline welcomes Owen Ó Súilleabháin, and Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue,
that we honor/welcome Brigid – Trickster Peace-maker….
Uranus Nature’s evolutionary trickster genius be stationing, so the auguries be welcoming woofy… to bring necessary miracles, to cool out the conflagration….
Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.
...
2024-01-2559 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Solstice Spark in the Dark
The Spark in the Dark – from which necessary miracles be born… Winter Solstice.
Caroline & bard wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astro*mytho narrative to magnetize*animate all of our participatory skills …
Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark in the dark…. this Sacred Night…
https://otherworldwell.com/
From Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, Dawn at Newgrange will be 8 am there 3 am east coast US:
https://www.gov.ie/en/news/dda54-live-streaming-lin...
2023-12-2100 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Cooling Out the Head
Cooling Out the Head
Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue
that we may avail ourselves of all Flora Fauna Fungi relations
to cool out in this hot reactive field….
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*Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?*
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2023-11-1659 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Cooperating with Guiding AuguriesGuiding Auguries Cooling out the conflagration….
Caroline re-welcomes fellow anarcho*entheo*Mytho*animist
Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, herbalist, Bard, wizard, writer
part of our Rapid Metaphoric Response Team…
https://otherworldwell.com
“Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men
(via Terry Pratchett).
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2023-08-1059 min
The Revelation ProjectEpisode 164: Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue - Courting The Wild Queen: Animism & Our Romance with LifeThroughout this episode, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue weaves a wonderful conversation that brings nature alive in our awareness. He sees plants and fungi as our ancestors and kin with their own intelligence, and we delve into the concept of identity and what it means to break the habit of being human.
He speaks of a time when the King was wedded to the land and that the core of our suffering is due to forgetting and the severing of our relationship with it.
Sean shares his insights into animism, where the world is aliv...
2023-05-031h 12KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Election Metaphoric Response & RitualCaroline re-hosts Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, herbalist, Bard, wizard, writer
part of our Rapid Metaphoric Response Team…as we be Diving into the Dark,
yet “in the mood for a good mood;” with our cauldron into which we toss poisonous cruelty, that it be dissolved from the human repertoire, and from which we ladle liberating blessing…
This ritual disguised as an election be on-going…. and so be our dedicated steady engagement…Dementors in dis-array-so we spiral out of the way. Hee-Hee!
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2022-11-1759 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Re-Storying Equilibrium at Equinox by re-wedding the Land
Caroline re-welcomes up-coming election magic council co-cahooter Patricia Ewing, bringing liberating political diagnostic strategy,
and Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, contributing Bardic Equinox guiding for deliberate democracy….
Equal Night & Day, Equal Mars and Venus, Equal humans and rest of our kin!
“Nae King, nae Quin, we willna be fooled agin,” sayeth the Wee Free Men (via Terry Pratchett).
(And Caroline will be hosting a pre-Equinox virtual audio council on Monday, September 19th ~ more details here.)
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2022-09-1559 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Courting the Wild Queen Full Moon Radio Magic! Caroline welcomes the return of Sean Padraig O’Donoghue, poet-bard-herbalist whose latest book be Courting the Wild Queen:
“Our ancestors are speaking to us through the fever dream,
reminding us that there are other ways to live.”
https://otherworldwell.com
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2022-08-1159 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – True BeltaneDispelling the Inquisition via the truth of animism supplanting hubris of humans.
Tis True Beltane, the time most sacred for womb autonomy… Caroline welcomes Celtic Herbal Bard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, that we may honor, animate and make available the collaborative magic, to dispel the Inquisition…to liberate May 9th, with festoons of flowers and the soul of Russia arising…
https://otherworldwell.com/
“I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude...
2022-05-0559 minKnotWork Myth & StorytellingThe Otherworld Is Always Close at Hand with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue | Ep 14Our StoryOur guest Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue tells the story of his legendary ancestor, Donal O'Donoghue. O’Donoghue Mór was a great warrior, a generous chieftain, a man who kept the Old Ways. He conspired with the Otherworld and became an initiate of the deepest mysteries and the forbidden knowledge. As a result of showing his powers to his wife, O’Donoghue Mór was pulled back to the Otherworld. But, the stories say that he and his royal host rise every seven years on Bealtaine (May 1) and, when a member of the O’Donoghue...
2022-04-2745 min
Medicine Stories85. REPLAY Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'DonoghueA replay of the only episode I’ve ever deleted. Please listen to Episode 84 Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first.Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so are we. Plants are a gateway into the depths of our consciousness, emotions, and physical experience of being alive. Let us come back into relationship with the information available in each interaction with the natural world.TOPICS:The archetype of the witch in the hut at the edge of the villageNeurodivergence, tryptamine, sensory gating channels, and pattern re...
2022-01-1300 min
Medicine Stories85. REPLAY Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'DonoghueA replay of the only episode I’ve ever deleted. Please listen to Episode 84 Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first. Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so are we. Plants are a gateway into the depths of our consciousness, emotions, and physical experience of being alive. Let us come back into relationship with the information available in each interaction with the natural world. TOPICS: The archetype of the witch in the hut at the edge of the village Neurodivergence, tryptamine, sensory gating channels, and pattern re...
2022-01-131h 56KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Antidote to dementors is Mentors!Waxing Full Moon Hail Mary- all for it- Awooooooo
Caroline re-welcomes collegial co-cahooter Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue
Democracy on the line; Antidote to dementors
is Mentors!
John Lewis, MLK,
and Joe Biden in cahoots with them…
Full Moon trines Joe’s Sun, whose image is: “King of the Faeries
deriving power from his domain.”
We support this part of Biden as part of our collective dream…Back-stage magic time…Engage all our skills.
https://otherworldwell.com/
With Skunk Cabbage
and Osha Root...
2022-01-1359 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Stirring the Winter Solstice Cauldron RadioStirring the Winter Solstice Cauldron Radio,
Caroline welcomes the return of Heather Roan Robbins, and Sean Padraic O’Donoghue,
to stir this cauldron of renew-all….(and make Fund Drive fun magic)
Heather Roan Robbins has practiced as a ceremonialist, counselor, and astrologer for 40 years with a commitment to making real and quality astrology accessible to the public. Heather is the creator of the Starcodes Astro-Oracle Deck and is the author of Moon Wisdom, Everyday Palmistry, and several children’s books. She has penned her weekly Starcodes column for the past 30 years and co-hosts the weekly podcast Access Astrol...
2021-12-0959 min
Rune SoupTalking Animist Herbalism | Seán Pádraig O’DonoghueThis week, we welcome to the show author, teacher and herbalist, Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue. Seán joins us today to talk about his journey to animist herbalism, how he defines it, and what constitutes health in a living framework. Really good, timely stuff. Enjoy! Show Notes Seán's website, Otherworld Well. Seán's course, Holistic Pharmacology for Herbalists.
2021-10-211h 14
The Point of EverythingTPOE 216: Hey RustyLimerick act Hey Rusty released their debut album Anorak on September 3. Reminiscent of Elliot Smith and influenced by the early efforts of Camera Obscura and Richard Hawley, it's a lush solo effort by Sean Ahern that's aided by a whole host of friends - it was produced by Bleeding Heart Pigeons’ Mícheál Keating and features contributions from Brendan McInerney (Bleeding Heart Pigeons), Dan Walsh (Fixity), David Tapley (Tandem Felix) and Pádraig O’Donoghue (Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies). Sean talks about moving to Belfast, friends in the Limerick scene, finding his voice with Hey Rusty, and some of the...
2021-09-2939 minKPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Pouring Cool Waters on the Conflagration…Pouring Cool Waters on the Conflagration…
Caroline welcomes the return of collegial Celtic Wizard
Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, author of “The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are – Connecting to the Living Medicine of Wild Plants” that we may cool the fever dream of the world
If
All war is a failure of imagination
Then
All Peace is a Triumph of the Imagination…
What shall we do when the world is on fire?
Tend each thing proffered to us with solicitude and kindness
not adding to the heat, c...
2021-08-1959 min
Sage and SpiritThe Forest Reminds Us Who We are with Seán Pádraig O'DonoghueSeán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.In this episode, we discuss Seán’s incredible and insightful new book, The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are. He discusses his upbringing, feelings of not fitting in, and finding solace in the natural world. He shares how the plants first called to him, and...
2021-08-171h 10
Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay046, Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue“Our sense of ‘the individual’, which really began with the rise of capitalism and the forceful severing of people from land and community, led to the concept that there are categories of being that do and do not have consciousness, that are and are not alive, that do and do not have their own right to existence…and when we actually drop into our senses and allow ourselves to experience the living world, we discover that so many of the things that were not supposed to be intelligent, or sentient, are speaking to us and with us. And that changes...
2021-07-291h 02KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Bardic Radio/Summer Solstice Sap RisingBardic Radio/Summer Solstice Sap Rising
Caroline welcomes Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue
Poet — Herbalist, author of “The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are (July 6, 2021) “speaks to the hunger people feel for connection with the natural world, and offers a new way to connect with nature wherever they live.”
otherworldwell.com
“Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, living in the mountains of western Maine. Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist d...
2021-06-1759 min
Sacred Nature Radio04 - Conversation with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue about spiritual ecology and living a meaningful life in late capitalismSeán Pádraig O’Donoghue: otherworldwell.com
Nature of the Beast: otherworldwell.com/blogs/news/nature-of-the-beast
Winter Born: otherworldwell.com/blogs/news/winter-born
Holistic Pharmacology for Herbalists: www.matthewwoodinstituteofherbalism.com/courses/holistic-pharmacology-for-herbalists
Seán's other Courses: otherworldwell.com/pages/courses
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2021-01-091h 23