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Spirituality for Today#15 Interview with Zhenevere Sophia Dao (part 1)This is the first part of an interview with my original Qi Gong teacher Zhenevere Sophia Dao.
She is without doubt one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever met - poet, philosopher, neo-Daoist, neo-Romantic, blacksmith, Kung Fu expert…
In this podcast we talk about both spiritual awakening and gender awakening as Zhenevere gives a deeply touching account of her own transition from man to woman.2025-04-151h 15
Mother of the Sword PodcastInanna and Underworld MedicineAs the great Toni Morrison says:“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”Today on Mother of the Sword podcast, we have a chat with my friend Greg who I met on a Southern Italian ritual drum and dance retreat where we studied in worship to the Black Madonna in Hawaii last April.Our lineage is rooted in Earth based wors...2024-11-081h 05
Deschooling DialoguesEpisode 5 - Alnoor Ladha with Zhenevere Sophia DaoEpisode 5 - Alnoor Ladha with Zhenevere Sophia Dao.Today I have the honor of being with a dear friend, elder and mentor Zhenevere Sophia Dao.Zhenevere Sophia Dao is founder of the philosophy of Post-Daoism and the MogaDao practice tradition. She has been a teacher and innovator of mythosomatic practices for nearly 30 years, and writes on wide variety of spiritual, philosophical, and cultural subjects. Zhenevere is also the founder of the organization, The Transgender Necessity, a platform to help educate individuals and institutions with regard to the cultural necessity...2024-02-021h 10
Tankespjärn with Helena Roth16. Women of wide spaces | with Beverly DelidowMy fourth conversation with Beverly Delidow of Here’s a Quarter takes place after she’s returned from a two-week photographic journey to Iceland and Grimsö.
An intended 24-hr-visit to Iceland for me and my family, upon returning from Seattle/Vancouver in 2016, was cut short to 6 hours during which we managed to visit The Blue Lagoon, because I’d botched the time zone-differences upon booking our flights. Oops…
Beverly, on the other hand, have been to Iceland twice, on trips specifically designed to photograph birds, and as she leans into the vista she uses as a backgro...2021-08-101h 41
The Mythic Masculine#43 | Gender Is A Lie, Gender Is a Truth - Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)My guest today is Zhenevere Sophia Dao, founder of the philosophy of Post-Daoism and the MogaDao practice tradition.She has been a teacher and innovator of mythosomatic practices for nearly 30 years, and writes on wide variety of spiritual, philosophical, and cultural subjects. Zhenevere is also the founder of the organization, The Transgender Necessity, a platform to help educate individuals and institutions with regard to the cultural necessity of transgender people.In our fantastic conversation today, we discuss how to weave the fabric of one’s mythopoetic life. We explore a post-Daoist gender theory, and the recognition and implication of...2021-07-191h 45
CHITHEADS with Jacob Kyle (Embodied Philosophy)Zhenevere Sophia Dao on Sexuality and the Transgender Necessity (#128)In this episode we discuss: Post-Daoism as a philosophy reinterpreting depth psychology, qigong, and Daoism MogaDao as a practice at the intersection of somatic, queer, and socioerotic inquiry Socially imposed self-images versus deeply personal mythopoetic self-images The democratization of desire in all forms and socio-erotic experiences Spiritual significance of sex, sexuality, and desire as authentic expressions of a soul’s original virtue Consumeristic paradigm of sexuality as another attribute of power The importance of trans people in society as leaders in and examples of radical authenticity Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist, playwright, and the director of the SACRa The...2021-02-231h 13
The Ethical RainmakerHeal Yourself to Transform SocietyIf our goal is to be in community and work with or help others, we must first work within ourselves - taking on the healing process to not recreate the patterns that have oppressed us. Healer, facilitator, and npo executive Victoria Santos describes her journey through personal trauma and burnout through community organizing and her holistic healing journey. We dropped a lot of references, so here are links for some of the content we mentioned in the show (and sign up for our mailing list to get ahold of episodes early and learn more about these topics):Michelle...2020-11-0435 min
Life is a Festival#81 - Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Communities | Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)Last month I spent several days in silent meditation at Azure Village in Southern New Mexico near Gila National Forest. My host was my friend and fellow traveler Andrew Murray Dunn. As we emerged from silence we jumped right into a podcast, sitting out in the expansive desert landscape as the summer monsoons rolled in.
On the show we talk about Andrew exploration of his feminine self who he calls Ava Rose, a subject very dear to my own Two Spirit journey. We talk about Andrew’s work in ethical technology, creating an Android launcher called Siempo in an attempt to...2020-09-261h 24
Life is a Festival#72 - Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)“Someone who creates a practice tradition this vast is someone who can't survive in the world as it is.”
Today on Life is a Festival, Zhenevere Sophia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains. We discuss what Zhenevere calls the “Transgender Necessity” wherein transgender people ask society to wake up to the magnitude of their own desire. We talk about MogaDao as a collection of artful practices to sensitize the human organism and why sensitivity makes life valuable. We also discuss my own e...2020-07-022h 12