Hosted by Erik Jampa Andersson, author of 'Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More than Human' (Hay House, 2023), Unseen Beings takes listeners on a journey of natural recovery, unravelling our lost threads of enchantment with the living world to uncover what it really means to be human in a more-than-human world. The human-centred story is killing us. In addition to wreaking havoc on the natural environment, it makes us both miserable and unsafe. It is a corrupted story - born out of ...
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Lian Brook-Tyler: Being Mythical (E09)
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In this episode, host Erik Jampa Andersson sits down with Lian Brook-Tyler, a shamanic healer and co-founder of the Be Mythical Academy. They discuss the importance of living a soul-led, heart-centred, and sovereign path, reclaiming our wildness, and actualsing our deepest gifts. They explore the limitations of modern spirituality and the need to i…
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Mike Fiorito: For All We Know (E08)
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In this episode, we are joined by author and journalist Mike Fiorito to discuss his upcoming book, 'For All We Know' (now available for pre-order), and to chat about UFOs, enchantment, spirituality, music, and the manifold ways that humans metabolise extraordinary and anomalous experiences. Mike is a freelance journalist and the author of The Hated…
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Anna Raithel: Ritual and Embodiment (E07)
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In this episode, Erik is joined by his good friend Anna Raithel, an emotional intelligence coach and ritual arts specialist in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. They discuss the potency of ritual to create rhythm and spaciousness in our lives, to engender authentic relationship with a wide range of 'others,' and to foster a deeper sense of embodiment…
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Tatyanna Wright: Meeting the Nāgas (E06)
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In this episode, I'm joined by Tatyanna Wright, a spiritual transformation coach, author, and host of The Conscious Diva podcast, for an enchanting discussion about nature spirits, Nepali shamanism, and the lived experience of being in relationship with unseen beings. A former television producer, Tatyanna now supports clients around the world to s…
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Dr. Jack Hunter: Greening the Paranormal (E05)
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In this episode of the Unseen Beings Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jack Hunter, an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and…
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A solocast about the complex interweavings of religion, myth, and belief, and their roles in addressing the so-called 'big questions' of life. Subscribe to Erik Jampa's Substack - https://erikjampa.substack.com On Unseen Beings and Erik Jampa - https://www.unseen-beings.com Shrīmāla - https://www.shrimala.com…
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Coming to Terms with our Ecological Diagnosis
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In this episode, Erik Jampa discusses the first section of his book, Unseen Beings, which approaches the 'diagnosis' of our complex and multi-faceted ecological crises. He discusses the terminology used to discuss our crisis, and breaks down some of the key arguments and criticisms of the so-called 'Anthropocene' designation. In order to begin to u…
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In this episode, Erik Jampa discusses the notion of ecological 'recovery,' and the ways that stories can draw us deeper into enchantment or deeper into delusion. With reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal essay 'On Fairy-Stories,' Erik talks about the three functions of 'fairy-stories' - Recovery, Escape, and Consolation - and how the process of en…
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Introduction to Unseen Beings with Erik Jampa
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In this short introduction to the Unseen Beings podcast, author Erik Jampa Andersson talks about his upcoming book, Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human, and some of the ways that our human-centred worldview has blinded us to the fundamental root causes of our climate crisis. Episodes will be coming this Spring, so please subsc…
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