Best Janet Conner Podcasts (2024)

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Meeting Mary Magdalene again for the first time 59:10

3+ y ago59:10

59:10

Sophie Strand writes wild and glorious essays that upend everything we think we know about our myths, legends, stories, and beliefs. Maybe Jesus isn’t who we’ve been told he is. Maybe Mary Magdalene is far, far more important in the story. Maybe we’ve been so bamboozled by patriarchal religion that we don’t even know who she is anymore. Or what her…

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What if Queen Jezebel wasn’t a jezebel after all 38:19

3+ y ago38:19

38:19

Thanks to the bible story, Jezebel’s name became a slur that strikes terror in a woman’s body. Being called a “Jezebel” smears a woman as slut, harlot, whore. But how did that happen? Because there’s not one word in the bible about Jezebel being unfaithful. She and her husband Ahab, the king of Israel, were married for 30 years and had 1 daughter a…

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The Burning Times ended; the wounds did not 1:04:17

3+ y ago1:04:17

1:04:17

As I researched the 13 witches for The Return of the Witches pilgrimage, I started learning about the witches in Scotland and sensed deep in my body that Scotland had an essential place in the pilgrimage. I began to read about the Burning Times in Scotland and stumbled upon an organization called Witches of Scotland which is seeking an apology, par…

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What if Joan of Arc isn’t who we thought—at all 52:55

3+ y ago52:55

52:55

It’s been 9 months since the last show. And it’s not Covid’s fault. Or is it? In this episode, you’ll discover what happened last August that brought the show to a screeching halt, why Janet is proud to embrace the once-terrifying label “witch,” and who Joan of Arc—the greatest witch of all time—might have been. Listen as Janet and Perdita Finn dis…

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Clark Strand: Now Is the Hour of Her Return 1:28:06

4y ago1:28:06

1:28:06

This is a conversation unlike any other on Praying at the Speed of Love. Because the conversation isn’t really with Clark Strand. It’s with Ma Kali herself. And She’s quite the conversationalist! In the gentle hands of her boy, Clark Strand, we meander through some deep and even dark prophetic territory, hearing Kali speak in Her own voice and seei…

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Amy Grossblatt Pessah: Parenting on a Prayer 1:16:43

4y ago1:16:43

1:16:43

Prayer really comes alive in this conversation as we meander through the relationship with the divine as a relationship with a wise loving parent, a parent who wants nothing more than to give us all the mystical strength and vision we need to fulfill our tikkun olam, our contribution to the universal call to repair the world. And oh, does our world…

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Christine Valters Paintner: Earth Our Original Monastery 1:11:36

4+ y ago1:11:36

1:11:36

This is the perfect conversation for a time of pandemic and quarantine. Christine invited us to explore how the monastic view embraces all of life—treasures and sorrows, cygnets and compost. She offered rich insights into the practices of Stability, Wild Edges, Grief, and the paradoxical state of Holy Indifference. She took us into a gentle meditat…

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Phil Cousineau: The Art of Pilgrimage 1:12:35

4+ y ago1:12:35

1:12:35

Phil Cousineau startled us with the dangers of medieval pilgrimage—half did not return! Then, he reminded us pilgrim in Latin means “to put the sole of your feet to the soul of the world.” Think of that as we embark on our internal pilgrimages. All that in the first minutes! This conversation is a feast of history, meaning, and possibility. Just th…

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Estelle Frankel: The Wisdom of Not Knowing 1:07:57

4+ y ago1:07:57

1:07:57

Estelle Frankel kicked off the conversation with a prayer: “Open my heart, open my mouth.” And then our hearts and mouths were opened and the conversation dropped deep into The Mystic as Estelle led us into wordless prayer, cries of the heart including howling, the prayer of silence, and how the three octaves of unknowing. Then she told the Passove…

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Robert Corman: Wisdom for Spiritual Travelers 1:34:16

4+ y ago1:34:16

1:34:16

We opened with a gorgeous prayer Robert Corman wrote years ago. Then we dove into Journeys and Awakenings: Wisdom for Spiritual Travelers. Reading any of the 48 profound offerings feels like meandering through a mystical forest hand-in-hand with a wise and warm guide. Robert introduced us to a few of those guides and left us hungry for more, much m…

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HeatherAsh Amara: The Warrior Heart Practice 1:13:32

4+ y ago1:13:32

1:13:32

We began in Hong Kong with 7-year old HeatherAsh staring in awe as people bowed to rocks. We followed her to Thailand and India and back to the US, where the lack of reverence was startling. We got to listen in as a dream announced that a man was coming who would change her life. And he did. Don Miguel Ruiz introduced her to Toltec wisdom and Heath…

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Neil Douglas-Klotz: How did Jesus really pray in Aramaic? 1:16:08

4+ y ago1:16:08

1:16:08

Everything you think you know about the “Our Father” or “Lord’s Prayer” goes up in smoke as Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz guides us into the sound and meaning of the prayer in Aramaic. From the get-go, it’s a shock. Our father? Maybe not! Whether you have loved this prayer or avoided it like a plague of patriarchy, you are in for a sweet surprise. As Neil …

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Mark Nepo—How does a poet pray? 1:01:55

4+ y ago1:01:55

1:01:55

In this intimate conversation, Mark invites us to feel what he felt singing the Torah and experience his grandmother’s living presence in a dream. He explains “indigenous perception” and invites us to hear the apple trees tell him he will survive cancer. Then, Mark welcomes Albert Schweitzer, Mechthild, Ghiberti, and Martin Buber into the room. He …

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Dawna Markova—Living a Loved Life 1:21:43

4+ y ago1:21:43

1:21:43

This is a multi-layered miraculous conversation. On one level, it is a beautiful conversation with a beautiful woman, Dawna Markova, about how she evolved into the midwife and author we adore. But on another level, it is a conversation with a ghost—Dawna’s illiterate, Russian-Jewish, challah-baking grandmother, who may not have a name. You meet thi…

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Peter Booth—Hafiz, the Poet of Love 1:02:33

4+ y ago1:02:33

1:02:33

If your heart is hungry for love—big love, mystical love, life-altering love—this is the conversation for you. Peter Booth answered the questions not with his stories or opinions, but with ghazals, couplets of love straight from the Persian mouth of Hafiz, the ultimate poet of love. By the end, we were in altered states, deep in The Mystic, just as…

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The Way of the Rose Part 2—The Rosary and her Mysteries 1:34:48

4+ y ago1:34:48

1:34:48

Clark Strand and Perdita Finn take us on a deep dive into the Rosary to uncover her ancient mystical goddess secrets hidden in plain sight right under the nose of the patriarchal Catholic church. One big mystery is “The Mysteries” themselves, 15 stories that tell our story of human life and the story of human history. And then they talked about the…

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The Way of the Rose Part 1 1:31:46

5y ago1:31:46

1:31:46

Sit down. Get ready. Love is coming. She's knocking at the door. When you start praying the ancient pre-patriarchal goddess worship hidden in every bead of the rosary, you will discover what my theme song has been telling you all along: “You are not praying; you are being prayed, prayed at the speed of love.” That is the power and promise of the ro…

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Stephen Post—God and Love on Route 80 1:09:35

5y ago1:09:35

1:09:35

As a boy, Stephen Post has a recurring dream with a strange prophetic message. Following the dream, he gets on Route 80, leaves his broken-down car on the side of the road, thumbs his way West, and—surprise—the dream unfolds in real time on the Golden Gate bridge. You couldn’t make this story up if you wanted to! It’s a wild ride filled with myster…

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Hallie Iglehart Austen—The Goddess comes alive in you 1:13:19

5y ago1:13:19

1:13:19

Hallie offered her personal prayer practice and how it has evolved into action. Prayer without action is 1/3 effective, prayer with personal action is 2/3 effective, but prayer with collective action is 3/3. She created All One Ocean to excite collective action. Every piece of plastic removed is a prayer. We talked about the dramatic difference whe…

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Kimberly Marooney— First Aid from the Angels 1:34:05

5y ago1:34:05

1:34:05

Kimberly opened with a prayer that quite literally opened our hearts. She shared how prayer has transformed her life from a miracle on the beach at 16 to the radical prayer that restored her to health after years of pain. That prayer opened the path that took her from financial consulting to angel consulting. We shared stories of being saved from d…

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Mandara Cromwell—Making Sound Visible 1:25:16

5y ago1:25:16

1:25:16

We began hearing Mandara sing Gregorian chant in a gothic cathedral and watching halos on saints vibrate in response. We followed her as she followed sound to the Rig Vedas, Indian temple construction, Ayurvedic science, Chinese medicine meridians, even the Roslyn Chapel where sound is frozen in stone. Everything comes together in the new science o…

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Mallorie Vaudoise—Honoring Your Ancestors 1:24:44

5y ago1:24:44

1:24:44

Mallorie Vaudoise’s Neapolitan ancestors migrated to the US at great sacrifice to build a firm foundation for future generations. Mallorie grew up knowing life is not about being a consumer; it’s about being a steward for the next generation. She talked about ancestors beyond our bloodlines and how to venerate them and receive their blessings. In p…

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Dr Christine Page—The healing power of the sacred woman 1:25:56

5y ago1:25:56

1:25:56

Christine was nurtured by her Scottish Fae mother and grandmother who knew the land as “sovereign queen.” Perfect grounding for Dr Page’s life’s work helping women remember we are made in the image of the Great Mother. She talked about how our wombs mirror the waxing and waning of the moon, culminating in the dark moon when we are most powerful. An…

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Rabbi Tirzah Firestone—Intergenerational Trauma Can Be Healed 58:49

5y ago58:49

58:49

There are conversations, and then there are conversations. This intimate conversation with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds into Wisdom, drops into a whole new place—a holy and sacred place. A place where everyone is holy. Everyone is sacred. There is no “other.” A place where there are no concentration camps. No traumatized children. No an…

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They Are All Our Children 49:26

5y ago49:26

49:26

This week's conversation is a bit different, a bit radical. There is power in praying together. As we pray as one heart, we create a drumbeat of love that flows around the world. They Are All Our Children is a radical love prayer practice created with the sacred intention to close the migrant detention camps and free the children. Today, we are all…

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Elizabeth Cunningham — The Celtic Magdalen Speaks and Sings! 55:10

5y ago55:10

55:10

There were more than two women in this conversation. Maeve, aka Mary Magdalen, was not only in the room, she took over. Elizabeth Cunningham spent twenty years following the directives of that voice to write The Maeve Chronicles. Join us for wild stories, hair-raising biblical quotations, and spontaneous goddess songs. But in the end, the conversat…

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Celeste Yacoboni—how prayer becomes love 1:00:40

5y ago1:00:40

1:00:40

From lying in the grass on her grandfather’s Italian home-farm, to tying Lakota tobacco prayer ties, to creating a chant for Ho’oponopono, to lying under the Solstice sun, Celeste Yacoboni shares her love for prayer from the many deep chambers in her heart. How does her prayer story end? She realizes prayer has become love. This gorgeous conversati…

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Briana Saussy—magic and prayer 58:54

5y ago58:54

58:54

How were you taught to pray? How have your prayers evolved? How are you redefining prayer? These are the questions that sparked this juicy, funny, slightly erotic conversation between a magician and a prayer artist. It opens with Briana’s 4 insights into magic, shifts to “praying down hard” at her Nana’s Baptist knees, carries us into the foundatio…

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Sofia—the music of prayer 55:51

5+ y ago55:51

55:51

Timothy Frantzich invites us to traipse the marshes of Minnesota with his child-self until we feel our own hearts open. Then walk with him as he discovers the “theology of addition,” until it’s all prayer, especially singing together. Carin shares her personal definition of prayer—a fresh idea you have not heard before, then carries us into the hea…

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Alessandra Belloni and the Black Madonna 46:25

5+ y ago46:25

46:25

This conversation transcends the word “conversation.” It is more of a mystical journey marrying the ancient past and the present. We travel to southern Italy with Alessandra Belloni, get lost with her, stumble upon Our Lady of Freedom in Benevento, hear the caretaker’s call to pray for freedom, and begin to chant. This is so no longer a podcast. Th…

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Kahu Lāhela Johnson and Ho‛oponopono 50:44

5+ y ago50:44

50:44

How does one become a kahu—keeper of the ancient Hawaiian Shamanic ways? Lahela Johnson shares her amazing childhood talking to plants, ocean, mountains, and animal spirits. Even as a young child she sensed she had a kuleana—responsibility. One day, her kumu—teacher—asked her to be initiated as a kahu. Lahela protested, “but I’m not qualified!” Kum…

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Mirabai Starr and the Wild Mercy of the Divine Feminine 38:34

5+ y ago38:34

38:34

After thousands of years of prayer formulated by the patriarchal religions, the divine feminine is asking us to change the way we pray and repair our broken world. Not by transcending the body—that’s the old patriarchal way. She’s inviting us to embrace and embody Her. She is here. She is alive. And Mirabai Starr brings Her shining and singing in a…

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Meghan Don meets Mary Magdalene 52:59

5+ y ago52:59

52:59

The Conversation Welcome to an intimate conversation about the evolution of a mystical life. Meghan Don’s story begins at 3 lying in a bush paddock on a farm in New Zealand, moves to dancing at 19 in the sacred waters of the Yamuna River where Krishna and Rahda cavorted, all the way to a vision of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene dancing in joy on Easter …

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Emma Kupu Mitchell: From praying in a cathedral in England to communing with sacred land in Hawaii 57:09

5+ y ago57:09

57:09

How does a girl go from praying The Book of Common Prayer in an Anglican cathedral in York England to a woman who hears the call of the sacred land of Hawaii? In this conversation with Emma Kupu Mitchell, we get to witness a soul falling in love with sound and its healing powers. And then we get to experience those powers through the practice of hu…

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Janet Conner: My Prayer Podcast Story 51:07

5+ y ago51:07

51:07

Janet went to bed a writer and woke a prayer artist. And everything changed. Who should be the first guest on Praying at the Speed of Love? Janet came up with a list. That is until she startled awake one night: The first guest has to be me! In episode 1, she tells the story of going to bed a writer and waking up a prayer artist, and how those two w…

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