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Welcome to REVELATORIUM, where I open up my inner world monthly for entry. It's an opportunity to come together to reflect, opine, and most importantly... think freely. What will you leave behind from this chapter of your life and what will you take forward with you?
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How should we live in this world when so much is changed? Katherine May, author of Wintering and the Electricity of Every Living Thing, asks those most intimate with the effects of these transformations: what now? How do we stay soft in a world determined to harden? How can we bear witness to suffering without being dragged into despair? How do we ride the waves of our anger, sorrow and exhaustion, and still find space for wonder, hope and joy? How can we possibly help? In a series of frank, ...
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Welcome! You're in line with Sara & Kath, where you get to join us for the always chaotic, usually relevant, and completely idiotic conversations we have while standing in line for overpriced boba, cancelled concerts, or silly little Disneyland rides. Explore our twitter thoughts, worldly observations, and best friend banter.
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Strange things happen in Twillingdale and it's beauty masks the horrors that have taken place there. The truth has been kept a secret for centuries but now all is revealed. Each podcast has been written by Katherine McDermott and directed by Sian Berry and has been produced by the great team at Bamalam Productions who are based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. Photographs are by Shannon Landers and all illustrations are by Laura Crow. Check out our website at www.ravagedbytime.co.uk Email any f ...
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A Podcast About Zen, Buddhism and Mindfulness. Episodes of this podcast will focus on Zen practitioner interviews, Buddhist and Zen history and investigations of the intersection between Zen and science. Podcast website: https://simplicityzen.com/
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Welcome to Author Imprint, a public media podcast that’s laser-focused on literature. We ask writers about their craft and career, what they’re reading, and when they fell in love with books. Interviews range from YA novelists to journalists, and thriller writers to cartoonists. For more literature-loving content, visit www.allarts.org/authorimprint, and join the conversation with #AuthorImprint. Also, book lovers - check out The Great American Read, PBS's new 8-part series about the power o ...
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Join me for a recent conversation with comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer Samantha Irby. Recorded as part of my True Stories Book Club hosted on Substack, we talked about realising you have a body again after lockdown, dogs that don’t love us enough/love us too much, writing about the darkest parts of our life, and terrorising Sex a…
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EPISODE 018 🤝 revealing too much, the idea of you, couple status, celibacy and the lot -- https://www.instagram.com/revelatoriumhttps://www.linktr.ee/revelatoriumREVZINE VOL. V OUT NOW!! https://heyzine.com/flip-book/555698ef67.html REVZINE VOL. I: ⁠⁠⁠https://heyzine.com/flip-book/f1200e4f8d.html⁠⁠⁠REVZINE VOL. II: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://heyzine.com/flip-book…
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Join my conversation with Catherine Coldstream as we relax into a questing, rambling chat about the deep pull that many of us feel towards the quiet and gentle rhythms of the monastic life, and the risks of submitting so completely. Katherine's new book, Enchantment, is available now: US/CAN and UK Links from the episode: Catherine’s website Cather…
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EPISODE 017 📱 annoying behavior, the stigma of being a transplant, big city thoughts on LA + NYC, exclusive friend groups, overcoming cravings, phone addiction contagion, and what I learned from being in Cuba. gaza fundraiser: link canadian dating coach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMsvjBDOrfM join book club: https://www.patreon.com/join/kather…
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Jennifer and Adrianna Wix were last seen on March 25, 2004, at the Benton residence, Jennifer's boyfriend's family's house, in Springfield, Tennessee. On that day, Jennifer's father, Michael Wix, spoke with Jennifer on the phone, making him the last relative to have contact with her. Joey Benton, Jennifer's boyfriend at the time, and his parents, J…
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Jennifer and Adrianna Wix were last seen on March 25, 2004, at the Benton residence, Jennifer's boyfriend's family's house, in Springfield, Tennessee. On that day, Jennifer's father, Michael Wix, spoke with Jennifer on the phone, making him the last relative to have contact with her. Joey Benton, Jennifer's boyfriend at the time, and his parents, J…
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This week, I have a baffling case for you. The last time Natalie saw her sister, Katherine Berry, was when she was only a few months old. When Natalie became a teenager, she was told that Katherine was missing, and her heart was shattered. Natalie has dedicated many years to searching, praying, and thinking about Katherine. In December 2022, she di…
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EPISODE 016 🍓 pleasure activism, sacred places, having my sh*t together too much, distressing reactions, pedestrianism by force, unrequited love, celebrity culture making us lonely, egoic laughter, being misunderstood, and dreading hobbies.i'm built like strawberry shortcake, catholics invented 75 hard, and kokopelli is a he/theyREVZINE VOL. V OUT …
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Today's show focuses on the missing person, Ian Indridson. Ian is a 56-year-old Caucasian man who is five feet, eleven inches tall and has a slim build. He has salt-and-pepper hair, short at the time of his disappearance. On January 10, 2022, Ian disappeared in the Fairfield area of Victoria. At that time, he wore a dark-coloured Eddie Bauer sweate…
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Today, I have a very special guest: Amanda Knox. For those of you who don't know Amanda, she is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the best-selling memoir, "Waiting to Be Heard." Between 2007 and 2015, Amanda spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit. The controversy ove…
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EPISODE 015 ❤️‍🔥 hitting you raw after crying over my feelings and shirking responsibilities to talk to my friends. as the podkath turns 15 and celebrates its quince I reveal that I like to reveal hidden desires, discover that proactivity is real, introduce the seduction of sampling, analyze my life as one big domino fall, let the world get blurry,…
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Some would question the wisdom, or the right, of someone like me--White, Mennonite, Christian--writing about the historic practices of torture among Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island. Hopefully, the work I have been doing on this podcast and in my book so far has helped me pull enough of the log out of my own eye that I can at least look at the …
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I have a very intriguing episode for you this week; I interviewed Dr. Rachael Hanel about Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Rachael is a former newspaper reporter and copy editor and teaches Creative Writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the author of more than 20 nonfiction books for children. Her first adult …
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On October 22, 2013, Dean Kelly Morrison disappeared after leaving his job as a painter at the 2600-hectare Stump Lake Ranch between Merritt and Kamloops. He is a 44-year-old father of three who had been living in a trailer on the ranch's property. Despite extensive search efforts, Morrison's disappearance remains a mystery to his family. It's alle…
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EPISODE 014 🪵 yelling at your friends vs. family, how to look forward to being around strangers, my yapping career, the museum of the internet, sister cities, isthmian interests, my portmantalent, reclaiming fellowship and being a bad weirdo. i am usually married to the oxford comma but there i pursued going on a break email revelatoriumpod@gmail.c…
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Today, on the show, I have Canadian author Tim Marczenko. Tim has written two books, "Disembodied Voices: True Accounts of Hidden Beings" and "Gone Cold: Death and Disappearances in the Northwoods." I wanted Tim on the show to talk about his latter book, "Gone Cold," which looks at cold, missing person cases in my home province, Ontario. Tim's book…
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Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation in 1992. He lived at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center and practiced as a resident in the mid 1990s. Afterwards, he practiced with Diane “Eshin” Rizzetto in the Ordinary Mind Zen School started by Joko Beck. Later, Berry became a student of John “Shoji” Sorenson and in 2022 was authorized to indep…
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EPISODE 013 👫 intergender friendships, curses, trust, being SO in public, inherited advice culture, your parents' toxic friends, and being anti-yearly resolutions. WELCOME TO SEASON II, I welcome you to rate and review wherever you're listening <3 REVZINE VOL. I: ⁠https://heyzine.com/flip-book/f1200e4f8d.html⁠REVZINE VOL. II: ⁠⁠https://heyzine.com/…
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Happy New Year! I wanted to start 2024 with a mystery I have always been fascinated with. In December of 1900, in the Flannan Islands on Eilean Mor, three lighthouse keepers, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur, vanished in stormy weather and without a trace off the remote northwest coast of Scotland. Theories range that the men peri…
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51-year-old Patricia Duncan, a mother of seven, went missing from Buckie, a coastal Scottish town, sometime on November 16, 2002. It’s reported she walked out of her home into the cold and rain with her cigarettes and brown sheepskin jacket. It’s believed she was also wearing black pants and black shoes. Patricia is approximately 5’4 in height, wit…
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A horse-and-buggy Mennonite community has all of its children apprehended by agents of the state because of the use of corporal punishment in the community. What does this story expose about how we think about the legitimate use of force in our modern world? Girard and Illich offer some insight on the odd role of the Gospel in reshaping everything …
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At a superficial level, Soil is a gardening memoir, full of gorgeous descriptions of plants and getting your hands in the soil. But the garden in question is a political gesture, an act of resistance and an assertion of belonging. Camille T. Dungy uproots the staid monoculture of the suburban garden, and takes a fierce, critical look at its assumpt…
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An Interview with Zen Teacher Eihei Peter Levitt Eihei Peter Levitt is the founder and guiding teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, where he resides with his wife, poet Shirley Graham. He was authorized as a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi by Zoketsu Norman Fischer, founder of the Every…
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I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of Laurah Norton's new book: "Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless." Laurah, also the host of The Fall Line and One Strange Thing Podcasts, has written a riveting book about how investigators, experts, and forensic scientists identify Jane or John Doe Case…
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For our fourth and final conversation, around and beyond the legacy of Ivan Illich, we hear reflections and discussion from Katherine Bubel and Michelle Berry Lane before moving into an extended open discussion. Katherine discusses Illich's mythopoetics of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Pandora, the latter a patriarchally diminished version of the Ear…
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EPISODE 012 🎁 2023 REVELATORIUM wrapped, but yours not mine. we talk loneliness killers, forcing friendship, crushing your own spirit, platonic chemistry, accepting compliments, how silence isn't scary, unlimited invisible strings, and unmasking. i also perform a beloved scene from Little Women (2019). 🎄 WATCH VLOGMAS: https://www.patreon.com/colle…
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Gustavo Esteva coined the slogan "One No, Many Yeses" to communicate the way Illich's sense of "the vernacular" offers many small and winding exits off of the one big road of industrial "progress" that tries to gather up the whole globe into one great machine, one overriding system. In this conversation, Dougald Hine, Sam Ewell and friends colour i…
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Natana (or Tana) Lynn Thomas went missing sometime in 1978, maybe in the summer, somewhere in Alaska or British Columbia. Natana and her husband, Mike Staso, who was stationed in the Army in Bremerton, Washington, went to Alaska to visit Mike's family. She told the family that on the way home to Tacoma, Washington, they would stop in B.C. and other…
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Katherine Daiki Senshin Griffith is the Head Teacher at the Zen Center of Los Angelos. She started studying Zen in the Rinzai tradition at New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan in 1987. At Dai Bosatsu Zendo, she received Jukai in 1994 from Eido Shimano Roshi, with whom she studied until 2000, when she moved to Los Angeles. She became a member of ZCL…
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In the past few years, resistance has been a live issue for many of us, whether we’re wondering for the first time how to bring about social change, or realising that we need to find new ways to be activists. For Kaitlin Curtice, this resistance is an ongoing practice, informed by her perspective as an Indigenous American, and imbued with gentlenes…
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Danielle Sleeper has been Missing from Magnolia, Texas, since March 22, 2015. She was last seen at a barbecue in a trailer she attended with her son and husband, whom she invited later into the evening. At some point, her husband wanted her to leave, but Danielle wanted to stay and stay over with their friends. An argument broke out, and Danielle a…
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EPISODE 011 🧃 accidental leadership, flirting with strangers, endearing awkwardness, friendship icks and friendship relapse... it's all a part of this MEGA-REVELATORY PODKATH INSTALLMENT. if you listen through all the way you'll be handsomely rewarded with my rendition of "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus and some true ijbol moments. VIDEO VERSION: https:…
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Christian mission has gotten a bad name in our time, for good reason. Illich talked about the razor's edge walked by the missionary, between violating the world into which one has been sent (he used the word raping, actually) and betraying one's spiritual inheritance. Some have read Illich as anti-mission. In this conversation, both David Cayley an…
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Welcome to chapter 2 of Life at the End of Us Versus Them. This is where I give an introduction to the thought of Ivan Illich's sense of the way Christianity was perverted when it sought to impose the Gospel of Christ through state power and institutional administration. I could think of no clearer case example than the Indian Residential Schools p…
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An Interview with Zen Teacher and Priest Teshin Matthew Sweger Teshin Matthew Sweger is the teacher and resident priest at the North Carolina Zen Center. He was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 2004 by Lawson Sachter Roshi, a Dharma successor to Philip Kapelau Roshi. After completing the Harada-Yasutani koan curriculum, Teshin received Dharma trans…
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16-year-old Damien Nettles went missing on a cold, rainy night on November 2, 1996, in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, an Island just off the southern coast of England. His movements were well documented by CCTV camera footage up to midnight on November 2. That night, Damien had gone to a party with a friend. Later that evening, Damien and his friend l…
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An Interview with Zen Teacher Dr Sono Andrew Tootell Dr Sono Andrew Tootell is an Australian Zen teacher in the Ordinary Mind Zen School. He is the dharma heir of Barry Magid and is an accredited mental health social worker and maintains a private psychotherapy practice. He is the teacher for the OzZen sangha. More about Andrew: https://ordinarymin…
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The wolf carries an almost unbearable amount of symbolism in western culture, encapsulating the predatory, the carnal, the supernatural and the ravenous. But in her book Wolfish, Erica Berry suggests that it’s time to understand wolves differently: as tender, as hunted, as guardians of the landscape. What’s more, those evil qualities may be better …
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Two Illichian thinkers dialogue on the legacy of Illich, in the light of our present times and predicaments. This is the first of four fortnightly conversations. David Cayley: friend and associate of Illich and the author of Ivan Illich, An Intellectual Journey. Dougald Hine: co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, A School Called Home and the aut…
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Firing up the old podcast again! This is the first in a series of audiobook chapter releases. I never did figure out how to package and sell my book as an audiobook per se, but it feels like the right time to put this out into the world. The "expectant - and apocalyptic time" that was named on the back cover seems more vividly at hand now than in 2…
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Today, I have a very unique episode for you. I saw a post on a cold case Facebook page that intrigued me. Angie has been searching for her mother, Connie Johnson, for decades. Angie was given up for adoption at a young age and only recently, after exhaustive genealogical research, pieced together that her mother might be missing. Angie has spent ye…
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An Interview with Rabbi and Zen Teacher Adam Fogel Adam Fogel is a practicing Jewish Rabbi and long time Zen practitioner with authorization from his guiding Zen teacher, Ruben Habito Roshi, to offer Zen training within the context of Jewish high holiday retreats. He is also a licensed and practicing psychologist in the State of California. More fr…
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Alex was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Alex's family had last contact with him on August 6, 2020. Some reports have placed him walking south, carrying grocery bags, on Van Buren St. by the Metro Market in Milwaukee. The last time he logged into Facebook was July 2020. He was 33 at the time. Alex has a history of substance use, and his mental h…
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EPISODE 010 🪩 calculating the future, experiencing youtube dread, refusing to niche down... it's all a part of the process. but does the commodification of our rejection sensitivity via dating apps have to be a part of that process too?? am i destined to be a master interpreter forever? do freudian slips bear significance? can i ever befriend strai…
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An Interview with Zen practitioner and Music/Chanting Scholar Stephen Slottow Stephen Slottow is a long time Zen koan practitioner and a professor of music theory at he University of North Texas. He was a professional fiddler and banjo player and an author of a book on the Americanization of Zen Chanting which we will discuss today. More about Step…
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Patricia Marie Small went missing near Liberty, Texas, on May 11, 2002. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are murky, but likely, she was last seen around the 2400 block of Beaumont Avenue in Liberty, Texas. It's unclear whether she was abducted or left of her own volition. Patricia was 18 at the time. She's a white female who is appro…
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Bobby Chowa Werner is a dharma holder, or assistant teacher, in the White Plum Zen tradition. He has been a student of Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders since 2005 at the Sweetwater Zen Center in the San Diego California area. Chowa’s livelihood is in the music industry, composing and producing music for various projects and touring with an acappella doo …
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Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and ACPE Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After working more than a decade as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Koshin began his formal Zen training in 1987, and he is a recognized Soto Zen Teacher by the Ame…
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CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: The following episode may contain references to drugs, abuse, and assault. Patricia Marie Small went missing near Liberty, Texas, on May 11, 2002. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance are murky, but likely, she was last seen around the 2400 block of Beaumont Avenue in Liberty, Texas. It's unclear whether she was …
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