Best Matt Syrdal Podcasts (2024)

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Mythic Meditation - The Water of Life 17:09

2M ago17:09

17:09

A Mythic Meditation - The Water of Life It is possible that the next story that finds you might just be more than a story. The emergent edge of myth touches the creative powers of the cosmos, for mythtelling at its root is about world-making. We have been story-tellers for hundreds of thousands of years. In the Awakening Mythic Imagination Eco-Dept…

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The Way Home, An interview with Ben Katt 1:07:26

4M ago1:07:26

1:07:26

In this episode I interview Ben Katt about his new book "The Way Home" tracing his own "hero's journey" to wholeness at midlife, including stories of change and personal transformation. I hope you enjoy! You can find him at: thewayhomebook.combenjaminkatt.com ----more---- Ben Katt is a meditation teacher, spiritual coach, and writer. He is the auth…

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SPECIAL EPISODE: An Interview with Awakening Mythic Imagination Yearlong Participants 1:29:45

11M ago1:29:45

1:29:45

On this episode of Mythic Christ Podcast, join host Matt Syrdal as he reflects on the transformative and intimate experiences of the Awakening Mythic Imagination year-long program. Spanning nine months and following the seasonal cycles, this program invites participants to tune into the Earth's rhythms and engage with world mythologies, great mythi…

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REPOST: Shaman Christ - Part I: Jesus, Awakening & Vocation 1:20:33

1y ago1:20:33

1:20:33

By mattsyrdal

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Bonus Episode: A Poetic Journey - ”Sky Kiva” 14:42

1+ y ago14:42

14:42

Special Bonus Episode: Poetic Journey - "Sky Kiva" by Matt Syrdal. This month I wanted to offer a special bonus episode, a poetic journey based on a poem I wrote years ago in Sage Canyon, Colorado called "Sky Kiva." I hope you enjoy! Patreon supporters receive special bonus episodes like this one, guided downloadable spiritual practices, and discou…

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Unitive Christ: Part I - ”Wisdom-Sophia” 51:25

1+ y ago51:25

51:25

Over countless millennia, humans have longed for freedom from bondage to the limits of the physical realm of suffering and death… Longed for a portal to the stars, cold, distant, keepers of ancestral wisdom and ancient secrets into the mysteries of the cosmos itself. Behind the primal Mother Goddess stood a void that could not be breached, a holy d…

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Green Christ: Myth, Mystery, and Mycelia - Part I 50:35

1+ y ago50:35

50:35

"When I lean over the chasm of myself— / it seems / my God is dark / and like a web: a hundred roots / silently drinking.” - Rilke trans. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy When we move from the monologue of modern theology and patriarchal cultural values to the myco-logue of mythic consciousness and entangled identity, we discover a whole living root-sys…

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Awakening Mythic Imagination 36:11

1+ y ago36:11

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Our greatest ability and gift as a species is the imagination. We imagine new possibilities. We imagine ourselves into new futures. Human imagination is uniquely forward reaching, and world creating. The imagination is an inner mirror upon the world itself, reflecting back to us who we really are what the world really is. We are homo poeta, human m…

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Surge: Deluge of the Divine 49:17

2y ago49:17

49:17

"Surge: Deluge of the Divine" will be released, September 19th. Have you noticed a rising and frenetic consumption of information, a frenzied thirst for soundbites and images, that keep our thumbs swiping down our small black glass screens? Something deep and archetypal has been activated in the primal, instinctual layers of the human psyche. Somet…

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Don’t Turn Your Face Away: The Myth of Exile and Return 1:10:52

2+ y ago1:10:52

1:10:52

We have lost something as a culture difficult to describe or even to feel. We have lost the language and the ritual container we need to even become conscious these ambiguous losses and the untended grief buried in the body, both individually and collectively. We might sense that Reality itself is on the line. Guy Debord in landmark work, The Socie…

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The Journey of Descent with Nature-Based Soul Guide Rev. Matt Syrdal 1:12:22

5+ y ago1:12:22

1:12:22

Nature-based soul-guide, Rev. Matt Syrdal, is re-wilding what it means to be human. His work weaves in myth and ceremony in nature as a way for people to enter into conversation with the storied world in which they are a part. Matt says, “there is a constellation of relationships with the more-than-human world in which our sense of self-hood, commu…

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Indigenous Elder Dr. Randy Woodley: Shifting from a Western Worldview to an Indigenous Worldview 1:32:41

6y ago1:32:41

1:32:41

Dr. Randy Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee teacher, songwriter, poet, activist, former pastor, missiologist and historian. He is a lover of plants and lives with his wife, Edith, co-sustaining the Elohah farm in the Willemette Valley in Newberg, Oregon where they utilize and teach principles of Permaculture, Biomimicry and Traditional Indigenous Kno…

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David Korten: Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth 1:24:32

6y ago1:24:32

1:24:32

International best-selling author, speaker, and engaged citizen, David Korten, is a living embodiment of curiosity, compassion and courage, whose wisdom comes from many years of exploration and experience. In early adulthood David devoted his career to ending poverty. Later after holding a faculty position at Harvard he made a permanent break with …

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Part 1: Reverend Bianca Davis-Lovelace on "The Poor People's Campaign" 1:12:12

6y ago1:12:12

1:12:12

Activist Reverend Bianca Davis-Lovelace on The Poor People’s Campaign, a National Call for a Moral RevivalActivist Reverend Bianca R. Davis-Lovelace is on a mission to fight on behalf of the marginalized, oppressed, and poor against systemic inequalities and injustices. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in a working class family, she learned to s…

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Jeremy Lent—The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning 1:37:34

6y ago1:37:34

1:37:34

Author and integrator, Jeremy Lent, investigates the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability. In his book, The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy covers a vast expanse of territory. In time: from the dawn of homo sapiens to the present day and possibilities for our future. In geography: across Asia, Afric…

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Gayle Karen Young Whyte: Minding the Invisible and Working the Mythic and the Mundane 1:20:31

6+ y ago1:20:31

1:20:31

Gayle Karen Young Whyte is a technologist, human rights advocate, leadership, adult and organizational development expert, and the former chief Talent and Culture Officer at Wikimedia. She consults senior leaders on personal development, organizational culture, and helps them be able for complexity.Gayle was in the process of becoming a monk when s…

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Dr. Stephen Michael Newby is composing a symphony to Heal the Land 1:28:45

6+ y ago1:28:45

1:28:45

Dr. Stephen Micheal Newby is six generations removed from his ancestor and namesake, Michael, an enslaved African man who likely survived the horrific conditions of the Middle Passage, only to arrive at The Newby Plantation in Jones County, Georgia, to a new life… a living hell. We now know that Michael, and the enslaved people, used music and rhyt…

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Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller On Going Nomad, Finding Pathways to Wholeness, and the Language of Spaces 1:38:56

6+ y ago1:38:56

1:38:56

Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller is a purpose agent. She has architected her life to support work and her purpose, which is: “The manifestation of love in the work we do in the world.” She is energizing her purpose through her roles at a number of for-purpose enterprises that she has co-founded, Encode.org, which liberates purposeful work and Evolution a…

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Matthias Roberts on Queerology and What it Means to be a Queer Person of Faith 2:05:21

6+ y ago2:05:21

2:05:21

Matthias Roberts is Christian and Gay. To many people these categories don’t mix. To Matthias, these aren’t categories. This is simply who he is, a gay Christian man who has not only found the courage to name that as his identity, but also to be a leader and example for everyone who identifies as LGBTQ and is pursuing faith.Matthias’s driving quest…

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Blaine Bartlett: Compassionate Capitalism and the Journey to the Soul of Business 2:03:39

7y ago2:03:39

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#1 International best-selling author of Compassionate Capitalism, Blaine Bartlett, joins me on the Emerging Future Podcast. The title, Compassionate Capitalism, is intentionally an oxy moron because compassion is far from a central core value in the world of business. Blaine makes a case for why compassion is the essential antidote to widespread gr…

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Michael Preston on Waldorf Education, Trusting in Synchronicity, and the Primacy of Perception 2:27:49

7y ago2:27:49

2:27:49

Michael Preston is a Master Waldorf Teacher. I consider him a Wisdom Elder, someone who has lived a life of curiosity and authenticity, and in doing so has learned much about the deeper insights and wisdom that life makes available to us. And I’m deeply grateful that he taught my son's class from 1st grade through 3rd grade before retiring.At a you…

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[Unedited] Dr. Robert Gilman—Bright Future Now: Tools and Context for the Planetary Era 1:58:34

7y ago1:58:34

1:58:34

[Unedited] More of Robert's Story...Robert's story of becoming an astrophysicist and studying at PrincetonRobert's journey of sustainabilityRobert's first home made telescopeRobert's hand-built sustainable house in Sequim, WAThe start of In Context Magazine and the global network of authorsRobert's journey through the dark night of the soul, sudden…

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Dr. Robert Gilman—Bright Future Now: Tools and Context for the Planetary Era 1:19:24

7y ago1:19:24

1:19:24

Dr. Robert Gilman is a man of many talents. As a Princeton-trained astrophysicist, sustainability pioneer, engaged citizen, and cultural change catalyst, he is adept at making sense of complexity and discerning the signal from the noise in most territories of life. He founded the Context Institute in the 70s to explore more sustainable ways of livi…

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Tom Thomison: Going Beyond Employment. Liberating Purposeful Work 1:36:11

7y ago1:36:11

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Imagine if work was a contemplative practice...if work was a way to practice becoming more of yourself, to learn, to share, to collaborate, and to ultimately become more human. This is how Tom Thomison works. For well over a decade he has been on a quest to breakdown the employer/employee divide and create a new way of working that fosters all of t…

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Pat Wright: Living a Total Experience—Overcoming Racism, Patriarchy, and Jealousy to Share Her Gift 1:48:46

7y ago1:48:46

1:48:46

Pat Wright is a global musical legend. Growing up in Carthage, Texas, she started singing at age three in her father's church. After making her way to Seattle, she lived further into her calling as a singer and choir director and started the Total Gospel Experience Choir. Overcoming many challenges, Pat and her choir traveled the globe singing to d…

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Joel De Jong - "Maktub" And What Is Meant To Be 22:37

7y ago22:37

22:37

In this episode I share personal reflections about my understanding of the emerging future and what is required to flourish within the transition from and Empire Era to a Planetary Era. Today was a difficult day, and out of it emerged a sign, an omen, and a wisdom that carried depth and meaning that I'd like to share. This episode is unique because…

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Sharon Daloz Parks: Common Fire—Connective Space and Imagination that Fuels the Courage to Risk 1:47:18

7+ y ago1:47:18

1:47:18

"We all have the capacity to have our fire kindled on behalf of the welfare of others and our own." -Sharon Daloz ParksSharon was in grade school when she first imbibed an image of a shared commons. Her mother made a rule that everyone in her class would get a birthday invitation because it was the right thing to do. Years later Sharon would find h…

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Andrew Himes: The Carbon Trifecta—A Global Warming Solution & Graphene—A Miracle Material 1:17:07

7+ y ago1:17:07

1:17:07

"Graphene is the most unusual and potentially the most valuable material on the planet." -Andrew HimesAndrew Himes, author, internet pioneer, and imagineer is now the Director of Network Orchestration for The Carbon Trifecta, a new non-profit initiative that uses CO2 as the path to a global sustainable economy. You heard that right, it uses CO2 (ca…

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Raj Manhas: Compassionate Schools; An Immigrant's Journey to Transforming U.S. Public School Systems 1:37:17

7+ y ago1:37:17

1:37:17

"My customers are students. Not parents. Not the board."— Raj ManhasRaj Manhas was born in a dusty village in a displaced family in northern India. His grandmother taught him compassion at a very young, and that became Raj's through-line for approaching life. He worked hard in school and on the family farm and eventually made his way to the U.S. as…

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Tarik Abdullah: Feed the People. Teach the Kids. 1:31:27

7+ y ago1:31:27

1:31:27

Tarik Abdullah, aka Chef Tarik, found his purpose at a young age, "Feed the People. Teach the Kids." This lead Tarik to learn his craft everywhere from the restaurant kitchens of Seattle to the poorest neighborhoods in L.A. His love for food ran just as deep as his love for kids, and Tarik found a way to bring children into his own learning process…

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Chris Clark: Evolutionary Teal Organizing and Becoming Fully Human in the 21st Century 3:12:55

7+ y ago3:12:55

3:12:55

Chris Clark is on a journey to become fully human in the world and help others recover their native tongue. He has been on a quest since he was eight years old, driven by an innate connection to nature, to discover the depths of the soul and find common ground for humanity. An unlikely journey has led Chris down the path of Christian fundamentalism…

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Joe Brewer: The Illusion of Separation and Becoming Resilient in the Face of Planetary Ecocide 1:45:55

7+ y ago1:45:55

1:45:55

Joe Brewer is on a mission to secure the existence of a complex thriving global civilization in 100 years. In this inaugural episode we discuss the following:-The deep psychology and cultural evolution practices that are required for systemic social change.-The illusion of separation and how to liberate ourselves personally and culturally from the …

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Matt Syrdal Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Mythic Christ Podcast

Matt Syrdal

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Emerging Future Podcast

Joel de Jong

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Mythic Meditation - The Water of Life 17:09

1
The Way Home, An interview with Ben Katt 1:07:26

1
SPECIAL EPISODE: An Interview with Awakening Mythic Imagination Yearlong Participants 1:29:45

1
REPOST: Shaman Christ - Part I: Jesus, Awakening & Vocation 1:20:33

1
Bonus Episode: A Poetic Journey - ”Sky Kiva” 14:42

1
Unitive Christ: Part I - ”Wisdom-Sophia” 51:25

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Green Christ: Myth, Mystery, and Mycelia - Part I 50:35

1
Awakening Mythic Imagination 36:11

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Surge: Deluge of the Divine 49:17

1
Don’t Turn Your Face Away: The Myth of Exile and Return 1:10:52

1
The Journey of Descent with Nature-Based Soul Guide Rev. Matt Syrdal 1:12:22

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Indigenous Elder Dr. Randy Woodley: Shifting from a Western Worldview to an Indigenous Worldview 1:32:41

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David Korten: Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth 1:24:32

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Part 1: Reverend Bianca Davis-Lovelace on "The Poor People's Campaign" 1:12:12

1
Jeremy Lent—The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning 1:37:34

1
Gayle Karen Young Whyte: Minding the Invisible and Working the Mythic and the Mundane 1:20:31

1
Dr. Stephen Michael Newby is composing a symphony to Heal the Land 1:28:45

1
Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller On Going Nomad, Finding Pathways to Wholeness, and the Language of Spaces 1:38:56

1
Matthias Roberts on Queerology and What it Means to be a Queer Person of Faith 2:05:21

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Blaine Bartlett: Compassionate Capitalism and the Journey to the Soul of Business 2:03:39

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Michael Preston on Waldorf Education, Trusting in Synchronicity, and the Primacy of Perception 2:27:49

1
[Unedited] Dr. Robert Gilman—Bright Future Now: Tools and Context for the Planetary Era 1:58:34

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Dr. Robert Gilman—Bright Future Now: Tools and Context for the Planetary Era 1:19:24

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Tom Thomison: Going Beyond Employment. Liberating Purposeful Work 1:36:11

1
Pat Wright: Living a Total Experience—Overcoming Racism, Patriarchy, and Jealousy to Share Her Gift 1:48:46

1
Joel De Jong - "Maktub" And What Is Meant To Be 22:37

1
Sharon Daloz Parks: Common Fire—Connective Space and Imagination that Fuels the Courage to Risk 1:47:18

1
Andrew Himes: The Carbon Trifecta—A Global Warming Solution & Graphene—A Miracle Material 1:17:07

1
Raj Manhas: Compassionate Schools; An Immigrant's Journey to Transforming U.S. Public School Systems 1:37:17

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Tarik Abdullah: Feed the People. Teach the Kids. 1:31:27

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Chris Clark: Evolutionary Teal Organizing and Becoming Fully Human in the 21st Century 3:12:55

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Joe Brewer: The Illusion of Separation and Becoming Resilient in the Face of Planetary Ecocide 1:45:55

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