Drones, minimalism, field recording and other retro-modern composition for liminal and deep listening; headphones are suggested. All original compositions by artist, author and musician Brian C. Short (Solid Objects, BCS). Updated fortnightly. briancshort.substack.com
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Experience 'numina', Latin for 'spiritual places', through guided meditations written on location at spiritual sites and temples around the world.
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SPLANCHNICS: The Society for the Preservation of Literature, the Arts, Numinosity, Culture, Humor, Nerdiness, Inspiration, Creativity & Storytelling
Clare Walker & Hannah Kubiak
We are a mother-daughter team of creative artists irreverently discussing books, movies, TV shows, theater, art, bad grammar, or whatever else has captured our imaginations. This is a very serious podcast!!
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En esta nueva entrega presentamos la ciencia numismática y qué información aporta a estudios históricos y arqueológicos Cover art photo provided by Diogo Nunes on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@dialex
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The Numinous Podcast is a show about intuition, spirituality and the mystery of life. The host, Carmen Spagnola, is an intersectional witch and clinical hypnotherapist who has smart, soulful conversations with interesting people. The lineup is diverse, the topics are eclectic, and the people are down-to-earth (mostly).
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What is awful about this is how utterly normal it is. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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“Rather than putting things together, let’s take them apart,” says the man with no eyes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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Clare and Hannah return with another book club, this time covering Joseph Heller's Catch 22, a satirical commentary on corporate malfeasance, nonsense, incompetence and bureaucracy. A classic war novel that coined a phrase still prominent in the modern zeitgeist, Catch 22 left Clare feeling like a dummy and convinced Hannah that she does indeed hav…
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A time of life / of simply having answers / to questions you’d never thought to ask. [for field recording, acoustic & electric guitar, piano] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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Who is Mr.? [for synth, electric guitar] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP234 Unlearning Fatphobia + Embracing Pleasure with Dawn Serra
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My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating…
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Reeds and tall grasses throughout. [for field recording, synth, cello] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP233 Understanding Moral Injury with Dr.Robyn Walser
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We're not afraid of grappling with the tough stuff here on The Numinous Podcast! In this episode we're engaging with high stakes violations of values and betrayals that lead to Moral Injury. Moral Injury can occur when you do or fail to do something, when you witness something, or when you hear about something after the fact, that violates your dee…
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TNP232 Be the Fire, Be the Medicine with Asha Frost
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This episode is going to be a very special one for all the listeners who live with chronic illness and all the listeners with Indigenous heritage. These stories and experiences are interwoven in my conversation today with Anishinaabe medicine woman, Asha Frost. Asha Frost (she/her) is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She’s a longti…
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TNP231 Attachment in Community Organizing with Aurelie Richards
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Mental health professional and somatic coach, Aurelie Richards, is back on the show and we’re talking about secure attachment in movement work – community organizing, workplace unionizing. How can we do this in a way that's sensitive to the realities of interpersonal neurobiology? In a way that recognizes the value of presencing secure attachment i…
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This kid is just annoying. Though he’s got his own prominent role, now he’s shadowing me on stage, hovering around and peering over my shoulder at the card in my hand as I’m trying to read it. Though I’ve been doing this part for a while, tonight I simply can’t manage. I stumble through the sentences and flub it terribly. It isn’t necessarily becau…
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TNP230 Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard on Working with Your Guides
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Content note: Specific, sometimes graphic, discussion of death. Shawn Leonard is a Mi'kmaq psychic medium. Gifted and accurate, his television show on APTN called 'Spirit Talker' depicts him travelling to Indigenous communities across the country, learning about their culture and spiritual teachings, and connecting them with their Beloved Dead. Alo…
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Armies of collapse. [for electric guitar, piano & acoustic guitar] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP229 What It Feels Like for A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy
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If you're a 35 - 55 year old woman, you grew up in the very particular cultural landscape of the pre-#MeToo era. You grew up with boy-centered stories like The Outsiders, Stand By Me, Goonies and The Lost Boys, the everyday male violence and misogyny of entertainers like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison, and hypersexualized movies and music like Po…
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TNP228 New Rules for Dating with Canada's Dating Coach Chantal Heide
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Content Note: This is a very honest and frank conversation about our topic – modern dating. You may want to listen to this one through headphones! We’ve got a really FUN episode ahead with Canada’s Dating Coach, Chantal Heide, who has some great advice for all the women who are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to date men. Honestly, I think this migh…
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TNP227 Tarot for the Hard Work with Maria Minnis
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When I tell you that a tarot book is one of the best antiracism workbooks I’ve ever come across, I hope you take note. I honestly think if anyone, whether an adept or a newer student of antiracism, were to pick up Tarot for the Hard Work, it would keep them busy with exercises and practices for the rest of their lives. And, not incidentally, forge …
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Armies of soft derangement. [for dvina, cello, electric guitar, pressure0Oo] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP226 Wild Horses of the Chilcotin with Wayne McCrory
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I am a huge fan of Wayne McCrory's book, The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. Wayne McCrory is a registered professional biologist specializing in the study of wild horses, bears and western toads. Wayne is a leading expert on bear conservation and human-bear conflict. He was a driving force in the creation of the Khutzeymate…
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[for electric guitar, synth] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP225 10th Anniversary Episode! 3 Secrets + Thoughts on the Mysteries of Life
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Looking back and looking forward, standing on threshold with a full decade of The Numinous Podcast behind me, I share 10 Qualities of Leadership, 3 secrets about the show, plus a bonus secret and another extra special bonus secret, a clip of my favourite 15 minutes out of the 10,000+ minutes of the show, and I cry a few times, of course. So it's a …
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TNP224 The People's Oracle: Dayna Lynn Nuckolls on Sidereal Astrology and the People's Public Health Education Campaign
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This episode is for people who are seeking guidance about how we shall live and work and be joyful together in the face of on-going pandemic. Our guest is Dayna Nuckolls, known online as The People's Oracle, creator of the Divination For Liberation Framework of Sidereal Astrology and The 7 Essential Needs™️. Dayna is a multi-oracle diviner, musicia…
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[for electric guitar, cello] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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“Asakusa” is a response to my first visit to Japan in February of 2023, staying in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo, with its river and elevated highway and frenetically busy temple. I don’t know why I chose Asakusa for my first visit, but then again, why not? Knowing nothing about the layout of Tokyo, it made as much sense as anything for a place…
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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The several-times silence (out) of need and remembrance. [for acoustic & electric guitar, cello, synth, just intonation] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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In this breakfast chat, Clare shares a truly embarrassing story from a fellow veterinarian. Names and locations have been changed to protect those involved from further shame. This episode may be troubling for more squeamish listeners, as it contains terms like: uterine horn, testicles, castration, cervix, and litter-bearing animals. Also, Hannah a…
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In part 2 of our series on the kings and queens of England, Clare and Hannah talk about two kings who embodied the term, "man-child." Henry II spent his entire wedding reception goofing off with his best friend and ignoring everybody else, including his new queen. Richard II surrounded himself with his favorite sycophants, spent a ridiculous amount…
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I like the idea that people are a story. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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[for electric & acoustic guitar, cello, dvina, ghost] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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Among? Or first, you see: a-mong. He will go a-mong them. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP223 Efu Nyaki on Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and SE
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My guest today is Efu Nyaki, a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing. I first heard about Efu through my friends, Patricia Petersen and Thérèse Cator who were each members of the inaugural BIPOC-only cohort of Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner trainings. They recentl…
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eyes was not / of film as / you can still get a This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP222 Podcast Playlists for Special Interests 10 Years + 14 Themes
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This episode is a short retrospective of highlights from nearly a decade of The Numinous Podcast! Below, I've sorted ten years of episodes into 14 playlists. If you don't see 14 categories below in your podcast player show notes, click here to view them on the podcast website. Enjoy! Intuition, Spirituality, and the Mysteries of Life TNP4: Love and…
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TNP221 Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand
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Today, we welcome Clark Strand to the show to talk about his book, Waking up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse. Clark has written numerous books and articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he is co-author with previous podcast guest, Perd…
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Persons in juxtaposition; the heads of persons, juxtaposed. They will – they do – face each other and they will (do) speak, are (are) speak(ing). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briancshort.substack.comBy Brian C. Short
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TNP220 Empower Your Perimenopause with Dr.Kristin Schnurr
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I have been a student in the most life-changing class about perimenopause for the better part of this year. Actually, it’s a telehealth group – a group of patients meeting monthly for online sessions – under the care of Dr.Kristin Schnurr, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in complex endocrine concerns including perimenopause and postmenopause.…
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