In the Cauldron with Sophie Strand and the Underworld Medicine of Fungi - a podcast by Kathryn Fink

We turn to fungi as a teacher and ally in cycling through the underworld, being with death and rebirth, poison and medicine, personal and collective movement—and what it means to dance through all of it, not as a dance of binaries but a dance of interconnected layerings and crossings and sporulating clouds. To guide us, we welcome to the cauldron neo-troubadour animist and myco mythologist Sophie Strand.

|| 0:00 || Intro|| 5:42 || Opening poem from Sophie called “Prayer”

|| 7:19 || Sophie’s story of healing through relationship with the animate world|| 10:03 || One of Sophie’s favorite tales of the underworld

|| 14:05 || How fungi kaleidoscope understandings of underworld narratives, and myth more broadly, as stories of collaboration rather than tales of solitary, conquering heroes|| 20:40 || How fungi exist outside of linearity, and how we can let them welcome us even deeper into spiralic ways of being

|| 33:40 || Poison and medicine|| 33:40 || “Make my healing a party everyone is invited to”—collective liberation and personal revolutions

|| 33:40 || A practice to allow magic to be “an escape from this world, into this world”MORE ON SOPHIE

Sophie’s preferred blurb to include in my intro/show notes/elsewhere: Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022 from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in 2023. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan).Website www.sophiestrand.com
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