The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Religion”

Episode 109: Lukas Wolf and Taran Rosenthal - Reclaiming Curiosity & The Invitation of Chinese Medicine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:15:00 -0500

I believe conversations are an art form and can be incredibly potent medicine for transformation. The best conversations I’ve had are the ones that occur without an agenda, are filled with curiosity, and a deep listening for the invitation into a deeper inquiry where wisdom can often arise and nourish everyone who engages.

To me, this conversation feels like one in which my guests and I embark on a conversation that deepens, opens, and expands - nourishing all of us as we go with plenty of laughter and just the right amount of irreverence.

I especially loved this podcast episode because Taran and Lukas came without any agenda. These two men are wonderfully alive and deeply comfortable in their own skin.

We cover lots of ground:

How we were parented as well as how we parent.
How our appetite for curiosity and wrestling with questions grew over time.
How religion influenced us.
“Bowling outside the bumpers,” which we describe as being socially “acceptable” and acting within the boundaries of society.
How Taran and Lukas describe their work in Chinese Medicine and what it’s about for each of them.
How they guide their clients to express coherence in the body.
Different forms of Chinese Medicine and how they each practice.
How Chinese Medicine differs and can complement Western Medicine.
Acupuncture as an avenue for healing.
Orienting ourselves to explore and embrace curiosity and mystery.

I share my own story written the night before as I sat with my daughter called “Advice from a Caterpillar” and how it relates to everything we were exploring.

Taran Rosenthal is a dad, Classical Chinese medicine practitioner, lifelong mover, and co-host of the Apricot Jam podcast. He is endlessly curious and immensely grateful to be kin to all beings.

Lukas Wolf is an acupuncturist, herbalist, and martial artist in Brooklyn, New York. His days can pretty much be summed up as: punch, kick, heal, rinse, repeat. Both Lukas and Taran have their own podcast called Apricot Jam - be sure to listen!

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Episode 89: Sophie Strand - Catching Feathers & Ecological Embodiment

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

*There are no accidents. *

As we awaken to our true work in the world, synchronicity becomes more frequent and intensely delightful.

Synchronicity is how we know that we are exactly where we need to be and that we are “right on time” with the divine.

It so happens that this idea of being “on time” is exactly the topic Sophie Strand writes about. Her piece, Catching The Feather, stopped me mid-Facebook scroll and took my breath away. Something in my body resonated at a cellular level, and I realized that she was speaking to a truth my body remembered.

I’ve been on a quest these past few months to reacquaint myself with my inner wild. That free and innate part of myself that has been tamed and contained, that forgot how to listen to the natural rhythm of life and needs to pick up the drum beat and dance. To allow myself to howl in my loneliness and smell my way to my knowing and dare to open to my ancient wisdom and memory. The wild part of me that remembers who I was before I was domesticated and separated from my true mother, mother earth, and the sensorial ecstasy of being alive outside the confines of the patriarchy.

Whenever I put my life and my intentions inside of my personal “Revelation Project,” I am always guided to the next human or experience, or tree, river, feather (ahem) I need to meet on my remarkable journey. My job is simply to trust that more will be revealed, and you know what?

More always is.

I’m honored to introduce you to Sophie Strand.

Sophie has much to teach us about returning to our senses and trusting our original design. As deeply interconnected beings, we are always at choice to feel into the intelligence that surrounds us and is within us. She invites us to speak to the trees, listen deeply to what the rivers have to say, and embody the community of mycelium to know more about truth, healing, and reciprocity. To decenter ourselves is to return to the wonder of nature and to discover where true love lives.

Thank you, Sophie, for your incredible work in the world! You are a revelation!

Listen in to our conversation to hear more about:

During the pandemic, when time and structure began to melt and we had to restructure our lives, Sophie began catching feathers while on her walks. She believes they held messages.
Our linear minds have a way of thinking about ourselves and the world that surrounds us. For many of us, the concept of “time” can be reimagined and reinterpreted as it’s changed.
Life is always giving us messages and symbols and numbers. Specific animals also often hold medicine and messages for us if we are willing to be curious and open to those.
What if we were to re-wild our understanding of the divine and even Mary Magdalene and Jesus? How would that change our understanding or our relationship to what they symbolized and the message of love they wanted to plant within us?
Revisiting myths before the patriarchy co-opted them is also a fertile place to revisit ideas of masculine and feminine.
The Greek word pharmacon can mean medicine or poison. It means “powerful substance.” Myths are like that - they can be medicine or poison.
Patriarchy has been conflated with masculine, and masculine has been conflated with patriarchy.
We need to re-wild myths with ecology because they are rooted there.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. 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). She has recently finished a work of historical fiction that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels. Her book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transspecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine, is forthcoming from Inner Traditions' imprint Sacred Planet. Follow her on Facebook or Instagram @cosmogyny.

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Episode 87: D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D., Kohenet - Lilith's Fire: Honoring the Sacred Feminine

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

To be with D’vorah Grenn is to sit by the fire with the wise woman, and to deeply connect to and reveal the suppressed herstory of the sacred feminine.

As a teacher and a scholar, she is a wealth of introspection, warmth and storytelling and I love both her brilliant mind, and her loving and playful heart.

D’vorah and I travel to ancient and erotic places in this episode and reveal the layers of power contained within the uncensored and creative feminine life force to discuss what’s possible as more women awaken and step into our power.

In addition to being a disciple of truth and divinity, D’vorah is also a lover of laughter and sisterhood, so I know you’ll love this episode and the revelations we share that include:

Why Lilith is such an important archetype for women, and why her fire needs tending.
Understanding that for thousands of years women have been silenced, erased, marginalized, and our opinions and preferences discounted, denigrated or mocked and why that has to change.
D’vorah shares her personal story about her descent into her dark night and recounts her own reclamation and spiritual awakening.
Contemporary thinkers have been redefining "sin" and re-visioning the erotic as a sacred life force. These concepts are so important for women to explore and embody.
Why women feel deeply nourished by learning more about the sacred feminine, and how it fills an inner void when we reveal hidden stories about the feminine face of the divine.
How religions have been part of fracturing our understanding of the divine feminine and suppressing the importance of her presence in our lives.
The power of women’s circles and being witnessed, received and loved in our true expression by other women in sisterhood.
Why Eden is a paradise, and not a prison, and how women can reclaim our power and our voices by leaning into the true mythologies and stories of the feminine, not the stories that were co-opted and shaped to fit a narrative intended to keep women oppressed and unrealized.
The more conversations women have about our lives, our ideas, our philosophies, our experiences and our real feelings, the more unified and collaborative we can become and the better our world will be.

D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. & Kohenet/Priestess, is Founding Director, The Lilith Institute (1997). She Co-Directed the former Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University, and founded Mishkan Shekhinah, a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine. An Adjunct Professor at Napa Valley College, D'vorah also serves as a spiritual mentor and guide. Her Talking To Goddess anthology includes sacred writings of 72 women from 25 traditions. Other publications include Lilith's Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce; "The Kohanot: Keepers of the Flame" in Stepping into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writing on Priestesses; and the Jewish priestess and Lilith entries, Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions. Contact info: dvorah@lilithinstitute.com; @lilithinstitute on Instagram, or The Lilith Institute on Facebook.

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Episode 49: Liz McCartney - Soul Synergy

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Today’s episode is with special guest Liz McCartney to talk about all things spiritual.

We often come into our paths with the true elements of ourselves unknown. We feel adrift throughout our lives and seek relation within ourselves as human beings but have our true essence unknown. The often unanswered questions of our origin, path, and purpose can only be answered when we become connected to the Divinity in which we were created.

Liz believes in a true connection to ourselves as human beings and our true Divine Being. She has been guided to create a synergistic approach to healing through the connection of our Divine being and our human existence.

Through her connection to the Source of all Universal Life Force Energy and the higher dimensional beings of light, wisdom, and knowledge of the Fifth Dimension, offered with a gentle, warm, patient, kind, gracious, and unique presence, Liz brings you into the truest form of yourself through the synergy of your soul's beauty and healing.

Liz offers healing wisdom and knowledge to humanity through her gift as a spiritual channel. She is a master teacher of Reiki and combines meditation and pranic healing in her work with her clients. Her focus is on creating a synergistic connection to assist her clients to embrace the human experience through the divine being. Imagine a synergistic connection to healing through the divine being within you - this is the work of Liz McCartney.

Liz offers a full scope of energetic healing. Most healing modalities are singular in focus, instead of having a synergistic impact on the healing of mind, body, spirit.
Liz helps her clients to bring them into connection with their own divine being and helps surface subconscious patterns and beliefs that might be impeding healing and growth. She helps clients answer: Why am I here? What is my purpose?
We are a divine being in human form.
Mythology and prehistory is a wonderful place for women to turn to create a context for their own journey.
When we are created in divinity we are given many gifts, including our divine purpose and our spirit guides.
When we do our own inner work, we release our lower energy and ascend in our conscious awareness.
Men and Women have equal access to the masculine and feminine energies within and both are capable of moving and shifting in and out of those energies as needed for the relationship and our roles in raising families, careers, etc.
We all experience stages in our lives where we feel a lack of grounding and fear, and our emotions and actions are not in alignment with each other. This is the result of an imbalance within our energetic body
Liz uses intuitive healing, light, and messages she channels from the Source of all universal life force energy, higher dimensional beings, and ancestral lineage to discover and release any energetic, genetic, or hereditary imbalances found within the clients she works with.
When we are able to restore the flow of energy that was once stagnant or blocked throughout our energy centers, we come into a synergistic connection between our divine and our energetic being.

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