BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh

A Conversation with Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi and Transformational Therapist Marcina Hale

Marcina is a therapist and film maker who is trained in many modalities from different traditions and who appreciates the collective wisdom of cultures.  She is a License Marriage and Family therapist and also CIIS and MAPS certified in psychedelic work.  She has facilitated conversations and workshops internationally and across the US and has had the honor of co-creating with many amazing people especially the team at Reconsider including the Guardians / Board Members, Wisdom Keepers / Advisory Board and Chacarunas / Bridgers.

She is an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi, Producer of Disturbing the Peace and is a facilitator for Reconsider workshop experiences, which have been given in the U.S. and internationally. Marcina spoke at TEDxKC Women about how to change the world in which we are living. 

Marcina’s vision is to catalyst the creation of experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire a new ways of relating to ourselves and to life itself. 

Disturb the Peace to Find Healing with Stephen Apkon: Critically-Acclaimed Film Maker

Humanizing the other - challenging narratives of violence - practicing peace and forgiveness - finding commonality with our enemies - Stephen travels through the West Bank filming the stories of former militants on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides who have transformed their lives and chosen not only to walk peacefully but also to walk peacefully with other former militants from the opposing side, as a unified force to end occupation, bring love, compassion, and peace to a region of consumed with hatred and violence. His film, Disturbing the Peace, was critically-acclaimed by the New York Times and Robert Ebert, receiving the Ebertfest Humanitarian Award amongst numerous other awards by various film festivals around the world

 

Stephen and his partner, Marcina, are also well known for the acclaimed film "Fantastic Fungi" and have created a beautiful center devoted to healing, psychedelics, and community building only 15 minutes from my house in the Catskills called Reconsider. My sound healing group, Dream Seed, has been a regular music guest at their retreats offering immersive sound meditation experiences for first-responders, student groups, therapists, and members of MAPS - multi-disciplinary association of psychedelic studies

 

This was one of my favorite podcasts to date - Stephen's humanitarian work, films, and philosophical understanding of conflict, peace, and healing is profound and revelatory - recommended for anyone who looks out at the world today and wonders how we can steer humanity back on track. Fortunately, it begins with ourselves

Stephen Apkon is an award-winning filmmaker, and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. Stephen is the Director and Producer of Disturbing the Peace. He is also an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi and Planetary, and Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker, and Enlistment Days, and Co Producer of Presenting Princess Shaw.

He is the author of The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux – foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Stephen lives in the Hudson Valley with his partner Marcina, their dog Osa, and the flora, fauna and fungi they share this corner of the planet with.

A Prayer for the Waters with Omaha Elder Nathan Phillips

Nathan's initiation into Native healing work in the prison system

His connection and work with Leonard Peltier

His work at Standing Rock

Protecting the Waters

 

Native Youth Alliance on Facebook

 

Free Leonard Peltier Now

Dismantling a Hierarchy of Violence: Further Dialogue with Professor Denise Walsh of the University of Virginia

Discussions on the subject, accusations, and relevancy of Genocide in Palestine

James ”Flaming Eagle” Mooney: Part 3: Seminole Medicine Man and Founder of the Oklevueha Native American Church (Repost from 2022)

Recorded and originally published in 2022

James shares how he was passed the peyote and authorized to bring it to the white man's culture by Native elders, leading to a political struggle that takes him to the Utah Supreme Court

James ”Flaming Eagle” Mooney: Part 2: Seminole Medicine Man and Founder of the Oklevueha Native American Church (Repost from 2022)

Recorded and originally published in 2022

James continues sharing his life story about finding real healing to his bipolar diagnoses through traditional Peyote ceremonies and Native American culture, simultaneously connecting him back to his buried Seminole ethnicity

James ”Flaming Eagle” Mooney: Part 1: Seminole Medicine Man and Founder of the Oklevueha Native American Church (Repost From 2022)

Recorded and originally published in 2022

 

James Mooney shares his life story starting with being brutally assaulted at a young age for his native ethnicity, nearly dying, and being revived in the sweat lodge and then losing a connection with his roots, leading to a severe bi-polar diagnoses. His search for a cure for his ailment then brings him full-circle to the Native healing circles of the Peyote way.

Politics and Consciousness Raising with Professor Denise Walsh of the University of Virginia

- Politics and Consciousness 

- Social Responsibility 

- Community action against facism and populist oppression

- Islamaphobia and the Burkha ban in France 

*Correction and edit - Nathan Phillips, mentioned in the podcast, is of the Omaha Nation - not the Lakota Nation 

Keep Asking Questions

More thoughts on Israel and Gaza

The Psychedelic Renaissance with Dr. Stephanie Van Hope

Dr. Stephanie Van Hope is a registered nurse, certified nurse coach, and doctor of nursing practice with experience in oncology, hospice, and health coaching and nursing education. She served as a study guide for New York University’s Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety project, guiding cancer patients through psychedelic journeys with psilocybin, and offers a continuing education course for nurses entitled Nursing & Sacred Medicine: Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy and serves as a learning facilitator for the Synthesis Institute’s Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program. Stephanie is a Reiki practitioner and a student of yoga, meditation, astrology, plant medicine, music, dance, and the sacred traditions of many faiths. She currently resides with her husband, son, in an intentional community in the Catskills region of New York.

 

https://nursingsacredmedicine.thinkific.com/

 

https://www.hopeholistic.com/

 

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