Uncommon Conversations (James Tousignant)

Lucinda Herring returns to the podcast to continue our conversation. Lucinda has studied with David Spangler since the 1990’s, received her Masters in Spiritual Direction from Lorian in 2009, and was ordained as a Lorian priest in 2011. She has an eclectic spiritual path – blending Anthroposophy, the Ceile De tradition, and thirty years as a Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner with her Incarnational Spirituality/Sidhe/Gaian focus and practices today.
Lucinda considers herself a Gatekeeper, helping others navigate life’s thresholds and passages in ways that build resiliency and co-creative connection with Gaia, nature and the subtle realms. She has focused on both ends of life, working with children and families as a festival maker, writer and storyteller, and also helping people reimagine what is possible at the threshold of death.
Lucinda has been at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for over twenty years now, as a death doula, home funeral guide and licensed green funeral director in the state of Washington. In 2019, she wrote Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials, published by North Atlantic Books, with a Forward by David Spangler. The book won the Nautilus Gold Award for 2019, and is available wherever books are sold. Or you can support Lucinda directly by purchasing the book at her website: www.lucindaherring.com.

Today's guest is Timothy Hass. Timothy is an ordained Lorian priest, teacher, author, and serves on the Lorian Association Board of Directors. Timothy is a trustee of WILD and has engaged subtle allies on behalf of WILD projects around the world. He is dedicated to helping people fully incarnate and apply the teachings practices and insights of Incarnational Spirituality in their daily lives. His recent book, the Wonderful World of the Home, is a fine example of his experience and wisdom.

Today's episode presents a conversation between David Spangler and James Tousignant in which James and David discuss a recent electronic newsletter by William Bloom, on the question of what is a contemporary mystery school?
You can find William's electronic newsletter at https://williambloom.com 
David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.
James is the host of Uncommon Conversations, a faculty member and ordained minister of Incarnational Spirituality.  His passions are paddling, spiritual research, and exploring the subtle realms through embodying the teachings and practices of Incarnational Spirituality.

Today's guests are David Spangler, Timothy Hass, and Vance Martin. David is the spiritual director of Lorian. Timothy is a Lorian faculty member and Trustee of WILD. And Vance is the president of WILD. WILD combines on the ground projects with subtle activism and policy interventions to achieve lasting protections for Earth's wildlife, and wild places. You can learn more about WILD by going to WILD.org.  
In today's episode we'll be talking about WILD and its ongoing connection and relationship with Lorian.

Our guest today is Søren Hauge. Søren has worked as a spiritual teacher since 1981. He's published over 20 books, two of which are available in English. In 2015. He published the Wild Alliance: Awakening your Inner Angel and Sidhe, in 2020, he published Finding Your Elven Heart: working with the inner realm of the Sidhe. Soren has also developed his own path as a spiritual coach specializing in Soul Flow, Sidhe Wisdom and Energy Psychology.

Today's episode presents David Spangler and his daughter Maryn Spangler in conversation on embodying your best self.
David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.
Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming a clear channel of their whole soul selves and to create a life in alignment with that. She does this through somato-emotional integration and healing, energetic integrity practices, and deepening the experience of embodiment. She can be found on instagram @maryn_amara or can be reached at maryn.amara.coaching@gmail.com

Todays’ guest is Lucinda Herring. Lucinda has studied with David Spangler since the 1990’s, received her Masters in Spiritual Direction from Lorian in 2009, and was ordained as a Lorian priest in 2011. She has an eclectic spiritual path – blending Anthroposophy, the Ceile De tradition, and thirty years as a Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner with her Incarnational Spirituality/Sidhe/Gaian focus and practices today.  
Lucinda considers herself a Gatekeeper, helping others navigate life’s thresholds and passages in ways that build resiliency and co-creative connection with Gaia, nature and the subtle realms. She has focused on both ends of life, working with children and families as a festival maker, writer and storyteller, and also helping people reimagine what is possible at the threshold of death.
Lucinda has been at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for over twenty years now, as a death doula, home funeral guide and licensed green funeral director in the state of Washington. In 2019, she wrote Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials, published by North Atlantic Books, with a Forward by David Spangler. The book won the Nautilus Gold Award for 2019, and is available wherever books are sold. Or you can support Lucinda directly by purchasing the book at her website: www.lucindaherring.com.

Today's guest is Conrad Satala. Conrad has been a psychotherapist in Transpersonal and Transformational Psychology since 1976. He is also a full active elder shaman, a Nab’eysil in the Tz'utujiil Maya Traditions in his village in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. He has followed the journey with David Spangler since his time at Findhorn and fully support the principles of Incarnational Spirituality as the core of our livingness as a human being. Conrad lives in Fort Wayne, IN and Santiago, Guatemala CA.

Todays’ guest is Sally Fox. Sally is a writer, coach, consultant, and artist. She has taught leadership development and coached professionals thirty-years, only to refocus her business on storytelling and helping others craft a more soulful, creative path for themselves after midlife.
Sally holds a Ph.D. from the Fielding Graduate University as well as an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Beyond her academic training, Sally has continued her love for learning through training in improvisational theatre, clowning, and sound healing.
She chronicles her journey in her upcoming book tentatively called Peonies, Poetry and Paint, Meeting the Muse after Midlife. In it Sally reshapes the conversation around aging to focus on spirituality and creativity as keys to thriving as we age.
She became interested in David Spangler’s work in the early 1980s and became a member of the Lorian community several years ago. Sally currently serves on the Board of The Lorian Association, a spiritual education community.

Today's episode presents a second conversation between David Spangler and his daughter Maryn Spangler on generational differences in focus: societal change or personal development.
David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.
Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming a clear channel of their whole soul selves and to create a life in alignment with that. She does this through somato-emotional integration and healing, energetic integrity practices, and deepening the experience of embodiment. She can be found on instagram @maryn_amara or can be reached at maryn.amara.coaching@gmail.com

In this episode I talk with David Spangler, the Spiritual Director of the Lorian Association, about the origins of Lorian.

Today's guest is Dr. Anna Gatmon. Anna is a visionary educator and spiritual innovator. She comes from an eclectic background that spans the US, Israel, Sweden, France. Her rich life experience includes careers as a fashion model, founder of an alternative Elementary School, a counselor, speaker, and an author. She is the creator of the Expansive Community, a membership for changemakers, who are committed to creating spiritual material abundance in all areas of their life and in the lives of the people they live, work and play with. Anna holds a doctorate degree in Transformative Learning from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and lives with her family in Sonoma County, California.

In addition to bringing you the stories of fellow Lorian's, we would like to share with you what's new and exciting in Lorian's learning offerings.
In today's episode Timothy Hass joins me in conversation around the Lorian's new year-long ChaNGE Training Program - Cultivating a New Gaian Ecology. ChaNGE is an immersive, experiential and, we hope, transformational training in Collaborative Incarnational Subtle Activism.
The ChaNGE Training Program is focused into four streams:
Developing a personal Practice to deepen our attention, intention and foundational skills
Embodying the New Gaian Human/Standing Activist
Stepping into our place within the Gaian Alliance
Integrating our learning and experience through Incarnational Subtle Activism/World Work

In today's episode David Spangler, Maryn Spangler and James Tousignant discuss how the teachings and tools of Incarnational Spirituality provide a way to partner with the Internet in awareness and integrity.

There is a distinct parallel between the experience of the subtle worlds and that of the internet, as both represent an energy environment. Maryn, David and James will be exploring these parallels, and how to hold our sovereignty and embody our wholeness in an upcoming Lorian class titled "Internet Incarnation - Embodying Wholeness in Cyberspace"

Maryn is an embodiment coach. She supports people in becoming a clear channel of their whole soul selves and to create a life in alignment with that. She does this through somato-emotional integration and healing, energetic integrity practices, and deepening the experience of embodiment. She can be found on instagram @maryn_amara or can be reached at maryn.amara.coaching@gmail.com

David is the spiritual director of Lorian, a spiritual explorer, teacher, writer, game designer, husband, and father. His work with both his non-physical colleagues and his Lorian associates has led to the development of Incarnational Spirituality.

James is the host of Uncommon Conversations, a faculty member and ordained minister/priest of Incarnational Spirituality. His passions are paddling, spiritual research, and exploring the subtle realms through embodying the teachings and practices of Incarnational Spirituality.

What once were the Mysteries might now be called “applied holistic living,” living in a manner that blends both the physical and non-physical sides of our nature and of the world. Indeed, the function of any true Mystery school is not to revel in mysteries but to make the world less mysterious, more known, more understood in ways that enhance our ability to work collaboratively with the forces of creation because we are one of those forces.

The function of a Mystery school is revelation and empowerment.This is what David seeks to do in Lorian, and it also is a hallmark of William’s work. In fact, by invitation of the Shift Network, William has been invited to create a “contemporary Mystery school” that fulfills the criteria he set forth in his e-letter. Happily, he is doing so, and there are few people as qualified as he is.

I’m delighted to bring David and William together to explore what it means to create a contemporary Mystery school.

I hope you enjoy the conversation.

If you would like to know more about Williams offering, please go to his website.

In today's episode James is joined by Lorian Faculty members Freya Secrest and Maryn Spangler. Together they share their inspiration for their new event titled Radiant and Resilient, and excitement in offering this opportunity to the Commons Community and the public at large.

In a world where our dominant experience can be one of overwhelm and separation, it becomes more and more important for each of us to make choices that help foster connection and stability.

Join Maryn Spangler and Freya Secrest in this focused 10-day discovery to explore how we can stay rooted and connected to ourselves in the midst of life’s frequent turbulence. Start 2024 by deepening your capacity to:

• be a source of calm and clarity,
• be resilient in the face of disruption
• empower a fiery hope that warms you and your world.

This short online discovery class introduces practices that will help you to live resiliently and heighten your capacities to be a source of connectedness, calm and joy in your life.

I hope you enjoy the conversation.

A little bit more about our guests:

Freya is the Education Director of the Lorian Association. She is a Spiritual Director, adult educator and Lorian priest.

Maryn is a member of the Lorian Faculty. She is devoted to studying the intersection of Body and Spirit to collect a wide knowledge from which to synthesize out of them a deeper thread that connects them all.