Embodiment, Wildness & Magic with Schuyler Brown

11/28/21 • 84 min

In this episode I talk to Schuyler Brown, a futurist, facilitator, coach, teacher of embodiment and meditation, and a writer. You can find her at artofemergence.com and her essays/poems are on Medium @ schuylerbrown.
In the course of a broad-ranging discussion, Schuyler and I talk about grace; classical Tantra and the descending path; down-home, Kentucky spirituality; roots and rooting down; nature and the lost wildness of Europe; desire and magic; attachment; prayer; late stage capitalism; the importance of community; and the art of embodiment. It was a sort of collaborative riff on the potential of modern spirituality.

As you can probably tell from the recording, we had so much fun talking. I wish we could record all of our conversations!

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Schuyler’s writing on Medium
Wendell Berry, poet, novelist, environmental activist, farmer
Ramana Maharshi’s Be As You Are
Bill Plotkin’s books
The indigenous Bön people of Tibet
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz (2019)
Anne Lamott’s book about prayer: Help Thanks Wow
James Hillman’s lectures on alchemy
Twilight language
The poetry of David Whyte

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As you can probably tell from the recording, we had so much fun talking. I wish we could record all of our conversations!

Schuyler’s embodiment and coaching offerings
Schuyler’s writing on Medium
Wendell Berry, poet, novelist, environmental activist, farmer
Ramana Maharshi’s Be As You Are
Bill Plotkin’s books
The indigenous Bön people of Tibet
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz (2019)
Anne Lamott’s book about prayer: Help Thanks Wow
James Hillman’s lectures on alchemy
Twilight language
The poetry of David Whyte

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Cosmic Intelligence - Embodiment, Wildness & Magic with Schuyler Brown

Transcript

Schuyler Brown00:00:01.469

The danger of modernity is the enchantment with disenchantment. The world built from ignorance is dissolving. And the opportunity then is to begin to create a world from wisdom.

Jayadev Woodford00:00:27.579

Welcome to Spiritual But Not Ridiculous, a podcast that explores the world of spirituality from a grounded and clear-eyed perspective. I'm your host Jayadev: yoga teacher, Vedic astrologer, attorney, and te