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With the buzz that's been created around the new doomsday movie, Don't Look Up, starring Jeniffer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael seizes the opportunity to explore timeless approaches for learning the story of the natural world. "Knowledge of Place" is term used among nature-based mentoring communities and speaks to the idea of intimately knowing the land where you live. Joining Michael, is Lynn Trotta, mentor, ceremonial facilitator, and climate advocate. Together, the two have been working to put people back in touch with the earth for over twenty years. On this episode they share five of their favorite practices for getting to know the story of the land and your outside neighbors.

Episode Notes
From Lynn:
To learn more about and connect with Lynn Trotta
To join Rooted and Sacred (her Facebook group)
The Mist Filled Path

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For details and registration for Myth As Medicine
Sit Spot and the Art of Inner Tracking

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In part two of What Jesus Never Said, we pick up where we left off in order to explore who Jesus becomes when allowed to speak for himself? When you remove everything the church and authors of the gospels said about him? When his teachings are offered not through interpretations but in the authentic voice of the man? In this episode, Michael and retired priest Brian Pearson continue to peel back the layers of mischief that have blanketed the story and teachings of Jesus in an attempt to better know the man and his teachings.

Episode Notes
The Silence of Jesus by James Breech
To learn more about and connect with Brian Pearson
The Mystic Cave Podcast

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Episode Summary
Who does Jesus become when you allow him to speak for himself? When you remove everything the church and authors of the gospels said about him? When his teachings are offered not through interpretations but in the authentic voice of the man? In this episode, Michael and retired priest Brian Pearson peel back the layers of mischief that have blanketed the story and teachings of Jesus in an attempt to better know the man and his teachings. 

Episode Notes
The Silence of Jesus by James Breech

To learn more about and connect with Brian Pearson
The Mystic Cave Podcast


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When our pursuit of "enough" turns out to be a hungry ghost that will never be satisfied, then what? This week on the podcast, Michael explores D.H. Lawrence's classic short story, The Rocking Horse Winner. While the tale has something of a tragic ending, guest Patty Lennon offers an alternative possibility for that place in each of us, looking for fulfillment, connection, and wholeness. 

Episode Notes

To read The Rocking Horse Winner

To connect with and learn about Patty Lennon:

www.pattylennon.com
www.facebook.com/pattyalennon

Check out her book- Make  Space For Magic


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​Do we have the idea of "success" all wrong? Sure, defining it is unique to each person, but let's face it, we're inundated with cultural stories and measures of success. Stories that, frankly, can take an otherwise remarkable life experience and lay it to ruin. Too many of us struggle to live up to stories that aren't even our own. We end up feeling as though we've fallen short and, in so doing, miss the magic that surrounds us. In this episode of Story Mischief, Michael shares something of a manifesto, a call to reconsider the logic of "success," and invites listeners to explore a contrary yet complementary approach.
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Episode Notes

Brian Pearson's The Mystic Cave

Brian's website

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From a very young age, American children across the country are indoctrinated in cultural stories that are both untrue and harmful. While they hide behind kernels of truth, the stories of Columbus and The First Thanksgiving have served to create and  promote a national identity as well as a variety of political agenda's. Among these agenda's - the diminishment of crimes perpetuated against the indigenous people's of North America.  On this episode, Michael explores why we choose believe and promote stories that are untrue and cause harm to others.

Episode Notes
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The First Thanksgiving in American Memory, Prof. Robert Tracy McKenzie

The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue, Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, November 2019

Why Do We Believe Liars, F. Diane Barth, NBC News online, April 18, 2019


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In the summer of 1999, everyone was talking about the Blair Witch Project. Rumors surrounded the movie's mysterious origins and some even swore the content was real, explaining the film was a collection of found tapes that documented the final days of 3 student filmmakers who in real life were listed as "missing" or "presumed dead." Fortunately, on this episode of Story Mischief, Michael C. Williams, one of those missing filmmakers back from the dead, helps to peel back the many layers of story that took the country by storm, shaped our culture, his life, and paved the way for a whole new kind of storytelling.

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The Blair Witch Project

• IMDB
• Amazon

Grafton the Movie

Fish The Shed (Fly Fishing the Croton Water Shed)


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In this weeks episode, Michael speaks with end-of-life-counselor, teacher, and filmmaker, Dr. Martha Jo Atkins. Together they explore the Nez Perce tale, Coyote and the Shadow People. One in which Coyote, along with his old buddy, Death, travel to the land where his wife is waiting. Coyote goes with the hope that he might return his beloved to the land of the living so they may take up their lives once more. Perhaps odd to the logical mind, there is something captured in this story that reflects the experience of loss and the hope that often comes with it. Be sure to check out Part 1 to hear the story. ​

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Dr. Martha Jo Atkins

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Trickster stories have a funny way of turning what we think we know, upside-down. This provides us with an opportunity to challenge our assumptions and question our thinking. In this weeks episode, Michael lays the groundwork for a conversation with end-of-life-counselor, teacher, and filmmaker, Dr. Martha Jo Atkins (in Part 2). But first, here's your opportunity to have your own experience with this coyote story from the Nez Perce people of the Pacific Northwest. In it, Coyote travels with Death to the land of the Shadow People, offering us insights as to how death as we know it came in to being and some subtle clues about what may be going on beyond the sight of the living. 

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Dr. Martha Jo Atkins

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Having great stories to engage with is important but it's all for naught if you don't know how to "be" with them. Most of us have been taught to dismantle stories. To break them apart and down into their essential parts in hopes of discovering the soul that dwells within. But it doesn't work that way. On this episode of Story Mischief, Michael explores a new (old) way of being with a story. Encouraging the old idea that the story knows what to do if we are willing to make space and let it. 

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