The Healer With a Thousand Faces

Story Quest(ions) with Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren - Author, activist, artist, agitator, futurist, culture critic, and all around cool guy talks with Mike about the power of good questions and how they can guide the path that our life takes, and about the power of story to evoke empathy and imagination! More info on Brian: https://brianmclaren.net/ Follow me on substack: https://substack.com/@drmikepetrow  Follow me on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/healer_with_a_thousand_faces?igsh=MndrcXk5ODVha2dl&utm_source=qr

The Soul Purpose with Liza J. Rankow

Dr Liza J. Rankow argues these apocalyptic, alchemical times make it all the more essential to find and follow the soul purpose of your path, to find the healing that is yours to live and to give, so that your life becomes Soul Medicine for a Fractured World (the title of her brilliant book that explores Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness). An advocate for sustainable, effective, mystical activism, Dr Liza shares how her wounds have led her to work wisely, and shares wisdom for each of us in connecting our healing with healing the world. This one is good medicine for the moment!   Learn more at https://www.lizarankow.org/soulmedicine

Queering the Path with Rev. Dr. Cassidy Hall

Good friend Rev. Dr. Cassidy Hall, author of Queering Contemplation, chats with Mike about finding our authentic healing path and practice, getting out of the boxes that others try to put us in, and how to glean our own wisdom with our teachers even when we disagree with them or they let us down.

Myth As Medicine with Dr. Martin Shaw

“If we are not protected by a cloak of good stories, we are constantly at the mercy of stories that do not wish us well.” Mike chats with his hero, master story teller, mythologist, and wilderness rites of passage guide, Dr Martin Shaw about how we “get grown” in a culture lacking rituals of initiation, how limit and absence can be our best teachers, why praise making matters, and above all how solid sacred stories and myths make life, meaningful, in a culture over inundated with competing stories.

Tessa Bielecki: On Betrayal and Becoming Alive

Mystic, monastic, teacher, and trauma survivor transformed, Tessa Bielecki shares with us insights about the mystical path, and how she survived being let down by a spiritual leader’s sexual scandals. If you’ve been hurt by a pastor, priest, politician, person in power, a parent, or a partner, this episode has some medicine for you.