Embracing Apocalypse
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -For many, apocalypse brings to mind breakdown, collapse, cataclysm, or destruction on a vast scale. The word comes to modern English from ancient Greek. Its roots apo (un-) and kaluptein (to cover) hint at its original meaning: the uncovering of truth. Embracing Apocalypse explores the many truths being uncovered by the tumult of our times, and openly wonders how we might best show up for, and adapt to, our changing world. The show is hosted by Eric Garza.
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#16: Following Our Guides
May 07, 2020 10:30 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn this final episode of Embracing Apocalypse Eric reflects on the beginning and ending of this podcast, his new media directions, and offers a few skills that emerged from past episodes that are worth investing time developing. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#15: Pandemic as Initiatory Experience, with Carolyn Baker
April 30, 2020 20:30 - 55 minutes - 51 MBCarolyn Baker has written several books and is a former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history. She talks with Eric about people’s upwellings of fear and trauma in the coronavirus pandemic, viewing this pandemic as an initiatory experience, staying balanced while taking collapse seriously, and practices to help people navigate collapse, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#14: Foraging and Hunting, with Brad Salon and Sarah Corrigan
April 23, 2020 02:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBBrad Salon and Sarah Corrigan founded the ROOTS School in Bradford, VT, where they teach a wide range of wilderness living and traditional skills. They talk with Eric about what inspired them to learn and teach foraging, hunting, and other traditional skills, the risks of overharvesting certain wild plants and fungi, and factors that compel people to overharvest, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#13: Navigating the Coronavirus Apocalypse
April 08, 2020 02:30 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this solo episode of Embracing Apocalypse Eric talks about the economic apocalypse brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, some of the economic truths being revealed by it, and how he is adapting to this emerging crisis, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#12: Finding Sanctuary in Apocalypse, with Nala Walla
March 24, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBNala Walla weaves a holistic approach to wellness as a practitioner of ancestral healing, grief recovery, nutritional therapy, and permaculture design. She talks with Eric about creating space for both joy and grief, how embodiment can help us navigate the apocalypse, sanctuary as a state of somatic embodiment, and the importance of slowing down, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#11: Beyond False Solutions, with Ayana Young
March 20, 2020 03:30 - 1 hour - 55 MBAyana Young hosts the For the Wild podcast and is the co-founder and executive director of the For the Wild organization. She talks with Eric about themes and learnings from 150+ episodes of her podcast, the consequences of ancestral trauma, navigating and transforming shame, and the origins of today’s apocalypse, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#10: Dancing With The Cannibal Giant, with Sherri Mitchell
March 09, 2020 17:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBSherri Mitchell is an attorney who speaks and teaches around the world on issues of indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change and author of the book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. She talks with Eric about the Wabenaki legend of the Cannibal Giant, the connection between overconsumption and trauma, and waking up to the pervasive grief of patriarchal colonialism, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and ot...
#9: Finding Our Voice, with Zach Cohen
February 23, 2020 15:30 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBZach Cohen is a musician and flute maker whose debut album, The Ancient Way, was released in January 2020. You can find him online at ElBuhoFlutes.com. Zach talks with Eric about finding his voice, making bamboo flutes, one song on his album, and about sacredness, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#8: Core Collapse Competencies, with Rachael Rice
February 09, 2020 07:30 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBRachael Rice is an artist, writer, grief monger and death worker. You can find her online at RachaelRice.com. She talks with Eric about how apocalypse means different things to different people, how we are in a war of imaginations, death phobia in the apocalypse, and core collapse competencies, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated premium content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#7: Energy and the Human Superorganism, with Nathan Hagens
February 02, 2020 01:30 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBNathan Hagens is a former hedge fund manager who studies fossil energy depletion and founded the website The Oil Drum. He talks with Eric about the turn of events that shifted his career and attention away from the finance sector and to the study and social context of energy, people’s resistance to stories about reduced consumption, fossil fuel depletion, human beings as a superorganism, and adaptive cycles, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other premium co...
#6: Surrendering to the Enormity, with Vicki Robin
January 24, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBVicki Robin is a social innovator, speaker, and author who wrote Your Money or Your Life with Joe Dominguez and, more recently, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us. She and Eric talk about breaking through walls of denial, the importance of surrender as we reckon with collapse, and finding our tribes and our places, among other things. A note: Vicki mentions Leslie Danziger, but meant to say Leslie Davenport. Listeners can find transcripts, an episode outline, list of links and resources, and ot...
#5: Holistic Resistance, with Aaron Johnson
January 17, 2020 12:30 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBAaron Johnson is an earth builder, a teacher of closeness, an activist dedicated to ending racism, and a co-founder of Holistic Resistance. In this episode he talks with Eric about the importance of understanding the impacts of trauma on our lives, about touch as a mode of healing, and a dream he recently had about the interplay between physical touch and conquest, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#4: Looking Critically at Catastrophism, with Harlan Morehouse
January 10, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBHarlan Morehouse teaches at the University of Vermont and has a keen interest in how people negotiate their futures with regard to 21st century social and environmental uncertainties. He talks with Eric about how catastrophism shows up in modern film and literature, how it tends to favor individualism over collectivism, and how he stays balanced while immersed in these narratives, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/eric...
#3: Memes, Intersectionality, and Death, with Tada Hozumi
January 03, 2020 04:30 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBTada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about cultural somatics, the interplay between memes and intersectional social justice activism, and judging our memes by their willingness to disappear, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#2: Climate Trauma, with Kristy Johnsson
December 26, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBIn this episode Eric is joined by Kristy Johnsson, a licensed therapist and Living Inquiries facilitator who helps people work with climate anxiety, grief, and despair. She talks with Eric about what climate trauma is, trauma’s impact on our nervous system, and its role in creating today’s environmental crises, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/ericgarza.
#1: Embracing Apocalypse
December 22, 2019 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this first episode host Eric Garza introduces himself, explains the rationale behind this podcast, and offers listeners a sense of what to expect from future episodes. He explores the meaning of apocalypse and how it has changed, its relevance to today’s world, and how it relates to the cycles that systems naturally move through. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/ericgarza.