Ep. 162:
Today on Mushroom Hour we join in communion with the overflowing font of mythos, play and animated everything Sophie Strand. Sophie is a poet and writer with a focus on the history of religion and the intersection of spirituality, storytelling and ecology. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous projects and publications, including the Dark Mountain Project, poetry.org and the magazines Unearthed, Braided Way, Art PAPERS and Entropy. Their newest book “The Flowering Wand - Rewilding the Sacred Masculine” is a potent retelling of classical European myths and masculine characters like Dionysus, Merlin, Jesus that encourages men to put down the iron sword and pick up a myceliated, vegetal thyrsus.
TOPICS COVERED:
Staying Alive by Exploring Ecology
Mediterranean Religions & Arthurian Myths
Myths as Vessels of Environmental Information
Replanting Myths - Reroot, Rewild, Retell
Polyphonic Iconography
Partnership Cultures and Dominator Cultures
Medusa & Mothers Turned into Monsters
Symbiosis & Synchronism
The Rebellion of Dionysus
Gender as a Morphic Field & a Mycelial Web
The King Becomes the Kingdom
Expanding Masculinity
Jesus the Magical, Nature-Loving Rabbi
Returning to the Compost Heap
EPISODE RESOURCES:
"The Flowering Wand": www.simonandsc...
"The Madonna Secret": www.simonandsc...
Sophie Strand Substack: sophiestrand.s...
Sophie Strand IG: / cosmogyny
"Bitch": www.hachettebo...
Microanimism: www.microanimi...
Chlorophyllum molybdites: en.wikipedia.o...
"Enlivenment": mitpress.mit.e...
"An Immense World": www.penguinran...
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