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Mystics in the Matrix

This is a podcast with humble roots in my experience with circle-based communities, committed to sharing our wisdom traditions, cultural richness, ancestral teachings, and hard-won personal insights in the service of co-making a beautiful world. The intention within my heart as host is to curate a welcoming and sensual space that brings ease to the nervous system, as well as the heart/brain activation that sparks creativity, openness, and receptivity. This podcast is an etheric meeting place for those free-lancing ‘mystics’ of our current cultural, technological, and mycelial matrix. The highly sensitive, the deeply insightful, those ‘taken up’ on the wings of imagination, attuned to the subtle music of the earth, open to brushing up against other bodies, beings, ideas, and lifeways with curiosity rather than fear. Those whose hearts live in stubborn refusal to harden, choosing to remain soft and permeable, and in service to the Sacred aspects of Life. Those who delight in the path of wisdom, embrace multiple ways of knowing, accept what is not known with humble uncertainty, and practice the subtle art of spell-breaking in a spellbound world. The conversations herein are walkabouts in the woods, lanterns in hand, in which we explore what interconnects us, what separates us, the structures in our world that harm and those that heal, and the beautiful, good things that make life bearable, incredible, magical. These conversations live outside of the halls of academia, they hold paradox rather than polarization, they espouse curiosity with one another and with life, and recognize the folly of metanarratives. May hearts, brains, and bodies ‘light up’ around this charitable fire. I invite you into spaciousness, fellowship, care-fullness. There is room at this table for you, the candles are lit, and a lending library is open.

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Mystics in the Matrix

Learning to Lead, Learning to Follow, and Radical Social Work w/ Sarah Leanne Hart

January 25, 2020 • Amber Samaya • Season 1 • Episode 3

Sarah Leanne Hart is a lot of incredible things all wrapped up in one very ripped and very caffeinated package! An accomplished pro climber, MEC Ambassador, facilitator, public speaker, student of radical social work, globetrotter, and coffee enthusiast! The latter being the magic elixir that makes all the former possible. In our conversation, we traverse the peaks and valleys of Sarah's life, and clip the following bolts:

Managing an injury AND a multifaceted, busy schedule
The personal challenges that led Sarah toward embracing Feminism and how she works towards equity for women
Sarah's dedication to empowering teenage girls through the Learning to Lead program (Minerva Foundation)
The transformation from "white" Feminism to Intersectional, inclusive Feminism
Working on her Bachelor's Degree in RADICAL social work
Navigating post-colonized systems, and the valuable learning coming from Indigenous communities
The importance of critical thinking and humility as we move through the complexities of the world

So excited to share this chat with you.

To connect with Sarah online do one or all of the following...
Instagram: @sarahleannehart
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarah.hart.963
Website: https://www.sarahleannehart.com

Show Notes:

Minerva BC, Learning to Lead: https://minervabc.ca/learning-to-lead/

National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

UNDRIP: UNDRIP_E_web.pdf

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Intersectional Feminism: https://www.law.columbia.edu/pt-br/news/2017/06/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality

Readings and Book Mentions:

Living A Feminist Life, by Sarah Ahmed

Lifting Hearts Off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry, by Lyla June Johnston and Joy Devito {Reading from Chapter 7, Article 7 and response poems}

Coming Back to Life, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown {Reading from Chapter 2, pg. 21-22, "What Is Pain For The World?"}

Climate: A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein

Music:

Opening music, "Ghosts of the Rail" by Gabriel Lewis from Epidemic Sound

Music for Podcast intro and Outro, "Karma Cat" by Dyalla (Creative Commons License)

Wildlight’ by The Polish Ambassador, Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) from the Free Music Archive.

Leverage, by Infinity Ripple from Epidemic Sound

A Temporary Solution by Inifinity Ripple from Epidemic Sound

Wood Carver’s Lament by Amber Samaya from Soundcloud

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