A Smattering of Heresy
A podcast where we snuggle up and have late night chats about valuing solitude, creating an inner world, being present with nature, art, spirituality, and most of all how these things come together in our healing.
Available on all major streaming platforms. Apple Podcast and Spodify are linked below for your convenience.
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Episode List
Episode 1 | Between Ludghnasadh and the Autumnal Equinox
Episode 2 | Internalized Homophobia
Episode 3 | Negative Space and Audience Participation
Episode 4 | Samhain on a Budget
Episode 5 | Squash, Hierophants, and Secrets
Episode 6 | Compassion, Creativity, and Paying Tribute to the Void
Episode 7 | Hieronomous Bosch and the Horror of God
Episode 8 | Supporting Yourself on Hard Days
Episode 9 | Chaotic Gardening
Episode 10 | Celibacy, bb!
Episode 11 | Gender in the Tarot
Episode 12 | In Defense of Sociopaths
Episode 13 | Sky Rats and the Guilt of Existence
Episode 14 | Thresholds and the Illusion of Permanence
Episode 15 | Unworthy gods
Episode 16 | Everybody Has a Great, Big Boner for the Witch Trials
Episode 17 | Titrating Despair // Witch Trials P2
Episode 18 | Internalized Homophobia, Who?
Sources
Episode 1 | music by LesFM on pixafy
Episode 2 | Song: the man (girl) I love made famous by Ella Fitzgerald. poetry by Gemma Guiomard. music by LesFM on pixafy.
Episode 3 | Frasier, American (USA) TV Show. I Lost My Body, French animated film on Netflix. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Body: Season 5, American (USA) TV show. Relief printing by Albrecht Dürer, German printmaker etc.. Wilhelm Sasnal, Polish painter. Pierre Bonnard, French painter. Urs Fischer, Swiss/ US visual artist. Geoffrey Johnson, American (USA) painter. Hope Gangloff, American (USA) painter. Xooang Choi, Korean Sculptor.
Episode 4 | Song: Bitter the Parting by John Doyle.
Episode 5 | N/a
Episode 6 | N/a
Episdoe 7 | Theme song by Faye West. Artwork mentioned: Tryptic of Adoration of the Magi, Hieronymus Bosch. Tryptic of Temptation of St. Anthony, Hieronymus Bosch. Tryptic of Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch. Twelve Nights, body of work by Lisa Graziatto. Zdzislaw Beksinski .
Other sources: https://newrepublic.com/article/119996/hp-lovecrafts-philosophy-horror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Hieronymus_Bosch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEH21NYJMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9zbPmHvJE
Episode 8 | Ephemera by W.B. Yeats. The Madness of King Goll by W.B. Yeats. To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire by W.B. Yeats. He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats. September 1913 by W.B. Yeats. A Coat by W.B. Yeats. Under Saturn by W.B. Yeats. Are You Content? by W.B. Yeats.
Episode 9 | N/a
Episode 10 | A Few Resources: Secret Bad Girls and Sexual Trauma. Hitomi Mochizuki. Yoga with Allie Van Fossen (previously Allie the journey junkie). @ownyourglow
Episode 11 | Jeanne Fiorini a youtuber. Tylluan Penry a youtuber. Tarot for the End of Times a podcast by Sarah Cargill.
Episode 12 | Wasps & the economy, wild seed project article, “Why I love wasps”, National Geographic wolves in Yellowstone, Yellowstone’s website, Norway’s prison system, Harvard Review on recidivism rates.
Episode 13 | Audobon- bird friendly home, Audobon - survival by degrees , Audobon - native plant database, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fish and Wildlife Service - heat, Wildlife Center of Texas - drought, ABC birds, Baffle for birdfeeder, Weight Sensitive birdfeeders
Episode 14 | Dive deeper with: Bonfire Babble Podcast, Dusty Ray, Lauren Marx, Aleksandre Waliszewska, Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World - Google Books, Brown_Claire_May 2020_Thesis.pdf, Haus of Hoodoo, Irish Folklore, Myths & Legends | Wilderness Ireland, Irish Folklore, PTSD new neural nets Google Scholar
Episode 15 | Books: Edith Hamilton’s Greek Mythology, Stephen Fry’s Mythos, Genevieve Gornechec The Witch’s Heart, Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less. An example of the cat/ dog thing in case you didn’t grow up in a church.
Episode 16 | Witch BBC Podcast I referenced a number of episodes and honestly the whole thing is well worth listening to! Teaching Resource description of Joan’s hanging on page 3, Dancing Plague source 1, Dancing plague source 2, Witch trials source, Malleus Mallificarum. List of the executed. American witch trial stats. Database of the survey of Scottish Witchcraft. Pixabay sound effects.
People I quote or summarize: Claire Mitchel KC (Scotland. A barrister and King’s Council.), Zoey Ventitotzi (Claire and her made a podcast: Witches of Scotland), Ronald Hutton (Historian), Eleanor Yarnigar (Historian), Natalie Dun MSP. (Scottish Parliment).
Episode 17 | Database of the survey of Scottish Witchcraft. Life expectancy of English aristocracy. Women and credit cards. Pixabay sound effects.
Audobon, Water body reports, WolfenHowl Press, Blood and Spicebush school, Poetry as spellcasting, Bird Locations, Birdcast bird migration,
Episode 18 | Books I mentioned: David Sedaris (author), Fleche by Mary Jean Chan, The 2,000’s Made Me Gay by Grace Perry, Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, It was vulgar and it was beautiful how aids activists used art to fight a pandemic by Jack Lowry, The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec, Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan, The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, I Keep by Exoskeletons to Myself by Mac Crane, Less by Andrew Sean Greer, The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, A Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Spear by Nicola Griffith, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Senora Reyes, How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox, Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman, Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain.
Pixabay sound effects.