Be Mythical

All The Everything is Lian’s solo show where she dives deep into a topic, often woven around a myth or fairytale that she’s been journeying with.

In this episode, Lian invites listeners into a mythopoetic journey through the good, the bad, and the ugly faces of beauty. Using the myth of Psyche and Eros as a guide, she explores how beauty shapes our lives in ways both profound and challenging.

Lian reflects on the ways beauty can inspire admiration and connection, while also recognising its power to provoke envy, projection, and even great harm.

She journeys through Psyche’s trials, showing how outer beauty transforms through challenges, finally, Lian invites us to consider beauty not only as a physical quality but as a pathway to wholeness, healing, deep transformation, and ultimately union.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Beauty as a Catalyst: From Psyche's story, we see how beauty can spark admiration and connection but also provoke envy, projection and exloitation, leading to both inspiration and trials.

  • Transformation Through Trials: Psyche’s journey shows that beauty is not static—it deepens and evolves through challenges, revealing the power of courage, inner strength, and trust.

  • Union of Inner and Outer Beauty: True beauty lies in the integration of the soul's essence with its outward expression, becoming a path to healing and wholeness.

    Resources and stuff Lian spoke about:

 

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

Follow us:

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Thank you for listening!

There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

 

Direct download: ATE_podcast_487_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:43am EST

This week’s show is with Robert Waggoner. Robert has had more than 1,000 lucid dreams and has taught workshops on four continents, helping people learn how to become lucidly aware in their dreams, and then use this unique state to access inner creativity, promote emotional and physical healing, engage a responsive inner awareness and more!

Robert Waggoner wrote the acclaimed book, Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self and the award winning, Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple (with co-author Caroline McCready) and his books have been translated into eight languages.

He co-edits the free online magazine, Lucid Dreaming Experience and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

In this episode, Lian is joined by Robert Waggoner to explore the mysterious and transformative world of lucid dreaming. Together, they journey into the science, spirituality, and personal revelations that arise when one becomes consciously aware within the dream state.

Robert shares his extensive experience, uncovering the origins and scientific validation of lucid dreaming while highlighting its profound potential for self-discovery and personal growth. He discusses how mindfulness within dreams can provide a gateway to deeper understanding of one's inner self.

They explore how lucid dreaming offers practical applications, from overcoming fears and phobias to unlocking significant personal changes and profound spiritual experiences, including meditative practices within the dream state.

Together, they reflect on the continuous process of learning and growth that lucid dreaming inspires, offering listeners insights into how dreams can be a powerful mirror of consciousness and a tool for transformation.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Lucid dreaming as a mirror of the inner self: Dreams are more than unconscious wanderings; they are a canvas reflecting our deepest thoughts, emotions, and desires. Within lucid dreams, we have the power to consciously interact with this reflection, uncovering profound insights.

  • Practical transformations through dreaming: From healing phobias to navigating personal challenges, lucid dreaming is a practice that bridges the gap between the subconscious and the waking world, encouraging growth, healing, and mindfulness.

  • Meditation and spiritual growth within dreams: Lucid dreams offer a unique platform to deepen meditation practices, access states of transcendence, and even connect with a sense of universal awareness, enriching both dream and waking life.

Resources and stuff spoken about:

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

Follow us:

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Thank you for listening!

There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

 

Direct download: podcast_486_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:16am EST

This week’s show is with Arthur Haines. Arthur is a Maine hunting, fishing, and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher.  He grew up in the western mountains of Maine, a rural area that was home to swift streams known for their trout fishing. He spent most of his childhood in the Sandy River Valley hiking, tracking, and foraging.

Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills.  He continues to spend a great deal of his free time practicing his skills as a modern hunter-gatherer.

In 2017, he authored “A New Path”, a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living. 

As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science.  His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants.

In this show, Arthur and Lian explore the profound and often misunderstood concepts of masculinity. Together, they delve into the divine masculine as an archetype, contrasting it with the modern discourse around toxic masculinity and what these perspectives mean for identity and society.

Arthur shares his motivations for championing conversations about masculinity, discussing the importance of role models, honour, and self-preservation in embodying true masculine energy. He offers insights into the warrior archetype and its relevance in today’s world, where resilience and protection are often dismissed but perhaps are more crucial than ever.

They reflect on cultural narratives and the historical significance of egalitarian societies, shedding light on how traditional gender roles have evolved and the ways they continue to shape us. Through this exchange, Lian and Arthur explore how embracing divine masculinity can create balance and transformation in a changing world.

Together, they challenge reductive ideas of masculinity, highlighting the need for mastery, responsibility, and open dialogue to honour the archetypes and roles we embody as humans.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • The divine masculine is an essential archetype, embodying honour, protection, and resilience. Celebrating it requires moving beyond oversimplified notions of toxic masculinity to understand its role in community and identity.

  • Egalitarian societies historically celebrated gender differences, recognising the unique contributions of both men and women. Revisiting these perspectives can help modern society reframe the evolving dynamics of gender roles to meet the needs of the world today.

  • The warrior archetype remains vital in today's world, symbolising preparation, mastery, honour, and collective responsibility. In embracing this role, men can navigate crises with honour, ensuring the protection and provision essential for communities to thrive.

Resources and stuff spoken about:

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

Follow us:

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Thank you for listening!

There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

 

Direct download: Podcast_485_mixdown_V2.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:15am EST

In this week’s show, Lian is joined by Nicholas Breeze Wood. Nicholas has practiced shamanism for over 40 years, combining it with the 'earthier' end of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as with 'medicine' teachings from Native North American peoples. He has worked with many gifted medicine people and shamans over the years, and is deeply apprenticed to his own spirit helpers, whose teachings never fail to awe and surprise him.

Nick’s shamanism is a fusion of traditional Himalayan and Mongolian forms, combined with teachings from his own spirits. He works especially deeply with ritual objects - such as bronze shaman's mirrors, phurba daggers and many other Mongolian and Tibetan shamanic and Buddhist ritual objects - for which he holds traditional teachings and, where required, traditional initiations.

Despite being a ‘rather uneducated Buddhist,’ he is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama, a type called a ngakpa, whose role is similar to a shaman’s. Ngakpas are non-monastic, non-celebrate lamas who live in the community, specialising in ritual and magic for people within their community.

Nick is the editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine - a leading international magazine about shamanism - which has been published since 1993. He is also a musician and artist.

 He is the author of several books including, 'Walking with the Tiger,' 'Sacred Drums of Siberia,' 'A Little Book of Revealing,' 'Voices From The Earth,' 'The Book of the Shaman,' 'The Shaman Box,' and 'The Resplendent Other'.

 He runs the large Facebook group 3Worlds Shamanism, has done a podcast called the 3Worlds shamanism podcast on and off since 2006 and also has a somewhat neglected YouTube channel, also called 3Worlds Shamanism.

In this conversation, Lian and Nick trace the line between animism and shamanism. They explore how industrial life thinned our old ways, and what simple rites restore a living conversation with the more-than-human world.

They look at what actually helps: a small daily offering that slows you down, a tree-side ceremony that teaches you to listen, and the humility of walking behind the sacred rather than in front. Listen if you have felt the pull back to nature and wondered whether it means animist, shamanist, or simply human… answering an innate way of seeing.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • How a living-matter view changes our lives, and why calling it “animism” might clarify the pull you already feel

  • Why simple offerings reshape your pace and attention, and how reciprocity steadies you when life gets noisy

  • What happens when humility leads, and the subtle signs that tell you a deeper calling is knocking

Resources and stuff spoken about:

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

Follow us:

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Thank you for listening!

There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

Direct download: Nicholas_Breeze_Wood_2__mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:30am EST

This week’s show is with Aidan Wachter, an animist, author, and healer. Aidan has been involved in practical magic since the 1980s.  He is an animist and is deeply concerned with the effects of modern Western life-ways on the human animal, on both physical and spiritual levels. 

Aidan views a living magical practice as a path to heal many of the problems we face today and a way of being that is intrinsic to the creatures we are. He is the author of Six Ways: Approaches & Entries to Practical Magic and Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past & Telling True Lies, and Changeling: A Book Of Qualities.

In this episode, Lian and Aidan dive deep into the essence of teaching and learning, weaving together themes of projections, archetypes, and the transformative power of experiential education. They explore how modern conditioning distances us from innate learning processes and highlight the profound connection between learning and remembrance.

Lian and Aidan challenge conventional views of teaching, advocating for an approach that honours individual journeys and the unique keys each of us carries to unlock deeper truths.

Ultimately, this episode invites listeners to remember their inherent knowledge, embrace the beauty of being both teacher and student, and rediscover their place in a conscious, living world.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Teaching as a Vessel of Discovery
    Teaching is not about having all the answers; it is about creating a space for others to access their own wisdom. Through teaching, we often uncover truths about ourselves, fostering a mutual journey of growth and understanding.

  • Learning as Remembrance
    Rather than acquiring new information, true learning is a process of remembering what is already within us. This remembrance connects us to ancestral knowledge, past lives, and the communal nature of existence, offering a profound sense of interconnectedness.

  • Rewilding Education
    Experiential learning rekindles our natural ability to trust our own experiences, breaking free from the conditioning of traditional education. By rewilding our approach to knowledge, we reconnect with animism and the wisdom of a conscious, interconnected universe.

Resources and stuff spoken about:

Be Mythical

Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly

Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio

Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper

Follow us:

Facebook

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Thank you for listening!

There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

 

Direct download: Podcast_484_mixdown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:06am EST

1