A podcast for wild souls who want to live with open eyes and an enlivened heart. The world needs dangerous wisdom, and our education system functions primarily to keep us away from it—to stop us from taking the journey into the mystery and magic of the world. Because of this, we have achieved a catastrophic level of confusion, anxiety, and ignorance—with boatloads of tame wisdom, false wisdom, and self-help nonsense that only adds to the challenges we face. The path of wisdom—the path of wonder—deals with how things really work, and how we can become skillful and successful. Following it leads beyond concepts to a wonderstanding that can heal us, and empower us to help the world, realize our hidden potential, and experience the profound meaningfulness of life. In this podcast, we turn toward the dangerous stuff, the wild stuff, and confront the need to handle authentic wisdom with skill and grace, making sure the medicine doesn’t become another poison. If you want an inspiring space to explore the big and sometimes scary questions, a space that opens up into insights that can change your life and the world we share, join us. Find out more at https://dangerouswisdom.org/
Publisher
nikos patedakis
Category
education · religion & spirituality · society & culture
From Utopias to Thrutopias - Manda Scott on Healing the World Through Stories
https://dangerouswisdom.org/ (https://dangerouswisdom.org/)
Manda Scott’s novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a Thrutopian Political Thriller aimed to craft a path through from exactly where we are to a flourishing future that we’d be proud to leave behind to the generations that come after us and for those who will inherit the planet after we die.
The novel helps us explore the question: How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind?
Manda is a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futures with a radical compassion, comes the story of a family at the heart of a political crisis and the ensuing uprising of a disenfranchised generation. A family that harnesses the skills and stories needed for real change, if they can choose the right path, before it is too late.
Manda Scott is an award-winning novelist and host of the acclaimed Accidental Gods podcast. Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards and won the McIllvanney Prize.
Her latest novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a Mytho-Political thriller which lays out a Thrutopian road map to a Dlourishing future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. With degrees in veterinary medicine and a Masters in Regenerative Economics, Manda’s life is oriented towards creating radical new narratives that will pave the way to the total systemic change our culture – and our world – needs.
Any Human Power is available for sale on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Any-Human-Power-Manda-Scott/dp/1914613562 (https://www.amazon.com/Any-Human-Power-Manda-Scott/dp/1914613562)
Readers can connect with Manda Scott on Facebook, Bluesky, Goodreads, Instagram,
and LinkedIn.
To learn more, visit https://mandascott.co.uk/ (https://mandascott.co.uk/) and https://accidentalgods.life (https://accidentalgods.life)
19 Sept 2025
Earth and Soul - Leah Rampy on Reconnecting in the Midst Ecological and Cultural Chaos
https://dangerouswisdom.org/ (https://dangerouswisdom.org/)
https://www.leahmoranrampy.com/earth-and-soul-book.html
Amidst accelerating climate devastation and an uncertain future comes a clarion call to renew a deep and personal relationship with Earth.
Facing directly into the devastation of climate chaos and biodiversity loss, Rampy leads her readers on a soul journey into grief and loss to also claim the beauty, joy and possibilities available when we reconnect with Earth. As we follow the author’s compelling personal experiences and engagingly lyrical stories of whales, cedars, sparrows, and more, we see the necessity and urgency of learning from the wisdom of our kin in the natural world.
Writing at the intersection of spirituality, ecology, and story, Leah Rampy illuminates a path to reweaving nature and soul. Under Rampy’s deft guidance, the beauty and genius of this sacred world unfolds before us. Even now when the world as we knew it is ending and a new story lies beyond what we can envision, we may live fully alive and lay stepping stones toward a diverse and vibrant world of oneness and mutual flourishing.
Leah Rampy is an experienced speaker, retreat leader, and writer with a focus on soul and Earth connections. She is on the program staff of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation where she previously served as executive director and is the Senior Spiritual Program Leader for the Center for Spirituality and Nature. In 2019 she founded Church of the Wild Two Rivers which she continues to lead. Prior careers include teaching in public schools and universities, serving in leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies, providing executive coaching and leadership development through a company she founded, and non-profit management. Rampy holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum from Indiana University. She lives with her husband in a co-housing community in Shepherdstown, WV.
31 Aug 2025
Give Your Intuition Some Horse Power - Kim McElroy and The Council of Horses Oracle
https://www.spiritofhorse.com/
https://books.innertraditions.com/the-council-of-horses-oracle/
https://dangerouswisdom.org/
The Horse stands out as a medial figure, a spirit being who can carry us across thresholds of insight and initiation. Shamans and other spiritual adepts have long turned to the symbolic and spiritual presence of the horse to arrive at healing and transformational vision.
We discuss in particular her Council of Horses Oracle Deck (co-authored along with Sandra Wallin), including a reading that will be relevant for listeners and viewers. This deck, made up of paintings carefully crafted by Kim, allows us to tap into the divine wisdom of horses for guidance and self-transformation.
The deck includes 40 beautifully illustrated cards featuring horse avatars and mythic equine beings such as unicorns, kelpies, Pegasus, and Chiron
The guidebook shares the message of each card, guidance to help you determine if you are on the right path or need a nudge in a more positive direction, as well as suggested actions to help you integrate the lessons from the Council of Horses
Allowing you to tap into the earthly and spiritual wisdom of horses, this oracle embraces humanity’s millennia-old relationship with horses as interactive guides to transformation.
Each beautifully illustrated card conveys the captivating presence of the horse, offering an encounter with the equine soul while transmitting healing frequencies directly from the mystical Council of Horses. Serving as portals of transformation, the cards allow you to actively engage with horses as sentient beings who choose to support the well-being of humankind.
The accompanying book explains how to work with the cards, alongside a history of the horse as an intermediary between humans and the divine. From modern-day mystics to legendary horse avatars like unicorns, kelpies, Pegasus, and Chiron, the horse of each card offers guidance and courageous questions to help you determine if you are on the right path, off track, or need a nudge in a more positive direction.
Kim McElroy is an award-winning equine artist renowned for her visionary artistic and written creations. Blessed by her horse mentors, she is the illustrator of Way of the Horse wisdom cards. She lives in Kingston, Washington.
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