In the Borderlands
Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene
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- 2021
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About In the Borderlands
Two performance storytellers with a shared interest in liminal spaces explore topics in the borderlands between creativity, mythology and magic.intheborderlands.com
- Publisher
- Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene
- Category
- arts · religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 8 Nov 2021
- Latest episode
- 28 Aug 2026
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68 episodes in the feed.
28 Aug 2026
David Beth: The Black Pilgrimage #67
Occult thinker and practitioner David Beth once made a vow to wait at least a decade before writing another book. "The Black Pilgrimage“ is the result of that promise. With the release of this tome as a springboard, we dive together with David into the dark, beautiful abyss. We touch upon themes of identity, integrity, and the dangerous desire to stay unaffected by the world. Can we embrace the world with all its imperfections, horrors and loss and stay porous in relation to it? Can we allow it to remain a mystery? DAVID BETH LINKS https://theionpublishing.com/ (https://theionpublishing.com/) https://kosmicgnosis.com/ (https://kosmicgnosis.com/) Soundscape for intro and outro by Lee Berwick. https://www.leeberwick.com/ (https://www.leeberwick.com/) PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ (https://www.intheborderlands.com/) https://www. (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller)patreon.com/IntheBorderlands (https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands) https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands (https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands) https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/ (https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/) EMAIL contact@intheborderlands.com TORGRIM LINKS https://www.brittle.one/ (https://www.brittle.one/) https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten (https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten) https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/ (https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/) MIKAEL LINKS https://smarturl.it/inanna (https://smarturl.it/inanna) https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller) https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/ (https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/) REFERENCES Thelema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema) Michael Bertiaux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bertiaux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bertiaux) https://www.instagram.com/michaelbertiauxart/ (https://www.instagram.com/michaelbertiauxart/) Voudon Gnosis by David Beth https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6850109-voudon-gnosis (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6850109-voudon-gnosis) Muses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses) Orpheus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus) Odin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin) Martin Heidegger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger) Lwa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lwa) Gnosticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism) Friedrich Nietzsche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche) Zorba the Greek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek_(film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek_(film)) Anselm Kiefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer) Hellblazer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer)
14 Jul 2026
Epic Small Talk: Trickster #66
We’re starting a new thread in our podcast weave! "Epic Small Talk“ is basically conversations between performance storytellers and other myth workers on different mythological subjects. A deep dive into the nitty gritty of myth, if you will. And to bless any new project, we have to start by invoking and inviting trickster to open the landscape for us. Join performance storytellers Jo Blake and Dominic Kelly (UK) as well as your eternal hosts Mikael Öberg (SE) and Torgrim Mellum Stene (NO) in a delightful caper on the edge between right and wrong, the cracks, the openings, the thresholds, the grey areas of neither/nor where trickster resides and spins its dynamic dance. The image of trickster is seen from a wide range of perspectives, including in relation to the current state of the world. We invite you to the beginning. A beginning. JO BLAKE LINK https://jo-blake.co.uk/ (https://jo-blake.co.uk/) DOMINIC KELLY LINK https://dominickelly.net/ (https://dominickelly.net/) PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ (https://www.intheborderlands.com/) https://www. (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller)patreon.com/IntheBorderlands (https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands) https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands (https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands) https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/ (https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/) EMAIL contact@intheborderlands.com TORGRIM LINKS https://www.brittle.one/ (https://www.brittle.one/) https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten (https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten) https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/ (https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/) MIKAEL LINKS https://smarturl.it/inanna (https://smarturl.it/inanna) https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller) https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/ (https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/) REFERENCES Trickster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster) Blodeuwedd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodeuwedd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodeuwedd) Mabinogion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion) Raven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_in_Native_American_mythology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_in_Native_American_mythology) Coyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology)) Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde https://lewishyde.com/trickster/ (https://lewishyde.com/trickster/) Hermes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes) Medb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb) The Ulcster Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Cycle) The Trickster Aesthetic by Jeanne Rosier Smith https://books.google.se/books/about/The_Trickster_Aesthetic.html?id=jgpSNwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y (https://books.google.se/books/about/The_Trickster_Aesthetic.html?id=jgpSNwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y) Maui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ui) The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar https://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.6.6.html (https://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.6.6.html) Peer Gynt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt) Kalevala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala) Lemminkäinen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4inen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4inen) Frank Abagnale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale) Catch Me If You Can https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can) Loki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki) Vodou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou) Candomblé https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9) Santería https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa) Cynthia Bourgeault https://www.cynthiabourgeault.org/ (https://www.cynthiabourgeault.org/) Epic of Gilgamesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh) Ishtar/Inanna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna) Uruk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk) Baldr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr) Frigg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg) Ezra Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound) Lleu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleu_Llaw_Gyffes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleu_Llaw_Gyffes) Hod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6%C3%B0r (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6%C3%B0r) Ragnarök https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k) Kachina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachina)
9 Jun 2026
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Odin #65
Our second episode on the Odinic path takes us to Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, founder of Nordic Animism and initiate to Odin in the Candomblé tradition. We speak to him about his initiation to a Norse god in an Afro-Brazilian syncretistic context, about the nature of initation in general, and how the Odinic qualities of speaking something into being and insisting on the right story are crucial counterweights to our hypermodernistic and overly representational times. What is a right story? What is a wrong story? Can you destroy the sacred by making it too seen? Too available? Join us as we explore these themes guided by the guardian of knowledge. RUNE HJARNØ RASMUSSEN LINK https://nordicanimism.com/ (https://nordicanimism.com/) PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ (https://www.intheborderlands.com/) https://www. (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller)patreon.com/IntheBorderlands (https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands) https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands (https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands) https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/ (https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/) EMAIL contact@intheborderlands.com TORGRIM LINKS https://www.brittle.one/ (https://www.brittle.one/) https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten (https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten) https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/ (https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/) MIKAEL LINKS https://smarturl.it/inanna (https://smarturl.it/inanna) https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller (https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller) https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/ (https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/) REFERENCES Candomblé https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9) Vodou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou) Santería https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa) Oshoshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshosi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshosi) Ullr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullr) Yoruba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion) Hávamál https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1vam%C3%A1l (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1vam%C3%A1l) Donna Haraway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway) Tyson Yunkaporta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kb7EWX80Fo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kb7EWX80Fo) Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/199122606-right-story-wrong-story) Atlantis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis) Gotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland) The Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix) Black Panther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_(film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_(film)) Gangs of New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York) Dune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)) Jötunn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn) Kalevala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala) Ragnarök https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k) Ragnarok tv series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_(TV_series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_(TV_series)) Sophie Strand https://sophiestrand.com/ (https://sophiestrand.com/) Wendigo https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo)
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