Wonderstruck
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<p>Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond. </p><br><p>Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.</p><br><p><a href="http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/</a> </p><p><a href="https://wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wonderstruck.org</a></p><br><p>Presented by Creative Visions and Striking Wonder Productions™</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
May 12, 2026
33: Hiroko Yoda on What Japanese Spirituality Can Teach Us About Happiness
<p>When her mother died, Hiroko Yoda was brought to her knees. What pulled her back was something that had been there all along, the ancient spiritual traditions of her home country, Japan. What followed was a decade-long journey through shrines and temples, sacred mountains, and waterfalls, culminating in her latest book, Eight Million Ways to Happiness.</p><br><p>The title comes from an ancient Japanese idea: that eight million spiritual beings inhabit everything around us. Not as a precise count, but as a way of saying the sacred is everywhere, in everything.</p><br><p>Recorded inside an ancient Shinto shrine deep within the sacred mountains of Kumano, located at the end of a pilgrimage route walked for over a thousand years, Wonderstruck's host Elizabeth Rovere sits down with Hiroko to explore:</p><p>✦ How "kami" spirit exists in everything</p><p>✦ How the concept of "half-belief, half-disbelief" makes room for mystery without demanding certainty</p><p>✦ Why gratitude, not belief, is the core of Japanese spirituality and the seed of happiness</p><p>✦ The flexibility of Japanese spirituality and what it offers a world grown rigid in its certainties</p><p>✦ The spirituality found in your favourite anime</p><br><p>Through Hiroko's journey, from grief to gratitude, from loss to a world where everything has a spirit, we begin to see that happiness isn't something to be chased or achieved. It's something to be noticed, in the smallest of things, in the spaces we walk past every day without looking.</p><br><p>Chapters: </p><p>00:00:00 Welcome to the Kumano Shrine</p><p>00:01:54 Kami: 8 Million Spiritual Beings</p><p>00:05:19 Rigid Society, Flexible Spirituality</p><p>00:16:32 Walking Through Grief</p><p>00:20:35 Gratitude, Not Belief</p><p>00:25:07 Half-belief, Half-disbelief</p><p>00:27:50 Mysteries of the Waterfall</p><p>00:35:52 Itadakimasu: Spirituality in Everyday Words</p><p>00:39:03 Meeting Itako, The Blind Shamaness</p><p>00:45:15 Masakado: Anger and Love</p><p>00:51:15 Anime, Yokai, and Healing</p><br><p>Follow Hiroko: </p><p>Website: https://www.hirokoyoda.com/</p><p>Substack: https://blog.hirokoyoda.com/</p><p>Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eight-million-ways-to-happiness-9781526672162/</p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hi_yoda_1</p><br><p>Follow Wonderstruck:</p><p>Website:<a href="https://wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://wonderstruck.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wonderstruck.org</a></p><p>Substack: <a href="https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org</a> </p><p>YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</a></p><p>Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/</a> </p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpod</p><p>Apple Podcasts:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661</a> </p><p>Spotify:<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 7, 2026
32: The Secret Lives of Plants and Fungi with Merlin Sheldrake and Zoë Schlanger
<p>If we understood the true complexity of the natural world, would we call it conscious? Would we begin to question the boundaries we put between ourselves and everything around us?</p><br><p>We explore these questions with biologist Merlin Sheldrake and science journalist Zoë Schlanger. Their bestselling books, "Entangled Life" and "The Light Eaters", required monk-like study and deep immersion in the natural world. What they discovered quietly dismantles some of our most basic assumptions about intelligence, memory, and what individuality really means. </p><br><p>Recorded during Harvard Divinity School's "Thinking with Plants and Fungi" conference, this special episode brings together Merlin, Zoë, host Elizabeth Rovere, and guest co-host Rachael Peterson, the "Thinking with Plants and Fungi" Initiative Program Lead at Harvard, to explore:</p><br><p>✦ Whether plants have personalities and why they might be kinder to kin </p><p>✦ How a brainless slime mold can navigate its way out of an IKEA faster than a human</p><p>✦ How flatworms put into question where memory actually lives</p><p>✦ Whether it's possible to ferment a book and drink it</p><br><p>When we stop centering the individual and truly reckon with the entangled nature of all living things, something shifts. The question stops being how do we include more-than-human perspectives… it starts being whether that separation even makes sense to begin with. </p><br><p>Chapters:</p><p>00:00:00 Introduction </p><p>00:01:10 How to Write About the Hidden World </p><p>00:04:45 The Myth of the Individual </p><p>00:09:53 We Are Polluting Our Own Home </p><p>00:15:14 The Problem Isn't Science. It's Language. </p><p>00:18:18 The Plant That Can Copy Anything </p><p>00:24:25 As Temperatures Rise, Fungi Are Evolving </p><p>00:28:31 Do Plants Have Personalities and Prefer Their Family?</p><br><p>Follow Merlin Sheldrake:</p><p>Website: <a href="https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/merlin.sheldrake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/merlin.sheldrake</a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/merlinsheldrake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/merlinsheldrake</a> </p><p>Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures: <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566795/entangled-life-by-merlin-sheldrake/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566795/entangled-life-by-merlin-sheldrake/</a> </p><br><p>Follow Zoë Schlanger: </p><p>Website: <a href="https://www.zoeschlanger.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.zoeschlanger.com/</a></p><p>Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zoeschlanger.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/zoeschlanger.bsky.social</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zoeschlanger/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/zoeschlanger/</a> </p><p>The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth: <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger?variant=41096248295458" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger?variant=41096248295458</a> </p><br><p>Follow Wonderstruck:</p><p>Website:<a href="https://wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://wonderstruck.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wonderstruck.org</a></p><p>Substack: <a href="https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org</a> </p><p>YouTube:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</a></p><p>Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/</a> </p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpod</p><p>Apple Podcasts:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661</a> </p><p>Spotify:<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
March 3, 2026
31: Mystic Poet Chelan Harkin on Poetry, Prayer and Unlocking Creative Flow
<p>Mystic poet Chelan Harkin doesn't write poems, she transmits them. At 21, after giving herself permission to write a "bad poem" every day, a creative channel cracked open and poems have flowed through her ever since. </p><br><p>Her work has drawn comparisons to Rumi, Hafiz and Khalil Gibran. Poets whose words slip beneath the thinking mind to reach something deeper, older and more alive within us. </p><br><p>Celebrating World Poetry Day this month, this episode features Chelan speaking with Wonderstruck's Elizabeth Rovere about:</p><p>✦ How a Hafiz poem she heard at 17 unlocked her heart and set her entire path in motion</p><p>✦ The "bad poem experiment" and how permission to fail became the key to creative flow</p><p>✦ How praying to her favourite dead poets led to a synchronicity that changed everything</p><p>✦ How our deepest fears, when met with consciousness, can transform into our strongest allies</p><p>✦ The extraordinary story behind her book The Prophetess which stands in conversation with Gibran’s The Prophet</p><br><p>This is a conversation for anyone who has suspected that the sacred isn’t elsewhere, but closer, more available and more alive than we ever dared to believe.</p><br><p>00:00:00 Introduction</p><p>00:07:06 The Poem That Changed Everything</p><p>00:13:47 The "Bad Poem Experiment"</p><p>00:19:22 Say Wow: The Poem That Went Viral</p><p>00:23:44 Praying To Her Favourite Dead Poets</p><p>00:30:50 The Meaning Of Authentic Service</p><p>00:35:55 Suffering and Our Great Cocoon</p><p>00:39:21 Writing The Prophetess</p><p>00:43:33 Meeting Hajjar Gibran</p><p>00:51:53 Fear as a Life Force</p><p>00:58:32 Closing Reflections</p><br><p>Follow Chelan Harkin: </p><p>Website: https://chelanharkinpoetry.com/ </p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chelanharkin/ </p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chani.harkin </p><p>Find all Chelan's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B08PL55XMD </p><br><p>Follow Wonderstruck:</p><p>Website: https://wonderstruck.org</p><p>Substack: https://newsletter.wonderstruck.org</p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/ </p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonderstruckpod</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpod</p><p>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wonderstruck/id1671879661 </p><p>Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6fS5boWGwYTShddG7SKlVw</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Wonderstruck?
<p>Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond. </p><br><p>Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.</p><br><p><a href="http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/</a> </p><p><a href="https://wonderstruck.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wonderstruck.org</a></p><br><p>Presented by Creative Visions and Striking Wonder Productions™</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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