We are delighted to host John Wolfstone for this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series.
John is an Initiatory Witch, Emergence Facilitator, Wilderness Guide and Transmedia Bard focused on the work of cultural redemption. Holding space for the great grief of our times, he designs and facilitates rituals and rites of transformation, in service to regulating the personal and collective nervous systems back to belonging with the Earth. In 2021, John co-founded The School of Mythopoetics dedicated to the Initiation of Soul. In 2024, his decade-long award-winning documentary, The Village of Lovers, about the Tamera Peace Village in Portugal premiered globally alongside A Cry From the Future Visionary Gathering he co-produced.
John speaks about his upbringing in rural Colorado, and as a teen, in the ‘culturally insulated’ US during the punk movement, and experimenting with psychedelics, influencing both his anti-authoritarian view and his connection to earth. He shares the synchronicities that led him on a life-changing solo trip to Central America for 4 months of heart-led backpacking and, his current life path.
Giancarlo and John discuss mythology & eros, they speak about ways of opening up to spirit and cosmic guidance. They discuss relational repair and holding space for our pain, and its potency to open up space for spiritual guidance and the soul journey. They speak about rites of passage and the initiations humans experience in their lives, as well as understanding emotions from a mythical perspective not just a psychoanalytical one.
Johnwolfstone.earth
The Village of Lovers Film
The School of Mythopoetics
Latest Musings: From the Dragon Heart
Michael Pollan - How to Change Your Mind
Tamera - Portugal
Rainbow Gathering
Gabor Maté - Trauma
Daniel Pinchbeck - 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
2012: Time for Change
Favela da Paz, Brazil
Jorge Ferrer - Novogamy
The Emerald Podcast
Dune: Part One (2021)
Bruce Parry - Iboga
Wisdom of Trauma - Gabor Maté
ISTA
Rafa Manacorda
Bruce Lyon
Joseph Campbell - Hero's Journey
Tierra Iris
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