Deconstructing your spirituality to find something that works for you in a little like pulling out a junk drawer and dumping it upside down on the kitchen floor. You'll find things that are useful that you may have forgotten about, and you'll pick those out of the pile and put them back in the drawer.…
There's a theological term known as "Imago Dei" which is the Latin translation of Image of God. This term is often applied uniquely to humanity, rather than seeing the plant or animal kingdom as imago Dei, and refers to the fact that humans were made in the image of God. This term is most often…
A herd of horses doesn't sleep all at once. Horses need to lay flat to get deep, restful REM sleep and this can take place in short increments (like 15-30 minutes) a few times a day. They also can rest by locking their knees and standing, and they do this for 5-7 hours a day.…
Welcome to the first interview on Feathermane Soul Wisdom. I hope to do more interviews and if you'd like to be a guest on the show reach out!
About My Guest
Lane Smith is a transmasculine nonbinary writer with over 20 years of experience as an activist, organizer, and Tarot reader. They have been involved…
This episode of Feathermane Soul Wisdom begins a series where I talk about religion being broken and in this show, I discuss what I expect out of this series and capitalism’s effects on religion
The hair is coming off of senior mare in clouds. She's always been the last to shed, even when she was much younger. This year with it's colder than normal alternating warmer than normal, the shedding is coming later, but right now it is happening. The newly grown spring coat usually shines with dapples. It's…
If you type the words "body theology" into a web search engine, you'll most likely come up with a statement made by Pope John Paul II. Certainly most of the results served to you will be related to this statement (or a book by James B. Nelson if you're lucky), and none of them will…
In this episode, probably the first of a few part series, I talk about what it means to rethink our spaces. If we are to move in and through the world as our authentic, embodied selves, then we need to create spaces that allow for this and do so in a way that welcomes everyone…
One of the main arguments I hear against spirituality, or even religion in general, is that someone doesn't need to believe in supernatural beings to be a good person. And that's correct. Being kind to one another, treating someone the way you'd like to be treated, that's all part of having empathy and human decency.…
It can be easy to think that it's not spiritual to be anger, to have rage, and yet, if we're thinking about our lives as fully embodied beings, then of course we're going to be furious. We're going to experience anger, rage, and all those negative emotions. There are plenty of stories from religious traditions…
As the temperatures are finally turning warmer after an extremely cold week this week and I can start to breathe a sigh of relief that I got myself, my spouse, the horses, chickens, pigs, (not to mention the cats including the two strays I trapped and have inside so they didn't have to brave below…
It can sound cliched to say "be kind" or to talk about kindness, especially in the face of overwhelming oppression, fear, and anger. This podcast isn't about that. Instead, we look at how we can be kind to ourselves, and how seeing everyone as having human dignity means we can be kind to them too.…
Mid January 2024 the world changed in an instant. And for many communities, it just got a lot more dangerous to be your true, authentic self. Now, we know who we are regardless of what proclamations are signed or what others say about us. But also, I can't deny it hurts to have such hate…
There are three things that have to go hand-in-hand for us to step into our authentic, embodied selves. The first two are authenticity and embodiment. The last one? Nervous system regulation. If we're stuck in fight or flight mode, then we're not going to be able to unpack the stories that are keeping us from…
When I was going through my dark night of the soul after spiritual abuse, just thinking about spirituality didn't feel safe to me. The idea of contemplating spirituality, blogging about it, talking about it, being public with it in the ways I had been prior to the abuse (now over a dozen years ago), filled…
The term autispiritual picks up on the tradition of such words as neuroqueer and autigender where our neurodiversity and/or autism directly impacts our experiences as queer individuals or our experience of our gender. Autispiritual means that our autism impacts our spirituality. To broaden it we can talk about neurospiritual where our neurotype impacts our spirituality.…