Ep21: 🌕♎️{Severance} Numinous Reactions to Season 2- w/ Carmen Spagnola

(This season contains spoilers for the show “Severance”- season 2 aired in 2025 on Apple)

How can shows, like Severance, hijack our nervous systems into dysregulation so that we will accept the same-old stories, confusing coherence with liberation? In what ways is Severance a part of the same propaganda it warns about? How can we use stories as a way to locate ourselves in the larger story of our own lives- to see what gaps there might be in where we really are and who we aspire to be? If every white person were just a little more like Irv could we be closer to collective liberation?!? Pretty please!!?

Kristyn with a Why uses the three questions she learned from teacher and mentor Carmen Spagnola on the Numinous Network to engage in a trauma-informed and attachment-oriented friendly chat to settle their nervous systems as they shared their reactions to Severance Season 2.

Thanks again, Carmen Spagnola and The Numinous Network (Happy 4 year Anniversary!)

You can check out our earlier podcast together here!

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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration in today’s episode:

Carmen’s Learning to See in the Dark Podcast and the work of Marija Gimutas and Charlene Spretnak

Georgia Nicols Astrology

Bayo Akomolafe

Rachael Rice & Personal Diminishment

Low Value Men by Zawn Villines

Kristyn on the Asteria’s Convos Podcast

Sophie Strand’s Substack for all the Romantasy

Roadmap to Liberation with Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)

Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)