In this mini-season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids for over a year titled “Dream Place.”

This episode provides a synopsis and discussion of the 2024 animated series “Dream Productions” that takes place between the events of “Inside Out” and “Inside Out 2” on Disney/Pixar.

Why do all the stories on this podcast have characters that are a personification of capitalism’s impact on the creative process? How can stories and intentional altered states of consciousness help us to connect with what matters most to us, and practice embodying it? If Riley deserves better dreams, can we also demand better stories?

In this episode, Kristyn discusses Dream Productions and the connection to the upcoming Dream Place meditation with her co-parent and partner Kevin. Kevin also provides a testimonial of his experience of Kristyn leading him through a trance journey similar to the Dream Place.

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

Carmen Spagnola’s various hypnotherapy offerings on the Numinous Network

SaffanaBanana on IG “Is this true? Who benefits from me believing this?”

Sophie Strand’s “Sexy Inventory” on Substack

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)

In this season, Kristyn will be discussing {Dream Productions} and offering a guided meditation practice she has done with her kids titled “Dream Place.”

In the words of Sophie Strand, inspired by Octavia Butler, what is sexy? How can the tropes we love in stories be the roadmaps for what liberation looks like for us, here, now? How can intentional changes of consciousness be a magical practice to enable our senses to feel the presence of loved ones after they pass on?

In this episode, Kristyn shares some more context of how the vision of this podcast came to be- by watching the stories her kids loved *with* them and provides her personal reasons for this season of dreams: her desire to leave behind batons and breadcrumbs for her kids in the event she dies before they grow up.

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

Carmen Spagnola and the Numinous Network

Sophie Strand’s Substack

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)

This episode does not center a particular story. It is a revisiting of a {PAST} conversation, honoring that {people are stories, too!}.

In this episode, Kristyn practices secure attachment and connects with her tattoo artist Dusty to discuss tattoos, the union of creativity and spirituality, and the practices that resourced us to leave the cult of evangelical Christianity while leaving the door open for the Numinous.

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

Carmen Spagnola’s Numinous Network for courses on Secure attachment & ritual practices, her Podcast on Fascism, and her book “The Spirited Kitchen” for more on Yule and other “rewilded” spiritual practices.

For more companioning around leaving the high demand group of fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity, check out Tia Leving’s Instagram and Substack and Jeanna Kadlec’s “Heretic”

For more on rewilding Yeshua/Jesus, check out Sophie Strand’s books: “The Madonna Secret” and “Flowering Wand”

For more animism and mythology for troubled times, check out The Emerald Podcast

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)

How can we resist buying into the big lie that we are alone? What does it take to embody a sense of dignity and belonging when we hold dominant identities within oppressive systems? Can we lay to rest the desire to be “pure, perfect, and innocent” and still be worthwhile to the revolution?

Kristyn with a Why receives compassionate witnessing from some of the folks from her Embodied Social Justice cohort (ESJC) in today's (relatively) mini episode.

0-11:00: Introduction, Updates, Synchronicities

11:16- end: Crying and Compassionate Witnessing by Embodied Social Justice Cohort

Check out Kristyn on the “Asteria’s Convos” podcast where they chatted about building community and sharing sourdough!

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

If you enjoyed today’s ep, you will probably love the Cosmic Anarchy Substack by Ayesha Khan, Ph.D and on IG @wokescientist

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)

(This episode contains spoilers for the first two books of The Empyrean Series- Fourth Wing and Iron Flame)

How can romantasy novels resource us to live a more liberated life? How does “curing” a protagonist of their chronic pain support larger ableist narratives? If you fall in love with a “book boyfriend” whose lands, language, and culture have been stolen from them- how can you show your devotion to them in real life and honor land back and indigenous sovereignty? What would it take for us to stop policing groups we have been conditioned to hate/fear especially when the rules are unjust? Do *all* romantasy fans play Dungeons and Dragons?

Kristyn with a Why sits down for a friendly chat with two friends she met on Reddit- Alexis (a writer/boardgamer) and Kendra (an aerialist/chiropractor and member of the Cree nation)- both of whom live with chronic illnesses. Together they discuss how Violet’s journey resonated with them, what they would have liked to see more of, and they collectively imagine what liberation can look like in the soon to be released 3rd book of the series, Onyx Storm!

0- Episode Intro

5:30- Kristyn gives a reflective synopsis of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame

28:40-Introducing Alexis and Kendra

41:32- Critiques of Fourth Wing and Iron Flame

58:00- Moments in the book that resourced us

1:09:47- How Fourth Wing and Iron Flame help you FEEL liberation

1:15:30- What was lost? Connections with Indigenous themes

1:19:37- The value of not curing a chronically disabled protagonist

1:33:51- More connections and quotes of Indigenous themes

1:40:00-Hope for Onyx Storm

1:50:23- Outro

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

10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid

Sophie Strand’ssubstack: You can preorder “The Body is a Doorway” here

For more community and witnessing around chronic illness and disability, check out Carmen Spagnola’sNuminous Network

Roadmap to Liberation withRev. angel Kyodo williams

As always:----------------------------------

Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

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

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)

Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

(This episode contains spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of Squid Game)

How can I connect and hold space for someone who is moved by a story that I refuse to watch? How does capitalism thrive in binary/hierarchical thinking: good vs bad, guilt vs innocence, us vs. them? Is consent and free will even possible in capitalism? In what ways is Squid Game a metaphor for reality shows like Love Island? How can a practice of satisfiability and finding your “enough” disrupt the insatiable momentum of capitalism? How can we create the world we prefer while also fighting against unjust systems?

This episode flips roles asKevinsits Kristyn down to give a synopsis of Season 1 and Season 2 of Squid Game. Then together they riff on how the puritanical obsession with innocence and perfection has kept us immobilized from just doing less harm and feeling more satiation in unjust systems of exploitation and “never enough.”

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Grateful for the learning alluded to in today’s episode:

-Toi Smith

-Carmen Spagnola’spodcast with Toi Smith, courses on Attachment and Contact Nutrition on theNuminous Network
-Ruben Anderson and the #smallanddeliciouslife

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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

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

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)

Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)