{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Smoke Trail","title":"The Smoke Trail S2 E43: Luke Wallin- The Garden, The Practice and the Merge","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4527,"description":"Luke Wallin\n\nThe Garden, the Practice, and the Merge\n\nEpisode Metadata\n\nSlug: GUEST-WALLIN-LUKE\nSeason: 2\nEpisode: 43 (Season 2, Guest Episode 2)\nArc: Consciousness Frameworks & Healing Science (primary); Spiritual Discernment & Navigation (secondary)\nGuest: Luke Wallin (returning — Season 1 Episode 7)\nRelationship: Smoke's father\nRecorded: April 29, 2026, in person, Sedona, Arizona\nStatus: Filmed — ready for post-production\nGuest book: The Night We Call the Owls (Ember Press, 2023)\n\nGuest Bio\n\nLuke Wallin is a writer, philosopher, and seeker with forty-six years of teaching across philosophy, fiction writing, American studies, and English. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Alabama, and a Master of Regional Planning from UMass Amherst. He has taught philosophy at the School of Visual Arts, American studies as a Fulbright Fellow at University College Dublin, English at UMass Dartmouth, and writing in the Spalding University MFA program.\nHis novels have been selected as best books by the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, translated into Danish, and recorded for the blind by the Library of Congress. He is co-author with his daughter Eva Sage Gordon Raleigh of The Everything Guide to Writing Children's Books. His most recent book is The Night We Call the Owls, a collection of poems and stories from Ember Press, 2023.\nLuke first appeared on The Smoke Trail in Season 1 Episode 7, where he and Smoke went deep into philosophy, nature, and creativity as survival tools for the soul. This second conversation is different. After a lifetime in scientific materialism and analytic philosophy, something shifted three years ago when Smoke visited him. He returns now as a man who has lived through what he had always told his students: that reality is going to turn out to be much stranger than anyone thinks.\n\nEpisode Hook\n\nThree years ago I went to visit my father, Luke, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gpR4zY80HQ1Pfo4NQvKH83ON3bEHnaF9vWo61QIeN2I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mYjE5/MGYyZTQ1ZDk0YmI0/NjA1NjYyNzBhOTk5/ZGEyOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}