{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Gardens of Earthly Delight","title":"Make Me Good Soil w/ Sophie Strand","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4327,"description":"Sophie Strand is a writer and author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, The Madonna Secret, and her most recent book, a memoir called The Body Is a Doorway. She lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she writes about mythology, ecology, and the intersection between storytelling and the more-than-human world.\nThis conversation spans a lot of ground. We talk about what it means to be from a place versus being of a place, Tom Bombadil and what Lord of the Rings has to teach us about ecology, communicating with plants through dreams, the concept of pharmacon and the problems with how we use psychedelics, making good soil as both metaphor and practice, and how Sophie's experience with chronic illness has deepened her relationship with the natural world.\nA brief note: This conversation includes some discussion of drug use and psychedelics in the context of plant medicine and healing.\nTIMESTAMPS00:00 - The Hudson Valley as savior\n 04:42 - Being from a place vs. being of a place\n 06:38 - Human beings as peripatetic wanderers\n 09:07 - Sardinian throat singing and inherited traditions\n 11:16 - Eucatastrophe: the happy disaster\n 15:31 - Tom Bombadil and ecological wisdom\n 19:26 - Communicating with plants\n 20:13 - Dreams as messages from plants\n 22:23 - Dreams come from a place\n 27:34 - Being an instrument played by fungi\n 28:51 - Naming and ownership\n 35:25 - Hopi language and present tense\n 37:09 - Telepathic communication as wordless\n 39:24 - Psychedelics and plant medicine\n 41:17 - Pharmacon: potion and poison\n 43:10 - Our culture of addiction\n 46:39 - Ayahuasca and ego death\n 50:39 - Creating communities that honor intuition\n 54:31 - Aphids, ladybugs, and observation\n 56:41 - Make me good soil\n 57:21 - Degenerative connective tissue disease\n 59:36 - Soil as tomb and womb\n 01:01:44 - Nature and healing\n 01:07:18 - The blue heron as messenger\n 01:09:36 - Favorite food memory: apples and cheddar\nRESOURCES MENTIONEDSophie Strand:Substack:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9EmmdNPFGH5KAwG2qiPUaQ3rRxt4jbBisODUISWHgaU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNDNl/MWFjOGI1NTdkZjll/ZTBjOGI5MDEzYWI0/ZjczOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}