Birdsong with Caiyuda

Embodied Astrology for Plutonic Times | Lara Charlotte

Lara Charlotte joins us once again for this fresh season of Birdsong. 
 
Her “formal” bio is below, but as I introduce her on the show...
 
She’s a mystic, she’s holistic, she’s a plant healer, divine revealer, wise witch incarnate, fresh from the amazon with that wild jungle glow, she’s a star tracker, a crypto stacker, the rose lover, Venusian stunner... Lara Charlotte. We talk embodied astrology and the era defining shift of Pluto moving from Capricorn to Aquarius. Exciting times ahead!
 
As for Lara: She was born in Aotearoa, New Zealand and descends from settler colonisers of mostly English, Irish and Scottish lineage. Since 2012 she left a corporate career due to a personal health crisis and has since immersed in a journey of soul remembrance, transformational healing and devotional service.
 
She spent over 5 years in full-time training with traditional shamanic plant medicines in the Peruvian Amazon, a path she continues with until now.
 
Lara also co-founded a retreat centre working with hundreds of guests in deep transformational processes. She has trained to be trauma informed and hold a space for others that is mindful of diversity, western mental health frameworks and the ongoing process of personal awakening throughout our lives and across generations.
 
Lara is a devoted lover of the mythic realms that are discovered in deep relationship with self, body, nature and story across time and space. Her current work draws on the range of modalities listed here and is adapted to suit the unique needs of each person and situation. She has also featured on various podcasts and presents to workshops and trainings on her work and life experiences.
 
LARA’S LINKS:
WEBSITE: https://www.pathoftherose.com
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mythic_muse/
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-astrology-podcast/id541401108?i=1000595961684
 
CAIYUDA’S LINKS:
WEBSITE: https://www.caiyudakiora.com
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/caiyudakiora
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@caiyudakiora
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/30AGOxSHAtdxs8xnCw1STa?si=fad30c997d474a07
AFFILIATE LINKS:Get 10% off some of the best medicinal mushroom, tonic herb and adaptogenic blends at Superfeast.Use code CAIYUDA10 at checkout.https://www.superfeast.com.au/
TIMESTAMPS:
 
[1:17] Lara’s ancestral connections and recent time with Plant Medicine in the Amazon Jungle
[6:54] The quest to relieve personal suffering and The Path of Relationship
[8:46] Starting to contextualize astrology
[13:00] HOW does astrology work... OR... WHY does astrology work?
[16:30] Why should we care about astrology?
[22:06} Ancient cultures and their animistic relationship to the stars
[28:36] The type of astrology that Lara practices
[34:00] Zodiacs, houses, slices of pie and planetary positions
[37:00] The significance of Pluto’s return in these transformative times
[40:26] Pluto, Capricorn, Corruption and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008
[48:30] Pluto moving into Aquarius and the theme of Revolution
[52:00] Pluto retrograding back into Capricorn
[53:00] The spectrum of maturity and opportunity: immature and mature Aquarius
[54:00] Decentralized currencies and the astrology chart for Bitcoin
[57:45] Astrology, opportunity, invitations and creative empowerment
[1:00:00] Quantum leap potentials through alchemizing astrology
[1:02:30] Elon Musk “the Musk Rat” and what he’s missing...
[1:04:30] 2026, Air Trine, Digital Tech chaos... and balancing it out by integrating opposites
[1:08:30] The qualities of the planets and gaining access to the transpersonal planets
[1:12:20] Experiential understanding and big wolf dreaming
[1:14:20] Lara’s big initiatory transmissions on astrology
[1:15:40] Embodied astrology and body-centred and psychosomatic practices
[1:19:00] Shifting into the body’s receptive wisdom to connect with the planetary gods
[1:23:35] Saturn return and surfing wisdom metaphors
[1:24:40] Astrology, plant medicine and synchronicity
[1:30:00] Doing the “pluto” work, digesting the trauma and birthing new visions
[1:31:05] Hope, into Trust, into Knowing = Empowerment
[1:34:49] The Heart Alchemy Program & Devotional Sadhana
[1:44:38] Lara’s encouragement to newbies on the Astrology Path

Season 2: Episode 1... From Ninja-Samurai-Incognito to HEY WHAT’S UP! A (Re)introduction

Ahoy fine folk of the internet, Birdsong is back with Season 2!
Exploring the many themes related to nature awareness, shamanism, spirituality, awakening, holistic health and wellness, deep ecology, passage rites, initiatory experiences, and remembering the sacred ways, with expansive conversations with some of the great minds, hearts and souls across our realm.
This first EP is a re-introduction into where things were, why we went AWOL, where things might be heading, with a few learnings and wisdoms shared along the way.
 
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WEBSITE: https://www.caiyudakiora.com
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/caiyudakiora
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@caiyudakiora
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/30AGOxSHAtdxs8xnCw1STa?si=fad30c997d474a07
AFFILIATE LINKS:Get 10% off some of the best medicinal mushroom, tonic herb and adaptogenic blends at Superfeast.Use code CAIYUDA10 at checkout.https://www.superfeast.com.au/

Apprenticing to Ayahuasca & The Path of the Heart | Jonathan Blake Salazar (2020)

Jonathan Blake Salazar joins us in Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.
Jon is a dear buddy of mine; a healer in training; an aspiring Ayahuascero, an accomplished musician and one of the sweetest guys you’ll ever meet. We first met at Spirit Quest Sanctuary, with fond memories of deep work together with Ayahuacsa and Huachuma.
When it comes to Jonathans music, it’s bright, hopeful, uplifting, with a tinge of nostalgia to simpler times; rising from a deepening connection to our Earth.
Jonathan Blake Salazar has won "Best Male Singer-Songwriter" at the OC Music Awards, “Best Singer-Songwriter” at the Malibu Music Awards, “Best Male Artist” at the So Cal Music Live Awards, Nominated for a LA Music Award, Nominated for the Hollywood Music In Media Awards, has earned a Fender Guitar endorsement, a QSC speaker endorsement and his spotify averages 35,000 monthly listeners.
You can follow Jonathan here:
Jonathan on Spotify
Jonathan on Apple Music
Jonathan on Instagram
Jonathan on Facebook
POINTS OF INTEREST:
Enlightenment, liberation and the path of service
The Path of the Heart and The Path of Prayer
How do we both connect with the sacred?
Honouring our humanness and quirks and imperfections
Finding the path of plant-based shamanism
Meditation and levitation
Blackout drinking and alcoholics anonymous
The difference between a hallucination and a vision
Spiritual teachings and spiritual teachers
Being in ceremony space feels like home
The white wizard, Don Howard, and Spirit Quest Sanctuary
Drinking Huachuma and tears of gratitude
Jon’s developing relationship apprenticing to Ayahuasca
The infinite depths of Ayahuasca and the path of service
Plant dietas - bobinsana, piri piri, lopuna blanca and more….
Don Jose Campos: The shaman and ayahuacsa
Dieting ayahuasca
How does plant-based-shamanism inform Jonathans connection with the music industry
Jon’s plays us his song “Fall” on guitar, which he wrote in the jungle working with Ayahuasca

The Wild Hunt, Keening, The Medicine of Amrun & Honouring Death | Andrew Steed (2020)

Andrew Steed joins us for Season 1 of Birdsong (2020).
Andrew is a Shamanic Teacher, Inspirational Speaker, Storyteller & Guide to Sacred Travel. Since 1996 he has been working internationally in the USA, Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Ireland and the UK. Since 1999 he has led over 50 pilgrimages in the British Isles and Ireland.
These sacred journeys offer profound opportunities for both personal and planetary healing. He leads an annual Wild Hunt at the Dark Half of the year weaving with reclaimed indigenous medicine of the ‘Celtic’ people.
He has celebrated this ceremony that honours and celebrates death 25 times in 5 different countries. He is an author of several books including ‘Powering Up Your Life Stories’ which was birthed through working with youth in a high school in Pennsylvania.
This poignant medicine book is now in its second year as part of the University of East Washington’s curriculum for students who are going into the field of counselling and wellness.
He spends his free time taking strolls by the sea, discovering and connecting to wild places and relaxing in his own back garden with his fiancé Joyce.
He can be found on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.steed.58
And via his website: www.andrewsteed.com
 
POINTS OF INTEREST:
* The bridge to the heart and honouring the sacred
* The multi-dimensional medicine of Amrun
* Amrun: the song that sings us and dances us
* The Second Battle of Mag Tured: A year and a day with Amrun
* Andrew’s epic story of sailing the high seas in Jamaica, singing home the ancestors and weaving Amrun for 13 hours
* The Wild Hunt
* What is The Wild Hunt?
* Honouring and celebrating death
* The many faces of death
* Singing home lost and displaced souls
* Sweeping clean the worlds
* Trapped energy and transmuting our sorrow into joy and peace
* What is “Keening”?
* The Dagda’s Harp and the Three Strands of Poetry
* Andrew’s dreaming story of his pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland * The lament of the dead and professional Keeners
* The key elements of the Keening process
* The ancient word “UAITHNE”
* The gift and beauty of preparing Andrew’s father’s funeral and watching it together

Are We All Shamans? Shamanic Healing & Exploring the Sacred | Itzhak Beery (2020)

Itzhak Beery join us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.
Itzhak is an internationally recognized shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist, and author of three Amazon bestseller books: - The Gift of Shamanism: Visionary Power, Ayahuasca Dreams, and Journeys to the Other Realms - Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening - Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World.
Born in an Israeli Kibbutz, Itzhak grew up to have a fine art career and was the owner of an award-winning boutique Ad agency in New York City. A midlife crisis led to his transformation from a skeptical atheist, and business executive, into a passionate believer in shamanism and spirit, aligned with his life purpose.
For over twenty years, Itzhak has been bridging the physical and spiritual and sharing the practical wisdom his indigenous and Western teachers entrusted in him.
He was initiated into the "Circle of 24 Yachaks of Imbabura" by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and by Amazonian Kanamari Pajè in Brazil. ​Itzhak is the founder of ShamanPortal.org, The Andes Summit, and co-founder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on various major global spiritual center faculties.
Itzhak received the 'Ambassador for Peace Award' from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN.
www.itzhakbeery.com
www.nyshamaniccircle.org
www.shamanportal.org
www.theandessummit.com 
 
TIMESTAMPS:
[4:15] Exploring the sacred with Itzhak
[6:24] The Quechuan word “Huaca”, altars, & charging up items with sacredness
[10:12] Shamanic Transformations: True stories of the moment of awakening
[14:40] Teachings on the sacred from my daughter
[16:00] A story about the Dalai Lama of the Andes
[21:50] Integrating the sacred into regular ordinary every-day life
[22:47] Spiritual Yogis or Pushy New-Yorkers?
[26:00] “Becoming one with the rain”
[30:10] No lluvia, no vida: no rain, no life!
[34:18} Before plant medicine, cultivate a relationship with spirit
[36:53] Humans are primitive animals compared to a creature like the bee
[39:13] Children drinking ayahuasca?
[41:50] The cross-cultural pollination of greed and scarcity
[47:30] The real price of a cup of ayahuasca
[51:23] The superficiality of spirituality
[53:52] Planting seeds to better understand shamanism
[56:45] Rediscovering the qualities of water, fire, air, and earth
[1:00:15] Plant medicine is only a small branch of shamanism
[1:02:11] We all have the ability to be shamans, some of us just don’t develop it…
[1:04:23] Dreaming the dream of meeting Don José Joaquin Pinéda
[1:09:25] Advice on mentors, teachers, apprenticeships, and being in service
[1:16:15] Itzhak’s projects, offerings and the Andean summit
[1:19:47] Being an ambassador of our traditions and lineages…
[1:21:39] Do all shamans need human teachers?
[1:25:51] My filipino folk / faith healer ancestry
[1:27:05] Refusing the call to the path and initiatory sickness
[1:33:16] Confirmation of the path and being tormented by the spirit world
[1:38:40] At the end, all the shamanic work has to be grounded in being in service
[1:41:48] We all have to take responsibility that we are healers

Wilderness Connection, Heart Wisdom, Soul Teachings & Devotional Practices | Sangoma John Lockley (2020)

John Keith Kelley Lockley joins us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.
John is a fully initiated shaman, or sangoma, in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa - the same tribe that gave us Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Traditional healers or shamans (sangomas) of the Xhosa People of South Africa use sacred ceremonies involving herbs, songs and trance rhythms to connect with the ancestors and the natural world to encourage a profound remembering and honoring of the human spirit.
John is unique in being initiated in three timeless traditions: African Shamanism as a Xhosa Sangoma, Yoga and Zen Buddhism, and he also holds a degree in Clinical Psychology. He’s the author of the book, Leopard Warrior, and the audiobook, The Way of the Leopard, which you can find over at Amazon, through his publisher, Sounds True, or you can head directly to his website to find out more about him and his work.
Connect with John: www.johnlockley.com
 
TIMESTAMPS: [2:42] John opens our conversation with a beautiful traditional chant
[6:22] “As sangomas, we dream…” [7:23] Don’t think the sacred; feel it
[9:53] “What good is your own enlightenment when the birds are dying…?” - John’s passion for the wilderness
[10:22] Spirituality and apprenticeship are about giving; being in service
[13:10] What does it mean to be connected to your soul and the sacred inside of you?
[15:10] The importance of clarifying intention, connecting to heartbeat, devotional practices of giving thanks and choosing our humanity
[18:14] The alchemy and rise of the umbilini (similiar to kundalini)
[21:15] Has your yoga studio watered their plants recently?
[22:24] Tending the gardens of our own hearts
[25:06] Swimming with great white sharks off the coast of South Africa
[29:14] As the Zen Masters would say: “Why do you eat everyday???”
[29:45] Becoming a shaman or a traditional sangoma is painful
[31:28] Every animal is a reflection of us in some way… and has something to teach us
[32:16] The archetypal symbolism, alchemy and medicine of the salmon
[34:23] Falling in love with the rhythm of our heart pulse
[37:48] How is the land speaking to you? [38:40] The electric nature of the body; the spine as a lightning rod
[41:46] The heartbeat as a magical spring; a spiritual gateway into another world [46:10] What is divination? Divination is to read the soul…
[49:45] What is John’s prayer for self, family and the world?
[51:09] Fatherhood and motherhood from the perspective and life experience of a sangoma
[53:25] The medicine of lightheartedness and silliness and playing music with your children
[56:55] John’s 1:1 mentoring, private sessions and monthly ceremonies

Vision Quest, Shamanic Knowing, Yurt Living, Mongolia & The Journey of the Soul | Steve McKenzie (2020)

Steve McKenzie joins us for Season 1 of Birdsong (2020).
Steve (Soulpaths Founder) is a trained Vision Quest facilitator and Vision Quest protector trainer (Stalking Wolf lineage, New Jersey). He is a Family Constellations facilitator (Margarete Koenning) and provides group workshops, as well as one-one constellation work.
He is an Ontological Coach (Newfield Institute) and provides personal nature-based mentoring. He conducts Sweat Lodges and Ancestor Circles at a variety of gatherings and venues, including his base at Kupidabin Wilderness, near Samford (QLD, AUS).
Steve also works with similarly-minded men to deliver Men's Soul Connection weekends.
He understands the relevance and place for ceremony and ritual, connection with Nature, living our life purpose, earth spirituality, shamanism, sacredness, consciousness, working with ancestors, Elderhood, ancient wisdom, and inner transformation.
He has deep respect for the First Nation peoples and Ancestors of this land and ensures such ceremonies honour and acknowledge the peoples and the Spirits.
Connect with Steve: www.soulpaths.com.au
 
TIMESTAMPS:
[5:55] A tiny little cricket on Vision Quest changed Steve’s life…
[9:45] Horse riding through Mongolia inspired Steve to live in a yurt for three years
[16:00] Perceptual shifts from living in a traditional spherical dwelling vs square shaped buildings
[20:08] Why the initial trip to Mongolia?
[24:37] Feeling the call to adventure - Steve’s initial Vision Quest and Stalking Wolf training
[27:57] Sitting alone in a three meter circle in the wilderness, for four days, with no food
[30:34] Approaching the rhythms of nature and observing the little things
[32:45] Distractions, fixating on time and tracking the movement of the sun
[34:39] Opening the heart to the medicine of the tiny little cricket
[39:04] Ancestral spirits, spirit beings, and the spirit world
[41:52] The journey of the soul & Bill Plotkin’s eco-soul-centric model of initiation
[50:55] Everyone has their own unique gift to share with the world
[55:25] Clearing the atmospheric fog of conditioning to see the glimmers of gold within
[57:41] What is your archetypal soul name?
[59:00] Holding space at the base camp while people are out Questing
[1:01:07] There are energetic concentric rings that ripple out from every single event
[1:07:36] Shamanic ways of knowing and supernatural / extrasensory modes of perception
[1:11:34] Questing in a group setting vs Questing by one’s self
[1:16:00] Musings on ancestral trauma and baggage

Norse Shamanism, Grave Sitting, Rune Magicians & Nature Beings | Imelda Almqvist (2020)

In Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong, Imelda Almqvist join us.
Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seidr/Old Norse Traditions (the ancestral wisdom teachings of Northern Europe).
She has published three books: Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit for Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages) in 2016, Sacred Art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where Art Meets Shamanism) in 2019 and Medicine of the Imagination - Dwelling in possibility (an impassioned plea for fearless imagination) in 2020.
She has presented her work on both The Shift Network and Sounds True. She appears in a TV program, titled Ice Age Shaman, made for the Smithsonian Museum, in the series Mystic Britain, talking about Neolithic arctic deer shamanism.
She is currently finishing up her fourth book, about the pre-Christian spirituality of The Netherlands and Low Countries. She has already started her fifth book: about the runes of the Futhark/Uthark.
Her response to the 2020 pandemic was starting an on-line school on Teachable called Pregnant Hag Teachings, to make more of her classes available on-line.
Imelda’s website: http://www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk
Imelda’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/imeldaalmqvist
Pregnant Hag Teachings: https://pregnant-hag-teachings.teachable.com/
 
TIMESTAMPS:
[3:39] Sigrdrifa's Prayer (or Invocation): commonly used to open sacred space in the Northern Tradition
[5:42] Sacred art and the meaning of what’s sacred
[9:30] Norse gods, ancient books and the language of the soul
[15:08] “Painting my way onto the shamanic path”
[15:59] The old Norse god Baldr
[17:37] Shamanic initiations [21:29] Core shamanism vs Norse shamanism
[25:24] The Poetic Edda, Prose Edda & Nordic history
[31:02] The shamanic characteristics of these ancient texts - prophecies, oracles, runes, chants and more…
[33:05] Direct revelation and the high seat ceremony
[37:33] If everything was preserved and written down things would become prescriptive
[38:44] Gods are living evolving beings within their relationship to human beings
[40:11] Sitting on grave mounds as a Northern European shamanic practice
[49:29] Rune stones, rune magicians, and reading runes as a divinatory practice
[55:10] Runic resources and books
[56:19] Runes of the FUTHARK / UTHARK [1:00:14] Viking berserkers, amanita muscaria, and musings on the destabilizing nature of ayahuasca
[1:06:22] Safety, boundaries, wild animal spirits and wild states of consciousness
[1:09:03] Connecting with the nature beings in our own environment
[1:10:23] The spirits of the trees and the great reindeer mother
[1:12:40] Mystery teachings from the poison mother
[1:15:17] Nordic methods and suggestions for cultivating psychic or intuitive abilities
[1:19:20] Cultivating 3-5 spiritual practices for depth rather than breadth
[1:21:38] Natural Born Shamans: Shamanism for young people of all ages
[1:25:13] Medicine of the Imagination - Creating a healthy functional vital reality
[1:27:45] Writing as a spiritual practice
[1:30:00] Pregnant Hag Teachings - Rune Magicians, Intro to Seidr, and more…

Chocolate as a Sacred Medicine - The Chocolate Wizard | Kyle Laz (2020)

Kyle Laz joins us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.
Kyle is a passionate herbalist, sound practitioner and intuitive healer… a modern day wizard if you like, and some of us know him as the chocolate wizard.
For 15 years Kyle has dedicated his life to deeply researching and exploring plant medicines and their application to body, mind and spirit. He has visited many of the key sacred sites of England and Europe, gaining spiritual and practical knowledge from his experiences, which has allowed him to understand the diverse relationships between western health and spiritual concepts and be able to offer holistic healing in this way.
With a strong focus on the five elements, he continues to develop practical processes to recognise, ground and integrate profound, mystical experiences.
He works and trains with a range of modalities including Reiki 1, 2 and Master Teacher attunements, Acutonics, Sound Healing, Massage, Flower Essences, Crystal Healing and Chocolate Ceremonies (a fusion of herbal wisdom, sound and chocolate).
 
TIMESTAMPS:
[3:58} Pause and presence for the sacred
[7:34] Dancing between words and worlds
[8:36] Reframing having an addictive personality and being lazy
[11:40] What is a chocolate wizard?
[13:09] What do you want to be when you grow up?
[14:51] The interconnectivity of chocolate
[17:00] Chocolate and the plant medicine path
[19:20] Chocolate in the name of love
[21:37] Conversations between cacao and mushrooms
[28:48] Plant intelligence and the intersection of human consciousness
[33:14] There is no “bad chocolate”
[35:58] Food of the Gods + Sugar + Milk = Evolutionary Seed Spreading
[39:11] Chocolate as a gatekeeper into ceremony
[43:18] The synergistic intermingling between various herbs and chocolate
[46:16] “Phytochemysticism” - as above, so below
[48:01] Amplifying energetics with chocolate + herbs + intention
[50:27] Energetic exchange between participant, practitioner and chocolate
[53:46] Esoteric mysticism chocolate traditions?
[56:37] Current day uses of cacao with breathwork, dance and sound
[1:00:55] What to keep in mind when buying and using chocolate
[1:03:05] Induction into the Secret Chocolate Society
[1:07:01] Chocoloate Dreaming Rituals
[1:14:30] Connection with self, connection with earth

Musings on Psychedelics & Becoming YouTube Famous | Your Mate Tom (2020)

Your Mate Tom join us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.
Your Mate Tom is a world travelling documentary filmmaker who takes a brutally honest and practical approach to grounded spirituality & psychedelics.
With roughly 230,000 youtube subscribers on his channel Yourmatetom, and several millions views on multiple videos, his down-to-earth approach has been well received by psychonauts and psychedelic enthusiasts within the youtube community.
He’s also the host of the Yourmatetom podcast, which you can find on all platforms that host good podcasts!
Tom's YouTube Channel:    / @yourmatetom  
 
TIMESTAMPS:
[2:05] Reminiscent connections
[6:00] Sacredness, duality, non-duality
[7:13] Hermeticism’s law of polarity
[8:27] Practical and grounded spirituality
[10:12] Shadow work and Jungian psychology
[13:17] The dark abyss of Tom’s Iboga experience
[14:36] Differing approaches to psychedelic use
[17:15] Shifting from meditation to prayer
[18:10] Dipping Tom’s toes back into psychedelics
[20:50] Exclusively taking psychedelics in a ceremonial context
[23:47] Musings on the preparation process before psychedelics
[28:50] Being a warrior in a garden, rather than a gardener in a war
[29:36] From plant-medicine-peace-and-beauty to Chilean-anarchic-revolutions
[33:00] Strange meditations practices and sitting for 365 days straight
[35:26] Shamanic spirit worlds versus reductionist mechanistic perspectives
[40:00] Paul Chek, AlfaVedic, Walter Russell and the Electric Universe
[43:08] YouTube censorship… what’s going on with Yourmatetom’s channel?
[48:37] The modern day technological witch hunt
[50:07] The Wild West of YouTube
[52:52] Decentralization and the path forward?
[55:05] Reconciling tech time and investing in the big monopolies of social media
[59:12] Memorable collabs and opportunities from being a YouTuber
[1:03:00] Biblical learnings and the “Western Cannon”
[1:05:40] Ceremonial and ritual practice in Tom’s life
[1:09:07] Youtube fame - how has this affected Tom’s life?
[1:10:50] What does Tom wish he knew when he first started YouTubing?
[1:11:42] Dealing with the haters and navigating social media
[1:19:45] Future projects and shining the light of self awareness