Undeceive Yourselves! Respell The World: The Great Cosmic Mother pt5
"Imagination is a memory moving both forward and backward in time." - Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother Now just imagine that both yesterday and tomorrow have the full show notes and not the autogenerated ones and you just so happened to visit on this day. We're joking of course - the autogenerated notes are temporary - new ones will be updated soon. All the contact info is correct! --------Autogen summary The world can feel like it’s sliding into something colder and meaner, ...
"Imagination is a memory moving both forward and backward in time."
- Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother
Now just imagine that both yesterday and tomorrow have the full show notes and not the autogenerated ones and you just so happened to visit on this day. We're joking of course - the autogenerated notes are temporary - new ones will be updated soon. All the contact info is correct!
--------Autogen summary
The world can feel like it’s sliding into something colder and meaner, and we’ve both caught ourselves wondering why so many people seem numb to it. So we turn back to the last two chapters of The Great Cosmic Mother, where the authors name the end result of patriarchal religion and patriarchal power: a profane world stripped of spirit, where bodies and the Earth get treated like objects, markets demand endless consumption, and “meaning” gets replaced with control.
We talk through the chapter’s brutal clarity about addiction to artificial energy, the way systems train us to blame victims, and how power keeps itself alive by pitting us against each other. Then we step into the book’s answer: politics alone cannot carry us, and spirituality that ignores politics is just another escape hatch. What we actually need is a refusion of spirit and flesh, a return to the lived truth that we are connected, and a commitment to respell the stories that run our minds.
That’s where “witchy” stops being a costume and becomes a metaphor for reclaiming imagination. We connect the dots to modern capitalism, AI anxiety, and the tech-bro dream of mechanizing everything, then bring it back to what we can do right now: make something, sing with people, take a library craft class, build tiny pockets of real community, and let creativity become a form of resistance.
After you listen, tell us what story you’re ready to respell, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more magic children can find us.
Credits
Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI
Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia
Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio
Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies
Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers
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