The Myths That Make Us

Francesca Barone is a teacher, facilitator, and lifelong student of the Shipibo healing tradition devoted to the intersection of shamanic medicine, feminine healing arts, somatic-based embodiment practice, and the classical tantric path. She is the co-founder of Anam Cara Healing Retreats, an intimate Shipibo Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica and Peru dedicated to preserving indigenous wisdom, honoring the Shipibo lineage, and creating deeply personalized healing experiences rooted in reciprocity and integrity.

Having apprenticed for years with Shipibo maestros, Francesca has guided hundreds of people through profound healing journeys by weaving Amazonian plant medicine with trauma-informed care, somatic healing, breathwork, and embodied spirituality. Her work explores the body as a sacred pathway to awakening, where trauma is transformed, the feminine principle is reclaimed, and ancient wisdom becomes a lived experience woven into every day practice.

 

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Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.

 

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Aaron Doughty is a spiritual teacher and YouTuber with over 1.9 million subscribers, dedicated to helping people expand their consciousness. After a spiritual awakening in 2012, he went daily on YouTube in 2017 and grew one of the largest personal-growth channels on the platform, teaching energy dynamics, subconscious reprogramming, and nervous system regulation. He now travels the world running live events and hot seat coaching, helping people come home to who they already are.

 

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Website: https://aarondoughty.com

 

This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.

 

Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.

 

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Graham Dern is a producer, sound designer, and co-founder of the Dharma Artist Collective. When he's not vibrating in Austin, you can often catch him recording birds and rivers in the mountains. In this episode, we dive into Graham's first memories in Seattle, through college psychedelics and an uncomfortable awakening, to a pandemic spent roofing in Montana and the leap to Austin. He talks about creating music as a daily meditation and his excitement around sound therapy.

Instagram: @grahamdern
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Music: Graham Dern

This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.

Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the Dharma Artist Collective where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.

Follow Erick Godsey:
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Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com
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Cory Allen is a writer, meditation teacher, and podcast host whose work reaches over five million people a week. He is the author of Now Is the Way and Brave New You, he hosts the podcast And Then It Hit Me and has guided thousands of students into presence through his courses Release Into Now and Coming Home.

In this episode, Erick and Cory link back up for the first time in 6 years. They explore everything from Cory meeting and apprenticing with Robert Anton Wilson, to waterboarding himself in a bathtub float tank, to the slow dismantling of social armor in more recent years. One day we’ll get him to cry on the podcast.

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ABOUT ERICK GODSEY
Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.

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James Burke is a contemporary Bard and music producer with a devotion to the throbbing Now. A pilgrim of the in-between, he is at home on the paradoxical path of Christ yet drawn to the wisdom of the old pagan Earth, and his work explores the reconciliation of these estranged worlds. Through writing and song, he inhabits the thresholds where myth and daily life meet.

 

James returns for Part 2 to tell the full story of his 500-mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago — the desperation that drove him there, the woman who broke his heart open, and the soul encounter that changed everything.

 

 

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[00:00:00] The Creaking Door.

[00:00:33] A sophisticated Christian, a former conspiracy theorist.

[00:04:10] The gift of Martin Shaw's new book.

[00:05:35] Setting the scene — 26, Ireland, Colombia, falling apart.

[00:07:30] Six albums, severe illness, no heart.

[00:10:25] "I think I need to be homeless on the streets."

[00:11:55] Why no top-down fix could work.

[00:16:00] The Camino de Santiago — the way of St. James.

[00:18:53] Selling everything, sleeping in the car.

[00:24:09] The artistic ritual of self-hatred.

[00:26:38] The hellish now, the hoped-for future.

[00:28:16] Starting the pilgrimage.

[00:31:00] Pre-Christian roots, witchy and Christian fused.

[00:34:03] Day one — medieval villages, the road starts walking you.

[00:39:46] The holy man bestowing a quest underground.

[00:42:00] The father wound mirrored in cathedrals.

[00:44:30] Saints over magicians — the role of humility.

[00:46:30] Microdosing trauma in the West.

[00:51:30] Falling in love at the long table.

[00:54:09] The fast, the fall, the eye contact.

[00:56:08] The seminarian who could go toe to toe.

[00:58:11] She held him while he wept for the first time in a decade.

[01:00:53] "Hobby art" — the most generative gift.

[01:03:58] Synchronicity as a mode of perception.

[01:05:30] The river, the song, the call to Ireland.

[01:08:36] The cowboy hat stoner with twelve Caminos.

[01:12:27] Three days fasted, last day barefoot.

[01:13:46] Arriving Good Friday at the bones of the saint.

[01:16:29] The reframe for inherited Christianity.

[01:18:35] Saint Teresa of Ávila and the women of the tradition.

[01:19:43] The Old Testament mindset he had to leave behind.

 

 

Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.

 

 

Follow Erick Godsey:

Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com

Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/

Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile

 

 

Support the Podcast:

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