The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast
Storytelling
The real stories behind some of our teachings
As we move through the time of year when the night is long and the day is short, let us contemplate those mysteries that can be unveiled in the dark. This podcast offers a contemplation of circular time, ancient temporal technologies, Circular Time, and why it is valuable to vitality itself in the modern age.
4:00 - Invitation to Circular Time
5:47 - To know the Dark by Wendell Berry
7:03 - The "Light" in Darkness
14:15 - Ancestors in the Dark
18:33 - On God, time, place, and seasons
21:24 - Temporal traditional ecological knowledge
28:10 - How do we get away from such valuable ecological calendars?
32:25 - Work and leisure in the modern calendar
33:46 - How does western society come to be so dis-membered from Earth?
40:15 - Separated from temporal realities
45:07 - Linear time, never-good-enough, hyper-productivity and burnout
52:46 - Reclaiming the night; embracing rest; and returning to Earth Time
Join one of Sara Jolena's Circular Time sessions! Or sign up for a private session (just email us and we can set up a time!)
This podcast has quite a lot of references! Here are a few:
What Works by Tara McMullin
Waking up to the Dark by Clark Strand
The American Indian Mind in a linear world by Donald Fixico
A Brief History of Time by Steve Hawkins
Between ecology, economy, and the elevated self: a conversation with Rama Subramanian
Emerging from the Pandemic: fear and curiosity/confidence
Wendell Berry, Go Dark - Music by Katie Hicks. Here's a lovely interpretation by Hannah Fogg
Sara Jolena's thesis: ReMembering the Origins of the Anthropocene Age
Our earlier podcast with Ramasubramanian
Recommended podcast that totally resonated with and in some ways inspired this podcast: The Emerald
Music Title: Both of Us
Music by: madiRFAN
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Sara Jolena Wolcott's bio
Descendent of some of Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Sara Jolena Wolcott, M.Div, is now building people's capacity to collectively reMember our ecological familial, national and global origin stories to enable more harmonious futures. An ecotheologian and unconventional minister, she is the founder of Sequoia Samanvaya, a healer, a ceremonialist, and a Legacy Advisor with Innovation 4.4. She is primarily interested in the work of ReMembering and ReEnchanting our world. She is known for her laughter and the (sometimes wild) power of her presence.
Born and raised on the historical Ohlone lands in the California Bay Area into a Quaker family, her quest to understand how we might navigate through the current social and ecological crises took her on a global odyssey. Her wide and wild range of experience, all of which brings depth to her ministry, includes : co-leading the 33-country multi-disciplinary ReImagining Development Program at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), consulting for the World Bank, living as a traveling singer in India, serving as a community minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City, working as a prison chaplain on Rikers Island Correctional Facility in NYC and working as a Fellow in Spirituality and Climate Change at the Institute of the Advancement of Science and Society in Germany. She also has nearly 20 years of experience as a healer and ceremonialist.
She currently lives on the historical homeland of the Mohigan/Mahican people in the Hudson Valley. She enjoys painting dragons, sitting around fires, and moonlit walks.