Mystics in the Matrix
Mystics in the Matrix
Amber Samaya
This is a podcast with humble roots in my experience with circle-based communities, committed to sharing our wisdom traditions, cultural richness, ancestral teachings, and hard-won personal insights in the service of co-making a beautiful world. The intention within my heart as host is to curate a welcoming and sensual space that brings ease to the nervous system, as well as the heart/brain activation that sparks creativity, openness, and receptivity. This podcast is an etheric meeting place for those free-lancing ‘mystics’ of our current cultural, technological, and mycelial matrix. The highly sensitive, the deeply insightful, those ‘taken up’ on the wings of imagination, attuned to the subtle music of the earth, open to brushing up against other bodies, beings, ideas, and lifeways with curiosity rather than fear. Those whose hearts live in stubborn refusal to harden, choosing to remain soft and permeable, and in service to the Sacred aspects of Life. Those who delight in the path of wisdom, embrace multiple ways of knowing, accept what is not known with humble uncertainty, and practice the subtle art of spell-breaking in a spellbound world. The conversations herein are walkabouts in the woods, lanterns in hand, in which we explore what interconnects us, what separates us, the structures in our world that harm and those that heal, and the beautiful, good things that make life bearable, incredible, magical. These conversations live outside of the halls of academia, they hold paradox rather than polarization, they espouse curiosity with one another and with life, and recognize the folly of metanarratives. May hearts, brains, and bodies ‘light up’ around this charitable fire. I invite you into spaciousness, fellowship, care-fullness. There is room at this table for you, the candles are lit, and a lending library is open.
Finding the Feminine Face of God and Healing the Sisterhood w/ Anasuya Isaacs - Part 1
In this episode the brilliant Anasuya 'Too Much' Isaacs shares with us about her journey to find the Feminine Face of God that led her across the globe, exploring multiple faith traditions, in search of the MOTHER. She shares the full circle revelations that led her to a mystical form of Hinduism robust with the Divine Feminine, and then back to the Christian tradition - one that was rooted in the voices and stories of women who were the foundation of early Christianity. The re-birthing eve! ...
Apr 5, 2022
1 hr 27 min
Healing (?) and the Beauty and Generativity of Incompleteness w/ Sophie Strand
This is a conversation with author, poet and brilliant ‘compost heap of ideas’, Sophie Strand. Sophie is kind, generous of spirit and invitational. Our time together was an unhurried meander, getting a sense of each other before we approached the big topics that we planned to speak about. We arrived at things she has recently been writing about, namely challenging our conceptions of both healing and trauma, acknowledging incompleteness as an intrinsic and beautiful part of life, and the gener...
Mar 21, 2022
1 hr 10 min
Mystics in the Matrix - the Podcast Rebrand!
The podcast formally known as I'll Have What She's Having has been reborn and retitled, the Mystics in the Matrix. This serves as my introduction to the Mystics in the Matrix, the 'why' behind the re-naming, and the intention and energy this podcast now holds. Times and seasons change, and we change with them. This is adaptation, movement, melting, and allowing myself and offerings to be reshaped with grace. Thank you for listening. Support the show
Mar 21, 2022
8 min
The Alchemy of Interconnection and Holding Paradox in Covidien Times w/ Johanna Rivera
This is a conversation between two dear friends, whose red thread connection stretches over land, sea, and challenging times. Listen to Joahnna Rivera and Amber Samaya share from their hearts about the complexity of navigating Covidien times, the power of compassionate witness and friendship, the importance of naming what must be named, allowing ourselves to grieve for our world, and entering into personal ritual and creativity to bring coherence around our choice to vaccinate as part of the ...
Sep 9, 2021
1 hr 23 min
Embodying the Artist Archetype and Ushering In a New Paradigm w/ Sylvia Becker-Hill
In this episode I sit down with Artist, Teacher, Coach and Women's Empowerment Advocate, Sylvia Becker-Hill to talk about the shift away from patriarchy and towards a new paradigm where justice, human and other than human life, kindness, and a whole and healthy planet are all honored and taken into considering every step of the way. Sylvia shares her reflections on the archetypal transformation from some of the more negative aspects of the warrior archetype to that of the 'Artist' or cr...
May 23, 2021
1 hr 24 min
Ecological Identity and Soul Songs with Farrah Theresa
In this episode, I connect with a very dear soul sister and friend, Farrah Theresa. Farrah is a nature connection guide, permaculturalist, and musician. Her and I speak about 'ecological identity' and the various threads that lead into and out of this concept. We gently dig into rich soil together, co-locating ourselves in the sacred realms of being human, being here on earth, being of earth, and being for earth. Farrah also shares a powerful guided meditation as well as a gorgeous and ...
Mar 29, 2021
1 hr 38 min
The Desire Map, Listening to the Voice of the Soul + Shifting the Conflict and Drama Triangle w/ AnnMarie McKenzie
You’re on an adventure for the soul. Whether that means you’re chasing mountain tops or conquering complex life situations or business challenges, you want to make every moment count. You find satisfaction is being an explorer. You don’t just live, you experience. You understand that life has texture and crave, real authentic support during those pivotal moments we all confront. This is why I invited Ann Marie McKenzie to join me on the Podcast today. Ann Marie counsels deeply in ...
Mar 29, 2020
1 hr 32 min
A review of COVID19 + embracing the One Health paradigm w/ bioscientist and artist, Dr. Irene de Brice
It has been quite a powerful and dynamic week and month for many of us as we face a rapidly shifting world in light of the COVID19 'pandemic'. There are other things pulling at our hearts like Indigenous land sovereignty, global climate destabilization, young people fighting for a democracy in China, and the impacts of late Capitalism on our hearts, bodies, minds, environments and social fabric. But here we are - holding all of this - and also in the process of having to socially distance our...
Mar 16, 2020
1 hr 42 min
Living the Adventure of Voluntary Simplicity w/ Amanda Shale (and Frank!)
As a young girl a framed drawing of two bears sharing a tricycle accompanied with the words ‘simple pleasures, life treasures’ hung on Amanda Shale’s bedroom wall. It is no wonder then, that later in university when she learned about the intentional lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity through a reading group that she felt a strong resonance and has been on this mindful path ever since. Slowly and steadily she applied it to all aspects of her life, finding contentment with ever less comforts and...
Feb 23, 2020
1 hr 41 min
Midweek Musing - Your Sacred Dreams
Today I felt inspired to share with you a song I wrote two years ago - a song about remembering our sacred dreams. Re-entering the trajectory of them. The power and essence of them. The way in which they are always there inside - the pilot light within the soul. You may forget about them. They may get buried. But that light - those sacred dreams - they always stay lit. Ready whenever you are. <3 What grace. What goodness. There is always another chance to be whole again. To live from your...
Feb 21, 2020
9 min
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