There’s something timeless about setting out on foot and letting the rhythm of walking open up new ways of seeing the world—and ourselves. In this episode, Christine is joined by pilgrimage leaders Adam Bauer, Kyle Buckley, Renee Blodgett and Lisa Kalfus to explore the meaning and magic of pilgrimage, from the sacred caves of southern France to the vibrant trails of India and beyond.

You’ll hear personal stories, reflections on the power of walking with intention, and insights into how these journeys can bring us closer to the land and with each other.

Press play and join us on the path.

In this episode, we cover:

• Pilgrimage in the South of France and India
• Embodied Thinking and Devotion
• Reconnection to the Earth
• Rupert Sheldrake and the Historical Context of Pilgrimage in England
• Modern Pilgrimage and Its Renaissance
• The Importance of Place and the Personal Mood
• Gratitude and Acceptance
• The Importance of Walking
• The Stages of a Pilgrimage
• Transformative Impact of the Camino
• Preparation and Integration in Pilgrimage
• Rest and Integration
• Local Landscapes
• The Concept of Becoming Indigenous to a Bio-Region
• The Role of Rituals and Seasonal Shifts in Pilgrimage
• The Antidote to a Culture of Constant Departure
• Invitation to Resacralization and Walking as Prayer

Helpful links:

• British Pilgrimage Trust
• Adam Bauer - Return to the Sacred: An Indian Pilgrimage with Adam Bauer on January 24-February 5, 2026
• Lisa Kalfus
• Kyle Buckley
• Renee Blodgett - Author of Magdalene’s Journey. Join Blue Soul Retreat in Southern France with Mary Magdalene on Sept 16-24, 2025

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Join us today for an extraordinary conversation with William Ury, one of the world's most respected voices in negotiation and conflict transformation. In this powerful episode, William shares insights from decades of peacemaking work, exploring how imagination, deep listening, and inner peace can transform seemingly intractable conflicts.

A founding member of the Harvard Negotiation Project, William has served as a negotiation advisor to corporations, governments, and international organizations. He has mediated complex conflicts from family disputes to high-stakes international conflicts, including work in the Middle East, Russia, and other challenging global contexts.

William holds a B.A. in industrial engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. He is a sought-after speaker and consultant who has dedicated his career to helping people and organizations transform conflict into cooperation. Through his work, he continues to inspire individuals and leaders to find innovative paths to peace and understanding.

He is the author of several groundbreaking books, including the international bestseller "Getting to Yes" and his latest work "Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict".

Listen now and expand your vision of what's possible.

In this episode, we cover:

• Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking
• Inner Negotiation: the Role of Personal Transformation in Achieving Outer Peace
• The Power of Listening
• Story time: Working with former Venezualan President Hugo Chavez
• Polarization and the Role of Media
• Walking and Pilgrimage
• The Essence of Humanity is Hospitality
• The Abraham Path Initiative
• The Benefits of Walking and Pilgrimage
• How to Be and What to Do in the Middle of a Crisis
• The Role of Imagination in Overcoming Conflict and Envisioning a Better Future
• The Role of Poetry in Peace

Helpful links:

• William Ury - Author, Mediator, and Co-Founder, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
• Follow on LinkedIn
• Instagram @williamlury
• Facebook @williamurygty
• Subscribe to Newsletter
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
• POSSIBLE: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
• The Abraham Path Initiative
• Outwitted by Edwin Markham
• Episode # 130: Being the Love that You Are with Patrick Connor

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Dear Rosies,

In this week’s episode of the Rose Woman, we explore the foundations of human flourishing with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, a groundbreaking researcher who bridges neuroscience, anthropology, and evolutionary wisdom. Dr. Narvaez is an explorer of human potential, asking profound questions about how early experiences shape our moral development, well-being, and connection to the world around us.

Dr. Narvaez examines how early life experiences (the evolved nest) influence moral functioning and well-being in children and adults. Questions that interest her include: How does early experience shape human nature? What can sustainable indigenous societies teach the modern world? What types of moral orientations do individuals develop in species-typical and atypical environments? What is indigenous ecological wisdom, and how do we cultivate it? How can educators and parents foster optimal development, well-being, and communal imagination?

Her 2014 book won the 2015 William James Book Award from the APA and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award for research. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association. She hosts the website EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredMedia.org.

In this episode, we cover:

• How to Raise a Baby in Line with Natural Human Biology
• How to Bond Like a Wise Parent
• Exploring Moral Development and Trauma
• What to Do if you Missed Out on This
• The Concept of Evolved Nest and its Key Components
• Modern Applications and Cultural Obstacles
• The Role of Nature and Play in Healing
• Indigenous Wisdom and Evolutionary Insights

Helpful links:

• Darcia Narvaez, PhD - Professor of Psychology Emerita, Psychology Department
• The Evolved Nest (Evolved Developmental Niche) (academic papers)
• Co-Founder, EvolvedNest.Org (podcasts, info, and monthly newsletter)
• The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities
• Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
• Restoring Human Nature article by Darcia on Substack The Nested Pathway

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In this extraordinary episode, Zach Leary, Author of "Your Extraordinary Mind - Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them" and Host of the Psychedelics Then and Now podcast, offers a deeply personal and revolutionary perspective on consciousness, healing, and the human growth potential. He opens up about his extraordinary journey through the psychedelic landscape, sharing intimate insights from growing up to finding his path of healing and transformation.

Over the last 30 years, Zach has found himself in the center of the psychedelic movement with a front row seat for the modern renaissance while also having first-hand knowledge of the historical legacy of the counterculture's influence on psychedelic exploration.

After spending many years as a digital marketing expert for some of the world's largest brands, Zach had a wake-up call 13 years ago that thrust him back into the center of the psychedelic cyclone thanks to the influence of his primary teacher and mentor, Ram Dass. Since then, he has found his unique voice and method in being able to contribute to the revolutionary new psychedelic movement of the 21st Century.

Join us for a deeply moving conversation that bridges personal narrative with collective transformation, offering listeners a rare glimpse into the heart of the psychedelic movement and the potential for individual and societal healing.

In this Episode, we cover:

• Zach on finding his path
• Transformation and Connection with Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Neem Karoli Baba
• On writing “Your Extraordinary Mind”
• The Role of Love and Psychedelics
• The Concept of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine within each individual
• What makes a good Integration?
• The Idea of Surrender
• Collective consciousness and the Current State of Human Evolution
• The Impact of Psychedelics on Collective Consciousness
• Zach's Current Work and Future Plans

Helpful links:

• Zach Leary - Author of Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics In the 21st Century and How to Use Them on Amazon.
• Follow on Instagram @zachlearydrome, Facebook @zachleary and Linkedin @zachleary
• The Psychedelic Studies Intensive Program is an 8 week course with Zach
• The Psychedelics Then and Now podcast (formerly the MAPS Podcast)
• Psychedelics Alter Belief, Not Just Perception

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Ever wondered what happens when we stop trying to explain away the mysterious and start truly listening to the extraordinary? Join us for a mind-expanding conversation with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, a pioneering scholar who's not afraid to explore the weird, wonderful, and unexplainable.

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023), chaired the Department of Religion for eight years, and also helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. He presently helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he served as Chair of the Board from 2015 to 2020.

Jeff is the author or co-author of thirteen books, nine of which are with The University of Chicago Press. He has also served as the Editor in Chief of the Macmillan Handbook Series on Religion (ten volumes, 2015-2016). He specializes in the study of extreme religious states and the re-visioning of a New Comparativism, particularly as both involve putting “the impossible” back on the academic table again. He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of religions and the sciences for The University of Chicago Press, collectively entitled The Super Story.

In this Episode, We Cover:

• Personal Background and Early Experiences
• The Role of Suffering and Religious Narratives
• The Concept of Superhuman Experiences and Erotic Experience
• The Importance of Experiences as Entry Points
• The Varying Degrees of Mystical Experiences
• The Role of Trauma and Suffering in Accessing the Extraordinary
• The Challenge of Integrating Extraordinary Experiences of the Impossible
• The Role of Imagination in Mediating Extraordinary Experiences
• The Sacred is Not Necessarily Good
• How to Think Impossibly: Get Weird
• The Importance of Visual and Symbolic Representations
• The Human Potential Movement at Esalen
• The X-Men and Evolutionary Potential
• The Importance of Reading and Storytelling

Helpful links:

• Dr. Jeffrey Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University
• How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
• The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities

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In a world where loneliness has become an epidemic and healthcare often feels impersonal, Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Markle offers a revolutionary approach: prescribing community as medicine.

Dr. Elizabeth Markle, a licensed psychologist and co-founder of Open Source Wellness, challenges traditional healthcare approaches by introducing a revolutionary "Community As Medicine" model. She explores how social connection, movement, nutrition, and stress reduction can heal more than pharmaceuticals. Through Open Source Wellness, Liz has developed innovative group programs that prescribe community support, demonstrating significant improvements in participants' physical and mental health. Join us as she shares with us how community can be the most powerful medicine.

In this episode, we cover:

• Benefits of Community-based peer support for Health
• The Concept of a Behavioral Pharmacy
• Shortcomings of the Healthcare System
• Training and Implementation of Community as Medicine
• Partnership with low-income Health clinics, YMCAs, and other Organizations to deliver the Community as Medicine Model
• Choice of Individual Coaching
• Formation of Groups and Group Accountability
• Helping people who are suffering from loneliness
• Creation of Open Source Wellness and collecting outcomes data
• Need for Structural changes to support Social Connection and Well-being in Modern Society
• Challenges and Future Directions
• Forming Lifelong Connections and Support Networks that Created Sustainable Structures
• How to join as a coach

Helpful links:

• Elizabeth Markle, Ph.D. Co-Founder, Executive Director of Open Souce Wellness a nonprofit devoted to equitable health and wellbeing. To donate, visit this LINK
• Full Service Health Coaching
• Food as Medicine Program Support
• Are you interested in being a Health Coach? Apply here
• Connect with Liz @dr.eliz.markle on Instagram and on LinkedIN
• David Whyte’s Poem - Everything is waiting for you
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American by David Putnam
• The Holomovement
• Living Tantra - A 6-week immersive journey into sacred embodiment, pleasure, presence, and energetic intimacy (virtual Course)

Christine Marie Mason

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Marianne Williamson is a luminous voice in spiritual thought, conscious politics, and transformative healing. For more than four decades, she’s been a leader in spiritually progressive circles. She’s the author of 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. A quote from the mega-bestseller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 19 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients in the Los Angeles area since 1989. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supported the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. She’s run for president twice, to add the voice of love into the political conversation. Her most recent book is The Mystic Jesus, and she has an upcoming course that we are excited about, Tye Magnificent Crone.

In this deeply personal episode, we cover:

• The Evolution of Love in Action
• What’s Changed in the Structural Economics of America
• How Clergy and Spiritual Counselors Are Increasingly Playing Cleanup on Broken Systems
• The Hippies Were Right
• The Inseparability of Personal Awareness and Structural Change
• On Turning 70
• Grandmothering
• Intergenerational Conversations
• The Magnificent Crone
• Mothering the World: All the Children, The Planet as Home
• The More Compassionate and Just Society.
• The Importance of Community and Connection
• Activating the Inner Sisterhood

Helpful links:

• Marianne Williamson - For updates, follow her on IG @mariannewilliamson
• NEW Course by Marianne: The Magnificent Crone: Spiritual Emergence for Women: in Our 50s, 60s, 70s & Beyond
• NEW book by Marianne: The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love
• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles”
• Subscribe: MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com
• 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
• Diana Athill
• Episode 61: Creating Forever: Life Lessons from Beatrix Ost
• Valerie Von Sobel

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Today on the Rose Woman Podcast, social psychologist Lucy Caldwell joins us and shares how small groups can create transformative social change, bridging divides and reimagining our collective potential. She is passionate about bringing people together, even in tough times. She believes that despite living in a culture of fear and facing countless challenges, we have a powerful way forward: by connecting with each other and building grassroots momentum. Her approach isn't about dwelling on problems, but creating an optimistic movement that unites people and helps them discover their collective strength. By drawing communities together and empowering them from the ground up, she sees real potential for positive change.

Join us as we explore Lucy's inspiring work of awakening human potential, fostering empathy, and creating a more compassionate, inclusive world—one collaborative circle at a time.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Formation of Impact Circles and Lucy’s Focus on Social Psychology
• The Role of Social Media and Polarization
• Empathy and the Polarization Effect in Group Dynamics
• The Impact of Social Media Algorithms on Societal Polarization
• COVID-19 Pandemic and The Burning Man Experience
• The Structure and Goals of Impact Circles and Community Building
• The Future of Human Connection and Technology
• The Potential of AI to Enhance Human Potential and the Importance of Maintaining Authenticity
• The Need for Innovative Experiments and Research on Resource Distribution and Community Resilience
• Vision for Impact Circles as a Global Community Platform Supporting Changemakers

Helpful links:

• Lucy Caldwell - Founder of Life Revealed
• John Hagel
• Yarrow Kraner
• Dale Dougherty
• Gary Wolf
• Bending the Bow: How Ordinary People Spark Visionary Social Movements by Christine Mason

Christine Marie Mason

+1-415-471-7010

@christinemariemason

@rosebudwoman

Founder, Rosebud Woman, Award Winning Intimate and Body Care

Host, The Rose Woman on Love and Liberation

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