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    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home

    FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves. What does it mean to heal and follow life’s guidance? How do we cultivate faith and connection? What meaning do we find and give in the experiences of being human? Always in a casual, humorous and real way, you’ll hear about Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s ongoing journey, others’ stories as they navigate healing, meaning and connection in our current world & impactful conversations with guides and thought leaders that have dedicated their lives to the important work of restoring wholeness for ourselves and the world around us. We’ll explore our human stories through the lens of ancient spiritual traditions, shamanism and archetypal work.
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    FAR OUT #162 ~ What Are You In Service To?

    FAR OUT #162 ~ What Are You In Service To?

    Summary: 

    Listen and explore:

    • What do we mean by God?
    • The value of personality theory in sharing our gifts and empowering others to do the same
    • Is there anything more rewarding than service to something greater than ourselves?
    • The importance of values in organizing people and business ventures
    • What can happen when our life is aligned with what we aim to serve
    • The ego's role in service

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enFebruary 09, 2022
    values
    medicine
    personality
    healing
    spirituality
    service
    journey
    gifts
    meaning
    spirit

    FAR OUT #161 ~ We Got Covid...

    FAR OUT #161 ~ We Got Covid...

    Summary: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In this spirit, we sit down to explore our recent experiences with the corona virus. 

    Listen and explore:

    • Alasdair's and Julie-Roxane's experience having covid
    • Finally meeting Rona - what was she like?
    • Covid as a teacher - is our response doing more harm than the virus?
    • Choosing to trust the intelligence of the body
    • How our shamanic training has helped us heal from illness
    • Fever as an altered state of consciousness
    • Antifragility and developing resilience through challenging times
    • Alasdair sings us an icaro

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enFebruary 02, 2022
    travel
    covid
    pandemic
    trust
    health
    delta
    vaccine
    covid-19
    faith
    fear

    FAR OUT #160 ~ It's Hard to Make Friends as Adults

    FAR OUT #160 ~ It's Hard to Make Friends as Adults

    Summary: While Alasdair is resting in bed, Julie-Roxane sits down with Kelly, our friend and co-founder of Wild Within, to talk about the challenges (and joys) of making friends as adults.

    Listen and explore:

    • Alasdair is purifying his karma, aka he's under the weather
    • The different types of adult frienships
    • The lack of roadmap on how to nurture adult friendships
    • How we create trust between two human beings 
    • Our culture's obsession with the nuclear family
    • How to find like-minded people that will support your growth as an adult
    • The power of travel, trainings and retreats
    • How to create and find community around you

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enJanuary 26, 2022
    travel
    covid
    leadership
    entrepreneur
    covid-19
    business
    self help
    transformation
    personal growth
    meditation

    FAR OUT #159 ~ Leading Retreats in Guatemala in the Times of Omicron: A Recap

    FAR OUT #159 ~ Leading Retreats in Guatemala in the Times of Omicron: A Recap

    Summary: We sit down with Kelly, our friend and co-founder of Wild Within, to discuss the recent craziness and lessons learned after leading two powerful retreats on Lake Atitlan, in Guatemala during a COVID surge. 

    Listen and explore:

    • What it was like leading a 20-person, week long New Year's retreat and a 13-person Kambo retreat in Guatemala
    • The challenges leading up to and on retreat
    • Alasdair throws three vertebrae out of alignment on the second day of the retreat
    • The experience on retreat as a facilitator vs. a participant
    • The importance of setting the space and holding space
    • The surprising results we are seeing from our cacao ceremonies
    • The power of travel as a consciousness-expanding tool
    • The importance for a team to know what they are in service of
    • Viewing Wild Within as a multi-layered platform for change

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enJanuary 19, 2022
    travel
    covid
    leadership
    entrepreneur
    covid-19
    business
    self help
    transformation
    personal growth
    meditation

    FAR OUT #158 ~ Ceremony Is How We Remember to Remember

    FAR OUT #158 ~ Ceremony Is How We Remember to Remember

    Listen and explore:

    • Ceremony as a technology
    • Opening up sacred space
    • Self-led ceremonies vs. inherited ceremonies: the important role lineage and tradition can play in the effectiveness of a ceremony
    • The primal human need met by ceremony
    • The art of ritual
    • What we've witnessed and experienced in our own plant medicine ceremonies
    • Reclaiming the religious

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enJanuary 12, 2022
    psychedelics
    medicine
    religion
    change
    transformation
    love
    healing
    community
    spirit
    journey

    FAR OUT #157 ~ What About Rest?

    FAR OUT #157 ~ What About Rest?

    Listen and explore:

    • The masculine and feminine as it relates to rest and work
    • The cultural differences in how we rest between Europeans and Americans
    • Rest as a mindset
    • Different ways we rest
    • The ways we struggle to rest
    • Julie-Roxane has an "Aha!" moment about her life on the podcast
    • Managing interpersonal relationships with rest in mind
    • "I'm so busy" - the introvert's defense mechanism 
    • The way you rest will depend on your personality and your lifestyle

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enJanuary 10, 2022
    flow
    entrepreneur
    medicine
    business
    career
    personality
    mindset
    productivity
    spirituality
    relationship

    FAR OUT #156 ~ Dancing with the Mystery: 2021 in Review

    FAR OUT #156 ~ Dancing with the Mystery: 2021 in Review

    Featured image from a street mural near Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

    Listen and explore:

    • Two important things we do for a successful annual review
    • The difference between goals and intentions and when each is appropriate
    • When "manifesting" becomes an ego trap and edges on sorcery
    • Key themes and lessons from Alasdair's and Julie-Roxane's journey in 2021
    • The one goal Alasdair set at the beginning of 2021 and whether or not he hit it
    • Julie-Roxane's color for 2021 and 2022

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enDecember 29, 2021
    travel
    reflection
    law of attraction
    manifestation
    the secret
    goals
    manifesting
    spiritual
    goal
    intention

    FAR OUT #155 ~ The Seat of the Soul is Where the Inner World and the Outer World Meet

    FAR OUT #155 ~ The Seat of the Soul is Where the Inner World and the Outer World Meet

    Join us in the New Year for Feed the Fire Within, a series of 6 facilitated online gatherings in January in which we will connect with our bodies, our intentions, and each other through cacao, embodiment meditation and meaningful conversation. Learn more and sign up here.

    Listen and explore:

    • How our last dieta went and what's been going on lately over at Wild Within
    • The agricultural revolution, Decartes and a brief history of disembodiment
    • Some spiritual teachers who have influenced our views on embodiment
    • Different embodiment medicines we've found: plant medicine, Kambo, wilderness, meditation, yoga, travel, in-person gatherings and more
    • Numbing, escaping the body and other obstacles to embodiment
    • The pain and joy of being in our bodies and becoming explorers of the body 
    • Our personal journeys of coming home and into our bodies
    • The wisdom of the body and why we need it now more than ever

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enDecember 22, 2021
    travel
    medicine
    emotions
    healing
    meditation
    trauma
    spirituality
    fasting
    spiritual
    mindfulness

    FAR OUT #154 ~ Being with Family: Challenges, Rewards & Reflections

    FAR OUT #154 ~ Being with Family: Challenges, Rewards & Reflections

    Listen and explore:

    • Julie-Roxane visits her family in France after 2 years away
    • Kairos, chronos and the different qualities of time
    • The virtues of demanding work and why we love intensity
    • Julie-Roxane serves Kambo to her mom
    • Alasdair's time with family over Thanksgiving
    • Developing powers and sensitivities on the medicine path
    • The challenge of not trying to change our family
    • Different forms of knowing and working with intuitive perceptions

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enDecember 15, 2021
    travel
    growth
    religion
    personality
    love
    family
    spirituality
    fasting
    intuition
    work

    FAR OUT #153 ~ Making Mistakes: It's Not "If," It's "When"

    FAR OUT #153 ~ Making Mistakes: It's Not "If," It's "When"

    Listen and explore:

    • "Correct it" - Julie-Roxane's recent mistake
    • The fears we have of "coming clean" with our mistakes and why the truth is often exactly the opposite
    • Mistakes are how we learn how to think for ourselves
    • "Ask for forgiveness, not permission"
    • Responding to mistakes: the blame game vs. curious inquiry
    • Transmuting lead into gold: Alasdair's $5,000 mistake 
    • Why you don't want to work with someone who isn't making mistakes
    • Life is easier when we surround ourselves with people who feel empowered to make mistakes
    • Holding space for each other's mistakes (and holding each other accountable) is love

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enDecember 08, 2021
    growth
    communication
    trust
    management
    self improvement
    business
    learning
    mindset
    personal growth
    forgiveness

    FAR OUT #152 - Learning From Our Plant Relatives

    FAR OUT #152 - Learning From Our Plant Relatives

    Listen and explore:

    • What does it mean to be in right relationship with plants?
    • The plants we are relating to these days
    • The dose makes the poison
    • Who is in control ---the plants or us?
    • Did plants terraform our planet? Have they evolved mechanisms to access other dimensions of reality?
    • Learning from our plant relatives
    • When we don't remember our plant friends they disappear
    • The irreplaceable value of being around embodied teachers

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enDecember 01, 2021
    psychedelics
    medicine
    botany
    hallucinogens
    healing
    service
    journey
    transform
    alcohol
    nature

    FAR OUT #151 ~ Health: Curing Symptoms vs. Restoring Wholeness

    FAR OUT #151 ~ Health: Curing Symptoms vs. Restoring Wholeness

    Listen and explore:

    • How Alasdair is feeling today
    • How we prioritize health in our financial decisions
    • Trusting in the wisdom of the body
    • Hiring and firing your health team
    • The different dimensions of health
    • The hard part about opening our hearts that no one talks about: it's painful
    • Why numbing often has to be dealt with before we can heal
    • The difference between curing and healing
    • Symptoms are the body's way of talking to us

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enNovember 24, 2021
    travel
    health
    energy
    psychedelics
    wellness
    healing
    mind
    body
    meaning
    introvert

    FAR OUT #150 ~ Leveling Up: The Nonlinear Path of Progress

    FAR OUT #150 ~ Leveling Up: The Nonlinear Path of Progress

    Listen and explore:

    • Our recent Kambo inoculation and how our work with Kambo has been unfolding
    • What happened after Julie-Roxane decided to "take a break from the medicine"
    • The joy, energy and liberation we experience in serving "higher gods"
    • "The real housewives of ayahuasca" - traps and challenges on the medicine path
    • "Being planted": working with depression
    • Jumping into a new reality: the nonlinear aspects of leveling up
    • The illusions of success and clinging to higher principles

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enNovember 17, 2021
    growth
    creativity
    psychology
    psychedelics
    philosophy
    philosopher
    consciousness
    hallucinogens
    suffering
    success

    FAR OUT #149 ~ Narwhals, Wilderness & 10 Years of Burning Man with Ian Q. Rowan

    FAR OUT #149 ~ Narwhals, Wilderness & 10 Years of Burning Man with Ian Q. Rowan

    Listen and explore:

    • Why Ian hasn't cut his beard for 10 years
    • The origin of the unicorn
    • Fascinating facts about Narwhals you will want to know
    • Why Inuits rely on Narwhals for survival and how the oil industry threatens both
    • Ian's journey working to conserve a region of old growth forest along the Molalla river in Oregon
    • "I just kept burning" - what Burning Man has taught Ian about life

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enNovember 10, 2021
    travel
    environmentalist
    traveling
    oregon
    whales
    nature
    conservation
    arctic
    wilderness
    unicorn

    FAR OUT #148 ~ Going Our Separate Ways

    FAR OUT #148 ~ Going Our Separate Ways

     

    Listen and explore:

    • Updates: Experiments with a keto diet and our first dedicated medicine space!
    • Marriage is like a base camp from which we can climb our own peaks
    • How relationships can cramp our ability to grow and ways we've noticed that occurring in our own relationship
    • Crutching, spider traps and other dangerous energy patterns to be aware of in relationship
    • Some of the forces moving us to spend more time apart
    • Julie-Roxane's experience spending more time apart
    • Alasdair's experience spending more time apart
    • The importance of spiritual practices and a sangha for working with energy patterns that no longer serve us
    • A spiritual partnership is one where the relationship catalyzes and supports each others continued growth

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enNovember 03, 2021
    travel
    business
    love
    marriage
    family
    relationship
    spiritual
    spirit
    masculine
    development

    FAR OUT #147 ~ Work is Love Made Visible

    FAR OUT #147 ~ Work is Love Made Visible

    Photo is of Trout Creek running through the forest we are currently living in. 

    Listen and explore:

    • Our upcoming international trips and events
    • The turning point Alasdair and Julie-Roxane have recently experienced in their work
    • Building momentum in business: getting the fly wheel going
    • The trap of perfectionism and how it's shown up in the past for Julie-Roxane
    • The economy of gift-giving and work as a practice in giving our gifts
    • The infinite game: business as a "going concern"
    • The 1,000 day rule when starting a new business
    • Why the obstacles and challenges you face are actually your biggest business opportunity
    • The reward of good work is the chance to work on bigger problems or: don't work on problems you don't care about

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enOctober 27, 2021
    entrepreneur
    small business
    business
    personal growth
    work
    hustle
    business growth
    start up
    retreat
    growth mindset

    FAR OUT #146 ~ Soul, Initiation & Changing the Name of the Podcast

    FAR OUT #146 ~ Soul, Initiation & Changing the Name of the Podcast

    Listen and explore:

    • How the podcast got its name and why we feel we've outgrown it
    • What it means to be FAR OUT
    • The long term benefit of blogging or podcasting consistently 
    • The role wilderness plays in communing with soul and spirit 
    • Our modern problem: we live in a society of adolescents 
    • The powerful technology of initiation and returning to soul
    • Where we see our work taking us  

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enOctober 20, 2021
    podcasting
    personal growth
    personal development
    healing
    spirituality
    purpose
    service
    ego
    adventure
    nature

    FAR OUT #145 ~ The Path of Least Resistance

    FAR OUT #145 ~ The Path of Least Resistance

    Listen and explore:

    • Julie-Roxane is finally a green card holder!
    • Aligning with Truth and the path of least resistance
    • The error in mistaking the path of least resistance as passivity
    • The error in mistaking all resistance as a force to break through
    • Inner resistance and outer resistance and what we can learn from each
    • What happens when we align with the ego's plans and what happens when we align with life's plans
    • Surrendering to greater forces than the ego
    • Is resistance a sign we are headed in the right direction or that we are out of alignment?

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enOctober 13, 2021
    self awareness
    spirituality
    spiritual
    truth
    body
    ego
    journey
    resistance
    surrender
    mind

    FAR OUT #144 ~ The Problem with Surrounding Yourself with Like-Minded People

    FAR OUT #144 ~ The Problem with Surrounding Yourself with Like-Minded People

    Listen and explore:

    • The problems with surrounding yourself with like-minded people
    • What happened when Alasdair surrounded himself with like-minded people
    • Echo chambers, bubbles and why social media magnifies the problem
    • The center will not hold: how can we hold nuanced positions in the current climate?
    • Why shared values foster healthy disagreement and a more broad and diverse perspective
    • The slavery of ideologies and the freedom in values
    • Why building communities and businesses around values is so important
    • How do we find like-valued communities?
    • Value-signaling: how can we identify and filter out bad actors?

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    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enOctober 06, 2021
    online community
    social media
    values
    business
    value
    ideology
    personal growth
    personal development
    community
    spirituality

    FAR OUT #143 ~ We're Not Selling the Camper After All [Life Update]

    FAR OUT #143 ~ We're Not Selling the Camper After All [Life Update]

    Featured image is of us enjoying the view from Cloud's Rest during our Wild Within Yosemite retreat.

    Listen and explore:

    • Why we chose not to sell the camper right when someone wanted to buy it
    • The unexpected place we're now calling home
    • What is mythic time and how can we experience it more?
    • Dreams as catalysts and hindrances
    • Dispelling illusions: the art of identifying and letting go of expectations
    • The uncommon skill of working your options ("tilling the soil")
    • What made the move back into the camper so miserable for Julie-Roxane

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    • Photo credit: Courtney Warden (@courtney_yeah)
    • Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
    • Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
    FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
    enSeptember 29, 2021
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    entrepreneurship
    business
    philosophy
    dreams
    spirituality
    spiritual
    mindfulness
    intuition
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