Season 2 Episode 11: Unpacking Myths of the Mighty and the Masculine with Sophie Strand

Sep 29

Sophie’s big ethos is that we are holobionts

or beings composed of other beings. We have more bacterial and fungal cells in our body than human cells, and just as we are made up of microclimates and ecologies, we are all the organs and ferment of Gaia.

She also unpacks the myth surrounding religion. She ties everything back to ecology and our relationship with the world around us and unpacks the concept of hierarchy, oppression, and systems that have grown and thickened throughout the ages. The thread that Sophie wants to pull and dismantle is Jesus Christ and his story, and how religion and the myth of Dionysus shaped the concept of patriarchy and masculinity we all know today.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays called “The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine” will be published by Inner Traditions in the Fall of 2022.

What we discuss…

01:03 – Introducing Sophie

04:47 – The software of our kin

07:12 – Unpacking the myths of religion

13:24 – Shift of the lunar era

18:23 – Hierarchy and oppression

21:36 – Myth of Religion and Christianity

34:04 – Dionysus and the Masculine with a Sword

38:26 – Orienting to the cosmos and the higher power

47:05 – How Sophie takes care of herself

49:11 – Sophie on behalf of the Divine Mother

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