Direct link to episode with extra photos and Ted's poetry: https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/podcastblog/tedpackard
Ted studied History and Anthropology at Christopher Newport University, got a Master's in Teaching, went on the road with the Momentary Prophets band, and then went to study with Alderleaf Wilderness College and Wilderness Awareness School. He taught various program for youth around the greater Seattle area for many years before relocating to Durango, Colorado to dry out, as he says. After some years of a break, Ted just started up a new nature connection program for youth in the Durango community. Ted does lots of things, including various handcrafts, refurbishing guitars and other instruments, music-making, writing, wood-burning and more. As college peers, we spent a lot of time together researching things like mushroom cults, the esoteric origins of Judeo-Christian religion, the anthropology of psychedelics, zen koans, and more. We both have lived in different places since and woven in and out of each others' lives so we spent some time really checking in about how we think about things now vs. when we were radical activist driven neo-pagan coyote-trickster troubadour mind-melters.
In this episode with Ted, we talk about: -
Ted's nature connection mentorship work with youth in Washington and Colorado
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Ted's upbringing in northwestern Virginia
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Our experience in college of community: artists, philosophers, musicians, activists, and neo-pagans and our reflections on that time now
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seasonal ritual as a somatic map
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ways that Ted's anger at an eco-cidal culture has transformed over the years to a yearning for finding points of connection vs. telling someone they are wrong or how to live
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what is a community of mutuality in a broken society that emphasizes hyper-individualism?
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organization dedicated to ending mountain top removal in Appalachia
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