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In this episode. Hilary and Eleanor discuss the hurdles that shake our sense of self and how we can find a way back to what feels most true to us.

They discuss how to find your truth despite other people's perceptions, taking a chance on things, creating an ecosystem to support yourself and how to love the ecosystem you naturally possess.

Pondering on, they cover having grace for yourself in your inner thoughts such as moving from 'scattered' to 'multifaceted' , reframing competition towards camaraderie and how holding space and gatherings can be a powerful tool to take the human spirit seriously.

Hilary and Eleanor share feelings, nerves and wins, within the course of hosting events. They reflect on the question 'how is designing an event like creating a work of art'.

They discuss how they ran their first event, the practice of teaching and creating spaces as an art form itself and the evolution that is co created by holding space together.

Recorded on a hike to visit Hilary's special Boulder located in Wamoon.

We speak about what we were shedding in the year of the snake and the new energy we are going forward with in this year of the fire horse.

Listen to the end to hear both of our reactions to this special rock, sacred place and our blessing for you.

It is your Earthright.

Set it on fire.

Hilary and Eleanor talk about body in image and sensation in this episode, ranging from practices of life drawing to drawing our own symbols of beauty to define it. We talk about Eleanor's life-drawing and writing event, learning to feel the body as a sensory companion, and an altar of trust building. We touch on themes of compliments, comparison, and the complications of love with this body of a lifetime. 

Questions we explored:

Do you think our sense of beauty is innate or learned?

What happens when women see each other without comparison — just with presence and artistry?

How did life modelling impact your concept of your body?

Tips on how to nurture a positive relationship to your body.

Eleanor and Hilary explore how we make, perceive, and move through time, discovering time as a tool that leads to synchronicity, how finding our rhythm and pace shapes our relationships, involving love, presence, and life itself.

We dive into the theme of memory through playing with cyanotype, capturing moments in sunlight and shadow, and how those images hold more than just what we see, they hold where we were, how we felt, and what our bodies remember. From personal stories to the idea of body memory, exploring the traces we carry of our ancestors and how memory lives in more than just our minds.

Reflections on reflections, Eleanor’s first exhibition ~ Project 88 and realisations on devotion, artistic offerings in nature, doing art for the love of it beyond illusions of originality and platitude. We talk about rest, frustration and boredom being inevitable parts of the process and move to a deep investigation of true authority that devotion calls for.

In this episode, we dive into our understandings of spirit, its essence in our past projects and in the natural world. We explore the Earth as a living organism, talk about driving on compressed dinosaur and discuss narratives around the earth-human dynamic. We share stories of connecting with nature in Australia, the magic of seasons, and end with prompts to find your own spirit tree and boulder, anchoring spirit in all of life.

00:00 - 15:26 Introducing our podcast name; ‘The Third Spirit”, reviews of our first podcast and finding our ‘sound’.

15:26 - 27:08 Hilary’s Spirit Vessels and her intention with them - moving from focusing on the outcome to appreciating creativity as a beautiful act of allowing your spirit to take form.

27:08 -  35:15 Keeping the belief alive that the earth is a living organism, how life right now is its temporary manifesto. Treating earth as it is a friend.

35:15 - 44:57 Nature narratives and connection in Australia, choices to engage in nature and respect for ecology, the extraordinary newness of seeing four seasons

44:57 - 51:19 Prompts to find your special spirit tree and boulder and reflections of our tree and rock memorise, plans to see each others signature trees and boulders.