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The WeCroak Podcast is back with an episode on Nihlism with our Guest Brittney Hartley. She is the nihilism expert and survivor behind the popular channel No Nonsense Spirituality. Find out how to make life meaningful when nothing you used to believe in matters anymore.

Heads up, explicit language is used.

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Season 6, Episode 3: Alex Ebert on writing songs after a crisis of faith

This is our second conversation of Alex Ebert, famous for his hit songs from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. We talk about some new music that comes from his meditations on death, and what he’s spent the last few years wrestling with, namely, a kind of crisis of faith of in the purpose of music. 

Heads up, copious explicit language is used.

New song: To Feel Alive by Alex Ebert

Forthcoming Documentary: The Last Ecstatic Days Trailer

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Season 4, Episode 5: Casper ter Kuile on The Power of Ritual

Six years ago, Casper Ter Kuile started reading the Harry Potter series as a sacred text on his hit podcast downloaded over 22 million times. Now he has a whole lot more rituals inspired by practice that can be adapted to our more secular lives in his new book. We talk about the benefits and the downsides of DIY ritual and why the phenomenon is here to stay.

Guest Website: Caspertk.com

Guest Website, Pre-order: Ritual Life Planner

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Season 4, Episode 4: Heather Christle on Crying

In this conversation we look at crying and tears in countless ways good and bad with poet Heather Christle. It’s about why we do it, what it feels like, and how tears bring out both the best and the worst in us. 

Further Reading: The Crying Book

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Season 4, Episode 3: Massimo Riva on The Decameron

In 1348 the Black Death Plague took as a third of the population. In Florence Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in response to the plague, a classic that has lasted down the ages. We have on Professor Massimo Riva to talk about this book which has so much wisdom for the present day. 

Further Reading: Decameron Web

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Season 4, Episode 2: Long Litt Woon on Mushrooming and Mourning

This is a conversation about grief and how Long Litt Woon found her way back to feeling alive by following forest paths looking for mushrooms. It’s about how only knowledge can protect you from a poisonous mushroom and how one needs all the senses to find the delicacies they seek on this path. Really, it is a personal discussion about finding our way again once everything is upended. 

Further Reading: The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning By Long Litt Woon

Guest Website: Long Litt Woon

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Season 4, Episode 1: Donald Robertson on How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

You know who else thought about death often? Ancient Roman Stoics including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In this episode we chat about what practical philosophy meant to these powerful practitioners and why it feels so modern. A not to be missed discussion.

Coming up October 17, 2020: StoicCon

Further Reading: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius By Donald Robertson

Guest Website: Donald Robertson

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Season 3, Episode 8: Dr. Sunita Puri Talks That Good Night

Dr. Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. We talk on this episode about her new book, “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.” The conversation is about how medicine is changing to meet new challenges like Covid19 and how it must change to serve the living and dying better. 

Further Reading: “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour.” By Dr. Sunita Puri

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Season 3, Episode 7: Alex Ebert Contemplating Zero

Alex Ebert is the lead singer of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and an American singer songwriter and composer. The first rock star on the WeCroak Podcast, Alex Ebert talks about how important contemplating death has been to his creative process. 

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Season 3, Episode 6: Shoshana Ungerleider – The People Trying to Change How We Die

Doctor Shoshana Ungerleider is the founder of the End Well Project, working to change how the medical profession treats the dying. We talk about her involvement in award winning Netflix documentaries and the End Well conference working to change the way we do death in America. 

Author Website:  EndWellProject.org

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