In the Borderlands

Feb 20 2025 55 ep. 55 mins 5
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Two performance storytellers with a shared interest in liminal spaces explore topics in the borderlands between creativity, mythology and magic.

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Kristina Aspeqvist: Vodou Queen #54

Feb 20 2025 116 mins  
How does a Swedish percussionist raised on Balkan music end up as a vodou queen in Ghana?That is a question Kristina Aspeqvist is more than happy to answer, in a free-flowing way. Our enthralling conversation of her professional and spiritual journey felt sometimes like jazz, sometimes like folk, sometimes transcendent. Just like her music.KRISTINA ASPEQVIST LINKS http://www.rythmw

Laura Burns: The Ancestral Field #53

Jan 21 2025 78 mins  
We are delighted to welcome Laura Burns back into our podcast grotto. This multidisciplinary artist working within the vast mythopoetic landscape of relation to the invisible presences all around us, the more-than-human, the unknown, the forgotten and the lost, take us on a meandering journey on a free-flowing river of resonance. We speak of the need for cultural regeneration, of

Christmas Eve Special: Gifts from the Goat and the Underworld #52

Dec 24 2024 64 mins  
Merry Christmas! In Scandinavia we open presents on Christmas Eve and tonight Torgrim and Mikael have brought one each. Inside we find two fairy tales – "The three billy goats Gruff“ from Norway and "Mother Holle“ from Germany. Join our fireside chat as we delve deep into these two stories, exploring possible hidden layers and meanings and seeing if there’s more than meets

Listening #51

Nov 15 2024 12 mins  
One year is no year. Two years is two years. Three years is a tradition. Celebrate the third anniversary with us in our podcasting cavern where we sit listening, waiting for what bubbles will burst. PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/

Dodo Kitching: The Art of Health #50M

Jul 05 2024 83 mins  
For our fiftieth episode we are joined by homeopathic practitioner Dodo Kitching. Dodo specialises in the sensation method as taught by the Joshis of India, the essence of which she is happy to share with us In addition, we explore different perspectives of health, the underappreciated art of dying well and learn to view the periodic table in a completely new and mythopoetic light.

AI vs AI with special guest Fredrik Høyer #49

Jun 06 2024 57 mins  
Carl Gustav Jung, the mythopoetic mirror to Freud’s trauma-focused psychology, spoke of a concept he coined "Active Imagination“. An intuitive process of letting your own imagination unfold by drinking from the waters of the collective consciousness. In this conversation we juxtapose both this "AI“ and the more commonly known "AI“ aka Artificial Intelligence. Joined by spe

Johan Nilsson: Farming as Ceremony #48

May 07 2024 71 mins  
In the US, there’s a prediction that if the current traditional farming practices continue, there’s 60 harvests remaining before the topsoil is completely eroded.  Is there another way? Biodynamic farmer and dancer Johan Nilsson offers one alternative. What if we transform our entire mindset and instead of viewing the soil as dead matter we enter into a relationship with i

Lunisolar Mind XIII: New Moon #47

Feb 09 2024 14 mins  
Lunisolar Mind returns with a thirteenth episode, shedding some light (or darkness) on the new moon, the light absent in the skies of this episode’s release. In this moment of pregnant stillness, in the space between inhale and exhale, we wonder. PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands h

Good and Evil #46

Jan 11 2024 41 mins  
We kick off 2024 with a timely musing on the nature of Good and Evil. Does absolute Good and absolute Evil exist? Is the binary idea of Good and Evil useful or does it disconnect us from the actual reality of things? Your hosts Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene explore this landscape through the medium of a spread of Hollywood blockbuster movies. Independence Day https://www

Winter Solstice Special #45

Dec 21 2023 26 mins  
It is that time of the year. We sit on the treshold. Between what we know and what we don’t know. We look at what has happened In the Borderlands in 2023 and we look ahead at what we would like to discover and experiment with in the year to come. And as an offering to you, dear listener, we end with a midwinter meditation, dreamt up for this moment in time. Join our Patreon ww