DescriptionIn this solo episode, Vanessa discusses sensuous agency as a liberatory practice of experiencing freedom through embodiment and the connection to our senses as storytellers. They discuss social and spiritual liberation by asking key questions about what haunts our sense of agency in our modern world and how has extraction co-opted our understanding of discovery.

Episode Details* The wellspring as a metaphor and a symbol of sensuous agency * Elizabeth Bishop’s poem Chemin de Fer (railroad) and the implications of the hermit's scream * Conceptualisations of power as power over and power with * Top-down and bottom-up cognitive processing * The difference between responsibility and response-ability * Radical Dharma and liberatory practice for social and spiritual liberation * Extractive capitalism * Self-discovery vs self-extraction in the personal responsibility narrative * The Johari window model as a tool of exploration for interpersonal communication and self-awareness

Behind the Mirror Links* Behind the Mirror Radio at https://www.instagram.com/behindthemirrorradio/ * Vanessa Murchie at www.awaveoflight.com and https://www.instagram.com/awaveoflight/ * Brittany Ronzio at https://www.instagram.com/brttnyrnz/