“All Is Not Lost” - Myth, Culture, and Being Human in Times of Not-Belonging (w/ Stephanie MacKay)

Описание: Wild Sacred Journey Podcast Ep. 60
“All Is Not Lost” - Remembering Myth, Regenerating Culture, Third Things, and Being Human in These Times of Not-Belonging (w/ Stephanie MacKay)

For this conversation (the first after a long pause from recording), I’m joined by Stephanie MacKay - a mythologist, wilderness guide, and cultural craftswoman devoted to the long, slow work of remembering how to belong - to land, to lineage, to story, and to each other. (And someone whose approach to myth has changed my life and work and who I respect and admire greatly - like, I was buzzing after this convo from a combo of the channeling that seems to happen through me in these conversations and my own fan-girling).

Like the myths themselves, this conversation is one of complexity and layers.

Like the myths themselves, there’s an awful lot of wisdom here, stated simply and casually enough that if you aren’t listening for it (or maybe not quite ready for it), you might miss it. You might want to listen more than once.

In it, we wonder about what is lost or being lost in our modern non-culture while holding the truth that all is not lost. We wonder about the richness and messiness of the human experience and also about the Great Oneness - the holiest of Holys - and how to hold both at the same time. We wonder about belonging and how to locate ourselves through ancestral lineages of dislocation.

And through it all - the lives we both have lived, the teachers we have apprenticed to (human and not), and the deep work Stephanie has done with myth - all drop bits of guidance for our human hungers, loneliness, modern cultural poverties, and the tensions we find ourselves feeling stretched and reshaped by.

This conversation is sobering and hopeful. It points unflinchingly at our wounds, at the immensity of the task before us as a species in these times; and also offers some possible direction, some balm.

Join us around the fire? You’re most welcome here.

(If you listen to this episode before January 17, 2026 or Feb 21st, 2026 and something in you sparks with what you hear - I highly recommend joining us for Stephanie’s online myth club: https://stephaniemackay.ca/myth-gathe.... Even if you miss those dates, you can look for others, online or in-person, at the same link.)

As always: liking, commenting, sharing with folks in your circle, following and/or becoming a free (or paid on Substack) subscriber all help the seeds of this conversation spread so hopefully those who are seeking it will find it. My deepest gratitude for whatever ways you help feed this conversation on your end.

Find out about Stephanie’s work:
https://stephaniemackay.ca/

You can find Kate:
Website: www.wildsacredjourney.com
Email – [email protected]
Substack: https://wildsacredjourney.substack.com/