Join host Ned Buskirk w/Scott Ferreter, in conversation with Stephen Jenkinson - teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, & founder of Orphan Wisdom - while they talk about approaching the feet of dying, Death etiquette & the case for elderhood in a time of trouble.

2021 April - You're Going to Die Podcast, Ned Buskirk & Scott Ferreter interview Stephen Jenkinson

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A troop of Gibbons call across a shallow valley on a damp morning after a night of rain. A white-rumpped shama awakes. Recorded near Purut camp in the Danum valley reserve in Sabah, May 2017.

Danum in rain

Mindful Warm Up with Chill Age

Get Rid of Stress

Good Vibes

Stephen Jenkinson is the founder of Orphan Wisdom School, a place for people yearning for a deeper, more connected life -- one that embraces all aspects of what it means to be human.  He is also a teacher, storyteller, and author.  In 2015, he penned the award winning book, "Die Wise," focused on the phobic way our culture approaches death and dying.  More recently, he published, "Come of Age," a impassioned call for raising a generations of Elders who can guide us in our stewardship of the planet and species.

In this interview with ICCE founder and director, Scott D. Miller, he addresses the North American response to the COVID-19 outbreak, paying particular attention to how the West's "death illiteracy" distorts it's planning and  mitigation efforts, thereby increasing suffering and perpetuating the very fears it seeks to relieve.

2020 April - Talking Cure, Scott Miller interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Episode 146 - Stephen Jenkinson

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Stephen Jenkinson.

Culture activist, teacher, author ~ Stephen teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded the school with Nathalie Roy in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). Apprenticed to a master storyteller when a young man, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families, is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital, former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He is also a sculptor, traditional canoe builder whose house won a Governor General’s Award for architecture. Since co-founding Nights of Grief and Mystery with Gregory Hoskins in 2015, he has toured this musical/tent show revival/storytelling/ceremony of a show across North America, U.K. and Europe and Australia and New Zealand.

He is the author of Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble (2018), the award-winning Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (2015), Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions (a live teaching from 2013), How it All Could Be: A workbook for dying people and those who love them (2009), Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – (a live teaching from 2009), and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation (2002). He is contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2007).

Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (National Film Board of Canada, 2008, dir. Tim Wilson), a portrait of his work with dying people, and Lost Nation Road, a shorter documentary on the crafting of the Nights of Grief and Mystery tours (2019, dir. Ian Mackenzie).

His books, recordings and DVDs are available for purchase at the Orphan Wisdom Shop.

Website: orphanwisdom.com

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2020 April - Curiosity Hour Ep146, Dan Sterenchuk & Tommy Estlund interview Stephen Jenkinson

I don't know that there's merit to employing the beast - the internet - to disturb having grown accustomed to the beast.

It wasn't eight years ago that city people would come to the School here on the farm and look at me concernedly when they found out the hard way that I, as it is said, 'had no service'. Two weeks ago the Bell guy was up a pole on the lane at the behest of an erstwhile air b/b landlord, to install - I would say 'impose' - some kind of higher speed version of the beast, to make this rural area attractive to people who want to get away from it all. There's bound to be a pretty stout demand for well appointed places to get away from it all in the wake of all this distancing.
Maybe this virus is a disturbance in the Fentanyl supply. Maybe the internet is the slickest methadone yet, keeping hale and hearty the mania for empty engagement, for the vacant calories of content.
I won't claim that there's loads of requests for more from me, on this or any other subject. There isn't.
I've never been on the other personal devices, or platforms, or anything else. Don't know how to activate them.

This is as compromised a move as I seem capable of, social media wise. Not very sophisticated, but earnest.
Here's an ad hoc meeting of the farm crew, issuing proof of what they're mindful of while forking hay and picking out the poison ivy roots and milking the ewes.
I did my best on short notice. We'd like something here to be useful to your ruminations, before the horn blows and your rumination time is cut short.

Bless. Work. Repeat. That's what we're up to.
Good fortune to your door.

-Stephen Jenkinson

2020 May - Stranger Days, Still by Stephen Jenkinson

This interview originally aired on July 19, 2020.

Stephen Jenkinson is a culture activist, teacher, author and ceremonialist. He is the author of numerous books, including Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble and Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul.

Derrick Jensen as an ecophilosopher and the author of many books, including Deep Green Resistance(co-author), Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older than Words.

Derrick Jensen - Resistance Radio

2020 July - Resistance Radio, Derrick Jensen interviews Stephen Jenkinson

On this special episode of Here and Now, Raghu Markus and Rameshwar Das celebrate the release of Being Ram Dass by reflecting on some of Ram Dass’s most important teachings.
Rameshwar Das is the coauthor of Being Ram Dass, which is now available! Order your copy and leave a message about how Ram Dass influenced you.