FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves.
What does it mean to heal and follow life’s guidance?
How do we cultivate faith and connection?
What meaning do we find and give in the experiences of being human?
Always in a casual, humorous and real way, you’ll hear about Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s ongoing journey, others’ stories as they navigate healing, meaning and connection in our current world & impactful conversations with guides and thought leaders that have dedicated their lives to the important work of restoring wholeness for ourselves and the world around us.
We’ll explore our human stories through the lens of ancient spiritual traditions, shamanism and archetypal work.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 67 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
FAR OUT #127 ~ Being That Kind of Person
Listen and explore:
- Our recent time on BLM land in Sequoia National Forest
- The single event that inspired Alasdair to start picking up trash roughly 8 years ago
- The entropy problem or why a problem can'…
FAR OUT #126 ~ Exploring Ayahuasca: Shamanic Dietas - When Soul is Present, Nature is Alive (Episode 9)
Listen and explore:
- Upcoming Kambo inoculations, retreats and workshops
- What is a shamanic dieta?
- Why shamanic dietas are foundational for students of ayahuasca
- Plants we've dieted
- The powerful benefits w…
FAR OUT #125 ~ What We Do Instead of Health Insurance
Listen and explore:
- What originally led Alasdair to seek alternatives to health insurance
- Alasdair's recent, glowing health care experience from the desert in New Mexico
- Don't be afraid to fire your doc…
FAR OUT #124 ~ 5 Stages We've Gone Through While Working for Ourselves
Listen and explore:
- Julie-Roxane gets a racoon onesie & Alasdair buys 50 lbs of cacao
- The walking away stage
- The wandering stage
- The ramen noodle stage
- The spaghetti on the wall stage
- The pruning stage
Ment…
FAR OUT #123 ~ 4 Months on the Road: A Peek Into Work & Life in a Truck Camper
Listen and explore:
- Where we've been over the last four months
- Keeping our spiritual practices alive on the road
- Travel, flexibility and creative spontaneity
- The unique flavor of freedom truck camper lif…
FAR OUT #122 ~ I & We: The Challenge of Individuation in Relationship
Listen and explore:
- Guatemala new year's retreat & join our free book club
- Three types of relationships
- Relationship as a base camp
- Where resentment can originate from in relationship
- Grounding a relation…
FAR OUT #121 ~ What's the Strangest Place You've Ever Been? (And Other FAR OUT Banter)
Listen and explore:
- Join us in July on our upcoming Yosemite retreat
- Update from Joshua Tree
- The places we've never been and most want to go
- Where we most want to go back to before we die
- Julie-Roxane's i…
FAR OUT #120 ~ What is Your Medicine?
Listen and explore:
- Life update from Ruidoso, New Mexico
- How does one become a healer?
- The power in asking what is your medicine?
- Medicine as an ongoing dialogue with yourself, others and the world
- Medici…
FAR OUT #119 ~ Are We Having Kids?
Listen and explore:
- Where we each stand currently on the kid conversation
- Where we started when we met back in India
- The evolution of the kid conversation: challenges and breakthroughs
- Alasdair's fears a…
FAR OUT #118 ~ Integrating Spiritual Experiences
Listen and explore:
- Surviving the "snowpocalypse" in our camper in San Antonio
- Alasdair pees in the truck and it goes bad
- The challenges we're experiencing after returning from a recent week-long retrea…
FAR OUT #117 ~ This is Not the FAR OUT Couple
Listen and explore:
- The "why" behind this podcast and how it has evolved over the last two years
- Traumatic stories from Alasdair and Julie-Roxane's childhood
- Our peeing habits and that one time Alasdair…
FAR OUT #116 ~ Baptism by Fire: Kambo, Sexual Trauma and Healing the Feminine
Listen and explore:
- Courtney and Rachel share their first experience working with Kambo
- What drew them to work with the frog
- What is a ceremony like?
- How their experiences with the church influenced thei…
FAR OUT #115 ~ Thinking, Feeling & Bridging the Gap in the Age of COVID
Featured photo taken by Alasdair on the ghats of the Ganges river in Varanasi, India.
Listen and explore:
- Alasdair gets drunk and rides a horse for the first time in Costa Rica
- The different ways think…
FAR OUT #114 ~ Letting Yourself Dissolve
We're beginning to schedule Kambo ceremonies for 2021 across the US. If you are interested in participating, hosting a ceremony or just want to learn more, reach out to us at [email protected]
Liste…
FAR OUT #113 ~ Meeting Your Edge: Anti-Fragility and the Hero Archetype
Featured image is of our friend Mike enjoying the view from Cloud's Rest in Yosemite during our 2019 Yosemite Retreat. We're currently accepting applications for our 2021 retreat.
Listen and explore:
- …
FAR OUT #112 ~ Knowledge Without Experience is Disembodied, Experience Without Knowledge is Blind
Listen and explore:
- Why we love cacao so much (plus the cacao we prefer and how you can grab some at a discount!)
- Updates on truck camper life from the Chihuahua Desert, NM
- Knowledge and experience: two…
FAR OUT #111 ~ Early Days on the Road: Adjusting to a New Life
Listen and explore:
- A progress report on Dorothy's first big road trip (her mpg almost made Alasdair cry)
- How a tree ripped off our solar panel a week after it was installed
- Early surprises and realitie…
FAR OUT #110 ~ Letting Go of the Seeker: A Journey from War to Spiritual Awakening with Nikola Anandamali Ristic
Listen and explore:
- Nikola's early life in war-torn Yugoslavia
- "Philosophy saved me"
- Leaving academia
- The question that led to Nikola's spiritual awakening with his teacher in 2011
- Returning to Serbia: Ni…
FAR OUT #109 ~ An Encounter With Darkness: Signs You're Dealing With a Chaos Agent
Listen and explore:
- The process of installing a lithium solar system on our truck camper
- The exact solar system we went with
- Hiring "The Captain" and the nightmare that unfolded as a result
- How to know y…
FAR OUT #108 ~ How We Decided to Live in a Truck Camper
Listen and explore:
- The pros and cons of trailers, truck campers, sprinter vans and RVs for life on the road
- Getting a green card in the USA
- How much we've invested in moving to the USA
- The rig we bought…