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We Can Be Weirdos

#92 The Cauldron Rituals: India Rakusen and the Inky Milk of Destiny

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

India Rakusen is an award-winning journalist who crafts immersive stories that explore the human experience in our rapidly changing world, challenging what we think and why we think it.

From witches and tarot card reading, ghosts to fertilisation and atoms, this fascinating episode of We Can Be Weirdos takes a look at the supernatural, but with its science hat on.

Some of India's weirdness really is bat shit, but that's what we love.

You can follow India on Instagram

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0:00.0

I'm Louisa Zisman. And I'm Anna Williamson. Together we host the Luana podcast. We chat through our lives, the top stories of the week and we don't hold back.

0:09.6

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0:21.7

Discover the revitalising power of the forest and find our podcast, Luana, on Global Player.

0:30.2

This is a Global Player original podcast.

0:34.8

Warning, the following episode contains strong language, bizarre theories, unexplainable experiences,

0:41.1

and a freaky window-breathing ghost girl. It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.

0:48.2

Standing at the window was a small girl. She got a hair tied up, she's quite young. I get up and I'm like, oh my God.

0:55.9

I'm like, hello?

0:57.2

Are you okay?

0:58.3

I walk towards her.

0:59.9

And she goes,

1:01.0

she breathes, mist all over the window.

1:04.8

And I touch the window to move it

1:06.7

because I'm like, what's she doing?

1:07.7

And I touch the window, she just completely disappears.

1:35.4

Yeah. because I'm like, what's she doing? And I touched the window, she just completely disappears. Hey. Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos.

1:41.5

My name is Dan Schreiber, and this is the show that believes that everyone has a little bit of bat shit in them.

1:47.3

And so we are here to extract all of the oddest beliefs, ideas, and theories that our guests harbor within them.

1:50.6

Got a couple of examples that I've dug up recently of people who've been influenced by the world of weird.

1:56.1

So, for example, I recently discovered that without Nostradamus,

2:00.4

we would not have Prince's funky synth-pop

2:03.5

mega-hit 1999, because that song only came about when Prince was in a hotel room while on tour,

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