Mike Stygal - Dancing with the Devil? (N91)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Mike Stygal is a shaman (i.e. he whips himself up into an altered state of consciousness in order to hang out in the spirit world). He also happens to be the president of the British Pagan Federation. Oh, and he's married to a Christian. So he seems like the right guy to talk to about what Christians can learn from pagans (and indeed, what pagans can learn from Christians).
“Experiencing the realm of ‘spirit’ is something that would connect us. How we understand that connection of spirit – or what that spirit might be – might be different. I’ve talked to a lot of Christians and a lot of people from other faiths about their experience of the divine. And each person I’ve spoken to has expressed their personal experiences in a slightly different ways.” - Mike Stygal
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:16.2 | Here we are again. |
| 0:18.0 | Nomad podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | In London. |
| 0:19.9 | In London. |
| 0:21.5 | I didn't see that long ago since you were here last time. |
| 0:23.4 | We come to London a lot. But it's hardly surprising, is it? |
| 0:25.6 | Because most people in England live in London. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. Pretty much, don't they? |
| 0:28.9 | It's sense of the universe. |
| 0:30.2 | I wouldn't go that far. |
| 0:31.4 | Well, apparently London is supposed to be the busiest city. |
| 0:34.5 | Well, certainly Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport in the world, isn't it? That could be people just passing through, not necessarily coming to wave at the Queen or, I don't know, doing the things that people... |
| 0:44.2 | But it's amazing, you know, every 30 seconds a plane lands and takes off at Heathrow. |
| 0:47.5 | It's pretty impressive. |
| 0:48.7 | But good if we'd get at the Queen on the show, wouldn't it? |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.2 | She doesn't do many interviews, does she? I don't think. Talking about her role as Church of England? Yeah, she's a head of the Church of England. Yeah, so why not? |
| 0:58.3 | I have a chat, so she's got to say. Yeah. I mean, you think she'd be pro-women bishops. |
| 1:01.3 | Well, exactly. That's my thought has always been that. If It's madness, isn't it? Anyway, we've got a really interesting interview. |
| 1:12.4 | They're all interesting, aren't they? |
| 1:13.7 | I think this is particularly interesting, |
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