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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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As we wrap up our final season of HPST, we're taking a look back at some of our favorite moments! This week we're revisiting our 2017 episode where special guest, Professor Stephanie Paulsell, introduces a new spiritual practice to Vanessa and Casper — Florilegia.
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0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. As we wrap up the show, we are putting some reruns in your feed of our favorite episodes, |
0:07.7 | the episodes that we kind of hope most stay with you as we wind down. And Casper, today's |
0:14.4 | episode, I would argue, is the one that you quote most often. |
0:20.4 | I love this episode because it features Stephanie Pulselle, our dear friend and teacher and |
0:27.1 | mentor, introducing one of our favorite practices of Floralegia, which we're practicing |
0:33.2 | right now in this book seven reread number two. |
0:36.6 | And I find that when I meet people who've loved |
0:40.0 | the show or maybe listen to the show in kind of a formative time, maybe they were in college, |
0:44.2 | or maybe they were thinking about divinity school or maybe repairing their relationship with |
0:48.5 | spirituality in some way, it's often these episodes where we're talking about the practices |
0:53.6 | that we do on the show that |
0:55.5 | really helps shift people's perspective about what it means to engage in a spiritual practice. |
1:01.9 | And so I love this conversation because Stephanie teaches us, like we're learning something, |
1:06.7 | or at least I am, in real time. |
1:08.6 | And Stephanie's way of talking about what it means to explore a |
1:13.6 | sacred text, what it means to live a spiritual life, what it means to engage in rituals together. |
1:19.1 | I find so inspiring and like, when I'm sad, I'll just listen to lectures that Stephanie has given. |
1:26.4 | Yeah. I just find such comfort and, like, beauty in her words |
1:31.1 | and in her presence. And that's what I think comes through in this episode so, so well. So I'm |
1:36.6 | going to listen to it again. And I hope everyone else joins me. One of my favorite moments in |
1:41.1 | grad school, when I was getting my master's in nonprofit management, I took a |
1:46.1 | class on economics and religion, and one of our professors had studied with Angela Davis. |
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