Talking Depictions of Shamanism | Niles Heckman

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are joined by essayist and filmmaker, Niles Heckman. Among other things, Niles is the co-creator of the Shamans of the Global Village series. So we talk about that, obviously.

And we also talk about creativity, filmmaking, the power of the essay format, as well as how -or if it's possible- to participate in cross-cultural learning in non-extractive ways.

Great chat. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	And the This week we welcome to the show, Niles Heckman.
0:17.0	Niles is going to be one of the second or third guests who gets the new introduction format which is me
0:27.0	introducing Niles and then Niles correcting my introduction and I stole this from Dr.
0:31.7	Tom Cowan and I think it works really, really well.
0:34.9	But I've got Niles is a documentary maker, a photographer, an essayist with kind of interest in culture and cross culture I guess is what I'm
0:48.3	going with there.
0:49.3	What do you think?
0:50.3	How's that?
0:51.3	Yeah, that's a pretty good accurate description. You know, having worked in and out of the
0:54.0	film industry both professionally and amateur, wise, and my own personal projects, you know, there's,
0:59.1	depending upon what level you're coming at it from, people sometimes within Los Angeles call themselves writers and directors
1:04.1	especially those with larger egos but I find that what I do is actually more accurately entailed to or described to be a
1:10.1	yeah documentarian in essays because essays can be a short form version of writing and certain types of
1:16.7	documentaries just end up becoming visual essays when you add a visual component to them.
1:20.7	So in the grand scheme of how many projects get actualized and across a
1:23.4	checkered finish line, a lot of the ones that are written just end up in
1:26.3	audio form and then some of them go on to become visual components as well.
1:29.8	So yeah, yeah, but I was funny I was going to automatically answer your first question, but I know that you've changed your format on my weird kids.
1:37.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, the first question is still coming.
1:40.0	Yeah, that's good. It's a good way to lay it out though, because sometimes you do do an intro on somebody or some sort of description of them and they might have a, you know, something more to add that's more accurate or more up to date or whatnot.
1:51.0	See that, that's why I stole it,? Like Tom does that and and I think this is such a good way of doing it. I mean he's used to be a medical doctor so he's kind of used to
2:00.1	having people show up in his life with something to say, right?
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