Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back one of my very favorite guests

to talk about two of my very favorite topics.

Dr. Becker Tarnas returns to discuss active imagination,

including some really detailed advice on how to actually do it,

and the Lord of the Rings. All things Lord of the Rings, and token, and middle earth, and that's it. It's a really good time.

Please note there are a couple of Skype dropouts unfortunately which I was more or less

too engrossed to notice at the time but it does not get in the way of a really great

chat. Enjoy. Dr. Tarnas, welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much. I'm absolutely delighted to be back here.

Yeah, since you were last done, you have indeed become a doctor.

You've completed your PhD.

It was a humble Becketanas last time,

and now it is a fancy-pence doctor.

Yes, I guess that's true.

It's been quite an experience these last several years. When we spoke in 2016, I was, let me see, just about to write my dissertation proposal and the I had no idea

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