Living in a Time of Dying
Living in a Time of Dying is a podcast about living in a time of global pandemic, social upheaval and injustice, climate catastrophe, and mass extinction. Host Meghan Elizabeth Tauck and guests discuss a selection of chapters from the eponymous book, Living in a Time of Dying: Cries of Grief, Rage, Love, and Hope, co-authored by herself and Taoist mystic, Toltec I Ching master, and wisdom teacher, William Douglas Horden. We will explore the questions, conundrums, paradox, and fractal edges of this thing called living, as we as a species face immense social inequities and suffering as well as the unfolding climate crisis, all while carrying the usual, everyday trials of just being human, always aware of one’s own inevitable mortality and yet unaware of the time or place of one’s final breath-- or, indeed, of what comes after… This is an invitation to commune and feel together the weight of these times, with all the grief, rage, love, and hope that it arouses within us, so that together we may dream a new world into being.
Episodes
In this FINAL episode of the Living in a Time of Dying podcast, Meghan is once again joined by her co-author, friend, and mentor, William Douglas Horden, this time to discuss his book Facing Light: Preparing for the Moment of Dying about his own experience of dying, due to a massive heart attack in his fifties, and the deep wisdom he brought back to share with us all.
In this episode, Meghan is joined by Ian Tapscott to discuss themes of addiction, acceptance, and resistance.
For this episode, enjoy the audio version of the full chapter from the book. Commentary to follow in the next episode.
In this episode Meghan is joined again by Che Broadnax to discuss the concept of the Inner Fascist, introduced in the book Living in a Time of Dying. Put succinctly, the Inner Fascist functions as a kind of inner colonizer, a process which lies at the heart of fascisms in the social and politics sphere. In contrast, they discuss a vision of Spiritual Anarchy based in respect, reciprocity, and care. Together, Che and Meghan traverse...
Y'all, this is a BIG episode, and not just in terms of length, although we definitely needed to take the extra time to grapple with some of the complex themes raised in the previous episode. In this episode I am joined again by Dr. Jason Corwin to continue our discussion of the crisis of belonging wrought by the traumas of colonization. Our conversation spans issues of Eurocolonial history, cultural appropriation, identity poli...
In this and the next episode, Meghan is joined by Dr. Jason Corwin, professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Buffalo and filmmaker (, to discuss the colonial trauma that has separated us from the land and one another, and which has created a deep crisis of belonging.
We mention Dr. Corwin's previous work as director of the youth media project Green Guerrillas (https://guerrillagriots.wordpress.com/who-we-be/; http://...
As an addendum to the last episode on the philosophical, Whiteheadian process relational ontology of feeling, in this episode Meghan sits down again with Christine Goulding to excavate the immanent human experience of feeling. We ask: What is feeling? What does feeling feel like? and, in times of so much pain and fear, Why feel?
Christine can be found at: http://www.christinegoulding.com/menu
In this episode Meghan is joined by Matthew David Segall, professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies and author of the recently published Crossing the Threshold: Ethic Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead. Meghan and Matt discuss Alfred North Whitehead's process relational cosmology of feeling, the role of imagination in dreaming...
Sitting in conversation with William Douglas Horden is a bit like listening to and learning from the timeless wisdom of a mountain stream. Meghan has had the great fortune to spend many such hours in William's company, and now extends this opportunity to listeners as, in this and the previous episode, Meghan and William discuss the major philosophical, spiritual, and psycho-social themes that they engage in their book. Come, si...
Sitting in coversation with William Douglas Horden is a bit like listening to and learning from the timeless wisdom of a mountain stream. Meghan has had the great fortune to spend many such hours in William's company, and now extends this opportunity to listeners as, in this and the next episode, Meghan and William discuss the major philosophical, spiritual, and psycho-social themes that they engage in their book. Come, sit wit...
In this episode Meghan enlists friend, teacher, and healer Christine Goulding (http://www.christinegoulding.com; http://www.thedynamicself.com/) to discuss the sacredness of life and how we may honor that sacredness through the felt experience of the emotions of Grief, Rage, Love, and Hope, both individually and in relation.
Note: This episode was recorded in early February 2023, just following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, an...
In this episode Meghan is joined by Juan Lube to discuss the paradox of the living perfection of the moment always entwined with the grief of its passing. They engage with William Douglas Horden's chapter on the Nahuatl difrasism of Flower-and-Song as it relates to how we meet each moment, each relationship, and indeed the whole world with grace and compassion.
This episode was recorded in the fall of 2022.
In the episode we refe...
In this episode Meghan is joined by Che Broadnax (https://ko-fi.com/chebroadnax) to discuss scarcity-mindedness, the meaning of survival, and the liberating capacity of pleasure and joy.
A correction from the episode: I (Meghan) misquote Layla Saad as saying "Blackness is the agenda that saves us all," but the actual quote, significantly, is "Blackness is the agenda that FREES us all." That quote can be found in the ...
Welcome to the Living in a Time of Dying podcast! This podcast will discuss the issues and themes arising in the eponymous book, Living in a Time of Dying: Cries of Grief, Rage, Love, and Hope (2021), co-authored by host Meghan Elizabeth Tauck and Taoist mystic William Douglas Horden. The book can be found in print wherever books are sold, and the audio version is forthcoming--stay tuned!
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