I’m excited to announce my podcast, Carolyn North Out Loud, where you can hear readings of and conversations about my writings. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast player, for example, Apple Podcast Player, for iPhones & Google Podcast Player, for Android-type phones. You can click on the image of each season, below to be taken to a website player where you can explore. There are over 100 episodes of the show! Soon, it will be available on YouTube as well.
My writings are read for you by me, as well as by Producer Leslie Jackson. And in the case of Season 1, by the actress Amy Walker.
These recordings are all peppered with a musical bed of beauty from Kaila Flexer and Gari Hegedus: Music from their band Teslim in Seasons 1–4, and by Joey Fabian, in Season 5.
Please have a listen, like, share, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, it really helps these stories get into the ears of those who need them!
Season 1:
In the Beginning Creation Myths from Around the World. Hear the whole book beautifully read for you by actress Amy Walker. These are creation stories from 15 cultures, using indigenous sources. These stories demonstrate that creation is ongoing, everywhere and always, and that all of us are creators all of the time. This engaging book of images and stories is ultimately about creativity in all its forms.
Written by Carolyn North. Published by ICRL Press, 2010. 15 episodes.
Season 2:
World Shift Happens. Worldshift Happens! brings us to a world we might imagine ourselves living in, full of hope reality and real community. This season begins with a conversation between the author and producer Leslie Jackson. Insubsequent episodes, the whole book read for you by both Carolyn and Leslie.
Written by Carolyn North. Published by ICRL Press, 2010. 26 episodes.
Season 3:
Memoir as Metaphor. Drawing from all of her writings, and presented for you as her whim and as the times dictates, these short readings mostly by Carolyn herself, interspersed with the occasional interview, are meant to comfort us all in these weird times. The season kicks off with readings from her adventures in the standing stones in Brittany, called Voices out of Stone and continues with readings from Experience of a Lifetime, Living Fully Dying Consciously.
Various writings by Carolyn North.
Season 4:
Freeflow Stories. Season 4 of the podcast is a serialised audio book of Carolyn’s book, Freeflow Stories, published in Winter, 2022 by ICRL Press. Continuing in the tradition of Musings on the Passing Scene, and Carolyn’s blog, these two-or-three-page essays are real-life and humorous. They shed light on the weirdness of 21 Century Planet, offering cookies and milk for the weary. As Carolyn says, “We’ve got this, folks!”
Season 5:
Ecstatic Relatioins. Season 4 of the podcast is a serialised audio book of Carolyn’s book, Ecstatic Relations, published in 2006 by Sentient Publications. Lke a lot of Carolyn’s message, it was before its time. It presents true love stories from real life—not just romantic but all kinds of capital L love and attraction. Each story is wonderfully written in exquisite detail, drawing you in and bringing you back to your own stories of love. Each piece has a sort of Commentary after it, in the tradition of the Talmud, discussiong an aspect of universal law addressed in that story. The point is to suggest that science and religion are not separate quests… You’ll see what is meant by being ahead of her time.