Writer Manda Scott on Shamanic Practice, Creative Vision & Systemic Change

Award-winning novelist, teacher, and podcaster Manda Scott talks with Tess Callahan about her shamanic spiritual practice, her Thrutopian novel ANY HUMAN POWER, and her highly acclaimed podcast Accidental Gods. Tess and Manda discuss dreams, visions, and the liminal states between waking, sleeping, life, and death. Manda encourages writers to create new narratives that will pave the way to the systematic changes our world needs.

Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, Manda's previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards, and won the McIllvanney Prize. Her latest novel, Any Human Power, is a mytho-political thriller which lays out a Thrutopian roadmap to a flourishing future we’d be proud to leave to forthcoming generations. With degrees in veterinary medicine and a Masters in Regenerative Economics, Manda Scott hails from Scotland and now lives in England with her wife and podcast co-creator, Faith Tilleray.

Explore these links to learn more about Manda's writing, her podcast, and her Thrutopian Master Class for writers.

Manda Scott's Website: https://mandascott.co.uk/
Accidental Gods Podcast: https://accidentalgods.life/.
Thrutopian Master Class: https://thrutopia.life/

Tess Callahan is the author of the novels APRIL & OLIVER and DAWNLAND. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher taught by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Find her at: https://tesscallahan.com/

Find her interviews at:
Substack: https://tesscallahan.substack.com/
Writers at the Well podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Find her guided meditations at:
Heart Haven Meditations podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Insight Timer: https://insig.ht/KMMFJkyIQZb

Audio by Eric Fischer.
Intro/Outro music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.