“Artists and healers have a lot in common, actively venturing into the Numinous (unknown spaces, unknown territory) and listening in order to generate and co-create with that which is beyond the earthly apparent.”
So says Clare Hedin, a remarkable musician, educator and artist who integrates the study of consciousness with a passion for healing social systems. Renowned as a sound healer, she employs her ethereal voice and music to create profound and transformative experiences for groups in beautiful spaces like churches and spiritual centers.
Clare moved to the United States from her birthplace in England for her undergrad in Fine Art and Humanities until she finally found her fit at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, “a place for people like myself who tend to butterfly around, so I could finally finish.”
Early in her career Clare worked in the music business (record labels and publishing) before ultimately performing as a singer/songwriter, and then a sound healer with a profound instinct for connecting with the elemental and natural. A true polymath in every sense of the word, Clare has taught Creativity & Innovation to business students at San Francisco State University, guest lectured and advised at St. Martin's Art College in London, and she is also the visionary behind "Dynamic Emergence," a concept she eloquently describes as "the phenomena of novelty arising when two or more elements meet."
“There’s not enough in the world validating… us. As human beings we are not invited to be the whole of who we are… to be in our Living-System-ness.” says Clare. Having crossed paths with many emergent thinkers while living in the Oakland/bay area for 30 years, she got to spend time with Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics), a source of her inspiration for Dynamic Emergence, Clare was introduced to the work of R. Buckminster Fuller, and became introduced to the Buckminster Fuller Institute through friends like Mark Smith (who worked in the 70s on the earliest version of what would become “email”) and Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Bucky was famous for suggesting that rather than fight existing systems, essentially “Just create a better party.”
Fractal alert! This episode weaves together a wide range of topics, from quantum entanglement to healing to what humanity’s emerging intelligence is doing, and how when we interface together new dots are connected. “We are an emergent phenomenon” says Clare, “Each of us is a collective.” “I am the inherited knowledge of all my ancestors and what they left behind, as well as the container (or meeting point) of my immediate and extended environment… trajectories of story intersecting… the web of life.” “I come from the earth. I am the earth. I return to the earth.”
“I think there’s something really beautiful about being able to listen with our senses, to listen with our intuition and to really be open and available.” Clare says. “Reconciliation is not something you make happen, it is something you must allow, and our healing is a part of that journey, it’s not instead of, it’s a part of.”
Guest: Clare Hedin
Website: clarehedin.com
Dynamic Emergence
Clare’s Energy Paintings (on Etsy)
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook Page
Featured Audio: The Mountains Breathe by Clare Hedin (YouTube)
Other music in the podcast:
“The Crash” by Josh Dobrowner
“Nothing Wrong” by Lobate Scarp
Episode References:
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Design Science Studio
Vision train
Mark Smith
California Institute of Integral Studies
shruti box (Wikipedia)
Fr. Richard Mapplebeckpalmer (Richard the Monk, A Dane at Heart - YouTube)
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (Very Well Mind)
The biggest benefit of pre-K might not be education (Vox)
The best of Brian Green (YouTube playlist)
Alan Watts (YouTube playlist)
Joseph Campbell (Bill Moyers interview: YouTube)
Buckminster Fuller (The World of R. Buckminster Fuller [1974]: YouTube)
holobiont (The Economist)
Stephen Bau on the holobiont (Imaginaxiom)
The Butterfly Effect (Farnam Street Media Blog/The Thinking Project)
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 (Wikipedia)
Host: Steven Leavitt
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Portfolio: http://stevenleavitt.com/
The Spaceship Earth Mission Log podcast
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Artists and Healers – Clare Hedin (Sound Healer)