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In the Borderlands

Mikael Öberg and Torgrim Mellum Stene

Two performance storytellers with a shared interest in liminal spaces explore topics in the borderlands between creativity, mythology and magic.




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  • English

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  • August 28 · 1 hr 44 min

    David Beth: The Black Pilgrimage #67

    Occult thinker and practitioner David Beth once made a vow to wait at least a decade before writing another book. "The Black Pilgrimage“ is the res...

  • July 14 · 1 hr 40 min

    Epic Small Talk: Trickster #66

    We’re starting a new thread in our podcast weave! "Epic Small Talk“ is basically conversations between performance storytellers and other myth work...

  • June 9 · 1 hr 48 min

    Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Odin #65

    Our second episode on the Odinic path takes us to Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, founder of Nordic Animism and initiate to Odin in the Candomblé tradition....

  • May 13 · 1 hr 48 min

    Maria Kvilhaug: Odin #64

    Maria Kvilhaug, one of our favourite guests, has returned to "In the Borderlands“. She herself inhabits the liminal space between the scholar and t...

  • March 25 · 1 hr 27 min

    Fletcher Tucker: Kin #63

    From the vibrant wilderness of Big Sur in California, we are joined by multidisciplinary artist Fletcher Tucker.Through the music label Gnome Life ...

  • January 10 · 53 min

    Torgrim Mellum Stene: Time Weave #62

    For this episode, performance storyteller Torgrim Mellum Stene takes center stage as we talk about two of his current performances that both revolv...

  • Dec 16, 2025 · 54 min

    Saturnalia Special: Stretch your Head #61

    Io Saturnalia! In celebration of the Roman holiday of role reversal, gift giving and letting go, we take a closer look at the chained god Saturn/Cr...

  • Dec 11, 2025 · 2 hr 19 min

    Will Wright: Wyrd #60

    For our 60th episode, we weave words with DIY working class wizard Will Wright. Will is an occult artist, a narrative film maker and a magic practi...

  • Jul 2, 2025 · 2 hr 19 min

    David Beth: Kosmic Gnosis #58

    David Beth has spent half a lifetime exploring the hidden aspects of consciousness, the malaise of the modern mind, the essences of divine archetyp...

  • May 20, 2025 · 36 min

    Performance Special: Maui Trickster #57

    Maui, the taboo-thrashing sun-subduing demigod of the Pacific islands, takes center stage in this episode, a force of erupting and disruptive natur...

  • Apr 21, 2025 · 1 hr 23 min

    Valter Kinbom: Sacred Drums #56

    The traditions of the Yoruba people in modern day Nigeria transformed into the religions of Voodoo, Candomble and Santería in Haiti, Brazil and Cub...

  • Mar 22, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min

    Jo Blake: Chthonic Wisdom in the Odyssey #55

    "...set out again, with an oar on your shoulder, and travel to a country where people have never heard of the sea..."Returning guest and deep frien...

  • Feb 20, 2025 · 1 hr 56 min

    Kristina Aspeqvist: Vodou Queen #54

    How does a Swedish percussionist raised on Balkan music end up as a vodou queen in Ghana?That is a question Kristina Aspeqvist is more than happy t...

  • #53
    Jan 21, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

    Laura Burns: The Ancestral Field #53

    We are delighted to welcome Laura Burns back into our podcast grotto. This multidisciplinary artist working within the vast mythopoetic landscape o...

  • #51
    Nov 15, 2024 · 12 min

    Listening #51

    One year is no year. Two years is two years. Three years is a tradition.Celebrate the third anniversary with us in our podcasting cavern where we s...

  • #50
    Jul 5, 2024 · 1 hr 23 min

    Dodo Kitching: The Art of Health #50M

    For our fiftieth episode we are joined by homeopathic practitioner Dodo Kitching. Dodo specialises in the sensation method as taught by the Joshis ...

  • #49
    Jun 6, 2024 · 57 min

    AI vs AI with special guest Fredrik Høyer #49

    Carl Gustav Jung, the mythopoetic mirror to Freud’s trauma-focused psychology, spoke of a concept he coined "Active Imagination“. An intuitive proc...

  • #48
    May 8, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min

    Johan Nilsson: Farming as Ceremony #48

    In the US, there’s a prediction that if the current traditional farming practices continue, there’s 60 harvests remaining before the topsoil is com...

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