Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Amanda Yates Garcia and I had a particularly meaningful conversation in the late summer of 2025.
🎧 Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode title: 'A Conversation with a Witch: Amanda Yates Garcia on Empire, Resistance, Contemporary Culture, and Radical Enchantment'
Amanda—aka 'The Oracle of Los Angeles'—is a writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, and doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA. Her first book, INITIATED, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. Amanda hosts the Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens and has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, with over 1,900 five-star reviews. She is the founder of Mystery Cult, a 20k strong online and in-person community on Substack dedicated to eco-somatic ritual practice and cultivating radical enchantment.
Amanda Yates Garcia and I had a particularly meaningful conversation in the late summer of 2025.
🎧 Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode title: 'A Conversation with a Witch: Amanda Yates Garcia on Empire, Resistance, Contemporary Culture, and Radical Enchantment'
Amanda—aka 'The Oracle of Los Angeles'—is a writer, socially engaged artist, public witch, and doctoral student in the department of World Arts Cultures and Dance at UCLA. Her first book, INITIATED, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. Amanda hosts the Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens and has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, with over 1,900 five-star reviews. She is the founder of Mystery Cult, a 20k strong online and in-person community on Substack dedicated to eco-somatic ritual practice and cultivating radical enchantment.
