Perdita finn biography of michael

Invoking ancestry, magic, and a deep relationship with the Dead, this week’s guest Perdita Finn invites listeners into a world of mystery.

Perdita’s work, including her new book Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, calls humanity to engage with a faith in the unseen world, a faith in surrender, and a faith in the other side. For Perdita, this faith is not rooted in an otherworldly abstract idea of spirituality, but rather a grounded, embodied experience. 

Following ecology, not theology, Perdita calls us to think about the ecological equation – the reality of bodies feeding other bodies, of death opening a portal to another life.

This is a reality that animals, plants, and all our more-than-human kin know well. How can we tap into their earthly wisdom? 

As we come to face the existential questions of our time – war, climate change, and disasters of all kinds – Perdita reminds us that we are