612 - Mee Ok Icaro (From Death's Door to Becoming a Guide to Healing)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

I met this incredible woman over a decade ago (ep 87), when she was in a very difficult spot, suffering from constant pain, unable to move or care for herself. She was preparing to die. In the years since, I’ve seen the light in her grow stronger and stronger. She’s recovered from severe scleroderma, written a book about her journey, been profiled on a Netflix series, featured in Gabor Maté's NYT bestseller The Myth of Normal, and continuously explored her inner world with the help of sacred plants (ayahuasca) and other modalities. Her initiation into the world of healing by way of her own near death experience is as authentically “shamanic” as anything I’m aware of in the modern world.

You can learn more about the retreat she’s leading in Costa Rica here.

This video of Mee Ok and Gabor Mate will give you a sense of the incredible journey my friend is taking.

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hello my name is Craig my trail name is Noodle and I'm just reaching the end of my super long section of the Appalachian Trail.
0:48.4	I happen to be leaving at the quarter way mark which is around 550 miles and I'm from the staff of the UK and I only have three mubs here and then fly from here to Vancouver to continue the adventure.
1:13.0	And like many people, I feel like without your podcast, Chris,
1:22.0	and the listening to intro is like this one over the years.
1:27.0	Without that I'm not sure that I'd be here and I'm having the most incredible time.
1:35.0	It feels like life won't be the same going forward.
1:38.0	So yeah, just sending so much love and appreciation out into the
1:44.3	the tangential verse.
1:48.3	Thank you Craig.
1:49.1	Welcome to the tangential verse everyone.
1:51.5	Never heard that word before, but I'm glad to occupy that space and I'm glad you're here with us.
2:00.0	Craig and everyone listening to this. This is a episode that's been a long time coming and
2:08.4	it makes me so fucking happy to bring you this conversation that it literally brings tears to my eyes.
2:20.4	I'll let my guest tell her story. Her name is Meoke.
2:27.0	Very briefly, we got in touch years ago, I think, probably more than a decade ago. She'd heard the
2:37.2	podcast and heard some of the things that I was saying about life and death and facing one's death and
2:48.7	you know which has always been a theme running through the podcast which is why you know smoke alarm you're going to
2:54.6	die one day pretty much wraps up every episode a reminder that death is not something
3:01.1	that can or should be avoided. It's something that spices up life. You are aware of
3:10.0	the fact that this is not a never ending story.
3:14.0	You're aware of the fact that whether we're reincarnated or we live on as energy or whatever,
3:21.0	this particular life is happening now,
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