{"podcast":{"title":"A Pebble in the Cosmic Pond","slug":"a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860","podcast_index_feed_id":6320860,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond/","website_url":"https://www.pebbleinthecosmicpond.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/6965970a-2b97-406e-ac7a-03277b54c4cf/VbqJ8vh50gVW4WuvyuVGQlWi.jpg","author":"Sabine Wilms PhD","episode_count":52,"summary":"Tune in every New Moon for inspiring, joyful, and informative conversations with Sabine Wilms and Leo Lok on transforming ourselves, our communities, and the world, in the spirit of traditional Chinese medicine, spirituality, and philosophy. Separating fact from fiction, we aim to bring you medicine from China's distant past, translated here to meet YOUR needs today, in your personal practice, in your community, and in the clinic. Sabine Wilms, PhD, is a medical historian, recovering university professor, and author and translator of more than a dozen books on the Chinese healing arts, from gynecology and pediatrics to medical ethics and materia medica, published by Happy Goat Productions. In addition to writing, she runs the only advanced 2-year classical Chinese training program for practitioners of Chinese medicine and contributes insights from her checkered past as a biodynamic goat farmer and musician, all under the banner of her favorite phrase, “cosmic resonance,” a.k.a. the Chinese ideal of harmony between the three realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. Leo Lok, our \"purveyor of multiple perspectives,\" is a practitioner and independent scholar of Chinese Medicine. A nativ…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T16:19:46.400128+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860"},"episode":{"title":"The Healing Magic of Ducklings","slug":"the-healing-magic-of-ducklings","published_at":"2025-04-28T07:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860/the-healing-magic-of-ducklings","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860","url":"https://pebbleinthecosmicpond.com/episode/the-healing-magic-of-ducklings","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/9b20e221-ab56-4bab-b9ae-09ac96a2110f/PP4-4-Ducklings-converted.mp3","summary":"Today's episode, which could also be called \"the mother and child within each of us,\" explores the healing power of the heart through the joy that Sabine experiences when caring for her fluffy baby ducklings and goslings, or when sharing them as a healing tool with her community, old and young. Leo's direct observations and questions pierce right through to the heart of the matter, past any rationalizations: Why and how can we facilitate healing in ourselves and our communities? In this case, the answer is delightfully simple, at least for Sabine and for those human beings who, like her, melt at the sight and sound of a baby falling asleep when enveloped by protective mama energy. And truly, it doesn't matter whether that \"mama energy\" is produced by the actual mama or by any human (or non-human) with a parental instinct.","meta_description":"Today's episode, which could also be called \"the mother and child within each of us,\" explores the healing power of the heart through the joy that Sabine…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3171,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860/episodes/the-healing-magic-of-ducklings/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-pebble-in-the-cosmic-pond-6320860/the-healing-magic-of-ducklings.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}