The Land Whisperer, Patrick MacManaway: The spiritualist doctor behind a global wave of regeneration

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Chapters
0:00
Music, Preview, Introduction & Supporter Thanks
4:05
Meeting in Patrick’s garden
5:45
The dilemma of global travel vs being in place
7:25
How the Australian connection started with RCS Australia
10:35
The family & cultural background that brought Patrick to Vermont (heading to the stones)
17:32
The risk of leaving once universal animist traditions behind
19:55
Where this work started in Patrick’s family
22:05
The famed story of Patrick’s father using his skills in the army
27:25
When Patrick recognised he had the same abilities
29:55
The influential connection between human health and ‘geopathic stress’
32:41
The Earth Clock and Stone Circles
35:35
Building his experience and understanding of the spirit of place
40:55
Visiting the stone circle – talking the new(ish) science of epigenetics
46:25
Patrick’s sense of ancestral connection to North America
47:15
The connection with Chögyam Trungpa & First Nations here now
50:15
Clarifying the story of his Dad’s work being sanctioned by the Pope
54:55
Repairing our relationship with time
58:10
Recovering animate awareness
1:01:20
The pivotal moment where stone circles were initiated in the UK - & constructing one in Burlington
1:07:25
Engaging the circle
1:10:50
Masaru Emoto’s visit & other regenerative outcomes since the circle was created
1:11:50
Lynne Kelly’s breakthrough visiting Stonehenge
1:13:20
The extraordinary tale of how Patrick became focused on agriculture
1:17:20
Walking back - so many things getting better, so many getting worse?
1:22:20
Off to the woodland labyrinth Patrick assisted with to support inter-faith church
1:24:50
Into the labyrinth - Ritual in landscape
1:33:35
Observations of the trajectory of human evolution
1:39:00
Our intuitive compass needed for our survival?
1:44:20
Leaving the labyrinth with tales of some of the remarkable food movement in Vermont
1:51:05
Visiting where McDonalds was taken over by a local farm to table restaurant
1:54:40
Back in the garden – shifts in academic thinking in recent times
1:59:40
One of Patrick’s standout stories of his work with land
2:14:20
Where did all the food allergies come from? – It’s at the plant’s discretion whether it’s edible or not
2:19:05
An opening in our culture?
2:20:50
Recovery at a site of an Aboriginal massacre
2:26:05
Terry McCosker’s pact with the wolves, & a story from Australia with dingoes
2:28:55
If this is in us all, how do bring it forth more?
2:32:25
Starting up a new phase of work with Terry McCosker (Quantum Leap Subtle Energy)
2:35:20
Music choice, and Patrick plays a tune
The RegenNarration Podcast
The Land Whisperer, Patrick MacManaway: The spiritualist doctor behind a global wave of regeneration
Mar 20, 2025 Season 9 Episode 252
Anthony James

Welcome to a very special and unique episode. Previous guest on this podcast, Terry McCosker, co-founded RCS Australia 35 years ago. Fellow Australian legend and podcast guest, Charles Massy, is best-selling author of Call of the Reed Warbler. In that book he wrote, “When I look back over the rise of regenerative agriculture in Australia, I see at the forefront Terry and Pam McCosker and their RCS organisation. Today it remains a world leader in the field.” In light of that, I titled the first episode with Terry ‘Behind the Greatest Regenerative Agriculture Movement in Australia’.

Well, as I got to know Terry better over the years, I started to hear more and more about a bloke named Patrick MacManaway, who Terry had been working with since 2010. And Charles later shared with me his ‘missing chapter’ from Reed Warbler, the one deemed a little too ‘edgy’ to include at the time. Patrick features significantly in that chapter, along with some now famous stories of his father. 

So as the years went by, I became increasingly interested in learning about the man alongside the man behind the movement. All the more, knowing that Patrick’s extraordinary influence is far from limited to Australia. Born in Scotland to pioneering parents, when Patrick realised he shared his father’s gifts, he also shared his medical training, before his calling deepened and spread around the UK, onto North America, and beyond.

I caught up with Patrick at his home near Burlington, Vermont, to wander through life stories, gardens, projects, and new endeavour with Terry.

Title slide by Anthony James.

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Music:

Hours, by Patrick Sebag (from Artlist).

Stones & Bones, by Owls of the Swamp.

Patrick MacManaway.

The RegenNarration playlist.

Find more:

Ep.136 - Terry & wife Pam.

Ep.92 - Songlines.

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