From Stardust To Us
In-depth conversations with thought-leaders, artists and spiritual activists navigating the challenges of our times with integrity, joy and purpose.
Bernice Marie-Daly, Ph.D., is a contemplative activist, educator, group facilitator and spiritual guide across wisdom traditions. Her work centers Divine Feminine Presence and reimagines our deepest relationships within the great web of life.
LaNell Haydon writes both fiction and non-fiction on topics involving spiritual insights, delving into the human experience and the divine.
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From Stardust To Us
The Divine in All Beings: Awakening to Sacred Consciousness
In this personal conversation, co-host LaNell Haydon steps from behind the mic to share her own spiritual journey from a questioning child in a working-class home to a world traveler, writer, and advocate for the sacred life within all beings.
LaNell reflects on how her early encounters with animal suffering and cultural conditioning opened her to a lifelong search for truth and oneness. Her stories of traveling across continents, from Europe, South America, to Africa, reveal how each encounter with the human and more-than-human world became a mirror for divine consciousness.
Through animals, she discovered what she calls “the divine inseparable from matter itself,” a revelation that transformed activism into reverence. Together with co-host Bernice Marie-Daly, LaNell explores what it means to awaken to the sacred in all of creation, to see through the eyes of every creature, and to remember that caring for the Earth and one another is not a task, but a way of being.
This episode is an intimate reflection on divine consciousness, service, and the living wholeness that connects us all. When we truly see, we see God everywhere.
*NOTE OF CORRECTION: In this episode, LaNell refers to a Bull that she knew on a farmed animal sanctuary, named Justice. Justice was a steer. The distinction being he was raised for the meat production industry, not for breeding.
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LaNell Haydon is a contemplative, spiritual and fiction writer, and a co-host of this podcast, From Stardust to Us, whose work explores inner transformation and collective healing. Her journey has taken her from the creative literary world in Los Angeles to animal sanctuaries in South Africa and Peru.
In the mid-1980s, with little more than a shoestring budget and a prayer, LaNell set out to see the world, arriving in Leningrad during the Soviet era before making her way through Europe. In 1989, she witnessed history as the Berlin Wall fell and traveled onward into the Eastern Bloc, absorbing cultures and perspectives that deepened her understanding of our shared humanity.
Travel soon became a form of service for her, volunteering at animal sanctuaries in Colorado, South America, and Africa. LaNell worked hands-on with rescued animals and came to recognize the unique intelligence and spirit within all beings. Later journeys to Kenya, India, and Scotland added to her understanding of the sacred.
In recent years, LaNell experienced a profound sense of oneness that revealed the divine as inseparable from matter itself. Through her forthcoming novel, her YouTube channel, and her blog, she reflects on our divine entanglement with all life. For LaNell, caring for animals, the Earth, and one another is a spiritual act of reverence for divine creation.
www.lanellhaydon.com
With thanks and gratitude for all of our listeners.
