✨ “I think love is just not blocking out your connectedness to anything else.” – Warwick Schiller
✨ “The same action with a different intention has a different energetic signature.” – Warwick Schiller
Warwick Schiller joins Rupert Isaacson for a wide-ranging conversation on altered states of consciousness in horsemanship, a subject the two first began exploring together on Warwick’s own podcast. Rupert opens with the story of his son Rowan’s healing ceremony with Kuku Yalanji shamans in Australia’s Daintree Rainforest, and the two trace the theme from there into what “consent” and so-called horse slapping actually look like through a horse’s nervous system.
From there the conversation moves through the deep history of horse worship, from the goddess Epona and Xenophon’s writings to Roman cavalry rituals and Mongolian shamanism, and lands on a central idea both men keep circling back to: that intention itself changes the energy, or as Warwick puts it, the “energetic signature,” of any action, whether that’s patting a horse, backing one up, or riding into battle.
A wide-ranging, unhurried conversation that moves from hardware stores and rodeo bulls to henbane, King Arthur, and a closing reading from the Hadith.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
00:00:36 – Rupert opens the episode by introducing the theme of altered states of consciousness in horsemanship
00:05:24 – Rupert recounts his son Rowan’s healing ceremony with Kuku Yalanji shamans in the Daintree Rainforest
00:11:03 – Warwick unpacks consent, “horse slapping,” and what it means to actually be present with a horse
00:24:13 – Why Warwick loses all sense of time while running clinics, and what that says about altered states
00:38:38 – A journey through the ancient history of horse worship, from Epona and Xenophon to Roman cavalry and Mongolian shamanism
00:44:49 – What it might look like to bring ritual and reverence back into everyday training
01:09:20 – Warwick on his real job as a teacher: “busting” people’s long-held truths
01:27:00 – The henbane story, and how intention changes the “energetic signature” of an action
01:41:00 – How a Horse Boy fox hunt became a bloodless, inclusive tradition for kids with special needs and refugee children
01:51:24 – Ancient horse divination rituals from the Baltic to Rajasthan, and the Hadith reading that closes the episode
Memorable Moments from the Episode
00:56:21 – Warwick’s story about trying to buy “starter cord” from a bemused hardware store clerk
01:01:14 – Rupert admits he prays before every clinic or talk, weaving together Christian and Germanic horse-god iconography
01:28:56 – The Elizabeth Gilbert and Raya story: the same purse-saving gesture, told twice, with two very different meanings behind it
01:57:15 – Warwick closes with a line from the Hadith that, as he puts it, ties the whole conversation together
01:59:24 – Rupert describes something “coming out of the cliff” and speaking to him during a retreat in Sweden
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