Altered States, Horse Gods & the Energy Behind Every Action: A Conversation with Warwick Schiller | Warwick Schiller | LFRF 61

✨ "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