The Postmugglism Podcast

Although mainstream medicine largely denies the existence of emotional energy, nonetheless most of us have experienced this phenomena in the body personally, from the physical pain of a broken heart or having our words caught in our throat, or something similar. But what most of us don't realize is that the effects can be lasting. This energy can get stuck in the body and cause serious problems. We only need compare rising mental health issues to the similarly rising levels of chronic illness in Western countries to see this in effect.What can we do about this? Well, we can practice energy hygiene techniques, work with energy healers, and address our deeper issues. There are solutions. We're just not taught them in our society so we have to learn these practices in our adulthood, after we've already accumulated traumas and, most likely, a few chronic pains along the way. Which means some work is required to get yourself into balance in the first place.Learn about emotional energy, how it stores in the body, how that generates physical issues down the line, and what to do to begin your own process of healing, if you're already feeling those aches and pains, or the stresses of mental / emotional issues, like anxiety, paralyzing fear, lack of motivation, unshakeable grief or anger, and so on. We've all experienced emotional energy in the body, probably without recognizing it for what it is and how much damage it is doing. Now take charge of your health with a better understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection and how they work together to keep us alive and healthy.Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

The world is just full of negative energy these days, toxins in our environment, ideological sectarianism, and a sensationalized 24/7 news cycle that pumps us full of fear and anxiety in near-constant assault on our psyches. Energetic cleansing and protection has never been more important at any point in our lifetimes. Just getting through the day without picking up someone else's bad vibes or the creeping dread of a nihilistic society is harder than ever before.Negative energy affects the body in many ways; including making us physically ill and robbing us of our good fortunes and the pleasantness of life. To combat the negative energetic influences so prevalent in our environment we're best served by a variety of effective magical countermeasures. Sadly, the western esoteric system of grimoires and celestial magic has not prioritized this essential branch of magical study and most Western magicians don't even have a regular cleansing practice.To fill in the gaps in the modern magical practice, I've tapped two different books about cleansing and protection from two different magical systems, Curanderismo and Hoodoo -plus my own training and experience as an energetic healer- to gain a broad sample of relevant practices in the greater Americas.Tune in to this episode for a deep dive into the many spells, rites, and traditions of Curanderismo and Hoodoo, comparing and contrasting these two excellent sources for inspiration on how to construct a regular energetic practice of our own.Mentioned In This Episode:Erika Buenaflor, "Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo: Limpias Espirituales Of Ancient Mesoamerican Shamans," (2018) Bear & Company Miss Aida, "Hoodoo Cleansing and Protection Magic: Banish Negative Energy and Ward Off Unpleasant People," (2020) Weiser BooksClaude Lecouteux, "The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2013) Inner TraditionsEp. 18: A Home For SpiritsEp. 22: The Enchanted HomeCura El Corazón (Heal The Heart) Retreat produced by The Sacred SerpentThanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

The magical landscape is filled with pitfalls and distractions which lead to overinflated egos and self-aggrandizement and the initiations of various magical orders are rarely what they're cracked up to be. But it can be very difficult as a spiritual seeker to tell what's authentic and what's just performative until you're immersed in what could end up either a delusional waste of time -or a culturally appropriative  mess.The Munay-Ki Rites are a glowing example of an authentic and effective initiatory experience which has the power to change your life but doesn't require you to adopt a new theosophy, take any awkward oaths, or join some stodgy, overly-politicized magical order. They're inspired by ancient Incan traditions, embodied in a modern-context in the Q'ero people of the Amazon, whose "paqos", or medicine men and women, have kept alive their cultural and magical heritage of sacred Earth stewardship through hundreds of years of colonial rule.The Q'ero did so by hiding themselves high in the Andes mountains and keeping a low profile until the 1950s when they emerged to fulfill a prophecy and announce the beginning of an age of realignment, called a Patchacuti, which we are all now living through. The last patchacuti occurred when the conquistadors came to the Americas and enslaved the indigenous people and this one will see those of us in the West awaken to our karmic debt and our cosmic responsibility to stewardship of the Earth.After their emergence various paqo elders began building bridges to the people of the West, through various neoshamanic spiritual leaders and personalities, such as Alberto Villoldo of The Four Winds Institute. The Munay-Ki rites are a byproduct of the collaboration of elder Don Manuel Quispe and Alberto; whom he took as a student and gave the traditional Q'ero initiations. They worked together to adapt these same initiations for a Western framework of mind; to build a bridge we can follow to activate our energetic bodies, enhance our natural healing abilities and extrasensory perception, deepen our faith and our connection with spirit, and to move back into right relationship with Mother Earth and our role in the cosmos.These initiations are available to anyone and designed, as a gift of reconciliation from the Q'ero to us, to help the lost people of the West find their way back to the embrace of a living universe that loves them and needs their collaboration. In this episode we take a deep dive into these rites: their history and origins, each of the 10 individual rites and their benefits, and how they work together as a whole to affect you in gradual, but astonishing, ways.Mentioned In This Episode:Marcela Lobos, "The Sacred Andean Codes", (2023) Hay HouseAlberto Villodo and The Four Winds InstitudeThe Sacred SerpentThanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

The home is a very magical place and its energies attract all kinds of spirits (for good or ill) with all the many different aspects of life that take place in the home. The home is sacred, in that it makes you feel safe; your place of sanctuary. In an animist framework of mind, the home is also alive and aware, or at least the spirits that inhabit it are. And so the spirit of your home should be an ally and a guardian; and to have issues with this spirit is the last thing you want.It's easy to run afoul of the spirit world from our modern context, simply by deciding to put a structure in the wrong place, or failing to pay tribute to the land spirits. And while making amends is usually easy enough, correctly identifying and interpreting the problem is not -unless you've already established a relationship with your local spirits.These sorts of household magical traditions don't really exist in modern Western cultures anymore and so we're left to reconstruct our own practices from bits and pieces of ancient spells and practices.Fortunately for us, author and historian, Claude Lecouteux, has done a great deal of research on this subject and written a series of books; two of which inform this episode's exploration into household spirits: Demons and Spirits of the Land and Traditions Of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practice.In this episode we attempt to piece together an authentic, living practice around the appeasement and engagement of household spirits and discuss some of my own experiences (for better or worse) with spirits of place as we remodeled and sold our old house and moved to the Riviera Maya to build a homestead and spiritual healing center in the jungle. Mentioned In This Episode:Ep. 18: A Home For SpiritsEp. 14: Fern Gully MagicLecouteux, Claude, "Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2015) Inner TraditionsLecouteux, Claude, "Traditions of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2013) Inner TraditionsThanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

All of astrology talks about fate and destiny but there are two characters in the story of the zodiac which rule matters of Fate more than the rest -and they're not even planets. Instead, the lunar nodes -North and South- are two points, or "nodes", on either side of the globe which represent the places where the Moon's orbit crosses the ecliptic. These two nodes are represented in astrology as a serpent, divided into two parts, which winds around the earth. The North Node, or Rahu, is this serpent's head, and is said to be hungry and obsessive and relate to fate and destiny. The South Node, or Ketu, is its tail, and is said to process karma and purge energy to maintain balance.The effect of these forces in the fate of the world, and in each of our lives, can be predicted thanks to astrology, and we can anticipate these changes and adapt accordingly. Nothing will prevent the nodes from working their (often unpleasant) magic on you but the transits of the lunar nodes, and the eclipses that come with them, map the phases and critical turning points of our lives so that we can navigate their powerful currents without being swept away.In July of 2023, the lunar nodes entered new signs: Aries and Libra (north and south, respectively). In this episode I take a deep dive into the new nodal axis: how it has manifested again and again in my own life, what this transit means for the world, and how it may feel for everyone else, according to their rising signs.Following the transits of the lunar nodes can help you understand where you're going, what you're running from, and how to balance those energies to make the most out of their evolutionary effects.Mentioned In This Episode:SJ Anderson Website | YouTubeLunatic Astrology Website | YouTubeMaren Altman YouTubeSusan Hopkinson Website | YouTubeLunatic Astrology video about the Aries / Libra nodal transit and ChironThanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

Magic is all fun little experiments and spooky games until you really need it one day. It's good to have a devotional practice, and we should all say our prayers, but sometimes you gotta pull out the big guns and work some real Magic (with a capital 'M').The ancient grimoires are full of magic for very practical concerns: love, money, sex, power, favor from kings, and so on. Our most ancient magic called upon the seasons and the spirits of animals so that we could feed ourselves and, eventually, grow wealthy."Results driven magic" means magic that attempts to create specific, measurable changes that can be tracked and assessed after-the-fact, so that you can learn from your attempts and improve over time.Without some kind of a system for keeping track of your spells and rituals it's too easy to forget the work you've done or to look at the outcome through rose-tinted glasses. However, it's all good to say it and another thing to actually do it...which depends on how you personally structure your spells and rituals. In this episode I'm going to share some of the lessons I learned on my way to getting my magic work work consistently, tips on how to set up your spells and rituals to make them easier to evaluate, and when and how layer on additional magic to get the outcomes you want.Tune in for the 20th episode of The Postmugglism Podcast, a deep dive into the most practical of magical subjects: how to become more effective at driving results with magic.Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

We were worshipping the Sun long before we were building, taming, or conquering. Long before we knew anything else, we'd figured out that the Sun is divine, it is the source of all life on this planet, and a magical source of healing and renewal. Somehow along the way to modernity though, we've forgotten this simple truth, and now the Sun is feared and we're doing everything we can to disconnect from our greatest source of life and energy.The Sun has always been associated with health and healing and exposure to the Sun has been used for literally thousands of years to heal all kinds of injuries, illnesses, and disease. And lack of exposure to sunlight bears greater health risks than we have been led to believe.Living in modern, urban environments virtually guarantees that you are light-starved and vitamin D deficient; which greatly increases the chances you will suffer with preventable diseases. Seasonal respiratory diseases, seasonal affective disorder, and many other illnesses are directly tied to lack of exposure to natural light.In this episode I look back in history to understand how humanity has understood the Sun in the past, how humans from prehistory to relatively recent times have prioritized exposure to sunlight for boosting health and curing wounds and disease. I'll examine archetypal frameworks for understanding solar energy like mythology, astrology, and energetics. And I'll detail some of my favorite ways of working with the Sun magically and as an ally in healing.Click here for links to all the resources referenced in this episode!Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

One of mankind's first relationships was with spirit, before negotiating the ancient relationship with dogs, cats, or even plants, we looked up to the heavens for guidance and buried our dead with great respect. Spirit has always been a part of human experience -until recently.The introduction of materialism and rationalism to the Western mind has replaced the ineffable world of spirit with hideously predictable machine logic and our experience of life has dulled as a result. Now with atheism on the rise, and spirit all but relegated to the asylum of history, there is little room for the numinous in our perception of reality,Yet, it is there all the same, and the old ways are still practiced in places where new legends are still being formed...it just isn't in the West. Those of us who feel like we lost something in the transition to modernity can still turn away from its dead, soulless world and return to the ancient practices that kept us in right relationship to spirit, place, and each other.This is exactly what my wife and I are trying to do as we build sanctuary on undeveloped jungle land in the Riviera Maya in Mexico. Before we bought our land, we bought dirt from a local crossroads and have spent the last 2+ years building a magical relationship with the spirits of the place where we want to live -and with good results!As we approach the start of our construction project, it's time to follow the local tradition of building an Alux (pronounced: AH-LOOSH) house for our land's guardian spirits before we begin on our own home.Join me on an exploration of spirit house traditions from around the world as I research and plan how to build a home for spirits on our land in the jungle.Referenced In This Show:"Spirit Houses Enshrine Pre-Buddhist Beliefs," (2000) Phnom Penh PostCristina Maza and Vandy Muong, "A supernatural effort: building the homes of Cambodia’s spirit world," (2016) Phnom Penh Post"Patrick Winn, "In Thailand, blood sacrifice is out. Strawberry Fanta is in," (2017) The WorldShashank Bengali, "The spirit houses of Bangkok keep watch over a frenetic modern Thai city," (2019) LA TimesMario Aste, "THE STORY OF THE 'JANAS' A Sardinian Folktale", (1993) Merveilles & contes Roldán Peniche Barrera, "Fantasmas Mayas," (1982) Presencia Latinoamericana"So what’s an alux, and did AMLO make it angry?" (2023) Yucatan MagazineJosé Domingo, "Leyendas y Tradiciones del Camino Real" (1996) SECUD, CONAFE, PAREB.Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

Where Part 1 of this series was dedicated to the replication crisis and the corruption of science for profit and power, Part 2 will explore how the true believers of a new religion have co-opted scientific and political institutions around the globe to force radical changes upon humanity and propel us towards a dark, dystopian future. This is a wild story that begins at the end, where we're living through this time of transition, showing the results of a half century's worth of work by globalists, Silicon Valley, central bankers, pharmaceutical companies, billionaires, science fiction writers, and radical futurists, among others. We'll walk through their clever grift to see, step by step, how science has been turned into religion and how the dogma of this new religion is being enforced on us through public policy and social convention. Then we flashback to the beginning of this emergent ideology and get to know the men and women who've built the demiurgic mind prison of progressive futurism, brick by brick, in the social consciousness. The religion of science weaponizes its dogma, as religions tend to do, to consolidate power, reinforce its ideology, and suppress dissent or conflicting evidence. A new breed of holy inquisition is on the horizon so it is essential that we recognize the difference between empirical science and imperial dogma; and see its hand at work in the world.Because with that understanding we can process what's happening to us with total clarity, discern truth from propaganda, and adapt our ways of being and knowing the world. And that's where we conclude Part 2 of The Religion Of Science; with my thoughts on how to navigate the dark and stormy waters ahead, how to choose a different path, and how to make choices when you're forced to question everything.Click here for links to everything mentioned in this episode!Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

A crisis has been brewing in the scientific community for years now that calls into question a great deal about what we believe about humanity, our future, and how we navigate uncertainty. There are many contributing factors, like scientific fraud, carelessness, ambition, and so on, but the bottom line is that a great deal of the experiments described in journal papers -these are the studies that define our current understanding of science- cannot be replicated.When we base medical treatments, or social policy, around science based on peer-reviewed studies, and then those studies turn out to be fabricated, or irreproducible, there is often a significant human cost to the error. Multiply this impact across every field of scientific inquiry and it is difficult to take materialist-rationalist worldview very seriously.There is nothing wrong with science but a lot wrong with how we go about doing science in the modern age, and it has been co-opted by the powers of hegemony to keep the rich wealthy and the powerful in power. But this is about more than just greed...it's about what dreams our worldviews allow to come into being. In this episode, part 1 of a 2-part series, I'll show exactly why science has failed us, how it all went wrong, who benefits, and where it's all going.The science of today isn't about discovering truth. It's about turning certain beliefs into facts to manipulate public consciousness. Science, like religion before it, has become the opiate of the masses.Click here for links to all the sources mentioned in this episode!Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on:TwitterInstagramYouTubeSubstack Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!