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The Postmugglism PodcastEmotions In The BodyAlthough 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...2023-12-0839 min
The Postmugglism PodcastCleansing The SpiritThe 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...2023-11-0348 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Munay-Ki RitesThe 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 n...2023-10-0648 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Enchanted HomeThe 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....2023-09-1435 min
The Postmugglism PodcastEnter The Dragon: Aries & LibraAll 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...2023-08-3146 min
The Postmugglism PodcastResults Driven MagicMagic 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...2023-08-1635 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Light Of LifeWe 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...2023-08-0346 min
The Postmugglism PodcastA Home For SpiritsOne 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...2023-07-1937 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Religion Of Science Pt. 2Where 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...2023-07-051h 12
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Religion Of Science Pt. 1A 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...2023-06-2156 min
The Postmugglism PodcastSanctuary In ParadiseContinuing the theme from the last episode and catching everyone up on our progress on our grand adventure in the Yucatán jungle, this episode charts the course ahead of us. In Episode 14: Fern Gully Magic, I shared the story of how we came to be living and building a home and tropical homestead in the Mexican Caribbean. Now, dream with me a little as I share details of phase 2 of our journey, moving beyond simply being in paradise to what we'll actually be doing while we're here.Over the last 2 years while we've been living here in...2023-06-0738 min
The Postmugglism PodcastFern Gully MagicThis is the story of how I discovered my purpose, and passion, and how my wife and I got started on our grand adventure to build sanctuary and a permaculture food forest in the tropical Riviera Maya in Mexico. From psychedelics and spirit communication to crossroads dirt and jungle spirits, it's a one-way trip into wild places that changed the course of our lives and the core of our spiritual praxis.It's a story filled with time loops, synchronicities, uncanny fortune, and experimental sorcery. In this episode I trace the threads of fate that wove together to...2023-05-2441 min
The Postmugglism PodcastTending Your DreamsSomething we don't discuss often in magical circles is how long it can take for your magic to work -and how important it is to continue your positive intentions while it does. Self-doubt, over-analysis, and obsession with results can counteract your magical workings, never giving them the time to come to fruition.In my own experience following my dreams -and spirit guides- moving my family from the US to Mexico to pursue a grand vision and a new purpose in the beautiful Riviera Maya, there have been ups and downs, good days and bad days, and the...2023-04-1938 min
The Postmugglism PodcastPlotting By The StarsSince time immemorial, humanity has charted its path through the ages using the night sky as our guide. We sailed the seas, built temples aligned to the stars, and gave life to the constellations through our collective myths. The stars are guiding lights, speaking to us in stories, as peoples and nations, and as individuals as well.In ancient times, when we sailed the sea, we used the stars to find our way. And though we have GPS now for our physical travels, there is still no better guide through the unknown lands of the future than...2023-04-1243 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Problem With SolutionsOur modern age is filled with technological wonders from nuclear energy to 5G to blockchain and beyond. We can hack biology, modify the weather, and convert sunlight into electricity. Our technology allows us to dominate the world and, one day, we hope it will take us to conquer the stars. And yet, with each new technology we introduce, we find that their shining promise is dulled by myriad unintended consequences. All our solutions tend to cause new problems, forcing us to experiment with fraught new interventions with unpredictable outcomes.History, and particularly modern history, is filled with...2023-04-0545 min
The Postmugglism PodcastHades In Aquarius Pt. 3The final installment of the three part series, “Hades in Aquarius,” digs into the darkest issues of the 20+ year transit of Pluto through Aquarius, how the state weaponizes our best intentions to turn us against each other, how they are seeking to control our bodies and minds, and how all of this technocracy in the West is just a desperate attempt to cling to power long enough to achieve their terrifying transhumanist ideals.If you haven't listened to the previous 2 episodes already, "Hades In Aquarius," and "2023-03-2855 min
SoapboxFernGully w Postmugglism + Ecopunk to AnimismWe got to chat with our wayfinding friend Nate! He and his partner moved to Mexico to start a new life in the jungle and he tells us all about his experiences of intuitively feeling out the locals, building relations with the local spirit web, and the many syncs and wonders that inevitably arrive as compliments and stepping stones to such a grand adventure. This is all conjured through the Ferngully lens of childhood Ecopunk ideals turned full on Animist caretaker of Place. Nate offers Lunar Mansion elections, a new podcast, and shamanic healing via Four Winds Academy training...2023-03-242h 37
The Postmugglism PodcastHades In Aquarius Pt. 2Pluto was the god of the Underworld to the Romans (Hades to the Greeks) who kidnapped Persephone, the daughter of the lunar goddess of agriculture, Demeter, and made her Queen of the Underworld. This caused Demeter such grief that it drained the world of it's life force. This corruption of Persephone by the devious Pluto was upheld by Zeus, causing the suffering of the world to occur in cycles and seasons.This myth sets the stage for any ingress of Pluto; moving this corrupting energy into whatever areas of life indicated by the sign it occupies. Pluto's t...2023-03-2249 min
The Postmugglism PodcastHades In AquariusPluto's move into Aquarius portends some very dark, and very revealing, years ahead, particularly as science and technology integrate more deeply with every aspect of our lives. The dwarf planet's strange elliptical orbit lasts 248 years and causes it to spend different amounts of time in each sign. It's been in Capricorn since the 2008 financial crisis and is moving out now during another financial crisis (among other things) and into Aquarius. Capricorn is an earth sign and signifies physical, material things, structure, order, and so on, and Aquarius is an air sign, which signifies cerebral things, ideas, plans, s...2023-03-1540 min
The Postmugglism PodcastResurrection As PraxisWestern culture is has unhealthy fear of, and obsession with, death. And it leads us to try to control the universe through man-made inventions like technology, policy, law, and so on, that can't help but fall short. When they do, it causes harm and suffering, among less privileged people and the natural world. But if we look at this behavior through "shaman eyes", it's obvious our attempts to dominate and control are just cries for help as our social unconscious attempts to process centuries of generational trauma.It comes from a materialist worldview; one where life is...2023-03-0845 min
The Postmugglism PodcastAmbassadors For SpiritWe get into magic for all kinds of reasons: to experience the divine, to discover our fate, and to shift reality in our favor. And regardless of your point of origin into the world of magic and the so-called "occult", the magical path tends to lead you into the service of spirits in one way or another. We may be drawn here for personal power but what we find is collective purpose (with the more-than-human world). This path is not for everyone. Most people just want to live in the "mundane" world without being forced to constantly...2023-02-2744 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Spiritual Gift EconomyLong before modern, predatory systems of economics pushed the world into vicious competition over resources, "the economy" wasn't a measure of wealth but a means of distributing resources to those who need them. It was a system in which gifts were exchanged both to provide goods and services and also, and perhaps more importantly, a means of strengthening community bonds through collaboration and exchange. Economy was the embodiment of reciprocity at work -and reciprocity is a universal law of equilibrium which keeps the cosmos in coherence.In this episode we'll explore the concept of gift economies -the...2023-02-2241 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Great Escape Pt. 2In the Part 2 of The Great Escape, I complete the story I began in the last episode, talking about the migration of Westerners out of the cities, or, in some cases, their countries, to build a life that's closer to nature and, at least partially, insulated from the insanities of modern life -and what it's been like for my wife and I to begin our own version of this adventure.In Part 1 I introduced the idea of this migratory event and talked about some of the reasons that motivated my family to abandon our life in the...2023-02-1555 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Great Escape Pt. 1Westerners are starting to wake up to the fact that the world they grew up in has changed and isn't coming back. We're watching our privacy, liberty, and freedom to choose how we want to live erode right out from under us and many of us have made, or are at least considering, the hard choice to move away from the urban centers, institutions, and even family and friends, to build a better future elsewhere in the world.For some that means moving from cities to rural areas, for others it means moving to a new country...2023-02-0641 min
The Postmugglism PodcastThe Sacred Supply ChainOnce you start looking, it's everywhere. Nearly all the products we use in our daily lives are trying to kill us. From food to personal hygiene to cleaning supplies, our world is polluted with chemicals from the industrial processes which produce the goods we use.Is just this what's necessary to support an overpopulated and overburdened world? Not at all...this is the product of decades of work by some of the world's largest companies, in a race to control the supply of our basic hierarchy of needs.This is just what happens when human...2023-01-3137 min
The Postmugglism PodcastSometimes The Old Ways Are BestAs we sit here amidst the slow decline of the empire of the West, and with it the ruling order of patriarchy, I'm convinced we should take the opportunity to look back, to remember our ancient roots in the sacred feminine, in the worship of Nature herself.What did the Goddess mean to our prehistoric culture? How did our worship of Nature shape our relationship to the world around us? And, most importantly, what happened? Where did it all go wrong?In the debut episode of my new weekly show, I introduce you to a f...2023-01-2023 min