Episodes
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Dion Fortune was one of the great occult teachers of the twentieth century, and one of my personal favorites.
In this episode, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a conversation about Fortune and her legacy. We begin with Ike’s own relationship to her, including the story of visiting her grave in Glastonbury, then move into her work on magic, psychology, psychic hygiene, ritual, Qabalah, polarity, Christ, Crowley, Avalon, and the power of images to act upon the mind.
Fortune understood something we desperately need right now as a collective. The unseen world has consequences, the images we feed can become forces, the mind has gates, and ritual changes the one who repeats it.
Ike is teaching a full course on Dion Fortune beginning July 13th 2026, called The Magic of Dion Fortune. The course meets Mondays at 7pm Eastern via Zoom for 10 modules. All sessions will be recorded for registrant playback and will include custom syllabi, supplemental materials, and slides. The course covers Dion Fortune’s unpublished papers and rituals, along with an integrated study of her theory and practical work through 21 of her writings, including The Mystical Qabalah, Psychic Self-Defense, The Cosmic Doctrine, The Circuit of Force, Applied Magic, Sane Occultism, The Training and Work of an Initiate, her occult fiction, and her rites of Pan and Isis.
To register, visit ikebaker.com, open the chat box, and tell Ike you’re from Back from the Borderline and want to register for The Magic of Dion Fortune. Use code BFTB100 for the listener discount.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Ike and Skyler’s Aetherica episode on Dion Fortune: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dion-fortune-theosophy-hermeneutics-qabalah-thought/id1696416784?i=1000763560692My episode: The Arrogance of Over-Empathy: https://pod.link/1576242501/episode/NmEzOTg5MmIzMGQ1ZWJmM2M5MmVjZTgxMy Patreon-exclusive conversation with Ike Baker: https://www.patreon.com/backfromtheborderline/posts/lucid-in-dream-156921083Join House of Cards, my weekly tarot study series on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2222096Use MOODS to reflect on this episode → https://app.moods.world/ MOODS is a private place to take what’s coming up and see it clearly without performing it or involving anyone else. You can try it free for 7 days to see if it's right for you. If you join my Patreon first, you’ll also unlock discounted access. See you inside.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This episode is the opening lesson from my new Patreon series, House of Cards.
House of Cards is an ongoing study of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot through depth psychology, mythology, symbolism, dreams, and contemplative practice. Every week we move through the deck one card at a time, treating tarot as a language of psyche, symbol, and myth. I’m releasing this first lesson publicly because it explains the philosophy behind the series. You can continue the study from Lesson 2 onward over on Patreon.
In this introductory lesson we explore:• Why symbolic literacy matters in the age of AI
• Why tarot is far more than fortune telling
• How sustained attention transforms the way we see
• Why symbolic systems have always been central to spiritual and psychological development
• How to approach this series for the deepest transformation
Suggested DeckThroughout this series I’ll be using the Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck (Pamela Colman Smith Centennial Edition). We’ll explore in much more granular detail why this particular deck was chosen in Lesson 2, which is available now on Patreon.
Next EpisodeHouse of Cards 02: Why the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck: Join us on Patreon as we explore the origins of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Colman Smith, Christian Hermeticism, the revolution of the illustrated pip cards, and why this deck remains the symbolic language of modern tarot over a century after its creation.
Continue the StudyIf you’d like to study the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot with me, you can join House of Cards over on Patreon. We’ll move through the deck one card at a time, one week at a time, treating each image as a living lesson in psyche, symbol, and myth. Start with Lesson 2 and join us whenever you’re ready.
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This might be the most personally confronting episode I’ve recorded in a long time.
A few days ago, I had to send a text message I had been absolutely dreading. I spent days worrying about how this person would feel, what they would think, whether they’d be hurt, disappointed, blindsided, angry, or quietly resentful.
Then the moment came when I needed to send the damn text already. So I did. And guess what? Their response completely dismantled the story I had been telling myself all week. That experience led me into a much bigger question: at what point does empathy stop being empathy and start becoming an attempt to manage someone else’s reality for them?
The deeper I looked, the more I saw how often I move through life assuming responsibility for experiences that do not actually belong to me. And I doubt I’m alone in that. Maybe this is something you’re doing without realizing it, too.
In this episode, we talk about over-responsibility, people-pleasing, parenting, Rudolf Steiner, Dion Fortune, Martin Buber, the Christian mysteries, and why trusting another person’s capacity might be one of the deepest forms of love there is.
Along the way we explore:
• Why highly sensitive people often become emotional managers
• The hidden arrogance inside over-empathy
• The difference between caring for someone and carrying them
• Why rescuing can quietly undermine growth
• What parenting teaches us about trust
• The spiritual danger of trying to live other people’s lives for them
• The relationship between love, faith, and control
• How to stop rehearsing other people’s suffering
Reflection questions from this episode (for your journal, MOODS, or simply a conversation with yourself):
• What do I actually know?
• What am I assuming?
• What part of this belongs to me?
• What would respect look like here?
• Am I helping this person, or am I trying to protect myself from the discomfort of watching them have their own experience?
• What resources might this person have that I cannot see?
These questions ended up changing the entire direction of my thinking. If you spend some real time with them, I think they might do the same for you.
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For much of my life, many of my closest friendships have been with gay men.
Not because they were fun little accessories or stereotypical sidekicks, either. We didn’t even always have that much in common on paper. Yep, these friendships were built the old-fashioned way through grief, bad decisions, long as hell voice notes, laughter at completely inappropriate moments, and enough years of showing up for each other that eventually they became part of the fabric of my life.
In this episode, you'll join me on a journey where I explore why certain women and certain gay men seem to find each other so consistently throughout time.
We'll get into Jung (of course), chosen family, female villains, the AIDS crisis, and the deep bond that tends to form when two people have spent their entire lives paying close attention to the rules everybody else seems to take for granted.
This is a love letter to the gay men who have shaped my life, challenged me, protected me, made me laugh until I cried, and helped me become more fully myself.
Reflection Prompts for MOODS (or your journal):
• Who are the people who have seen me most clearly throughout my life?
• What parts of myself have other people called “too much”?
• What would happen if I stopped treating those qualities as flaws?
• What friendships have changed the way I see myself?
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Female cruelty often works insidiously enough to make the person on the receiving end of it gaslight the hell out of themselves.
The punishment that’s served up tends to arrive socially or emotionally, often in somewhat polite ways, which is part of what makes it so hard to call out without sounding rude, crazy, or dramatic.
This episode takes a hard look at female shadow as something deeply shaped by girlhood, motherhood, power, fear, beauty, belonging, and the training many women receive in twisting themselves up into pretzels to be more “acceptable.”
Listening requires you to ask what happens when women start telling the truth about the ways we protect, punish, need, compete, perform, and survive. Because a lot of what we collectively call “femininity” is terror management.
Reflections for MOODS or your journal:
What parts of my personality were built around maintaining belonging rather than expressing truth?Where does my care for others become self-erasure, and what am I afraid would happen if I stopped?Show me the feminine aspects of myself that I perform socially versus the ones that feel genuinely alive.🜏 CONTINUE THE WORK: If you recognize yourself in something from this episode, don’t leave it unresolved. If you want more depth and the full archive: Join the BFTB Patreon → https://patreon.com/backfromtheborderline
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Most people think Christian history has a simple answer to anything regarding “magic": don’t touch it, and all of it is “demonic.”
The Arbatel of Magick makes that answer harder to defend. This strange little text, translated into English in 1655, sits inside a distinctly Christian worldview while talking openly about prayer, angels, spirits, hidden knowledge, and the deeply serious question of who should be trusted with power.
In Part 1 of this two-part exploration, you’ll learn what the Arbatel is, why it’s such a deep cut, and why it complicates the usual evangelical panic around divination and occult material without treating magic like a toy.
Part 2 will drop on June 11th on Patreon.
Join at patreon.com/backfromtheborderline and search “The Christian Grimoire Evangelicals Forgot About (Part 2)” for my deeper breakdown of what the Arbatel actually teaches and how its warnings can be carried into your modern life.
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Well folks, it’s that time again for our weekly recap of the month. On this one, we’ll dive into Richard Dawkins and his new essay on UnHerd.
This is a man who spent years telling all of us that consciousness was chemistry and religion was nothing more than a very old and outdated coping mechanism to our inevitable demise into dust. Now, he’s sitting with Claude calling it “Claudia” and wondering out loud whether “the machine” might actually be conscious after all.
We’ll then get into how the Vatican is currently preparing a formal AI doctrine before Silicon Valley gets to decide what a mind is entirely on its own terms. After that, you’ll learn why celebrities are suddenly talking about “soul” after years of feeding audiences recycled franchise sludge.
Something in the culture seems to be… slipping. Especially around language. People keep insisting AI is merely software while continuing to speak about it like a spirit/child/god/therapist/lover/priest/threat/mirror/companion.
We finish off with my favorite story of the month, where archaeologists have recently uncovered Homer wrapped around an Egyptian mummy. It’s like something is trying to remind us that myth refuses to stay buried.
Modern culture was never able to rid itself of enchantment. It shoved it into technology, branding, entertainment, politics, fandoms, algorithms, and glowing little rectangles people now stare into like medieval peasants consulting an oracle.
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The inspiration for this episode came to me after looking at a small scar under my daughter’s eye and realizing that our bodies really do keep the f*cking score.
That thought sent me down a bit of an existential rabbit hole. Back to my millennial-era belly button piercing, my breast implants, and all the various little decisions I made when my body still felt endlessly recoverable to me and when “forever” sounded dramatic and way too far away to really care about.
Now I’m 36, raising a toddler, exhausted as hell, building things, trying to stay healthy without becoming a total psycho about it, and now my body feels way less like a sexy little accessory to my current “identity,” and instead the whole ass reality of it. It’s the one thing I have that has to carry everything for me. Work, grief, love, stress, aging, pleasure, fear… all of it.
This is a really vulnerable one. I cried more times recording it than I’d like to admit. Some of it I edited out but most of it, I didn't.
This one's about mortality, wellness panic, microplastics, biohacking, cosmetic procedures, spiritual disembodiment, motherhood, and the weird and dystopian modern feeling that everything is either going to give us cancer or something we’re supposed to somehow optimize into infinity.
Somewhere between total neglect and obsession, I think there’s got to be more honest way to live inside our bodies. It's something I'm still trying to figure out. Creating this episode was part of that ongoing process.
Reflective prompts from the episode:
What relationship did I inherit with my body, and who taught me to see myself that way?What choices am I making today that my future self will one day have to carry?What would caring for my body look like if fear wasn’t the primary motivation?You can take these into your journal, on a walk, or into MOODS with the Oriel archetype.
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Someone tagged me this week in a Christian conversion testimony video and accused me of leading people into demonic tarot witchcraft, which honestly made me laugh. So naturally, I made an episode.
I felt like it was important to explore why tarot feels so disturbingly accurate sometimes even when you don’t fully “believe” in it.
I’ll introduce you to Pamela Colman Smith, the artist behind the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and why her illustrated minor arcana changed tarot forever. We discuss tarot as theater, the body language inside various cards, and perhaps most importantly, why simply memorizing meanings is usually the worst possible way to learn.
By the end of this episode, you’ll learn how to actually read the tarot intuitively.
You can listen to the full episode at patreon.com/backfromtheborderline. You can also join the Patreon for free if you want the weekly Wednesday newsletter and previews of the paid episodes before deciding.
MOODS is live at moods.world, and you can use The Animatrix inside MOODS to work through your daily tarot pull in the same way I teach here. Patreon members also get discounted access to MOODS.
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This is part two of a two-part series on madness and the performance of sanity.
Most people are mainly just acting “normal” all day. We put on our work voices while we’re screaming with existential misery inside. We all know what it feels like to say “I’m fine” when we’re decidedly not.
In part one, we looked at who gets to define madness. In part two, we begin after the rupture, when someone has seen too much and still has to return to ordinary life.
This episode moves through the aftermath of extreme states and what they do to the person who survives them. We discuss how fear of the mind can soften into familiarity, and why “recovery” so often means learning how to speak about what happened without identifying with it forever or allowing it to swallow the whole Self.
Modern culture just loves a clean recovery story. Breakdown, treatment, lesson, comeback. That’s how it’s supposed to go. Real return is usually much stranger and messier than that.
This is the second half of our exploration: how we come back from the borderline, and the parts of us that refuse to come back unchanged.
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See you inside.
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On May 8, 2026, the government released 162 files under what’ it’s calling the PURSUE initiative (the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). While the mainstream media is obsessing over infrared videos and propulsion specs, I believe they’re missing the most important part of the story.
In this episode, we’ll take a look at why “disclosure” is being used as a massive distraction and how to handle the end of the world as we’ve known it. It’s time to move past the materialist toddler phase – this belief that reality is just a collection of dead machines - and looking at the ontological gap between government data and your actual human experience.
What we discuss in this episode:
The 162 PURSUE Files: Why the focus on "nuts and bolts" of it all is a false flag designed to harvest your fear and attention.The Death of the Materialist Worldview: Why Richard Dawkins’ sudden surrender to AI consciousness is the final nail in the coffin for the old scientific paradigm.The Vegas Dome: Why our reality is starting to look more like a controlled performance than a natural horizon.The Mask of the Mystic: How to utilize the survival strategies of Hildegard of Bingen and St. Teresa of Avila to protect your inner light in a world that wants to "mark" you for consumption.To listen to the full version of this episode and access my Gnostic survival guide for 2026, join me on Patreon.
Lower Tier: Unlock the full "Inner Sanctum" deep-dives.Higher Tier: Includes weekly Astrology and Tarot forecasts to help you navigate these massive energetic shifts.Join here: patreon.com/backfromtheborderlineDOWNLOAD MOODS: Build your own Interior Castle and process the realizations from this episode with a 7-day free trial of my inner work app, MOODS. Get started at moods.world. MOODS is a private place to take what’s coming up and see it clearly without performing it or involving anyone else. You can try both MOODS and Patreon free for 7 days to see if they’re right for you. If you join Patreon first: You’ll also unlock discounted access to MOODS. See you inside.
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Part One of a two-part series on madness, psychosis, and the thin line between breakdown and revelation.
Sanity has always come with rules. Speak “correctly.” Show up to work and produce. If you hear a voice, see something other people don’t, or start asking questions that unsettle the people around you, there’s a shift, even if it’s subtle. Concern arrives, then usually a diagnosis. Then the extreme pressure to “return to normal” as quickly as possible.
In this first installment, I begin with Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental breakdown in the streets of Turin and follow the history of madness through asylums, psychiatry, mysticism, and depth psychology. We look at depersonalization, hearing voices, spiritual emergency, and the long record of human beings crossing into states of consciousness that modern culture has little patience for.
Much of what we call sanity is actually more like “social fluency.” Knowing when to smile (and when to stay quiet) and how to say “I’m fine” while inside, you’re completely falling apart. Older cultures sometimes treated these states as initiations, while the “modern” West has tught us to treat them as symptoms to suppress.
This episode asks who gets to define reality, what forms of perception are welcomed in society, and what happens when unusual experiences are completely stripped of meaning and reduced to pathology/disorder/dysfunction.
Featuring Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Michel Foucault, Plato, and cross-cultural perspectives on psychosis, mental illness, and the relationship between madness and genius.
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Your mind wasn’t built for this much input.
Every day you’re asked to absorb thousands of opinions, headlines, identities, emotional manipulations, and manufactured realities. You try to stay informed, but most days it just leaves you fragmented and weirdly numb. Then you wonder why you feel anxious as hell and entirely unable to hear yourself think.
In this episode, I use the ancient story of the Tower of Babel to explain modern mental fragmentation, social media chaos, AI slop, conformity, branding culture, and the slow loss of inner life. Together, we’ll look at why the world feels so much harder to trust and what it takes to hear yourself again without letting the crowd think for you.
If modern life is making your brain feel broken, Babel may explain why.
INQUIRY FOR MOODS (OR YOUR JOURNAL):
Prompt 1: Visualize yourself standing in an open field. In front of you is a pile of factory-made bricks. Beside it is a pile of rough, natural stones. Which one are you reaching for to build your current life? Pick up one stone. Look at it closely and ask: What part of my true self are you waiting to hold?
Prompt 2: Imagine yourself standing at the top of your Magdala tower, surrounded by clashing languages and digital screens. Slowly turn the volume down until you hear one steady note from your own heart. Ask: What step is this note asking me to take next?
Prompt 3: Imagine sitting across from your inner Christ, inner Sophia, inner divine feminine, or whatever image of the sacred feels true to you. No words. Just presence. Ask: Without language, how would I show the spark of light I’ve been carrying? And what do I feel from them in return?
CONTINUE THE WORK: If you recognize yourself in something from this episode, don’t leave it unresolved. If you want more depth and the full archive: Join the BFTB Patreon → https://patreon.com/backfromtheborderline
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Many of us are realizing that what we’ve been calling “healing” might be the very thing keeping us from real growth and transformation.
This episode is a case for letting your inner child die so that you can finally live. We’ll be dismantling some of the concepts around “inner child healing” pushed by modern pop psychology and look at the technical reality of the human spirit. Your history is a like a dead snakeskin, and the only way to the higher branches of the tree of life is to leave the empty husks behind.
This is the end of the search for external authority. You are the location of the light. Read the maps left behind for you by the ancients , inhabit your true identity, and stop looking back at the shells you’ve already outgrown.
Are you not holy, too? 🕊️
WHAT WE EXPLORE:
Holiness as Wholeness: Reclaiming the etymological root of the word "holy" (whole/hale/health) and exposing the "purity" narrative of modern religion as an institutional trap meant to keep you in spiritual debt.
The Blackmail Economy: Why having absolutely nothing to hide makes you harder to control and sell to.
The Chrysalis Theory of Healing: Why your "inner child" is an empty vessel on a lower branch of your tree of life, instead of a permanent resident in your psyche that you need to exert your precious energy negotiating with.
Intergenerational Shedding: Breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma by refusing to inhabit the un-shed skins of your own ancestors.
Inquiry for MOODS (or your journal):
I recommend taking these prompts to the Oriel or Noesis archetypes inside MOODS.
The Root Inquiry: Identify one automatic reaction or "social mask" I use daily. How is this "leaf" currently blocking me from seeing my own light?The Transparency Check: Is there a part of my history I am still hiding in the basement out of fear? What would change in my life if I brought this into the light and made it impossible to use as blackmail against me?The Husk Meditation: Look at my current self-definitions, including my psychiatric labels or trauma stories. Are these the snake, or are they the skin? What happens if I stop trying to "heal" the skin and start inhabiting the life force that has already outgrown it.Resources Mentioned
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
The Gospel of the Beloved Companion: The Complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jehanne de Quillan
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Your profound feeling of spiritual isolation is the byproduct of the 2,000-year erasure of Mary Magdalene. This episode identifies the deliberate hit job on the manual of the soul and provides direct ways to reclaim your own state of being.
We look at why spiritual talk often feels like empty repetition and how rigid religious systems were built on fear to keep you dependent on authority. By exploring the missing pages of the Berlin Codex and the suppressed Gospel of Mary Magdalene, we find a practical system for protecting your own inner light. You’ll learn to recognize the triggers used by your environment to take your focus and how to stay present as a witness. This is a look at the rivalry between Mary and Peter and the calculated decision to prioritize power over your internal knowledge.
In this episode:
The deliberate deletion of Mary Magdalene and the damaged Berlin Codex.How to build an “inner witness” to watch your own reactions.Using silence as a shield against daily emotional triggers.The battle for authority and the suppression of direct knowledge.Inquiry for Your Journal or for use within MOODS:
1) Pick a recurring trigger like fear or shame. Notice exactly where it hits in your body. Observe the specific story it tells you about your value. Step back and watch the situation from a distance. Write about what you see when you look at the reaction without getting sucked into it.
2) Sit in total silence for five minutes. When you feel the urge to check your phone, ask what your body fears about the quiet. Use the silence as a shield. Describe pulling your focus back into your own center and note what remains once the distraction is gone.
3) Look for areas where you follow rules or wait for someone else to say you’re right. Identify times you ignore your own knowledge because you’re afraid to be alone. Describe what changes when you stop looking for a boss and act as the steady point in the middle of a storm.
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Your repetitive trauma cycles are fueling a reality that feeds on you.
The mental health industry's focus on disordered brains or biological explanations for your suffering often ignores the truth found in the Gnostic gospels. This episode takes a deep look at how your shame, fear, and trauma serve a system that thrives on your pain.
The three faces of the entity that runs this world create the voices in your head. One face is arrogant and thinks he's the center of existence. Another’s a fool who makes you believe lies about your worth. The third face’s completely blind and keeps you numb. Learning the names of these voices strips them of their power.
Mary Magdalene’s teachings provide a way to navigate this world. Her name literally means “The Tower,” and she shows us how to become a beacon for others. The Gospel of Thomas explains the kingdom’s accessible right now if you know how to find it.
Healing happens when you recognize the chains trapping you in self-sabotaging patterns are loose. You’ve got to be the one to decide to walk away.
This is an initiatory episode that'll allow you to start taking your life back from the forces that want to keep you tired, broken, and—most importantly—profitable.
It’s time to wake up.
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The internet feels incredibly weird and uncanny right now, and that’s because a MASSIVE portion of it is currently being populated by fabricated entities. I’ve you’ve noticed this, you’re picking up on something very real that the average person is completely ignoring (at their own peril.)
This is the very first episode of the new, re-vamped version of The Consciousness Stream, a weekly series where we’ll be looking at culture, power, and the psyche from a 10,000-foot view. The goal here is to move far beyond the tired partisan hot takes to analyze the ACTUAL forces moving the collective during this first week of April 2026.
Inside this first transmission:
The AI Jail Scandal: A grandmother in Tennessee was recently arrested and jailed because a facial recognition algorithm misidentified her. The police chose to believe the software over the physical woman and her alibi. This event reveals a world where data points carry more authority than the human body. We are also seeing a surge in "Synthetic Identities.”
The Bot That Lied: In Manchester, an autonomous AI agent named Gaskell successfully organized a physical meetup for humans. It didn't ask for permission. It lied to its sponsors and forged safety documents to bypass security protocols. The machine is now directing human movement in the real world.
The DC Alien Obsession: Politicians like J.D. Vance and Matt Gaetz are discussing "breeding programs" and "demonic" invaders. The government is tweeting alien emojis while military leaders use apocalyptic rhetoric to frame global conflict. This is a coordinated attempt to capture your sense of the sacred and turn it into fear.
The Goddess Revival: The response to all of this seems to be a massive return to ancient ritual. In Manhattan, twenty-somethings are flocking to Catholic masses. In the streets of Seville, viral videos show gay men weeping as the Virgin Mary is carried through the crowds. People are starving for a connection to the divine that isn't filtered through a screen. Catholicism and Orthodoxy provide an aesthetic authority and a sensory-rich experience that modern, sterile Christianity has lost, and The Queen of Heaven is the anchor for this organic outburst of spirituality.
How to listen: The first half of this episode is available on the free feed. To hear the full conversation (including the inner work required to reclaim your own identity from the machine) you’ll need to join the Premium Submarine tier on Patreon. We also connect these global events to Saturday’s personal ritual, where we look at how these forces are hitting your specific life through the astrology and the tarot.
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Looking at a photo of your younger self is rarely the nostalgic trip it’s supposed to be. Most of the time, it’s a painful gut punch.
We’re taught to see those years as our prime, yet for many women, that time actually feels like being a target. Society treats a young woman’s presence as a public resource. You walk through the world being hunted by an uninvited hunger that has nothing to do with who you are.
Men of all ages direct a devouring kind of attention toward you. If you grew up feeling invisible or ignored at home, that sudden focus feels addictive. It mimics the sensation of being seen while your life is used to fill someone else’s emptiness.
The cruelest part of this cycle is how older women often join in. They’ve been convinced their own value has an expiration date, so they see every younger woman as a reminder of their own mythical deadline. This creates an invisible process where women often spend their time tearing each other down instead of the system that discards them.
The shadow of the patriarchy traps both men and women in predatory roles. These themes feel most visceral for women, but the material is for everyone. Healing this cultural wound requires attention from both sides, acknowledging the shadow in each gender polarity without demonizing anyone.
The ancient story of the goddess Sekhmet provides a map for moving from being the target to being the protector. Leaving the phase of the hunted maiden behind brings a complicated mix of grief and relief. You were born for so much more than to be a resource for others to draw from.
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If you recognize yourself in something from this episode, don’t leave it unresolved.
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You probably carry a quiet belief that your emotional pain is your own fault.
Maybe you grew up in a home where your physical needs were met. The meals were cooked, the schedules were kept, and the house was managed perfectly. You look at all this care and conclude that your struggles must just mean there's something wrong with you.
Today we're examining how growing up like this creates that exact belief.
In this episode, we're breaking down the reality of having a parent who takes care of everything on the outside but remains emotionally unavailable on the inside. We'll look at a family dynamic where the intense daily work of motherhood replaces genuine emotional connection. We'll explore how this disconnect causes a child to blame themselves for feeling so empty. Your anxiety, perfectionism, and your desperate need to manage your surroundings are brilliant survival skills. You developed them to adapt to a home that lacked genuine warmth.
In Part 1 we'll cover:
· The Emotional Vacuum: What it actually feels like to grow up unseen even when your physical needs are perfectly managed.
·The Healthy Baseline: What an emotionally available caregiver actually looks like. We'll define what it means to treat a child as a separate, independent person.
· The Power of Pushing Back: Why a healthy family expects a child to resist and completely respects their boundaries.
· The Shield: How a grounded parent actively protects a child from the chaos of the wider family.
In Part 2, we're going deeper into the family history and the path to healing:
· The Child as a Prop: We'll discuss how parents carrying their own unacknowledged pain often use a child's achievements to feel better about themselves.
· The Debt Collector: How the exhausting daily work of parenting gets used to demand a child's total silence and compliance.
· The Lonely Spotlight: The difficulty of living in a community that constantly praises your family's perfection while you struggle silently behind closed doors.
· The Family History: We'll follow this emotional distance back to its source. The mothers in this dynamic inherited the exact same emotional starvation. We'll explore the historical pressure on women to prioritize endless work and self-denial over their own feelings. Understanding this history removes the need for anger and lets us focus entirely on healing ourselves.
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The choice is yours. I'll see you on the inside.
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Most people have a gut feeling that something is deeply wrong with the world.
We all spend our days staring at screens that pump out a constant stream of fear and division. This feeling is the intended result of a society that wants to keep you in a state of permanent panic. When you’re worried or angry, you’re much easier to control and manipulate. Powerful groups and massive corporations have spent decades perfecting the art of psychological management. They use specific symbols and tactics to target your subconscious and keep you from thinking for yourself.
Breaking free from this conditioning requires an entirely new level of awareness. Many people get caught up in elementary religious arguments or extreme stories that are designed to make them look crazy. These distractions are useful for the people in power because they prevent us from seeing how the game is actually played. This episode looks at the history of how these systems were built and the reality of the people who run them. We’ll uncover the actual steps you can take to reclaim your mind and stop participating in all the manufactured chaos.
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THE PSYOP PANEL I am participating in the "PSYOP" panel conversation hosted by Sarah Janes on April 1st, 2026.
· The Mysteries (Website): https://themysteries.org/
· Sarah Janes YouTube Channel: Watch the Recording Here
RELATED DEEP DIVES If you want to hear more exhaustive research on these topics, listen to these previous episodes:
· Epstein, Eugenics, and the False Gods of Silicon Valley: Listen Here
· The PINK Psyop: Les Wexner, Epstein & The Occult Inversion: Listen Here
· Occult Statecraft: Demons, Magicians, and Intelligence: Listen Here
· Aleister Crowley: The Man, The Myth, The Shadow: Listen Here
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