The Postmugglism Podcast

Emotions In The Body

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: Twitter [https://twitter.com/postmugglism] Instagram [https://instagram.com/postmugglism] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@postmugglism] Substack [https://postmugglism.substack.com] Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

Cleansing The Spirit

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 [https://www.amazon.com/Cleansing-Rites-Curanderismo-Espirituales-Mesoamerican/dp/1591433118]," (2018) Bear & Company Miss Aida, "Hoodoo Cleansing and Protection Magic: Banish Negative Energy and Ward Off Unpleasant People, [https://www.amazon.com/Hoodoo-Cleansing-Protection-Magic-Unpleasant-ebook/]" (2020) Weiser Books Claude Lecouteux, "The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices," [https://www.amazon.com/Tradition-Household-Spirits-Ancestral-Practices/dp/1620551055] (2013) Inner Traditions Ep. 18: A Home For Spirits [https://postmugglism.com/a-home-for-spirits/] Ep. 22: The Enchanted Home [https://postmugglism.com/ep-22-the-enchanted-home/] Cura El Corazón (Heal The Heart) Retreat [https://www.sacredserpent.co/retreat] produced by The Sacred Serpent Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on: Twitter [https://twitter.com/postmugglism] Instagram [https://instagram.com/postmugglism] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@postmugglism] Substack [https://postmugglism.substack.com] Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

The Munay-Ki Rites

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 [https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Andean-Codes-Initiations-Conscious/dp/1401972888]", (2023) Hay House Alberto Villodo and The Four Winds Institude [https://www.thefourwinds.com] The Sacred Serpent [https://www.sacredserpent.co] Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on: Twitter [https://twitter.com/postmugglism] Instagram [https://instagram.com/postmugglism] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@postmugglism] Substack [https://postmugglism.substack.com] Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

The Enchanted Home

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 Spirits [https://postmugglism.com/a-home-for-spirits/] Ep. 14: Fern Gully Magic [https://postmugglism.com/fern-gully-magic/] Lecouteux, Claude, "Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2015) Inner Traditions Lecouteux, Claude, "Traditions of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices," (2013) Inner Traditions Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on: Twitter [https://twitter.com/postmugglism] Instagram [https://instagram.com/postmugglism] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@postmugglism] Substack [https://postmugglism.substack.com] Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!

Enter The Dragon: Aries & Libra

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 [https://sjanderson144.com/] | YouTube [https://youtube.com/@sjanderson144] Lunatic Astrology Website [https://www.lunaticastrology.com] | YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@LunaticAstrology] Maren Altman YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@MarenAltman] Susan Hopkinson Website [https://www.youtube.com/@susanhopkinson] | YouTube [https://www.nurturingtransformation.com/] Lunatic Astrology video about the Aries / Libra nodal transit and Chiron [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP1NKtsaDcs] Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe and to follow Postmugglism on: Twitter [https://twitter.com/postmugglism] Instagram [https://instagram.com/postmugglism] YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@postmugglism] Substack [https://postmugglism.substack.com] Hit me up on Twitter or by email at postmugglism @ gmail [dot] com with any questions or feedback you'd like to share!