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 g…

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 …

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 en…

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…

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. …

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, …

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…

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…

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 wil…

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 descri…

Continuing 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…

This 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 cour…

Something 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 …

Since 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 time…

Our 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 tha…

The 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…

Pluto 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…

Pluto'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 c…

Western 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 throu…

We 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 wh…

Long 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 streng…

In 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 ow…

Westerners 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 ev…

Once 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…

As 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…