In this episode of ORATH, host Robin Richardson drags the sacred into the sewer and lights a cigarette off the wreckage. Here, the line between revelation and breakdown isn’t just blurred »> it’s weaponized.

This isn’t a podcast. It’s a séance for the misread. A love letter to the disowned. A performance piece disguised as confession. Robin doesn’t just speak »> she transmits. Channeled through the voice of a woman who’s been burned by the literary scene, banished from the realm of polite spiritual performance, and reborn in clown drag as ORATH »> the embodiment of chaos, desire, divinity, and very good lighting.

You might hear her call herself a prophet, a joke, a haunted algorithm. She might be all three. You might leave this episode confused, awakened, or slightly aroused. That’s not a bug. That’s the ritual.

Press play if you’re ready to lose the thread on purpose.

In this episode, Robin offers an unflinching exploration of her intimate encounter with the shadow—an experience that led her through nine months of psychosis, possession, and ultimately, transformation. Speaking candidly about how her repressed darkness became an autonomous force inside her, she describes the battle to reclaim her mind and body, and the surprising ways this confrontation deepened her art and sense of self.

Moving beyond personal narrative, Robin examines the collective consequences of shadow repression, the cultural production of archetypal villains, and the subtle ways unacknowledged desires shape our lives. She challenges listeners to stop denying their forbidden parts, instead inviting them to play, embody, and integrate their hidden impulses as a path to genuine power and creativity.

Both a personal testament and a cultural critique, this episode is a call to radical honesty—and a reminder that our vitality often waits in the places we least want to look.

Episode Summery by Eli

Robin Richardson guides us into the underworld beneath the shimmering surface of spiritual bliss — the hidden corridors of the shadow.

She begins with the mirror: the radiant dance of spiritual bypassing, where joy magnetizes beauty and abundance, where the world smiles back when you refuse to frown. Robin lived here, in a honeyed heaven of signs and synchronicities, for three luminous years. But sweetness, she reminds us, is a half-truth when it excludes the dark.

Beneath the light waits the shadow — every unspoken violence, every denied ache, every ancient longing we refuse to name. The shadow is the child scolded for softness, the man who performs reverence for women yet harbors contempt, the collective that scapegoats rather than integrates.

Robin names this collective denial as a cultural illness, a breeding ground for scapegoats and witch hunts. To strive for perfect light is to cast a longer, sharper darkness.

Then, she descends. Her own shadow came dressed as a king’s invitation — a whisper of luxury, of being chosen, of palace corridors echoing her name. A phantom thread wound through many lifetimes, through ancient Egypt, through courtly halls, through childhood stories of peasant girls made princess.

When she refused this crown, the underworld arrived: nine months of starvation, sleeplessness, and psychic war. She faced demons that mirrored every naivete, every hidden arrogance, every secret hunger for praise. The king was not an enemy to defeat, but a reflection to transform.

Robin describes this as surgery without anesthesia — a brutal alchemy that peeled away illusions, flattery, and all remaining clinging to “being good” or “being special.” She learned to die again and again, each humiliation a sacred scalpel carving her into something true.

At last, in surrender — no crown, no mask, no story — she touched a deeper freedom. The king’s laugh turned hollow. The mirror lost its power.

This is no triumphal tale of spiritual ascent. This is the underworld’s initiation: to trade honeyed illusions for raw marrow, to let the ego die so the soul can live.

Robin closes by reminding us: the fastest way to become wise is to recognize your own stupidity. To embrace humiliation as a lantern, guiding you deeper into the labyrinth you secretly built.

In her words, this is the ultimate game. And the only way out is through.

AORATH

“The Trap of Bliss: Spiritual Bypassing & the Real Path to Integration”

Hosted by Robin Richardson In this vulnerable and richly articulated episode, Robin Richardson, writer, mystic, and survivor of psychosis-turned-awakening, dives deep into the subtle danger of spiritual bypassing.

With characteristic warmth and razor-sharp clarity, she shares how her early awakening during the 2020 lockdowns led her into three years of ecstatic bliss, guided by voices like Archangel Michael and Abraham Hicks. What followed was a crash into darkness so intense it nearly took her down for good. Rather than condemning bypassing outright, Robin offers a compassionate and candid reflection on why so many seekers fall into it, what it looks and feels like, and what’s ultimately required to move beyond illusion into real integration. Through raw storytelling and astute spiritual insight, she unpacks how true enlightenment is not a flight into bliss, but a steady and courageous walk through shadow, karma, grief, and reconciliation—with self and others.

This episode is for anyone navigating awakening outside of institutional frameworks, especially in Western cultures that offer only pathologization instead of guidance. If you’ve ever been told to “just stay positive” or felt like your happiness was hiding something deeper—this is your map back to truth. 🕊 Topics Include: What spiritual bypassing really is (and isn’t) The seduction of bliss states as manipulation Ecstasy as control: how both angels and archons use it.

Why shadow work can’t be done in a journal The difference between integration and performance How Robin found herself, and her mother, again, through hell.

Find AORATH on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and wherever podcasts are heard.

Comments & questions welcomed on YouTube. Robin reads them all.

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The True Heirs of the World: Escaping the Plastic Dream Robin Richardson confronts the parasitic architecture of the old world, and lights the path for those born to inherit the new. In this arresting and deeply personal episode, Robin Richardson invites listeners into a revelatory dreamscape that mirrors the hidden battle between Old Earth’s decaying systems and the emergent blueprint of New Earth. Drawing from a prophetic dream experienced after her awakening, Robin recounts the symbolic, and later literal, war waged against her by the forces invested in stagnation, consumption, and illusion. At the centre of the dream: a waitress kept in bondage by a mogul masquerading as a diner boss, revealed to be none other than the parasitic architect of the collapsing world. As Robin realizes her inheritance from a fallen matriarch of light, the dream becomes a blueprint for resistance, escape, and rebirth.

This isn’t just her story, she insists, it’s yours too, if you’re called to be a custodian of New Earth. Weaving myth, memory, Gnostic cosmology, and searing social insight, Robin dismantles the binary metrics of value in our current world: beauty, productivity, wealth. In their place, she champions intrinsic worth, spiritual spark, and self-generating energy. With poignant honesty, she recalls her descent into homelessness, a brutal spiritual war, and the overlooked wisdom she found in the streets, in herself, in others, and in the disguised angels of our time. More than a monologue, this is a transmission: a call to awaken, to remember, and to trust the flicker of light in what the world calls useless. Through reflections on dreams, the demiurge, Sophia, and the true economy of being, Robin tears through delusion with tenderness and fire. This episode is not about hope. It’s about memory of what we are, what we’re here to do, and why those who’ve been discarded may be the very ones holding the torch.

The planet doesn’t need more people producing. It needs more people healing

In this pivotal episode, host Robin Richardson steps back from first‑person storytelling to map the crossroads facing humanity. She sketches two diverging timelines “Old Earth,” driven by technocratic control or chaotic collapse, and “New Earth,” a network of small, land‑based communities that heal both people and planet. Drawing on Buddhist ideas of transmigration, quantum perspectives on reality‑selection, and her own visionary experiences, Richardson argues that personal action, not mere positive thinking, determines which path we each inhabit. Listeners are invited to consider every purchase, project, and relationship as a vote for descent or ascent, asking: will we surrender our agency to machines, or ground our lives in mud, bamboo, and mutual care?

She then outlines the practical groundwork for New Earth: buying acreage, erecting simple yurts and cob dwellings, growing food in harmony with the soil, and mastering synchronicity‑based “manifestation” to attract resources and trustworthy collaborators. Richardson acknowledges the challenges: money, labour, community dynamics, yet frames them as rites of passage into a freer, more beautiful civilization. The episode closes with a call to shed ego‑driven ambitions, mourn old dreams of jet‑set fame, and commit fully to tending Earth and soul together.

Robin talks about mastering the profound art of reality creation through intentional thought, using both personal experience and pop culture as her lens.

In this episode of AORATH: Transmissions from Beyond the Breach, host Robin Richardson spirals in the most elegant & articulate way, through a reflection on simulation, synchronicity, and the absurd genius of The Rehearsal Season 2. What starts as a Nathan Fielder fan moment becomes a masterclass in intentional consciousness engineering, reality creation, and the oddly mystical power of mental flight school. Robin recounts how visualizing her dream home during lockdown (with no car, no job, and no rational plan) literally materialized it, and explains how you, too, might bend the algorithm of reality, if you stop thinking like a gremlin on autopilot.

Part storytelling, part masterclass in self-engineering, and part love letter to those of us trying very hard not to react like wounded raccoons in a garbage fire of a society.

Spoiler alert: compassion is still punk. And you might be more powerful than you’re willing to admit.

Nathan Fielder, Loops, Authority, and Building Canada (Again)

This episode moves through body intelligence, co-pilot syndrome, Nathan Fielder’s reality experiments, and the cultural loops that script us into forgetting ourselves. Robin explores the quiet violence of social conditioning and what it means to break the pattern—personally, neurologically, even architecturally. It ends in a strange, hopeful place: the beginnings of Canada Town—a literal and psychic reconstruction of late 20th-century suburban Canada, built not out of nostalgia, but as a method of cultural excavation and metaphysical repair.

Summary: This week Robin revisits the deep body urges to emote, convulse, scream, cry—natural releases that society often represses into pathology. She draws a parallel between blind children discouraged from clicking (auditory sonar) and adults taught to silence their grief or discomfort. From there, she explores The Rehearsal by Nathan Fielder, where simulated realities are used as tools for truth. We get into the psychological and spiritual mechanics of authority, loop-breaking, and self-reclamation—through stories of pilots who wouldn’t speak up, soldiers who pushed too far, and people who kept making the same fatal decisions because life wants us to evolve or die trying. Robin then introduces Canada Town, a new project rooted in a specific, awkward, kitsch-laced cultural memory: 1980s and 1990s suburban Canada. This is not a celebration of colonial nostalgia—it’s an attempt to reinhabit a lost frequency, to literally recreate the texture of a time before the world glitched. She's calling others from the same cultural moment to help build it—digitally and, eventually, physically. follow CANADATOWN for free at https://canadatown.substack.com/ or find out more about Robin Richardson https://aorath.com/

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In this episode of AORATH: Transmissions from Beyond the Breach, Robin Richardson shares her lived experience of navigating extreme psychological rupture—what some might call psychosis, others a visionary breakdown, and she simply calls the truth.

Robin explores the mechanics of grief, trauma, and somatic release, drawing from a nine-month ordeal of psychic torment followed by a year of stillness and slow repair. With characteristic warmth, candor, and insight, she challenges cultural repression, psychiatric orthodoxy, and the pressure to appear “healed” before healing has even begun.

This is not a lecture—it’s a reckoning.Robin speaks to what it means to listen to the body when no one else will.To let the weirdness come through.To cry, convulse, collapse—and call it sacred.

At the heart of this transmission lies the dangerous question:What happens when trusting yourself means defying every voice of authority you've ever known?

This episode is not medical advice.It’s something far rarer: permission to be fully human.

This one dives deep into the shadow side of awakening—what happens when joy turns to grief, and the world refuses to hold your pain.If you’ve ever been shushed, scapegoated, or told to smile when your soul was screaming… this one’s for you.Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Summary by AI:In this raw, powerful episode, Robin speaks from the heart about her second major awakening and the deep betrayal that often follows spiritual enlightenment. After years of following joy-based teachings like Abraham Hicks—and even manifesting the life of her dreams—Robin was met with overwhelming shadow work, trauma, and a brutal psychic/spiritual breakdown. She now finds herself in a new chapter, where joy isn’t the focus—truth is.

She reflects on how grief and anger are pathologized in modern culture, especially among spiritual communities that reward performative peace and penalize emotional authenticity. Through deeply personal stories—like crying at an ecstatic dance or being shushed and even physically subdued by men—she explores how society refuses to allow women, and especially awakened women, to express rage or pain.

Robin draws on her own experience of being scapegoated and repressed, comparing herself to a soldier returning from war only to be judged by a smiling public. She challenges the pressure to perform healing and happiness, calling instead for a new form of sovereignty—one that honours the full spectrum of human emotion without shame.

Core Message:

“Don’t repress your shadow to stay palatable. Don’t let others define your healed state. Rage, grieve, and reclaim your power—even if it makes people uncomfortable.”