Speaking Spirit

What is a ritual? What is a ceremony?

Beyond the day to day definitions, these are both sets of spiritual, and symbolic actions. Why are they important?

This episode discusses types of ceremonies - such as shamanic soul retrieval, how they impact humans on multiple levels - physical, mental, spiritual.

John also gives tips on how to approach ceremony and ritual for a greater impact on your life.

This episode uses the model of human beings having various bodies, physical, etheric, astral, causal. He describes how these bodies interact and affect each other.

Drawing from a larger body of work he calls Shamanic Self Defense, host John Moore gives practical advice for staying safe and healthy in the world which includes practices for spiritual protection.

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Whether you go through formal initiation ceremonies or not, it is ultimately spirit that initiations. Initiation happens at a deep level of spirit and usually involves a symbolic death and rebirth.

John talks about initiation, how birth and death are initiations, and why initiation is important.

He talks about how we get stuck when we misidentify as "external" things and even gives an exercise to shake things up.

As a human being, incarnated on Earth, you have a physical body, a soul body, and you are a spirit. There is divinity in everyone and everything.

In this episode, John talks about what he means by "spiritual" and how that shows up in unexpected areas of life.

He presents his model of multiple human bodies and how models are imperfect but necessary to have a common way to communicate.

The soul body is a spiritual component that is affected by our experiences during this lifetime.

The spirit, or Atman, is our perfect undying divine spark that remains whole and perfect forever and is never affected by life experiences.

Our Ego is not evil, it is just our mental structure of who we are as individuals.

In the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, the principle of gender states: There is gender in everything, masculine and feminine exist on all planes.

In this episode, John Moore explores the meaning of gender from the perspective of spirit. He talks about the divine masculine impulse - Eros, and the divine feminine impulse - Agape and how they cannot be separated.

Beyond patriarchy, politics, and sex, how do yin and yang play out in our spiritual lives, and the benefit of embracing both sides? John touches on the Tao - yin, and yang, as well as shamanism.

John talks about the fetch or fylgia from Celtic and Norse beliefs and how that shows up in the series, based on His Dark Materials.

Bringing it back to the shamanic impulse, John discusses his experiences of gender while training in shamanism and sitting in shamanic circle.

This is the inaugural episode of speaking spirit. After introducing himself and the podcast, spiritual teacher John Moore dives into a description of shamanism. He talks about light seekers and goes into spiritual shadow work.

What is the shadow, when we're speaking spiritually?

Why is it important to address the shadow as part of any spiritual development?

What happens to spiritual leaders who do not address their shadows?