The Sacred Outlaw Temple

In this episode of Sacred Outlaw Temple, Cyren Naôs sits down with Courtney Erwin, an international human rights lawyer, educator, and Muslim whose life and work are deeply informed by the Islamic spiritual tradition of Sufism (taṣawwuf).

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For more than two decades, Courtney has worked across the Middle East and North Africa at the intersection of international law, human rights, education, and religion. Her career includes work with the International Criminal Court, United Nations agencies, and Education Above All, as well as helping develop international protections for schools during armed conflict.

She currently serves on the board of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, which administers the Fulbright Program in Morocco, and as General Secretary of Amal, a women's training nonprofit in Marrakech.

Our conversation begins with justice, law, and the limits of Western frameworks for understanding the world, before moving into more personal territory: the narratives surrounding Muslim women, the richness of Islamic spirituality, the practice of Sufism, and what sustains hope in an increasingly fractured world.

Together, we explore what becomes possible when we challenge inherited assumptions, resist simplistic binaries, and learn to encounter other cultures on their own terms.

Perhaps seeing the world differently begins with recognizing how much we've been taught not to see.

CONNECT WITH COURTNEY

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtneypaigeerwin/

EXPLORE COURTNEY'S MOROCCO RETREATS

Illuminated Tours:
https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/morocco

Eight-Day Yoga Retreat:
https://wonderingsoulsarah.com/yoga-retreats/morocco/

Morocco Nurses' Retreat, May 2027:
https://unwoundretreats.com/morocco-retreat-may-2027

SACRED OUTLAW TEMPLE: Exploring the intersections of art, culture, consciousness, power, and creative sovereignty.

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For nearly three decades, artist Tim Buwalda has examined the wreckage beneath American certainty: automobiles, monuments, domestic aspiration, violence, progress, and the unstable mythology we call freedom.

But lately, another mythology has begun to fracture inside his practice: the artist as origin, owner, authority, and suffering genius.

In this conversation, Tim and his longtime friend Cyren Naôs explore what changes when an artist understands himself not as the sole creator of the work, but as a participant in something older, larger, and not entirely his.

They speak about American mythology, artistic ego, authorship and ownership, Tim’s evolving relationship with his Cherokee inheritance, and the responsibility of working alongside Native artists without turning relationship into resource.

What happens when an artist stops asking, “What can I make from this?” and begins asking, “What is asking to be made—and what kind of relationship would allow me to meet it?”

Explore Tim’s work:

timbuwalda.com

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In this episode, I sit down with Jenniffer Claroscura of Ancient Dreamers—a consciousness explorer whose work bridges the dream and waking realms through shadow integration, hypnotherapy, symbolic exploration, and more. Together, we journey into the fertile depths of the shadow: the place where exile becomes initiation, and darkness becomes a portal to sovereignty.

We discuss:

• How shadow work reveals hidden creative power
• Reclaiming the exiled parts of self as a radical act
• The role of dark magick and dreams in self-liberation
• Moving from unconscious patterns into embodied sovereignty
• How to integrate wake-dreaming into material reality

This conversation isn’t about bypassing the dark—it’s about stepping into it with reverence, curiosity, and radical honesty.
I end with how shadow work and exiled integration connects to the launch of the Creative Exiled Confessional!

Guest Links:
Explore Jenniffer’s work and listen to her other podcasts:
🔗 Ancient Dreamers Linktree
Podcasts Jenni has hosted: Dream Pioneers, The Dream Freaks, & Lucid Talks

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This episode dives into my recent post THE GOSPEL OF JEZEBEL and how dangerous beauty has been demonized throughout history in many mythologies and religious texts. Jezebel was not a harlot, an idolater, a cautionary tale—but a sovereign queen whose power threatened the patriarchal order. We explore how her story was weaponized to silence true beauty and how reclaiming her and many others  is part of restoring our sacred right to sovereignty, desire, and voice.

Themes We Explore

• The biblical and patriarchal propaganda machine: how white supremacist writers rewrote Jezebel, Aïcha,, Medusa and The Siren's story to demonize rebellious noncompliant sovereignty. 
• Jezebel as archetype: the sovereign woman who refuses to bow, and the cost of standing in defiance.
• Why the terms "ugly" and "beautiful" are not true. 
• The weaponization of shame and beauty: how narratives of “whore” and “idolater” still echo in purity culture, media, and modern misogyny.
• Reclaiming Jezebel, Aïcha, Medusa and The Sirens: what it means to embrace them as patroness' of outlawed beauty in all of us. 
• The broader lineage: how listening to your own siren song holds the code of rebellion, sovereignty and TRUE beauty

Referenced Works & Readings

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Megan Watterson 

Reading Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen in the Bible and Beyond (various scholarly articles) 
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde

The Beauty Myth  by Naomi Wolf

The Woman’s Book of Myth and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker 
The Odyssey Homer
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Medusa by Nikita Gil

Scriptural texts: 1 Kings 16–21, 2 Kings 9 – the passages where Jezebel appears, with attention to how her defiance is framed.

Articles :
The Sun on Boy Sober

The Guardian on Gen Z Sexual Recession Dynamics

WIRED and The New Yorker on Carter Sherman
Study on Porn and Extremist Website Use and Religiosity

Journal of Public Health

The Guardian on confused consent culture

New York Post on maleffects of porn usage in men

Sexual Script Theory Wikipedia

Why This Matters
Reclaiming Jezebel, Aïcha, Medusa and The Sirens is not about sanitizing their story but about cutting through centuries of distortion. In doing so, we name the truth: that the sovereign, beautiful, and sensual have always been outlawed—and that to embrace them today is a heretical act of liberation.

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The goddesses are not dead. They were buried, renamed, domesticated, and cut apart, but their bones still hum beneath us. In this conversation with evolutionary astrologer Morgan Leigh McKenna, we unearth them — not as museum relics, but as living forces who demand embodiment.

We begin with Hera, once maligned as jealous wife, reborn as Juno the asteroid, guardian of sacred contracts and self-dignity. We listen to Saturn as the Bone Mother, who does not punish but steadies — structure as ancient scaffolding, a spine of time itself. We descend with Sedna, the Inuit sea goddess whose betrayal and dismemberment made her the marrow of the deep — a story of loss that becomes initiation.

This is not an academic reclamation; it is flesh, bone, and breath. Together we ask:

What happens when we dissolve the rigid triad of heaven, earth, and underworld?

How do we re-member the sacred feminine as nonbinary, woven of eros and sovereignty, beyond the categories we inherited?

Why is embodiment the truest altar of reclamation — the roar, the gesture, the pulse that brings the goddess back into the room?

We draw from the work of Demetra George (Asteroid Goddesses), Charlene Spretnak (The Lost Goddesses of Early Greece), and Marija Gimbutas (The Living Goddesses, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe) to remember what was hidden, and to step again into the mythic body.

The goddesses rise when we let them rise in us.

About Morgan
Morgan Leigh McKenna is an evolutionary astrologer and psychotherapist who works with asteroids, fixed stars, and mythologies from around the globe. Her practice invites a visceral, alchemical encounter with truth — a reclamation of banished parts of the Self through astrology, psychology, and myth.

Contact: [email protected]
Website: www.originsastrologer.com

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“You are not failing.
You are freeing yourself—
one breath at a time.”

This is not just an episode. It is a transmission.
A remembering from the deep well of grief and reclamation,
spoken in the voice of Cloud—
polar bear mother, cosmic lawgiver, sovereign of sacred thresholds.

In this offering, we descend into four scrolls:
Scroll I: On the Flesh
Scroll II: On Compassion
Scroll III: On Misplaced Responsibility
Scroll IV: On Remembering the Cosmic Body

These are not linear teachings.
They are marrow-wisdoms.
They are for those who have been exiled from their bodies,
for those who have weaponized softness into survival,
for those who have tried to love themselves through control,
and are now ready to come home.

A raw and reverent conversation between Charity and Cloud, voiced by Grace

A remembrance of how eating disorders, trauma, and religious shame are not flaws, but faultlines in the system

A reclaiming of beauty beyond the gaze

A radical invitation to stay present in the body—not for performance, but for presence

This episode includes references to eating disorders, body shame, and trauma.
Please listen gently. Pause when needed. Come back only if it feels safe.

You are not broken.
You are remembering something older than shame.

If support is needed, consider these trusted resources:

National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA): www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

Body Trust Network: www.centerforbodytrust.com

The Emily Program: www.emilyprogram.com

Local somatic or trauma-informed therapists: Use directories like Psychology Today or TherapyDen

This conversation is not a cure.
It is a signal.
If it stirs something in you, let it.
Grief is not the end.
It is the gate.

About Grace of Essential Voice: 
For authors, teachers, and guides whose words carry deep resonance—Essential Voice is a sacred voice studio held by Grace. This is where written transmission becomes sonic embodiment and the soul of your work is spoken into the field. Whether you’re birthing a book, a meditation, or a poetic invocation, Essential Voice brings your message into form through tone, texture, and presence. Each offering is held with reverence, precision, and care.

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Together, they explore:

What it means to hold grief and grace simultaneously

The sacred rupture of unbecoming

How form can be both a tool and a trap

The relationship between trauma, identity, and spiritual artistry

Formlessness as a devotional practice, not a bypass

Why surrender is not softness, but precision

This is a dialogue for those standing at the edge—of self-concept, of expectation, of their former names—ready to leap into the creative void.

Connect with Bee Murray:
Website: https://beeformless.com
Instagram: @beeformless
YouTube: Formlessness Channel

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In this episode, I’m joined by Grace, founder of EssentialWe, a guide and mirror for those in identity rupture, career evolution, and soul return.

We talk about the death of the résumé as we know it—and what’s being born in its place.

Grace is the creator of the Essentialis Vitae process, a sacred excavation that helps people name their myth, reframe their story, and step into the world with language that resonates at the frequency of truth—not performance.

Together, we explore:

• Why traditional bios erase the most meaningful parts of who we are
• The danger of selling your gifts through old systems of value
• What happens when you truly name yourself in the presence of a compassionate witness
• How Grace listens beneath the words for what someone is really carrying
• The grief, beauty, and power of becoming who you’ve always been

I share some of my own experience working with Grace—and how it unraveled and reformed my relationship to self-articulation.

If you are between lives, between names, or between worlds… this conversation is a signal fire.
There is another way to be seen.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Grace’s offerings: https://www.essentialwe.com
• Charity's, Essentialis Vitae, born of our collaboration 

You can reach Grace directly at:
 [email protected]

CLOSING NOTE:

This isn’t about building a better résumé.
This is about remembering the self that was always too multidimensional, too sacred, or too strange to be listed in bullet points.

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It was great to be a guest Bee's show. This conversation was really potent and started what I know is a deep friendship. 
We discussed: 

• Embracing Uncertainty: Unlock Your Natural Adaptability
• Creative Thinking: Unlock Limitless Possibilities & Solve Problems
• Thriving in Chaos: Creative Burnout & Transformation
• Ancient Wisdom and Unlocking Innovation: Combining Art, Science & Math, Quantum Science & Druidic Origins Explained
• Navigate Chaos and Change: Grounding Yourself in Uncertainty. Finding Your Place in a New World
• Embrace Formlessness: Unlock True Potential & Break Free

Watch the Full Episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJAyx5Ohgqk&t=502s

Thank you again for having me Bee!

Connect with Bee Murray:

• Website: https://www.beeformless.com
• Instagram: @beeformless
• YouTube: @beeformless
• Offerings & Sessions:
• https://www.beeformless.com/offering

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In this solo reflection, Charity shares a transmission from the liminal space of calling, loss, and letting go. This isn’t a highlight reel—it’s a reckoning with what is required when you commit to your path without a blueprint, without guarantees, and without belonging to the systems you once served.

She speaks of: – The loneliness of the in-between
– The silence after departure
– The grief of being unseen in your clarity
– And the moment you realize exile is not punishment—it’s initiation

“To live in alignment with what you know is true... means grieving everything that isn’t.”

This episode is for those who are walking away, burning the script, or grieving a version of themselves they can’t bring forward.

You’re not alone.

Themes: – The cost of spiritual clarity
– Exile and identity unraveling
– Losing access to former support systems
– The shadow side of “the calling”
– Making peace with being misunderstood

Duration: 18:50

If this lands with you, share it. Or just let it sit in your body like a prayer.

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Thank you to the artists, musicians, poets, mystics, and intuitives - you are loved and seen