The Skeptical Shaman

Our new book, The Business of Woo: Thriving In Your Psychic Business (Without Losing Your Mind Or Sellig Your Soul!) is here, and you can check it out or buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX7MHB8L#

Signed gift copies are also 50% off for a limited time— during our Flash Sale— on our Etsy Shop HERE.

TOTEM Flower Essence Deck

While we’ve sold the last copy of our TOTEM Tarot Deck, our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck is still available for sale on Etsy and Amazon and is currently 50% off on Etsy.

TOTEM Etsy Shop

In other news, we are also running a 50% off Sale on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy shop, which includes all of our TOTEM Flower Essences and our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck.

No minimum order required. Just 50% off of everything— for a very, very limited time!

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-Rachel

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Sure, I’ve been insanely sick with mold detox this past week, but even wild horses (mold-based or otherwise) couldn’t keep me away from this Livestream Happy Hour with two of my favorite people: billy.purgatory and Amy Steffek. Why? Well, because I’ve always wondered what happens when a shaman, a writer, and a neuroscientist walk into a bar in which clif high is the bartender but he’s not serving up drinks— he’s serving predictive “release language” in the populace from his Asymmetric Language Trend Analysis (ALTA) Report.

The ALTA Report is built around Terrence McKenna’s Novelty Theory and accompanying computer program, designed to serve as a guide as ontological shock becomes the norm in this “fire in the madhouse at the end of time.”

With the levels of high strangeness, well, reaching new highs of strangeness, it felt like a good time to dig into what’s to come. And, according to the ATLA report, UAPs/ UFOs, non-human intelligence, interstellar objects seeding planets with “new life”, [THE MYSTERY] affecting dreams and psychic abilities on a global scale, and an otherworldly green light coming along for the ride are all in our imminent future.

And, just to make it weirder, I shared my strange Tucker Carlson dream from three years ago, long before I ever listened to his show or realized he’s not the same bow tie-wearing weirdo that gave me the icks earlier in my life, and what elements of this high definition vision have already started to manifest in real life.

Running the White House out of a golf course in South Florida? Check.

The rest, as they say in the songs, is yet to come.

Buckle up and get ready for the ride!

-Rachel

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Don’t miss this Friday’s Livestream Happy Hour

This Friday, November 6th, billy.purgatory and I are going live with Amy Steffek to discuss clif high’s ALTA Report, which predicts “release language in the populace” and has proven to be very accurate in recent years.

The best contribution secures a free PUCK HCKY t-shirt, and don’t forget about PUCK HCKY’s exclusive promo code for followers of TOTEM: “SHAMAN26”, or our TOTEM + PUCK HCKY merch collaboration (the PERFECT garb for Spooky Season, if I don’t mind saying so myself!).

The Business of Woo book is here!

Our new book, The Business of Woo: Thriving In Your Psychic Business (Without Losing Your Mind Or Sellig Your Soul!) is here, and you can check it out or buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX7MHB8L#

Signed gift copies are also 75% off for a limited time— during our Flash Sale— on our Etsy Shop HERE.

TOTEM Flower Essence Deck

While we’ve sold the last copy of our TOTEM Tarot Deck, our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck is still available for sale on Etsy and Amazon and is currently 75% off on Etsy during our 3-day fire sale.

TOTEM Etsy Shop

In other news, we are also running a 50% off Sale on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy shop, which includes all of our TOTEM Flower Essences and our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck.

No minimum order required. Just 50% off of everything— for a very, very limited time!

The Skeptical Shaman Podcast

If you enjoy The Skeptical Shaman podcast, please consider leaving a rating or review on Spotify HERE or Apple Podcasts HERE. Reviews and ratings REALLY help us build on our momentum and get great guests for all of you to listen to!

Tip Jar

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Want to work with me?

You can book a one-on-one reading, channeling session, energy work session, and many more services— including one-on-one Coaching and Mentoring work— with me on my website’s booking page HERE.

-Rachel

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So many great guests joined billy.purgatory and I live— and in costume— making this an incredibly special Friday Night Happy Hour Livestream! We were joined by an orange wizard, Sam "Skyguy", Hulk Hogan, AJ Goodwin, and were also joined by Amy Steffek of PUCK HCKY, our official Livestream Happy Hour sponsor!

And, speaking of sponsors and raffles and prizes, here’s the breakdown of our latest Review Raffle winner roster:

* Kiaya Hoffner won our set of six TOTEM Archangel Flower Essences AND last night’s PUCK HCKY t-shirt or tank for her contribution as a Nightcaller.

* Jennifer Innocenti won a remote Feng Shui consultation with me.

* Meredith Frazier won a TOTEM + PUCK HCKY t-shirt.

Next week, we’re chatting with Amy Steffek of PUCK HCKY about clif high’s latest ALTA report, which is essentially built on Terrence McKenna’s Novelty Theory, measuring predictive “release language” in the populace at this critical time.

And, because PUCK HCKY is the official sponsor of our Friday Night Livestreams (notably NOT my podcast, for anyone from behind enemy lines paying particular attention…) you all get to use code “SHAMAN26” for a serious discount at checkout if you want some incredible metal, goth, or TOTEM Tarot Deck-inspired streetwear made right here in the US of A.

And, while our 75% off Flash Sale is now over on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy Shop, we’re now offering 50% off through Thanksgiving.

Stay tuned and keep calling in, Nightcallers.

-Rachel

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Don’t miss this Friday’s Livestream Happy Hour

This Friday, October 30th, billy.purgatory and I are going live at 6 PM CST dressed in our Halloween costumes to take LIVE NIGHTCALLERS sharing your spookiest stories about ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, curses, and overall high strangeness.

The best contribution secures a free PUCK HCKY t-shirt, and don’t forget about PUCK HCKY’s exclusive promo code for followers of TOTEM: “SHAMAN26”, or our TOTEM + PUCK HCKY merch collaboration (the PERFECT garb for Spooky Season, if I don’t mind saying so myself!).

The Business of Woo book is here!

Our new book, The Business of Woo: Thriving In Your Psychic Business (Without Losing Your Mind Or Sellig Your Soul!) is here, and you can check it out or buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX7MHB8L#

Signed gift copies are also 75% off for a limited time— during our Flash Sale— on our Etsy Shop HERE.

TOTEM Flower Essence Deck

While we’ve sold the last copy of our TOTEM Tarot Deck, our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck is still available for sale on Etsy and Amazon and is currently 75% off on Etsy during our 3-day fire sale.

TOTEM Etsy Shop

In other news, we are also running a 75% off FLASH SALE on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy shop, which includes all of our TOTEM Flower Essences and our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck.

No minimum order required. Just 75% off of everything— for a very, very limited time!

The Skeptical Shaman Podcast

If you enjoy The Skeptical Shaman podcast, please consider leaving a rating or review on Spotify HERE or Apple Podcasts HERE. Reviews and ratings REALLY help us build on our momentum and get great guests for all of you to listen to!

Tip Jar

If you want to leave us a tip or donate for our weekly card pull or any other content here on Substack, here is our PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EFFQDP4JQ6E4A

Want to work with me?

You can book a one-on-one reading, channeling session, energy work session, and many more services— including one-on-one Coaching and Mentoring work— with me on my website’s booking page HERE.

-Rachel

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Despite not really drinking very much at all— some would suggest not drinking ENOUGH for the assignment— our Astrology-based birthday extravaganza went off the rails early and often. This is NSFW…or really for any public consumption.

Something truly unholy was going on in the New Age community of the 1970’s, and we have an artifact from that time.

Thank you Eva Sylwester, BM Keeper, JoJo, jennifer zwick, and many others for tuning into my live video with Audrey, Dj Renigade, Kels, Gabrielle Celeste | Psychic, billy.purgatory, and Ana Marija! Join me for my next live video in the app.

Shout out to our sponsor, PUCK HCKY, which offers viewers a discount if you use code “SHAMAN26” at check-out. And please don’t forget to check out our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy Shop, which is currently offering 75% off of everything until the end of October 2026.

Next week: we’re taking Nightcallers galore to share YOUR OWN VERY SPOOKY STORIES about ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, and occult experiences of all varieties as we celebrate the Eve of All Hallow’s Eve.

No sexual astrology in sight. I promise. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again.

I can’t do it again…

-Rachel

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The Business of Woo Book is here

Our new book, The Business of Woo: Thriving In Your Psychic Business (Without Losing Your Mind Or Sellig Your Soul!) is here, and you can check it out or buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX7MHB8L#

Review Raffle

We’ve launched a new Review Raffle for anyone wanting to share an honest review of this book, our decks, our essences, our services, and our podcast— check out the details here:

TOTEM Flower Essence Deck

So, even though we pulled a TOTEM Tarot Deck card for this particular Full Moon Reading, it’s officially sold out— and unavailable. That said, our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck is still for sale on Amazon and Etsy, and it rocks too!

Want to work with me?

You can book a one-on-one reading, channeling session, energy work session and many more services with me on my website’s booking page HERE.

If you want to learn more about my one-on-one Coaching or Mentoring programs, you can learn more and book a free consultation to discuss the detail on my website.

-Rachel

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During last night’s Friday Night Livestream Happy Hour we chatted with Matthew Little all about his fantastic new UAP paper, which we’ve linked to directly here for those of you wanting to dig deeper into The Ragnarok Hypothesis:

A huge shout out to our show’s sponsor, PUCK HCKY, and PUCK’s Livestream Happy Hour spokesperson, The Homunculus. Don’t forget to check out the TOTEM + PUCK HCKY collection and the rest of their great merch— for bands including STP and Megadeath— and use your special TOTEM promo code: SHAMAN26 to save.

Next week, we’re doing billy.purgatory’s birthday extravaganza, digging into the fun (and silly) side of Sexual Astrology, as well as sharing some Chinese + Western Astrology insights for you Nightcallers, so be sure to join live and give us your Western/ Chinese signs so we can gift you a dramatic reading— and some arcane astrological “wisdom”.

The week after that (10/30) we’ll be doing a Halloween-themed show— and we’re inviting all of you to join us to share your spooky stories of haunts, spooks, frights, ghosts, goblins and more! And we’ll also be announcing our THREE TOTEM Review Raffle winners and their coveted prizes, so make sure to get your reviews submitted ahead of 10/30 to be considered to win- details of the Raffle are included in this post:

Until next time…

-Rachel

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The 12th season of The Skeptical Shaman podcast is here and it’s all about our collective and individual Villain Eras: a unique moment in time in which we all have permission to embrace our alter egos, pursue our goals, and allow others to paint us as the villains in their stories...if that’s what they need to get through the day;). In this episode, host Rachel White (of TOTEM Readings) is joined by friend of the show Madia Smith (of ORNIS) to talk about her Villain Era Alter Ego: The Smokey One. The Smokey One shows up for Madia when she’s “done”, acting as a personification of the absence of energy, snuffing out the spark that was once there and propelling her to move on despite tremendous guilt felt by her non-shadow self.

Madia shares how she’s learned to make friends with The Smokey One, understanding that this Alter Ego emerges when she’s actually already learned what she needed to from a project, effort, or former hyper-fixation, even if the project, deliverable or output itself isn’t quite done yet. In this way, The Smokey One isn’t out to get Madia or feed self-destructive tendencies; rather, it shows up to get her out of the Sunk Cost Fallacy that trips so many of us up!Rachel’s LINKS:

* TOTEM Readings Website: https://www.totemreadings.com

* TOTEM Readings Substack: https://totemrach.substack.com

* Rachel’s Other Links: https://linktr.ee/totemrach

Please support the Sponsors of The Skeptical Shaman Podcast:

* Buy The Business of Woo book HERE: https://a.co/d/0g7EFJmM

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* The TOTEM Flower Essence Deck: https://a.co/d/gw16LsG

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* TOTEM Spiritual Transformation Coaching: https://www.totemreadings.com/coaching

* TOTEM Business of Woo Mentoring: https://www.totemreadings.com/business-of-woo

Madia’s LINKS:

* ORNIS on Substack: https://substack.com/@ornis

Please note: The views and opinions expressed on The Skeptical Shaman do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, protected class, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. And remember: sticks and stones may break our bones, but words—or discussions of religious or spiritual topics-- will never hurt us.

The Business of Woo book is here!

Our new book, The Business of Woo: Thriving In Your Psychic Business (Without Losing Your Mind Or Sellig Your Soul!) is here, and you can check it out or buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX7MHB8L#

Signed gift copies are also 75% off for a limited time— during our Flash Sale— on our Etsy Shop HERE.

TOTEM Flower Essence Deck

While we’ve sold the last copy of our TOTEM Tarot Deck, our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck is still available for sale on Etsy and Amazon and is currently 75% off on Etsy during our 3-day fire sale.

TOTEM Etsy Shop

In other news, we are also running a 75% off FLASH SALE on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy shop, which includes all of our TOTEM Flower Essences and our TOTEM Flower Essence Deck.

No minimum order required. Just 75% off of everything— for a very, very limited time!

The Skeptical Shaman Podcast

If you enjoy The Skeptical Shaman podcast, please consider leaving a rating or review on Spotify HERE or Apple Podcasts HERE. Reviews and ratings REALLY help us build on our momentum and get great guests for all of you to listen to!

Tip Jar

If you want to leave us a tip or donate for our weekly card pull or any other content here on Substack, here is our PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EFFQDP4JQ6E4A

Want to work with me?

You can book a one-on-one reading, channeling session, energy work session, and many more services— including one-on-one Coaching and Mentoring work— with me on my website’s booking page HERE.

-Rachel

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