The Unnamed Path

Episode 42 – Redefining Love Relationships

Show Highlights:

• Most Men-who-love-men were taught to emulate heterosexual relationship models and default to them when establishing their own relationships

• Men-who-love-men experience unique desires, drives and pressures in relationships that heterosexual couples do not experience, therefore their models of relationships don’t work for us

• Our relationships should be founded on love, freedom, celebration of our sexuality, our masculinity and centered in a firm understanding of who we are

• Explore some unconventional approaches to relationships and how you can start redefining your own

Episode 41 – Attitude is Everything

Show Highlights:

• An attitude is merely an emotion held for a long enough period of time such that it becomes a state of mind

• Attitudes are self-perpetuating

• Your attitude colors the conditions of your life, not vice versa

• Gratitude can help you shift your attitude toward positivity and solutions-oriented thinking instead of defeatist or victim thinking

Episode 41 – Attitude is Everything

Show Highlights:

• An attitude is merely an emotion held for a long enough period of time such that it becomes a state of mind

• Attitudes are self-perpetuating

• Your attitude colors the conditions of your life, not vice versa

• Gratitude can help you shift your attitude toward positivity and solutions-oriented thinking instead of defeatist or victim thinking

Episode 40 – Pathworking to Meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men

Show Highlights:

• This pathworking will take you on a ritualized semi-guided meditation to formally meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men

• Tools needed include: the skull with a black candle on top, or alternatively the Cauldron (failing both, a simple black candle will do) – placed in the north

• Your Great Crossroads should focus toward the north and you should sit facing the north or lay in the north when performing the meditation

Episode 40 – Pathworking to Meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men

Show Highlights:

• This pathworking will take you on a ritualized semi-guided meditation to formally meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men

• Tools needed include: the skull with a black candle on top, or alternatively the Cauldron (failing both, a simple black candle will do) – placed in the north

• Your Great Crossroads should focus toward the north and you should sit facing the north or lay in the north when performing the meditation

Episode 39 – Honoring the Dead

Show Highlights:

• Ceremonies to honor the dead reflect the values of their originating cultures, and so, too, should the ceremonies in the Unnamed Path

• Ceremonies to honor the recently departed should focus on giving the living the solace they need, an opportunity for communication with the dead to calm their worries, and assist the recently deceased in traveling into the Underworld

• Ceremonies to commemorate anniversaries of deaths should focus on remembering the deceased and offering communication with them

• Two sample ceremonies are given for honoring the dead

Episode 39 – Honoring the Dead

Show Highlights:

• Ceremonies to honor the dead reflect the values of their originating cultures, and so, too, should the ceremonies in the Unnamed Path

• Ceremonies to honor the recently departed should focus on giving the living the solace they need, an opportunity for communication with the dead to calm their worries, and assist the recently deceased in traveling into the Underworld

• Ceremonies to commemorate anniversaries of deaths should focus on remembering the deceased and offering communication with them

• Two sample ceremonies are given for honoring the dead

Episode 38 – The Spirits of the Land

Show Highlights:

• The Spirits of the Land are the intelligences associated with he geography of a place, the plants, animals and natural phenomena

• We seek to form relationships with these spirits in order to empower our magic and help us bring balance back into nature

• Types of Spirits of the Land include: Guardians of the Land, Plant Spirits, Land Spirits, Genius Loci, Shamanic Forces of Nature and more

• Learn how to introduce yourself to the Guardians of the Land and begin to form alliances and relationships to deepen your magic

Episode 38 – The Spirits of the Land

Show Highlights:

• The Spirits of the Land are the intelligences associated with he geography of a place, the plants, animals and natural phenomena

• We seek to form relationships with these spirits in order to empower our magic and help us bring balance back into nature

• Types of Spirits of the Land include: Guardians of the Land, Plant Spirits, Land Spirits, Genius Loci, Shamanic Forces of Nature and more

• Learn how to introduce yourself to the Guardians of the Land and begin to form alliances and relationships to deepen your magic

Episode 37 – Pathworking

Show Highlights:

• Pathworking is a ritualized semi-guided meditative exercise

• Pathworking varies from guided meditation in that not everything is described for the participant, allowing him to have his own unique experiences and spiritual encounters

• Pathworking is an effective way to meet Gods, Goddesses, guides and other spiritual entities and establish/build relationships with them

• The Great Crossroads is used in conjunction with Pathworking and tools to set the proper magical environment to begin contacting the desired spirit

• Future podcasts will contain specific Pathworkings to meet the Light God, Dark God, Light Goddess, Dark Goddess, Ancestors of Men-who-love-men, Spirits of the Land and more