The Unnamed Path

Episode 12 – Death

Show Highlights:

• Exploring unhealthy or dysfunctional attitudes toward death within our society

• Why talking about Death is important

• Step-by-step process that happens at death

• Birth, sex and death are the three most powerful magical experiences for humans

• Humanity’s fate and destiny is to return to the Cauldron of the Dark Mother upon death

• The Mighty Dead are able to “cheat fate” and escape the Cauldron of the Dark Mother to remain as guides in the underworld

• The services that a Deathwalker performs for his community

Episode 11 – Energy

Show Highlights:

• Energy is the intangible part that makes up everything in the spiritual world as well as the backroads of the Middle World

• Source for energy include: the earth, the universe, the ancestors, the self and more

• Energy is used in every one of the four parts of the Unnamed Path

• Energy is directed either through Motivation (desire and intent), Body (breathing, sex, dancing, etc.), or Visualization

• Excess energy should be grounded and not held onto

• World Tree Breathing Exercise

• Recapitulation of Creating Sacred Space for Shamanic workings with an understanding of how to move energy

Episode 11 – Energy

Show Highlights:

• Energy is the intangible part that makes up everything in the spiritual world as well as the backroads of the Middle World

• Source for energy include: the earth, the universe, the ancestors, the self and more

• Energy is used in every one of the four parts of the Unnamed Path

• Energy is directed either through Motivation (desire and intent), Body (breathing, sex, dancing, etc.), or Visualization

• Excess energy should be grounded and not held onto

• World Tree Breathing Exercise

• Recapitulation of Creating Sacred Space for Shamanic workings with an understanding of how to move energy

Episode 10 – Love and Fear

Show Highlights:

• Every thought has an emotion associated with it – they occur in tandem.

• Every emotion has an associated desire – a need to put energy in motion toward some end effect

• Desire is the motivation that propels our magic into manifestation

• There are two main categories that all emotions fall into: love and fear

• Fear is tense, separating, harmful and physical while love is relaxed, healing, cooperative and spiritual

• The kind of emotional reaction you are having can best be figured out by doing a body check for tension

Episode 10 – Love and Fear

Show Highlights:

• Every thought has an emotion associated with it – they occur in tandem.

• Every emotion has an associated desire – a need to put energy in motion toward some end effect

• Desire is the motivation that propels our magic into manifestation

• There are two main categories that all emotions fall into: love and fear

• Fear is tense, separating, harmful and physical while love is relaxed, healing, cooperative and spiritual

• The kind of emotional reaction you are having can best be figured out by doing a body check for tension

Episode 9 – Thought is Creative

Show Highlights:

• This is the first lesson of many to come on the topic of Magic

• The mind thinks in pictures

• The physical world is a direct manifestation of your thought patterns, whatever you “see” with your mind you create around you

• There is no such thing as a random thought. All thoughts come from originating thoughts or attitude you hold in your mind

• No one “does” anything to you, you only create every experience in your life. As such, you have a responsibility for your thoughts

• Use the fact that Thought is Creative to your advantage. Actively choose thoughts to manifest good things in your life. This is the cornerstone of magic

Episode 9 – Thought is Creative

Show Highlights:

• This is the first lesson of many to come on the topic of Magic

• The mind thinks in pictures

• The physical world is a direct manifestation of your thought patterns, whatever you “see” with your mind you create around you

• There is no such thing as a random thought. All thoughts come from originating thoughts or attitude you hold in your mind

• No one “does” anything to you, you only create every experience in your life. As such, you have a responsibility for your thoughts

• Use the fact that Thought is Creative to your advantage. Actively choose thoughts to manifest good things in your life. This is the cornerstone of magic

Episode 8 – The World Tree

Show Highlights:

• The World Tree is a visual metaphor for the structure of the spiritual world that is found in many cultures around the world.

• The World Tree has three parts – The Upper world (branches), the Middle world (the trunk) and the Underworld (the roots)

• The Upper world is the land of the Gods and guides, the Middle world is the physical world of relativity we live in along with its energetic backroads, and the Underworld is the land of the Ancestors and the Mighty Dead

• Fire and Water have unique meanings and purposes in the World Tree and act as portals to transport you to different areas of the Spirit World

• The World Tree is not linear – the branches grow up under the roots and support the Underworld from below.

• Many cultures have captured the experience of the mystic gaining wisdom and enlightenment in the story of him hanging from a tree (The World Tree).

Episode 8 – The World Tree

Show Highlights:

• The World Tree is a visual metaphor for the structure of the spiritual world that is found in many cultures around the world.

• The World Tree has three parts – The Upper world (branches), the Middle world (the trunk) and the Underworld (the roots)

• The Upper world is the land of the Gods and guides, the Middle world is the physical world of relativity we live in along with its energetic backroads, and the Underworld is the land of the Ancestors and the Mighty Dead

• Fire and Water have unique meanings and purposes in the World Tree and act as portals to transport you to different areas of the Spirit World

• The World Tree is not linear – the branches grow up under the roots and support the Underworld from below.

• Many cultures have captured the experience of the mystic gaining wisdom and enlightenment in the story of him hanging from a tree (The World Tree).

Episode 7 – The Shamanic Journey

Show Highlights:

• A Shamanic Journey is a spiritual pathworking undertaken with the assistance of music or entheogenic plants to alter the consciouness into a shamanic consciousness (trance)

• Shamanic Journeys are often surreal, experiences defy the laws of physics and are non-linear and illogical

• Shamanic practices come naturally to us as Men-who-love-men because of our unique ability to reach through the fabric of the universe

• We can benefit from Journeywork by accelerating our spiritual growth, helping us gain a greater understanding of situations, gaining wisdom from our guides and the Gods or ancestors, and it can assist us in working through our spiritual pains from the past or through future worries

• How to conduct a Shamanic Journey