All the episodes I've devoted to understanding mythology, mystical systems, and energy—along with my favorite books on the topic.
Jul 10, 2026
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Why Women Need Fairytales Now (Sharon Blackie, PhD)
Listen now (64 mins) | "And I have found certainly as I kind of look back at my own life that fairytales in lots of ways have mapped it. The particular stories and images..."
Pulling the Thread by Elise Loehnen • Elise Loehnen
How to Fully Engage with the Rest of Your Life (Sharon Blackie, PhD)
Listen now (58 mins) | "To ask the question, when everything that once defined you is burned away, is stripped away, and that happens at menopause, you can try to hold it off all you..."
Trusting in the Synchronicity of the Universe (Satya Doyle Byock)
Listen now (65 mins) | "When he came to term the collective unconscious and archetypes and all sorts of events that he later termed synchronicity that could not be defined or explained through..."
Human Design as a Roadmap to the Soul (Chetan & Carola): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Listen now (65 mins) | “The human design chart is basically a match to your unique particular frequency, whether it's partially ancestral, whether it's partly what you've come to live..."
The Basics of Spiral Dynamics (Nicole Churchill)
Listen now (79 mins) | “Turquoise is looking for how do we bring back the village? How do we live in community again? Why are we living in these separate houses? We're not sharing resources...."
Designing Your Own Ritual (Bruce Feiler)
Listen now (60 mins) | "I ran the numbers on this. You ran up births and deaths and marriages. The average person in 1800 had 80% more ritual occasions than we have today. So it took..."
A Map to Your Soul (Jennifer Freed, PhD)
Listen now (65 mins) | “Well, I think of it like the metaphor of the ensemble in a great musical, like everybody has to know their part. Everybody has to give 2000% ..."
Understanding Your Energy (Prune Harris)
Listen now (57 mins) | “So when we think about this, what is the aura? Many people have an idea of the aura as something that is around you and a lovely bubble or sphere of energy. Maybe you've..."
On Finding Our Soul's Vocation (James Hollis)
Listen now (62 mins) | “You said the important word there and that is the word grown up. To be grown up is what? To recognize, yes, I am accountable for what spills into the world through me..."
The Mystical Roots of Tarot (Mark Horn): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Listen now (45 mins) | "One of the things that we do on Yom Kippur is we read the story of Jonah, the prophet who ran away saying, no, no, I don't want to do this job, find somebody else to do it..."
When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)
Listen now (60 mins) | “Historically, there's no such thing as a pure tradition. And I also think as human beings, we transcend these religions and we transcend these cultures. And so..."
Contending with Fear (Jakki Leonardini)
Listen now (61 mins) | “A loving being isn't domineering and a loving being is not going to judge you and certainly isn't going to test you. A loving being, a loving energy, and you can call..."
The Secret Astrological System (Jade Luna): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Listen now (61 mins) | The more we let go of, the more we receive. I feel that I live in that light. I believe that consciously. I'm not trying to control what the universe brings to me..."
Understanding the Intelligence of the Universe (Jeddah Mali)
Listen now (53 min) | “So natural intelligence has this ability to bring order when we allow it to. The reason that we don't see it so often in operation..."
How to Grow Your Soul (Michael Meade)
Listen now (57 mins) | "Other people are going to go, 'Wait, in the darkness, isn’t that the chaos where everything began? Can we not begin it again?' And then you get to the idea of the soul..."
The Power of the Enneagram (Susan Olesek)
Listen now (57 mins) | “And I just feel that people, I now I have so much more perspective, but at the time, even I felt people who have already had so much adversity..."
Understanding Spiritual Power (Carissa Schumacher)
Listen now (107 min) | “This is the time where it's kind of like the things that we didn't get right, we need to start fixing. Not fixing, I would say, but opening up to new paths of exploration..."
The Power of Myth to Heal (Kwame Scruggs, PhD)
Listen now (52 mins) | “I tear up at the drop of a hat and got another facilitator who tears up quicker than I do. But like we tell the youth, the soul would have no rainbow had the eyes..."
What's Your Karma? (Janine Slome)
Listen now (55 mins) | "For me, the numerology chart holds the entire blueprint, the full-blown potential for your life and for your incarnation in this lifetime, whether you choose to work with..."
The Practical Magic of the Enneagram (Courtney Smith): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Listen now (81 mins) | “Part of what happens when human beings experience difficulty is the same difficulty, the same fact pattern, can resonate very differently for different human beings..."
The Best Books About Spirituality & Mysticism
This is probably my favorite category of book, and I’m inclined to read in every direction.