Maryn Spangler returns to the show!

Why?

For an adventure in the Mary field.

What?

An energy field of Mary.

Mary who?

Mary.

How?

When?

Just listen when you’re ready, my friend.

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Episode art:

Etruscan sculpture (pre-Christian).

Branch from the stump of Jesse.

It's Struggle Bus Season, aka Advent, The Most Won— Difficult Time of the Year.

Drawing on Anthroposophy, Lisa Del Alba helps us cut through the Christmas clamor to enter a darker and deeper reality that is connected with why human souls choose to come to planet earth in the first place.

Special thanks to Melissa Ramer for the episode art! And special thanks to said art for inspiring the episode title. Take a moment with it, I suggest. It has some things to say.

WORKS CITED

The Depression Suite by The Tragically Hip

(The two little songs I sing are both from this song.)

Psychedelics are one way to trip, but there are other ways too. Imagination is a portal, I'm a tellin' ya, boo.

What are these other worlds beyond the gates of imagination? Who inhabits them? Are they dangerous to visit? These questions are a bit of the ground we traverse on this episode.

Maryn Spangler runs an online school for spiritual education and exploration called The Lorian Association, and her Substack is Love Walks Here.

Music this episode by, the one and only, Patrick Matey.