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Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Beltane Fairy Magic

Exploring Fairy Folk customs and rituals for celebrating Beltane.

Wed, April 27, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Moon Magic with Jeanet and David Ewing - New Moon Beltane Ritual

Welcome to Moon Magic! As we enter the month of May we are changing our show format with rituals at or around each new moon. In this episode, we will celebrate the new moon and Beltane with a ritual using balefire for purification, protection, and prosperity.

Thu, April 28, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Esoterica

The Instagram Guru 'Fucking' His Female Followers 'To Freedom'

Although his teachings consisted of fairly generic spiritual koans, he looked nothing like a typical ethereal guru: On Instagram, he regularly showed off his fondness for cigars and fine blended whiskeys. He often posted photos of himself with his tanned arm snaked around the waists of one or more waifish, mermaid-haired women. And with his toned biceps, and Zack Morris-esque swoop of sun-kissed hair, he more closely resembled a pampered surfer boy whose dad had paid his way into Stanford than a spiritual leader.

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Yet if you probe beneath the surface, Massaro’s teachings seem to bear the distinct mark of a dark messianic complex. He has openly stated he can “teleport, bilocate, and levitate”; he allegedly prescribes restrictive fasts and diets, which cult experts say helps keep followers malleable (a claim he denies); he has sex with female followers as a way to reward them and to punish them for apparent misdeeds, according to two women I spoke with who’d had relationships with him; and his teachings skew toward open misogyny, instructing followers on the strict dichotomy of traditional gender roles and urging women to resist their more active “masculine” impulses, writing in one 2016 post that femininity is defined by “radiance and surrender.” (It’s worth noting that strict gender dichotomies are common in cults, with the self-improvement organization NXIVM espousing a similar ideology.)

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Massaro’s expanding influence is “very concerning,” says Diane Benscoter, a former Moonie and the founder of Antidote.ngo, an organization that helps those affected by psychological manipulation. According to Benscoter, Massaro’s teachings have “a real appeal for people who feel lost, who feel like they’re missing something, who are looking for love and looking for acceptance and looking for friends and community. They’re going to be really susceptible to this, and the cost could be years of their lives, or it could be worse.”

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Circle Sanctuary's Circle Talk - Madam Pamita

Madam Pamita- Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft-

From the Deep, Dark Woods comes Real Old World Magic. On Circle Talk, we will be talking with Madam Pamita about ancient and modern Slavic magical practices, from magickal poppets to using Ukrainian folk embroidery motifs as protective charms.

Tue, April 19, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

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Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Greening Death

Sacred work with Nature imagery in end-of-life counseling, meditations, crossing over rituals, funerals, and burials. Considerations for Green burial and Green cemeteries.

Wed, April 13, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Moon Magic with Jeanet and David Ewing - The Magic of Trees

April is a time when many trees have begun to flower in North America and Europe. This can be a wonderful time to reconnect with our favorite trees after a long winter. In this episode, we will discuss common trees native to the northern hemisphere, their magical properties, and how to incorporate tree spirit helpers into magical workings, rituals and more.

Thu, April 14, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

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Circle Sanctuary's Circle Talk - Laurel Woodward

Laurel Woodward - Backyard Garden Witchery

Would you like to live a mindful and magickal life? Join us on Circle Talk as we chat with author Laurel Woodward about her book, Kitchen Witchery and her upcoming book, Backyard Garden Witchery.

Tue, April 5, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Circle Green

Exploring environmental education, ecoactivism, and ecospirituality work of Circle Sanctuary, its Community, and its Land, Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve in the Driftless Area bioregion of southwestern Wisconsin USA.

Wed, April 6, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

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Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Communing with Mother Earth

Deepening connections with Planet Earth through sacred work with Mother Earth Goddess rituals and meditations.

Wed, March 30, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

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Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Springtime Renewal

Guided Springtime meditative ritual journey of personal rebirth and renewal.

Wed, March 23, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Nature Mystic with Selena Fox - Bast Cat Magic

Attuning to and working with the ancient Egyptian Cat Goddess Bast for personal healing, cat blessings, and celebrations.

Encore from April 14, 2021

Sun, March 27, 2022 07:00 pm [Eastern]

Esoterica

Octopuses were around before dinosaurs, fossil find suggests

Scientists have found the oldest known ancestor of octopuses – an approximately 330m-year-old fossil unearthed in Montana.

The researchers concluded the ancient creature lived millions of years earlier than previously believed, meaning that octopuses originated before the era of dinosaurs.

The 4.7-inch (12-cm) fossil has 10 limbs – modern octopuses have eight – each with two rows of suckers. It probably lived in a shallow, tropical ocean bay.

“It’s very rare to find soft tissue fossils, except in a few places,” said Mike Vecchione, a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History zoologist who was not involved in the study. “This is a very exciting finding. It pushes back the ancestry much farther than previously known.”

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Circle Sanctuary's Circle Talk - Frater Barrabbas

Join us on Circle Talk as we chat with author, Frater Barrabbas about his book, “Elemental Powers for Witches. Our discussion will include the energy model of Magick, integration of ceremonial magic techniques into your practice and using the five elements to empower your life.

Tue, March 15, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Spring Magic

Explore ways of working with Spring symbols, customs, and rituals for personal healing, growth, and transformation.

Wed, March 16, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

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Nature Spirituality with Selena Fox - Spiritual Journaling & Magical Diaries

Creating and working with personal grimoires, books of shadow, magical diaries, dream logs, and spiritual journals.

Wed, March 9, 2022 08:00 pm [Eastern]

PDM ~ Carolina Amor ~ Explorando el camino del Héroe

Paganos del mundo con Carolina Amor desde Argentina nos comparte temas de interés como mitología, magia, devoción e historia.

Explorando el camino del Héroe. Durante esta clase recorremos el camino del héroe utilizando la arcana major y los simbolos de astrologia.

Sat, March 12, 2022 07:00 pm [Eastern]

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Bentinho Massaro Sucks Part 1

Imagine a narsty blend of an Instagram influencer, spiritual huxter, Winklevoss twin, and Hugh Hefner’s ghost. These are the vibes that Bentinho Massaro is serving. He’s got all the scary charisma and shiny trappings of a culty overachiever, like thousands of social media followers, a grandiose plan to build a fully enlightened society by 2035, and he even claims to vibrate at a higher frequency than other humans. He’s also already achieved a rite of passage that’s becoming all too common among culty fuckwads: His name in concerning the suspicious death of one of his followers at a .

Our trio of guests in this double episode whistleblower extravaganza are coming forward to call bullshit on Bentinho’s special brand of mindfuckery. , , and were pulled into his mad world, and got themselves out. But they aren’t going radio silent. Oh hell no. Because they want you to know that this so-called millennial spiritual guru is less of a messiah and more of a walking, talking human Fyre Festival. In part one, Jade, Keilan, and Jacqueline share what made Bentinho seem so alluring and transformational at first, and what happened when shit started getting real.

Podcast available since February 21, 2022