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GET EVERY EPISODE AND BONUS CONTENT AT: www.patreon.com/crackpotpodcast N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a Schedule I hallucinogenic drug that occurs naturally in some plants but also in the human brian. The effects of DMT are varied but often leads to experiences where the user believes himself to be in an alternate reality, often described as more real than normal reality. And while each person's experience is unique, what is perhaps the most surprising of all are people's accounts of meeting and talking to sentient beings who impart wisdom, and sometimes predict future events. Is this something that exists entirely inside the mind or is DMT a gateway to a different reality? And is there any correlation to the similarities between DMT experiences and Near Death Experiences, the Faerie Realm, and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon?
In which we turn our attention away from the peaceful hamlet of Chillhaven and towards the hive of intrigue and deviosity that is... The Faerie Realm. You could have already heard this episode a week ago if you were a member of our patreon. Just saying! Got something to say about this episode? Want to holler it directly in our stupid faces? Head on over to our discord! Dangerous Times at Chillhaven High stars Bess Lawson, James Ketelaar, Maegan Stressman, and phillip jane stressman, and is fully produced by phillip jane stressman. Original music written and performed by James Ketelaar.
Curious about the Faerie Realm? My guest reveals her real-life stories of the Fae, opening the Fae Portal and connecting with your heart and mind. Fae Folk in America Contrary to popular belief, the Fae Folk can be seen across the globe. Even here in America, you might encounter faeries and elementals while taking a ... Read more The post Listen To Real Life Stories of The Faerie Realm appeared first on Intuitive Edge.
Here's what I learned about the Faerie Realm when a group of us went into the Akashic Records to gain insights on what they offer humans. Faeries and the Akashic Records This was an amazing experience that I am still smiling about. Every month I get together with four other spiritually-minded women to talk about ... Read more The post What The Faerie Realm Offers Humans – Podcast Snack appeared first on It's Never Too Late for Love. © Ronnie Ann Ryan, 2019. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site's author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Ronnie Ann Ryan with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
“You're sure to do impossible things when you follow your heart” -Thumbelina Fairy talk with my beautiful friend Alexandra @divinesoul.space we talked a lot about fairies
Join me for an “out of this world” conversation with Erin Christine, best-selling author of Born This Fae. Erin Christine has spent a lifetime trying to make sense of a world she could not fit into. A storyteller, seer, poet, magician, Erin weaves her own world, breathing in a balance of human suffering and alchemy. She sees beyond the veil and feels the world's pain. This gift has granted her access to the deepest parts of herself and has led her to her sacred work. Erin is a tree hugging, dirt loving, bug whisperer who's constantly on the lookout for the greatest treehouse ever created to live out the rest of her days. She has experienced a curious, unusual life that has been fraught with sexual and emotional abuse, chronic pain, and unexplained health issues. She discovered the secrets to her healing could be found by connecting deeply with nature after being introduced to her spirit guides, the Faerie Realm in 2002. This awakening has impacted Erin's life is unimaginable ways. Erin Christine is a 2x Bestselling Author, Certified Transformational Life Coach, Licensed Massage Therapist specializing in Reflexology/Toe reading, and Reiki Master/Teacher. For almost 2 decades, she has traveled within and around the spirit realms navigating life as a clairvoyant, clairaudient, empath. She uses the power of storytelling and elements of nature to empower the curious, playful woman to fully embody her unique voice and connect deeply to her spirit.
GET EVERY EPISODE AND BONUS CONTENT AT: www.patreon.com/crackpotpodcast N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a Schedule I hallucinogenic drug that occurs naturally in some plants but also in the human brian. The effects of DMT are varied but often leads to experiences where the user believes himself to be in an alternate reality, often described as more real than normal reality. And while each person's experience is unique, what is perhaps the most surprising of all are people's accounts of meeting and talking to sentient beings who impart wisdom, and sometimes predict future events. Is this something that exists entirely inside the mind or is DMT a gateway to a different reality? And is there any correlation to the similarities between DMT experiences and Near Death Experiences, the Faerie Realm, and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon? Click HERE for our past episode on DMT
Welcome back, soul fam! Today we are joined by a death faerie, psychic medium, & tarot card reader, named Claudine to discuss the faerie realm, divine feminine energy awakening, spirit attachments, Friday the 13th history, & so much more. Check out our guest on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedeathfaerie/ Follow Samantha & Leyla on Instagram @samanthaofthe8thhouse & @leylathehealer. Follow Leylas new podcast named "Its Called Being F*cking Authentic" now streaming on Anchor, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/notyourtypicalspiritualbs/support
In this episode, Tom adn Mina explore the history and lore of the Faerie Realm. We discuss the mythological history of Ireland, and the amazing legends that have sprung from the Fae Realm.Intro: Spooky Window by @simmodavisSocials: www.facebook.com/thespookywindowwww.instagram.com/thespookywindowwww.twitter.com/spookywindowWe also have tiktok!Tom: @mad_scientist_so_coolMina: @heirofatlasOutro:Ethernight Club by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7612-ethernight-clubLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Today on the train we are discussing changelings. Who are they...or maybe what are they? Where do they come from? What is their agenda? Well hopefully today we can clear up some of these questions for you...do you even care? Changeling, in European folklore, are a deformed or imbecilic offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them secretly for a human infant. According to legend, the abducted human children are given to the devil or used to strengthen fairy stock. How do you make the faerie gene pool stronger? You steal human kids! Duh! The return of the original child may be effected by making the changeling laugh or by torturing it; this latter belief was responsible for numerous cases of actual child abuse. The existence of changelings is believed to stem from the idea that infants are susceptible to demonic possession. In the Medieval Chronicles, by Ralph of Coggeshall, and in other sources, the fairies are said expressly to prey upon unbaptized children. Most stories about changelings describe them as looking like ugly, little old men. Obviously, this can make distinguishing them from your average baby difficult. I’m sure you love your own kid, but let’s be honest. Most babies are horrifyingly strange looking when they are born. Now imagine if they fail to gain weight because of poverty or a condition the parents aren’t aware of. Other descriptions include babies with abnormally sized body parts or facial features. Basically, any defect could be a sign that a fairy took your baby. Though in other cases, a changeling baby does resemble a human child, but only slightly off. Maybe their eyes contain the wisdom of millennia. Or they seem quieter than they were when firstborn. But if they are alive and getting into mischief, it is still better than the alternative. Sometimes the changeling is said to be a pile of sticks magically made to appear as the mirror-image of the stolen child. The mirage sickens before quickly dying. The parents unknowingly bury the sticks, never knowing their true child was missing. n Irish legend, a fairy child may appear sickly and won't grow in size like a normal child, and may have notable physical characteristics such as a beard or long teeth. They may also display intelligence far beyond their apparent years, as well as possess uncanny insight. A common way that a changeling could identify itself is through displaying unusual behaviour when it thinks it's alone, such as jumping about, dancing or playing an instrument — though this last example is found only within Irish and Scottish legend. So far it kinda looks like we might be changelings… beards and music instruments...also I have uncanny eyesight and Moody likes to dance when he thinks no one is around. "A human child might be taken due to many factors: to act as a servant, the love of a human child, or malice. Most often it was thought that fairies exchanged the children. In rare cases, the very elderly of the fairy people would be exchanged in the place of a human baby, so that the old fairy could live in comfort, being coddled by its human parents. Simple charms such as an inverted coat or open iron scissors left where the child sleeps, were thought to ward them off; other measures included a constant watch over the child." L. Ashliman points out in his essay 'Changelings' that changeling tales illustrate an aspect of family survival in pre-industrial Europe. A peasant family's subsistence frequently depended upon the productive labour of each member, and it was difficult to provide for a person who was a permanent drain on the family's scarce resources. "The fact that the changelings' ravenous appetite is so frequently mentioned indicates that the parents of these unfortunate children saw in their continuing existence a threat to the sustenance of the entire family. Changeling tales support other historical evidence in suggesting that infanticide was frequently the solution selected." Fairies would also take adult humans, especially the newly married and new mothers; young adults were taken to marry fairies instead while new mothers were often taken to nurse fairy babies. Often when an adult was taken instead of a child an object such as a log was left in place of the stolen human, enchanted to look like the person.[5] This object in place of the human would seem to sicken and die, to be buried by the human family, while the living human was among the fairies. Bridget Cleary is one of the most well known cases of an adult thought to be a changeling by her family; her husband killed her attempting to force the fairies to return his 'real' wife. The interesting thing about changelings is that there are tales of changelings in many different cultures and their folklores. Let's check out some of these different versions of changelings throughout folklore. First up we have Mên-an-Tol. Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall UK. In Cornish the name means “the stone of the hole”, why call it that you ask...well the main stone is basically a stone donut. Only one other example of a holed stone exists in the county: the Tolvan Stone near Gweek. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars commonly used in stone circles, with one dressed flat side. There is speculation that these were simply four of the stones of an ancient circle, further large stones having been discovered lying just below the ground nearby. The local moniker the 'Crick Stone' alludes to its alleged ability to aid those with back pain and children suffering from rickets and tuberculosis. This cute little stone formation is thought to be from the late neolithic to early bronze age. Now you may be asking yourselves what this thing has to do with changelings, well, we are gonna tell ya. So according to local legend, a woman had a child that was supposedly replaced with a changeling by pixies. The woman did not know what to do. Under the suggestion of some locals, she took the child to the stone and passed him through 9 times. 9 seems to be the magic number here, as for the curing of rickets and tuberculosis, children were passed through the hole naked nine times. After the woman passed the changeling through the stone it allegedly cured the child of the changeling issues. Ok so its not much but fuck it, its a relatable changeling story. GERMAN FOLKLORE According to Karl Haupt in the book The Legend Book of Lausitz, A child must always have someone nearby until it is six weeks old. Otherwise, an old woman from the woods or the mountains could come and exchange a physically and mentally retarded, malformed changeling for the infant. At the very least, one must place a hymnbook near the child's head before leaving the room. However, if--through negligence--the misfortune does occur, you should take prompt notice of it. Then you need only make a switch from the branches of a weeping birch tree and beat the changeling severely with it. The old woman will respond to his cries by bringing back the exchanged child and taking the beastly child away. You must allow her to depart unhindered, neither scolding nor cursing her, otherwise you will be left with the changeling hanging on your neck. Wow. This is one of the descriptions that have actually led to cases of child abuse as stated at the beginning of the episode. There are many tales of changelings in german folklore. The belief in changelings was strong and widespread. These beliefs continued to exert influence well into the nineteenth century, and in some areas even later. As late as 1924 it was reported that in sections of rural Germany many people were still taking traditional precautions against the demonic exchange of infants. The Germans had some precautions to help aid in the combating of changelings being swapped out for human children. Here are some according to Jacob Grimm from the book Deutsche Mythologie: Placing a key next to an infant will prevent him from being exchanged. Women may never be left alone during the first six weeks following childbirth, for the devil then has more power over them. During the first six weeks following childbirth, mothers may not go to sleep until someone has come to watch the child. If mothers are overcome by sleep, changelings are often laid in the cradle. To prevent this one should lay a pair of men's pants over the cradle. Whenever the mother leaves the infant's room she should lay an article of the father's clothing on the child, so that it cannot be exchanged In the town of Altmark they believe in what are sometimes called dickkopfe or thick heads. In the area itself they are usually referred to as “the underground People”. The underground people are dwarves. They have names like sleepy, grumpy, and dopey. According to J. D. H. Temme in his book Folk Legends from Altmark, to prevent the underground spirits from exchanging a newborn child, it must be continuously watched until it is baptized. For this reason the baptism takes place as soon as possible. Dwarfs are often called "the underground people." They live beneath the earth and would like nothing more than to have beautiful, well-formed human children. They will steal newborns, leaving their own malformed children, called changelings, in their place. Therefore there is always a great rush to have the child baptized, and until this happens the mother and child will not be left alone for even an instant. Furthermore, until then there must always be a burning light near them, even in broad daylight, because the underground people are afraid of light. A child must carefully and continuously be protected against exchange by the underground people until it is baptized. Therefore the so-called "word of God," a leaf from the Bible from a hymnbook, is either wrapped up with the child in its blanket or laid in its cradle. Here's a few stories of changelings in different parts of Germany: The Changeling of Spornitz (Source: Karl Bartsch, Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg) A young peasant woman in Spornitz had her child stolen by an underground person or a Mönk, and a changeling put in its place in the cradle. The mother saw it happen, but she could neither move nor call out. The maniken told her that her son would someday become the king of the underground people. From time to time they had to exchange one of their king's children for a human child so that earthly beauty would not entirely die out among them. She was told to take good care of the little dwarf prince, and her house would be blessed with good fortune. With that the Mönk laid the changeling on her breast and disappeared with her child. She took care of the child, and the prosperity of her household increased visibly. However, the changeling remained small and ugly, and died in his twentieth year. Mecklenburg Changelings Source: Karl Bartsch, Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg (Vienna, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1879), vol. 1, p. 62. Bartsch's source for this legend is Pastor Dolberg from Hinrichshagen. In Rövershagen the underground people once exchanged a woman's unbaptized child for one of their own. Following the advice of a wise man, she laid the underground people's child on the chopping block as though she were going to kill it with an ax. The dwarf's child immediately disappeared, and her own child was returned. The Changeling of Plau Source: Karl Bartsch, Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Meklenburg (Vienna, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1879), vol. 1, p. 42. A married couple in Plau had a child that after two years was still only as long as a shoe. It had an enormously large head and could not learn to talk. They shared their concern with an old man, who said: "For sure the underground people have exchanged your child. If you want to be certain about this, then take an empty eggshell and in the presence of the child pour fresh beer into it, then add yeast to make it ferment. If the child then starts to talk, then my suspicion is right." They followed this advice. The beer had scarcely begun to ferment when the child called out from its cradle: Now I am as old As Bohemian gold, But this is the first I've ever heard tell, Of beer being brewed in an eggshell. The dwarf's actual words, in the original Low German: Ik bün so olt as Böhmer Gold, doch dat seih ik taum irsten Mal, dat man Bier brugt in Eierschal. The parents determined that the very next night they would throw the child into the Elbe River. They arose after midnight and went to the cradle, where they discovered a strong and healthy child. The underground people had taken back their own child. Up next...the changeling in Irish folklore… In Ireland, the Faerie folk are always treated with respect, but many accusations are hurled at them as well, from making crops wither to milk turning sour. One of the most common accusations is that they steal humans and spirit them away to live in the Faerie realm, whilst leaving an unwanted faerie in their place, which becomes known as...you fucking know it...a changeling. Humans at risk of being taken are said to include handsome young men as they are taken to become lovers of the female Faeries. One theory why this happens is that the Faeries see humans as a stronger and healthier race and try to enhance their own bloodline by breeding with humans. Midwives and new mothers are also favoured by the Faeries because they can be made servants of the Faerie queens and easily tend to the Faerie children. It is said that Faerie women find childbirth very difficult and if the pregnancy even lasts until birth then the Faerie babies that survive are often deformed and stunted. Very occasionally, some people leave the mortal world to live in the Faerie realm by choice. They don’t usually stay in the Faerie realm for life and will return to their home after several years. Of course, none of them returns the same person after so long in the Faerie realm and often people will recognise that these people have ‘changed’ in some way. Traditionally, the person who returns will possess a ‘gift’ of some type and may be a master of herbal or magical knowledge. Humans most at risk of the Faeries are babies and young children. It is suggested that babies are taken as it is easier to integrate them into the Faerie community and there is less chance of them remembering their real parents. When they are taken, a Faerie child, disguised to look like the human child, is left in their place hence the name, ‘Changeling’. Although most Changelings don’t get to return to the Faerie realm, there have been tales of this happening and the Human child finally returned to its rightful family. The Faeries envy human babies as they tend to be happy, healthy, and sturdy beings. On occasion, they have been known to take a child because they simply believe it is not loved enough by its human parents or even take the child out of malice or spite, especially if someone from that family has disrespected someone from the Faerie Realm. One can never be too sure what a Faerie’s motive is. So how do the Irish recognize a changeling? Well let's find out! It is said that you can tell a Changeling baby by the fact that it is ill-tempered and looks wizened in appearance. Most will have very dark eyes and if you look into them you can see wisdom well beyond their age. A Changeling will also grow and develop a lot quicker than a human baby and within a few weeks the Changeling will have a full set of teeth and their legs and arms will be quite bony and thin. A changeling doesn’t always appear as a baby and occasionally the Faeries will leave a piece of enchanted wood called a ‘stock’ in the cradle instead. This stock will appear to grow sick and die right in front of the ‘parents’ eyes. The changelings’ new family will never have any good luck while the changeling resides in the family home as the changeling will drain the family of any good fortune that will come their way. A warning though to all those people who become parents to a changeling, it must be loved and cared for like it is your own if you ever want to have a chance of seeing your own child again. The unspoken threat is that if the changeling is harmed or abandoned in any way, the Faeries will treat your child just as badly or possibly even worse, a risk any parents would not be willing to take. However, don’t despair! There are certain methods one can use in the event of returning a Changeling from where it came from and ensuring the safe return of the child that has been taken. Below you will find some of the most traditional methods used. Trooping Faeries leave their barrow, (their home) several times a year. A direct swap is possible at this time although to be successful, specific spells and rituals need to be performed. A Faerie changeling is often weak and feeble so they must be nurtured and loved so that he/she becomes healthy and happy. When this occurs the Faerie parents usually decide that they want their natural child back and will switch them, themselves. This is probably the best and safest way to return a changeling to its proper parents as I really wouldn’t recommend the next method myself. In some areas in Ireland, Faeries are seen as demons. So because of this, the stolen person is not seen as kidnapped but possessed and it is believed that Faeries can be exorcised just like demons. The victim is beaten or tortured in the hope that life within the ‘host’ will become so unpleasant the Faerie be cast out. In Ireland, it is widely believed that the Faeries are terrified of fire and some alleged Changelings have been badly burned or even killed by the efforts of others in order to make the Faerie leave. If attempts at returning the changeling fail the unlucky ‘parents’ can expect the Changeling to grow up to be a snivelling, dim-witted person who will no longer be a changeling but will be known as an ‘oaf’. So if the Changeling becomes an oaf, what becomes of the human child living in the Faerie realm? Some are reported to pine and grieve so much for their loved ones in the mortal world that they wither and die. While others can adapt quite well and live happily within the Faerie realm enjoying a long life filled with cheerfulness, Irish music and Irish dancing. You want stories? Here's a couple for ya. This is the story of Bridget Cleary. On March 15, 1895, Bridget Cleary, the 28-year-old wife of a copper, went missing from her cottage near Clonmel in County Tipperary. Days later her body was found in a shallow grave, burned to death by her husband and family members who suspected her of being possessed by a fairy. Cleary, believed to be 'the last witch burned in Ireland,' was the victim of dangerous superstitious beliefs. Her story has become part of Irish folklore, and her tragic tale has been immortalized in the children’s rhyme “Are you a witch or are you a fairy, Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?” Books have been written about her and filmmakers are currently trying to raise funds to make a movie loosely based on her story. Cleary and her husband Michael were a well-off but childless couple. Bridget was a dressmaker who made additional independent income from keeping hens. According to accounts, she caught a cold that possibly developed into pneumonia, or she may have had tuberculosis. As her condition worsened, her husband and her uncle, Jack Dunne, began to circulate the story that Bridget had been taken by fairies and the woman in the bed was a changeling. According to Irishidentity.com, herbal cures were forced down her throat and she was held over the fire while being asked repeatedly if she was a changeling. Several family members assisted and neighbors were present the evening before her death as more tests were conducted on her. On March 15, 1895, her husband set fire to her nightgown and threw lamp-oil on her. “She’s not my wife,” he said. “You’ll soon see her go up the chimney.” Jack Dunne forced one of Bridget's brothers to carry her to a shallow grave. Some time afterward, it was reported to the local priest that Bridget had been burned to death by her husband and other family members. The priest went to the police who found her charred body and arrested nine people, including Bridget’s family members, neighbors, and friends, in connection with the murder. Michael Cleary served 15 years for the crime, after which he emigrated to Canada. According to the New York Times, the case was used as a weapon against Irish Home Rule, asking how could a people who still believed in fairies and spirits be trusted to govern themselves in the modern world? A REAL CHANGELING In a little village on the Cavan/Leitrim border, there lived a man who had disappeared and was said to have been taken by faeries. Miraculously he returned 10 years later out of the blue. While this story is said to be retold all the time even up to this, we could not find the details of this story anywhere, no names, no dates, no nothing. That being said … get your shit together people out there. POLISH/SLAVIC How do you get a one armed polish guy out of a tree? How many pollocks does it take to screw in a light bulb? Screen door on a submarine...you've heard them all, but have you heard about the changeling in Polish folklore? Doubt it, but that is why we are here. To inform you on the coolest shit around...like the Dziwozona. Also known as the Mamuna or Boginka, they were thought to be the spirits of a girl who died in childhood or women who killed their child (oddly connected), but they could also be women who died during pregnancy or women who had a child out of wedlock. Basically, the demon was often meant to represent things that were considered bad for women and represented an unnatural life or death. Depictions vary, but the most common description is that she’s an old hag with breasts so large she washes her clothes with them. Damn thats hot...anyway… Dziwożona was thought to appear during foul weather among the trees and swamps. Unlike many demons who would attack directly (though depictions of the boginka did include attacks), Dziwożona waited and observed mothers with their children. During this time she could make the children ill and would often come up with elaborate schemes to draw the mother away. She would then strike when the mother was gone, replacing the child with a changeling – the hag’s own child. Changelings were creatures that appear throughout Slavic myth. Demons would use them to replace the children they stole, but the changelings did not grow like normal humans. They had massive abdomens and small, disfigured heads. Which is different from the German myths if you remember from earlier as theirs had the big heads. They rarely slept, screaming into the night, and sometimes they even grew claws and jagged teeth. Almost all changelings died in childhood, but if they survived, they were little more than spiteful, mumbling loners. It’s likely that changelings and the connection with Dziwożona were simply the early Slavs’ ways of understanding disabilities among children. Beyond it being a warning for mothers not to abandon their children, it was easier to explain away that a demon stole the child than to accept disabilities are a part of human life. It’s brutal but unfortunately was common among early cultures. There were ways to protect your child against the Dziwożona, though. Parents would tie a red ribbon around the baby’s hand (a tradition still continued today in some Slavic countries) and also give the child a red cap to wear, protecting their face from the moon. SCANDINAVIAN The folk belief regarding the interchanging of children by the subterraneans is prevalent and old – in Norse times, the changeling was called vixlingr and skiptingr – and was most likely founded on the physical fact that a seemingly healthy and normal child could change drastically over a short period of time, and develop abnormal features. The portrayals often include the child having a big head, yellow and sallow complexion, "old man's face", bulging eyes, long hands and short feet and pointy teeth. Being "hungry as a watchdog," crying day and night, the changeling was described as a obstinate and imbecile being, and a slow learner, whether it came to walking, reading or talking. Contemporary medicine would most likely recognize symptoms of jaundice, rickets, atrophy (muscle wasting) and other defects caused by heredity and malnutrition. But for people without this medical knowledge, the "healing" simply consisted in getting rid of the changeling as soon as possible, in order to get the “rightful'' child in return. The treatment performed to attain such, was nothing less than horrible; among the many tricks in the book were to pretend to throw the child in the oven, pinch his nose with red-hot irons, and whipping him naked on a pile of garbage three Thursday evenings in a row. The idea was of course to frighten and abuse the poor creature to such a degree that the child’s “real” mother would feel sorry for him and reverse the switch. The legends recounting stories about elderly changelings prove however that this procedure was far from effective. At worst, they could be hundreds of years old, it was said. But it was never too late to get them out of the house. You could just lure them to talk and reluctantly divulge their age, they were exposed and made ready to die. The more outrageous the attempts were, the greater was the chance to fool them. A legend from Southern Norway, tells the story of an elderly changeling; the household put forward for him a huge pot of just a tiny bit of porridge in it, yet as many spoons as they could muster. Then he said: "I'm older than the mountains, and as gray as a scythe, but never have I seen so great a barrel and so little food and so many spoons before!" Then they knew that he was a changeling. On a farm in Eastern Norway they pretended to brew ale in an eggshell. But when the old man awoke and saw this, he burst out laughing: "No, now I have been around for so long that I've seen the old forest burn down and grow up again seven times, but never have I seen anyone brew beer in an eggshell." Then, someone asked. "Are you finished?" "Yes, "replied the old man. At the blink of an eye he was gone, and there was only a crumbling bone remaining. " Norwegian poet Haldis Moren Vesaas (1907-1995) wrote a poem about the changeling that might be easier to relate to than the old legends. This poem however, speaks of loving your child no matter how tired you are. For the changeling and the sweet, gentle child is the same, but sometimes it feels as if your little angel has been replaced with a nasty, vicious troll that nobody likes. Wanna hear it? Well you’re gonna anyways cus its out fucking show! Rockabye rockabye big, ugly child, troll is your surname, no doubt. The hugest boiler is in use as we speak, no less, to silence your trout The cradle you lie in will soon be too small, this hardship sure takes its toll You are heavy, so heavy, and the night is so long, for she who must cradle a troll All that see you, give me advice, that I should torment you, kick and toss. Then they will come for you, and I can get back the long lost child I’ve lost Rockabye changeling, big and foul Please, keep the fear at bay I will not hit you, trust me on that, and no one shall take you away The other, the cutie, can stay where she is While you, who is hated so deep, needs me to love and care for you And look! Now you’ve fallen asleep The tales vary from country to country and region to region in Scandinavian folklore. Scandinavian parents would often place an iron tool such as a pair of scissors or a knife on top of the cradle of an unbaptised infant to prevent its being abducted by the trolls. It was believed that if a human child were still taken, in spite of such measures, the parents could force the return of the child by treating the changeling cruelly, using methods such as whipping or even inserting it in a heated oven. In at least one case, a woman was taken to court for having killed her child in an oven. In Sweden, it is believed that a fire must be kept lit in the room housing a child before it is christened, and ,furthermore, that the water used to bathe the child should not be thrown out, since both of these precautions will prevent the child from being taken by trolls. In one Swedish tale, the human mother is advised to brutalize the changeling (bortbyting) so that the trolls will return her son, but she refuses, unable to mistreat an innocent child despite knowing its nature. When her husband demands she abandon the changeling, she refuses, and he leaves her – whereupon he meets their son in the forest, wandering free. The son explains that since his mother had never been cruel to the changeling, the troll mother had never been cruel to him, and when she sacrificed what was dearest to her, her husband, they had realized they had no power over her and released him. SPAIN The next legend comes from Spain, more specifically Asturias. Asturias is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. Their mythology contains tales of the Xana. The Xana is a beautiful fairy said to dwell wherever pure bodies of water flow, combing her long curly hair with a comb made of sun or moonbeams, using the water as a mirror. This bad fairy may also live in a cave, safeguarding her immense collection of ill-gained treasure. The Xana reminds us of sea nymphs and nixies, who also spend time near water using their beauty to lure humans. One of the key defining characteristics of the Xana is their thievery. Many tales describe the Xana acquiring a plethora of earthly treasures, and many myths talk of young adventurers who unsuccessfully attempt to gain the treasure of the Xana. Tales of Xanas also often involve the kidnapping of a human child, replacing it with their own offspring (called Xaninos). The Xana will make this swap by entering a human home through a keyhole. They cannot care for the children themselves. They find themselves ill-equipped to feed their children, due to their lack of lactation. So instead of dooming their own child to the fate of starvation, they take a human child from their cradle and replace it with their own fairy child. This behavior is reminiscent of changelings in other cultures. Eventually, the human mother will realize that their child has been replaced. WALES “Tylwyth Teg,” (Welsh fairies) or “Fair folk” were thought to have sought-after human babies and would steal them whenever they could, swapping them with a poor weak substitute of fairy descent. The new fairy baby displayed crabbiness and ugliness which would be visible. The distraught families, upon suspecting their child to have been “swapped” would seek the most horrific solutions to the problem, often employing a “fairy doctor” to diagnose the child as a fairy using various torturous methods which would lead to the death of the poor child. Some practices involved burning the child with hot coals, holding them over a fire or boiling water, leaving them exposed to the elements, or drowning them in the belief that the fairies would rush to save their own and give back the “real” child. Such was superstition and so intense was the fear of the fair folk, this practice was sadly common and widespread. Unchristened children were thought to be most at risk as were girls and twins. In all households, there were routine precautions aimed to prevent child theft. A prevalent one involved putting fire tongs over a cradle, because of the fairies’ well-known antipathy to iron. In the parish of Trefeglwys, near Llanidloes, Montgomery, a little shepherd’s cottage dubbed the Place of Strife, on account of the trouble recorded there. A couple that once resided there had twins, when they were a few months old the wife went to the house of neighbors, leaving both babies alone. When she returned, she saw the “blue petticoats of the old elves'' fleeing from her home. Hurrying indoors, she found her house as she had left it and was relieved. However, as the weeks rolled by, she noticed her twins' growth seems stunted. Her husband accused them of not being his, and it caused a huge rift between them. A local wise man gave this advice. He told her that when she was preparing dinner for the harvesters, in sight of the twins she was to empty the shell of an egg and fill it with pottage. Then carry it out to the workers as if meant to feed them all. But he told her to listen to what the twins say to each other about this strange behavior. If they discuss it in ways that children should not understand, then she should take them both to the river Llyn Ebyr and throw them both in. She did as she was told and heard the twins say; ACORNS BEFORE OAK I KNEW; AN EGG BEFORE A HEN; NEVER ONE HEN’S EGG-SHELL STEW ENOUGH FOR HARVESTMEN! On hearing this, the mother took the two children and threw them into the Llyn, and sure enough, saw goblins in their blue trousers come to save their dwarfs. The mother had her own children back again, and all was well once more. In Wirt Sykes book British Goblins, Welsh Folklore, he writes that a Dazzy Walter, the wife of Abel Walter, of Ebwy Fawr, one night in her husband’s absence awoke in her bed and found her baby had gone. Terrified, she searched around her bed for it and grabbed it with her hand above the bed, which was as far as the fairies had managed to carry it. And a woman called Jennet Francis, of that same valley of Ebwy Fawr, said that one night in bed she felt her infant son being taken from her arms; after that, she screamed and hung on, and, as she phrased it, ‘God and me were too hard for them.’ This son later grew up and became a famous preacher of the gospel. The Llanover estate when run by Lady Llanover in the 19th century was rife with rumours of the fairies amongst the gardeners who worked there. Several accounts were recorded, and it was said that Twlyth Teg would change children in the area. One family who would regularly leave out offerings of bread and milk for the Fae had a son who decided it was funny to replace the bowl of milk with urine. On finding it, the angry fairies threw the contents around the room and placed a curse as punishment that there would always be a fool – an idiot who would never prosper in his family. Sure enough one of his own children in later years turned out to be one and this continued in every generation since. A woman by the name of Nani Fach was also said to be the offspring of the fairies as she was presumably “different.” House staff of Lady Llanover would throw crumbs of bread on the floor before going to bed at night as offerings to the fairies such was their fear of them. Well… Wales seems to have a bit of a changeling problem...and a lot of funny names of places. So those are some of the myths of changelings from various cultures. While there are some differences most seem to have the same basic principles. You see many of the same stories repeated through the various myths. They may have different wording or phrasing due to the region or culture but they are the same. There were a couple recorded stories of deaths due to people thinking that someone was a changeling. We discussed the story of Bridget Cleary earlier but there was another tragic incident that involved a child. Michael Laehy was only four when he died. Anne Roche, an old woman of very advanced age, was indicted for the murder of Michael Leahy, a young child, by drowning him in the Flesk. This case, which at first assumed a very serious aspect, from the meaning imputed to the words spoken by the prisoner, that the sin of the child’s death was on the grand-mother, and not on the prisoner, turned out to be a homicide, committed under the delusion of the grossest superstition. The child, though four years old, could neither stand, walk, or speak – it was thought to be fairy struck – and the grandmother ordered the prisoner and one of the witnesses, Mary Clifford, to bathe the child every morning in the pool of the river Flesk, where the boundaries of three farms meet; they had so bathed it for three mornings running, and on the last morning the prisoner kept the child longer under the water than usual, when her companion (the witness, Mary Clifford) said to the prisoner, ‘how can you hope ever to see God after this?’ to which the prisoner replied, that ‘the sin was on the grand-mother, and not on her.’ Upon cross-examination, the witness said it was not done with intent to kill the child, but to cure it – to put the Fairy out of it. On her being charged by the policeman who apprehended here with drowning the child, she said it did not matter if it had died four years ago. Baron Pennefather said, thought it was a case of suspicion, and required to be thoroughly examined into, yet the jury would not be safe in convicting the prisoner of murder, however strong their suspicions might be. Verdict: not guilty. Author Robert Curran says that the verdict is suggestive of the depth of belief in changelings in the community. There were several similar cases in rural Ireland in the 19th century. The reality behind many changeling legends was often the birth of deformed or developmentally disabled children. Among the diseases or disabilities with symptoms that match the description of changelings in various legends are spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, PKU, progeria, Down syndrome, homocystinuria, Williams syndrome, Hurler syndrome, Hunter syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Prader-Willi Syndrome, and cerebral palsy. The greater incidence of birth defects in boys correlates to the belief that male infants were more likely to be taken. Psychologist Stuart Vyse writes that modern parents have higher expectations of childbirth and when "children don't meet these expectations, parents sometimes find a different demon to blame." A condition known as regressive autism, where children appear to develop normally in their early years and then start to show symptoms of autism, can also be compared to marks of a changeling child. As noted, it has been hypothesized that the changeling legend may have developed, or at least been used, to explain the peculiarities of children who did not develop normally, probably including all sorts of developmental delays and abnormalities. In particular, it has been suggested that autistic children would be likely to be labeled as changelings or elf-children due to their strange, sometimes inexplicable behavior. For example, this association might explain why fairies are often described as having an obsessive impulse to count things like handfuls of spilled seeds. This has found a place in autistic culture. Some autistic adults have come to identify with changelings (or other replacements, such as aliens) for this reason, as well as their own feelings of being in a world where they do not belong and of practically not being the same species as the other people around them. (Compare the pseudoscientific New Age concept of indigo children.) So like a lot of things the changeling myth may be chalked up to nothing more than people just not understanding and knowing about deformities, birth defects, and mental illness. Interesting nonetheless! 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In our very first episode, we take a look at the books that inspired us in our worldbuilding and writing. We thought it would be a piece of cake to name all the books that helped us create our own fantasy worlds, but it turned out to be quite difficult. The result: Apparently Genny is super into Greek mythology and Katrina is obsessed with Irish folklore. If you get nothing else from this episode, hopefully you're inspired to broaden your horizons and realize that when it comes to fantasy, there are no books you SHOULD read. It is a genre of absolute freedom, and with that said, the only thing we recommend is to go out there and find what it is that gets your creative juices flowing. If you'd like a little guidance on where to start looking for world-building inspiration, here's our list plus a few extras!Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths by Eva M. Thury and Margaret K. DevinneyThe Odyssey by HomerThe Theogony by HesiodFaery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World by Signe PikeOld Ways, Old Secrets of Pagan Ireland by Jo KerriganEnchantment of the Faerie Realm by Ted AndrewsEarth, Air, Fire and Water by Scott CunninghamMyths & Folklore of Ireland by Jeremiah CurtinThe Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures by John Matthews185 Tips on World Building by Randy EllefsonFantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures by Mark NelsonOn Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I by Timothy HicksonWorldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors by M. D. Presley The Planet Construction Kit by Mark RosenfelderDISCLAIMER: As our first episode ever, there are some audio kinks...but we're nearly pros by episode 3, so bear with us!★ ★ ★Let us know what you thought of our episode! You can reach us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or email writingthebroomstick@gmail.com.Hey! Do you like Celtic folklore, YA urban fantasy, AND free stuff? Read the first three chapters of Katrina's debut novel, “The Wise One”.And, if you want to see what Genny's reading lately, check out her Goodreads review page.
On episode 15 of the Magick and Alchemy Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby and Kate Belew delve into plant magick with some help from the Celtic Tree Calendar. They talk about faery trees, weaving a solar amulet, and working with plants in a sustainable and regenerative manner. They also explore the myth and lore surrounding Rowan, Elder, and the current tree of the month, the Ash Tree. Created by Tamed Wild. Production by KT Herr. Music by Follow the Wind, Taizo Audio. Sources: G. H. Kinahan (1888) Irish Plant-Lore Notes, The Folk-Lore Journal, 6:1, 265-267, DOI: 10.1080/17442524.1888.10602901 W. R. Paton , W. H. D. Rouse & Constance Tayler (1895) Correspondence, Folklore, 6:1, 91-94, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.1895.9720285 K. Palmer & R. W. Patten (1971) Some Notes on Wassailing and Ashen Faggots in South and West Somerset, Folklore, 82:4, 281-291, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.1971.9716741 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Enchantment of the Faerie Realm by Ted Andrews Shoutouts: On Being Podcast
In this episode we take a dive into Celtic folklore, we learn about the classifications of the fae, the sinister superstition of the changeling, and the original headless horseman- the Irish Dullahan! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
It's always, always enlightening to sit and work with The Fae-bringing us The Truth. GAIA says, "It's complicated but so very simple. Humans tend to over complicate things, most things-because of their lack of awareness and understanding of the greater picture dictates that they "fill in the blanks" to try to understand when in fact there are no blanks-just blocks to the truth." She wants to make it clear that you already know The Truth, you aren't learning-you're remembering. Those who find things to believe in are always looking for reasons to support that belief, even if there is nothing there other than illusion and confusion and the need to have "something" as a foundation. Those who KNOW, just know. There's no reason to FIND anything, to discover and uncover THE TRUTH comes from discovering and uncovering YOUR TRUTH, because they are ONE and we can feel that in the center of our chest when we hear The Truth, when we remember The Truth. THE READING: It starts off with a HUGE bang with EKSTASIS. Seriously, there's no other card that could get me so excited to START a reading & you'll understand just how powerful this energy is... We always have a choice-to hold on to the hands that lead us, even though they are like nothing we have ever seen, to get to a place we don't know, and along the way we are blind, in the dark and our fears find us, biting at our backs, screaming for us to open our eyes and let it all go, get back to "reality" and life will be "normal" again. We need to understand that there's no such thing and it's only our fears, our resistance to accept that there is much more to our lives, our world and our universe than we can "see". But we can definitely KNOW. If there's any group that find the exact right and most DEEPEST way to send a message, it's The Faeries, and The Dragons. I think it's their need to show us what's true. So, if you like the truth, then The Faerie Realm is for you. But it's not the truth you expect, it's just THE TRUTH. It's the truth in that moment for what it is, and maybe in the next it will change, and maybe that's why they are so great? Not only is it about THE TRUTH, it's about getting us to OUR TRUTH, and to understand our place in THE TRUTH of CREATION and our PLACE in it. As you will see from this reading-we do have a place. All of us have "a place" in this, a role to play and a need to be here or we would not be here. Today we get the messages of great healing, strength, tests and the need to understand the process of digging deeeeeep within to get yourself to what and who you really are. I hope you enjoy this reading and that it speaks to you and helps you through these next days, weeks months and all of 2020, it is meant to show us not only what is happening for us and The Light Body Collective as a whole, but also to let us know that this is an ongoing process, taking a look at who and what is the Shadows, the fears we must release and the strength we must tap into to move forward, so take note of your resistances, judgements of others, of the things you think about and the energy you have now and then think about what needs to be transmuted, what needs to be different so you can get to where you are meant to be. This is in two parts because-my alarm for the Sunday 11:11 meditation cut off the recording...On a Mirrored Number, take note of the 5225 business. "The Merging of Worlds," indeed. The Faerie Oracle Cards so you can look them up: 2-Ekstasis 4-He of the Fiery Sword 9-The Singer of Initiation 20-The Dark Lady 44-Lys of the Shadows 8-The Queen of Shadows The Dragonfae Oracle 18-Tatsuya Live In Love, ~infiniti~ My Podcast Page https://feed.pod.co/evolve-now-lightworkers-with-infiniti Websites: https://www.thehealingbutterfly.org/ https://www.thekeyistocreate.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA7drO920PbW94P5YfglUw?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.healing.butterfly/
It's always, always enlightening to sit and work with The Fae-bringing us The Truth. GAIA says, "It's complicated but so very simple. Humans tend to over complicate things, most things-because of their lack of awareness and understanding of the greater picture dictates that they "fill in the blanks" to try to understand when in fact there are no blanks-just blocks to the truth." She wants to make it clear that you already know The Truth, you aren't learning-you're remembering. Those who find things to believe in are always looking for reasons to support that belief, even if there is nothing there other than illusion and confusion and the need to have "something" as a foundation. Those who KNOW, just know. There's no reason to FIND anything, to discover and uncover THE TRUTH comes from discovering and uncovering YOUR TRUTH, because they are ONE and we can feel that in the center of our chest when we hear The Truth, when we remember The Truth. THE READING: It starts off with a HUGE bang with EKSTASIS. Seriously, there's no other card that could get me so excited to START a reading & you'll understand just how powerful this energy is... We always have a choice-to hold on to the hands that lead us, even though they are like nothing we have ever seen, to get to a place we don't know, and along the way we are blind, in the dark and our fears find us, biting at our backs, screaming for us to open our eyes and let it all go, get back to "reality" and life will be "normal" again. We need to understand that there's no such thing and it's only our fears, our resistance to accept that there is much more to our lives, our world and our universe than we can "see". But we can definitely KNOW. If there's any group that find the exact right and most DEEPEST way to send a message, it's The Faeries, and The Dragons. I think it's their need to show us what's true. So, if you like the truth, then The Faerie Realm is for you. But it's not the truth you expect, it's just THE TRUTH. It's the truth in that moment for what it is, and maybe in the next it will change, and maybe that's why they are so great? Not only is it about THE TRUTH, it's about getting us to OUR TRUTH, and to understand our place in THE TRUTH of CREATION and our PLACE in it. As you will see from this reading-we do have a place. All of us have "a place" in this, a role to play and a need to be here or we would not be here. Today we get the messages of great healing, strength, tests and the need to understand the process of digging deeeeeep within to get yourself to what and who you really are. I hope you enjoy this reading and that it speaks to you and helps you through these next days, weeks months and all of 2020, it is meant to show us not only what is happening for us and The Light Body Collective as a whole, but also to let us know that this is an ongoing process, taking a look at who and what is the Shadows, the fears we must release and the strength we must tap into to move forward, so take note of your resistances, judgements of others, of the things you think about and the energy you have now and then think about what needs to be transmuted, what needs to be different so you can get to where you are meant to be. This is in two parts because-my alarm for the Sunday 11:11 meditation cut off the recording...On a Mirrored Number, take note of the 1521 business. "The Merging of Worlds," indeed. The Faerie Oracle Cards so you can look them up: 2-Ekstasis 4-He of the Fiery Sword 9-The Singer of Initiation 20-The Dark Lady 44-Lys of the Shadows 8-The Queen of Shadows The Dragonfae Oracle 18-Tatsuya Live In Love, ~infiniti~ My Podcast Page https://pod.co/evolve-now-lightworkers-with-infiniti Websites: https://www.thehealingbutterfly.org/ https://www.thekeyistocreate.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAA7drO920PbW94P5YfglUw?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.healing.butterfly/
Working in the Faerie Realm as a Celtic Priestess, what that means, and aspects of the faerie realm where you may have skill sets and already be working.
Welcome to the Mystical Realms Podcast! In this very first episode I introduce my path into the Faerie Realm and discuss how to find those liminal spaces between the worlds where we connect with the mystical and mythical.This podcast is for those who are passionate about all things mystical and magical, and for those dreamers who love to dive into the depths of the creative wilds.Music - Waterfall by Daligan - https://daligan.bandcamp.com/More info, readings and workshops: http://www.lauradaligan.com/Art & Beauty: https://www.lauradaligan-art.com/
Merry meet everyone, this episode is about Fae and Elementals. All information I have pulled from the book "Enchantment of The Faerie Realm" by Ted Andrews. Please email me at sierrapanda98@gmail.com if you have any questions. Love and light
"Dorkness to Nightmare: Faeries and Sprites and Brownies and Werewolves"On this fifth of our mini-series of mini-sodes, Em & Alan talk about spirits and cursed beings, like faeries and werewolves.Topics discussed include Tolkien, Holly Black's novels,being nice to brownies, Werewolf by Night, and why garden gnomes have red hats.Click on the player below to listen to the episode:Right-click to download the episode.You may also subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts or the RSS Feed.Link: Author Holly Black's website Link: Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories" essayLink: The Tolkien Professor's podcast episode about "On Fairy Stories."We would love to hear from you about this topic, the podcast episode, or monsters in general. Send e-mail feedback to dorknesstolight@gmail.com You can follow the network on twitter @DorknessToLight or Alan @ProfessorAlan
Throughout your life it may seem that much of your focus is on finding out if you are loved or not, which is truly an expression of the belief that you are not. We invite you to explore with us tonight as we look at the ways you try to know that you are loved, but more, we will look for the ways you can find the truth – that you are, and have always been, more truly loved than you know. – Baratta
Throughout your lifetime, regardless of how old you are, you have reached and crossed thresholds of age that have had great meaning to you. The early thresholds often bring feelings of excitement and freedom, but the later ones can bring a sense of fear, loss, pain, or dread. Tonight we look at the journey of growing older, with its familiar pathways and the intense feelings that can accompany them. We welcome you as we explore new ways to transform the meaning of growing older, and therefore the experience of it, into an exciting and expansive adventure. – Baratta Joining Baratta tonight is guest Tysa Goodrich, who speaks intimately about the experience of growing older as a woman in our society.
The psychic wound of betrayal can last a lifetime if not consciously attended to. We invite you to join us tonight as we continue to explore this path of healing. There is no one answer for every person; there is no single path to the rebuilding of trust, safety, and happiness. Tonight we look at several different avenues for moving beyond this psychic wound forever. – Baratta Baratta is again joined by Tysa Goodrich, as they continue their intimate discussion about this poignant topic.
Of the many challenges that occur in your life, it is betrayal that can wound you most deeply. The psychic effect of having someone betray you can last for years, even a lifetime, altering the way your relate to everyone and everything in your life. Join us tonight as we look at the ways in which this wound can disrupt your journey, and how you can heal and move beyond such wounds forever. – Baratta Joining Baratta tonight will be guest Tysa Goodrich for an intimate discussion of this poignant topic.
For many of you, the challenges of life are increasing, both in your personal life and in your world. So often these challenges seem threatening and frightening, and many people would run to the past or blame others for what is wrong with the world. We invite you to join us tonight as we explore what challenge can be on a personal and global level – a magical and powerful part of an exciting and fulfilling lifetime. – Baratta
How often do you dream of making a difference in the world, only to awaken from that dream to find that your life continues to follow the same day-to-day routine of surviving? We invite you to join us tonight as we explore how to step beyond limiting routines and truly make a positive difference in your own life and the lives of others. – Baratta
In a world where love is so often in question, it can be challenging to establish and respect the boundaries of yourself or of others. We invite you to join us tonight as we explore the delicate interaction between your lovingness and your personal boundaries, and how to find a new balance of your power and vulnerability. – Baratta Baratta has an intimate conversation with his guest Tysa Goodrich about a challenge she faces with boundaries in her life. With callers, Baratta and Tysa discuss how to deal with boundary issues that come up in both family and romantic relationships.
From the time of early youth, so many of you have sought freedom from influences that you felt were limiting you, whether it was parents, institutions, or even "life". Many times you bring such struggles into your personal adult relationships as well. Tonight we invite you to join us as we look deeper at both the search and the struggles, to discover your true source of freedom within, and how you can use that personal freedom to change your life—and your world. – Baratta During the show, Baratta talks with caller (and previous guest) Richard Stubbs about the issues of freedom that arise within families.
In intimate loving relationships, so often one, and many times, both people give up part of themselves, believing they must do so for the sake of the relationship. In this way significant pieces of self can be abandoned, left behind, causing pain and resentment. Join us tonight as we look for a way beyond this well-worn avenue, to explore what it can be to have the love of your life, and to bring a new honesty, freedom, and autonomy into this most sacred trust. – Baratta Joining Baratta tonight is guest Tysa Goodrich, who shares some fascinating insights into her relationship with her husband, channel Dale Carley. With a caller, Baratta and Tysa explore how to stop waiting until we are "enough" to have what we want in our lives.
You spend much of your life measuring the ways that you are, or are not, acceptable to others, often working very hard to make yourself more acceptable. Yet, the feeling of being accepted never seems to fully find a home in you. It is time now to give yourself that gift – the gift of self-acceptance. – Baratta Joining Baratta in the studio are guests Cathy Stubbs, Richard Stubbs, and Tysa Goodrich for a lively discussion on this important topic.
Each day of your life is rich with opportunities, but many times it is as though they are hidden in plain sight. Learning to see, and yes, to respond to those opportunities can accelerate the pace of your growth, your expansion, and your success, far beyond what you may have ever imagined. We invite you to join us as we embark on yet another adventure in your luscious life. – Baratta
One of our most beautiful human capacities is the ability to be touched by the world around us. Yet sensitivity is often avoided, denied, misused, and judged as a weakness. On one hand, we don’t want to shut down our sensitivity, but we also don’t want to be so sensitive we can’t stand being in the world, around people or "negative energies." The power is in the resolution of this paradox. Join Baratta and his guest, writer and musician Tysa Goodrich, as they explore both sides of sensitivity, and discuss how we can awaken the creative power needed to make a difference in a dynamically changing world.
What has partnership been for you in the past? How would you like it to be better? Tonight Baratta talks about the issue of partnership within a loving relationship – with yourself, another, friends or associates, or even those unseen friends who are beyond the physical world.
As you prepare for a New Year shortly to come, laying a new foundation of resonance upon which to build, it can be helpful to work with the ways you separate yourself from your love and the love of those around you. We invite you to join us tonight as we explore together how to end that separation from love. – Baratta
This time of giving can be filled with anxiety and stress, even dread, and can lead you to wanting it to be over as soon as possible. But there is another possibility: letting this be a time in which you pause, to clarify and purify your love, in preparation for a whole new range of loving expression in an exciting new year. Join Baratta as he reveals a powerful new way to experience the holiday season.
Baratta explores the familiar sense of obligation and stress that accompanies the year-end holidays, and the opportunity that this time of the year can be for the deeper discovery and expression of your own love and the love of others.
It is a time of dramatic change in our world, both globally and personally. Join Baratta tonight as he explores the many ways that change can frighten us and trigger our habitual survival mechanisms, and how to move beyond them into an exciting new experience of life.
Tonight Baratta invites us on a fascinating journey into the magic and mystery that is our universe of duality: the dark and light, the feminine and masculine, the yin and yang, and "what works and what doesn’t." Step by step, Baratta shares how we can bring greater elegance and ease into our lives through recognizing both our failures and our successes as integral parts of our Dance of Duality.
Tonight Baratta talks in depth about how we may resist, and then how we may find the fullness of our autonomy. As Baratta describes it, "There is a wonderful peace that can be found in the pursuit and discovery of your personal autonomy. It is a peace that comes from knowing the choices you make in your life are truly your own."
Baratta welcomes his special guest, filmmaker and photographer Norman Seeff, who for three decades has explored the inner dynamics of the creative process with hundreds of the world's greatest artists and innovators. Join Baratta and Norman as they discuss how we can make a personal paradigm shift, unleashing our limitless power and creativity to manifest our dreams.
Opening to loving communication beyond death can provide comfort for the living, and healing on both sides. Upon their new path, those who have crossed over often need to let their loved ones know they are okay. Join Baratta and Tysa Goodrich as they discuss ways in which we can open to these miracles of communication that can be received and gifted on both sides. During the show, Tysa and Baratta assist a caller in contacting a recently departed lifelong friend.
How many of us have said these words? "I am my own worst critic." This statement is a reminder of just how harsh we can be with ourselves, something we rely upon in the vain hope that self-admonishment will bring an end to our feelings of inadequacy. Join Baratta as he examines the origins of negative self-criticism, and how we can end it once and for all.
One of the most frightening things in life is opening to trust someone more, whether that someone is another person or yourself. Most often the fear comes from the knowledge that with greater trust comes a greater risk of being hurt. Join Baratta tonight as he explains how to navigate that fear and build new trust that can become a foundation for greater love and happiness in our lives.
At every moment our consciousness is attuned to a particular range of possibility. Within that range, the expectations of the past can limit what we imagine for the future. Join Baratta tonight as he reveals how we can re-tune our range of possibility so that we can elegantly receive our most radiant future.
We all know the intensity, the passion, the whirlwind of falling in love, but often we try to ignore the pain, real or anticipated, that may lie beneath that intensity. Join Baratta tonight to learn how to heal that pain, and establish a new foundation upon which to stand as we open to more love in our lives.
The urge to possess someone or something can come up suddenly, from deep inside of us, when we are most afraid of losing what matters to us. It can push others away from us, and make us feel weaker and more isolated than ever. With a caller, Baratta explains how possessiveness can be a way of avoiding and controlling emotions, especially fear. Join Baratta as he explores how we can set ourselves and others free from this imprisoning pattern of life.
Baratta talks about creating a link between love and money, so that money becomes one of the expressions of our inherent love, worth, and value. Baratta shares the benefits of moving beyond the idea that money is a measurement of our success. With a caller, Baratta explores how we can free ourselves from emotional indebtedness, lack of forgiveness, and the patterns of struggle and competition in the realm of money and success.
Baratta welcomes his returning guest, writer and musician Tysa Goodrich, for a fascinating exploration of what happens in the journey of a soul before birth, as it prepares to enter the infant body within the womb. In her work with a woman, Tysa shares the story of how much the woman had wanted to have a baby, the husband who was resistant, and the loving message Tysa received from the soul of the child-to-be. Baratta and Tysa talk of the lively psychic communication between Tysa and her own unborn child's soul during her pregnancy, including during and following music gigs. Tysa shares several techniques that future mothers (and fathers) can use to make that beautiful psychic connection to their unborn child.
Baratta discusses the process of opening to a deeper, more fulfilling experience of our sexuality, as well as the far-reaching impact it can have, not only in the act of being sexual, but in all facets of our lives. During the show, Baratta invites Tysa Goodrich to join in and share her perspectives on this deeply personal topic. Together, Baratta and Tysa talk of moving beyond the fear of falling short, letting the current moment be new, and discovering more of who we and our partners are – as we continually unfold the mystery of our sexual selves through courageous sexuality.
Baratta welcomes special guest Franc Sloan, a beautifully insightful speaker who describes himself as "a spiritual consultant with a passion for mystery." Tonight Franc shares with Baratta his experiences talking with men of all ages about the passion that so often gets lost in intimate relationships, and the remorse that men feel about that loss. Together, Baratta and Franc examine how familiar expectations of "what always happens in relationships" can make it a foregone conclusion that passion will eventually die. As this lively conversation unfolds, Baratta and Franc explore how passion can continually grow when we stay on "the leading edge of love."
Tonight Baratta invites us to consider how we sometimes close our hearts to the people around us, and how opening our hearts more can profoundly change our lives, as well as the lives of those around us. In a very intimate conversation with a caller, Baratta describes how to deal with the flashes of anger that can come up as our old sensitivities are triggered by a loved one, causing him or her to feel hurt and abandoned. Baratta closes with a beautiful description of what can happen within us as we begin to relate to ourselves with an open heart.
Baratta once again welcomes Tysa Goodrich for an evening focused on loved ones who have passed on - and those who are left behind. Tysa shares how we can connect with our departed loved ones, and she tells two fascinating stories of communication with spirits. Baratta and Tysa help a caller deal with the issue of a controlling mother who has delivered one final punishment to her daughter before dying. Another caller asks for help to connect with her grandparents who perished in the holocaust, and with a close friend who died more recently, wanting to ask him where he wants her to spread his ashes.
Baratta talks about the many ways we separate ourselves from each other - and from ourselves - and how to heal that separation. With a caller, Baratta describes how to move beyond the fear of humiliation and rejection that keeps us from connecting more deeply with other people. With another, he explores how we can deal with our personal fears about the Swine Flu crisis, and how to use that process to make a personal contribution to the world. Baratta also discusses the powerful process of developing a new relationship with change, chaos and the unknown as we reach for more love and happiness in our lives.
Baratta welcomes returning guest Jean-Noel Bassior, the award-winning journalist, author, and writing/publishing coach, as they continue their intimate conversation about the nature of Baratta's existence. In response to each of Ms. Bassior's wide-ranging questions, Baratta describes his non-physical viewpoint, then goes on to examine how that understanding may be useful to us in our physical lives. Questions include: What is it like to be non-physical? What do you do in the non-physical realm? What would it be like to live without the fear of death? What existed before the Big Bang? ...A truly fascinating discussion.
Tonight Baratta examines the relationship between our consciousness and our physicality: how our physical body is part of our journey of conscious growth and expansion, and how to let our physical life be the joyous experience it can be. With callers, Baratta talks about discovering our deepest fear, finding clarity on the decision to move to a new city, and how to deal with the confused emotions accompanying the triple challenge of divorce, loan modification, and the loss of a job.
Baratta's guest is Tysa Goodrich, who returns for this evening's show devoted to people who have lost loved ones. Baratta begins the show by inviting Tysa to share how she first discovered she could sense those who had crossed over, and about her particular ability as an empathic medium. Tysa and Baratta talk with several callers: A father who passed away sends a message of apology and explanation for not showing his love to his daughters, and a caller from a previous show asks for an update on how her late husband is doing on the other side. At the close of the show, a ghost visits the studio with a message for Tysa.
Tonight Baratta helps us unravel the reasons why we resist deeper intimacy, and how, by moving beyond them, we can discover the gift that intimacy is, to ourselves and to others. Baratta explores the question, “How much of ourselves should we share for the sake of intimacy – should we tell all our secrets?” With a caller, he talks about being responsible for impact on others, feeling new depths of remorse, and self-forgiveness. With another caller, Baratta senses the emotional basis for a relative’s life-threatening illness, and sends healing energy to that person.
Tonight Baratta talks in depth about the magic that can be found in our interactions with others. He describes how we often opt for the safety of familiar patterns of relating, and how, by reaching beyond those patterns, we can find new levels of intimacy, power, hope, and passion. Continuing, Baratta speaks of how we are conditioned to accept "what is" in order to "be happy" - to be "grateful for what we have", which often means settling for what is, not looking any further, and shutting down our natural curiosity, yearning, and passion for what may come next in our lives. With a caller, Baratta talks about letting go of the need to prove our worthiness for the gifts we receive in our lives.
Baratta explores hope as a powerful energy and a personal contribution we can make to our world. He also discusses the idea that we can all be healers of a kind - no matter what our work may be. With callers, Baratta talks about the issue of entitlement as a response to fear, dealing with the voices within that hold us back in our chosen work, and reclaiming the imaginative and intuitive self when it has been lost. In the midst of the show, Baratta helps us to participate more actively by sharing the loving energy from our hearts, connecting with every other listener.
Baratta welcomes returning guest Tysa Goodrich for this evening's show devoted to people who have lost loved ones. Baratta and Tysa talk with several callers, with Tysa providing an emotional bridge for communication between them and their loved ones. Baratta also speaks with callers about "clearing the decks" emotionally in preparation for a new job, and healing grief that never seems to end.
Baratta speaks with callers about: moving beyond the fear of making mistakes when the stakes are high; building more trust in ourselves; connecting with the love in what we do; letting go of perfectionism; making the choice to have children or not; experiencing emotional depth as part of "A Luscious Life" going into the unknown of our lives with a new depth of feeling; self-forgiveness and the freedom that can be found on the other side of it.
In this evening's show Baratta talks with callers on a variety of subjects, including: facing the unknown, with its fear as well as its excitement; detoxifying our physical bodies by clearing ourselves of toxic emotions; grounding ourselves solidly in a new level of success. During the show, Baratta receives a call from a family who has just lost their beloved father and husband. Baratta enlists the help of Tysa Goodrich, a writer and musician who also has the ability to sense those who have crossed over. Together, Tysa and Baratta assist the family in a loving communication with their departed loved one.
Baratta speaks with callers about many aspects of "A Luscious Life": feeling emotions intensely, being adventurous in life with a sense of abandon as well as responsibility; changing our relationship with fear to a positive one; receiving and evaluating personal messages from non-physical sources; the rational mind and its role in the wholeness of self.
In the premiere, Baratta introduces the idea of "A Luscious Life" as an expression of ourselves that is unfettered by convention, habit, or conformity – a richness of truly being ourselves. This evening’s focus is on finding ways to give the full range of our emotional being a home in us - to give ourselves a safe place in our lives to “breathe” emotionally.
Episode 24: Timothy and Joshua Cutchin discuss a very strange article from Timothy's latest book, "Bigfoot: West Coast Wild Men". Joshua has made many observations in the past linking different modern paranormal phenomena with folkloric accounts of Celtic faerie encounters. This particular article, dating from 1857, contains a vast amount of elements which seem to link this bigfoot abduction with faerie lore.If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliarsThe Strange Familiars Mothman t-shirt design is here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/2179385-strange-familiars-mothmanEpisode 24 notes and links:Joshua Cutchin: https://www.amazon.com/Joshua-Cutchin/e/B00YPH8ODY/http://www.joshuacutchin.comTimothy's book, Bigfoot: West Coast Wild Men: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1983434094/Sarada: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtBySaradaMichael Anderson: https://drekka.bandcamp.comContact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliarsinstagram: @strangefamiliarshttp://www.strangefamiliars.comIntro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.comThe song which closes the episode is Red Lion sacred Heart from the Stone Breath album Who Is Listening? The WILDNISGEIST album is now available: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/wildnisgeistSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.
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