Intuitive Awakening

What are you really hungry for? In this episode, we explore the deeper truth behind our cravings, distractions, and endless striving. Spiritual hunger often disguises itself as busyness, people-pleasing, or even overeating, but at its core, it’s the soul’s longing for meaning, connection, and wholeness. Together, we’ll uncover how to recognize the signs of spiritual hunger, how to listen to the deeper needs beneath the surface, and how to nourish yourself in ways that truly satisfy. This is not about quick fixes or surface-level self-care, it’s about feeding the essence of who you are.

We live in a spiritual culture obsessed with healing, fixing, and arriving, but what if the soul does not evolve through perfection at all? In this episode, we explore why mistakes, missteps, and unfinished becoming are not failures of the spiritual path, but its primary teachers. Drawing from mystics, philosophers, poets, and ancient traditions, this episode offers a gentler, deeper understanding of the soul’s journey, one that honors fracture, humility, and learning through lived experience. This is an invitation to stop trying to perfect yourself, and to begin inhabiting your life with reverence.

Know Thyself is one of the oldest spiritual instructions in human history, carved above the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and echoed across cultures, religions, and mystical traditions worldwide. Yet in the modern age, marked by identity confusion, spiritual outsourcing, and constant distraction, its meaning has become diluted or misunderstood.
In this episode, we return to the original depth of the Delphic maxim Gnōthi seauton and explore why self-knowledge was considered a prerequisite for wisdom, prophecy, and ethical living. Drawing from ancient Greek philosophy, Eastern wisdom traditions, Sufism, Christian mysticism, and modern psychology, this conversation reframes Know Thyself not as self-improvement or ego-polishing, but as a radical act of responsibility, humility, and inner clarity.
We examine why the ancients warned against seeking answers without self-awareness, how lack of self-knowledge fuels projection, guru-dependence, and moral certainty today, and why true spiritual maturity begins with honest inner inquiry. This episode explores how knowing oneself transforms how we live, relate, lead, and choose, offering a grounded path toward integrity, discernment, and compassionate action in a fractured world.
This is an invitation to step back from borrowed identities and inherited beliefs, and to reclaim the ancient courage of self-examination. In a time when many are searching outward for meaning, Know Thyself calls us inward, not to retreat from the world, but to meet it with wisdom, clarity, and truth.

Long before abstraction was accepted by museums, before critics named movements and men were credited as pioneers, women were painting under the guidance of unseen forces.
Hilma af Klint claimed her monumental canvases were commissioned by spiritual masters. Agnes Pelton sought luminous forms through meditation in the California desert. Ithell Colquhoun merged surrealism with occult initiation. Swiss healer Emma Kunz created vast geometric diagrams through pendulum guidance, using them not as decoration but as medicine.
In this episode, we explore the spiritualist currents that shaped modern art and ask a daring question: were these women inventing abstraction, or transmitting it?
What did they believe was happening when they entered trance or deep meditation? What symbols were encoded in their spirals, orbs, and geometric lattices? Why has history minimized the role of spiritualism in the development of modern art? And perhaps most importantly, why would unseen intelligences seek to work through human beings at all?
This is a journey into séances, desert studios, sacred geometry, and the radical idea that art may be collaboration rather than self-expression. Because if creativity is a form of transmission, then the question is no longer whether spirits exist.
The question becomes: what wants to move through you?
References:
1. Higgie, Jennifer. The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and The Spirit World. First Pegasus Books, New York, 2024.
2. Bashkoff, Tracey. Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future. Guggenheim (n.d.)

What if words are not merely expressions of thought, but forces that shape reality itself? In this extended episode of The Intuitive Awakening Podcast, we enter the ancient Hermetic world to explore one of its most profound and unsettling teachings: that speech is creative at the level of being. Drawing from the Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius, and the living figure of Hermes Trismegistus, this episode weaves together myth, philosophy, cosmology, and lived spiritual practice to reveal why the ancients treated speech as sacred power rather than casual habit.
You’ll be introduced to what Hermeticism is, who Hermes Trismegistus was understood to be, and how these texts survived to shape Western mystical thought. Along the way, we explore Logos as the creative word, the ensouled and responsive nature of the cosmos, and why careless language was seen as a spiritual liability rather than a social flaw.
This is not a conversation about “positive thinking.” It is a deep dive into ontology, the nature of reality itself and the responsibility that comes with having a voice in a living universe. We’ll examine how speech binds or loosens fate, why silence was considered the womb of wisdom, and how everyday language quietly shapes identity, perception, and possibility.
This episode is for listeners who sense that words matter more than we’ve been taught and who are ready to reclaim speech as a conscious, ethical, and spiritual act.