Show Highlights:
• Review of previous two podcasts and the things you need to have in place before doing A Perfect Mate spell
• You have to be in a mental place where you don’t “WANT” a relationship
• Shell spell for a perfect mate
• Candle spell for a perfect mate

Come joins us at The Unnamed Path Discussion Group today! And all are welcome - Men-who-love-men and our supporters.

Blessings,
Hyperion

If you live in the greater Los Angeles area of Southern California (Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, etc.) and are interested in taking classes directly from me on all of the information presented (and not covered) in the Unnamed Path podcasts, please contact me via email and we will arrange an in-person meeting to discuss specifics.

This will be an apprenticeship in the truest sense. I teach a hands-on approach to magical studies, and you will only get as much out of this class as you put into it. We will cover the basics: shamanism, magic, prophecy, energy healing and deathwalking as well as ceremony creation, personal alchemy, addressing gay issues and building leadership. This apprenticeship will take in the form of 2-3 hour long classes twice a month, with an additional ceremony added in here and there.

Cost: $20 per class
Requirements: Must be a Man-who-loves-men, of sound mind and free to decide for yourself in good faith (legal adulthood age)
Length: This apprenticeship will last at least a year with a Rite of Passage at some point in the education

If you are interested, please contact me and tell me a few details about yourself, what drew you to this path and what your magical experience is like, and if you have tried any of the Unnamed Path yet.

Blessings,
Hyperion

Show Highlights:
• Loving yourself first having your own needs met
• Preparation and materials needed for a spell to fall in love with yourself
• Detailed discussion on how to create a candle spell to fall in love with yourself
• How to observe candle burning behaviors as indicators for your spell’s success

Show Highlights:
• Discussion of the reasons most love spells don’t create lasting results
• Things to do in preparation for love magic
• Self-introspection is required prior to any love spell
• A Love-Uncrossing Magical bath is described as a technique for working through your own issues around love

I also welcome any suggestions for topics that you might want to hear about. Feel free to post suggestions under this entry and let me know what you’d like to hear about!

I send you all my blessings and thanks! Happy Spring!

Show Highlights:
• Hyperion answers a question submitted by Peter Paddon of The Crooked Path Podcast on Gender and Polarity in Magic
• Polarity is experienced differently for MWLM as we embody both masculine and feminine characteristics within us
• When MWLM work together in a magical setting, we experience a “Mirroring” effect where our energies are amplified between us like two mirrors facing one another
• Polar compliments are experienced between mirroring pairs of men
• Polarity can be used to raise energy for healing, magical work, sacred sexuality and more

Show Highlights:
• Hyperion discusses his perspective on experience over book knowledge
• Hyperion explains his past training in Wicca, The Druidic Craft of the Wise, Palo, Santeria, The Minoan Brotherhood, Shamanism and Reiki
• Learn about how the Unnamed Path came together

Show Highlights:
• The Medicine Pouch is a spiritual talisman that represents the collection of your spiritual alliances
• It is filled with durable objects that represent totem animals, energies and spirits that are given to you through your shamanic work, each of which has significance in your spiritual path
• Learn how to add and remove items from the pouch
• No one should handle your medicine pouch, and it should be kept hidden and private
• Spirit Tribes are smaller divisions of the greater tribe of Men-who-love-men, each has a totem animal spirit that guides it
• Your Spirit Tribe Totem Animal will help you in your spiritual role that you play in the greater fate of humanity
• Learn how to find your Spiritual Tribe Totem Animal

Show Highlights:
• Each magical goal can be linked with one or more of the elements in terms of their nature
• Fire goals: Protection, courage, action, energy, fiery cleansing and purification
• Water goals: Emotional issues, love, peace, tranquility, dream work, calming cleansing and purification
• Earth goals: Money, work and career issues, property, possessions, health and healing, animals, ancestral work
• Air goals: Mental clarity, study, learning, communication, travel, planning
• Colors meanings are discussed in detail, and sample spells are cited incorporating color symbolism

Show Highlights:
• Troubleshooting meditation: how to avoid falling asleep, and how to quiet the chattering mind
• Other Gods and Goddesses: how do we view other gods outside of the Unnamed path
• Clarifying the relationship of the Gods in the Unnamed Path with one another
• Prosperity and Spirituality - discussing how giving and receiving applies to spiritual work
• Suggestions for Shamanic Music tracks and whether its appropriate to use headphones

Show Highlights:
• These are messages received from the Dark God during a Spirit Circle in October of 2007
• We are living in an era ruled by fear and consequently have disconnected ourselves from one another and from the earth. We need to heal this in our society by refusing to succumb to fear and living fearlessly
• The time for religions and “traditions” is dead, now is the era for individual spiritual exploration and personal truths
• We get too wrapped up in the complexity of rituals thinking that they are more powerful or effective. Instead of sparsely performed complex rituals, we should focus on consistently repeated small spiritual actions (like lighting a candle or walking outdoors) to keep us constantly in the spiritual current
• God is not all white, and love - God is non-judgmental blackness

Show Highlights:

• This pathworking will take you on a ritualized semi-guided meditation to formally meet the Light God
• Tools needed include: the stang, or alternatively the wand, and a white candle - placed in the east
• Your Great Crossroads should focus toward the east and you should sit facing the east or lay in the east when performing the meditation

Show Highlights:
• Holidays in the Unnamed Path are closely tied to what’s going on in the environment around you and the changes in nature
• Our holidays are gatherings where we offer our spiritual gifts to the greater community; there are anywhere from 3 to 5 different ones
• The Circle of Blessing (occurs when the crops in the area are being planted) - magical goals are brought to the Shamans to be manifested
• The Circle of Light (occurs when diseases start arising) - Shamans gather in a large circle offering energy healing to the members of the community
• The Circle of Bones (occurs when the leaves start falling from the trees - or what ever time best correlates to death in your environment) - Deathwalkers gather together and act as channelers allowing others to contact their dead loved ones
• The Circle of Sight (occurs at the peak of the year) - A single shaman acts as a “seer” or prophet and enters into a trance allowing others to have their questions and answers divined
• The Circle of Mysteries (occurs when the local wildflowers start blooming) - The sacred sexual union of the Dark and Light Gods is enacted through two MWLM, experiencing the mysteries of our sexuality

Show Highlights:
• Our society teaches us to think with a “lack mentality” - that there isn’t enough in this world and that we have to compete for everything
• In order to receive you must give, and in order to give you must receive
• To gain more of anything, you need to work against “lack mentality” and give that very thing away
• To assure your magic happens, establish what you need to give in order to receive your magical goal ahead of time, and give that very thing away prior to doing the magical work

Show Highlights:
• Secrecy has been maligned in our society mainly due to its abuses by authority figures or ruling organizations like the government or church
• Secrecy is actually a magical tool that helps build intensity and energy behind what is kept secret
• Secrecy should be used to help manifest your magical goals as well as any positive things in your life
• Openly discussing things drains energy out of them and can be used effectively to release or unravel negative past experiences such as emotional pains or abuses - these things should never be kept secret as they will gain in power and strength

Show Highlights:
• An attitude is merely an emotion held for a long enough period of time such that it becomes a state of mind
• Attitudes are self-perpetuating
• Your attitude colors the conditions of your life, not vice versa
• Gratitude can help you shift your attitude toward positivity and solutions-oriented thinking instead of defeatist or victim thinking

Show Highlights:
• This pathworking will take you on a ritualized semi-guided meditation to formally meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men
• Tools needed include: the skull with a black candle on top, or alternatively the Cauldron (failing both, a simple black candle will do) - placed in the north
• Your Great Crossroads should focus toward the north and you should sit facing the north or lay in the north when performing the meditation

Show Highlights:
• Ceremonies to honor the dead reflect the values of their originating cultures, and so, too, should the ceremonies in the Unnamed Path
• Ceremonies to honor the recently departed should focus on giving the living the solace they need, an opportunity for communication with the dead to calm their worries, and assist the recently deceased in traveling into the Underworld
• Ceremonies to commemorate anniversaries of deaths should focus on remembering the deceased and offering communication with them
• Two sample ceremonies are given for honoring the dead

Show Highlights:
• The Spirits of the Land are the intelligences associated with he geography of a place, the plants, animals and natural phenomena
• We seek to form relationships with these spirits in order to empower our magic and help us bring balance back into nature
• Types of Spirits of the Land include: Guardians of the Land, Plant Spirits, Land Spirits, Genius Loci, Shamanic Forces of Nature and more
• Learn how to introduce yourself to the Guardians of the Land and begin to form alliances and relationships to deepen your magic

Show Highlights:
• Pathworking is a ritualized semi-guided meditative exercise
• Pathworking varies from guided meditation in that not everything is described for the participant, allowing him to have his own unique experiences and spiritual encounters
• Pathworking is an effective way to meet Gods, Goddesses, guides and other spiritual entities and establish/build relationships with them
• The Great Crossroads is used in conjunction with Pathworking and tools to set the proper magical environment to begin contacting the desired spirit
• Future podcasts will contain specific Pathworkings to meet the Light God, Dark God, Light Goddess, Dark Goddess, Ancestors of Men-who-love-men, Spirits of the Land and more

Show Highlights:
• Prophecy is the magical art of seeing patterns in fate and predicting outcomes
• There are many forms of prophecy including divination, scrying and prophetic vision
• Prophecy is a most-likely forecast for how things will turn out if you don’t change anything
• Prophecies should be used as guidelines to decide whether to change behavior and affect the future or not
• Be careful when reporting death, disease, divorce or disaster - planting such a strong prediction in a person’s mind can actually lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy
• Doubting yourself will only disconnect you from your divine current of inspiration and information - never doubt yourself when engaging in prophecy

Show Highlights:
• There are three parts to the self: the Higher Self, the Conscious Self and the Shadow Self
• In the Unnamed Path we strive to heal the Shadow Self and integrate it into our total being
• The Shadow Self needs to be healed in order to become an effective magician and powerful spiritual person
• Starting a Shadow Journal is an effective way to summon forth the Shadow Self so that it can be healed
• Healing techniques include Energy Healing, Shamanic Journeys, calling upon your guides and animal totems to assist you (especially your fear totems), and Sexual Energy Healing
• Learn how to meet your Shadow Self in a shamanic journey

Show Highlights:
• Learn how to create your own personal spiritual practice in order to live The Unnamed Path
• Personal experience and application of a spiritual path with always outweigh book learning or academic knowledge
• A good place to start practicing the path is with 20 minutes of meditation 5 days a week
• One day a week, you can do some work in one of the four parts of the Unnamed Path: Shamanism, Magic/Prophecy, Energy Healing, Deathwalking
• On special occasions, or as you feel motivated to, you can perform special ceremonies
• Honor the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men as you feel motivated to
• Setting up either an altar or a special space where you can do spiritual work will help you apply yourself toward spiritual practice

Show Highlights:
• The Unnamed Path is not for everyone - it is a lonely path that requires lots of dedication and deep inner-plane work
• Self-Determination empowers the individual to create his place in society instead of allowing society to determine his value
• Coming out of the Shaman’s closet allows you to live your life freely, honestly and to fully serve as a spiritual leader for your community
• Divination techniques for how to determine your area of specialization within the Unnamed Path as a Shaman, Energy Worker, Deathwalker or Magician

Show Highlights:
• Contacting spirits is done through a ritual facilitated by Deathwalkers in order to retrieve lost lore and information, receive guidance, assist spirits in their spiritual process after dying and to help other people with their spiritual path
• Our capacity to love as Men-who-love-men is the key to communicating with spirits - love is the very fabric of the universe and we can reach through it with our natural talent, to speak with spirits and bring them into our space
• Spirit contact work seems to work best after dark, and during the Fall or Winter when many things on the earth are dying away
• The skull is used as a magical tool to create a portal through which we summon forth the dead
• Your spirit guardians and patron and matron deities should be invoked prior to starting so that they can protect you and manage the spiritual traffic that will approach you during this ritual - nothing can get past them
• Make sure to magically cleanse at the beginning and end of the ceremony with blessed water and/or blessing potions - this can also be done throughout whenever you feel negative vibrations on you or need to smooth out your energy
• Spirit possession can occur during spirit contact circles at varying degrees - be prepared by assigning a spotter to each medium that is possessed, and ask the spirit questions about it to get to know it, as well as to gain any advice or clarity you might need.
• Hyperion answers questions from listeners

Show Highlights:
• The outcome of sex between Men-who-love-men is an explosion of healing energy, where as the outcome of sex between a man and a woman is life/procreation
• The healing energy that comes out of sex results from a collision of the spiritual and physical worlds in the moment of orgasm between men
• This energy can be directed toward healing emotional, spiritual, mental, or physical imbalances
• Some men are naturally called toward healing others in a sexual contact: They are sexual energy healers
• Sexual Energy Healers used to play a critical role in ancient societies as priests for the gods, in modern times where sex has been maligned, they have been ostracized, labeled as whores, sluts or worthy of death or disease in order to steal their natural power away from them
• Sexual Energy Healers are sacred and play an important role in our society’s balance and should be honored as such
• Learn how to use sexual energy healing in your own intimate encounters

Show Highlights:
• Religious wounds are the self-limiting, judgmental ideologies that pervade our thinking even though we no longer participate in organized religion
• Religious wounds manifest in our lives as we try to fit into a heterosexual model of living with no success, when our drives, desires and tuning is completely different from heterosexual men
• These wounds not only cause us to have dysfunctional lives, but also create divisions amongst us in our own community of men-who-love-men
• Religious wounds need to be healed in order to progress in your spiritual development: questioning all “should” statements in your ideology is a good place to start
• Create your own world-view as a representation of the truth you’ve experienced in life, not out of others’ beliefs you’ve been spoon-fed

Show Highlights:
• Spirit Possession is a temporary altering of the consciousness, a displacing of the spirit and identity in the medium to allow an entity to enter into his body and communicate directly with others
• In ancient cultures Spirit Possession was considered one of the most crucial methods of connecting to the divine and was expected to happen in religious or spiritual contexts
• Possession occurs on a spectrum of intensity from as light as a simple trance to as deep as a complete displacement of the medium’s identity by the spirits
• Spirits of the dead, Spirit Guides or Gods can all possess an individual
• Spirit Possession requires that the medium be skilled in psychic “listening” techniques and that he have an established relationship with a spirit

Show Highlights:
• Magical Cleansing it the process of breaking apart and removing negativity or chaotic energy and replacing it with peaceful, divine, protective energy
• Magical Cleansing is used in Spirit Contact work throughout the ceremony to facilitate communication, clear off negative energy or heal other people
• You can energetically cleanse things using several techniques including smoke, fluids, or energy
• Good cleansing herbs that can be used include: sage, hyssop, frankincense and myrrh, rosemary and others.
• Call upon your spiritual relationships to your patron deities, guides, the ancestors or the spirits of the plants you are using in order to have the most effective Magical Cleansing possible.

Show Highlights:
• There is a marked absence of effective spiritual leadership in our community
• Men-who-love-men need to learn leadership skills in order to move into our place in society as spiritual leaders and assist our brothers in coming together and bettering our communities
• The qualities of leadership are: Love, Integrity, Compassion, Transparency, Humility, and Patience
• Learn ways of cultivating leadership within yourself by asking what Love would do, or asking yourself how you’re helping any given situation
• As Spiritual Leaders we are servants to our people - we are accountable to them - we have no authority over their free will, nor do we lord over them
• Respect is commanded, not demanded - Spiritual leadership is something you cultivate within yourself, and in response, others will request that you move into that position.

Show Highlights:
• Forming a Spiritual Alliance with an Ancestor of Men-who-love-men is a mutually beneficial arrangement
• The Ancestor becomes your Spirit Guide for the year and assists you with personal issues or a major change in life, in turn they move into the Upperworld and jump ahead in their spiritual evolution
• The Red Meal (Housle) and Treading the Mill are used to contact the spirit and forge the alliance with them
• A Spirit Ally can act as a guardian during Spirit Contact (Tapping the Bone), as a guide for Energy Healing suggestions, as an assistant in accomplishing magical goals or as a guide during Shamanic Journeys
• The Alliance lasts one year and requires maintenance from both you and the Spirit

Show Highlights:
• The Red Meal is a ritualized sharing of bread and wine with Ancestors, Gods or Spirits of the land
• Breaking of bread symbolizes the rending of flesh, and moistening the bread with wine represents the blood issuing forth from the flesh, consumption of the the results in an exchange of spiritual essences with the God or Ancestors with whom the meal is shared
• The Red Meal can be performed after Treading the Mill, after Tapping the Bone, or simply as an act of gratitude, or as a spiritual contract with another entity

Show Highlights:
• Treading the Mill is a group magical process that builds energy, creates vortexes or portals to travel through the worlds
• Mills are traditionally tread in a counter-clockwise (widdershins) direction in concert with the energy of the earth, or the Underworld
• You can Tread the Mill clockwise (deosil) jeh-sul in order to work with solar/Upperworld energy as well
• Mills that are tread in places of power are more intense energetic experiences, but they can be centered anywhere
• Treading the Mill using a tool as the central axis of movement brings focus to the working and evokes the power of that tool in the magic
• You can Tread the Mill to travel to the Underworld or Upperworld if shamanic journey work or meditation are not as productive for you

Show Highlights:
• Spirit Guides choose us, and their success is intimately tied to our own
• Spirit Guides are ascended master - formerly Mighty Dead - who have elected to take a position to assist humans in achieving our fate
• Spirit Guides are best contacted through shamanic journeys or meditation - practices that quiet the mind
• Spirit Guides choose you because they faced similar issues in their human existences
• Totem Animals are spiritual forces that help you integrate qualities into your life to deal with issues
• Dancing your Totem Animal is a great way to cement a relationship with them and show them gratitude for their help
• Some Totem Animals are life-long companions, others are transitional for specific periods of your life
• In addition to Totem Animals there are Plant Totems, and even Rock or Mineral Totems - all seeking to assist you in raising your vibrations and perceptions so that you can eventually work with Spirit Guides

The above symbol (the blue lines) was given to me by the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men as a means of opening a portal to communicate with the dead. It is drawn energetically with your hand or the wand, over the skull. The circle is drawn first, and then the pairs of lines. I like to draw the two pairs of vertical lines first - they are drawn inward toward the center of the circle. Then I draw the two horizontal pairs of lines - they are drawn outward away from the circle. I then use my hands to dilate or open up the circle as a portal and reach through it with my capacity to love in order to summon the Ancestors to be present for the Tapping of the Bone ritual.

Show Highlights:
• Magical tools assist you in directing energy, have symbolic meaning in ritual and are used to establish relationships with other forces
• Ultimately, magical tools can be of any type as long as it feels powerful for you, and spiritually calls to you
• The Staff (or wand) is used to push or direct energy and as a tool of authority
• The Cauldron is a symbol for the Dark Goddess’ Cauldron and is used in rituals based on the life/death/rebirth mysteries
• The Skull is used as a portal to communicate with the Ancestors and is a symbol of the Dark God
• The Hearthstone is used in magical groups (only) as a symbol of the heart of their magical tribe
• The Working Space is not an altar, per se, but is a desk or surface upon which you can craft magic and store your tools
• Consecration essentially involves: cleaning something, dressing something, energetically charging it, and marking it as your own

Show Highlights:
• The Sacred Sexual union with the priesthood is called the Hieros Gamos (sacred marriage), and can be enacted with any two polar opposite spiritual forces, not just male/female
• We have a heritage as men-who-love-men, of being sacred sexual priests in ancient temples, providing this service as a spiritual communion with the divine for the participants
• Sacred Sexuality requires an open heart, understanding of how to move energy, seeing the God within you and your partner, emotional connectedness with your partner, and self-love
• When two men make love, their sexual union unleashes healing energy for themselves and for their society
• Learn the step-by-step process to have sacred sex

Show Highlights:
• The healing system of the Unnamed Path is fueled by Universal Life Force, channeled through our unique capacity to love and directed by the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men
• The recipient’s body knows how to use the energy to reestablish balance and harmony on physical, spiritual, mental and emotional levels
• The healing energy is channeled through the practitioner, not from the practitioner, and requires an open heart in order to flow
• Learn a few basic techniques for tuning into someone before beginning a session, as well as working in groups of three
• Learn some of the history of how this technique was revealed