http://unnamedpath.com A Spiritual Path for Men-who-love-men. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:26:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Episode 55 - Love Spells: Calling Forth Your Perfect Mate 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/84 Thanks to one of our listeners and supporters, Dave, we've started an online yahoo group where we can come together as a community, discuss spiritual concepts, talk about some of the revelations and experiences we've had an even organize meetings at the local level. Come joins us at The Unnamed Path ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/83 Hello Brothers, fellow shamans, lovers, poets and magicians! I think the time has come for me to begin teaching classes in the Unnamed Path in person. My guides have made it very clear that this is something that I must undertake in 2008, and I'm eager to get cracking! If you ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/82 Episode 54 - Love Spells: Me First! 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/81 Episode 53 - Love Spells: Taking Inventory 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/80 Hello to all of my listeners! I wanted to drop you all a note to let you know that I'm doing well, but that Spring has truly sprung and things have gotten a bit busy as of late. I haven't been able to put out podcasts on a weekly schedule ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/79 Episode 52 - Polarity, Gender and Magic 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/78 Episode 51 - About Hyperion and The Unnamed Path 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 http://unnamedpath.com/archives/77 Episode 50 - The Medicine Pouch and Spirit Tribes 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/76 Episode 49 - The Elements and Colors in Magic 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/75 Episode 48 - Questions from Listeners 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/74 Episode 47 - Messages from the Dark God 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/73 Due to popular demand, we've created several T-shirt designs themed after The Unnamed Path, and are now offering them through our CafePress.com Online Store. These are a perfect way to let others know your spiritual interests, and many of us who are attending Patheacon will be wearing them to let others ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/72 Episode 46 - Pathworking to meet the Light God 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/71 Episode 45 - Sacred Holidays 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/70 Episode 44 - Giving and Receiving 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/69 Episode 43 - Secrecy 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/68 Episode 42 - Redefining Love Relationships Show Highlights: • Most Men-who-love-men were taught to emulate heterosexual relationship models and default to them when establishing their own relationships • Men-who-love-men experience unique desires, drives and pressures in relationships that heterosexual couples do not experience, therefore their models of relationships don't work for us • Our ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/67 Episode 41 - Attitude is Everything 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/66 Episode 40 - Pathworking to Meet the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/65 Episode 39 - Honoring the Dead 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/64 Episode 38 - The Spirits of the Land 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/63 Episode 37 - Pathworking 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/62 Episode 36 - Introduction to Prophecy 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/61 Episode 35 - The Shadow Self 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/59 Episode 34 - Personal Spiritual Practice 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/58 Episode 33 - Out of the Shaman's Closet 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/57 Episode 32 - Contacting the Spirits 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/56 Episode 31 - Sexual Energy Healing 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/55 Episode 30 - Religious Wounds 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/54 Episode 29 - Spirit Possession 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/53 Episode 28 - Magical Cleansing 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 • ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/52 Episode 27 - Cultivating Leadership 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/51 Episode 26 - Allying with an Ancestor 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/50 Episode 25 - The Red Meal 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/49 Episode 24 - Treading the Mill 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/48 Episode 23 - Spirit Guides and Totem Animals 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/47 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/46 Episode 22 - Magical Tools 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/44 Episode 21 - Sacred Sexuality 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 ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/43 Episode 20 - Energy Healing 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, ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/42 Episode 19 - Fragmented Masculinity Show Highlights: • As gay men we often develop a fragmented sense of what it means to be a man due to societal rejection, parental upbringing or behavior ideals that we are raised with • A fragmented sense of masculinity can either be expressed through an adoption of ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/41 As discussed in Episode 18, there are a few preparatory steps you sould take before ever working magic to accomplish a goal. Here they are explained in a basic checklist for you to use: Step 1 – Write down a magical goal as if you already have it. What do you ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/40 Episode 18 - Making Magic Happen Show Highlights: • Motivation is one of three things needed in order to be a powerful magical person (Energy, relationship, motivation) • Motivation is a combination of intent and desire • Motivation is what fuels your magic into being • Exercise 1: Preparing for magical work • Exercise 2: Making ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/39 Episode 17 - Healing Emotional Reactions Show Highlights: • Negative emotions separate us from our true nature - which is love • Healing and working through negative emotions is necessary for better emotional health, and for our well being • "Reviewing" is a technique whereby you review the incident that caused you to have ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/38 Episode 16 - Sacred Space / The Great Crossroads Show Highlights: • Creating sacred space acknowledges the sanctity of the area within which you will be doing magical work • Sacred space is created by raising "The Great Crossroads" - a magical practice that calls forth our understanding of the spirit world into ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/37 This diagram captures the cosmology of the Unnamed Path, and reflects the relationships of the elements to our self, and the deities to our self. This diagram is meant to accompany podcast Episode 16 - Sacred Space / The Great Crossroads. North Earth Color: Black Qualities: Solidity, Physicality, Manifestation Force of Creation: Death Art: Deathwalking South Air Color: White/Clear Qualities: ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/36 Meditation is one of the best spiritual skills you can learn in life. Not only will it assist you in building relationships with spirits, guides and the divine, it will also contribute to greater health within your body, mind and soul. As promised in Podcast 15 - Building Magical Relationships, ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/33 Episode 15 - Building Magical Relationships Show Highlights: • Magical Relationships are one of the three important things to have in order to be a powerful magical person: energy, relationships, motivation • Relationships, once cultivated, allow you to call upon the spirit allies you have to immediately effect magical change in the world ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/32 Episode 14 - Understanding Spirit Contact Show Highlights: • Spirit Contact is the act of communicating with spirits of the departed • Reasons for contacting spirits include: retrieving lost lore, deepening your psychic skills, gaining perspective and understanding for your own issues, forging alliances with spirits for magical work, communicating messages from the ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/30 Episode 13 - Ethics Show Highlights: • Ethics versus Morals - defining each and their benefits versus the consequences • In the Unnamed Path we follow an ethical guideline "What is in alignment with my true nature?" • Ethics allow the individual to decide from himself and determine what to do through deep personal ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/28 Episode 12 - Death Show Highlights: • Exploring unhealthy or dysfunctional attitudes toward death within our society • Why talking about Death is important • Step-by-step process that happens at death • Birth, sex and death are the three most powerful magical experiences for humans • Humanity's fate and destiny is to return to the Cauldron ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/27 When visiting Palm Springs this weekend, my partner and I decided to take a day hike to an ancient sacred native site - Indian Canyons. Here, the geology of the desert is such that springs burst forth from the tilted rock mountains creating valleys bursting with life in an ordinarily ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/26 Episode 11 - Energy Show Highlights: • Energy is the intangible part that makes up everything in the spiritual world as well as the backroads of the Middle World • Source for energy include: the earth, the universe, the ancestors, the self and more • Energy is used in every one of the four ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/25 This diagram goes along with the podcast "Love and Fear" to assist you in understanding and comparing Love's qualities and associated desires versus Fear's qualities and associated desires. http://unnamedpath.com/archives/24 I took a trip to Toronto, Canada this weekend to visit one of my dear friends, meet his partner and get to see the sights. One of the things I definitely wanted to experience was the energy of the Great Lakes. Having never been to this area before, I couldn't ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/21 Episode 10 - Love and Fear Show Highlights: • Every thought has an emotion associated with it - they occur in tandem. • Every emotion has an associated desire - a need to put energy in motion toward some end effect • Desire is the motivation that propels our magic into manifestation • There are ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/20 Episode 9 - Thought is Creative Show Highlights: • This is the first lesson of many to come on the topic of Magic • The mind thinks in pictures • The physical world is a direct manifestation of your thought patterns, whatever you "see" with your mind you create around you • There is no ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/19 Episode 8 - The World Tree Show Highlights: • The World Tree is a visual metaphor for the structure of the spiritual world that is found in many cultures around the world. • The World Tree has three parts - The Upper world (branches), the Middle world (the trunk) and the Underworld (the ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/17 Episode 7 - The Shamanic Journey Show Highlights: • A Shamanic Journey is a spiritual pathworking undertaken with the assistance of music or entheogenic plants to alter the consciouness into a shamanic consciousness (trance) • Shamanic Journeys are often surreal, experiences defy the laws of physics and are non-linear and illogical • Shamanic practices ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/16 This weekend I facilitated a shamanic journey for some friends. While they all made themselves comfortable on the ground, I lit my sage wand until I had sufficient wafts of its cleansing smoke coming off of the end. I stood in the center of our space and connected myself to ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/13 Episode 6 - Shame and Sex Show Highlights: • Shame about our sexuality manifests in our lives in many ways including asexuality, sexual self-destruction or clandestine sexual encounters that are unsafe or illegal • Shame originates from either our upbrining, societal judgments, or religious judgments • Shame is rooted in fear of consequences • Healing ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/12 The work of a deathwalker is intense and involves spirit contact in order to retrieve lost lore and guidance. Last night I made a visit to my favorite little cemetery. It's the oldest cemetery in the city and it's open all night long - no gates, no guards - just dead ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/11 Episode 5 - Fate and Free Will Show Highlights: • Evaluating society's assumptions about Fate and Free Will as opposites • Fate is the unique reason you came into this life - your spiritual homework • Free Will is the power you have to choose for yourself and decide what path to take in ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/10 Episode 4 - The Goddess Show Highlights: • Gay men have a unique relationship with the feminine divine force in nature • The Goddess is the mistress of Fate, the owner of action and consequence, the Queen of witches and magicians and is akin to the field of all possibilities in the universe • ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/9 Episode 3 - God in the Unnamed Path Show Highlights: • Explaining how a heterocentric perspective on God alienates gay men • God within the Unnamed Path is gay and reflects the uniqueness of our own capacity to love • There is a Light God and a Dark God - which are each other ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/8 Episode 2 - The Ancestors Show Highlights: • Who the Ancestors are, and where can they be found • The unique Men-who-love-men Ancestral lineage that gay men can call upon • The benefits of communicating with the ancestors • A brief explanation of a few techniques for contacting the ancestors http://unnamedpath.com/archives/7 Episode 1 - Survey of The Unnamed Path Show Highlights: • A definition of what The Unnamed Path is • The four parts of the spiritual tradition: Magic and Prophecy, Shamanism, Energy Healing and Deathwalking • The Unnamed Path is being revealed to us through contact with the Ancestors of Men-who-love-men • A mention of ... http://unnamedpath.com/archives/3