Latest / The Occult Rejects / Initiates Oracle with Marcella Kroll & Adam Smith
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- 0:02Speaker 1: You see something's going to happen.
- 0:06Speaker 2: What's going to happen? What help? Welcome back to the
- 0:25Speaker 2: Occult Rejects Today we're joined by Marcello Kroll and Adam Smith,
- 0:30Speaker 2: the creative team behind Initiates Oracle, a forthcoming forty card
- 0:35Speaker 2: oracle deck with one hundred and twenty eight page guidebook
- 0:37Speaker 2: from Weiser Books, scheduled for release on May fourth, twenty
- 0:41Speaker 2: twenty six. Marcella Kroll is an artist, mystic, spiritual teacher,
- 0:46Speaker 2: and deck creator whose work bridges divination, contemporary art, and
- 0:50Speaker 2: lived spiritual practice. Her site describes more than twenty five
- 0:53Speaker 2: years of work as a psychic medium, a cult practitioner,
- 0:57Speaker 2: and spiritual counselor, and she's known for decks and books
- 1:00Speaker 2: including Sacred Symbols, Oracle, The Dreamer's Taro, Healing, the Liminal,
- 1:04Speaker 2: and more. Adam Smith is the illustrator behind Initiates Oracle.
- 1:09Speaker 2: He brings three decades of a cult practice in more
- 1:12Speaker 2: than fifteen years of tattoo artistry to the project, and
- 1:15Speaker 2: he's also the creator of the Hidden Veil Taro. What
- 1:18Speaker 2: makes this deck especially interesting is that the Initiates Oracle
- 1:22Speaker 2: is presented as an occult, hermetic and Egyptian inspired work.
- 1:26Speaker 2: In both Marcella's site and the publishers describe it as
- 1:29Speaker 2: being born out of a journey to Egypt, where the
- 1:31Speaker 2: author and illustrator took part in the initiations of the Sphinx.
- 1:36Speaker 2: The deck is framed not just as a divination tool,
- 1:39Speaker 2: but as a guide to transformation, something meant to translate
- 1:42Speaker 2: deep esoteric symbols into a practice that can actually be
- 1:45Speaker 2: used in everyday life by both newer seekers and seasoned practitioners.
- 1:50Speaker 2: That gives us a lot to dig into today, symbolism, initiation, ritual,
- 1:55Speaker 2: artistic vision, occult philosophy, and what it means to make
- 1:58Speaker 2: a deck that is both beautiful and spiritually functional. And
- 2:02Speaker 2: that's why I'm excited for this conversation because Initiates Oracle
- 2:06Speaker 2: sounds like they're trying to do something bigger than just
- 2:08Speaker 2: give people another deck. It sounds like it's trying to
- 2:11Speaker 2: open a threshold between image and ritual, symbol and experience, ancient,
- 2:15Speaker 2: current and modern practitioner. So today we're going to get
- 2:18Speaker 2: into the making of the deck, the initiatory ideas behind it,
- 2:22Speaker 2: the collaboration between writer and illustrator, and what both of
- 2:25Speaker 2: our guests believe these symbols can still do to a
- 2:27Speaker 2: person in the present day. Now, before I introduce the
- 2:31Speaker 2: rest of the panel and the guest, I do have
- 2:34Speaker 2: an announcement I'd like to make. We do have the
- 2:36Speaker 2: website a Cult Research Institute dot org. If you're interested
- 2:41Speaker 2: in reading a lot, that site is for you. And
- 2:43Speaker 2: we also have T shirts available on the website as well.
- 2:47Speaker 2: There's two different styles that you can choose from. And
- 2:49Speaker 2: that's enough out of me, and let me introduce the
- 2:51Speaker 2: rest of the panel. Robbie, please, sir, let everybody know
- 2:54Speaker 2: what's up with you.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Yeah, doom well, doom well. Nick, thanks for having me on.
- 2:58Speaker 3: This is the a topic of interest and it's good
- 3:02Speaker 3: to meet you both, Adam and Marcella and I am
- 3:06Speaker 3: our Marx artist and illustrator and I'm big into doing
- 3:11Speaker 3: symbolic research, color theory, all down the roads of you know,
- 3:17Speaker 3: these kind of occult esoteric topics and I'm excited to
- 3:21Speaker 3: see where we can go. If anybody wants to check
- 3:23Speaker 3: out my stuff, you can go to my link tree,
- 3:25Speaker 3: which is link tree r Marx and then I'll pull
- 3:28Speaker 3: up all my website, my Patreon, my podcast, the metamindcast
- 3:35Speaker 3: and everything else. So but yeah, thanks for having me on, Nick,
- 3:38Speaker 3: and yeah.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Of course, please thank you for joining me. Robbie, appreciate
- 3:42Speaker 2: it whenever you can make it. And Adam sure, please
- 3:45Speaker 2: let everybody know a little bit about you or anything
- 3:47Speaker 2: you want to promote, and this and that.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Well, I was I live in Columbia, South Carolina. I've
- 3:55Speaker 1: been tattooing for over fifteen years now. Uh yeah, you
- 4:03Speaker 1: have to excuse me.
- 4:04Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I was living and Sabrina actually because she
- 4:06Speaker 2: showed up.
- 4:08Speaker 1: You're good, You're good, but uh yeah, I'm not. I'm
- 4:11Speaker 1: not really used to stepping out into the spotlight and everything.
- 4:14Speaker 4: You know what.
- 4:15Speaker 2: I still get nervous doing this, so it's quite over.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, that's that's really about it.
- 4:24Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get into it a little bit more
- 4:25Speaker 2: as we go through moreau. Let everybody know what is
- 4:31Speaker 2: open to you.
- 4:33Speaker 5: My name is Marcello Kroll. I currently live in Tucson,
- 4:37Speaker 5: but I am an artist and a occult practitioner. I
- 4:42Speaker 5: make decks, I write books, I consult on different projects.
- 4:46Speaker 5: It's pretty awesome. I get to do this for a living.
- 4:48Speaker 5: I feel like I get to be the person that
- 4:51Speaker 5: I wish was there for me when I was growing up.
- 4:54Speaker 5: But you know, yeah, just really exciting to call outborate
- 5:00Speaker 5: with Adam as a fellow magician. We got to travel
- 5:04Speaker 5: to Egypt together and do a lot of ritual rights
- 5:07Speaker 5: in the temples. We did our initiations of the things together,
- 5:10Speaker 5: and we got paired up to be kind of I
- 5:15Speaker 5: don't know, Adam, what would you call it.
- 5:16Speaker 1: We were like the I'd say, like I've always kind
- 5:20Speaker 1: of referred to it as like the pillars of silence. Yes,
- 5:24Speaker 1: about the Isis ritual.
- 5:26Speaker 5: Yeah, we led the call. We led the guard to Fela,
- 5:32Speaker 5: to Isis's temple at like I don't know, I think
- 5:35Speaker 5: it was like three o'clock in the morning, four o'clock
- 5:37Speaker 5: in the morning, in darkness, in silence, you know, to
- 5:42Speaker 5: be gatekeepers for that particular temple ritual. And yeah, it's
- 5:49Speaker 5: pretty profound in that way. So yeah, anyway, I just
- 5:53Speaker 5: I'm always in awe that I get to do this
- 5:56Speaker 5: work and meet different people from all walks of life
- 6:00Speaker 5: who get to carry their heart in this path forward.
- 6:03Speaker 2: So awesome. Well, thank you for making it as well.
- 6:07Speaker 2: And Sabrina, what is going on?
- 6:09Speaker 6: How are you always like five a time. It's light.
- 6:12Speaker 6: I'm sorry like being on time. Also, i'ds so pumped
- 6:17Speaker 6: to be here because Marcella and I've known each other
- 6:20Speaker 6: on the internet for like a million years and we've
- 6:22Speaker 6: never like shared like live moving on the internet. So like,
- 6:27Speaker 6: I'm so excited to hear and to hear about what
- 6:31Speaker 6: you guys are working on and everything. I feel like
- 6:33Speaker 6: people this probably already know me. I've got five books out,
- 6:36Speaker 6: two podcasts, whatever, Google it, Rina Scott, whatever.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah. When I remember, I think even sore
- 6:44Speaker 2: on your profile. No, when I was looking at her Instagram,
- 6:48Speaker 2: I think it even mentioned that she was followed by you,
- 6:50Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, Sabrina might actually find this interesting,
- 6:53Speaker 2: she might come on this one. Thank you for making it.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, So I guess I do have a
- 7:01Speaker 2: couple of questions, kind of like you know, once for
- 7:04Speaker 2: the Goldies, for people just discovering the Initiates oracle, how
- 7:08Speaker 2: do each of you describe the deck in your own words?
- 7:11Speaker 2: Maybe Adam, if you want to go first.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Well, what I would say is that the deck itself really,
- 7:19Speaker 1: uh really takes the practitioner on the same journey that
- 7:25Speaker 1: we were on a lot of the artwork in it
- 7:30Speaker 1: was stuff that was downloaded during the process, and even
- 7:33Speaker 1: coming back from the trip, it was just like an
- 7:35Speaker 1: ongoing surge of like imagery and symbols and stuff going on.
- 7:44Speaker 1: And so we're really kind of just hoping that we're
- 7:48Speaker 1: able to share all that with anybody that picks up
- 7:51Speaker 1: this deck, you know, and makes them feel part of
- 7:54Speaker 1: the journey as well.
- 7:55Speaker 2: So the at times like this happens to me, well,
- 7:59Speaker 2: not the like my shit's art, but you know, I'll
- 8:01Speaker 2: come up with ideas for like thumbnails and shit or
- 8:04Speaker 2: whatever logos. Is it Like times like I guess you
- 8:06Speaker 2: were saying, like almost like downloads or it's like you'll
- 8:08Speaker 2: just get this idea that just pops into your head
- 8:09Speaker 2: out of nowhere and you have to like try to
- 8:12Speaker 2: remember it, you know what I'm saying.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I'll do a little voice notes. Sometimes I'll
- 8:19Speaker 1: do rough sketchings, and especially like you wake up in
- 8:22Speaker 1: three am in the middle of the night and just
- 8:24Speaker 1: have this idea and have to get it out.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that is cool as shit, man,
- 8:29Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's sometimes what I think. I'm a big
- 8:32Speaker 2: David Lynch fan, and I think sometimes that's what he
- 8:34Speaker 2: was talking about, like when you have an idea and
- 8:36Speaker 2: you lose it, you almost just want to kill yourself
- 8:38Speaker 2: and die. Like I understand, it's just like the fuck
- 8:40Speaker 2: I'm not going to get that back because I didn't
- 8:43Speaker 2: jot it down or whatever. But yeah, it's cool. Yeah,
- 8:47Speaker 2: what about you, Marcella. I, well, it's interesting.
- 8:50Speaker 5: So this is going to be my fifth deck, and
- 8:52Speaker 5: typically with decks, I have three Oracle decks and one
- 8:56Speaker 5: Tarot deck that I've made. I've done all the artwork
- 8:59Speaker 5: and the ill illustrations for those decks coming together on
- 9:04Speaker 5: this project. It was a seed that was planted there,
- 9:08Speaker 5: and we had been talking about just the different things
- 9:13Speaker 5: that are out there because Adam has made his own
- 9:16Speaker 5: self published deck prior to this, and we wanted something
- 9:20Speaker 5: that felt like, yes, anyone can access it, but for
- 9:25Speaker 5: the person who wants to take things beyond just the like,
- 9:28Speaker 5: oh do they like me kind of readings, but someone
- 9:32Speaker 5: that can actually use it in their magical practice, but
- 9:36Speaker 5: also for their own growth as a magician, because you know,
- 9:40Speaker 5: there's so much of the same stuff out there over
- 9:42Speaker 5: and over and over again, and even I did my
- 9:47Speaker 5: first retreat this past February, and I used this deck
- 9:52Speaker 5: to outline my retreat. So it's not just divination in
- 9:57Speaker 5: the sense of I need to ask a question about
- 10:00Speaker 5: my life. It's putting into practice, like what things we
- 10:04Speaker 5: could be working on in layers and applying them, you
- 10:08Speaker 5: know to maybe everyday situations, but also through ritual. So yeah,
- 10:15Speaker 5: it just felt very natural. Adam and I clicked from
- 10:18Speaker 5: the go because we showed up. You know, I don't
- 10:21Speaker 5: know how many people were there, like twenty eight or something.
- 10:23Speaker 5: I don't know, definitely a number of people. And I
- 10:29Speaker 5: mean he's like, oh good, another tattooed face person and
- 10:33Speaker 5: I'm like, great, yes, finally, But we really just it
- 10:39Speaker 5: just kept growing the seed of the idea to the
- 10:42Speaker 5: point and for me creatively, that's how creative ideas come in.
- 10:46Speaker 5: They kind of roll in and float by, and if
- 10:48Speaker 5: I don't grab them, kind of like what you're saying,
- 10:50Speaker 5: I kind of forget about it. But here's the thing.
- 10:53Speaker 5: I think if an idea, especially a creative one, wants
- 10:56Speaker 5: to come through, it kind of haunts you a little bit,
- 11:00Speaker 5: popping up around you like whack the mole until you
- 11:02Speaker 5: go okay, okay, okay, I can't ignore this anymore. And
- 11:08Speaker 5: the beauty of doing this deck together because Adam such
- 11:11Speaker 5: a prolific artist and I love his work. In that way,
- 11:16Speaker 5: I was able to nerd out on the booklet the
- 11:21Speaker 5: writing right, Whereas when I've done my other decks, I've
- 11:25Speaker 5: made them more kind of keywords, jumping off points, like
- 11:29Speaker 5: things that you're supposed to use your own brain because
- 11:31Speaker 5: a lot of people want it told to them, and
- 11:33Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I'm not teaching you to read like me.
- 11:37Speaker 5: I'm not teaching you to read like mimic someone else.
- 11:41Speaker 5: I want you to use these things as a jumping
- 11:43Speaker 5: off point. So they've been very booklets for me in
- 11:45Speaker 5: the past have been very streamlined, very like I said,
- 11:50Speaker 5: keywords or suggestions, whereas this deck we really get to
- 11:56Speaker 5: look at the symbolism, particularly the magical symbolism, and dive
- 12:01Speaker 5: deeper into maybe some stories around some of the symbolism
- 12:04Speaker 5: that you haven't heard before.
- 12:07Speaker 2: That was awesome, Thank you you kind of answered. I
- 12:10Speaker 2: had another question. I was going to say, what made
- 12:11Speaker 2: you choose Adam, but kind of answered to anythink.
- 12:15Speaker 5: Like it was a kindred connection, like kind of right
- 12:18Speaker 5: off the bat, we kept getting paired up, like not intentionally,
- 12:22Speaker 5: but like like the facilitators, just like when we would
- 12:27Speaker 5: do certain rituals, like we would pair up in groups
- 12:29Speaker 5: or like and are just it was easy for us
- 12:33Speaker 5: to like collaborate collaborations.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Hardah, Yeah, one thing I did want to ask, also,
- 12:43Speaker 2: why the word initiate? What does initiation mean to each
- 12:46Speaker 2: of you? Beyond the cliche version of the term.
- 12:49Speaker 1: M Adam, I was hoping you were going to go
- 12:55Speaker 1: first on that one. H. Initiate can mean to me
- 13:03Speaker 1: a bunch of different things. Uh, give initiates, the initiations
- 13:07Speaker 1: that you would go forth through with organizations and groups
- 13:13Speaker 1: you have, that you would go through on more astral
- 13:16Speaker 1: spiritual levels. And yeah, so it's it's almost as if
- 13:26Speaker 1: shedding skin, you know, almost like this this rebirth, after
- 13:30Speaker 1: you've gone through it to where you're kind of I
- 13:36Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's very real hard to explain. That's
- 13:42Speaker 1: how it is a lot with even creating the images
- 13:45Speaker 1: that I do withdrawing, it's always real hard to kind
- 13:48Speaker 1: of go into the process of it. But like it's
- 13:51Speaker 1: it's all up there mentally, you know, it's just hard
- 13:54Speaker 1: forming it into words.
- 13:57Speaker 2: But yeah, thank you, thank you.
- 14:01Speaker 5: Yeah, I think of it as kind of there's a
- 14:05Speaker 5: next level of intension with that because we're not just trying.
- 14:12Speaker 5: It's like, oh, we're not just doing this weekend thing.
- 14:15Speaker 5: I'm going to pull out my deck or weekend magic.
- 14:17Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with that stuff. I love kitchen witchery,
- 14:20Speaker 5: I love easy access magic. But also there's something to
- 14:25Speaker 5: be said about being more ceremonial, intentional, knowing that you're
- 14:33Speaker 5: diving into a process that might take you on a
- 14:38Speaker 5: journey and it might be three days, it might be
- 14:43Speaker 5: three months, you don't know, And I want people to
- 14:45Speaker 5: understand that it's like the Abramelum, you know, rituals, like
- 14:50Speaker 5: it's something that it's you don't know, but you're committing regardless,
- 14:55Speaker 5: and there's a sense of respect and seriousness to them,
- 15:01Speaker 5: you know, because I think a lot of stuff is
- 15:02Speaker 5: sold to us, you know, particularly with you know, the
- 15:05Speaker 5: popularity of magic and witchcraft. You know, on a more
- 15:09Speaker 5: commercial level, it's like how quick and fast can I
- 15:14Speaker 5: do this? How convenient? Magic initiations not convenient. It's uncomfortable,
- 15:22Speaker 5: you know, and it's euphoric, but it's you don't get
- 15:25Speaker 5: one without the other. And I think the process with
- 15:29Speaker 5: this too is to kind of say like this isn't
- 15:31Speaker 5: just like, oh my gosh, I'm going to bring this
- 15:33Speaker 5: to you know, Bev's baby shower deck, Like I mean,
- 15:38Speaker 5: that's fine if you want to, but like it's not
- 15:40Speaker 5: a lighthearted thing, like you're not going to get those
- 15:45Speaker 5: quick fixed answers. Sometimes it might help you if you
- 15:48Speaker 5: have your own clarity, it might bring you that, But
- 15:51Speaker 5: I just think there's layers and there's more than again,
- 15:57Speaker 5: like it's right of passage at least for me anyway,
- 16:02Speaker 5: That's the way I relate to it.
- 16:03Speaker 2: When I was in the OTO, there was somebody that
- 16:07Speaker 2: I did like all my initiations with, and I think
- 16:11Speaker 2: like after it was like after the first the second one,
- 16:13Speaker 2: after like the initiation was over and everybody's like hanging
- 16:16Speaker 2: out in the temple. I remember even though my friend
- 16:18Speaker 2: was like, you know, I guess like saying like, well,
- 16:20Speaker 2: you know, why do because there's a certain amount of
- 16:22Speaker 2: time you had to wait between them, and he was like,
- 16:24Speaker 2: you know, I guess bitching or just not bitching, but
- 16:26Speaker 2: was like, why can't we just keep on going and
- 16:28Speaker 2: you know doing well, like weh blah blah blah, And
- 16:31Speaker 2: they were like you kind of like need to like
- 16:32Speaker 2: kind of process or kind of understand what the hell
- 16:34Speaker 2: you just went through do Like they're like you the
- 16:37Speaker 2: whole point, you know, and it is a kind of
- 16:41Speaker 2: a journey, I guess in a sense.
- 16:42Speaker 5: Yeah, integration is a huge part. We can't just keep going,
- 16:47Speaker 5: going going. You never retain what you've just processed, or
- 16:53Speaker 5: you can throw yourself into psychosis. Like people don't understand
- 16:56Speaker 5: that part of it. And you know, Adam, you've done
- 17:00Speaker 5: initiations right in different orders and things.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, done a few in the OTO as well.
- 17:08Speaker 2: Oh nice, okay, all right cool?
- 17:10Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, and yeah even with pathwork in itself,
- 17:18Speaker 1: with Kabbala, you go through a whole series of initiations.
- 17:23Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm both here in the regular world and
- 17:28Speaker 1: the astral.
- 17:30Speaker 2: If anything I would like for me, I even look
- 17:32Speaker 2: back now, it's like I wish I would have. I guess,
- 17:35Speaker 2: like you can't redo them. I mean you could always go,
- 17:38Speaker 2: like if I did my first, I could always go
- 17:39Speaker 2: to somebody who's and watch them do their first. I
- 17:41Speaker 2: never did that. I regret that now because during like
- 17:45Speaker 2: again like even processing what's going on, I was like
- 17:48Speaker 2: when you're in that initiation for me, I'm so focused
- 17:51Speaker 2: about like what's coming next, though, like what's in front
- 17:53Speaker 2: of me or what's going on, that I never even
- 17:55Speaker 2: really took the time to look around the lodge and
- 17:57Speaker 2: look at all the shit that's even set up. Why
- 18:00Speaker 2: is that there? Why is this there? Why is that
- 18:02Speaker 2: all of a sudden? Right, I'm sure there's a reason
- 18:05Speaker 2: for it, but it's just like I never even you know,
- 18:07Speaker 2: I don't know. I look back and I'm like, damn,
- 18:08Speaker 2: I wish I would have like paid attention a little
- 18:10Speaker 2: bit more before I left. But no, I definitely understand
- 18:13Speaker 2: the whole initiatory thing is a very not something to
- 18:16Speaker 2: be rushed, in my opinion, Did I, Robbie or Sabrina,
- 18:22Speaker 2: did you have anything before? I keep going, Well, I'll remember,
- 18:30Speaker 2: I swear I'll remember so well.
- 18:34Speaker 3: I was going to say, in regard to creating these decks, right,
- 18:38Speaker 3: I have I created a like a mystic kind of
- 18:42Speaker 3: a cult playing card deck, and uh spent you know
- 18:46Speaker 3: a good amount of time kind of you you have
- 18:48Speaker 3: the the concept kind of coming into you and kind
- 18:52Speaker 3: of you know, congealing and coming into itself. And then
- 18:57Speaker 3: it's the process of taking this this idea and turning
- 19:02Speaker 3: it into reality, and then you have to deal with,
- 19:06Speaker 3: you know, the reproduction as far as the printing process
- 19:09Speaker 3: and like all the manufacturing and getting it in so
- 19:12Speaker 3: that you can actually get it out into the world
- 19:15Speaker 3: and get that idea kind of moving around. Like it's
- 19:19Speaker 3: a as far as process in in the work of
- 19:26Speaker 3: creating the idea, do you think it's like is it
- 19:30Speaker 3: in the ethos or is it something that you formulate?
- 19:35Speaker 3: How do you kind of what what kind of inspiration
- 19:38Speaker 3: kind of pushes you?
- 19:42Speaker 5: Hmm, I think there's a few things. What do you think, Adam.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna say, as far as creating the
- 19:50Speaker 1: images with drawing, I'm strictly digital, like I do all
- 19:54Speaker 1: my stuff with pro Create. I used to do on
- 19:57Speaker 1: physical paper, but I just wasted so much much material
- 20:00Speaker 1: always felt guilty about it. So a lot of times
- 20:04Speaker 1: I just sit down and I just start sketching, and
- 20:07Speaker 1: I don't even know where the finished product is going
- 20:09Speaker 1: to go. And then sometimes even like getting far out
- 20:13Speaker 1: there with all that line work done and all the
- 20:16Speaker 1: shading and then starting to add the colors, stuff just
- 20:19Speaker 1: doesn't go very well, and then I have to go
- 20:21Speaker 1: back and redesign it. So the way that I create it.
- 20:25Speaker 1: It's it's probably not the best of ways, you know,
- 20:29Speaker 1: because I would think sitting there and kind of laying
- 20:32Speaker 1: out the idea first would probably be the best concept.
- 20:35Speaker 1: But I always like just going along for the journey,
- 20:39Speaker 1: you know.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and it is really a journey. I mean
- 20:43Speaker 3: when you when you're an dissipating with these muse energies,
- 20:48Speaker 3: you kind of just let it, like you're kind of
- 20:52Speaker 3: just a watching the process as it is.
- 20:56Speaker 1: It is. It's almost the same as like when you're
- 20:58Speaker 1: doing tattoos and you're like taking it from the stencil
- 21:01Speaker 1: and putting it on the flesh and then you watch
- 21:04Speaker 1: it come to life on the body.
- 21:06Speaker 5: You know.
- 21:06Speaker 1: It's just this really cool process that unfolds.
- 21:09Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, now go ahead, Sabrina, what were you
- 21:14Speaker 3: going to say?
- 21:15Speaker 6: I was kind of gonna askthing similar more around creative
- 21:19Speaker 6: process kind of from start to end, especially a collaborative deck,
- 21:23Speaker 6: like as a writer and artist myself, like I'm kind
- 21:26Speaker 6: of like, oh my god, I don't know if I
- 21:28Speaker 6: could collab with another artist, I think my brain would explode.
- 21:32Speaker 6: But I just looked up the deck looks stunning, and
- 21:34Speaker 6: so I would love to hear about that creation process
- 21:39Speaker 6: from like original idea to how did you sort out
- 21:44Speaker 6: what each of the cards is going to be the
- 21:46Speaker 6: structure of it? And then the sketching process, Like I'm curious,
- 21:50Speaker 6: did the art come first? Did the writing come first?
- 21:53Speaker 6: Like I just want to hear that whole process. It's
- 21:56Speaker 6: so different for everyone. I would love to hear about that.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for asking. It's a great thing to
- 22:06Speaker 5: noodle on. I like, because I am notorious for just
- 22:09Speaker 5: doing everything myself. Maybe I don't work well with other
- 22:13Speaker 5: people like collaboratively or it's very rare, you know, it
- 22:18Speaker 5: takes a very special you know connection to be able
- 22:22Speaker 5: to do that or in just artistically creatively and being
- 22:26Speaker 5: in the same like speed, you know, because I get
- 22:30Speaker 5: impatient or I get in his zone or I'm not
- 22:32Speaker 5: on his own, and so there's that difference, particularly for me.
- 22:38Speaker 5: It was the process kind of took a while, but
- 22:43Speaker 5: like not not forever. I think the publishing process has
- 22:46Speaker 5: taken a lot longer. But initially Adam had a lot
- 22:53Speaker 5: of the imagery first, but he would send me things
- 22:57Speaker 5: and I'm really good with war like coming up with
- 23:01Speaker 5: names for things. I think, like that's one of my
- 23:03Speaker 5: like One of my jokes is like I just want
- 23:05Speaker 5: to name makeup colors like nail polish, you know, like
- 23:08Speaker 5: I like coming up with names and names for people.
- 23:12Speaker 5: So I started coming up with the list of titles,
- 23:17Speaker 5: you know, like card titles, right, But then the images
- 23:21Speaker 5: would lend to those titles themselves too the more we got,
- 23:25Speaker 5: So it was kind of this like back and forth
- 23:27Speaker 5: that went on, but we did get a lot of
- 23:29Speaker 5: the wach McCall it the I got a lot of
- 23:33Speaker 5: the imagery from Adam before I began my full on
- 23:36Speaker 5: writing because I wanted to include not just hey, this
- 23:41Speaker 5: is what this means, but I wanted to include the
- 23:44Speaker 5: origin of the different imagery and connect on that. The colors,
- 23:48Speaker 5: the symbol is, like everything is just you know, part
- 23:51Speaker 5: of the process. So I did say it was pretty
- 23:56Speaker 5: easy working with Adam and I've recently worked on collaborations
- 24:01Speaker 5: that didn't go anywhere because we couldn't get on the
- 24:06Speaker 5: same page. Where there was more fluidity with Adam and I.
- 24:09Speaker 5: But I also think it's because we were on that
- 24:12Speaker 5: initiation path at the same time, so we both had
- 24:16Speaker 5: an understanding of the feel and the energy, like even
- 24:21Speaker 5: though we live far away from each other. Right, Adam
- 24:25Speaker 5: lives in South Carolina. I was living in La Now
- 24:29Speaker 5: I live in Tucson, Arizona the last two years, so
- 24:32Speaker 5: you know, doing things also at a distance, getting on FaceTime,
- 24:36Speaker 5: getting on phone, you know, it was just kind of
- 24:38Speaker 5: easier to do it that way.
- 24:41Speaker 2: So yeah, I could see that too. It's the whole
- 24:45Speaker 2: process of like getting together and collaborating is like, Wellpito,
- 24:50Speaker 2: if you had to jump on zoom, it's a lot
- 24:51Speaker 2: easier than possibly getting in your car deciding where you're
- 24:53Speaker 2: going to go. I could even see all that just
- 24:55Speaker 2: making it a little bit easier too, depending on what
- 24:57Speaker 2: type of person you want. Sometimes I for any reason
- 25:00Speaker 2: to just tell myself and that to do something.
- 25:02Speaker 5: So I think it requires a lot of trust in
- 25:05Speaker 5: each other though too. I mean that's the thing collaborating,
- 25:07Speaker 5: You're trusting the whole process, you know, with each other.
- 25:12Speaker 5: And I think the only time, the times, the reason
- 25:16Speaker 5: why I've worked so hard for so long on my
- 25:18Speaker 5: own was because I didn't have a lot of trust
- 25:20Speaker 5: or faith that other people were going to follow through,
- 25:25Speaker 5: or because there was no proven track record of it.
- 25:27Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, if it's going to get done,
- 25:29Speaker 5: it's going to get done. I self published for nine years,
- 25:33Speaker 5: you know as well, So it's like switching into a
- 25:36Speaker 5: gear of having to collaborate with publishers. That's also a
- 25:40Speaker 5: learning curve experience and such a different process. I mean, Sabrina,
- 25:46Speaker 5: you make so many beautiful things, and I've been doing
- 25:50Speaker 5: this for so long as well, you know, Like I
- 25:52Speaker 5: think you understand that, Like you're very prolific, right, So,
- 25:57Speaker 5: like having to get things on board and having to
- 26:00Speaker 5: trust someone else to kind of come in it can
- 26:02Speaker 5: be daunting for sure.
- 26:05Speaker 6: Sometimes they don't get it as well, like the powers
- 26:08Speaker 6: that be by which I mean like publishers or institutions,
- 26:12Speaker 6: sometimes they just don't get it. So like there are
- 26:14Speaker 6: some of those clubs that I've had where I was
- 26:15Speaker 6: just like all right, bye, I think you probably know
- 26:17Speaker 6: what I'm talking about. But quick question for reasons you
- 26:21Speaker 6: do have so many other decks out, Like for those
- 26:24Speaker 6: decks that you did solo, did the art also come first?
- 26:30Speaker 2: Uh?
- 26:30Speaker 5: Okay? So Sacred Symbols, which is like my the thing
- 26:34Speaker 5: that kind of started at all came to me. I
- 26:39Speaker 5: mean I was in the middle of a mental health crisis,
- 26:41Speaker 5: but it was twenty twelve and I was like living
- 26:44Speaker 5: in milwauke On in a like eighteen acres of land
- 26:48Speaker 5: in New Mexico. I had run away and I was
- 26:49Speaker 5: having a mental breakdown, and I wrote the names down first,
- 26:54Speaker 5: and then the sketches and then putting it together right
- 26:58Speaker 5: And still even then, I I did all of the
- 27:01Speaker 5: editing and the graphic design on an iPhone three, Like
- 27:03Speaker 5: I didn't have skills for that, you know, and I
- 27:07Speaker 5: just you know, it's like things just started to the
- 27:11Speaker 5: more I learned, the more I learned how to make
- 27:14Speaker 5: it happen, and but also trusting in my you know,
- 27:21Speaker 5: my like connection to my whatever guidance and all that stuff, like, hey, like,
- 27:27Speaker 5: if this is supposed to happen, it's just going to
- 27:29Speaker 5: keep happening. And if it's not, take it away. That's
- 27:32Speaker 5: how I deal with a lot of stuff right now,
- 27:35Speaker 5: you know, is even with the collaborations falling apart, I'm like,
- 27:38Speaker 5: if this is something my ancestors would have flipped this table,
- 27:42Speaker 5: take it away. Trust And I trust that. I trust that,
- 27:46Speaker 5: and you know, so it's a it's a wild ride,
- 27:52Speaker 5: I mean, and just no one taught me how to
- 27:55Speaker 5: do this, and I think you have that understanding as well,
- 27:59Speaker 5: like and putting out zines and books and being asked
- 28:05Speaker 5: to consult on things and getting kind of like a
- 28:07Speaker 5: bomb deal because I didn't know better. You know, that's
- 28:12Speaker 5: been an interesting journey. But now you know, you learn,
- 28:16Speaker 5: You learn, you learn to ask for more, you learn
- 28:18Speaker 5: to take better care of the work that you're stewarding
- 28:22Speaker 5: into into being in the physical.
- 28:26Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, And publishing is so slow. But how long
- 28:29Speaker 6: did it take you guys from beginning to meet.
- 28:32Speaker 5: Its good so slow?
- 28:35Speaker 6: From the publishing being slow, Like was it like a
- 28:38Speaker 6: year you guys were doing this project to the other
- 28:40Speaker 6: two years? How long did it take you guys?
- 28:43Speaker 5: We think, Adam, it took us. Like we finished, we
- 28:45Speaker 5: came back. When did we come back? We went to
- 28:48Speaker 5: Egypt in December of twenty twenty two.
- 28:51Speaker 6: Like I remember you posting those pictures.
- 28:53Speaker 5: Yeah, and we finished the writing, like I finished the
- 28:58Speaker 5: writing in the summer of twenty twenty four. But that's
- 29:02Speaker 5: because when I came back from Egypt, I wrote a book.
- 29:05Speaker 5: I wrote a book when I came back, like my
- 29:07Speaker 5: Healing the Liminal Book. I wrote that upon arriving back,
- 29:11Speaker 5: and then I was like, okay, I can work on
- 29:12Speaker 5: this once that happens. But then I moved. So twenty
- 29:15Speaker 5: twenty four the summer, we finished everything. But it's now,
- 29:21Speaker 5: you know, twenty twenty it's not it's it's yeah. It
- 29:25Speaker 5: took probably like about a year or so to complete
- 29:30Speaker 5: it for our end. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Oh, let's see.
- 29:37Speaker 5: M I'm just looking at the comment.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did you see when somebody has to see
- 29:42Speaker 2: examples of the work.
- 29:44Speaker 5: Yes, that's what I'm Yeah.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Reason, I was like, I think she just caughte that comment.
- 29:47Speaker 2: That's why. It's okay, It's okay, I got it. Can
- 29:51Speaker 2: I go find images real quick?
- 29:54Speaker 5: I know. Well, I pulled a card actually for today
- 29:57Speaker 5: from our back from this, and I pulled leadership, Yeah,
- 30:05Speaker 5: which I'm really excited about. I mean, what I love
- 30:09Speaker 5: about this card. It's Isis, right or Osset is her
- 30:14Speaker 5: Egyptian name. A lot of people think of Isis and
- 30:17Speaker 5: they think of the story of her, you know, retrieving
- 30:21Speaker 5: these dismembered parts of her husband of Osiris of Ozier.
- 30:26Speaker 5: But one of my favorite stories about Isis is the
- 30:29Speaker 5: way she was able to, you know, be cunning. And
- 30:35Speaker 5: she's the leadership card because she was able to trick
- 30:38Speaker 5: Raw the sun god. She created a serpent to bite him,
- 30:42Speaker 5: and she's like, you know, I'll help you, but you know,
- 30:45Speaker 5: tell me your secret name. And that is how she became,
- 30:50Speaker 5: you know, her leadership, her ability to connect with magic,
- 30:54Speaker 5: all of those things. You know, there's just so many
- 30:57Speaker 5: stories that are hidden within, you know. And that was
- 31:00Speaker 5: one of the things too with us on our trip,
- 31:03Speaker 5: learning the Nataru from the inside out, which is, you know,
- 31:08Speaker 5: the Egyptian pantheon, and learning their true names. It's it's
- 31:12Speaker 5: really quite It's been a real journey to work with
- 31:16Speaker 5: each card too, as I got the imagery and writing
- 31:19Speaker 5: about them and seeing what sparked intuitively for me, not
- 31:23Speaker 5: just the okay, this is the you know, this is
- 31:26Speaker 5: the emerald tablet, this is this It's like, no, what
- 31:28Speaker 5: feelings got evoked? And that was really Adam's artwork really
- 31:33Speaker 5: evokes a lot of feelings.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Yes, one thing I did want to ask, what point
- 31:42Speaker 2: did you know that Dex's cool language would be harmonic
- 31:45Speaker 2: and Egyptian inspired rather than broadly occult. I mean, was
- 31:49Speaker 2: it because right away because of the retreat kind or
- 31:51Speaker 2: whatever you guys want to Yeah.
- 31:53Speaker 5: Yeah, I think because of the path that we traveled
- 31:58Speaker 5: and we went with twenty two Teachings, which is a
- 32:02Speaker 5: cult hermetic school in Los Angele based out of Los Angeles,
- 32:06Speaker 5: and Academy of Oracle Arts, which are based out of
- 32:09Speaker 5: Nevada City. But knowing specifically the group we were going
- 32:13Speaker 5: with and those practices, it just we knew that that
- 32:19Speaker 5: would be the theme and the direction. So I'm like,
- 32:23Speaker 5: I'm just like, this is the back. I also just
- 32:26Speaker 5: am really excited. They gave us a pretty awesome you
- 32:29Speaker 5: don't really see this, but the booklet is full color nice,
- 32:35Speaker 5: which is rare and publishing they don't always do that.
- 32:39Speaker 5: So just really excited about the way it turned out.
- 32:45Speaker 5: Like feeling it in your hands also is another trippy
- 32:49Speaker 5: thing when you make something to feel it tangibly. Yeah,
- 32:53Speaker 5: like the the texture.
- 32:56Speaker 1: I absolutely love the gold foil that they did on
- 32:59Speaker 1: their as well. Yeah, really goes well with the Matt Black.
- 33:04Speaker 5: Mine's a little worn because I've been been using this
- 33:06Speaker 5: as like the demo deck I got a while back
- 33:09Speaker 5: when they sent us like, hey check it out, so.
- 33:12Speaker 2: And who and who was that? That's from Wiser? Yes, Yeah,
- 33:16Speaker 2: they actually they sent me some decks like a month
- 33:20Speaker 2: or two ago from people I had on and they
- 33:22Speaker 2: had to the gold foil around them. Okay, and the
- 33:27Speaker 2: cards are the very good quality I thought, so I'm
- 33:31Speaker 2: assuming yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 33:38Speaker 5: They do a good job. This is my first time
- 33:41Speaker 5: working with them. I really enjoyed working with them. They're
- 33:46Speaker 5: you know, they're a smaller publisher, which I don't think
- 33:48Speaker 5: a lot of people know, but they've been around for
- 33:50Speaker 5: a really long time. I also love that they're like
- 33:54Speaker 5: New England based. I mean, they remind me of childhood,
- 33:56Speaker 5: like going to like the little Wickens stores when I
- 33:59Speaker 5: was growing up, because there wasn't really there was only
- 34:02Speaker 5: a few like magic Spots in the nineties, you know,
- 34:05Speaker 5: like early nineties. You're going into some really interesting places.
- 34:11Speaker 5: But they Yeah, so it's been really nice working with
- 34:16Speaker 5: them because it feels more hands on nice.
- 34:19Speaker 2: That's awesome. They seem really nice with me dealing with them,
- 34:22Speaker 2: like after the show email and be like, oh, just
- 34:24Speaker 2: let you know I had my solo crawl on if
- 34:26Speaker 2: you want to send me a free day.
- 34:28Speaker 5: They share, they shared the things, so maybe the you know,
- 34:30Speaker 5: I can definitely nice.
- 34:32Speaker 2: No, I'm going to remind them though I've done that
- 34:33Speaker 2: to him before. By the way, I just found out
- 34:35Speaker 2: this person published through wives and they're like, yeah, we'll
- 34:37Speaker 2: send you the book.
- 34:39Speaker 5: Yeah oh man.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm so cheesy.
- 34:44Speaker 5: No, I love it. I love it your that's your aries.
- 34:47Speaker 2: Right, You're like out like you sent me the books
- 34:51Speaker 2: every time I have them on Can I get them
- 34:52Speaker 2: a little one whatever? Yeah?
- 34:54Speaker 5: Absolutely?
- 34:56Speaker 2: Uh what was there any was there any images or
- 35:03Speaker 2: cult symbols that was like already like you knew that
- 35:07Speaker 2: this was going to have to be used when you
- 35:09Speaker 2: had this idea.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Adam, uh not really like free planned. Just as the
- 35:17Speaker 1: cards started like being created and laying out, then certain
- 35:23Speaker 1: symbols just kind of seemed like it went with that
- 35:25Speaker 1: particular card.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:30Speaker 5: I mean there's definitely certain symbols that I was excited
- 35:33Speaker 5: to see in form that I didn't anticipate. I was
- 35:36Speaker 5: trying to find, like.
- 35:40Speaker 2: Where is it.
- 35:40Speaker 5: It's like the lion eating the sun. There's just but
- 35:47Speaker 5: there's definitely here. It is fortitude. Yeah. I was excited
- 35:55Speaker 5: to see that because I wasn't I guess I wasn't
- 35:57Speaker 5: expecting it, but that, and you know, I love like
- 36:02Speaker 5: there's just such a nod to some of these like
- 36:04Speaker 5: their their own characters. You know, we have ta Hooti
- 36:07Speaker 5: we have thought to Hoodi here with like his two
- 36:10Speaker 5: forms with the emerald tablet, you know. Yeah, and then
- 36:15Speaker 5: there's like classic things right like we have with Vanishing, right,
- 36:19Speaker 5: we start to see more of the classic kind of
- 36:23Speaker 5: idea of her meticism and Kabbala and you know, just
- 36:27Speaker 5: Adam's influence with that. But certain images to take me
- 36:32Speaker 5: right back to some of the rituals like this literally
- 36:35Speaker 5: the ritual card with hathor but with the systrum because
- 36:41Speaker 5: when we were there, Yeah, we did a system ritual
- 36:44Speaker 5: almost Zara, Yeah.
- 36:48Speaker 2: I tried to make it at Hathorpe for a while.
- 36:51Speaker 2: Were you do.
- 36:55Speaker 5: You have a picture of it your you have your
- 36:57Speaker 5: own system that you know?
- 36:58Speaker 2: I started? I never never feel yeah, but I was, yeah,
- 37:02Speaker 2: I was big. Yeah, she has that in a mirror
- 37:05Speaker 2: she's known for, which I find interesting because that's basically
- 37:09Speaker 2: sight and sound, you know, just suck it, you know,
- 37:12Speaker 2: into it. That deep but very interesting. Yeah, I'm a
- 37:15Speaker 2: big fan of Hathel actually.
- 37:17Speaker 5: Yeah, Dendaro was incredible also just because of the layers
- 37:21Speaker 5: of the temple, Like there's parts where you go underground
- 37:25Speaker 5: and that's where I think was it on ancient aliens?
- 37:29Speaker 5: Do you remember, Adam, there's there's like this tunnel under
- 37:35Speaker 5: the temple, so you have to crawl down and you
- 37:38Speaker 5: end up underground and there's you know, hieroglyphics and stuff,
- 37:41Speaker 5: but there is this depiction of a battery where there
- 37:47Speaker 5: you know what I'm talking about, and there's these giant
- 37:49Speaker 5: figures holding it up and then like smaller people yes,
- 37:53Speaker 5: and there's such a like they're like who made this?
- 37:58Speaker 5: You know? I think the thing that was so fascinating
- 38:01Speaker 5: to me was you could touch things, most things you
- 38:04Speaker 5: could touch and obviously being respectful, obviously being mindful. I
- 38:12Speaker 5: feel like because there was such an understanding of the
- 38:17Speaker 5: reverence of these places, we were able to go into
- 38:20Speaker 5: places privately a lot which doesn't normally happen, and you know,
- 38:26Speaker 5: we were able to do things that most people don't
- 38:30Speaker 5: get to do. And I think it was simply because
- 38:33Speaker 5: we came with we you know, working with intention, respect
- 38:38Speaker 5: and offerings not just offerings of hey, let's pay you money,
- 38:42Speaker 5: but like offerings of prayers, offerings of respect, offerings of
- 38:46Speaker 5: ourselves as vessels. And that felt really important.
- 38:52Speaker 2: So that's awesome, that's really cool, that's very wild experience.
- 38:58Speaker 5: It was, I mean I don't think I fully integrated.
- 39:01Speaker 5: It took me maybe like a year and a half
- 39:04Speaker 5: maybe to fully understand what happened.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Did you uh, did you touch anything?
- 39:12Speaker 5: Touch anything?
- 39:13Speaker 4: Oh?
- 39:13Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean.
- 39:18Speaker 5: I'm kidding, Yeah, I'm like I was crawling on my hands,
- 39:22Speaker 5: and I mean there was a part where a lot
- 39:24Speaker 5: of stuff you can't be if you're claustrophobic, it's not good. Okay, yeah,
- 39:29Speaker 5: not going to be for you. I mean it can
- 39:30Speaker 5: be pretty intense, But there's also this part of me
- 39:34Speaker 5: that's like, yeah, well, when am I ever going to
- 39:36Speaker 5: get to do this? So just get over it now.
- 39:39Speaker 2: When you mentioned that it's like kind of claustrophobic, was
- 39:42Speaker 2: that You're sorry? Like I just might have some questions
- 39:45Speaker 2: on this? Just made me think of something with the
- 39:47Speaker 2: Sacred Sacred architecture I've been covering lately. Was it uh
- 39:51Speaker 2: was it like kind of like was that like something
- 39:53Speaker 2: that was made after the fact to get to where
- 39:55Speaker 2: you were going? Or was that like an original thing?
- 39:57Speaker 2: Like was it made to where you actually have had
- 40:00Speaker 2: to be crawling to get what you got? Was that
- 40:02Speaker 2: the kind of an original passage?
- 40:04Speaker 5: You think it was both? It was both to be honest.
- 40:07Speaker 5: In some places it was both like there were there's
- 40:10Speaker 5: like I remember, do you remember the crypt we went
- 40:13Speaker 5: into Adam when we had to go down the spiral staircase.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Yes, that was like fifty down below.
- 40:19Speaker 5: Down, But like that was created, man made right to
- 40:23Speaker 5: get in there, Like that wasn't something that existed, but
- 40:26Speaker 5: and we all each wanted a time like laid in
- 40:29Speaker 5: this dead physician's crypt. But yeah, that was created to
- 40:36Speaker 5: get in there, but it didn't exist prior. But certain
- 40:39Speaker 5: things like getting up to I don't know, like the
- 40:42Speaker 5: king getting up to the King's chamber and the Great Pyramid. Yeah,
- 40:48Speaker 5: it's very narrow. It's not meant. People weren't meant to
- 40:52Speaker 5: climb up in there, right, but they've constructed kind of
- 40:58Speaker 5: like these rickety they're not even like there there's supposed
- 41:02Speaker 5: to be handrails, but they're just so shaky and you're
- 41:04Speaker 5: hunched over, you know, just you can't look up, you
- 41:09Speaker 5: can't look down, you're going to get stuff in your eyes.
- 41:11Speaker 5: But we had some wild time, like we did the
- 41:15Speaker 5: l We were doing the lb RP a lot of places,
- 41:17Speaker 5: but like doing the lb r P at the top
- 41:19Speaker 5: of the pyramid.
- 41:21Speaker 2: It you mar you do the LBRP yourself too, Yes,
- 41:26Speaker 2: then we do. That's pretty cool really. Yeah. Even in
- 41:30Speaker 2: the oto, there wasn't that all the women did these.
- 41:33Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, I mean it was pretty standard the
- 41:35Speaker 5: first Like we we were doing it in many places,
- 41:40Speaker 5: and I think that there are certain places where it
- 41:42Speaker 5: felt really amplified.
- 41:46Speaker 2: That's cool, you.
- 41:47Speaker 5: Know, but to be to be at the very top
- 41:51Speaker 5: of the pyramid and then climb all the way down
- 41:53Speaker 5: and then climb on hands and knees to get to
- 41:57Speaker 5: the I don't even know what you call it, subterranean
- 42:00Speaker 5: portion of the Great ParaMed underworld literally going through the
- 42:05Speaker 5: duot like. Yeah, And but my whole thing with that
- 42:09Speaker 5: was I wanted to put offerings down at the base
- 42:12Speaker 5: at the you know, in the pyramid, so you come
- 42:17Speaker 5: out through like you crawl, you go through, and then
- 42:20Speaker 5: you come out into an open, more open area. That
- 42:24Speaker 5: may have been intentional.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Yeah. See the reason why I asked is when I
- 42:28Speaker 2: was covering this stuff recently we're recording it. There are
- 42:34Speaker 2: when you start going from especially in the dark too,
- 42:37Speaker 2: it's actually wild. There's so many things that like going
- 42:41Speaker 2: from a small area and then to a bigger area,
- 42:43Speaker 2: you'll see that kind of happen. I forgot it might
- 42:45Speaker 2: have been a Karnak or too or something like that,
- 42:47Speaker 2: certain certain other Egyptian things. I've even noticed it in
- 42:50Speaker 2: but that when you repeatedly do that, I don't know
- 42:53Speaker 2: if they knew then, but it starts to actually make
- 42:55Speaker 2: you focus in a certain part of your brain and
- 42:58Speaker 2: you certain nerves start kicking in. So I wonder is
- 43:01Speaker 2: that all done on purpose? Like again, is this a
- 43:03Speaker 2: whole and an initiatory thing? Going through all that through
- 43:07Speaker 2: your body?
- 43:07Speaker 3: All the mystery schools had those where you would be
- 43:10Speaker 3: confined and then it would open in the cabin, flashing lights,
- 43:14Speaker 3: all kinds of sensory you know, and you are you
- 43:18Speaker 3: are affecting the senses for the purpose of, you know,
- 43:23Speaker 3: rising the self.
- 43:24Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean, and every place had some element of that.
- 43:28Speaker 5: I even think us going in the middle of the
- 43:31Speaker 5: night affected our senses in that way. When we went
- 43:36Speaker 5: to Karnak, we went at again, it was like three o'clock,
- 43:40Speaker 5: four o'clock in the morning, and I remember walking through
- 43:45Speaker 5: and having the wildest soul retrieval experience, like walking up
- 43:51Speaker 5: like through there's like different archways, and I swear every
- 43:55Speaker 5: time we went through the archway like some things would
- 43:57Speaker 5: come back, and then we ended up in the time
- 44:02Speaker 5: like in the room with sec Met I think Adam,
- 44:05Speaker 5: it was you, me and two other people because we
- 44:08Speaker 5: were going four at a time in the dark like
- 44:12Speaker 5: to go like make offerings, and it was it was
- 44:16Speaker 5: very sensory, so quiet but so loud internally, you know, yeah,
- 44:25Speaker 5: just it's it's and even and then even being on
- 44:28Speaker 5: the nile. We were on the nile for four days sailing,
- 44:30Speaker 5: so that was this whole other sensory experience. There's so
- 44:34Speaker 5: many different things as well.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Do you even said the pillars and the way you
- 44:38Speaker 2: walk through them? Uh, even cover that too, that depending
- 44:41Speaker 2: on how they're cut. I think if they're cut concave
- 44:43Speaker 2: like around, it starts to create reverberational of them too. Yes,
- 44:47Speaker 2: So like like that's wild that you even said that
- 44:50Speaker 2: you feel something every time you're passing them. Well you do.
- 44:55Speaker 5: Oh no, I was just gonna say. The hieroglyphics to
- 44:58Speaker 5: the way they're carved. They're not carved exactly at the
- 45:01Speaker 5: same depth in every place because they calculated the sun
- 45:05Speaker 5: and depending on the where the sun was at if
- 45:08Speaker 5: it's too deep or not deep enough, the sun would
- 45:11Speaker 5: blurt it out. Like so if you're going around in
- 45:15Speaker 5: certain spaces, you'll notice that the the hieroglyphics are not
- 45:20Speaker 5: carved at the same depth because of the local based
- 45:22Speaker 5: on the location, right.
- 45:24Speaker 3: And the type of mineral, you know, mineral that they're
- 45:27Speaker 3: using in the different places to conduct different types of
- 45:30Speaker 3: energies that you that you feel as you move through.
- 45:34Speaker 3: You know, these very in that you see that worldwide.
- 45:37Speaker 3: As far as phenomenon with these builders ancient builder structures, Yeah, yeah.
- 45:42Speaker 5: I mean there were so many things. I mean, we
- 45:44Speaker 5: walked down was it like was it the oh gosh,
- 45:49Speaker 5: it's like pathway of the Sphinx. But there's this road
- 45:53Speaker 5: that goes from the Temple of Moot to Luxor and
- 45:58Speaker 5: basically all of the museums all over the world that
- 46:01Speaker 5: have sphinxes and their collection basically taken them from this place.
- 46:05Speaker 5: It's kind of like okay, like but at one point
- 46:09Speaker 5: there was all sphinxes down the whole way, and they
- 46:14Speaker 5: actually did a New Year's celebration a few years ago
- 46:17Speaker 5: where they traveled that road and recorded it. But we
- 46:21Speaker 5: did that road in silence at sunset, and it was
- 46:25Speaker 5: the most intense thing because then the prayer, the call
- 46:27Speaker 5: to prayer started as well, because it's a Muslim country,
- 46:30Speaker 5: so there would be these moments where you're walking and
- 46:33Speaker 5: then the call to prayer would start and they're in
- 46:35Speaker 5: silence and everything's reverberating, and you're around these like you know,
- 46:40Speaker 5: things just feel different there.
- 46:44Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I covered all that like a couple of
- 46:48Speaker 2: weeks ago. Man, I'm so jealous you went through that shit.
- 46:51Speaker 5: You got to go.
- 46:51Speaker 2: I was even showing like the pathway with all the sphinx.
- 46:54Speaker 2: That is awesome. You got to walk through the I
- 46:57Speaker 2: thought that shit looked so fucking cool when I was
- 46:58Speaker 2: looking at it.
- 46:59Speaker 5: On one you gotta go.
- 47:01Speaker 2: And Egyptians on my Egypt on my book and listen, Yeah, what.
- 47:08Speaker 6: Each of you guys want to go and like do
- 47:10Speaker 6: this whole thing. It's like it's clearly it's a big undertaking.
- 47:18Speaker 6: It's like you're traveling somewhere. It takes forever, you're gonna
- 47:21Speaker 6: be there for a while. It's a completely different environment.
- 47:24Speaker 6: Obviously there's a spiritual benefit to it, it's still kind
- 47:27Speaker 6: of a big undertaking. So I'm curious that you guys
- 47:30Speaker 6: could both speak to what was the inspiration in terms
- 47:33Speaker 6: of wanting to go, why then, and all of that
- 47:37Speaker 6: kind of stuff that led up to that decision to go.
- 47:42Speaker 1: Adam, I mean, yeah, I just kind of try to
- 47:46Speaker 1: pay attention to what crosses my path. Egypt had been
- 47:51Speaker 1: on my radar for a few years prior to that,
- 47:54Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden dropped like, Hey, we're
- 47:59Speaker 1: going to take a trip to Egypt, if anybody wants
- 48:01Speaker 1: to go, So I instantly messaged her and started talking
- 48:05Speaker 1: to her about it. It was a It's definitely like
- 48:13Speaker 1: I didn't really know what to expect out of it
- 48:16Speaker 1: because I had not met any single person on that trip,
- 48:20Speaker 1: and person very spoke to anybody. Flew eighteen hours to
- 48:24Speaker 1: get there, So it was definitely a lot of with
- 48:29Speaker 1: me overcoming a lot of my fears and anxieties and
- 48:33Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then being able to lock up
- 48:36Speaker 1: with a wonderful group and so.
- 48:39Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and it's like, you know, we can romanticize
- 48:45Speaker 5: the trip all day long, but you know, there's also
- 48:47Speaker 5: there's things that come with that, you know, type of
- 48:51Speaker 5: travel and making sure you're traveling with the right people
- 48:54Speaker 5: as well. You know, I've been obsessed with Egypt since
- 48:58Speaker 5: I was a little girl, like hammels were my favorite animal.
- 49:01Speaker 5: When I was little, everybody thought I was WEIRDO. I
- 49:04Speaker 5: used to make little Egyptian scenes in shoe boxes, like
- 49:08Speaker 5: living in Rhode Island, you know where? What? Like why
- 49:11Speaker 5: would I know about this? You know? And always had
- 49:16Speaker 5: a connection. My first tattoo is Isis. When I was eighteen,
- 49:20Speaker 5: I asked her to be my mother. And there's just
- 49:23Speaker 5: a lot of there's always been a strong, strong poll
- 49:29Speaker 5: and connection. And I taught with twenty two Teachings, which
- 49:33Speaker 5: is Na High School, as a guest teacher, multiple times,
- 49:36Speaker 5: and I had done readings out of there, and I'd
- 49:39Speaker 5: always had it on my list as a bucket list trip,
- 49:41Speaker 5: but I honestly didn't think I would get there until
- 49:44Speaker 5: maybe if I ever got there, maybe my sixties or seventies.
- 49:49Speaker 5: And then, you know, circumstance just happened to align. My
- 49:55Speaker 5: grandmother had passed, and I just my life as kind
- 50:00Speaker 5: of person that I felt very tethered to, like wasn't
- 50:04Speaker 5: here anymore. And then this that same weak Naha had
- 50:09Speaker 5: put out that she was kind of curating this trip,
- 50:14Speaker 5: and I just felt like I gotta go do this.
- 50:16Speaker 5: I gotta do it now. You know, sometimes you deal
- 50:18Speaker 5: with loss and you deal with it in different ways.
- 50:20Speaker 5: You're like, you know what, like life's long and short,
- 50:23Speaker 5: so let's figure it out. And it just aligned and
- 50:27Speaker 5: you know, and she was like, do you want to
- 50:28Speaker 5: teach on this trip as well? It's like teach in Egypt? Absolutely,
- 50:34Speaker 5: like because we all got to bring our own kind
- 50:37Speaker 5: of offerings. I was able to teach my timeline jumping
- 50:41Speaker 5: meditation on the Nile twice, which was insane, but you
- 50:47Speaker 5: don't say no to opportunities like that, and so it
- 50:51Speaker 5: was really, Yeah, it was something that I'm when I
- 50:55Speaker 5: when we were flying in, I absolutely felt like a
- 51:00Speaker 5: sense of coming home in a way.
- 51:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 51:07Speaker 6: Can I ask what was the hardest part about the
- 51:09Speaker 6: trip for both of you?
- 51:18Speaker 1: I would say like just the beginning of it, because
- 51:22Speaker 1: as soon as I got there, everybody just kind of
- 51:26Speaker 1: felt right together.
- 51:27Speaker 5: You know.
- 51:30Speaker 1: I was thinking earlier about you were talking about the
- 51:32Speaker 1: different rituals and stuff. Do you remember the very first
- 51:35Speaker 1: one was at Osarius's temple down below, and the two
- 51:39Speaker 1: people that were wandering around got stuck in the room
- 51:43Speaker 1: with us and just jumped right into the ritual and
- 51:46Speaker 1: just started participating with us. It was a mother and daughter.
- 51:49Speaker 1: It was so beautiful. But yeah, mine was because I
- 51:53Speaker 1: was going to be traveling alone. I was going to
- 51:55Speaker 1: be joining a group of people I've never met in
- 51:58Speaker 1: my whole life. It was a lot of money to
- 52:01Speaker 1: get there. I was going to be there for fourteen days.
- 52:05Speaker 1: I was like, you know what if you get there
- 52:07Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you absolutely hate everybody that
- 52:10Speaker 1: you're like, or not hate, but just not click with them,
- 52:13Speaker 1: you know. And I'm like four fourteen days and not
- 52:17Speaker 1: being able to get in my car and just drive
- 52:19Speaker 1: home because I'm done with it. It's a big thing
- 52:22Speaker 1: to kind of overcome, you know.
- 52:24Speaker 5: I think it was fourteen days.
- 52:26Speaker 1: Adam, Well, I think the trip itself was like, wasn't
- 52:29Speaker 1: there like fourteen? The journey was fourteen, but then the
- 52:33Speaker 1: flight like a cole days. Yeah, but yeah, it was
- 52:37Speaker 1: a wonderful experience and I'm grateful that I had an
- 52:40Speaker 1: opportunity to go. Also, Marcella prepped us prior by doing
- 52:45Speaker 1: a past life Egyptian meditation, which was really really insightful
- 52:52Speaker 1: and kind of made it where you kind of flick
- 52:54Speaker 1: you to saying like as soon as you landed there,
- 52:56Speaker 1: you felt like you were supposed to be there, you know.
- 53:00Speaker 5: Yeah, we did a lot of prep work and I
- 53:02Speaker 5: think that also helped. You know, we met with our
- 53:06Speaker 5: one of our Egyptian tour guides, Machmu Kuder, who's amazing,
- 53:10Speaker 5: who's a scholar, he teaches many classes, but he did
- 53:14Speaker 5: a hieroglyphics class with us all, you know, a few
- 53:18Speaker 5: months prior online and he was like our main tour
- 53:21Speaker 5: guide and it was his boats that we were on
- 53:25Speaker 5: as well. We also did a Netaru class with isis
- 53:29Speaker 5: injury from twenty two. I'm sorry, Academy of Oracle Arts.
- 53:35Speaker 5: I think the challenging thing for me because at that
- 53:38Speaker 5: time too was I had actually I had to get
- 53:44Speaker 5: on beta blockers because I'm never like, I have immense
- 53:48Speaker 5: anxiety and a lot of people don't realize that I'm
- 53:52Speaker 5: also autistic. I have a lot of kind of things.
- 53:55Speaker 5: But I was like, I got to overcome, like get
- 53:57Speaker 5: over a lot of this stuff because this trip is
- 53:59Speaker 5: big than my shit, essentially, and so there's a lot
- 54:04Speaker 5: of preparation involved. Actually the physical preparation prior. I actually
- 54:07Speaker 5: worked with a trainer too, just because at that time
- 54:10Speaker 5: it was like the best shape I was ever in
- 54:12Speaker 5: my life, like getting prepped because I knew I didn't
- 54:15Speaker 5: want to miss anything, you know, so the prep was
- 54:19Speaker 5: kind of grueling. Being there at times for me energetically
- 54:25Speaker 5: was a challenge. In certain places, there's a lot of
- 54:29Speaker 5: aggressive selling. People are constantly trying to you know, be
- 54:34Speaker 5: like give give you stuff, like make you. It can
- 54:37Speaker 5: be a little bit daunting. I and that can be
- 54:42Speaker 5: very overstimulating and frustrating.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Like people trying to put stuff in your hands already
- 54:47Speaker 2: and ask.
- 54:48Speaker 5: Oh, and then they're like, you owe me this money
- 54:50Speaker 5: they charge you for toilet like literally for everything. You know,
- 54:53Speaker 5: they're like, give me money you give I'll give you
- 54:54Speaker 5: a toilet paper. You know. We actually had an experience
- 54:58Speaker 5: Adam to remember this and the one market we like
- 55:02Speaker 5: were allowed to go on our own for a little bit,
- 55:04Speaker 5: but we're supposed to go together and we had gone
- 55:08Speaker 5: there was like this girl I was with and then
- 55:11Speaker 5: you know, Adam was with us, but then she was
- 55:14Speaker 5: taken off all over the place. My biggest issue sometimes
- 55:17Speaker 5: is just other people, right, So like she took off
- 55:22Speaker 5: and left, and like I bought a couple of things
- 55:24Speaker 5: from this vendor and then I walked back and Adam
- 55:27Speaker 5: and I walked back, but like we're not supposed to
- 55:29Speaker 5: leave each other. This guy came running out at me
- 55:33Speaker 5: and started yelling at me, saying I didn't pay him fully,
- 55:37Speaker 5: and I know, damn well I did, and he was trying,
- 55:40Speaker 5: and he was trying, and he was trying to be
- 55:41Speaker 5: scary and as a woman, and you know, like in
- 55:44Speaker 5: that country and like not knowing the language. I barely
- 55:47Speaker 5: I know a few words, but that was it. Fortunately,
- 55:51Speaker 5: one of our other guides he came out from behind
- 55:54Speaker 5: a pole and he was like starts yelling at him,
- 55:59Speaker 5: and then the guy just started going, oh, oh, forgive me, madam,
- 56:02Speaker 5: please forgive me, Please forgive me. And I was like,
- 56:05Speaker 5: you're forgiven. It's cool, Like it's good, we're good. I
- 56:07Speaker 5: paid you go and he started backing away and then
- 56:12Speaker 5: he like turned around and then he turned around again
- 56:14Speaker 5: and it was like, madam, please forgive me. So I
- 56:16Speaker 5: was like, Khalid, what did you say to him? He goes,
- 56:17Speaker 5: I told him you were a witch and you're going
- 56:19Speaker 5: to curse him. I was like, oh god, but I
- 56:25Speaker 5: love that.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 56:27Speaker 5: It was like it was it was pretty intense, and
- 56:30Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, okay, I'm a witch.
- 56:31Speaker 4: Yeah you know like uh, but you know, so it
- 56:35Speaker 4: can be daunting on you if you have a lot
- 56:39Speaker 4: of you know, you got to be with people who
- 56:42Speaker 4: are strong. You got to be with people meaning mentally,
- 56:45Speaker 4: emotionally you can stand up for yourself. It's you know,
- 56:50Speaker 4: there's there's those aspects where it can be grueling. Also
- 56:53Speaker 4: Cairo for me was hard to be and a lot
- 56:56Speaker 4: of the time, uh because you know, everyone.
- 57:00Speaker 5: Like they're burning trash, they're smoking cigarettes, There's cars, trucks, animals,
- 57:05Speaker 5: people everywhere. You're just like I had a migraine, you know,
- 57:11Speaker 5: at like one point that took me out for a
- 57:13Speaker 5: full day and it was the only time I missed anything.
- 57:16Speaker 5: But they were going to a museum and I was like,
- 57:18Speaker 5: it's fine, I don't I just I need to be
- 57:20Speaker 5: able to get to the sites. I'll miss the museum.
- 57:24Speaker 5: But you know, and you gotta be careful with what
- 57:26Speaker 5: you're consuming, making sure you're taking like you know, the
- 57:30Speaker 5: right enzymes and things like that, and Kate, you know,
- 57:32Speaker 5: not brushing your teeth with the water like you know,
- 57:35Speaker 5: like things like that that you have to be mindful of.
- 57:40Speaker 5: Also just be respectful, you know. I didn't find it
- 57:43Speaker 5: hard to be respectful, like you know, I covered my
- 57:48Speaker 5: head and I you know, you covered my shoulders, my
- 57:53Speaker 5: knees like things like that. They're not anti like tattoos
- 57:56Speaker 5: or anything like that, but it's just modesty. And there
- 57:59Speaker 5: are some places obviously where it's more touristy and there's
- 58:02Speaker 5: all kinds, but like just be respectful. Like would you
- 58:07Speaker 5: want someone coming in your house being loud and obnoxious
- 58:11Speaker 5: and going this isn't vegan, Like I get it, Like
- 58:15Speaker 5: these are things that are like you know, like they
- 58:20Speaker 5: would prepare a lot of times there's like, you know,
- 58:23Speaker 5: this kind of understanding of like, hey, we can do vegetarian,
- 58:27Speaker 5: but we don't have this special stuff for you, like
- 58:30Speaker 5: we have this and you acclimate you you go with
- 58:34Speaker 5: you know, like you're you know, I just think you're
- 58:37Speaker 5: in someone else's house. You're in a different country. I
- 58:39Speaker 5: think you need to be more.
- 58:41Speaker 1: Open to when in Rome.
- 58:44Speaker 5: Yeah, like you don't have to do everything they do.
- 58:47Speaker 5: But you know, I just thought it was interesting because
- 58:49Speaker 5: some people how their expectations and specialness they tried to
- 58:55Speaker 5: take it with them everywhere and I and it just
- 58:59Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm like, we're all humaning having this
- 59:02Speaker 5: experience like this isn't your show, Like it's not. You're
- 59:06Speaker 5: not the main character right now. You're literally like in
- 59:08Speaker 5: another country for ritual, Like I.
- 59:13Speaker 6: Honestly like a trip like that, Like it is all
- 59:15Speaker 6: of that practical kind of logistical stuff that would be
- 59:18Speaker 6: like my biggest kind of worry, Like I've got so
- 59:21Speaker 6: many allergies, Like I'm like because I've got allergies like nuts,
- 59:26Speaker 6: I'm allergic to this, I'm allergric to that. Like my
- 59:28Speaker 6: stem is so delicate. So it's like if I did
- 59:31Speaker 6: for water by accident, like I'm going to be the
- 59:33Speaker 6: one that's gonna up for sure, even if everyone else
- 59:36Speaker 6: is fine. So how does everyone kind of deal with
- 59:40Speaker 6: like all of that kind of logistical biology aspect because
- 59:45Speaker 6: it's like, like you said, it's like some stuff you
- 59:47Speaker 6: just can't get or there's certain things like the standards
- 59:50Speaker 6: are maybe different, the norms are different, but we all
- 59:54Speaker 6: like our bodies are acclimatized, let's say, like living in
- 59:56Speaker 6: the West, Like how do you kind of cope with them?
- 59:59Speaker 5: I will say it depends on who you go with
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: as well, Like we had a really good guide and group,
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: like we were really supported and taken care of and
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: if we had questions we could ask. They did everything
- 1:00:12Speaker 5: they could to meet certain accommodations, especially for people who
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: had say autoimmune and different things. But there are some
- 1:00:20Speaker 5: things that you just can't predict, you know. But but
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: the you know, for the most part, everyone is really
- 1:00:30Speaker 5: like you know, was able to advocate for what they needed.
- 1:00:36Speaker 5: But also it wasn't hard to because we had such
- 1:00:39Speaker 5: a good you know, people holding the container for us.
- 1:00:44Speaker 6: That's awesome. Yeah, was that their first retreat, like the
- 1:00:50Speaker 6: folks who organized it, like their first one to Egypt?
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: No, Well, Academy of Oracal Arts does it twice a year,
- 1:00:59Speaker 5: they do trips. It was twenty two teachings first trip. Okay, Yeah,
- 1:01:04Speaker 5: and mock mood is he's been doing this for a
- 1:01:08Speaker 5: few decades, like a couple decades, so he's very they people. Yeah,
- 1:01:14Speaker 5: they got it down. I think that's why we were
- 1:01:16Speaker 5: able to also get into certain places with the way
- 1:01:20Speaker 5: we were able to Like they let us like incense
- 1:01:23Speaker 5: in a temple that hadn't had sincel it in two
- 1:01:26Speaker 5: hundred years.
- 1:01:29Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, right, go back, do another one.
- 1:01:34Speaker 5: I mean, I would love to go back, but it's money,
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: you know, Like it's.
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: I knew somebody was doing like some sort of Egyptian
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: retreat where they were going to all these places, and
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: when I looked at the coast of it, I was like,
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: fucking ches.
- 1:01:46Speaker 6: I actually don't even know how much it costs. I
- 1:01:48Speaker 6: imagine it's a.
- 1:01:48Speaker 5: Lot for what we did and what was included. It
- 1:01:52Speaker 5: wasn't a lot in comparison, because oh yeah, I mean,
- 1:01:59Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure they're going back. I know that twenty
- 1:02:03Speaker 5: two is going back in twenty twenty seven. But from
- 1:02:08Speaker 5: my just my take of what I what I spent,
- 1:02:11Speaker 5: I think it was like twelve hundred for my round
- 1:02:14Speaker 5: trip for my flight, and then the trip itself was
- 1:02:19Speaker 5: probably I think it was like eight grand, and then
- 1:02:24Speaker 5: a little bit more. I think it ended up being
- 1:02:26Speaker 5: about twelve hundred dollars or twelve, like twelve thousand. But
- 1:02:32Speaker 5: your transportations included. You don't have to worry about that
- 1:02:36Speaker 5: your inner transportation throughout, because we're going by boat, we're
- 1:02:39Speaker 5: going by bus. We were even taking interior flights to
- 1:02:42Speaker 5: a couple of places that were optional. You know, most
- 1:02:48Speaker 5: of our meals were included. Obviously if you drink stuff
- 1:02:52Speaker 5: like that, like that extra stuff was not included. But
- 1:02:55Speaker 5: your basic meals were included, and someone taking care of
- 1:03:01Speaker 5: all the logistics and getting you checked in and all
- 1:03:03Speaker 5: that stuff. Like they even had someone meet us at
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: the airport when we arrived and walk us through and
- 1:03:09Speaker 5: get our visas and pass like through customs, Like it
- 1:03:12Speaker 5: was like we just walked through. So to me, that
- 1:03:15Speaker 5: kind of it ended up being it was about two
- 1:03:18Speaker 5: and a half weeks total travel and all of so
- 1:03:24Speaker 5: that that's to me was worth it.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah, sure I went to Italy for
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: like two weeks. It was almost tang grand so I
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: mean going out.
- 1:03:32Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, there's and there
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: are parts that are really like I don't know, like
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: someone mentioned in the chat about uh Agatha Christie you know,
- 1:03:48Speaker 5: and on the you know, on the Nile, and you
- 1:03:52Speaker 5: know we got to stay there in Elephantine Island, and
- 1:03:55Speaker 5: I mean you just can't. You can't, like I don't know,
- 1:03:59Speaker 5: like that kind of experience it's with me forever.
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's probably all the stuff that you've been
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: reading about and kind of putting all your kind of
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: wandering in two and then kind of the fruit it
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: shouldn't have actually had.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: Losing experience is beautiful glitched out.
- 1:04:27Speaker 5: I got it. Yeah, it was incredible, I think, but
- 1:04:31Speaker 5: I definitely could see it being hard, if harder if
- 1:04:35Speaker 5: there's other things to consider, just because you know, you know,
- 1:04:41Speaker 5: if again dietary, autoimmune or other things, you know, you
- 1:04:46Speaker 5: have to take extra precautions. But I would feel like
- 1:04:51Speaker 5: okay with them, Like I didn't like if anything went wrong,
- 1:04:54Speaker 5: like there were people that they knew what to do.
- 1:04:57Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: Also I'd like to add they made sure that through
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: certain parts of Egypt we had police escorts and there
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: was an orang guard with us at all times, so
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: they made sure that our safety was took care of,
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: you know. And the places we stayed too, were like
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: very very upscale places. So I think Morgan Freeman stayed
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: in one of the places Prince Charles stayed in. Use Yeah, yeah,
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: so yeah, it was it was. It was stuff that
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: you probably couldn't set up if you were to make
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: this trip on your own, you know.
- 1:05:38Speaker 6: So that's awesome. Please escorts sound.
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: It was cool and pretty nothing like their police is
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: nothing like our police. It was like a truck in
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: front of you with a guy standing there with a
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: machine gun, you know, so a lot of Yeah, it
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: was quite quite intimidating.
- 1:05:58Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so disappointed you didn't put that on Instagram.
- 1:06:03Speaker 6: That's what I want to see.
- 1:06:08Speaker 5: I'm in Arizona, now I can. I can post all
- 1:06:10Speaker 5: the eight CA's you want.
- 1:06:14Speaker 6: Joking, kind of not joking. I think that's a cool
- 1:06:18Speaker 6: aspect of it that I had no idea about that.
- 1:06:20Speaker 6: It's so interesting to see like that extra detail just
- 1:06:24Speaker 6: make so much more like real. And then that taught
- 1:06:27Speaker 6: me between like all right, we got some cops on
- 1:06:29Speaker 6: either side of us about the fuck people up. If
- 1:06:32Speaker 6: they bug us, all right, we're gonna go like light
- 1:06:35Speaker 6: some incense and like super you know what I mean.
- 1:06:37Speaker 6: I kind of love that combination.
- 1:06:40Speaker 5: What are these moments where you're like, okay, one of
- 1:06:42Speaker 5: the temple guards walks up and the sun is coming up.
- 1:06:45Speaker 5: We've done our ritual, and I was like in full
- 1:06:50Speaker 5: at felae at isis Is Temple, I like got dressed
- 1:06:53Speaker 5: up because I knew. I was like, this is my
- 1:06:55Speaker 5: this is my mother, this is my thing, you know.
- 1:06:58Speaker 5: And this guy comes walking up, he's got to ak strapped.
- 1:07:01Speaker 5: He's like you look really cool. Like I was like,
- 1:07:04Speaker 5: thank you, Old Egypt, Old Egypt. And equal like this.
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: But yeah, so it's very like, you know, you're like,
- 1:07:20Speaker 5: we where am I? Yeah, so there's definitely this appreciation,
- 1:07:29Speaker 5: for sure of getting the opportunity to do that and
- 1:07:33Speaker 5: then to make something physical out of it. I'm I'm
- 1:07:36Speaker 5: I feel very fortunate too, you know. Oh that's funny
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: typical female behavior from William dubs Welsh. Thank you, William.
- 1:07:53Speaker 5: I don't know anyway, Yeah, it is a it was
- 1:07:57Speaker 5: a good time and I feel very fortunate this, you know,
- 1:08:01Speaker 5: and then to also have a really good collaborator like
- 1:08:03Speaker 5: with Adam, because it is so rare.
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: I didn't want to ask you maybe just a few
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: more questions a little bit about the deck before we
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: wrap it up.
- 1:08:14Speaker 6: Actually, I've got another question before we switched to the
- 1:08:18Speaker 6: So you said it's a Muslim country. So did you
- 1:08:21Speaker 6: guys encounter any like Egyptians who were more interested in
- 1:08:25Speaker 6: kind of the ancient Egyptian spirituality or or they that
- 1:08:29Speaker 6: you met like more kind of Muslim oriented, or like
- 1:08:32Speaker 6: what was their kind of relationship that something that you
- 1:08:34Speaker 6: were exposed to it like with let's say type of
- 1:08:37Speaker 6: spiritual work that you guys were there to do.
- 1:08:40Speaker 5: I mean, there's definitely a love and a respect for
- 1:08:42Speaker 5: the history of the ancient Egyptian culture by the Egyptian people.
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: And there are a lot of people that are really
- 1:08:49Speaker 5: knowledgeable about their history and there's more of this. There
- 1:08:53Speaker 5: is a big preservation element in the community. We met
- 1:08:59Speaker 5: a lot of people who were doing restoration and more
- 1:09:05Speaker 5: from a educational perspective. They you know, and I just
- 1:09:11Speaker 5: I really liked the the the way that it was
- 1:09:16Speaker 5: more they there is just a different It wasn't just like, oh,
- 1:09:20Speaker 5: this is just a tourist thing that there were capitalizing on.
- 1:09:23Speaker 5: There's a genuine love and appreciation for the archival aspects
- 1:09:28Speaker 5: of it. As far as there's also a big Coptic
- 1:09:31Speaker 5: Christian community there, so like there's a few different things
- 1:09:35Speaker 5: going on. Yeah, there's like a few different things. So
- 1:09:40Speaker 5: it's not just all Muslim like as far as religious
- 1:09:45Speaker 5: kind of takes on things there, there's quite a few different.
- 1:09:49Speaker 6: The Coptics are quite persecuted though they.
- 1:09:52Speaker 5: They are, but there's also and then also the Amazigs.
- 1:09:55Speaker 5: You know, people don't realize a lot of people with
- 1:09:57Speaker 5: the Amazig community. They think they're justin Morocco or you know,
- 1:10:02Speaker 5: Atlas Mountains. But the Amazigs also lived in Egypt at
- 1:10:06Speaker 5: one point and were pushed out.
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: I schould have a Coptic church and has to fall
- 1:10:12Speaker 2: away from me. I was kind of surprised.
- 1:10:14Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a Coptic church right in Cairo. I think
- 1:10:16Speaker 5: that was the first stop that everyone went like through,
- 1:10:18Speaker 5: like check out the Coptic church, you know. Mm hmm.
- 1:10:22Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean I do feel like it is.
- 1:10:25Speaker 5: The majority is a Muslim, but there is an interest
- 1:10:29Speaker 5: in the you know, more of the ancient religion there.
- 1:10:33Speaker 5: Just it's also a lot of capitalism there too.
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: What that. Yeah, it's like it's like doing it still.
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: You might have to maybe turn off, you might and
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: put it back on more so maybe it sounds.
- 1:10:49Speaker 5: Like okay, well I have an electronic issues sometimes too weird. Yeah,
- 1:10:55Speaker 5: I'm like electric electricity thing with with spirits and up.
- 1:11:00Speaker 5: So we'll see. Yeah, it did sound like it like
- 1:11:03Speaker 5: repeated it back to me. It's like someone's trolling me.
- 1:11:13Speaker 5: You have a chip here?
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: Yeah, what was gonna start with you, Adam, I'm gonna
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: ask this question for both of you. Is there one
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: card of that deck that speaks to you the most?
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: Mm hm, Well, I'm sorry, I'm having a lot of
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: really bad audio on my part, Like it's real choppy
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: and high pitch that's coming through. So I apologize for
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: like not interacting and stuff. One of the cards that
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: I really like is I forgot to bring my deck,
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: but I do have the original drawings right here that
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: I can shut. So one of my favorite is the
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: polarity card.
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you can see that.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: And then also I am a fan of how the
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: grounded card came out. Which inspiration behind that is the
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: middle Pillar ritual.
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that ritual. Did you have a favorite?
- 1:12:26Speaker 5: I love the offering card. Oh yeah, this one makes
- 1:12:30Speaker 5: me really happy.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: Also, we were talking earlier about like little hidden things
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: and there. If you kind of look at where the
- 1:12:38Speaker 1: jewels are placed, it's where the spheres are on the
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: tree of life. So there's a lot of those like
- 1:12:44Speaker 1: hidden in the deck as well.
- 1:12:47Speaker 5: And I just like the principle of the offering too,
- 1:12:50Speaker 5: is like a lot of times people think offering means
- 1:12:53Speaker 5: something physical, you know, and sometimes when you show up
- 1:13:00Speaker 5: as the offering, allowing yourself to be the vessel like that,
- 1:13:03Speaker 5: that's one of the highest kind of offerings you can
- 1:13:08Speaker 5: share with the world around you. So there's just this
- 1:13:14Speaker 5: really beautiful I just think this like elevation in this
- 1:13:17Speaker 5: understanding of what offering is and not just being takers
- 1:13:21Speaker 5: in the world like that.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:13:27Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: What what do you hope someone becomes after living with
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: the deck for a year?
- 1:13:39Speaker 5: M hope they become I think just I think they
- 1:13:46Speaker 5: become more conscious of things outside of themselves and their relationship.
- 1:13:56Speaker 5: You know, how everything is kind of dancing with each
- 1:14:00Speaker 5: other and it's not. Again, it's not like we live
- 1:14:03Speaker 5: such a world that everyone's so self obsessed. And I
- 1:14:06Speaker 5: think while I think yes, individual like being an individual
- 1:14:10Speaker 5: and knowing who you are is important, but how you,
- 1:14:15Speaker 5: you know, function within the world around you is also important.
- 1:14:20Speaker 5: And also having an awareness that other more than two
- 1:14:25Speaker 5: things can exist at the same time and be right,
- 1:14:27Speaker 5: you know, just having a deeper connection and reverence for
- 1:14:34Speaker 5: themselves but in the world around them.
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: I like that. I think that's a huge part of
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: magic actually is learning how your outside situation stimulates you
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: really or how you let it you know, or you're
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: you know, I don't know not to get into it,
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: but it's just like, you know, you have all these
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: stimulations around you, and everybody's going to have a different
- 1:14:56Speaker 2: opinion about it. You know, it's almost like you kind
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: of chose whatever program or whatever you looked at or
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: whatever you heard or whatever you smelled is going to
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: make you feel a certain way that's different to somebody else.
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: It's kind of like you take it on a pre
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: program that yourself. So yeah, I think that's really Yeah,
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: that's really important to learn and start the control.
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: What about you, Adam, I'm having difficulty with my sound
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: at the moment. Yes, so I wasn't really able to
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: catch most of that question. It's coming in kind of
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: like a speeded up version of Chipmunks.
- 1:15:34Speaker 5: Oh, it's happening on your side now?
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So unfortunately I'm gonna probably sit that one
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: out because I can't really hear. Yeah, I apologize.
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: No, that's great. All right, then I have one uh, Sabrina,
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: do you have anything you want to ask? I have
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: one more question left. Okay, So I guess for you, Marcel,
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: what do you think is the most underst what do
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: you think is most misunderstood today about a cult practice
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: and symbolic work?
- 1:16:06Speaker 5: Mmm, that it's like demonic, like I mean everything, everyone's
- 1:16:13Speaker 5: like everything's demonic or that that's like it's bad. I
- 1:16:17Speaker 5: don't know, Like I get very upset when people talk
- 1:16:20Speaker 5: about Lucifer being bad. I just like I think there's
- 1:16:26Speaker 5: there's so many misconceptions based on satanic panic and you know,
- 1:16:31Speaker 5: you know, all of that, Like there's just and I
- 1:16:35Speaker 5: lived in La for so long, Like there's just so
- 1:16:38Speaker 5: much stuff like fed through media, like of I mean,
- 1:16:41Speaker 5: even with witches, with with diviners, with seers, with oracles,
- 1:16:46Speaker 5: they'll call any of that. It's it's gone through this
- 1:16:48Speaker 5: lens of like performance. And I think occultism is more
- 1:16:57Speaker 5: than performance. I also think have to be as serious
- 1:17:03Speaker 5: like everybody. You know, Like some people get crusty and
- 1:17:06Speaker 5: serious about occultism, and I'm like, watch family guy, like
- 1:17:13Speaker 5: loosen up a little bit, do something, you know, like yeah, yeah,
- 1:17:19Speaker 5: have fun with it, but be you know, obviously have reverence.
- 1:17:24Speaker 5: You know, we're not making fun of it, but we're
- 1:17:28Speaker 5: you know, you got to lighten up a little bit.
- 1:17:30Speaker 5: I think I think sometimes the world people get very
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: on their high horse about what's wrong and what's right.
- 1:17:35Speaker 5: And I just think that that's the problem with a
- 1:17:37Speaker 5: lot of things in occult ism, magic, all of it.
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: Really, I agree, that's awesome. Yeah, I think I don't
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: know if you've seen me post it, but sometimes I'll
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: every once in a while just put a post on
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: says it's not all dicks and demons, Yes, and it
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: shows the thing. Yeah no, but it's totally true. Certain
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: even you know podcasting, just keep it real. You know
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: in the conspiracy world where I used to kind of
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: start it, and it's very uh, it's very rough, you know.
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: I tried, I tried to hope to educate them over there,
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: but it was just like everything satanic and everything's dick symbols. Yeah.
- 1:18:17Speaker 5: Well, I think that's the thing. You just have to
- 1:18:19Speaker 5: keep showing up and showing them that it's not because
- 1:18:22Speaker 5: telling people it isn't most people don't listen. You just
- 1:18:25Speaker 5: have to be an example.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: The people accusing us of that. Man's doing it again. Wow,
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: the people who accuse us of that are the ones
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: thinking about the demons and dix more than the fucking magicians.
- 1:18:36Speaker 5: Well oh yes, exactly. I'm like, what's your fix on it?
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: Right?
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: But thank you very much. That was really that was
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: a fun, fun interview. Even the chipmunks that was even
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: fun too. Thank you for both coming on, especially Adam
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: I knew you were nervous, you know, and you're not
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: used to doing this, so I appreciate you coming on,
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: and yeah, I like to be able to get the
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: artist on that of course, of course before we wrap
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: it up. Yeah, of course, before we wrap it up
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: and let you guys plug your stuff again, I'm gonna
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: let Sabrina and Robbie you know, plug themselves. So, Sabrina,
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: what is up? Let everybody know where they can find
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: your stuff again, please, friends.
- 1:19:17Speaker 6: So my YouTube is Sabrina Scott no m. Everything else
- 1:19:20Speaker 6: you can find me under Sabrina M.
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: Scott.
- 1:19:22Speaker 6: So for anyone who doesn't know me, I've been pressing
- 1:19:24Speaker 6: witchcraft for like twenty five years, same with Taro. I
- 1:19:27Speaker 6: do this shit professionally, and I babbled too much on
- 1:19:30Speaker 6: the internet. Got two podcasts, The Secrets of a Witch
- 1:19:33Speaker 6: podcast and the Heal and Harm Show Nick has been
- 1:19:36Speaker 6: on It's a good time. So if you're interested in
- 1:19:39Speaker 6: real shit, interesting conversations, depth of practice, feel free to
- 1:19:43Speaker 6: check out my stuff. I've got four journals out, five
- 1:19:46Speaker 6: books now, one of which has like been loitering behind
- 1:19:49Speaker 6: me here. So yeah, I don't know, that's my that's
- 1:19:52Speaker 6: my shtick. Thanks so much for inviting me, Like I
- 1:19:54Speaker 6: always love coming on and so fun to hang out
- 1:19:57Speaker 6: with you guys.
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: Thank you for making it, Sabrina Robbie March the storyteller himself.
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: What is going on, sir?
- 1:20:03Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this was great, Thanks for having me and
- 1:20:05Speaker 3: it's good to meet tell you guys. As far as
- 1:20:08Speaker 3: my stuff, you can go to my link tree which
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: is link tree r M A r X and that'll
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: pull up everything. And yeah, it was great Ton, thanks.
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: Nan of course, of course, thank you. And I don't know,
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: Adam if you can hear me, but if you want,
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: you can promote yourself.
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: Well, you can find me on Instagram. My user name
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: is Adam baum L thirteen And yeah I always comment
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: back and reply back to messages and stuff, so yeah,
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: what's that.
- 1:20:40Speaker 2: Thank you very much for coming on, So I really
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: really appreciate it, and please thank you.
- 1:20:45Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having us, Thank you for having us.
- 1:20:48Speaker 5: It was so good to see you all. What a surprise,
- 1:20:51Speaker 5: Sace to see you, Sabrina treatd And yeah, my my website,
- 1:20:57Speaker 5: my Instagram it's Marcelo Croll dot com or at Marcelo
- 1:21:01Speaker 5: Corol on Instagram. The Initiates Oracle is coming out May fourth.
- 1:21:05Speaker 5: It's up for pre order now. Adam and I will
- 1:21:07Speaker 5: both be flying to LA to do a deck signing
- 1:21:10Speaker 5: at the Philosophical Research Society on May ninth, which is
- 1:21:15Speaker 5: really exciting. And then on May sixteenth and Tucson, I
- 1:21:18Speaker 5: will be doing an Initiates deck signing at Nexus Occult
- 1:21:21Speaker 5: Bookstore and Audity shop here in town, which is also Yeah,
- 1:21:26Speaker 5: just a cool spot. If you are in the Tucson area,
- 1:21:29Speaker 5: say hi and yeah, all my other stuff you can
- 1:21:33Speaker 5: find like on my website or in my beacons link
- 1:21:37Speaker 5: on my Instagram profile.
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: Awesome, that's great, Good for you. Well again, thank you both,
- 1:21:43Speaker 2: and thank you Sabrina and Robbie for making it. And
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: thank you everybody in the chat. That's what's up. That's
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: why I go alive. And until the next one, everybody
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: be well later.
- 1:21:53Speaker 5: Fine, thanks