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The Myths That Make Us

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2019/03/08
Latest episode
2026/10/29
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103 min.
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I believe we each have an unconscious story about who we are and what kind of world we're in. This story, our myth, influences our goals, desires, mindset, and happiness. On this podcast, I'm going to help people identify the myths that make them.

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Mollie Adler's Myth
2026/10/29
Mollie Adler is the host of Back From the Borderline, a podcast about mental health, mythology, and the soul that has reached millions of listeners. She is also, according to Erick, the dankest meme lord on the internet.   This is a first ballot HOF episode fam. Enjoy.   Connect with Mollie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backfromtheborderline Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/backfromtheborderline Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1576242501 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/backfromtheborderline   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   [00:00:00] Intro. [00:01:55] The Thriceborn Journey. [00:03:27] World One: What It Was Like to Be Mollie [00:08:33] A Collective Soul Murder. [00:12:12] The Elevator at Soho House. [00:18:04] Something in Me Said No. [00:21:48] LA Eats You Up and Spits You Out. [00:24:03] You Don't Want BPD, It's Incurable. [00:29:01] Black-Pilled on Psychiatry. [00:35:05] The DSM Is Not Science. [00:38:22] Training Wheels or a Cage. [00:41:59] Archons Are Ignorant, Not Evil. [00:47:02] Have You Met Someone Truly Evil? [00:50:02] The Knowing That Started the Podcast. [00:54:56] The Treading Water Years. [00:57:49] What the Diagnosis Does to People. [01:02:37] BPD Is the New Hysteria. [01:07:54] Freud Flinched. [01:11:08] World Three: Grasping for Maps. [01:16:11] Your Audience Will Follow You. [01:18:29] Reading About It Versus Living It. [01:23:26] Duncan Trussell and the 2010 Road Trip. [01:28:40] Ryan Bledsoe, the Cathars and the Lady. [01:33:04] Sky Watching With Chris Bledsoe. [01:39:48] The Orb Under the Tree. [01:46:57] The Myth of Pre-Trauma Purity. [01:48:02] Philosophy in a Hazmat Suit. [01:49:46] Let It Marinate Before It's Content. [01:51:50] A Call to Courage in World War III. [01:56:28] Bill Plotkin: Why We Have No Elders. [02:01:35] Why the Mysteries Were Kept Secret. [02:07:23] Metaphysical Adolescence. [02:09:21] A Hundred Million Islands. [02:14:39] Learn to Make Money or Be Rescued. [02:17:50] Charge What You're Worth. [02:22:25] The Comment Section Is Your Shadow. [02:26:40] Psychic Hygiene and the Feral Artist. [02:31:58] What Myth Comes Out of Your Life? [02:37:09] Rapid Fire. [02:39:48] The Body Keeps the Mileage.   Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the Dharma Artist Collective where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Bethanie Bright's Myth
2026/10/22
Bethanie Bright (@mindfulmoontherapy) is a licensed therapist, registered art therapist, intuitive artist, and energy worker who has spent over a decade helping people use art to process their lives.  Website: https://www.mindfulmoontherapy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulmoontherapy Neurographic Art Tutorial: https://youtu.be/ulSmwYUYBVs This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   [00:00:00] Intro. [00:01:58] Get as Many People to Make Art as Possible. [00:02:56] Bleeding Feet in the Swimming Pool. [00:05:20] Nana and Grandmother Energy. [00:07:07] The Monster at the End of This Book. [00:10:26] The Feelings We're Unwilling to Be With. [00:13:27] Selling Drawings at the Bowling League. [00:16:35] When the Photography Dream Died. [00:17:58] A Stolen Wine Cooler at Eight. [00:22:25] The First Crying-on-the-Floor Moment. [00:26:37] A Safe Place for the Weirdos. [00:32:34] "You Can't Do This Anymore." [00:35:39] Making Art Along With the Steps. [00:40:50] Sober and Still Bartending. [00:44:21] The Memory That Led to Art Therapy. [00:46:32] A Car Accident and a Higher Power. [00:49:17] Out of Your Head, Into Your Heart. [00:50:50] What Does That Look Like as a Landscape? [00:59:54] An Open Art Studio for Everyone. [01:01:22] Quest: Draw With Both Hands. [01:05:56] If You Can Move Your Hand, You Can Draw. [01:09:28] Your Art Matters. Bethanie's favorite movie, as promised :) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831888 Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the Dharma Artist Collective where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus. Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Sigrid Tasies' Myth
2026/10/15
Sigrid Tasies (@sigridtasies) is an Embodiment Teacher, Trauma-Informed Somatic Facilitator, Medicine Woman and the Author of “Honey & Fire: The Feminine Art of Living, Loving and Leading with Fierce Softness.”   For over a decade she has guided thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, founders and artists across the world through private mentorship, group programs, international retreats and transformational spaces that bring forth what she calls Embodied Remembrance. Her work is rooted in Earth and Body wisdom, bridging somatic and shamanic healing with embodiment practice, breathwork, ceremony, ancient ritual and deep inquiry to create spaces for deeper coherence and transformation.   Some refer to her as a “Tuning Fork”: someone who sees clearly and invites deeper alignment. Above all, she describes herself as a lifelong student of life, love, the body and what it truly means to live fiercely soft.   Connect with Sigrid: https://www.sigridtasies.com/honeyandfire https://www.sigridtasies.com https://www.instagram.com/sigridtasies   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation. [00:00:00] Intro. [00:01:59] Your First Memory. [00:03:02] A Village in the Dominican Republic. [00:06:34] Tarzan and My Father's Stories. [00:07:51] Bedtime Story: The Boy Who Followed the Magic. [00:14:13] How Do I Know? Decide to Find the Magic. [00:15:45] Sunshine in the Caribbean, Storms in Barcelona. [00:18:48] Fierce Protector of the Innocent. [00:23:30] Quitting School at Sixteen. [00:25:01] I Wanted Something Deeper: Gambia at Eighteen. [00:31:14] Where Did the Intuition Come From? [00:35:44] You're the Strongest Woman I Know. [00:37:22] Bali, a Breakup by Text, and Anxiety. [00:41:07] A Ukulele and a One-Way Ticket. [00:42:22] The Mentor Appears When You Ask for Help. [00:43:34] Australia: Yelling Freedom. [00:48:04] 93-Hour Weeks and a Hare Krishna Ashram. [00:51:35] Why I Really Drank. [00:55:30] Cacao Is Life: The Spiritual Scene. [00:56:25] A Sudden Awakening at 22. [00:58:50] The Shamanic Apprenticeship and the Moon Dance. [01:03:07] What's Not Mine to Share. [01:04:14] No Sweetie, You Are Learning to Do This Work. [01:09:12] Spirit, I Have Space. What's Next? [01:10:19] Locked in Australia for Three Years. [01:12:28] Peyote in Wirikuta: The Last Time I Saw My Father. [01:13:55] You Never Know If You'll Meet the Love of Your Life. [01:16:47] The Book Tapped Me on the Shoulder. [01:21:12] Did You Write for Ten Years? [01:22:51] Softness With a Backbone. [01:26:09] The Backbone Supports the Softening. Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Lyle Maxson Part 2
2026/08/31
Lyle Maxson is a serial entrepreneur building what he calls benevolent technology (tech that makes us more human). Across five startups in twelve years he has co-created SoundSelf, a video game therapeutic that entered a clinical trial pathway for mental health, launched a Meta-funded VR education platform, and served on Unity's advisory board for its Unity for Humanity project. He returns for part two to map the middle path between AI psychosis and transhumanism. His current project is Above, an AI wearable for consciousness growth.   Above: https://goabove.ai Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lylemaxson/   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   [00:00:00] Why spiritual people hate AI [00:03:20] Twelve years of benevolent tech [00:09:26] Ahriman, Lucifer, and the middle path [00:11:37] Ayahuasca weddings and ketamine healings [00:16:44] Let Babylon burn or rebuild it [00:22:10] Why Atlantis actually fell [00:29:15] A crash course in avoiding AI psychosis [00:34:49] The five red flags [00:36:48] The newspaper astrology experiment [00:45:34] Don't pair AI with ketamine [00:46:57] Entities and unattached burdens [00:57:16] Naming the middle path [01:02:32] Who steers the machine [01:10:31] Brutal renaissance optimism [01:16:18] Green flags and hidden benefactors [01:27:30] Rapid fire: books, games, aliens   Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey:   Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Francesca Barone
2026/07/17
Francesca Barone is a teacher, facilitator, and lifelong student of the Shipibo healing tradition devoted to the intersection of shamanic medicine, feminine healing arts, somatic-based embodiment practice, and the classical tantric path. She is the co-founder of Anam Cara Healing Retreats, an intimate Shipibo Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica and Peru dedicated to preserving indigenous wisdom, honoring the Shipibo lineage, and creating deeply personalized healing experiences rooted in reciprocity and integrity. Having apprenticed for years with Shipibo maestros, Francesca has guided hundreds of people through profound healing journeys by weaving Amazonian plant medicine with trauma-informed care, somatic healing, breathwork, and embodied spirituality. Her work explores the body as a sacred pathway to awakening, where trauma is transformed, the feminine principle is reclaimed, and ancient wisdom becomes a lived experience woven into every day practice.   Follow Francesca: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followyour_bliss_ Anam Cara Healing Retreats: https://www.anamcarahealingretreats.com Anam Cara Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anamcararetreats Donate to the Ayni Plant Project: https://www.ayniplantproject.com   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Aaron Doughty's Myth
2026/06/12
Aaron Doughty is a spiritual teacher and YouTuber with over 1.9 million subscribers, dedicated to helping people expand their consciousness. After a spiritual awakening in 2012, he went daily on YouTube in 2017 and grew one of the largest personal-growth channels on the platform, teaching energy dynamics, subconscious reprogramming, and nervous system regulation. He now travels the world running live events and hot seat coaching, helping people come home to who they already are.   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AaronDoughty44 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aarondoughty44/ Website: https://aarondoughty.com   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Graham Dern's Myth
2026/06/04
Graham Dern is a producer, sound designer, and co-founder of the Dharma Artist Collective. When he's not vibrating in Austin, you can often catch him recording birds and rivers in the mountains. In this episode, we dive into Graham's first memories in Seattle, through college psychedelics and an uncomfortable awakening, to a pandemic spent roofing in Montana and the leap to Austin. He talks about creating music as a daily meditation and his excitement around sound therapy. Instagram: @grahamdern Website/Contact: grahamdern.com Music: Graham Dern This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation. Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the Dharma Artist Collective where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus. Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Cory Allen
2026/05/28
Cory Allen is a writer, meditation teacher, and podcast host whose work reaches over five million people a week. He is the author of Now Is the Way and Brave New You, he hosts the podcast And Then It Hit Me and has guided thousands of students into presence through his courses Release Into Now and Coming Home. In this episode, Erick and Cory link back up for the first time in 6 years. They explore everything from Cory meeting and apprenticing with Robert Anton Wilson, to waterboarding himself in a bathtub float tank, to the slow dismantling of social armor in more recent years. One day we’ll get him to cry on the podcast. ——— Follow Cory Allen: Website: https://www.cory-allen.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heycoryallen/ Links: https://bio.site/coryallen ——— This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation. ——— ABOUT ERICK GODSEY Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus. ——— FOLLOW ERICK GODSEY Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile ——— SUPPORT THE PODCAST DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
James Burke Part 2
2026/04/29
James Burke is a contemporary Bard and music producer with a devotion to the throbbing Now. A pilgrim of the in-between, he is at home on the paradoxical path of Christ yet drawn to the wisdom of the old pagan Earth, and his work explores the reconciliation of these estranged worlds. Through writing and song, he inhabits the thresholds where myth and daily life meet.   James returns for Part 2 to tell the full story of his 500-mile pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago — the desperation that drove him there, the woman who broke his heart open, and the soul encounter that changed everything.     Follow James Burke: Substack — The Bard's Field Notes: https://substack.com/@jamesanthonyburke Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/james_anthony_burke_/ The Creaking Door: https://thecreakingdoor.netlify.app     This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation. Claim your free trial: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about     [00:00:00] The Creaking Door. [00:00:33] A sophisticated Christian, a former conspiracy theorist. [00:04:10] The gift of Martin Shaw's new book. [00:05:35] Setting the scene — 26, Ireland, Colombia, falling apart. [00:07:30] Six albums, severe illness, no heart. [00:10:25] "I think I need to be homeless on the streets." [00:11:55] Why no top-down fix could work. [00:16:00] The Camino de Santiago — the way of St. James. [00:18:53] Selling everything, sleeping in the car. [00:24:09] The artistic ritual of self-hatred. [00:26:38] The hellish now, the hoped-for future. [00:28:16] Starting the pilgrimage. [00:31:00] Pre-Christian roots, witchy and Christian fused. [00:34:03] Day one — medieval villages, the road starts walking you. [00:39:46] The holy man bestowing a quest underground. [00:42:00] The father wound mirrored in cathedrals. [00:44:30] Saints over magicians — the role of humility. [00:46:30] Microdosing trauma in the West. [00:51:30] Falling in love at the long table. [00:54:09] The fast, the fall, the eye contact. [00:56:08] The seminarian who could go toe to toe. [00:58:11] She held him while he wept for the first time in a decade. [01:00:53] "Hobby art" — the most generative gift. [01:03:58] Synchronicity as a mode of perception. [01:05:30] The river, the song, the call to Ireland. [01:08:36] The cowboy hat stoner with twelve Caminos. [01:12:27] Three days fasted, last day barefoot. [01:13:46] Arriving Good Friday at the bones of the saint. [01:16:29] The reframe for inherited Christianity. [01:18:35] Saint Teresa of Ávila and the women of the tradition. [01:19:43] The Old Testament mindset he had to leave behind.     Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.     Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile     Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Sky King's Myth
2026/04/17
Sky King is a podcaster, social media marketer, and entrepreneur. His obsession with how the media programs and shapes our reality led him down the path of understanding media manipulation, realizing in 2016 that podcasting was escaping the standard media model. Sky has made it his mission to continue allowing podcasts to stay outside the influence of advertising and keep their content sincere. His podcast Sky King's Mental Playground focuses on the tension between centralized and decentralized systems, specifically on propaganda, financial systems, and political systems.   You can listen at skmp.supercast.com or follow Sky on Twitter @consumersky or Instagtram @iamaskyking.   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the 'Dharma Artist Collective' where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in our pockets. He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture. He doesn't respond to emails but he writes semi-regularly on Substack and Instagram @erickgodsey. He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.   Follow Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Blog: https://www.kathedraling.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Joa's Myth
2026/03/10
This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Joa drops one of the most courageous stories that the podcast has ever heard. This episode has the potential to change lives and reveal stories that keep ourselves from being seen.   Joa is a writer, artist, and the creator of Unplugged, a course and community designed to help parents and kids build a healthier relationship with technology. Drawing from her own life experiences including navigating an HIV diagnosis, working in the sex industry, and rebuilding her life abroad she speaks candidly about resilience, accountability, and starting over.   Connect with Joa: Instagram: @Positively.jq Instagram: @unpluggedera website: https://unpluggedera.com   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Michael Ebbinghaus
2026/02/27
This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Michael Ebbinghaus is a native Austinite operating a small depth psychotherapy practice in Austin. He incorporates Jungian psychology, esoteric wisdom such as Gnosticism and alchemy, into his work which strongly emphasizes depth psychological approaches to dreams. He is also a certified Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist.   Michael is also a writer with a penchant for cultural critique. His writings bring ancient wisdom into modern understanding and imagine new cultural pathways for us to test out. You can find these writings at his   His recent lecture series, Therapia Theon, explores many of the topics covered in this podcast in greater depth. You can find those recordings at the link here.   In this episode, Erick and Michael explore Cautelfaulk by Peter Kingsley, depth psychology, prophecy, dreams, and revelation. Recency bias is real AND this episode is incredible. Both can exist, okay Erick.   Resources Mentioned in this Episode Catafalque - Peter Kingsley Reality - Peter Kingsley The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson The Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson The Anxious Generation - Johnathan Haidt   Connect with Michael Ebbinghaus: Website: https://ebbandflowdepthpsychotherapy.com/ Instagram: @michaelebbingflow Blog: ebbandflowdepthpsychotherapy.com/blog Top 5 Articles   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
John Clifton's Myth
2026/02/20
This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Welcome to John Clifton’s myth. John puts the multi in multidisciplinary as he shares his Neverending Story. There were a couple connection internet interruptions & dropouts in this episode, but John makes it all worth it.   Dr. John Clifton is a multidisciplinary artist, doula and therapeutic practitioner residing in Baltimore, Maryland. His training spans a diverse range of naturalistic, clinical, shamanic and ceremonial traditions across multiple continents and lineages.   He is the founder and operator of Inner Kind Consulting LLC., specializing in psychedelic education and harm reduction, as well as doula for individuals and families navigating the emotional and spiritual intricacies of life-threatening diagnoses and end of life care.   Disclaimer: Dr. John Clifton, is not licensed to practice medicine, psychiatry, psychology, or any other healthcare profession in any jurisdiction, and does not provide medical, psychological, diagnostic, or treatment services. Nothing he says should be taken as medical advice."   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks Beyond the Brain - Stanislov Grof   Connect with John Clifton: Contact: https://www.innerkindllc.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/johnmclifton_/ Substack: https://substack.com/@johnclifton   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
Lyle Maxson's Myth
2026/02/14
Erick sits down with Lyle Maxson at the Dharma House to dive into transformative experiences, lucid dreaming, and a couple stories you’ll have to hear to believe. This episode is a first ballot hall of famer. Lyle Maxson is a technologist and cultural architect working at the intersection of immersive technology, AI, biofeedback, mental health, and education. As a pioneer of the benevolent technology movement, Lyle brings over a decade of experience creating transformative experiences that merge science, storytelling, and systems design.   This episode is brought to you by the Dharma Artist Collective. This is the place for artists to reclaim their attention and use it to turn their art into their vocation.   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You - Dorothy Bryant Catafalque - Peter Kingsley   Connect with Lyle Maxson: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lylemaxson/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lylemaxson/   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma
What is a Vampire? w/ Caitlyn Howe
2026/02/05
Queen Caitlyn Joins the pod to talk about vampires, rituals, addiction, and devotion… We love her.   The Slayers Club begins Sunday February 8… Don’t miss it.   Caitlyn Howe is a writer, guide, and ritual artist from Austin, TX, passionately advocating for dynamic self-expression, interpersonal healing, and soul reclamation to live a heart-centered life. As a transformational facilitator and ceremonialist, she works with the art of words, the power of love, and the life force energy of emotions, guiding self-discovery experiences and programs for women and men including poetry circles, creative shadow work, and ecstatic dance. She is the founder of the League of Queens women’s program and The Playhouse Expressive creative community, and a newly published author of her first book of original poetry, Ridiculous Masterpiece.   The Slayers Club - The vampire hunt begins on Sunday, Feb 8th Join Here: https://www.poetqueen.com/slayers-club   Order Caitlyn's book: Ridiculous Masterpiece https://chakaruna.com/products/ridiculous-masterpiece Get the audiobook version on Audible   Connect with Caitlyn Howe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoetqueen/ Substack: https://substack.com/@poetqueen Website: www.poetqueen.com   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: The Women Who Run with Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Dynamics of Power - Gershen Kaufman   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Newsletter: https://erick-godsey.ck.page/profile   Support the Podcast: DAC: https://www.skool.com/lucid-university/about The Art of Dharma: https://www.erickgodsey.com/blog/the-art-of-dharma

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Oxygen_Austin 2025/11/21
We need more!
Bruddaa this is by far my favorite podcast. I need at least a bi weekly dose. Even you reading some essays would be awesome, anything that keeps you p...
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Nannerbart 2023/10/28
Vital Contribution to Society
Eric! Brotha! What a splendid compilation of questions. What lovely minds you choose exploit in the most loving ways. My art has improved, my fear of ...
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Tom Lane 1 2022/04/08
Listen to this podcast and let it change your life
Erick's ability to articulate topics ranging from human psychology to psychedelics to community the psyche and beyond is unsurpassed. He has a unique ...
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csdavis 2022/01/10
Love this podcast
Grateful for this podcast and the work Erick is doing in the world.
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Stag811 2022/01/10
Soul Opening
This podcast and Erick in general has opened my mind, body and soul (daemon) to completely new ways of understanding and feeling that I would have nev...
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LadyVespers 2021/08/06
This podcast will change you.
What’s that feeling when you hear the words of another so deeply resonate into the core of your being, the shock and surprise that someone out there i...
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BatteryStar 2021/06/21
Ep#79 Instagram live Q&A 🤯
Hi you appeared as a story on my Instagram feed. I am enjoying this Q&A session. Sometimes I resort to podcasts to help with the noisy mind, & to co...
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babenoot 2021/05/23
One of my favorite podcasts ever
I have learned so, so much from listening to this podcast as well as taking Erick's journaling course. His work is incredible and has genuinely helped...
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herbavoir :) 2021/03/28
Jordan Peterson
Erick! You have to have Jordan Peterson on your show! We’re calling it in.
★★★★★
LeilaTF1982 2021/03/23
“The Woman Eater”
This resonated, oh so, deeply with me, shook the core of my soul. Your story, Your words, about this night, they found me tonight. I needed to hear,...
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