The Mystical Made Practical: Recent Episodes
Martha Angelini
The Mystical Made Practical Podcast discusses spiritual and metaphysical topics and how we can consciously apply them to integrate our spiritual selves with our human selves and allow our everyday life to be our spiritual practice.
I think knowing your why is hugely important and can act as a guide to what we want to do in the world. But what if you have more than one why, more than one purpose? What if you have a broader, deeper why?
In this episode, I’m combining my book-writing experiences and Netflix binge-watching to talk about a "why" that helps you understand where you are heading, why that direction is important for soul growth, and how what you are doing gets you there.
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As a life-long learner, I think of learning as a continuous process. But it can be easy to think that you can learn the “wrong” things and have to un-learn them over the course of your life.
In this episode, I talk about why I don’t think we learn the “wrong” things, how either/or thinking of “right” and “wrong” choices separates us rather than connects us, and how we can change that.
Website link - martha@marthaluciaangelini.com
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Surrender isn’t about giving up. It’s about sharing you as you are with others.
In this episode, I talk about what surrender is, how it is part of the process of becoming whole, and why it’s so hard to do. (It has nothing to do with giving our power away!) I also share a time when I was “outed” into becoming.
Forgiveness can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. Especially if we need to forgive someone else.
In this episode, I discuss why I think we can’t actually forgive others and that forgiveness isn’t really about others. I get very personal about a time in my life when deep forgiveness was needed and how that shaped my understanding about who and what we are really forgiving and why.
Join me in continuing the conversation as I write a book about how I learned to embrace how I didn’t fit, belong to myself and still be able to authentically connect.
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For many of us, trust is a four-letter word. I think that’s because it can feel like a powerless state. While trust is a vulnerable state, I don’t think it’s a powerless one.
In this episode, I talk about how I think our understanding of trust focuses more on the external experience rather than our internal experience, why that makes us feel so powerless, and what we can do to change that.
Is there a secret part of you known only to you that you can't share because it would mean you would love important connections with others? Or maybe you sense something just under the surface, but aren’t sure that bringing it out is a good idea?
In this episode, I talk about how “being as you are”, or acknowledging that “secret” is the key to making deep, authentic connections.
“You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.” As common as this phrase is, do we really understand what it means? Not in an intellectual way, but in a feeling way. Can we feel at our core that this is true, or is it just out of reach?
In today’s episode, my guest Jonathan Yorks brings that phrase to life. I had originally planned to talk about where our souls go and what they do in the spiritual dimension between human lives and was rerouted. Instead, what we got was the essence of our spiritual path from the soul’s perspective. How, as soul consciousness, we work in both the spiritual and physical dimensions.
For this episode, I invite you to take it in. To hear your story in his story. To open to understanding our human experience not from a human perspective, but from the soul’s perspective.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode * A definition of the human experience * Who is “driving the car”, our souls or our human selves * How soul selves and human selves work together * Does your identity as a self-change after you die * What we do between human lives * Who helps us with our human experience * What can trip us up as humans in trying to understand past, current, and between life experiences * What “choice” is from a soul’s perspective * How everyone and everything is here to help us, not out to get us * How do determine what consciousness you are operating from: soul or human
Resources in Today’s Episode Jonathan Yorks: Website / Facebook
We Don’t Die: George Anderson’s Conversations with the Other Side
Many Lives Many Masters
Journey Of Souls
Practical Mystics FB Group
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In today’s episode, I talk about a method of getting spiritual information that I think can be a little misunderstood, not least of which because it seems incredible. I’m referring to channeling. And it does seem incredible. Here we have beings or group consciousness from the spiritual dimension directly communicating with us through an individual who can act as a “voice” or “channel” of information.
Here to give us some insight into this method of communication is Leontine Hartzell who has been a channel for healing energy, wisdom and healing music for over 25 years and has a full-time energy healing and teaching practice for the past 25 years. Leontine will be answering questions like what does it mean to be a channel, what kinds of information is channeled and how does it all work.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode * What helpful beings are out there and can be accessed * What information can we get * Practices that can aid channeling * What you can do to make sure that you aren’t getting just anybody at the other end * Whether channeled information is interpreted * What intention to set if you want to channel information
Resources in Today’s Episode Leontine Hartzell: Website / Facebook
Channeled Gift: Leontine Hartzell YouTube
Omaja Music: Website / YouTube
Abraham Hicks: Website / YouTube
Practical Mystics FB Group
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As spiritual seekers, we know that information from the spiritual world is vital to our growth. But what kind of information is available to us and how does it help us? What doesn’t make it any easier is there seems to be a lot of overlap with intuitive/psychic information, blurring the lines and making it difficult to distinguish among them. While this overlap is real, I’m going to differentiate a little bit so we can start to see how they fit together. The first up is foresight and premonition.
Our spiritual guide today is Jessica Kozak, psychic counselor, and healer. Jessica is going to give us information on the nature of foresight, what can be seen, what can’t be seen and why, and demonstrate how foresight can help you on your soul path. We’re also going to talk about how foresight and premonitions aren’t just for psychics, and that you can get your own intuitive future information.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode * How far into the future can we see * How this affects our power of choice and free will * How free will and predestination aren’t mutually exclusive * How foresight can help us on our soul path * Why getting “bad” or “negative” information can be helpful to us * Why you get specific information for some future events and not for others * If psychics are “psychic” all the time * Why it’s important not to think that you aren’t intuitive or psychic
Resources in Today’s Episode Jessica Kozak: Website / Facebook
Monthly Psychic Development Group
Practical Mystics FB Group
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When I first started venturing into the spiritual world, I had no idea what I was doing or how to get around. I didn’t know if I was going to “meet” anything and if I did, what or who would it be and what would happen? It was like opening this portal to everything and it was a bit frightening. What I needed was a map to help me navigate this great unknown. Luckily, I knew someone who could help me with that, and she is joining me in this episode.
Here to help us out (again) is psychic consultant, spiritual counselor, and master energy healer Lisa Campion. We discuss what’s out there, who’s out there, and how this world is organized. We also talk about how to navigate between the realms and the not so nice “neighborhoods” to avoid.
Even if you have delved into the spiritual world and feel connected to your guides, this episode will paint a bigger picture, connect some dots, and provide insights into working more consciously with this world.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- What plane you may not want to visit or hang around in
- What the different planes are, and where they are in relation to each other and to the Earth plane
- What you can do to consciously connect with the different planes
- The key action you need to do to safely work with the different planes
- Why it is so important to develop spiritually or raise your vibration to safely explore
- How to discern whether an entity is safe or not
- Why it’s helpful to understand where you are on the psychic spectrum
Resources in Today’s Episode
Lisa Campion: Website / Twitter / Facebook
The Art of Psychic Reiki
Free Gift: Energy Management for Empaths (on the website homepage)
Free Guide To Create Sacred Space To Connect With The Spiritual World
Practical Mystics Facebook Community
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Now that we know that if we want to make real progress on our soul path, we need to add the spiritual dimension so we can answer the deeper questions that we have. But we also know that we can’t reach the spiritual world with conventional methods of investigation. We need some kind of tool to be able to communicate with the spiritual dimension. With all that help and support available to us If we want to work directly with the spiritual world, it’s vital to have some way to communicate with it.
In today’s episode, I talk about the main tool that we all have to be able to communicate with the spiritual world: our intuition. I’ll be covering what I think it is, how it works, what information we are getting and why it can be so challenging to work with it. I also a free guide to help you build a rapport with your intuition and learn how you best receive intuitive information. It will help you if you are new to working with your intuition, or if you have been able to use it occasionally but would like to strengthen the connection and be more conscious with receiving. Check it out below.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- My definition of intuition
- How intuitive is different from psychic
- If there is any type of intuitive information that is more important than another
- Why intuitive development isn’t really about developing your intuition
- The one thing we need to do in order to successfully work with our intuition
Resources in Today’s Episode
Practical Mystics Facebook Community
FREE Guide To Building A Rapport With Your Intuition
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So what is the spiritual world and why does it feel different from the physical world? It feels like this separate thing “over there” that we’re drawn to but at the same time aren’t sure about. We have a deeper knowing that it’s important somehow but are hesitant to dive in.
In this episode, I’ll be clarifying what I mean by the material or physical world and the non-material or spiritual world, and why understanding the spiritual world is important for our soul growth. I’m also going to touch on how I don’t think they are as separate as they seem and what I think the main reason we stop ourselves from working with the spiritual and how we can move through that obstacle.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- Why the physical world feels more ‘real’
- We’re not as solid as we seem
- The limits of the physical world in understanding all of who we are
- The viewpoint that limits us and what to do about it
Resources in Today’s Episode
Piaget
Hands of Light
Welcome back to The Mystical Made Practical Podcast!
For many of us who have been working at becoming more soul-conscious, we get to a point where traditional methods of self-inquiry don’t answer all of our questions. We start to feel a deeper connection to something bigger, a world that’s beyond the material or tangible, but we have a limited understanding of what it is, how to work with it, or how it can help us.
In this series, my guests and I will be discussing the non-physical or spiritual world. There seems to be a lot of disjointed and sometimes obscure information about this world, and this series is meant to shed light on this world and connect things up so we can navigate and work with this world for soul growth with more confidence.
Questions we will be answering: * What is out there * Who is out there * How do we access it * Is it safe * Who’s out there to help us * Who is out there to not help us * How do we work with it for soul growth
Topics we will be covering: * The physical world vs. the non-physical or spiritual world * Intuition * Mapping “Over There” * Psychic Information * Channeling * Spiritual Guides * Ghosts and other things that go bump in the night * …and more!
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When we talk about living our purpose, our human selves want it to be in a specific, concrete form. It’s so easy when we are doing this work to come back to “I can see that my soul purpose is to grow as a soul and express that, but what does that look like on the ground?”
And while living our purpose happens in a concrete way, it doesn’t need to be as specific as our human selves think. It may be more helpful to ask ourselves, how do I translate what's happening on the ground into soul growth?
In this episode Taking The Contents Out Of The Container, I’m going to discuss how it’s the experiences we need, not the specific situations we encounter that are important to our soul selves, how we confuse our human needs for our soul needs and why that can trip us up, but also, how they work together to allow us to do our soul work.
What You'll Learn In Today's Episode
- Why form is more important to our human selves than our soul-selves
- The two important ways we need to define what we mean by experiences
- What these experiences provide for both our human needs and soul needs
- The difference between the human level and the soul level
- How to work at both the human and soul level for growth
Resources In Today's Episode
Practical Mystics Facebook Community
Martha Angelini's Website
Episode Summary
Knowing how our souls need to grow is a huge part of living our soul purpose. But knowing it alone won’t help us make the important consciousness shifts that allow us to grow as a soul. For that, we need everyday experiences to transform knowledge into wisdom.
In Episode 5: Shifting With a Clutch - How Our Everyday Experiences Shift Our Consciousness we are going to talk about what experiences help us do this and in what ways. I explain why I think it’s important for a soul-self to have human experiences, and touch on the deeper significance of why we are doing our spiritual work in this way. I will also be doing little myth-busting about how spiritual practices fit in with this work.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- How spiritual or consciousness practices aren’t the experiences I’m talking about
- The different functions these experiences provide
- What experiencing theory is and how it helps us as soul-selves
- The deeper connections we are creating using our everyday experiences
Resources in Today’s Episode
- The Four Agreements
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As spiritual beings having a human experience we feel that we are here to be more and do more. We want an on-the-ground, what we can do to live our purpose.
Today, I’m going to be discussing what everyone on this path wants to know: what our soul’s purpose really is, or what we are trying to accomplish for our souls’ growth. Spoiler alert: it isn’t a specific calling or vocation. I think we are here to become aware of how our soul is trying to grow, and expressing that. But what, specifically, are we trying to learn as soul-selves? And, how do we find that out?
In Episode 4, Where Have I Seen This Movie Before?, I’ll discuss what it is our soul-selves are growing around. I also touch on what we are really doing as we grow, and the deeper significance of why we are trying to learn and grow.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- How our growth is not random or non-specific
- How our soul growth information is organized and how it is stored
- How we can access this information
- The deeper reason why our souls are looking to grow
- How life patterns are soul patterns
- How we can recognize soul work in our lives
Resources in Today’s Episode
Wholeness And The Implicate Order by David Bohm
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith
Carl Jung
Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss
Bonus: Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
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In the world of consciousness, the soul-ego relationship seems to be a constant battleground with the focus on having our souls overcoming the ego if we want to become more conscious. In episode 2 I talked about how challenging it can be to make these shifts in consciousness that are part of our soul growth, and that what can make it challenging is the push back we get from our ego-minds. But is the relationship really one where the ego-mind is the enemy and is out to stop the soul from growing and expanding?
In this episode, I discuss how I think that they aren’t enemies but are, in fact, allies who are working together.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode * We don’t grow as soul-selves despite the limitations of our ego-minds and body, but because of them * How the mind-body system (ego) provide a place to learn and lessons to help teach our soul-selves * Our soul-selves embed their areas of growth within that system to help guide and shape the soul * How our systems provide the learning space and specific challenges our souls requires for growth * How our human systems provide the impetus for growth beyond that space
Resources in Today’s Episode Carl Jung
Episode 1
Episode 2
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From Episode 1 we discussed that the choices we made throughout our lives are all in line with shifting our consciousness so we can make conscious soul-guided choices.
In this episode, I address that even though we want to make these soul-guided choices and do it consciously, we struggle to do so and stop ourselves from doing what we want to do. I discuss the major choices that we need to make as we shift our consciousness using the lock analogy from Episode 1. I talk about what the challenges are, how these challenges change as we become more conscious, and what we need to do in order to make those choices.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- What major choices we need to make to shift our consciousness and why they are challenging
- Why becoming more conscious makes this process seem harder and not easier
- When our ego-minds need to realize they aren’t running the show
- The difference between a “leap of faith” and a “soul leap”
Ideas Worth Sharing
- Each time we get in and exit the lock, we are becoming more conscious which means going from not knowing what’s going on to knowing what’s going on. From not knowing the consequences of our choices to knowing the consequences of our choices.
- Our ego-minds need to recognize and acknowledge that they aren’t running the show. They haven’t run the show since your soul-self made the choice to grow and got into the lock.
- We shed the protective layers that our ego-minds provided us, and now we are effectively being ourselves in the world. It’s a level of vulnerability we haven’t experienced before. It’s a soul leap.
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Episode 1
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Do you wonder what your soul purpose is? For many of us on our awakened path, we come to a point where we want to make life choices that are aligned with our deeper purpose. However, we feel stuck in making those choices because we struggle to understand what our purpose is.
This is the first episode in the series Soul Purpose: Beyond A Calling. This series is about seeing how our soul purpose is more than a job, career, or even a calling. Over the next 6 episodes, I'm going to take you through important topics like consciousness shifts, soul and ego relationships, and soul themes to demonstrate soul purpose is a process of conscious creative expression, what that means, and what we need to know to make the conscious choices that are both aligned with our soul purpose and grounded in our everyday life.
In this first episode, we’re going to talk about how you are already living your soul purpose. I discuss how your soul path is a series of choices that are there for the growth of your soul-self, and how you have been making these soul guided choices your entire life. I demonstrate how we go through these stages of consciousness to help us gradually, but fully awaken our ego-minds to our souls’ growth needs in order to make conscious, soul-guided choices.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode
- What stops us from seeing that we are already living our soul purpose
- How your soul-guided life didn’t start (or end) with your awakening
- Our soul’s purpose is a much larger process that is focused on the growth of our soul-selves
- What that process looks like from a big picture view using a lock analogy
Ideas Worth Sharing
- I don’t think you are making the choice to start a purposeful or soul-guided life after awakening. What I think is actually going on is that we are making the conscious choice to continue.
- The way I think of it, what we refer to as awakening is our souls waking up our ego/mind to the soul’s existence.
- Our soul selves wake our ego/minds up to their presence and force. But not all at once. It’s not a Frankenstein switch from unconsciousness to total enlightenment.
Resources in Today’s Episode
Join the Practical Mystics Community
Website link
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Welcome to my podcast The Mystical Made Practical! Every other week we’ll discuss spiritual and metaphysical topics to make them accessible and concrete so they can be applied to your everyday life.
I break down the larger concepts into manageable episodes as part of a series, offering insights, giving examples and exercises as a way for you to explore your own unique path.
It’s for you if:
- You are passionate about your spiritual development
- Want to integrate the needs of your spiritual self with the needs of your human self
- Want to live a more soul-guided life while still living in the world
Have a listen if you:
- Are curious about seeing spiritual or metaphysical concepts in different contexts
- Would like to try new techniques
- Would like flexible frameworks to help embody your spiritual practice