Across Egypt, Tibet, and West Africa, humanity has written maps for the soul’s final journey.
In this episode, we open the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Bardo Thödol, and the Yoruba Ifá verses of Òrun, tracing how three civilizations envisioned death—not as an ending, but as transformation.
Make yourself a cup of tea and prepare! We will cover the journey of the soul after death! And contemplate the nature of reality itself.
This is a journey through sacred manuals of remembrance, morality, and awakening—where every culture seems to believe in the same truth: death is the continuation of consciousness.

It is spooky season you bitch! Come with me on a journey into the world of animal familiars. Throughout the entire ancient world, animals were seen as powerful entities. They were often seen as talismen or even portals between realms.

How interesting that at one point in time, seemingly all of humanity communed with animal spirits. They would even merge their consciousnesses together.

Sadly, through time and colonization, these beliefs and abilities have retreated into the shadows. But the legacy and the possibility of communing with the animal world still remains.

It's time to make a cup of tea and buckle up while pepper gets passionate about the natural world.

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From the androgynous wisdom of Obatalá in Yoruba tradition, to Ardhanarishvara, the half-Shiva half-Shakti form of divine wholeness in Hinduism…
From the Holy Hermaphrodite of Greek myth and alchemy, to the gender-shifting priests of Inanna and the Galli of Cybele…
From the revered Hijra of South Asia, the Māhū of Polynesia, the Babaylan of the Philippines, to the Two-Spirit people of Native nations…

Across cultures and millennia, non-binary and trans people were not only accepted — they were honored as healers, mediators, and keepers of sacred knowledge. They embodied the liminal, walking between worlds, bridging masculine and feminine, human and divine.

Yet, with the rise of colonialism and organized religion, these sacred roles were targeted, suppressed, and criminalized. Ancient reverence was replaced by fear, persecution, and erasure.

This episode uncovers the forgotten legacy of non-binary and trans divinity — and asks what it means to remember, reclaim, and reimagine these truths today.

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