Greetings, hi. Ben and Phil do major galaxy brain takes on all sorts of things in this episode, on the Three of Pentacles. All about habits, rituals, momentum of precedent, etc... we talk about politics, social justice, spirituality, language. Pls enjoy. Outro music sister ray by foxes, phil's reading of quotations from stephen pattison shame theory, therapy, and theology, and also his prayer bowl. (sorry his prayer is loud this episode)
Mar 18, 2025•2 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Hiya Podfam. We're all about the pivot today. We're scooping up our things and going the other direction. Ben and Phil talk about life changes, poop wiping technique, Phil's sex life, and a bunch of other stuff which is really interesting and this is really a good episode. But Phil is writing this up at the wee hours of the morning and can't remember words or meaning at this time. So please listen and find out if you're curious about reframing narratives, creating new habits, about establishing ...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 12
part 2 babes pls enjoy
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 32 min
Boing boing merry merry pentacles suit podfam! Special guest and old friend Sam Vodopia joins Phil on pod for a reading and a very loosely themed 'ace of pentacles' episode. If you zoom way out you can sort of see how what we discuss is on topic for Ace of Pentacles, which is about how we set goals and understand our obstacles. Anyway, Phil gives Sam a mini lesson on Tarot readings and how they work, and we talk about being a stoner, justice, the law, anger, violence, linguistics, the nature of ...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Greetings! We do ten swords today, which is all about the dissolution of the ego. Attachments, personal darkness, despair, the practices of discipline and self control, the concept of evil, the fruits of self knowledge and self love, collective identity, death, and some esoteric theory about the triune divine and the nature of universal music.
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Hiya friends! We do nine swords. It's on the dark side but there's a bunch of good stuff in here. We talk fantasy, repression, fear, healing, internal family systems, RuPaul's Drag Race, despair, rumination, identity, boundaries, empathy... else also. Pls enjoy. Outro music ATU XII: The Hanged Man by Phil
Feb 08, 2025•1 hr 52 min
Hi Podfam! Eight swords today -- Ben and Phil met yesterday and churned this one out. We cover regulation, interference, polyrhythms, friction, influence, resistance, political revolutions, agency, self-awareness, independence, defiance. Phil feels clutter in his brain about how to move forward so he gets a reading. Yogini Shambhavi gets a shoutout and her beautiful chanting is included in outro as a mixture with some of Phil's ATU VIII music for two vlns.
Feb 02, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Part 2
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Hi folks -- another two-parter today. I don't know if we speak shame directly in this episode but when I zoom out I think the seven of swords (our card for the day) is a good face for us to project shame onto, for our learning. Shame is the word of the day, then. We talk about a lot; theater, healing, prayer, social duplicity, honesty... Phil gives Ben a reading. There's Phil's music sprinkled in. I'm gonna include some relevant quotations on shame in religious communities here, starting with on...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Special pod favorite Erica Dicker joins Phil on pod and they consume two bottles of wine together while Erica gives Phil a reading. A precious hour-or-so of audio (the beginning of the episode) is lost due to a corrupt SD card which is sad. Yet we are big grateful for the audio present here. Six of swords is the episode card, and we lost a lot of the audio explaining it. It's.... stings of the heart. Rapid-fire decisions. Fight or flight switch. xoxo pls enjoy this episode with an extra helping ...
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Greetings! Five swords today. Special guest Cody Geil joins Phil on pod for a musical reading and we cover a beautiful range of topics. Musicians' mental health, musical entrepreneurship, singing, the harmonic series and some esoteric spirituality. Lots else. Cody is a beautiful and amazing soul. I've included her album Strings of Spirit (an exploration of the chakras) in this podcast as the background (with her permission).
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Hello loves. Ben and Phil cover four swords today, and get into deep (and slightly triggering) musings about grief, childhood, religious trauma, heaven and hell, sex-negativity and 'sublimation of the libido,' and some speculation about the vibrational universe and the nature of joy. Blessings and light, podfam, please enjoy. Outro music "Shine you no more" by Sorensen performed by the Danish string quartet, and chanted along to by Phil. "Om hrim srim klim aim sauh" to Devi Sundari.
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Part two babes.
Dec 29, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Greetings PodFam! Phil's magical friend Sarah comes on pod for a reading and we have such a cute conversation. The big topic is Three of Swords which represents the flood of sympathetic activation that our nervous system gives us when we are mobilized. We talk about music performance, identity, stage fright, generosity in music, grief, colonialism and appropriation of 'world music,' and the centrality of social regulation. There's a lot more sprinkled in. It's up in two parts. Outro music featur...
Dec 29, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Smooches, PodFam. It's two swords and the topic is Grace, which is a really open ended thing that prompts discussion about Peace, social relationships, the nervous system, martyrdom, self love, the collective unconscious, laughter, stand-up comedy, slurs... much more. Phil gets a reading. There's minecraft music in the background that occasionally competes with the dialogue, sorry. Outro music ATU XII, The Hanged Man by Phil with Tattriya Upanisad 1-1-1 as chanted by Gaiea Sanskrit.
Dec 20, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Season 3 starts here! Onto the swords suit. Today is the Ace of Swords and so we wonder about what it means to know something and talk about animal vigilance and how it shapes our perceptions of the world and the sorts of things we value knowing. We talk about embodied cognition. Phil shares more about his spiritual journeying. Outro music featuring Phil's prayer bowl, Sister Ray by Foxes, and quotations from Stephen Pattison's Shame Theory, Therapy, and Theology. Sound is a little funny from ti...
Dec 14, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Greetings! Ten Cups B*****S we get into the sauce in a deep and slippery way. We talk about the Holy Spirit, we talk about the primacy of breath, we talk about Yoga and the "spiritual path," we talk about acoustics and resonance, we talk about esoteric Kabbalah and do wild conjecture about etheric vehicles, the afterlife, and aliens, we talk about embodied cognition, and Phil shares about an experience he had with what we might call a Kundalini awakening. It's wild and fascinating and please lis...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 20
part 2 babes
Nov 30, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Greentings, heller to all of yers. Today's nine cups surfs the goodness of horniness, charisma, musical proportionality, harmonics, emotional control, time, orchestral conducting, and self love. Phil bobbinses his silks and gives Ben a reading. Outro music ATU IX for two violins by Phil.
Nov 30, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Hiya PodFam. We do eight cups today, PodFam. It's a somber soup of solemnity, but full of riches nonetheless. We talk about growing pains, denial, repentance, failure, clowning/drag, reality tv, death, rebirth, spiritual asceticism, wisdom, Mother Nature... Ben gives Phil a reading and Phil queries to the universe to be taught a lesson. Outro music featuring the gorgeous Yogini Bhava. Big love to u, PodFam. Ben and Phil
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Part 2! SHREEEEEM (Srim)
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Hi hi hi. It's seven cups today and it's a good one! Long tho -- up in two parts. Sorry abt that. We listen to minecraft and talk about analysis paralysis, habits, the seven hells, the circle of fifths, Phil's chanting/yoga practice, and self awareness. We give Ben a reading and talk about his challenges navigating between a creative process with his songwriting and the unfolding administrative process for his band's career.
Nov 16, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Hey y'all. We did six cups! Pleasure and relief. Very tasty, very sexy, very good. We dip into bad breath, esoteric numerology, vedic chant, tonal harmony, mysticism, hedonism, stoicism... much. Please enjoy. outro music Gesualdo Tenebrae Resonspories by the King's Singers.
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Heya! We do five cups and it's a dip into restless and chaotic musings about separation, loss, and sadness. We assure you that it's deeply silly. Mostly we wax on about the nature of consciousness and sensation. We talk about madness and read some Kahlil Gibran poetry. We attempt to connect wet farts to the five of cups. Phil sings in tongues. Ben gives him a reading. Cheers, PodFam.
Nov 02, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Hey we're back! This is the second half of our very long Four of Cups recording sesh. We do a reading. I forget the topics! Outro music courtesy Gaiea Sanskrit and Phil.
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Absolutely luscious episode, pod fam. Four Cups and we get into a rich spread of topics. Cringe and digust, the history of western classical music, bombasticity phrases, esoteric numerology, trauma and talk therapy. BED BUGS. Yes. We listen to Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony and go on and on. This is just part one. Next week more cups (but still four cups). Outro music empororial jams by Phil. Cheers and smooches xo Ben and Phil
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Hi Pod Fam -- We did three cups. Three of Cups!! Phil eats an obscene amount of graham crackers and gives Ben a reading and we try to explore the scope of this magical card. A little more Christian esoterica, which includes an elaborate dance around sex negativity and emotional repression. We talk about the value of self control and the pitfalls, and the beauty and necessity of our relationships as we seek to find and express joy through the diversity of our experiences of the world. There's a l...
Oct 12, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Greetings our merry minions, our pod fam. We bring you Two of Cups today and it's a big lesson on entrainment, sympathy, vibration, movin' and groovin', and Love itself. We talk a lot of bullshit, and we even get into some esoteric christian doctrine and talk about the divine trinity. Sorry, not sorry. Music tunes in background provided by Minecraft and by Caravan Palace, and outro music Sister Ray by Foxes. XOXO
Oct 05, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Surprise! It's a special one all about the Ace of Cups. We do another reading, this time for Ben. We talk a really big range of things as we listen to one of Ben's favorite albums at the moment, Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token. Phil apologizes for some jarring prayer bowl interjections. We chat about acoustics, Philly slang, artistic personas, 'source energy,' negotiating pay... so much. It's a really full cup. Pls enjoy and sip as much as u wish.
Sep 28, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Yusssss it's Ten of Wands, PodFam. Ben and Phil sensed the same hot pile and so do a single reading for both simultaneously. There are groovy background tunes provided by Ratatat, and Ten of Wands-adjacent topics are perused. Oppression, marketing, labor, discipline, self-compassion. Many other things, truly, it's a silly episode and a lot of wine and graham crackers are consumed (by Phil).
Sep 28, 2024•2 hr 10 min
