Ep374: Occult Encounters - Raya Thorne
Raya Thorne is an occultist, psychic, and spiritual mentor.
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Raya recounts her troubled childhood, early ghost encounters, and teenage experiments in the occult and witchcraft.
She describes terrifying encounters with summoned entities, details an ongoing working with a demon of the Goetia, and reveals her current understanding of the nature of spirit pacts and psychic connections.
Raya also reflects on the role of trauma in awakening psychic gifts, shares her thoughts on the connection between protection spells and personal boundaries, and warns of the dangers of spiritual psychosis and ego inflation when practicing magick.
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Middle class up-bringing in Australia
02:47 - Effects of isolation after premature birth
05:04 - Neglect and sensitivity to energy
07:25 - Chaotic household and learning to read people
09:32 - Ongoing work with childhood trauma
11:28 - Spiritual bypass and terrifying magickal experiences
16:27 - Why magicians should have therapy
17:51 - Spiritual psychosis and ego inflation
20:25 - Deconstructing the persona
24:29 - Which therapies Raya used
29:08 - Should Raya become a therapist?
31:06 - Childhood ghost encounters
34:18 - Early magickal workings
36:39 - Deep listening and interpreting intuition
38:53 - Local spirit encounters and violent dream
42:00 - Seeing spirits
45:12 - Dramatic exorcism by neighbour
50:18 - Reflection on sharing vulnerable stories
54:18 - Trauma and the new age
55:15 - Teenage magickal experiments summoning demons and the dead
01:02:41 - Seeking power through magick
01:05:06 - Similarities to the Labyrinth movie
01:06:36 - Terrifying Goetia demon experience
01:10:12 - Raya’s understanding of how to work with demons
01:11:16 - Working with the Goetia demon Gemory
01:15:47 - Psychic connection to demons
01:20:37 - Connecting directly to demons vs using protection
01:27:04 - Personal boundaries as protection
01:29:59 - Listening to feedback from entities
01:30:56 - Intense magickal experiences in 20s
01:34:09 - Shapeshifter encounter
01:36:38 - Ormus, remote viewing, tantra, and telekinesis
01:39:32 - Sequel plans
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