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The Promethean Skool
by The Promethean Skool
A collection of talks on a diversity of topics. This podcast is produced by The Promethean Skool in Salem, OR.
Episodes
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A Last Walk Together: Beliefs & The Alchemy of the Heart
In this final installment, we talk about the role beliefs about the self play in our journey to liberating our shadow. While much of this journey must be taken alone, we explore the positive feedback loops and security that community creates. And here at the end, we don't say goodbye. We say…
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Fertile Soil: How Shadow Work Shapes Society
In this episode, we continue our outward journey, expanding our awareness of how our internal behaviors create the societies we live in. We discuss cognitive tools which emerge through unprocessed trauma and how those tools, when externalized, can give rise to truly dangerous ideologies....
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Rising Together: Enabling Behaviors & The Downward Spiral
In this eleventh installment, we take a walk with enabling behaviors and discuss how the unseen parts of ourselves can work their way into our closest relationships. Enabling behaviors are discussed, as well as the beliefs that generate them, and we look at empowering alternatives that can allow…
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Projection: Casting Out Our Shadows
In this tenth installment, we take a long look back at the inner awarenesses we have been building together and consider how they relate to our external lives. The mechanisms of projection, in the mind and the nervous system, are explored, as well as suggestions for reframing these experiences.…
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Keeping It Together: Apparently Normal Parts
In this ninth installment, we introduce the underlying theory of trauma related disorders, as presenting in The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality. We frame a broad spectrum of disorders and our growing understanding of the unseen through this lens and highlight the role of...
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Initial Wiring: Attachment & Connection
In this episode, we discuss attachment theory through the lens of shadow work and how we connect to (or disconnect from) our inner child. An overview of secure, avoidant, and anxious attachment styles is supplemented by the less often talked about disorganized attachment style as well as earned...
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The Inner Child: The Amygdala & Embodiment
In our seventh episode, we discuss the relationship of the Inner Child, our subjective experience of the amygdala, to the Shadow. We explore how this part of the brain learns, processes harm, and heals. Techniques for the healing powers of embodiment are woven into the meditation practice of The...
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The Visitation: Communing With The Shadow
In this episode, we review our journey thus far before discussing the meditation practice of The Visitation. In this practice, we open ourselves up to communication with the shadow, consider the role of our protective parts in this practice, and discuss the necessity of patience and respect in…
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The Action Cycle: Trauma & Motivation
In this episode, we discuss Pierre Janet's Action Cycle along with the concept of one's mental level, and how traumas held in the shadow can interrupt our motivational systems. We open awarenesses around common pitfalls, look at ways to rewire this cycle, and prepare for a deeper dive into the...
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Through The Keyhole: The Aging Nervous System
In this walk, we discuss the developmental trajectory of every nervous system, from childhood, through adolescence, and into our elder years. We explore the role of the ritual and the sacred in pain management and learn about how some people are born with variant nervous systems. For more...
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Our Protectors: How We Guard Our Pain
In this soggy installment, I give an introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy, a therapeutic framework for unburdening our shadow. We explore this new perspective from the safety of our Meeting Place. New Moon Shadow Walking is a 13-part secular scientific walking lecture series spiraling...
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The Meeting Place: The Temple of Radical Acceptance
In our second episode, I discuss radical acceptance - what it is, what it isn't, and why it is a necessary part of any shadow work - and give guidance on engaging with traumatized people. From there, we take the first steps in creating a place of safety for and within ourselves, The Meeting…
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Packing for the Journey: Crisis Boxes & Grounding Techniques
In this first episode, I talk about my secular scientific perspective of shadow work, detail a number of grounding and breathe techniques for calming an activated nervous system, guide the creation of a crisis box, and mostly let my friends know that I really love them. New Moon Shadow Walking is…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A collection of talks on a diversity of topics. This podcast is produced by The Promethean Skool in Salem, OR.
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