In this episode, I sit down with author, researcher, and consulting hypnotist Angel Millar to explore his fascinating book, The Supernatural Woman and the Male Initiate: Bonded Through Dreams.
Together, we journey into the mysterious feminine beings who have appeared throughout mythology, dreams, literature, and esoteric traditions - not simply as muses or lovers, but as protectors, teachers, initiators, and powerful forces capable of transforming a man’s character and consciousness.
From the Norse fylgja, Valkyries, Morgan le Fay, The Wife of Bath, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, to guardian angels, shamanic dream wives, succubi, fairy beings, Freemasonry, sex magic, and the lost purpose of initiation, we explore some of the strangest and most overlooked corners of the Western mystery tradition.
We also discuss whether these supernatural beings are archetypes, independent consciousnesses, or multidimensional intelligences; why true initiation must create a permanent transformation of consciousness; how Christianity changed the Western relationship with the physical body; and why caution and discernment are essential when working with occult forces.
Later, we dive into the ancient meaning of the daemon, the true nature of genius, creativity received through dreams, altered states of consciousness, self-hypnosis, hypnagogic visions, and the unseen source of inspiration that sometimes seems to move through artists, musicians, writers, and mystics.
An incredible episode... Drop in!
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Angel Millar Bio:
Angel Millar is the author of The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality, The Path of the Warrior-Mystic, and Transcend the Chaos, among other books. He began studying magic and trance (or “Gnosis”) in his veryearly manhood, and was briefly involved with neopaganism in Kent, England, before being initiated into the Illuminates of Thanateros, in London, in 1990. In 2001, after moving to New York City, he was initiated into Freemasonry. he was later made a Fellow of the Philalethes Society for Masonic research (which limits the number of Fellows to forty, globally) and became the editor-in-chief for the Masonic magazine Fraternal Review. He is also a National Guild of Hypnotists-certified consulting hypnotist.