Am I Dealing with Shadow Energy or Trickster Energy? How Can I Tell?

Do you get confused about the differences between what is Shadow energy and Trickster energy? Want to know how to use both for spiritual growth? Tune in!

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

All You Want to Know about Pan Society- Ask Cherie

Today we talk with Cherie Calvert, owner of The Dancing Magpie- a boutique for handcrafted natural bath, body, and health products, an animist since birth, and founding board member of Pan Society, LTD. Cherie answers listener questions.

Is Pan Society a cult?

Are you witches?

Why are so many hippies and polyamourous people attracted to paganism? Is that what Pan Society is about?

I am attracted to another culture that I lived in in a past life. How can I connect with those ancestors?

I am attracted to shamanism, but heard to stay away from Michael Harner's books. Is there a path that you would recommend instead?

A psychic told me that I am a shaman. How can I validate this?

Is everybody a shaman?

What's the Pan position on assisted suicide?

I would love to go to a moon circle, but there isn't one near me. Is there something else that is similar?

I live in the city. There isn't a lot of nature here. Can you tell me why you guys focus so much on nature and give me some ideas how to get that vibe when you live in the city?

How important is meditation to a spiritual practice? I don't find it easy. Is there something else I can do?

I am still not understanding what sovereignty means. Can you explain it?

How did Pan Society choose the holy days? What makes them special?

I am an empath. I want to be in community with other people, but I pick up their stuff and it just becomes too overwhelming. How can I be with my tribe when I can't tolerate people?

I like the ideas of Pan Society, but I realize I have a lot of religious baggage and am not comfortable with rituals. How important is this to being an animist?

Do you have any advice on how to choose a drum for ritual purposes?

Is it more powerful to do group rituals or solo ones?

What's a light worker? How do I know if I am one?

How do you feel about cursing and spirituality?

I am in love with someone who is not spiritual. He isn't against spirituality, but he doesn't support it either. Does this relationship have a chance?

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Getting in the Wheel of Life: Summer, South, Fire, Healer

Laura Giles talks about the energies of summer so that you can use it to help navigate your path through this season and life.

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

My Initiation Into Voodoo

What's it like to be initiated into a religious group? Should I do this? What do I need to do to prepare? How can I tell if a ritual leader is legitimate? This episode can help you get to the bottom of these questions and more.

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

Talking to Your Spirit Guides

Who or what are your spirit guides? How do you know? How can you talk to them? How do you know if it's them or just your imagination? Is this safe? This chat can help clear all that up.

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

What You Need to Know to Convert to Animism

We all are influenced by our culture. When you live in a Judeo-Christian society, you pick up Judeo-Christian values. That won't work in animism because things will get lost in translation and you won't really understand. Today we look at some examples of what this means. 

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

We Need to Talk About Spiritual Bypass. You Could Be on the Wrong Path!

Everything has a shadow side. The way you practice your spirituality may not actually be good for you. How do you know the difference?

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

Quenching the Yearning for the Divine

We are all yearning for the Divine. If we don't know what puts out that fire and what feeds it, we can go unfulfilled for a long time.

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

The Hidden Rules of Animism

First Pan Society says there are no rules, then we find out that there are. ...well, sort of. Laura Giles discusses some of the things that non-animists or new animists might not know. There is always a hidden cultural subtext that outsiders might not know!

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com

Healing Toxic Masculinity

What are the rules of polite society in the age of #MeToo? Are men really toxic? Or is it just overblown sensitivity? How can we get to a place of balance?

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Laura Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Richmond, VA. She is also the author of Angel Whispering: How to Talk to Your Spirit Guides and How to Be a Panist: A Guide to Creating a Modern Animist Lifestyle. Additionally, she facilitates spiritual tours to destinations around the world. For more about Laura Giles see lauragiles.net or rainbowserpentadventures.com