The Witchcast - Episode 36 - Ghosts and the Afterlife in Films, the Seven Types of Spirit Guides, and Why We Need to Talk About Sage

Merry Meet, Witchcasters! Brightest blessings to you all as we enter the season of Belloween, so to celebrate the Samhain spirit Lucy offers up the next five of her top ten films about death, hauntings and the otherworlds: Crimson Peak, A Ghost Story, The Lovely Bones, Truly Madly Deeply and Boys in the Trees (starring Wendy Rule). We have your viewing over Belloween sorted!

Then enjoy a long and fascinating conversation as Lucy interviews the Spirit Medium, Yamile Yemoonyah, who shares her theory of seven types of guides - and discover which could be yours! Yamile is a truly beautiful soul, with ancestral connections to Columbia, Africa and Europe, kind and caring, and has had some wild times over her life - including starting up a business with the help of an African Goddess! We cover power animals, angels, gods and goddesses, nature spirits, star beings, ancestors and ascended masters - as well as how to communicate with them. You’ll come away from this conversation inspired, and deeply curious about what lies beyond this world, and how the interdimensional worlds overlap and intertwine with ours.

Finally, well, we knew this conversation was coming, but given Yamile touched on cultural appropriation, and given how much of it takes place, it was time to delve into why working with sage can be problematic. It is at its heart an ancient, sacred indigenous practise - so how has the commercialisation of this indigenous sacred religious practice impacted upon the First Nations peoples of the United States and Canada who were, until recently, banned from using sage at all. A difficult, but very necessary conversation about cultural protocols that could help us all become more kind, aware, and conscious of the lines between the sacred and the unholy.

This week’s beautiful Pagan Songs are all by a new artist (to the program) - David Pendragon makes his Witchcast debut!

You’ll hear:

Spiral Dance by David Pendragon

Pendragon Hall with Dance of the Fae

and to soothe and comfort us all, will put you in the most beautiful, calm and loved space, regardless of what is going on within your life, or out there in the world.David Pendragon’s Irish Blessing

The intro music is "We Are One" by the band Nordic Daughter. Find the band on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nordicdaughter/ Or visit their website - http://nordicdaughter.comMusic throughout the show includes tracks from Darksphere EmpireDownload the Darksphere Empire album here - https://darksphere-empire.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rainSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.