End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Joshua Pritikin, Ph.D. is a psychological counselor, author, and researcher whose work explores the intersection of belief, consciouness, and personal transformation. After beginning his career in the software industry, he pivoted toward the study of the mind, earning a Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Virginia in 2022 and later becoming an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Certified Practitioner. Drawing on a interdisciplinary background that spans science, philosophy, and lived experience, Pritikin brings a distinctive perspective to questions traditionally explored through religion and psychology. He maintains a private practice and lives in the Pacific Northwest. This podcast will focus on his new work: Religion Unburdened by Belief: The Way of Open Inquiry (2026). For more information about Josh, please see: https://unburdened.biz/. Or his counseling site: https://estrelacounseling.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-344-dr-joshua-pritikin-religion-unburdened-by-belief-the-way-of-open-inquiry Have a blessed weekend!

In this podcast, we honor the legacy of Katherine Woodward Thomas, MA, MFT, a licensed therapist, recognized pioneer in transformational psychology, and the New York Times bestselling author of acclaimed books that have reached millions across the globe including Calling in the One, and Counscious Uncoupling, and here latest book, What's True about You: 7 Steps to Move Beyond Your Painful Past and Manifest Your Brightest Future, which is the subject of this podcast. What's True about You is a positive guide, centered on "future-forward frameworks,' designed to help the reader unleash their brightest future. This approach is highly proactive because it recommends that the reader take responsibility for their life and actively generate the future, rather than passively waiting for change. Through her programs, she has guided more than 100,000 individuals to profound breakthroughs and certified over 2,000 coaches and therapists in her training. Her work stands at the forefront of a new paradigm in psychology--Future Forward Therapy. Her legacy lives on in the lives she touched and in the love, growth, and truth she inspired. To connect with her family, team, and continuing organization, please see: https://katherinewoodwardthomas.com/ https://www.instagram.com/katherinewoodwardthomas/ https://www.facebook.com/katherinewoodwardthomas/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-342-katherine-woodward-thomas-whats-true-about-youtransformational-psychologyfuture-forward-therapy Have a blessed weekend!

Clarissa Dolphin is a certified harmonic astrologer, writer, diviner and shamanic practitioner. She earned two B.A.'s from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters from University of the Arts London, in writing and publishing, before obeying the call to enter the rich labyrith of spiritual work. Clarissa has written horoscopes for The Mountain Astrologer, served as a locum for Mystic Medusa and has also been featured in multiple outlets like The New York Times, The Old Farmer's Almanac, The Career Astrologer, Dirty Laundry, Notion, award-winning art magazine FAINT and more. Clarissa serves clients, speaks at various events and teaches students all over the world from Los Angeles. You can reach her at clarissadolphinexplainsitall.com, email her at hi@clarissadolphinexplainsitall.com and find her at @clarissadolphin on socials. All drumming on this podcast courtesy of Clarissa.:-) This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-340-clarissa-dolphin-shamanic-realitiesharmonic-astrologythe-rich-labyrinth-of-spiritual-work Have a blessed weekend!

Constance Brenneman is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and producer in studio and independent film. In recent years, she has devoted her work to documentary filmmaking, creating projects that inspire, transform, and uplift. Her feature documentaries include Finding Inner Hero (2022), Built Different (2024), and Afterlife: Beyond the Light (2026--Vision Films). Afterlife was born from Constance's fascination with the culminating factors of phenomenal end-of-life experiences. Partnering with friend and producer Susan Brittain, she set out to explore both the science and the deeply human stories behind near-death experiences (NDEs) and shared-death experiences (SDEs). The film features powerful firsthand accounts alongside compellling interviews with two of the worlds leading experts in the field: Dr. Raymond Moody and William Peters. Both are internationally recognized pioneers whose decades of research and bestselling books have shaped modern understanding of these experiences. Additionally, Constance partnered with the Coming Home Channel to incorporate deeply personal testimonies from individuals who have directly encountered these phenomena, expanding the emotional and spiritual depth of the film. To create a sense of flow and visual poetry, Constance collaborated with a professional modern dance company to develop original movement pieces that align with prose, stories and interviews. The film further weaves in animation to visually interpret NDEs and SDEs as they have been documented across cultures for centuries. The film is available for download later this week on all platforms such as Itunes, Vimeo, and Amazon. Social media links: https://www.instagram.com/afterlifebeyondthelight/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583270437211# This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-338-constance-brenneman-and-susan-brittain-afterlife-beyond-the-light Have a blessed week!

This is a follow up interview with Dr. Aaron Breidenbach. In our first episode (EOTR 326), we discussed the crystals of Zn-Barlowite and Herbertsmithite that he grew and studied in his PhD at Stanford. These crystal have the potential to be used in applications in future quantum computers. See our first episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YlHkGM3p6nfzSGU4yZjAv These crystals also grow naturally in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Aaron recently returned from an expedition with Chilean Anthopologist Vincente Carrasola Vega. They were successful in finding natural crystals of Herbertsmithite. These crystals are likely to be purer than laboratory synthetics, and this could enable new experiments in quantum physics. Tragically, however, these crystals are currently being destroyed in massive quantities as low-grade copper ore in ecologically damaging mining practices. We discuss the implications of this discovery, and the irony and tragedy of overextraction. We conclude this episode by talking about the relation of this disovery to Ayni, the local indigenous system of animistic reciprocity with the land. Aaron proposes a return expedition to Chile to look for one of the country's most famous lost archeological artifacts; a crystal ball found at the summit of the sacred volcano Licanabur. He believes that the ancient people of the land may have used these spheres to focus sunlight onto mineral samples to learn more about their properties. He hopes to replicate this experiment with the help of indigenous Aymara and Atacamenian collaborators. Aaron can be reached at: https://thequantumarcheologist.org/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-336-aaron-breidenbach-quantum-physicsanimism-ii Have a blessed weekend!

Dr. Reid is a clinical assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania and an associate professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her psychiatry residency at UCLA. This podcast will focus on her new book, Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations. Dr. Reid also writes and podcasts on Substack at A Mind of Her Own focused on helping individuals nurture a deep and lasting self-trust. She is also a regular contributor to Psychology Today with her blog "Think like a Shrink." Her writing has also been featured on KevinMD and Doximity. For more information, please see: https://www.jenniferreidmd.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-334-dr-jennifer-reid-guilt-free-reclaiming-your-life-from-unreasonable-expectations Have a blessed weekend!

Judith is an author whose research has focused on the history of alphabets, runes, oghams, Hebrew, and ancient Phoenician as well as its relation to number magic. She is the author of Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions (2024) and Futhark Rune Mysteries: Origins of Magic & Divination in the Primal Alphabet (2026), the latter being the subject of this podcast. In Rune Mysteries, Judith reveals the spiritual and divinatory attributes of each rune by examing the physical characteristics of the objects chosen to represent them. For more information about Judith's academic work, please see: https://berkeley.academia.edu/JudithDillon. You will find she has a wealth of knowledge on these subjects and she welcomes you to contact her at: jdillon022@gmail.com for more information. This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: Artwork is Grave in the form of an A. Yugoslavia circa 6000 BCE. From Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, 156.

Charles Shaw is an author, documentary filmmaker, journalist, activist and psychedelic therapist who saw his focus change in 2025 to trauma informed care/peer support as a public mental health professional on the front lines of Chicago. His previous works are highlighted by Exile Nation (2012); Release Us(2013); Soldiers of the Vine(2017) and The Shadow People, which was highlighted in episode 246. More info at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673950/exile-nation-by-charles-shaw/ https://www.instagram.com/charlesbshaw/ This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-330-charles-shaw2025connecting-to-time-and-place Many blessings to you and yours in 2026.

Founder of the Fungi Consultant, Oli Genn-Bash is a mycotherapy educator, psychedelic writer and musician exploring the intersections between functional mushrooms, animism, altered states, and human well-being. Though courses, consultancy, and creative work, Oli blends scientific research with traditional wisdom to make mushroom based healing accessible and grounded. He is the creator of Mycomastery: The Functional Mushroom Buyer's Toolkit and is the "Saturnian" saxman of the band Codex Serafini. Check out his many offerings at: https://thefungiconsultant.com/ @oligennbash @codexserafini_band Musical tracks in the podcast are from Codex Serafini's new album "Mother, Give Your Children Sanity." This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-328-oli-genn-bash-animismthe-fungi-consultantcodex-serafini Have a blessed weekend!

Dr. Aaron Breidenbach recently completed his PhD dissertation in Physics at Stanford. His doctorial studies focused on the growth and magnetic measurement of the crystals Herbertsmithite and Zn-Barlowite. His work went a long way towards proving that these crystals are "quantum spin liquids," a novel state of magnetic matter that has potential applications in quantum computing. These same crystals also grow naturally in the Atacama desert, where the local Atacamenian people hold rich animistic traditions which weave in their mountains and mummified ancestors through spiritual traditions. Sadly, these living mountains are currently being over-mined for Copper and Lithium. This process has led to many ecological issues, including the poisoning of the Atacamenian groundwater with arsenic. The cruelest irony is that Herbertsmithite, a strong candidate to the the silicon of quantum computing, is regularly found in toxic waste tailings from these mines. Aaron now is embarking on a journey to the Atacama to try to help restore these animistic traditions, bring balance to the land, and help advance the future of quantum computing. For more information about Aaron, please see: https://thequantumshaman.wordpress.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-326-dr-aaron-breidenbach-quantum-computingcrystalsanimismatacama Have a blessed week!

Richard Kaczynski, PhD, is an author and lecturer in the fields of social psychology, metaphysical beliefs, and new religious movements. This podcast will focus on his new work Mind over Magick: The Psychology of Ritual Magick (October 2025) which explores the many fascinating connections between the practices of ritual magicians (and seekers) of all traditions with the findings of peer-reviewed research in psychology, neuroscience, and real time brain imaging. Richard is also known for his biography of occultist Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, described by the Times Literary Supplement as "the major biography to date." Richard's presentation of Crowley's The Sword of Song was featured in episode 317. In other wide ranging academic pursuits, Richard has held positions as assistant professor at Wayne State School of Medicine, research associate and affiliate at Yale Universities' Department of Psychiatry and adjunct faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. He has published dozens of articles in academic peer reviewed journals in areas ranging from national program evaluation of comprehensive work therapy, and multi-site clinical trials of treatment effiacy for bipolar disorder (STEP-BP), schizophenia (CATIE) and Alzheimer's (CATIE) To connect with Richard and his many offerings, please see: https://richard-kaczynski.com/ or follow him on your favorite social media. This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-324-richard-kaczynski-phd-mind-over-magick-the-psychology-of-ritual-magick Have a blessed week!

Carrie Asby is an author, retreat founder, wellness instructor, and yogini who is trailblazing the world of ecotherapy and holistic healing. She is the author of Your Morning Ritual: Mindful Habits for Peace and Resilience (2025) a guide that offers readers practical tools and gentle guidance to create daily practices that foster peace, resilience, and a deeper sense of wellbeing. Carrie is also the Founder and Guide of Nature Heart Retreats and has volunteered at Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. She is the founder of Yoga in the Park in Portland, Oregon and Central Park, NY, a practice that brings people together to connect, move, and build community in the heart of nature. To connect with Carrie and experience the full breadth of her offerings, please see: https://carrieasby.com/ or follow her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/carrieasby This podcast is available on you favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-323-carrie-asby-ritualsretreatsecotherapy Have a blessed weekend!

Anthony Rella is a psychotherapist, author, and magic worker. He has been studying and practicing in the Western Esoteric Traditions of witchcraft and magic for more than fifteen years, and he has been a mentor and teacher at the Morningstar Mystery School for the past five years. Anthony is also a founding member and former vice president of the Seattle Temple of the Fellowship of the Phoenix. This podcast will focus on his new book, Slow Magic (Llewellyn 2025). To connect with Anthony in his private practice or magical practice, please see: https://anthonyrella.com/slow-magic/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast feed, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-321-anthony-rella-slow-magic Have a blessed weekend!