Intuitive Awakening

Laurie Nouchka is a UK-based IFS-informed therapist and spiritual guide specializing in inner parts healing and grounded spirituality. She supports clients in understanding emotional triggers, reconnecting with their inner world, and building self-leadership and inner safety. Drawing from her own healing journey, she integrates Internal Family Systems, nature-based connection, and intuitive channeling to bridge the human and the divine. Her work centers on the belief that true transformation happens when we honor both our emotional reality and our spiritual nature.You can find her at: Website: https://www.laurienouchka.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurienouchka/

We live in a spiritual culture obsessed with healing, fixing, and arriving, but what if the soul does not evolve through perfection at all? In this episode, we explore why mistakes, missteps, and unfinished becoming are not failures of the spiritual path, but its primary teachers. Drawing from mystics, philosophers, poets, and ancient traditions, this episode offers a gentler, deeper understanding of the soul’s journey, one that honors fracture, humility, and learning through lived experience. This is an invitation to stop trying to perfect yourself, and to begin inhabiting your life with reverence.

Long before abstraction was accepted by museums, before critics named movements and men were credited as pioneers, women were painting under the guidance of unseen forces.Hilma af Klint claimed her monumental canvases were commissioned by spiritual masters. Agnes Pelton sought luminous forms through meditation in the California desert. Ithell Colquhoun merged surrealism with occult initiation. Swiss healer Emma Kunz created vast geometric diagrams through pendulum guidance, using them not as decoration but as medicine.In this episode, we explore the spiritualist currents that shaped modern art and ask a daring question: were these women inventing abstraction, or transmitting it?What did they believe was happening when they entered trance or deep meditation? What symbols were encoded in their spirals, orbs, and geometric lattices? Why has history minimized the role of spiritualism in the development of modern art? And perhaps most importantly, why would unseen intelligences seek to work through human beings at all?This is a journey into séances, desert studios, sacred geometry, and the radical idea that art may be collaboration rather than self-expression. Because if creativity is a form of transmission, then the question is no longer whether spirits exist.The question becomes: what wants to move through you?References: 1. Higgie, Jennifer. The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and The Spirit World. First Pegasus Books, New York, 2024. 2. Bashkoff, Tracey. Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future. Guggenheim (n.d.)

What if myths were never meant to be taken literally or dismissed as fiction but read as maps of the inner life? In this episode of The Intuitive Awakening Podcast, we explore myth as the ancient world understood it: not as superstition or moral tale, but as a living language of the soul. Drawing from Greek myth, mystery traditions, philosophy, and ancient historians, this episode reveals how myths encode the deep structures of human experience: loss, desire, descent, transformation, and return.We journey through stories of Demeter and Persephone, Orpheus, Inanna, Odysseus, and Psyche, not to analyze them from a distance, but to listen for how they mirror inner terrain. Along the way, we hear from Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Plutarch, and later thinkers who recognized myth as a necessary form of knowledge when reason reaches its limits.This is not a conversation about symbolism as abstraction. It is an invitation to reclaim mythic literacy, to recognize where you are in the story, and why certain myths continue to call to us across centuries. For listeners who sense that ancient stories still carry guidance, and that the soul has always known how to speak in images.

What if the Devil was never meant to be taken literally, but recognized?Written in 1938 and hidden for over seventy years, Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill stages a provocative conversation between the author and the Devil himself. But this episode is not about theology or superstition. It is about power, who holds it, how it is surrendered, and why so many people live lives shaped by fear, habit, and unconscious drift.In this episode of The Intuitive Awakening Podcast, we explore the Devil as a historical, psychological, and symbolic figure. We trace his evolution from “the accuser” in the Hebrew Bible, to the tempter of the Gospels, to the modern force of distraction, fear, and passivity that Hill exposes. Along the way, we examine Hill’s central teachings on drifting, discipline, fear, and self-governance and why they feel unsettlingly relevant today.This is not a book review; it is an invitation to look honestly at the invisible structures shaping our choices, our attention, and our lives. For listeners interested in self-mastery, spiritual discernment, and reclaiming agency in an age of distraction, this episode offers a challenging and clarifying lens.You don’t have to believe in the Devil to ask the question that matters most: Who is governing your mind when you are not?

Why do certain images, stories, and figures keep returning, across centuries, cultures, and even card decks?In this episode of The Intuitive Awakening Podcast, we explore archetypes not as abstract symbols, but as living patterns that shape human experience. Long before psychology gave them a name, archetypes were recognized in myth, ritual, and philosophy as forces that move through the soul and structure perception, behavior, and meaning. They are not characters we invent; they are patterns we recognize because we live inside them.This conversation traces how archetypes appear in ancient myth and philosophy, how they were preserved visually and symbolically in the Tarot, and why these images continue to speak with such clarity today. We look at the Major Arcana not as fortune-telling devices, but as a symbolic map of human initiation, thresholds of identity, power, loss, choice, and transformation that every life encounters.Rather than reducing archetypes to personality labels or aesthetic identities, this episode asks a deeper question: what happens when we don’t recognize the archetype we are living? When patterns remain unconscious, they rule us. When they are named, they become navigable.We also explore why archetypal literacy matters in a time of fragmentation, how these ancient patterns help us make sense of inner conflict, cultural upheaval, and personal change without collapsing complexity into slogans or self-help formulas.This episode is for listeners who sense that images still carry wisdom, that Tarot is more than prediction, and that myth remains one of humanity’s most precise languages for understanding the soul.

In this reflective episode, I journey across time and consciousness to explore the evolution of humanity, Earth, and civilizations.Part 1 – The Cycles of Civilization:We examine the rise and fall of civilizations as cyclical patterns mirrored in human consciousness. Ancient cultures, from the Sumerians to the Greeks, understood that societies move through cycles of growth, decline, and renewal, a pattern that is deeply intertwined with spiritual evolution.Part 2 – Myth, Cosmos, and Consciousness: We look at the ancient concepts of the Great Year (Plato’s Timaeus), the Yugas of India, and the Hero Twins of the Maya’s Popol Vuh, stories that encode the rhythm of collective human consciousness. Each cycle offers lessons for the next, and humanity’s evolution is a reflection of cosmic order.Part 3 – The Turning of the Ages: Drawing on texts such as the Hermetic Asclepius (“All things flow in cycles; what rises must fall, and what falls must rise again”), we reflect on how each period of decline carries the seeds for transformation. Civilizations, like human consciousness, move through stages that invite growth, reflection, and renewal.Part 4 – The Modern Threshold: We explore the present era as a unique turning point. With technological advancement and global connectivity, humanity faces a spiritual threshold. Ancient wisdom, including the Upanishads and the Hermetic principle of “as above, so below,” guides us to recognize our role as conscious participants in shaping society and Earth.Part 5 – Humanity’s Next Chapter: Finally, we envision the next chapter of human evolution. Quoting the Emerald Tablet: “That which is below is like that which is above, to accomplish the wonders of the One Thing,” we see that consciousness itself is our creative force. By aligning with the cycles, remembering our inherent wisdom, and participating consciously, we can step into a new era of awakening and balance.This episode blends myth, history, and spirituality to offer both reflection and practical insight. Enjoy!References and Sources Quoted in the Episode: Bhagavad Gita – Chapter 4, Verse 7. Plato, Timaeus – Discussion of the cosmos as a living creature with a soul Hermetic Text, Asclepius – On cycles: “All things flow in cycles; what rises must fall, and what falls must rise again.” Emerald Tablet – “That which is below is like that which is above, to accomplish the wonders of the One Thing.” Mayan Popol Vuh – The Hero Twins narrative. Upanishads – “The knower of the Self sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings.”