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Right now you're in the midst of this
moment where the veil is thin and your
Speaker:prayers are heard in a deeper way.
Speaker:Push that out like a boat into
the waters of the Otherworld,
Speaker:and see what ripples back to you.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect yourself, and remember
the most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia
Suler, author, earth intuitive,
Speaker:teacher,
Speaker:and in this episode today we're going
to be talking about how embracing the
Speaker:Otherworld is how we heal.
Speaker:We are in the midst of this season
Speaker:of the Otherworld,
Speaker:this season when the veil is thin
and it's possible to touch this place
Speaker:that in the Celtic understanding
was called the Otherworld,
Speaker:this place of the ancestors,
this place of unseen energies,
Speaker:this place of consciousness and sentience.
Speaker:And right now in particular,
Speaker:we are right on the tip of Samhain.
Speaker:We are entering into what I consider the
Speaker:whole season of Samhain, but
specifically the day of Samhain itself,
Speaker:starting at sundown on the
31st into the 1st of November.
Speaker:This is a very, very potent
ritual day of the year,
Speaker:an incredibly potent moment in
time to be able to connect into the
Speaker:ancestors and the Otherworld.
Speaker:And before we launch into this podcast,
Speaker:which I hope will really
help you embrace the potent
Speaker:energies that are up and
swirling in the air today,
Speaker:I want to say that I've been loving
welcoming some of you into my
Speaker:class, Herbs for the Otherworld.
Speaker:This class is one of the most beloved
Speaker:things I've ever created,
Speaker:and being able to witness people step into
Speaker:this class and make these
really potent connections
Speaker:with the Otherworld during this powerful
time of the year is just one of my
Speaker:absolute favorite things.
Speaker:In the class we talk about herbs and
fungi that are specific for helping us
Speaker:work with the Otherworld, to open
our perception of the Otherworld,
Speaker:but we also dive deep into the Otherworld:
Speaker:how to interact with this place,
Speaker:opening and connecting to our own
individual guides in the Otherworld,
Speaker:and exploring our unique
connection with the unseen world.
Speaker:We have had incredible things
happen inside this course.
Speaker:I have people tell me that they
take it again and again every year.
Speaker:It's really inexpensive and once you
sign up for it, you have it forever.
Speaker:And so I've heard people revisit
this every single Samhain.
Speaker:I absolutely adore hearing this.
Speaker:And someone who did this left a
review and I just had to read it:
Speaker:"I love the course. I've always
thought of myself as a witch,
Speaker:and this course helped me a lot.
Speaker:I knew about the thinning of the
veil for the first time from Asia,
Speaker:and it resonated with me.
Speaker:I did the meditation on Samhain eve
and I woke up a whole new person."
Speaker:So I just wanted to say as we are
walking into that specific moment
Speaker:in time right now, that
if this is calling to you,
Speaker:definitely check that out over
Speaker:at asiasuler.com. Herbs
for the Otherworld.
Speaker:I think it will add so much to your
life, to your celebrations this season,
Speaker:to the ways in which you're connecting
in. Okay, so let's talk about it.
Speaker:Let's talk about this moment in time
that we're in and why this time is such a
Speaker:potent portal into the Otherworld and why
connecting to the Otherworld is how we
Speaker:heal. So we are just a few
days away from Samhain.
Speaker:Samhain is the Celtic holiday
that is associated with
Speaker:this time of the year.
Speaker:Samhain became All
Souls Day at some point,
Speaker:and from there became Halloween.
Speaker:And there's a reason why we
all love Halloween so much.
Speaker:It is a holdover from
these pagan celebrations
Speaker:of the thinning of the veil, of this
time where the Otherworld is visible,
Speaker:where it's possible to connect
into ancestors. Traditionally,
Speaker:this was thought to be the
beginning of a new year,
Speaker:which I really love about
the Celtic concept of time,
Speaker:that new beginnings start in
the darkness, start at the end.
Speaker:So this is sometimes called
the Witches' New Year.
Speaker:So I often celebrate this
as a new year as well as
Speaker:celebrating a new year in January. To me,
Speaker:this is sort of the beginning of
a new spiritual year in my life.
Speaker:This is the time of the descent
into the winter. It's when,
Speaker:in the Celtic understanding,
winter would have began.
Speaker:It's also a holiday of
honoring the ancestors.
Speaker:This has become a really big part of a
contemporary way in which we celebrate
Speaker:Samhain.
Speaker:It's also recognized in other cultures
around the world like the Day of the
Speaker:Dead celebration in Mexico. So
this is very much a time where,
Speaker:it's recognized cross-culturally,
Speaker:that it's just easier to talk to the
ancestors, to commune with the other side.
Speaker:This is also a time in which
harvest would have been ending,
Speaker:and often if anything was left
out in the field after the end
Speaker:of October, after Samhain,
that was all for the spirits,
Speaker:that was all for the
ancestors after this point.
Speaker:I really love that tradition and
I love thinking about this idea of
Speaker:new beginnings, starting in the darkness,
Speaker:and that there's this possibility to
connect into unseen energies during this
Speaker:time.
Speaker:And there's a reason why
there's such a tradition of
Speaker:getting dressed up as ghosts
and goblins and ghouls,
Speaker:and that this aspect of
Halloween that we love so much,
Speaker:that is so beloved,
Speaker:is really tuning us into the
deeper reality of the energies
Speaker:that are available to us during this time.
Speaker:So Samhain is a time of connecting into
the Otherworld. What is the Otherworld?
Speaker:You've probably heard me talk about this
before if you've been listening to this
Speaker:podcast. The Otherworld is
a term I love and it's a
Speaker:place that all of us are
connected to and familiar with.
Speaker:So let's talk about what I mean
when I say "the Otherworld."
Speaker:So the Otherworld has been called
many things throughout time.
Speaker:You could call this the spiritual
reality, the hidden reality,
Speaker:the unseen world. In the
Celtic. understanding,
Speaker:the Otherworld is a very real
realm of reality that exists
Speaker:here on our planet and exists
in parallel to physical
Speaker:reality or the seen world. So in this way,
Speaker:the Otherworld and the Celtic way of
being and understanding is not off planet.
Speaker:It's here on earth,
Speaker:literally just right on the
other side of this veil.
Speaker:Some tenets of the Otherworld,
Speaker:to understand the Otherworld: this
is a place where the dead live.
Speaker:It's where the ancestors are,
Speaker:other supernatural or unseen
beings like fairies, pixies, elves,
Speaker:the hidden folk. In this
place of the Otherworld,
Speaker:time moves differently. So even though
it's existing alongside us right here,
Speaker:that we have moments where we
pierce the veil and we feel it...
Speaker:that time is much more
nonlinear in the Otherworld,
Speaker:that time is expanding
and contracting at will.
Speaker:And we can kind of feel that when
we tap into Otherworldly states,
Speaker:where maybe we're deep in an
ecstatic state or a ritual and it
Speaker:feels as if time itself changes.
Speaker:That's a moment in which
we're touching the Otherworld.
Speaker:One of the core tenets of the Otherworld
is that everything is animated and
Speaker:governed by consciousness. This is
a core tenet of our world at large.
Speaker:And yet when it comes to the Otherworld,
that's very clear and very obvious.
Speaker:So here in sort of physical, seen reality,
Speaker:this too is created by consciousness.
Speaker:It's a collective co-creation where
all of us and our souls and our
Speaker:consciousness are creating this world
together. Well, in the unseen world,
Speaker:in the Otherworld,
everyone is aware of that:
Speaker:it is at the heart of reality,
Speaker:it is what is primary.
Speaker:So there's not the same kind
of forgetfulness of existing
Speaker:in the state where we don't remember that
we're consciously creating the world.
Speaker:In the Otherworld, this is very obvious.
It's a governing rule of existence.
Speaker:And it really reminds me of this
Speaker:idea of the unconscious and
that the Otherworld is very
Speaker:connected with what we call the
unconscious. And that this is really
Speaker:like the vast bedrock of reality, that
what is unconscious, what is unseen,
Speaker:is actually such a bigger part
of reality than what is seen.
Speaker:Like the statistic that 85% of
the universe is dark matter.
Speaker:This is the Otherworld.
Speaker:Or the statistic that 80 to 95%
of what we know is unconscious.
Speaker:So when we connect into the Otherworld,
we're connecting into all of that,
Speaker:this vast reservoir of consciousness,
Speaker:of what exists in the
unconscious, of the mystery,
Speaker:of the realm of the ancestors.
Speaker:This is the place where
the blueprints are stored.
Speaker:So if all of reality is created by
consciousness and in the Otherworld,
Speaker:this is very clear,
Speaker:and the Otherworld is less physical
and more a realm of consciousness,
Speaker:than in this Otherworld are
stored all the blueprints,
Speaker:all the blueprints of what is possible
for us here on this planet and in our
Speaker:lives. And so there's this way in
which while the Otherworld is a place,
Speaker:it's also a state of being,
because it exists within all of us.
Speaker:It's the empty space at
the center of an atom,
Speaker:it is the bulk of the iceberg
underneath the surface.
Speaker:And so in this time of the season
of Samhain and this time where
Speaker:the Otherworld draws closer,
Speaker:we have this ability to connect
into the Otherworld within us,
Speaker:this state of being that helps
us connect to the unseen world.
Speaker:So why connect to the unseen world?
Why connect to the Otherworld?
Speaker:Maybe while I'm talking
you're like, well, Asia,
Speaker:why would I not want to connect to that?
Speaker:But I think it's important
to just remember that when
we connect to the unseen
Speaker:world, we're tuning back into, we're
connecting back into, this reality,
Speaker:this remembrance, that
consciousness creates reality,
Speaker:that we are creators,
Speaker:we are remembering that all things
rise from consciousness, from spirit.
Speaker:And it really reminds
us of what is possible.
Speaker:Connecting you to the Otherworld
reminds us what is possible.
Speaker:And this is why I believe that all healing
Speaker:lives in the Otherworld, or embracing
the Otherworld is how we heal.
Speaker:Healing happens on all levels:
spiritual, emotional, physical.
Speaker:And yet in the deepest part of our beings,
Speaker:all healing is arising from
this place of consciousness,
Speaker:from this place of spirit and soul.
Speaker:As co-creators in this reality,
Speaker:when we connect into the Otherworld,
Speaker:what we're connecting into
is our power as creators,
Speaker:is our remembrances of being
spiritual beings on a human journey.
Speaker:And so when we connect to the Otherworld,
it helps us literally see the unseen.
Speaker:This is so big in healing,
Speaker:especially when we get stuck in patterns
of thinking there's no way this can
Speaker:shift, there's no way this can heal.
Speaker:Those belief systems are often
what's preventing us from
Speaker:seeing the kind of healing
is possible for us.
Speaker:And so when we are literally
able to see the unseen,
Speaker:connect to the Otherworld,
Speaker:see that there's so much
energy and vividness and life
Speaker:that's going on beyond what we see,
Speaker:we open the portal of our
awareness to see what is unseen in
Speaker:our own perception,
Speaker:to see possibilities where
we couldn't perceive them
Speaker:before. Connecting the Otherworld
reminds us what is possible,
Speaker:and it is a place where we
can receive some of the most
Speaker:direct, helpful and primary guidance.
Speaker:The Otherworld is a place
where the ancestors dwell.
Speaker:It's a place where earth deities dwell.
Speaker:It's where the beings in the
unseen dwell: land, spirits,
Speaker:fairies, elves.
Speaker:So as human beings on a human journey on
Speaker:earth,
Speaker:connecting to the Otherworld connects
us with energies that are also here
Speaker:on earth, that are here to
help us, here to guide us,
Speaker:here to protect us.
Speaker:And sometimes I see folks
walking into this space
Speaker:or being curious about connecting to
the Otherworld and having fear around
Speaker:what is there, what energies
are there, especially as
Speaker:we so often categorize this time of
Samhain as this time of ghosts and
Speaker:goblins and ghouls.
Speaker:And I want to say that it's
the same as just the seen
Speaker:world and humanity, where yeah, there's
stuff that's up that's not great.
Speaker:There's people you probably
don't want to interact with,
Speaker:that is not going to be in
alignment for you to be having deep
Speaker:connection with or asking for
guidance with. But at the same time,
Speaker:that's a very small percentage of what
we're talking about with the energies
Speaker:that exist here on this
planet and in the Otherworld:
Speaker:that the vast experience
of the Otherworld,
Speaker:that the bedrock of this
reality is benevolence, is love,
Speaker:is kindness,
Speaker:and your intention is extremely powerful.
Speaker:So in a moment I'm going to talk about
how to connect to the Otherworld,
Speaker:but I want you to know that you are
powerful. You are a powerful creator.
Speaker:And so your intention of
who you want to connect to,
Speaker:what types of energy you want to
connect to is incredibly important.
Speaker:This will set the stage
for what you do experience,
Speaker:for what you do receive.To
call in beings of light,
Speaker:beings of unconditional love, those
who love you beyond all reason,
Speaker:those who are here to help you
in your own soul's unfolding.
Speaker:You can specify that it be gentle.
You can specify that it be kind.
Speaker:You can specify that it be
generous and understandable.
Speaker:All of this is within
your power to specify.
Speaker:And the more you get clear
on your intention here,
Speaker:the more easeful it will be
because the safer you will feel
Speaker:to connect into these energies.
Speaker:So let's talk about how to
connect to the Otherworld. Well,
Speaker:the first thing I want to say here is
that the Otherworld is already reaching
Speaker:out to you.
Speaker:This is not some sort of box that
you have to figure out how to unlock.
Speaker:It's not a puzzle. The Otherworld
is already reaching out to you.
Speaker:You might notice that your dreams have
been deepening as you've been going
Speaker:through the month of October towards
Samhain. You might be having more signs,
Speaker:more synchronicities.
Speaker:This is often a time of the year where
people who have passed will reach on to
Speaker:us through signs and synchronicities
or through our dreams.
Speaker:You might be noticing that you're
having more intuitions, more messages,
Speaker:more alignments in your life.
Speaker:These are all ways in which the
Otherworld is speaking to you.
Speaker:So the Otherworld is already coming
to you. It is already speaking to you.
Speaker:And the cool thing about this time of
the year is you can actually really just
Speaker:harness the power of this time.
The veil is naturally thin.
Speaker:So at all times of the year,
our guides in the Otherworld,
Speaker:these energies of benevolence
in the Otherworld, are
wanting to connect with us,
Speaker:wanting to help us,
Speaker:wanting to be in communication and
co-creation with us because the world is a
Speaker:richer place when we are in
communication and connection with them.
Speaker:But during this time, this specific time,
Speaker:when the veil between the worlds is thin,
Speaker:it's just easier to make that connection.
Speaker:So to really take advantage
of this moment in time,
Speaker:take advantage of the
thinning of the veil,
Speaker:of the mysticism that's available here.
Speaker:I specifically will encourage you here
to ask to connect to a guide in the
Speaker:Otherworld using everything
that I said about intention,
Speaker:and specify to meet a guide of
benevolence and guiding light,
Speaker:to specify that you want to meet a
guide in the Otherworld who is truly
Speaker:connected to ultimate love and benevolence
who is here to help you in your
Speaker:soul's path and your soul's unfolding.
Speaker:And this is something that we do
inside Herbs for the Otherworld.
Speaker:We have an extended journey
where we go and visit and meet an
Speaker:Otherworldly guide.
Speaker:But this is also something that you
can do on your own. Set the intention,
Speaker:set a ritual space, move
into a meditative space,
Speaker:maybe with a drumming track or a
meditation track that you like.
Speaker:I often find it's very helpful
to have a visual of your gateway,
Speaker:how you're entering into this space,
Speaker:whether it's a literal gate or
it's a tree or it's a bridge.
Speaker:Whatever comes to you is wonderful.
But to envision a gateway,
Speaker:put on that meditation track or listen
to the meditation in Herbs for the
Speaker:Otherworld,
Speaker:and then see yourself moving through that
gateway and specify that intention as
Speaker:you do to meet with your
Otherworld guide. I promise you,
Speaker:there is a guide in the Otherworld right
now that really wants to work with you,
Speaker:wants to help you with
whatever it is you're healing.
Speaker:And if there's something specific that
you want to ask for healing around,
Speaker:let that be part of your intention too.
Speaker:To call on a guide of ultimate love and
benevolence that is connected to the
Speaker:light that is at the heart of all that is,
Speaker:and ask that guide to be one who can
specifically help you with whatever it is
Speaker:you're working on in your healing.
Speaker:It can really help to deepen this
connection with the Otherworld,
Speaker:to make an offering, to make an
offering in the outside world,
Speaker:maybe make an offering of
flowers or water or a song.
Speaker:There's also a very traditional practice
this time of the year called a dumb
Speaker:supper, where on Samhain eve,
Speaker:you set out an extra
plate for the ancestors,
Speaker:or in this case you could send out an
extra plate for whatever guide you are
Speaker:calling to the table that you
are asking to come be with you.
Speaker:This is a beautiful practice
where you set out that plate,
Speaker:you have the food for your
ancestor or your guide,
Speaker:and everyone sits in silence as they eat,
really communing with the other side.
Speaker:After you're done with
whatever is on that plate,
Speaker:you give that plate back to the
earth rather than have anyone eat it,
Speaker:because on a spiritual level,
Speaker:it has already nourished the ancestors
or it has already nourished your guide.
Speaker:And this is a beautiful way of
connecting in ritual on Samhain
Speaker:Eve to these energies that are
here to guide you. And finally,
Speaker:I really encourage you to not only set
an intention around meeting this guide,
Speaker:but to set an intention in general -
planting it like a seed into the dark
Speaker:soil of this time.
Speaker:So circling back to this time of the
year being one in which this is the
Speaker:beginning of a new cycle.
So in the Celtic year,
Speaker:this is the beginning of the new year.
Speaker:And at the time when everything is
dying and going back to the earth,
Speaker:we're about to go into
the hibernation of winter,
Speaker:that Samhain itself begins
in the darkness as the sun
Speaker:sets on October 31st,
Speaker:really think about your
intention for healing in this
Speaker:year ahead. What do
you want to experience?
Speaker:What possibilities do you
want to be opened for you?
Speaker:What are you asking for? What are you
longing for in life? To take time,
Speaker:especially on those really sacred,
Speaker:mystical,
Speaker:magical days around Samhain to take
time and write this intention down,
Speaker:get clear on this intention,
this ask for healing.
Speaker:You could write it down and burn it.
You could write it down and bury it.
Speaker:You could make a hole in the earth and
speak that intention into the hole.
Speaker:Having some sort of ritual where you
are writing down this intention and then
Speaker:you are offering it. You're offering
it to your guide in the Otherworld,
Speaker:you're offering it to your loving wise
ancestors and you're asking for help.
Speaker:This is one of those rules of existence:
Speaker:that we need to ask. That help is
always there for us, but we need to ask.
Speaker:And there's a moment right now,
Speaker:you're in the midst of this moment where
the veil is thin and your prayers are
Speaker:heard in a deeper way
and in a clearer way.
Speaker:So make that prayer, set that intention,
Speaker:really push that out like a boat into
the waters of the Otherworld and see
Speaker:what ripples back to you.
Speaker:And if it's calling to you to step
into Herbs for the Otherworld,
Speaker:know that that course is here
to support you in exactly this,
Speaker:in exactly all of this. So as
Juliette wrote in her review,
Speaker:"After listening to the workshop,
Speaker:I felt more confident both to connect
with the spiritual ancestors of the land
Speaker:I'm on and pay my respects, but also
reconnect with the ones from my homeland.
Speaker:I've met some very supportive and loving
ancestors who helped me on my chosen
Speaker:path and some powerful and joyful fairies
who teach me how to grow and cleanse
Speaker:my world.
Speaker:I recommend this course to anyone who
has an interest in their spirituality and
Speaker:discovering what else there is in
this world." Because that's the thing,
Speaker:and that's what we're really tuning
into and tapping into at this time,
Speaker:is that there's so much more to
this world that we've been handed,
Speaker:that this is why this time
of the year's legendarily
Speaker:beloved, because it's this mixing it
up, this opening of possibilities,
Speaker:this connecting to the mystical
energies that animate all things.
Speaker:It's like there's a reason why everybody
is always yearning for fall and
Speaker:yearning for autumn and loving the
energies of this time of Samhain or
Speaker:Halloween, because this
is a time of possibility.
Speaker:This is a time of opening the portals
of our imagination, our awareness,
Speaker:of making big spiritual leaps. And
that these leaps are available to us.
Speaker:They're naturally here, they're
meeting us where we're at,
Speaker:and all we have to do is be
willing to open the door.
Speaker:All we have to do is be willing to
connect with the Otherworld and the
Speaker:healing energies that live there.
Speaker:So if you want to drop into this time
and have guidance around the plants and
Speaker:fungi that can help you,
Speaker:know practices of releasing ghosts and
attachments in the stuff you don't want
Speaker:anymore, to connect to Otherworld
guide on a really powerful journey,
Speaker:then I would love to see you
in herbs for the Otherworld.
Speaker:And whether or not you decide to take
the class or it's an alignment for you
Speaker:this year, I would love to hear about
what comes up for you this year,
Speaker:what kind of ritual you did,
what was your experience?
Speaker:Who did you connect to?
Because you have this ability.
Speaker:This ability is inherent to who you
are to connect to the Otherworld.
Speaker:And just through listening
to this episode today,
Speaker:you have already opened this gateway.
Speaker:So even if you take no other action today,
Speaker:the Otherworld is coming
to meet you today.
Speaker:Healing and possibility
is streaming towards you.
Speaker:So may those energies
nourish you in all the ways,
Speaker:may you be able to embrace the healing
that is on offer for you in this
Speaker:specific time period. And as we move
into this whole season of Samhain.
Speaker:And may all these energies,
Speaker:all these openings and all this potential,
Speaker:continue to remind you of this thing,
Speaker:this thing that guides
us and helps us and is
Speaker:always there for us in those moments
in time when we're in the darkness,
Speaker:and we need to remember our
intentions for being alive.
Speaker:May it help you remember this most
important and precious thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here.
