# Back from the Borderline Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/60e8deaefb090f0013116d69 Official site: http://backfromtheborderline.com Author: mollie adler Episodes: 358 ## Resource Back From The Borderline is a podcast about depth psychology, symbolism, spirituality, consciousness, and the search for a more meaningful life. I started this show years ago while trying to understand my own mind. Somewhere along the way, the questions became much bigger than me. They led into Carl Jung, mythology, Christian mysticism, dreams, tarot, philosophy, esotericism, religious history, artificial intelligence, and the symbolic patterns that quietly shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us. The word borderline has taken on its own meaning over the years. It speaks to the edge almost all of us eventually reach. That place where our old explanations stop working and we’re asked to learn an entirely different way of seeing. That’s the space my work inhabits. Some episodes are conversations with researchers, psychologists, philosophers, historians, and spiritual teachers. Others are long-form essays where I follow a question wherever it leads. Lately I’ve been especially interested in symbolic literacy, the way images, myths, dreams, and archetypes quietly organize human life, often long before we’re consciously aware of them. I’m not very interested in being “ce… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/back-from-the-borderline-4079851 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851.md ## Episodes - [The Lost Civilization of the Goddess (Anne Baring Part 2)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-lost-civilization-of-the-goddess-anne-baring-part-2) — 2026-09-08T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Forgotten Feminine Face of God (Anne Baring Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-forgotten-feminine-face-of-god-anne-baring-part-1) — 2026-09-01T09:00:00+00:00 - [How to Tell When a Spiritual Teacher Is Full of Shit](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/how-to-tell-when-a-spiritual-teacher-is-full-of-shit) — 2026-08-25T09:00:00+00:00 - [Aleister Crowley’s Thelema: Sex Magick and the Problem With the Prophet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/aleister-crowley-s-thelema-sex-magick-and-the-problem-with-the-prophet) — 2026-08-18T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Braced Body: The Spiritual Cost of Always Being in Control (Part 3)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-braced-body-the-spiritual-cost-of-always-being-in-control-part-3) — 2026-08-11T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Braced Body: Why Rest Feel Unsafe & How to Let Go (Part 2)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-braced-body-why-rest-feel-unsafe-how-to-let-go-part-2) — 2026-08-04T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Braced Body: Why You’re Tense Even When Nothing Is Wrong (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-braced-body-why-you-re-tense-even-when-nothing-is-wrong-part-1) — 2026-07-28T09:00:00+00:00 - [What Do We Do With a Broken Spiritual Inheritance?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/what-do-we-do-with-a-broken-spiritual-inheritance) — 2026-07-21T09:00:00+00:00 - [UFOs, AI, and the Religion of the Unconscious (Live at Contact in the Desert 2026)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/ufos-ai-and-the-religion-of-the-unconscious-live-at-contact-in-the-desert-2026) — 2026-07-14T09:00:00+00:00 - [Mary Magdalene and the End of Spiritual Childhood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/mary-magdalene-and-the-end-of-spiritual-childhood) — 2026-07-07T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Occult Teacher We Need Right Now: Dion Fortune, Psychic Hygiene, and the Magick of the Mind](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-occult-teacher-we-need-right-now-dion-fortune-psychic-hygiene-and-the-magick-of-the-mind) — 2026-06-29T22:58:28+00:00 - [The Skill AI Can Never Replace (And Why I’m Teaching Tarot)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-skill-ai-can-never-replace-and-why-i-m-teaching-tarot) — 2026-06-25T18:19:19+00:00 - [The Arrogance of Too Much Empathy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-arrogance-of-too-much-empathy) — 2026-06-23T09:00:00+00:00 - [Gay Men Have Always Loved a “Difficult” Woman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/gay-men-have-always-loved-a-difficult-woman) — 2026-06-16T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Female Shadow](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-female-shadow) — 2026-06-09T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Christian Grimoire Evangelicals Forgot About (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-christian-grimoire-evangelicals-forgot-about-part-1) — 2026-06-02T09:00:00+00:00 - [Why Everyone Sounds Religious About AI [Consciousness Stream for May 2026]](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/why-everyone-sounds-religious-about-ai-consciousness-stream-for-may-2026) — 2026-05-28T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Body Keeps the Mileage (On Mortality & Wellness Panic)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-body-keeps-the-mileage-on-mortality-wellness-panic) — 2026-05-26T09:00:00+00:00 - [Why Tarot Feels So Accurate, And How to Actually Read a Card](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/why-tarot-feels-so-accurate-and-how-to-actually-read-a-card) — 2026-05-21T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Intelligence of Madness, Part Two: How We Come Back](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-intelligence-of-madness-part-two-how-we-come-back) — 2026-05-19T09:00:00+00:00 - [Why “Disclosure” is a Distraction and How to Stay Sane as Reality Crumbles](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/why-disclosure-is-a-distraction-and-how-to-stay-sane-as-reality-crumbles) — 2026-05-14T09:00:00+00:00 - [The Intelligence of Madness, Part One: Who Gets Called Insane?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-intelligence-of-madness-part-one-who-gets-called-insane) — 2026-05-12T09:00:00+00:00 - [Why Your Mind Feels Broken in the Age of Babel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/why-your-mind-feels-broken-in-the-age-of-babel) — 2026-05-05T09:00:00+00:00 - [Stop Healing Your Inner Child and Shed Your Dead Trauma Skin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin) — 2026-04-28T09:00:00+00:00 - [The missing piece of your soul and the lost technology of Mary Magdalene](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/the-missing-piece-of-your-soul-and-the-lost-technology-of-mary-magdalene) — 2026-04-21T09:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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