# Ep374: Occult Encounters - Raya Thorne

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Podcast: [Guru Viking Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/guru-viking-podcast-1161340)
Published: 2026-08-14T13:00:59+00:00
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In this episode I am joined by Raya Thorne, occultist, psychic, and spiritual mentor. Raya recounts her troubled childhood, early ghost encounters, and teenage experiments in the occult and witchcraft. She describes terrifying encounters with summoned entities, details an ongoing working with a demon of the Goetia, and reveals her current understanding of the nature of spirit pacts and psychic connections. Raya also reflects on the role of trauma in awakening psychic gifts, shares her thoughts on the connection between protection spells and personal boundaries, and warns of the dangers of spiritual psychosis and ego inflation when practicing magick. … Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’. … Topics include: 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Middle class up-bringing in Australia 02:47 - Effects of isolation after premature birth 05:04 - Neglect and sensitivity to energy 07:25 - Chaotic household and learning to read people 09:32 - Ongoing work with childhood trauma 11:28 - Spiritual bypass and terrifying magickal experiences 16:27 - Why magicians should have therapy 17:51 - Spiritual psychosis and ego inflation 20:25 - Deconstructing the persona 24:29 - Which therapies Raya used 29:08 - Should Raya become a therapist? 31:06 - Childhood ghost encounters 34:18 - Early magickal workings 36:39 - Deep listening and interpreting intuition 38:53 - Local spirit encounters and violent dream 42:00 - Seeing spirits 45:12 - Dramatic exorcism by neighbour 50:18 - Reflection on sharing vulnerable stories 54:18 - Trauma and the new age 55:15 - Teenage magickal experiments summoning demons and the dead 01:02:41 - Seeking power through magick 01:05:06 - Similarities to the Labyrinth movie 01:06:36 - Terrifying Goetia demon experience 01:10:12 - Raya’s understan…

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