{"podcast":{"title":"Therapeutic Astrology Podcast","slug":"therapeutic-astrology-podcast-6383524","podcast_index_feed_id":6383524,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/473925/rss","website_url":"http://therapeuticastrologer.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/1/0/1/a101f7daeb1881e516c3140a3186d450/podendeligpt.png","author":"Mannah Guldager","episode_count":162,"summary":"Therapeutic Astrology Podcast by Mannah (TAP) is place to learn og and feel into healing methods, psychological insights and the mystery pointed to by forgotten languages of the soul. My name is Mannah, and I aim to inspire you to a rich life on all levels of experience. As you listen, let the existential questions breathe into your inner realms where Wholeness is always present. Tap in with us for psychological insights, existential exploration, astrology, spiritual healing and living with purpose! We are in good company with thought leaders, authors, and healers of our time - or sometimes of past times as I may read the authors alive in solo episodes. In common my variety of guests have a wish to stop fragmentation and care for a greater view of this embodied spiritual life. My own primary path is through Evolutionary Astrology, and in each episode I spend a few moments to tap into my guests birth chart. Let's TAP in together - no matter where you are, you have a place to call Whole. My website: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com Mannah, Trauma Therapist & Astrologer Copenhagen, May of 2023","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T10:18:26.309269+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapeutic-astrology-podcast-6383524"},"episode":{"title":"#130 - Isabel Clarke - Madness and Mystery - Psychosis and Spiritual Experience","slug":"130-isabel-clarke-madness-and-mystery-psychosis-and-spiritual-experience","published_at":"2026-01-09T07:59:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapeutic-astrology-podcast-6383524/130-isabel-clarke-madness-and-mystery-psychosis-and-spiritual-experience","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapeutic-astrology-podcast-6383524","url":"https://512e5124-0d53-49a8-9bca-c32a2c148b24.libsyn.com/130-isabel-clarke-madness-and-mystery-psychosis-and-spiritual-experience","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/512e5124-0d53-49a8-9bca-c32a2c148b24/isabel.mp3?dest-id=4018260","summary":"\"As human beings we have experience and we have story. We tend to shape the experience with story into a form that makes sense, is comfortable for ourselves, and presents us in the best light to others. In the case of psychosis, and other exceptional and anomalous experiences, the experience threatens to overwhelm story. In these circumstances, the obvious recourse is to go to the 'experts', perhaps the doctor, who has a ready story based on the medical model. You are ill. We can treat you.\" (quoted from Isabel Clarke, Conflicted Stories. A case of expanded reality.) But there is another way..... a way of understanding the mind as permeable, porous and the self being something we create. WELCOME to a rich episode with psychologist Isabel Clarke, who has many years of experience working at the intersection of spiritual emergency and psychosis - with expanded consciousness. Psychosis and spiritual experience both involve entry into another reality – a reality that is integral and vital to human life. As Isabel Clarke points out, this realm can be loving and expansive, but it can also smash the self. A key factor is the ability to move in and out of these states voluntarily. In this conversation, we explore schizotypy as a dimension of human experience, involving sensitivity and openness to anomalous experiences. We speak about two ways of knowing: the scientific mode of precision and division, and a more integrative way of knowing through emotion, imagination, and poetry. Tap in with us as we go into what it means that the mind is open and what Isabel calls \"Myths of Power\" - and also that we need to take serious the shared world, as we can only conduct our lives full time in the shared world. (Her Capricorn Moon is very present, yet constantly balanced by her Libra plac…","meta_description":"\"As human beings we have experience and we have story. 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