enchantment in the age of disenchantment w/ dr. teddy hamstra

back from the borderline

mollie adler

Childhood Trauma, Culture, Self-improvement, Jungian Psychology, Complex Trauma, Spirituality Podcast, Mental Health Podcast, Cptsd Recovery, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Generational Trauma, Philosophy, Education, Depth Psychology, Trauma Healing

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Modern life teaches us to doubt what we can’t measure. Yet, across history, people have witnessed things that refuse to fit the frame - mystical encounters, strange lights, and divine voices. Moments of impossible meaning. In this long-form salon, I sit down with Dr. Teddy Hamstra, a close friend and scholar of mythology and mysticism, to explore what it means to live enchanted in a world that claims to have outgrown mystery. Our conversation moves from a sixteenth-century sky battle over Nuremberg to the Gospel of Thomas, from the language of psychiatry to the vocabulary of the sacred. We discus how culture, language, and personal experience shape our relationship to the numinous, and why rediscovering enchantment might be essential for psychic health and collective imagination. If you’ve ever felt torn between skepticism and faith, intellect and intuition, this episode offers a secret third path.

⟁ Follow Teddy on Substack at https://substack.com/@creativemysticism

⟁ Follow Teddy on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/teddyhamstragram

⟁ To listen to our first long-form chat on Patreon, click here.

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0:00.0	Long-term listeners of this podcast know that I've spent the last five years talking about the dark.
0:06.5	Now I've built a flashlight, and it's called Moods.
0:10.4	It's an instrument for serious, private inner work designed to dismantle your excuses and never
0:15.7	inflate your ego or assume the role of a sycophantic companion.
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0:24.9	Lock in your spot now at moods.world.
0:28.8	Welcome to the new era of inner work.
0:35.6	Welcome to Back from the Borderline.
0:37.9	I'm your host, Molly, and I don't want to talk to your personality.
0:42.1	I want to talk to your soul.
0:44.0	This podcast is where we unravel toxic programming from dysfunctional family systems, societal scripts, and the mental health labels that have kept you small.
0:53.1	We talk about sovereignty, shadow work,
0:56.0	emotional alchemy, culture, AI, and everything that lives at the intersection of the soul and the
1:01.8	system. Back from the borderline means back from the edge, from the abyss, from the illusion that
1:08.1	you're too broken to heal. If that sounds like the kind of journey you're ready to take,
1:13.0	follow the podcast on the player you're listening to right now.
1:16.2	I drop new episodes every Tuesday.
1:18.4	All right, let's get into it.
1:48.1	Hello, everyone. Today's episode is something very exciting. It is a long-winding conversation with my good friend Teddy, or as he is now known, Dr. Teddy Hamstra. This is not a formal interview, okay? So it is more like a living seminar between two good friends. Teddy comes in with a structure. He is a scholar of mythology and
1:55.3	mysticism, and I meet him through lived experience, intuition, and emotion.
2:02.2	So what you'll be hearing is us just thinking out loud together.
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