how we all became a little satanic

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

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The popular image of Satanism belongs to horror movies, pentagrams, and black candles, but the real influence sits in work culture and the chase for personal. A promotion. A streak of discipline that borders on obsession. A pressure to build a better version of yourself every month of the year. The figure of Lucifer becomes a shorthand for the belief that the Self should take priority above all else.

The episode follows this idea from Milton to Nietzsche to Rand, then into the way Silicon Valley talks about ambition. These ideas seep into coaching programs, lifestyle apps, and the endless push to enhance your mind and body.

What interests me is how familiar all of this feels. The grind you keep justifying. The pressure to optimize your entire life. The strange pride that builds when you hit a goal you didn’t even choose. The episode pays attention to what all of this takes from us and what it gives back.

You’ll hear how this unconsciously Satanic mindset nudges you toward constant improvement and how it dramatically narrows the definition of a good life. What is the true cost of this drive? And what small freedoms so we sacrifice while we’re busy chasing the next level up?

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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.
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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.
0:28.7	Welcome to the new era of inner work.
0:49.9	You're listening to the consciousnessciousness Stream, my Patreon exclusive podcast within a podcast, where I share unfiltered thoughts, deep dives, and intuitive explorations.
0:55.5	What you're about to hear is a preview of a full episode available for my premium members.
1:10.5	Hello, my lovely listener. Just a heads up today. My voice is going to be extra soft because I'm recovering from a cold. So let's just say that this particular episode is going to be extra soft because I'm recovering from a cold. So let's just say that this particular
1:12.9	episode is going to be ASMR style. I'm going to be speaking a little more softly than usual.
1:21.0	I have been wanting to do an episode like this for a really, really long time. Ever since I started really diving into my own
1:33.0	spiritual path and finding a lot of healing through studying Western esotericism and her medicism
1:40.6	and various different forms of spirituality from all over the world and reconnecting with my
1:46.3	roots. It's impossible to do this type of studying and deep diving without coming across
1:54.1	ideas like Satanism and demons and the left-hand path.
2:08.2	And I've learned a lot, but I also understand what it feels like to be on the other side where you haven't done all of this deep diving.
2:11.5	It's literally been my full-time job to be studying these types of things.
2:16.5	And then while at the same time, I've been developing
2:19.1	this much more nuanced understanding of spirituality and consciousness and esotericism at large,
2:27.0	I have watched as the cultural dialogue around these things has become really, really loud and really black and white
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