The "Healing" Industry w/ Erin Aquarian

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Erin Aquarian is an artist and musician living in Portland, Oregon. Around the age of 26, she began to explore spirituality, particularly witchcraft, to try to heal herself and make her life better. In 2012 she became involved with a “mystery school” for four years. Though she thought this school was helping her become her true self living a life of meaning and purpose, the school was rife with dysfunctional dynamics which deepened the wounds she showed up with and caused new ones she is now trying to heal from. Currently, Erin is recovering from eight years of being manipulated, gaslit, and misled by the people involved in this community, and others she has met and worked within various spirituality/healing modalities. Erin shares her experience healing from the damage the school inflicted on her and others. She emphasizes the importance of working only with licensed and trained mental health professionals on her recovery journey and exposes the dangers of the unregulated healing industry. Make sure to tune into the intro this week where Rachel addresses the importance of finding safe ways to connect this holiday season. Before You Go: Rachel explains how people can be more vulnerable to recruitment by cultic groups during times of existential crisis, especially after the loss of loved ones. She describes why people in these fragile states must avoid those who claim to have all the answers they seek. Thanks to our newest Patreon supporters: Chantal Dodson and Christina Hendricks Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/indoctrination Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from
0:09.6	systems of control. I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:14.4	Hi, everyone. Before I introduce my guest for today, I want to just say a few words about what's happening now around the world with the pandemic.
0:28.3	I know numbers are on the rise and it is very scary and also very difficult for a lot of people on a personal level.
0:41.4	I know that there's someone in my family in the hospital right now. And I know others have people in the hospital or people who they've
0:47.5	already lost to this pandemic and others who got COVID and now seem to be on the mend,
0:55.2	and I'm very happy for them and for you.
0:58.2	But I want to make sure that as we approach this holiday season,
1:03.5	we want to be able to make sure that we are choosing safety
1:09.0	over being with friends and family. At least that's my feeling about it.
1:15.3	But also know that isolation is very difficult and very scary for some and it's a time to reach
1:22.2	out to others if you're feeling the need or if you feel like it's a need of yours to reach out to other people
1:31.7	or have them reach out to you, be sure to be in touch. Let people know what you need. And think
1:39.0	about people also who are living alone, people who have recently incurred a loss, people who have some health
1:45.5	issues and might be nervous about being on their own. This is a time of year, not only because
1:52.7	it's a holiday season, but because, again, the numbers are on the rise, which is making people
1:57.5	nervous to really let people know you're there and to let people know that you
2:05.3	need to be reminded that they are there if that's what you need. And also, if you're finding it
2:12.4	hard to come up with ideas of things to do to entertain yourselves or to connect with people,
2:19.4	just ask a teenager. They have come up with very creative ways to get together, to entertain each other,
2:27.1	watching movies online together, putting videos together, setting up Zoom calls in all sorts of ways with all sorts of friends. So yeah,
2:36.4	ask a kid in your neighborhood what they do for fun during the pandemic. You really will get
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