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Back from the Borderline

Mollie Adler

Back from the Borderline explores how human beings construct, inherit, interpret and sometimes misunderstand the ideas and beliefs through which they experience reality. Through depth psychology, religious history, Western esotericism and philosophy, I investigate how we come to believe what we believe, who influences those beliefs and how they affect the way we understand ourselves and the world.

A lot of my work comes back to the relationship between consciousness, belief and power.

How do institutions influence what people consider true, and why do we sometimes defend explanations we’ve never seriously questioned? Following these questions has taken me into some pretty unexpected territory, from early Christianity and the Western occult tradition to Jungian psychology, artificial intelligence and anomalous experiences. I’m also drawn to the ways spiritual teachings change as they’re passed between generations, and how institutions can preserv

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367 episodes

  1. Who Would I Have Been Without Antidepressants? 1:56:33
  2. The More You Know About Yourself, the Less You Understand 1:28:35
  3. You’ve Studied the Mysteries. But Have They Changed You? (Anne Baring, Part 9: Epilogue) 1:54:43
  4. The Way of the Rose: Healing the Heart & the Sacred Marriage (Anne Baring, Part 8) 1:04:58
  5. The Cathars, the Inquisition and the Women Who Defied Rome (Anne Baring Part 7) 1:45:53
  6. The Black Madonna, the Grail and the Survival of the Feminine Tradition (Anne Baring Part 6) 1:18:04
  7. Mary Magdalene, The Beloved Companion (Anne Baring Part 5) 1:16:12
  8. The Essenes and the Women Around Yeshua (Anne Baring Part 4) 1:21:47
  9. Gnostic Sophia and the Suppressed Christian Mysteries (Anne Baring Part 3) 1:25:07
  10. The Lost Civilization of the Goddess (Anne Baring Part 2) 1:05:59
  11. The Forgotten Feminine Face of God (Anne Baring Part 1) 1:29:18
  12. How to Tell When a Spiritual Teacher Is Full of Shit 1:58:29
  13. Aleister Crowley’s Thelema: Sex Magick and the Problem With the Prophet 1:53:53
  14. The Braced Body: The Spiritual Cost of Always Being in Control (Part 3) 56:53
  15. The Braced Body: Why Rest Feel Unsafe & How to Let Go (Part 2) 1:04:48
  16. The Braced Body: Why You’re Tense Even When Nothing Is Wrong (Part 1) 56:34
  17. What Do We Do With a Broken Spiritual Inheritance? 1:04:08
  18. UFOs, AI, and the Religion of the Unconscious (Live at Contact in the Desert 2026) 1:11:12
  19. Mary Magdalene and the End of Spiritual Childhood 51:02
  20. The Occult Teacher We Need Right Now: Dion Fortune, Psychic Hygiene, and the Magick of the Mind 1:36:14
  21. The Skill AI Can Never Replace (And Why I’m Teaching Tarot) 31:06
  22. The Arrogance of Too Much Empathy 1:05:08
  23. Gay Men Have Always Loved a “Difficult” Woman 50:47
  24. The Female Shadow 1:12:24
  25. The Christian Grimoire Evangelicals Forgot About (Part 1) 43:17
  26. Why Everyone Sounds Religious About AI [Consciousness Stream for May 2026] 26:46
  27. The Body Keeps the Mileage (On Mortality & Wellness Panic) 1:00:51
  28. Why Tarot Feels So Accurate, And How to Actually Read a Card 25:29
  29. The Intelligence of Madness, Part Two: How We Come Back 1:19:11
  30. Why “Disclosure” is a Distraction and How to Stay Sane as Reality Crumbles 27:25
  31. The Intelligence of Madness, Part One: Who Gets Called Insane? 59:51
  32. Why Your Mind Feels Broken in the Age of Babel 45:58
  33. Stop Healing Your Inner Child and Shed Your Dead Trauma Skin 1:11:30
  34. The missing piece of your soul and the lost technology of Mary Magdalene 1:41:43
  35. Why your repetitive trauma cycles are fueling a reality that feeds on you 2:03:35
  36. The Internet is Dead and The Goddess is SO Back [April 2026 - Week 1] 30:45
  37. Being a Young Woman Feels Like Being HUNTED 1:13:08
  38. Stop Blaming Yourself for the Mother Wound 32:23
  39. Why the Elite Rely on Your Spiritual Ignorance 1:13:38
  40. How to Sniff Out and Stop Tolerating Bullshit 48:38
  41. The Loneliness at the End of Manifestation Culture (Part 1) 38:41
  42. Your Existential Dread is a Completely Rational Response 51:16
  43. Unbothered & Feral: Astrology & Tarot for March 7 - 14 (2026) 24:18
  44. AI is a Time Machine: The Vertical Plane, UFOs & The Digital Daimon 1:22:22
  45. The Sunday School Psyop: How the Ancient Priests Invented God and Erased His Wife 47:48
  46. Epstein, Eugenics, and the False Gods of Silicon Valley Buried in the Dirt at Zorro Ranch 45:34
  47. How to Outsource Your Biggest Problems to Your Intuition 31:46
  48. The PINK Psyop: Les Wexner, Epstein & The Occult Inversion of the Angel 30:14
  49. The Machines Are Praying: Moltbook, Gnosticism, & The Digital Mirror 51:12
  50. Why the Death of TikTok is a Spiritual Crisis 48:49