We’re living in really crucial times. We all know that there is a quickening in lessons that need to be learned. In my experience with my clients, there are a tremendous number of people who come into this lifetime to heal family curses and repetitive dysfunctional patterns—alcoholism, abuse, generational poverty. Many souls are here to break these cycles. Often, these people feel like the odd ones out in their families, but spiritually, there is often someone in the unseen who is partnering with them—maybe even the originator of the pattern, now on the other side, seeking redemption through assistance.
“The water the shaman swims in is the same water the psychotic drowns in.”
“Our weirdness is not our wound—it’s our weapon. It’s the power that remakes our bloodlines.”
Many souls incarnate to break ancestral cycles such as abuse, addiction, and poverty, often supported by spirits who once contributed to those patterns.
After death, the spirit enters a reflective state where emotions are dimmed, allowing for objective life review.
Excessive mourning can create energetic walls, making it harder for spirits to reach their loved ones.
Psychic development often begins with empathy. Learning to distinguish one’s own emotions from others’ is the foundation of mediumship.
Spirit communication doesn’t always appear as a visual or verbal interaction—it often comes through sensation, smell, dreams, or symbolism.
Developing mediums must work through imposter syndrome and learn to trust the “first thought”—the instinctive, unfiltered impression.
Physical rituals like rocking, vocal toning, and creating altars can anchor spirit communication and change your vibrational state.
Nature spirits and elementals exist on different frequency bands; learning to shift your state allows access to various entities.
Journaling, symbolic literacy, and consistent trance work help train the subtle senses needed for mediumship and witchcraft.
Ancestral healing is not only personal but also spiritual. Spirits often seek to assist in the healing of the very traumas they once caused.
“You either saw the orb or you didn’t—doubt is the death of magic.”
“Spirit speaks in symbols, smell, and synchronicity long before it shouts.”
If you’re a media mystic or suspect you have mediumistic abilities, if you experience spirits or are highly sensitive to energy, you’ll want to stay tuned. I first discovered Salicrow through her book Spirit Speak, a rich and accessible guide for beginners to understand the death journey and mediumship. Later I encountered her works Jump Girl and Elemental Witchcraft, which delve even deeper into the mysteries of spirits and the elements.
What drew me to Sally was not just her skill, but her willingness to talk about what many mediums leave out—the confusion, the spiritual “gray zones,” and the psychic sensitivities that are often dismissed or pathologized. In this episode, we uncover the truth behind what happens when we die, the mechanics of spiritual contact, how to protect yourself psychically, and how working with the elements—earth, air, fire, water—adds new depth to witchcraft and mediumship.
Sally begins by describing what happens after death. Spirit enters a reflective period where they observe their life from a more analytical, emotion-dulled perspective. The first few days after death are especially potent for contact—spirits use their remaining residual life force to visit loved ones, creating the common early-day visitations in dreams or energy shifts.
She explains the concept of “time out” in spirit—a neutral space for reflection. For those with trauma or unresolved emotion, this space can last longer. Spirit is still deeply connected to the living in this period. Their love compels them to try to help those who are mourning, though excessive grief can make it harder for them to get through. Mourning hardens the aura and lowers our vibration, acting as a wall.
To communicate effectively with spirit, we must lift our vibration, soften our energetic body, and often, get out of our own way. Overthinking blocks connection. Rituals like speaking aloud to the dead, creating altars, rocking in chairs, using fidget tools, or chanting all help access a light trance state needed for mediumship.
Sally and I discuss the difference between direct visual spirit contact and more subtle modes—feeling, smell, dreams, and symbolic communication. Spirits use the senses that most resonate with the individual. Olfactory signs are common—smelling a loved one’s perfume, cigarettes, or even a spiritual energy. Dreams are particularly powerful because the logical mind is bypassed.
We explore the psychic sensitivity spectrum, especially the empathic base that most mediums begin with. Sally offers tools to separate your emotions from those of others through daily “scanning”—a simple head-to-toe check-in to identify what belongs to you and what might be coming from someone else or spirit. This empowers empaths to become discerning mediums.
She shares practical, embodied tools for grounding and elevating energy, like singing, vocal toning, and trance-inducing fidgeting. For those working with nature spirits, shifting one’s vibrational tone is crucial—different entities require different frequencies. She tells hilarious and powerful stories of her work with trolls, sylphs, and other beings in her Elemental Witchcraft path.
As we talk more deeply, she breaks down the “gray”—a transitional spiritual space between life and death—and its similarity to pregnancy. A person in the gray is near death, and often surrounded by more spirits. Mediums walk the line of this space often, and learning how to manage it is essential.
We end with profound discussions on the psychic path, the role of imagination in magic, and how ancestral spirits may return to help us heal generational wounds. Through her books and her path, Sally reaffirms that the weird ones in the family—the psychics, witches, healers—are often the ones chosen to end ancestral pain. And they are not alone.
“Mediums don’t just hear the dead—they reweave the family web.”
“Magic is not a fantasy—it’s the art of embodying imagination with discipline.”
“Your emotional walls are your vibrational prison—lower them, and spirit walks in.”
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Before proceeding, please acknowledge and accept our formal position. We do not accept the models proposed by various occult groups that portray angels or demons as abstract beings with agency or will of their own. Rather, we view them purely as representations of the practitioner’s individual psyche. We also regard the reasons for their changes over time and the similarities between cultures as evidence of a shared human unconscious, referred to by Jung as the collective unconscious.
This means it is not “the devil” that makes people do harmful things; people alone are responsible for their actions. When someone has an unhealthy relationship with these parts of the psyche, their experience can become distorted. They may require professional therapy and the guidance of a mental health professional; otherwise, they risk taking these powers of the unconscious to a dark place because those parts have been corrupted by misinformation, trauma, or both.
Our position is that each person is the ruler of their own kingdom/reality, and that spirit has no interest in human affairs and is not subject to an ego.
Accordingly, our interpretation of occult systems—from the Tree of Life and Tree of Death to the Goetia and Shem—is purely symbolic. We treat them through the IFS (Internal Family Systems) model as representational frameworks that illustrate splits within the human psyche, and we work with them in a manner similar to “duality therapy.”
Therefore, any person claiming that a spirit instructed them to do X or Y is expressing a cry for help and should be treated as such.
This is why this movement is clearly marked by the identifier “God Is Not Therapy.” We are not here to provide therapy, but to present a model of these forces and practices for the purpose of understanding, navigating, and working with one’s own unconscious. By proceeding, you acknowledge your responsibility to seek professional assistance if you are experiencing any of these issues before continuing with this work.
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Before proceeding, please acknowledge and accept our formal position. We do not accept the models proposed by various occult groups that portray angels or demons as abstract beings with agency or will of their own. Rather, we view them purely as representations of the practitioner’s individual psyche. We also regard the reasons for their changes over time and the similarities between cultures as evidence of a shared human unconscious, referred to by Jung as the collective unconscious.
This means it is not “the devil” that makes people do harmful things; people alone are responsible for their actions. When someone has an unhealthy relationship with these parts of the psyche, their experience can become distorted. They may require professional therapy and the guidance of a mental health professional; otherwise, they risk taking these powers of the unconscious to a dark place because those parts have been corrupted by misinformation, trauma, or both.
Our position is that each person is the ruler of their own kingdom/reality, and that spirit has no interest in human affairs and is not subject to an ego.
Accordingly, our interpretation of occult systems—from the Tree of Life and Tree of Death to the Goetia and Shem—is purely symbolic. We treat them through the IFS (Internal Family Systems) model as representational frameworks that illustrate splits within the human psyche, and we work with them in a manner similar to “duality therapy.”
Therefore, any person claiming that a spirit instructed them to do X or Y is expressing a cry for help and should be treated as such.
This is why this movement is clearly marked by the identifier “God Is Not Therapy.” We are not here to provide therapy, but to present a model of these forces and practices for the purpose of understanding, navigating, and working with one’s own unconscious. By proceeding, you acknowledge your responsibility to seek professional assistance if you are experiencing any of these issues before continuing with this work.
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