12/16/2025
Last month, I listened to an episode of The Emerald Podcast that resonated deeply with me. It explored the way that in western, predominantly white societies, the intuitive is simultaneously pathologized and commodified.
As the host of the show said: “what happens when the seer is ripped from the ecology in which they traditionally lived?”
When psychic capacities started to appear in eras past, we apprenticed with the shaman, curandera/o, witch, psychic, etc. in our community – someone who could help us understand the sacredness of our gifts, and that this is a higher calling. Now, we have to do a lot more work to even realize what’s happening, much less to find a mentor or teacher that we can trust.
So how did we get here? I did some more in-depth musing on my most recent blog: https://www.emilah.com/blog/the-isolation-of-the-oracle