Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series: Close to Home

We can't understand Teal Swan without understanding the Satanic Panic. And we can't really understand that historical disaster with out feeling our way into the mysteries of memory, fantasy, shame, and terror.

Many of you will have heard about therapists interfering in a family constellation by insinuating the client has has memories of abuse to uncover, and that they can’t go forward in their lives without doing that work. This is the bread and butter of Swan's technique, with the result being that many of her close followers come to tell stories  about their childhoods that echo hers. Swan's own story of childhood abuse crystallized after she goes through treatment with a leading Satanic Panic therapist, Barbara Snow.

Those are stories on the page. But today, to kick off the Swan Song Series, Julian shares  the moment-by-moment mechanics of how this disastrous parody of therapy turned his own life inside out, and alienated him from his family for a decade.

Content warning for listeners: we’ll be talking about stories of child sexual abuse.

Show Notes

The Gateway

Michelle Remembers, covered by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes

Forrest Yoga students ask A. Forrest to stop using the Zia Nation symbol

A. Forrest's ostensible mentor 

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