Between Worlds

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Between Worlds explores the symbols, beliefs, and rituals that have shaped human civilizations across time. Why do cultures separated by oceans create similar myths, sacred objects, and spiritual traditions? Through history, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, each episode uncovers the stories behind haunted dolls, mirrors, masks, relics, the evil eye, and more—revealing what these enduring beliefs tell us about the universal human search for meaning.

  1. 31 Jul

    Mirrors as Portals to the Self - What Your Reflection Is Really Telling You | Psychology & Spirituality

    BETWEEN WORLDS "Mirrors as Portals to the Self" — What Your Reflection Is Really Telling You You look in a mirror and see yourself. But cultures across the world have covered mirrors at funerals, feared breaking them, and treated them as doorways. This episode explores what mirrors reveal about how we understand identity, soul, and the self. Why do we fear our own reflection? What is the mirror actually showing us? A psychological and uncanny exploration of the spaces between. --- ABOUT BETWEEN WORLDS: We explore the spaces between categories — the liminal territories where psychology meets spirituality, where culture shapes perception, where the line between what we can explain and what we cannot blurs. Part of Arcane Storyteller. Subscribe to Arcane Storyteller for all series: - The Listening Room (Classic literature retellings) - The Unexplained Archives (Government secrets & mysteries) - Behind the Curtain (Dark pop culture history) - Between Worlds (Psychology & spirituality) - Fireside Stories (World mythology & folklore) - Queer Uncharted (LGBTQ+ history) New episodes every Friday. Subscribe for explorations of the spaces between — the territories where rational and irrational meet. FIND US: YouTube: Between Worlds Spotify: Between Worlds / Arcane Storyteller Apple Podcasts: Arcane Storyteller - Between Worlds

    Mirrors as Portals to the Self - What Your Reflection Is Really Telling You | Psychology & Spirituality

  2. 24 Jul

    The Evil Eye - When Attention Becomes a Weapon | Cross-Cultural Belief

    A gaze so powerful it can harm. Envy so concentrated it wounds across distance. The evil eye appears in nearly every culture on earth. It's not superstition — it's recognition of a psychological truth: attention has power. BETWEEN WORLDS — SEASON 1 "Relics & Rituals" — Ten Objects the World Made Sacred Where does the rational end and the irrational begin? Between Worlds explores the liminal territories where psychology meets spirituality, where culture shapes perception, where the line between what we can explain and what we cannot blurs. This season: ten objects that every culture on earth has treated as sacred. Ten things — dolls, trees, mirrors, doorways, relics, masks, candles, bells, keys — that carry meaning beyond their physical form. What these objects reveal about how human minds work. Why we project soul onto things. How the psychological and spiritual are often saying the same thing in different languages. Part of Arcane Storyteller. Subscribe to Arcane Storyteller for all series: - The Listening Room (Classic literature retellings) - The Unexplained Archives (Government secrets & mysteries) - Behind the Curtain (Dark pop culture history) - Between Worlds (Psychology & spirituality) - Fireside Stories (World mythology & folklore) - Queer Uncharted (LGBTQ+ history) New episodes every Friday. Subscribe for explorations of the spaces between — the territories where rational and irrational meet. FIND US: YouTube: Between Worlds Spotify: Between Worlds / Arcane Storyteller Apple Podcasts: Arcane Storyteller - Between Worlds

    The Evil Eye - When Attention Becomes a Weapon | Cross-Cultural Belief

  3. 17 Jul

    Sacred Trees - Why Every Culture Worshipped a Tree | Universal Symbolism

    The Bodhi Tree. Yggdrasil. The Tree of Life. Every culture plants a sacred tree at the centre of its mythology. Why? Trees connect earth to sky. They live for centuries. They shelter us. This episode explores why humans everywhere see trees as sacred. BETWEEN WORLDS — SEASON 1 "Relics & Rituals" — Ten Objects the World Made Sacred Where does the rational end and the irrational begin? Between Worlds explores the liminal territories where psychology meets spirituality, where culture shapes perception, where the line between what we can explain and what we cannot blurs. This season: ten objects that every culture on earth has created as sacred. Ten things — dolls, trees, mirrors, doorways, relics, masks, candles, bells, keys — that carry meaning beyond their physical form. What these objects reveal about how human minds work. Why do we project our soul onto things? How the psychological and spiritual are often saying the same thing in different languages. Part of Arcane Storyteller. Subscribe to Arcane Storyteller for all series: - The Listening Room (Classic literature retellings) - The Unexplained Archives (Government secrets & mysteries) - Behind the Curtain (Dark pop culture history) - Between Worlds (Psychology & spirituality) - Fireside Stories (World mythology & folklore) - Queer Uncharted (LGBTQ+ history) New episodes every Friday. Subscribe for explorations of the spaces between — the territories where rational and irrational meet. FIND US: YouTube: Between Worlds Spotify: Between Worlds / Arcane Storyteller Apple Podcasts: Arcane Storyteller - Between Worlds

    Sacred Trees - Why Every Culture Worshipped a Tree | Universal Symbolism

  4. 10 Jul

    Why Dolls Become Haunted Across Cultures - Between Worlds

    Why Dolls Become Haunted Across Cultures A doll in Key West receives letters of apology from strangers. But Robert's story isn't unique. Nearly every civilisation — Egypt, Japan, Africa, the Americas, Europe — has independently concluded that human-shaped objects carry unusual power. Why dolls? Why is it always the human likeness that becomes a vessel? This episode explores two psychological phenomena: the Uncanny Valley (why dolls feel profoundly wrong) and Psychological Essentialism (why we believe objects absorb soul from those who touch them). Combine these two, and you understand why dolls have become haunted in identical ways across cultures that never contacted each other. We didn't invent the haunted doll. We built it into the object itself. --- ABOUT BETWEEN WORLDS: Where we explore the spaces between categories — the liminal territories where psychology meets spirituality, where culture shapes perception, where the line between rational and irrational blurs. Part of Arcane Storyteller. New episodes every Friday.

    Why Dolls Become Haunted Across Cultures - Between Worlds
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Between Worlds explores the symbols, beliefs, and rituals that have shaped human civilizations across time. Why do cultures separated by oceans create similar myths, sacred objects, and spiritual traditions? Through history, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, each episode uncovers the stories behind haunted dolls, mirrors, masks, relics, the evil eye, and more—revealing what these enduring beliefs tell us about the universal human search for meaning.

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  • Creator
    The Arcane Storyteller
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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