The Wyrd Way

Dean Bentley

The Wyrd Way is a spirituality and personal growth podcast for those ready to live in alignment with their soul. Each episode explores the questions: How do we step fully into who we were born to be? How do we break free from expectation, conditioning, and old patterns to create a life that’s truly ours? Join me, Dean Bentley, as I sit with creators, healers, leaders, and adventurers, people who have forged extraordinary paths outside the ordinary. Together, we dive into mindset, magick, energy healing, alchemy, conscious business, sexuality, health, psychedelics, and philosophy. Each episode is an invitation to journey further, see differently, and step into the story you were born to write. It’s time to get wyrd, claim your path, and embrace the life you were always meant to live.

  1. 5d ago

    From The Archives: Grief Is The Portal w/ Odelle Wolfenden

    Episode Description: Some conversations arrive before we're ready for them. This one was recorded back in Season 2 with my dear sister, Odelle Wolfenden, and somehow it feels like it has found its way back to us at exactly the right moment. Odelle is someone who has walked alongside me through different chapters of my own path. We first met during a vision quest, and since then our lives have continued to weave in and out of one another. There is something powerful about the people who don't need to remain constantly present to remain deeply connected. In this conversation, we explore what it means to trust the mysterious timing of our relationships, to let people come and go without needing to hold on, and to recognise that some connections arrive for a reason and a season. From there, the conversation opens into grief. Grief as heartbreak. Grief as longing. Grief as surrender. Grief as initiation. And perhaps most importantly, grief as a portal. A portal back into presence. Back into love. Back into ourselves. We speak about the medicine of stillness, the power of solitude, vision quest, death and rebirth, the identities we must allow to fall away, and what happens when we stop trying to insert ourselves into life and begin truly listening. Odelle also shares her relationship with voice, song, embodiment and the deeper calling to live as fully and authentically as we can. This is less an interview and more a meeting around the fire. Two people listening. Two paths weaving. One conversation unfolding in its own strange and beautiful way. Welcome to the archives of The Wyrd Way. Core Themes: Grief as a Portal How grief can become a pathway to healing, presence and transformation. Learning to Let Go Releasing people, identities and chapters without losing yourself. Trusting the Unknown Surrendering control and listening for what life is asking of you. The Medicine of Stillness What solitude, silence and deep listening reveal beneath the noise. Death, Rebirth & Becoming Allowing old versions of ourselves to die so something truer can emerge. Coming Home to Yourself Embodiment, authenticity and finding your way back to what matters. Timestamps: 00:00 – Welcome to the Archives Why Dean is returning to conversations from Season 2 and why this particular conversation still carries medicine. 03:04 – The Meeting That Was Meant to Happen Dean introduces Odelle and reflects on first meeting her during a vision quest. 05:18 – Soul Allies & the People Who Return The strange weaving of relationships, friendship, transformation and the people who continue to find their way back into our lives. 08:11 – Why Some People Leave the Container Learning to trust that connection doesn't necessarily require constant proximity. 09:00 – Reason, Season & Deep Trust Why we meet certain people, why now, and what happens when we stop trying to control the unfolding. 11:19 – The Medicine of Stillness Vision quest, solitude and learning to listen beneath the noise. 12:47 – Where Am I Meant to Be? Trusting the present moment and listening to the deeper movement of the soul. 14:03 – Grief Is the Portal Grief, heartbreak and the possibility that sorrow can open us into greater love. 15:01 – The Power of Listening What happens when we stop trying to be the person who delivers the message and allow the conversation itself to speak. 15:44 – Grief, Initiation & Coming Home How grief can release us from attachment to the past and future and return us to the present. 16:23 – The Grief of Giving Everything Failure, heartbreak, powerlessness and the terror of opening your heart again. 20:00 – Redefining Success Moving beyond comparison and competition and allowing success to mean living your truest soul path. 01:00:24 – Listening to the Subtlety Following the quiet signals of life and discovering that beauty, peace and love are already present. 01:03:44 – Who Is Odelle? Odelle shares more about her identity, her path and the work she is here to do. 01:05:02 – Song, Medicine & Rebirth Odelle explores the meaning behind her name, medicine songs, the dragon queen archetype and her devotion to rebirth. 01:08:32 – The Transmission A spontaneous vocal transmission and a reminder that some experiences can only really be received in person. 01:10:59 – Singing Yourself Into Being Voice, dance, sacred union and embodying the fullest expression of yourself. 01:13:12 – Coming Home to More of You Odelle's invitation to embody more truth, ecstasy, heart and authenticity. 01:14:15 – Rebirthing the Golden Earth Odelle shares her larger vision for collective awakening and service. 01:15:01 – Closing the Circle A beautiful closing between two old allies.   About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.   About Odelle: Odelle is a wild Earth songstress and spoken word channel for soul remembrance and heart awakening. She has facilitated many containers centred around vocal liberation, ceremonial fire rituals, choir temples, and supporting people to sing their souls alive.   Her voice carries a quality that gives people permission to open, to drop beneath the surface and let sound move through them without performance or judgement. It is this gift for creating safety within wildness that makes her facilitation so effective in healing spaces.   Connect With Odelle: Instagram   Links: RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat Book a Discovery Call Instagram

  2. Aug 28

    The Messy Art Of Humaning

    Episode Description: The Messy Art of Humaning What if you don't need to have yourself figured out? We live in a world obsessed with optimisation, growth and becoming better versions of ourselves. We're constantly encouraged to heal, improve, evolve and move forward. But somewhere along the way, it's easy to start believing that the messy parts of us are evidence that we're failing. The repeating patterns. The emotional reactions. The shame. The parts of ourselves we wish were different. But what if the mess isn't something to get rid of? In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean explores the messy reality of being human and what happens when we stop trying to criticise ourselves into becoming better. Instead, we're invited to meet the parts of ourselves we judge with curiosity, compassion and grace. Not to excuse unhealthy behaviour or avoid growth, but to understand what is actually happening beneath the surface. Because we can't always move faster than we're ready to move. And no amount of knowledge can allow us to bypass the places we're still learning to embody. Maybe the work isn't becoming a perfectly healed, clean or resolved human. Maybe it's learning to love the whole strange, complicated, unfinished thing. The mess included.   Core Themes: The pressure to have yourself figured out How self-improvement, social comparison and cultural expectations can leave us feeling like we should be further along. Making space for our mess The ugly, frustrating, repetitive and uncomfortable parts of ourselves that we often try to hide, fix or transcend. Shame, judgement and self-compassion Moving away from criticising ourselves into becoming "better" and instead learning to meet ourselves with curiosity, grace and compassion. The parts of ourselves we disown Exploring how suppressed emotions, behaviours and identities can continue to surface until we're willing to actually meet them. The gap between knowing and embodying Having all the books, tools and frameworks doesn't mean our body knows how to respond differently when we're actually in the moment. The inherited patterns we carry How family, culture and generations of conditioning shape the ways we suppress ourselves and understand who we're supposed to be. The mess as part of the path Perhaps becoming isn't about cleaning ourselves up, but learning how to know, hold and integrate the whole of who we are. Learning to be human In a world moving faster than our nervous systems can comfortably process, remembering how to connect, feel, love and simply be human. Timestamps 00:00 | Welcome to The Messy Art of Humaning Why this conversation feels important in a world obsessed with growth, optimisation and self-improvement. 02:12 | What about our mess? The ugly, frustrating and repetitive parts of ourselves we don't often talk about. 03:18 | The pressure to have it all figured out Cultural conditioning, age expectations and comparing our lives to everyone else's highlights. 04:19 | Shame dies when stories are told Creating space to talk about the parts of ourselves we're ashamed of instead of hiding them. 05:19 | What is actually true? Looking beyond external expectations and asking what we genuinely need. 05:27 | Compassion as a pathway to healing Meeting the parts of ourselves we judge, rather than pushing them away. 06:04 | When the tools don't work The reality of having all the knowledge but still finding yourself reacting from old patterns. 06:48 | You can't move faster than you can move Why understanding something intellectually doesn't mean we've embodied it yet. 07:10 | Learning to love the mess Compassion doesn't mean excusing behaviour. It means becoming curious about what's happening underneath it. 08:19 | What we disown comes back Why suppressed parts of ourselves keep asking to be seen. 08:32 | The patterns we inherit Cultural conditioning, gender expectations and the patterns that can move through generations. 10:26 | Changing the trajectory of your lineage The perspective that comes from recognising the work we're doing isn't only for ourselves. 10:50 | We're living in an unprecedented amount of information The modern world, overwhelm and the sheer amount our human systems are trying to process. 11:22 | We need compassion, not more criticism Learning and developing without using shame as the engine. 12:33 | Get to know your mess Why knowing yourself means becoming familiar with the unconscious parts you would rather not look at. 12:49 | The strange obsession with being "clean" Exploring our relationship with cleanliness, dirt, nature and the parts of ourselves we've labelled as unacceptable. 13:34 | Bringing the mess back in What happens when we stop trying to maintain an identity of being "clean" and allow more of ourselves to belong. 14:36 | Learning how to be human again Connection, feeling, openness and navigating an increasingly fast world. 15:24 | Witnessing yourself without getting stuck Learning to observe your mess without allowing it to become your identity. 16:02 | Finding love in the chaos Giving yourself grace and coming home to the tenderness underneath the pressure to be better. 17:16 | Compassion for where you are Allowing yourself to acknowledge what you're actually experiencing without needing it to be different first. Links: RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat Book a Discovery Call Instagram About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.

  3. Aug 21

    Holding The Tension of Opposites

    Core premise What if being “aligned” doesn't mean that everything is working? What if the uncomfortable parts of your life aren't evidence that you've lost your way, but invitations to become more capable of meeting reality as it actually is? This episode explores the tension between vision and reality, desire and grief, trust and doubt, creation and surrender, life and death. It challenges the spiritual tendency to reject whatever doesn't fit our idealised version of ourselves and instead asks what becomes possible when we allow the fullness of the human experience to exist. The episode draws heavily on the alchemical idea of the union of opposites, exploring how holding rather than resolving these tensions can create greater openness, life force, creativity and wholeness.   Episode description What if you're not supposed to choose? We live in a world that constantly asks us to pick a side. Success or failure. Pleasure or pain. Trust or doubt. Spirituality or humanity. The person we are or the person we believe we should become. But life rarely works that cleanly. In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean explores what it means to hold the tension of opposites rather than rushing to resolve, reject or escape it. We explore the spiritual trap of believing that alignment means getting everything you want, and how this can create a painful gap between who you actually are and who you think you should be. Dean dives into the alchemical concept of the sacred marriage, the union of opposites, and why our capacity to hold contradiction may be one of the foundations of genuine transformation. We explore: Why resistance to your current reality can prevent the very change you're seeking The difference between having a vision and rejecting what is How spiritual bypassing can become another form of control Why doubt and questioning aren't necessarily signs that you're on the wrong path The relationship between commitment, trust and faith What happens when we stop trying to maintain a rigid identity Why love inevitably contains the possibility of grief The role of death in creating a new life How the parts of ourselves we reject continue to consume our life force What it means to meet the wounded, grieving or fearful parts of yourself Why the fullness of being human requires making room for both sides of the experience The invitation isn't to become perfectly aligned. It's to become capable of meeting life. Because perhaps the path isn't found by eliminating contradiction. Perhaps it is found in learning to stand in the middle of it.   Chapters 00:00 — Welcome to The Wyrd Way What does it actually mean to hold the tension of life? 01:14 — The trap of “alignment” Why believing that alignment means success can create another form of spiritual perfectionism. 02:43 — The gap between who you are and who you think you should be How dissonance creates space for shadow and unintegrated parts of ourselves. 03:57 — The sacred marriage The alchemical union of opposites and the integration of the human experience. 04:24 — When reality doesn't match the vision Finances, relationships, creation and the temptation to force life into our preferred shape. 05:17 — Acceptance as the beginning of change Why we cannot transform what we refuse to enter into relationship with. 06:43 — Spiritual bypassing and the current reality Vision matters, but so does the reality standing directly in front of you. 07:27 — When the soul contradicts the ego What happens when the path we're being asked to walk doesn't match the identity we've constructed. 08:11 — The Tower Cracks in the foundation, descent, grounding and the necessity of meeting what is. 09:02 — Expanding the sense of self How holding opposing truths creates greater fluidity and releases energy for creation. 09:53 — Trust, faith and the entrepreneurial path The tension between where you are and where you're trying to go. 10:27 — Are we going the right way? Why questioning can be useful, but constant hesitation can weaken our ability to move. 12:33 — Why do you hesitate? Meeting the fear beneath indecision, judgment and the unknown. 13:02 — The death required for transformation Allowing what needs to die without assuming everything must disappear. 14:03 — Commitment and devotion What becomes possible when we stop holding ourselves back and move with our whole being. 17:40 — Love and grief Why opening to one side of life inevitably opens us to its opposite. 18:23 — Opening to the emotions we've rejected Allowing grief, pain and the parts of ourselves that haven't had permission to be felt. 19:18 — Meeting the parts of yourself that don't want to be here The victim, the wounded child, the grieving self. 20:01 — The alchemical process Why transformation takes time, devotion and repeated encounters with unconscious material. 28:29 — The invitation: Meet life How can you enter this precious moment rather than waiting for another one? 30:33 — Closing Share the episode with someone who needs to hear it.   Links: RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat Book a Discovery Call Instagram About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.

    Holding The Tension of Opposites

  4. Jul 3

    The Illusion of Control: The Wisdom of the Fool

    Episode Description What if your need to understand everything is the very thing keeping you from truly living? In this episode, Dean explores the illusion of control through the archetypes of the Shadow Magician and the Fool. Together, they reveal how fear disguises itself as knowledge, why certainty can become a prison, and how the courage to enter the unknown opens the doorway to a richer, more authentic life. From manifestation and spirituality to inner child healing, devotion, and the wisdom hidden within uncertainty, this conversation is an invitation to step beyond the walls you've built to feel safe and rediscover what it means to truly meet life.   Core Themes The illusion of control The Shadow Magician archetype The wisdom of the Fool Fear disguised as knowledge Presence over prediction Manifestation and attachment to outcomes Moving beyond entitlement and victimhood Trusting intuition instead of outsourcing wisdom Meeting the inner child with compassion Learning as a spiritual practice Living beyond certainty Entering life rather than observing it Devotion over perfection Faith and surrender The alchemical path of becoming Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Wisdom, fear and the need for control 03:20 The Shadow Magician 05:00 Manifestation, entitlement and attachment 08:00 Outsourcing your own wisdom 10:20 Why life refuses to be controlled 12:15 The Fool's journey into the unknown 15:00 Knowledge versus lived experience 17:30 Learning as initiation 20:00 Meeting the unconscious 21:30 Listening to the wounded inner child 24:15 Every voice deserves to be heard 26:00 Creating safety from within 28:00 Leaving the tower and entering life   Links: RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat Book a Discovery Call About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.

  5. Jun 26

    Following The Thread: From Garage Circles to Main Stages

    Description: A few weeks ago I found myself standing on the main stage at the Mind Body Spirit Festival in Melbourne. If you had told me six years ago that I would be doing that, I probably would have laughed. More than likely, I would have found a reason why it wasn't possible. At the time, I was running a small men's circle from a garage while studying engineering at university. I didn't have a plan. I didn't know where it was leading. I wasn't trying to become a speaker. Truthfully, I wasn't trying to become much of anything. I was simply following something. Looking back now, that has been the common thread through much of my life. Not a strategy. Not a five-year plan. Not certainty. A thread. A feeling that there was something here worth moving towards, even when I couldn't explain why. This episode began because so many people in Melbourne asked me the same question: "How did you get here?" And the more I sat with that question, the more I realised there wasn't a simple answer. There were men's circles. There were mentors. There were retreats. There were failed attempts, uncomfortable conversations, shaky Instagram lives, moments of deep self-doubt, and more times than I can count where I questioned whether I had anything worth sharing at all. There were also moments where life seemed to open a door and ask me to take a step. Not ten steps. Just one. This conversation is a reflection on that journey. Not because I believe I have it figured out, but because I know there are people listening who are standing at the edge of something themselves. Something calling them forward. Something asking to be lived. My experience has been that we rarely get the whole map. We are given a thread, a direction, a next step. And if we are willing to trust it, life has a way of revealing what comes after. This episode is about following that thread.   Time Stamps: 00:00 Welcome to The Wyrd Way 01:00 Returning to the podcast after a break 01:37 Speaking at Mind Body Spirit Festival Melbourne 02:00 The RAW Men's Retreat and creating transformational spaces 03:27 Why people kept asking: "How did you get here?" 04:03 From fearing the stage to loving it 05:00 Growth through following aliveness and discomfort 06:54 Reflecting on six years of mentoring and transformation 07:24 The first men's circle in a university garage 09:00 Beginning before knowing what you're doing 09:40 Engineering, anxiety, depression, and the search for healing 10:18 Breathwork, meditation, plant medicine, and self-discovery 12:22 Becoming a coach and facing imposter syndrome 13:24 Starting imperfectly and learning in public 15:17 The terrifying first Instagram Live 16:04 Learning to love the parts of yourself that feel afraid 16:55 Becoming versus performing 17:33 Ego, collapse, and coming back into alignment 19:14 Authenticity and owning what you're feeling 20:20 Looking for the next step instead of the whole path 21:25 Stewarding a vision without controlling it 22:01 Treating your creations as living entities 23:01 Business, relationships, and being in conversation with life 24:42 The danger of trying to think your way through everything 25:30 Being in conversation with the universe 26:11 Following intuition, mentors, and unexpected opportunities 27:27 Vision quests, relationships, and life's turning points 28:20 Following the thread of your own becoming 29:02 Leadership as going first 30:15 Six years later: arriving on the main stage 31:04 The role fear has played in every stage of growth 31:41 Greatness, service, and sharing your gifts 32:24 Mentorship, RAW Retreat, and next opportunities 34:01 Closing reflections   Links: RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat Book a Discovery Call About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.

  6. May 15

    Unlocking The Depth of Your Soul: The Transformative Powers of Presence, Expression & Surrender

    Welcome Back Wyrd Wayer's Ok, so y'all getting a bit more this week because I've been a bit bored by AI's write up of these episodes (don't worry I'll still include it so you know what this week was all about), and wanted to create a bit more intimacy and realness.  This week was fresh. As always I started with a bit of a ramble before really finding the thread of where we were at this week.  This episode landed a lot of clarity for myself on some of the core themes of my own work and highlights the areas that I continue to return to, expression, alchemy, and embodiment. It's all about that feeling yo, and expressing it into this world.  My ole adage of "how can I be more in this world?" rings true on this episode and if you want to know how to deepen into your world, life and connection to yourself, this is a good episode for you.  So enjoy, share and let me know what lands for you   Summary (AI): In this deeply personal transmission, Dean Bentley explores the healing power of slowing down in a world addicted to force, hustle, and constant self-improvement. Fresh from hosting his Edge workshop and navigating his own exhaustion, Dean speaks candidly about guilt, rest, nervous system overwhelm, emotional contraction, and the unconscious conditioning that tells us we must always be “on” to be worthy of love. This episode is an invitation to soften. To breathe. To stop trying to force your healing and instead create safety within yourself so the body, heart, and soul can finally open. Dean dives into: The shame many people feel around rest and doing nothing Why healing cannot be rushed Nervous system contraction and emotional safety The difference between force and attunement The savior dynamic in relationships Expression as alchemy Learning to embody authenticity The beauty of surrender and self-acceptance Why your greatest task may simply be allowing yourself to be fully seen This is a transmission about coming home to yourself. About releasing the pressure to become someone else. About realizing that perhaps the deepest healing isn’t becoming more — but finally allowing yourself to be. Raw, honest, spacious, and deeply human. Welcome back to The Wyrd Way. Timestamps 00:00 — Opening Invocation: The Wyrd Way 01:18 — Coming Down After Holding Space 02:16 — The Shame Around Rest 03:23 — Childhood Conditioning & The Need to Perform 04:49 — The Nervous System & Constant Stimulation 05:52 — Healing Beyond Force 07:01 — Why We Need Space to Breathe 08:42 — The Tension We Don’t Realize We Carry 10:02 — Attunement vs Force in Life & Relationships 12:39 — Savior Dynamics & Emotional Responsibility 15:00 — Awareness, Capacity & Self-Check-Ins 16:24 — Why Support Matters in Healing 17:45 — Healing Takes Time 20:30 — Patience on the Spiritual Path 21:25 — The Beauty of Being Alive 23:46 — The Grass is Greener Where You Water It 24:44 — Creating From Love Instead of Resentment 26:02 — Character Work & Emotional Expression 28:35 — We Came Here to Feel 29:38 — Surrendering to the Fullness of Yourself 31:04 — Safety Within the Self 32:45 — Trusting Life & The Unknown 34:12 — Invitation Into RAW Retreat 36:23 — Closing Transmission RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.

  7. May 8

    Initiation In The Modern World: Why modern initiation cannot look like the ancient world

    In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean Bentley explores what initiation truly means in the modern world — and why so many ancient rites cannot simply be copied into contemporary culture. This conversation dives into the evolution from boyhood to embodied adulthood, the separation from the mother archetype, the collapse of egoic identity, and the necessity of relationship with something greater than the self. Dean reflects on the differences between tribal initiation and modern psychological development, exploring how community, nature, suffering, sovereignty, and soul all play a role in the initiatory path. Drawing on the work of Bill Plotkin and Carl Jung, this episode speaks to parents, facilitators, mentors, and seekers alike — especially those navigating the tension between wanting to guide others and learning to surrender control. This is a conversation about becoming. Not through force, but through embodied relationship with life itself. Key Themes Modern vs tribal initiation Masculine maturation Ego death and reconstruction Nature as initiator Sovereignty and soul The danger of forcing growth Embodiment vs spiritual bypassing Relationship with community and the living world Parenting, control, and letting go Initiation as a lifelong journey Timestamps 00:00 — Opening Invocation: Finding your Wyrd Way 01:12 — What initiation meant in ancient cultures 02:26 — Why tribal initiation differs from the modern world 04:25 — Why modern initiation is not a quick fix 06:16 — Growth through force vs natural blooming 07:02 — Becoming a man before your time 08:23 — Why relationship with nature matters 09:15 — Moving beyond egocentric living 10:43 — The importance of relationship and community 12:27 — Defeat, humility, and true initiation 14:15 — Preparing someone for initiation 16:22 — Why initiation must be chosen 18:25 — Darkness as a doorway to transformation 19:07 — Parenting, control, and surrender 22:14 — Destiny, fate, and unavoidable initiation 24:00 — Rebuilding modern tribal culture 25:50 — The Edge Workshop invitation   The Edge Workshop   About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power. Instagram: @thedeanbentley

  8. May 2

    Concerns Of The Healing World: Discernment, Dogma, and the Illusion of Truth

    Welcome Back Wyrd Wayer's Welcome back Wyrd Wayer’s, This week I dive into what has been percolating in the background as I prepare for the upcoming Edge workshop, and the RAW retreat in August—concerns I am currently witnessing within the healing space. Stemming from my own experience walking this path, and what I witness both online and in person, this episode speaks into the subtle distortions that can arise in spaces meant for growth, healing, and transformation. We explore the tension between truth and dogma… presence and performance… guidance and dependency… And ultimately, what it means to walk a path that is truly your own. This is not a rejection of the healing world—but an invitation into deeper discernment, sovereignty, and embodied truth. If you’ve ever felt something was “off” but couldn’t name it… this one is for you.   What We Uncover in This Episode – The danger of rigid “truths” and how dogma disconnects you from your own knowing – Why discernment is essential in a space filled with teachers, methods, and ideologies – The evolution of the spiritual path: from structure → collapse → embodied presence – How the drama triangle (victim, rescuer, saviour) operates in healing spaces – The difference between performance and presence in emotional expression – Addiction to intensity vs the power of softness, safety, and regulation – How healing work can reinforce identity instead of dissolving it – Moving from consumption into creation and lived embodiment – The unseen impact of what you consume (music, media, environment) on your psyche – Reclaiming personal authority and walking your own path with integrity   Timestamps 00:00 – Opening Invocation: The Wyrd Way 01:00 – Introduction + Edge Workshop & RAW Retreat 03:40 – Why I’m Questioning the Healing Space 05:00 – When “Truth” Becomes Dogma 07:45 – Reality Tunnels & The Fluid Nature of Truth 10:00 – The Guru Trap & Lack of Humility 12:50 – The Drama Triangle (Victim, Rescuer, Saviour) 14:45 – Stages of the Spiritual Path (Structure → Collapse → Presence) 17:20 – The Danger of “This Is The Way” Thinking 20:10 – Reclaiming Discernment & Personal Authority 22:10 – Consumption vs Creation 23:20 – Performance vs Presence in Healing Work 26:00 – Addiction to Intensity & Emotional Expression 28:00 – The Power of Softness, Slowness & Safety 30:30 – When Healing Reinforces the Ego 32:00 – Becoming “Better” vs Becoming True 33:50 – Grounding vs Spiritual Escapism 35:00 – The Impact of What You Consume (Music, Media, Environment) 37:00 – Clearing Your System & Returning to Authentic Truth 38:00 – Closing Reflections + Invitations   The Edge Workshop   About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power. Instagram: @thedeanbentley

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The Wyrd Way is a spirituality and personal growth podcast for those ready to live in alignment with their soul. Each episode explores the questions: How do we step fully into who we were born to be? How do we break free from expectation, conditioning, and old patterns to create a life that’s truly ours? Join me, Dean Bentley, as I sit with creators, healers, leaders, and adventurers, people who have forged extraordinary paths outside the ordinary. Together, we dive into mindset, magick, energy healing, alchemy, conscious business, sexuality, health, psychedelics, and philosophy. Each episode is an invitation to journey further, see differently, and step into the story you were born to write. It’s time to get wyrd, claim your path, and embrace the life you were always meant to live.

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    Dean Bentley
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    2023 - 2026
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