Guest: Maritza Schäfer, Founder of Bruja School & Creator of the Liberation Magic Method

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In this episode we explore:

* Why manifestation culture is incomplete — and what’s actually missing

* Magic as the craft of transforming reality, not wishful thinking

* The three axioms of liberation magic

* Why witches have been vilified throughout history, and why that’s not a coincidence

* The connection between personal transformation and systemic change

* Liberation as an inside job — but never a solo path

* How paradox is the organizing principle of life, not just a feature of it

🎵 Music credit: Intro and outro music: Madre Ayahuasca by Arkawa. Used with permission. More at arkawamusic.com🌐 Visit www.goddessintraining.online for more tools to support your intuitive journey.

I have a confession.

I use the word magic all the time. I always have. But for a long time, I said it a little quietly. Like it was something I believed in the way you believe in a dream you’re not quite ready to say out loud — hedging it with manifestation or intention or energy when I was in certain company. Using the safer words. The ones that come with a neuroscientific footnote attached.

My conversation with Maritza Schäfer shifted something in me.

Maritza grew up in Chile in a family of witches. Her grandmother initiated her into brujería. Magic wasn’t a belief system she adopted or a practice she found later in life during some searching season — it was simply the air she breathed. The sky-is-blue fact of her childhood. And when she moved to the United States at 18, she encountered something she genuinely hadn’t anticipated: a world that had forgotten how to work with the unseen.

She told me she looked around and thought, oh, you poor babies.

I laughed when she said it. And then I felt it land somewhere true.

Because here’s what I’ve been sitting with since our conversation ended: we have not been taught to work magic. We’ve been taught to produce. To optimize. To measure outcomes and justify every expenditure of energy with a legible result. And somewhere inside that system, we learned to distrust anything we couldn’t explain — including ourselves.