The Sacred Speaks
Join depth psychotherapist and Jungian scholar, John Price, in an exploration of extraordinary stories and phenomena that lurk beneath the surface of normal and everyday life. Listen in as John interviews experts, dilettantes, sinners, and saints to explore their professional and personal perspective on the underlying purpose of the mysteries which lurk within the seemingly mundane nature of day-to-day life. John received his Master’s degree in clinical psychology and his Doctorate degree in Jungian psychology. He is in private practice and is also on the faculty of The Jung Center and The University of St. Thomas, both located in Houston, Texas. He lectures and teaches classes in subjects ranging from Parenting and Consciousness to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll. This podcast seeks to accept a challenge laid out by Carl Jung: to explore the universal human feelings of emotional incompleteness, spiritual curiosity and one’s related search for wholeness and meaning. Interviews commence with the belief that, by engaging in this exploration, we can learn more about the psyche, consciousness, spirituality, philosophy and the profound, though often hidden, meaning of the day-to-day lives we lead (or which will lead us, if we aren’t watchful).Come along as John follows people into bars, universities, places of worship, financial districts and the home. He finds each context equally able to provide a setting for this worthy search and also that, through this process, we have an opportunity to come to know each other and ourselves much more deeply.
The Sacred Speaks
125 - Sean Manseau: The Devil You Know & Entheogenic Fitness Training
In this unforgettable episode, Dr. John Price sits down with writer, ritualist, and mytho-technologist Sean Manseau, whose work bridges depth psychology, psychedelics, performance, and esoteric theology. Together, they explore Entheogenic Fitness Training (EFT)—a radical spiritual system designed for the metamodern age.
EFT combines physical resistance training, psychedelic states, mythic storytelling, and ritual performance to create a structured path of transformation. At its core is the archetype of the Phonomancer—a shamanic superhero trained to channel divine energy through movement, voice, and ecstatic states.
Sean also shares the inner journey behind his visionary book The Devil You Know, a Jungian-style self-analysis written as a dialogue between two imagined selves. This conversation offers a deep dive into imagination, magic, trauma, shadow work, and the struggle to maintain integrity while mapping new sacred ground.
From ayahuasca visions to ecstatic dance, from black magic to simulated belief, this is a conversation for those willing to question what’s real, what’s possible, and what the future of spiritual practice might become.
Topics Covered:
How suffering can become sacred resistance
Psychedelics as initiatory stressors (not just therapy)
Make-Believe vs. Make-Belief as spiritual technology
Designing a religion for the age of simulation
The adversary as a real force in consciousness
Ritual performance as a container for ego death
From anima to AI: dialoguing with the inner divine
Addiction, psychosis, and how to build inner structure
The idea of “Functional Enlightenment” and training spiritual capacity
Gnosis, the Christ archetype, and becoming a conscious myth-maker
In This Episode
(00:00) Introduction and updates
(06:35) Ayahuasca, ritual, and the origin of EFT
(13:00) Phonomantic method and psychedelic training
(17:00) Make-believe, religion, and sacred play
(22:00) Ecstatic states, magic, and the imaginal
(30:00) Dark magic, possession, and archetypal rage
(35:00) Writing The Devil You Know as active imagination
(41:00) Addiction, psychosis, and safety in altered states
(49:00) Resistance, shamanic ecology, and loving the adversary
(57:00) What is Functional Enlightenment?
(1:14:00) Christ 2.0 and the collective evolution of soul
(1:26:00) Ending the psychedelic Tower of Babel
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