Introduction of Saddle Di and Saruda
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Hey everyone, Jim Phoenix here, and today's What's Cracking, we've got a special guest from the East Coast. No, not Boston, Lakers forever. We've got the far East Coast, that's right, we've got none other than Saddle Di, the Exorcist Supreme. All this more ah next was's crack and
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Hey everyone, Jim Phoenix here, and today's What's Cracking is something special. We are getting a guest all the way from the other side, no, not death, the other side of the planet. We've got none other than Saruda coming from us from the Far East. Thank you, Saruda, for coming here, man. I'm excited to see you. It's great to be here, man. I've got so many questions.
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So many questions about mysticism and exorcisms and spiritualism. A lot of isms. I have a lot of questions about isms.
Understanding Thai Shamanism
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You are the premier ghost expert for Eastern mysticism. Eastern, what'd you want to call it? Is it mysticism, spiritualism? What would it be? Yeah. So I would call it, um, if we wanted to be very particular, um Thai shamanism. Okay, Thai shamanism. ah How does that develop historically? um new to Well, we have to, we have to go back to before the creation of Thailand as we know it today, which used to be a region known as Siam few hundred years ago. um I mean, not even that long ago that changed from Siam to Thailand, but specifically as a region.
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You had this collaboration of sorts between cultures of Cambodia with the barang, this famous black magic that comes from there, a lot of ghost magic.
Influence of Buddhism on Thai Spirituality
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You had some of the Vietnamese Hmong practices of shamanism. You even had a little flavor of Malaysian Daoism all mixed together with the Lana and the Khmer practices.
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and ah not to forget, not worship, which comes from Myanmar, also known as Burma. So in the 13th, 14th century, we were introduced to ah Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism in Thailand. But as with many cultures across the world,
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through colonization and things of this sort, which Thailand has never been colonized, been invaded twice by Burmese and by Japanese, but never been colonized. But cultural colonization did happen. And that is different. Oh, very much so. That's amazing. Deep rooted. Deep rooted cultural. So deep rooted cultural, I kind of call it a gumbo, really.
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and yes I've been cooking lately. We have a little bit of this, a little bit of that mixing in. So that's going to be that version. so What people practiced before was a lot of nature-based worship. So a lot of gods, spirits, deities, this, that, and the other. And Buddhism is very much so about the Dhamma and the Buddha and the Sangha, the monks. Right. So it's, it's a very, very different thing. That's why.
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in Thailand, you have the use of amulets, right? so yeah So the one that I'm wearing right now, this golden piece is made from a soldier's forehead bone. Really? So this is the actual forehead bone of a soldier. And in the back are his ashes. And then you have um takrut.
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takrut are these rolled Khmer written spells on like a piece of like metal can be bone, it can be hair, some you have like tiger takruts with the tiger skin, right? So and and um you have these compositions of materials that come together, which are blessed and gathered in very specific ways. And then they're imbued with this magic, what we call witcha. So the witcha is imbued into it. And the kata or some people would be more familiar with the word mantra.
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So our prayers are spoken into it and it's charged and consecrated with the living energy and power of the monk or the Ajahn Onusi, the shaman who makes it. And then this is given to somebody and it'll have the effect anywhere from helping someone with love affairs, gambling, business, wealth, luck.
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can be protection, um opening psychic senses, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They've got amulets for everything. And there's many different classifications and types of amulets for everything that has a specialty within those amulets. That is what's very, very unique about the Thai practices.
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So let me get this straight to unpack. It's kind of like the old, uh, remembrance lock is where they would take a piece of, you know, when someone dies, they took the hair or a bone and they put it into a little locker and an Ember. And then you have that, but it goes beyond that because you're also making spells as a talisman and putting the energy into it. Right. Okay.
Creation and Significance of Amulets
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So the, the way it differs is, um, you enter into a negotiation with the spirit.
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So for those who believe in the occult or follow some of those mysticism type of traditions that get into those esoteric practices, what we're talking about is somebody who has the ability to see or communicate with these types of of individuals, you know, these entities, and they're then able to kind of strike a deal with them. And the spells themselves Not only do they empower and anchor and also kind of hold the word as bond over what it is, but the person who owns it then has a secondary responsibility, which is the making of tamboon or like merit. They have to create good karma for the spirit. So when the karma of that spirit it reaches a certain point, it can reincarnate and it can have a higher incarnation than what it naturally would have. So it's a very symbiotic relationship. It's not a parasitic relationship.
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No, it's more of a circular deal where if you give me help here, I will make sure I'm using that help in a good way. Therefore, when you become reincarnated, you may go a little bit higher plane. Yes. Oh, that's amazing. I never heard of that before. And I did look through the store and I've seen the ambulance. I'm like, this is really cool. This is my jam. Really? I have a couple bazillion questions now, of course, of course, because I did study at the Vatican.
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Oddly enough years ago. And in terms but I know early, early Christianity, they had talismans as well. And those were made out of, uh, anyone listening, human flesh.
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And then then it went to animal flesh because people like, Oh, I i need mom and dad around somewhere. So I'm guessing, okay, yours came from the actually using and infusing of the amulet. And the Christianity version was it like the just a regular talisman, but there was no payoff is more parasitic, you know, it's more like,
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this is what you're new for me and good luck. So I think it might've been a mixture of cultures there. I'm not saying who comes first, but it it appears that there's a more of a karmic or more of a beneficial nature in the version that we're talking about now versus absolute right. there's There's a very interesting practice, not not many people who You know, so I I've been living in Thailand for a few years now, and I full time I do this. Right. This this is my day job now.
The Paranormal Story of Hunpeon
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um I teach people I make amulets, I sell amulets, I deal and I flip them and I study and I learn with different monks, ah John and Lucy. And one of the really fascinating things I found out is um so there's ah there's a type of amulet called a horn pound horn pound means robot guardian.
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And what these used to be, they're a very old style of amulet where they were made out of like a, um, like a straw effigy. And it it just kind of looks like a little like wicker man. Like think of like letter which project, right? And so like, or like burning man, right? So yeah, you have this like little, like, little like straw man. And what is done is the, uh, John, the loose, the monk will condense very, very strong, um,
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ah Mental energy in a state of Samadhi or like a higher state of consciousness in this meditative state they will imbue the focus of um a Task this is very similar when we're talking about like, you know ceremonial magic and like Wicca and like when we're speaking about like aggregors and servitors This is kind of the Thai version of that. Okay, and so what what it is is it's a non intelligent sentient energy force that has a simplistic function, and it carries it out, as the name suggests, a robot guardian. And they would use these in the old um fields, like for farmers to keep, um you know, vandals and like robbers away. right And um I've had experiences where, um you know, as a student of mine bought, you know, one of the hoon pounds and um
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She went away on vacation and she said the kata and she gave the offering and she asked the hunpeon to protect the house. And then she got a um ah ring notification that picked up, um you know, a person in her home. really And she's like, uh, what? And so she goes and looks at it thinking like someone broke into her home and there's a shadow. It's just like this shadow pacing back and forth for a few seconds on frame and then disappears. And she's like, Sadhu, what was that? And I was like,
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Okay. So you told your hun pan, you did the appropriate offering. You gave the kata and you instructed it. And it's just doing that. And you happened to catch it on camera. You saw the hun pan patrolling the house. but so so like There is sometimes paranormal phenomena that's observed, but these, these hun pan, what's really fascinating is one of the modern renditions of them is you'll have some monks that will gather very, very strong karma. And though,
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they'll join this karma with the temple and then people can be connected to this when they give offerings and donations to the temple and they can receive some of this karma. It's like a transfer, like, right you know, switching money from different bank accounts, right? And you're, you're giving out the interest to other people. So what they do is they go to death row inmates and they bring a contract to them while they're still in line and they say, Hey, we understand you're, you're going to die. Right.
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No, you've, you've made the choices that you've made. We can't do anything to get you out of the situation, but if you want, we can help you prepare for your next life. And if you sign your name on this, if you voluntarily agree, then once you pass away from execution, we will come and collect some ingredient from your body.
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could be hair, could be skin, whatever they're using to make the Hunpaan. And then they will make this Hunpaan and it has this you know bandit or this murderer or this you know person who lived a sinful life, who is now dedicating their spirit to helping people and protecting so that they build good karmas so that it can kind of help neutralize yeah some of the karma of that life. So they might go into the next life, just reset, not necessarily a higher incarnation, but another chance, but definitely not lower. Right.
Karma Generation and Community Service
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It's one more chance that that's pretty good to really think about life as a never ending process. And the volume went down low for some reason. How about now? Good. No.
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But now I can hear you a little bit. I don't know what happened. I can talk loud if you want. Yeah, I can hear you now. All right. Cool. I mean, kind of kind of. Well, it's it's going to be like this. If you have this as a never ending life, right? And you have the ability to play it or play it, pay it forward and say, I might have messed up in this life.
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But I'm going to want a second chance and be cognizant of trying for a second chance. I think that's a little bit redemption story, right? It it is. It definitely is.
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Yeah. And that redemption story is going to be both for what you can do in this life, but it's also redemption for the people coming to this inmates because they can then say, listen, I know you did some bad things, but I'm going to help you out in the next life. If you want, you know, if you want, exactly. And and that's why it becomes this big, this big act of generating karma because you're you're you're you're not just the spirit benefiting the person and the person who owns that that amulet benefiting you know them, right? But it's it's the people who and donate money to the temple, which is making those amulets. It's the monks who went to those um there's death row inmates. it's It's all the people in the com community, right? It becomes
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it becomes a seed that sprouts into something much larger. And that's, that's something I don't see in the U S with, you know, um, a lot of different religious organizations, which, which is not me criticizing, but what I find very interesting is how deeply spread community spiritualism is in Thailand. Like we have San Pak Koon. You see them everywhere around here and they're little spirit houses and they're for the wandering lost ghosts and people give them offerings. Some out of fear that maybe the ghost can make them sick. Some just want to give the ghost shelter, but
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literally every street you go on, every building, government institution, home, business, everywhere, has a san bakum, and it looks like a little dollhouse. They're everywhere here in Thailand, and it's for the Lost Coast, and they're given offerings every day.
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Oh, that's very cool. That's a, that's a very good community service and it's a very well taken care of each other. And I think you're right. That is sorely missing in other places, the world where it's kind of like, we'll take care of you. If you take care of us versus taking care of everyone, I'm gonna actually think should be like a human objective just to take care of everyone and give people who may be lost in this world or the next.
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a little place to go. I think that's
Stages and Responsibilities of Exorcism
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admirable. Now, do you ever have anything that's going to be more of the wicked ways? Like I see you're also an exorcist. Is that going to be for a person, for an object? Is it attachment? Is it infestations? What? So we we have, we have different classifications. Um, so the, the way that I, I look at objects and people and homes,
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Usually homes is connected with a person. um But when we're looking at objects, it's it's honestly, it's it's less entertaining than you would think, you know, especially we're thinking about like some Annabelle doll, stuff like that, right? right um By fire, brother. Cleanse it by fire. Just burn it. but Just destroy it. Simple enough. like Like really, that's my answer. When it comes to dealing with cursed objects, that's always been my approach. i um One of my mentors,
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had a collection of very, very extremely haunted and disturbed items. and um Yeah, something happened at one point with a student and some of that stuff got out and um he had to track it all down, do a whole bunch of like case work helping people, had to destroy all the items. And then he said, yeah, I'm just not collecting cursed objects anymore. And he had it under lock and key, but I mean, never misunderstand um ignorance and curiosity wrapped together, right? So when it comes to people though, I have a very, very unique approach. so
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Exorcisms and extreme hauntings is the the one service I never charge for. You wanna buy an amulet for me? Okay, let's talk price. You wanna do you know lessons with me. You wanna learn magic. You wanna study? Okay, let's talk price. Your family's in danger. Your life is in danger. That costs nothing. Let me give everything I possibly can to help you. And that's how I've always operated. It's the one service I don't charge for.
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Because the way one of my teachers instructed me is he's like, you call 911 because a burglar just broke into your house and he's got a knife to your wife's throat. Does the 911 operator tell you to give your credit card number before the police are dispatched? No. Oh, they do their job. Yeah, though that's it. Yeah, that's burning down. Yeah. Yeah. do you Do you need to do you need to give the fireman money before he runs in to put out the fire? No.
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This there is it's a service work to your community. And when you choose the responsibility of taking on this type of work as dangerous as it is, you choose to fill a certain role in your community. And so when I'm dealing with people who have a haunting, I have to look at it in the staging of it. if Is it stage one, stage two, stage three, stage three is possession. Stage three is we're immediately going in guns blazing.
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we're separating the attachment from the person, um which involves some pretty heavy work. And then at that point, this is the part people don't like to hear. This is the part that isn't often talked about in paranormal communities. Once you successfully um break a possession, then you're dealing with a house haunting because the entity has to stage things. but It's very, very predictable.
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the way this works. It's down to a science. I have a whole book written on demonology, where I explain how these entities hunt, operate, countermeasures, all of it. I explain different entity classifications, all of this stuff. And and one of the things I can tell you is, so generally what they want to do is they want to induce rapport with you.
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because if they don't have connection with you, they can't try your meat suit on, they can't try you on for size. So they have to induce rapport first. And by inducing rapport, that means they need to bring you down to your level because you resonate higher than they do.
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So who are the perfect people for this? These are people that have trauma. These are people that have mental um diagnosis. These are people who are struggling in some way, shape or form. They're more susceptible. They're easier to isolate and target in a family setting, or they're less likely to reach out for help if they live by themselves. So these are the perfect targets. Then You want the induction of fear, right? And this this creates the ability for it to generate more energy, to feed more, to grow stronger. And then at that point, you get the bridging, or that is internal and external oppression, which is an internal and external assault at the same time, which then leads to possession.
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um So when I get into a situation where it's stage one, we have stuff going on in the house, we can generally resolve that within a couple of sessions if it's pretty light or it just started, and then there's no more haunting. Or it can take a couple of months if it's already a little bit more progressed. If it's already in a state of possession, we might be able to get the person kicked down to stage one or or early stage two um within a session or two, and that's a big deal. That's really, really good.
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but then we might be dealing with a low level haunting for a year or two, which I've seen in a lot of cases, but that's a lot more manageable than you literally being possessed by an entity, you know, having something knocking and throwing things around and just being like, okay, time to go get the war water out. Like that's much more preferable than the alternative. It eventually dissipates, but it takes time. So where do the spirit of the person, where does that go when being possessed?
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Spirit of the person is kind of essentially condensed. So think about if you were to put, let's say we have a cup of water that's half full.
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and I were to put an object inside of there. The water will displace, but it doesn't go anywhere, right? It just displaces and that object will take up resonance and it'll fill more volume in that space. So with these types of entities, um, they tend to kind of inject themselves into the neurology. Um, they prefer what's called the wind gate channel and Dallas methodologies, which is the nape of the neck, the brainstem.
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And from there, they can kind of like control the electrical impulses of your body. They are kind of hijack your neurology that way. So it's not even necessarily that they're literally inside your body. If we think about what our aura is, think of them like hugging the aura and then penetrating into the back of it through a like, through like an outlet basically. And then being able to kind of like try it on like a glove.
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and pull this and pull that and see what this does and work it and manipulate. It's terrifying actually. It's quite terrifying. Oh, I almost afraid I asked now. I'm like, Oh man, that's a great answer. Cause I always, I was wondering what happens to that. And now here's a question then. What happens if the person dies possessed? That's a pretty, pretty bad scenario. And I've, unfortunately I've seen that happen on cases. You can't save them all. Um,
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And if you do any research on exorcists, you'll find there there is a common theme of this and this and this case, like they might've succeeded or not, but the person died, right? So at a certain point, the toll can be too great on the physical body, and that alone can exhaust the life force of the person. And if the exorcism was successful, then the person has passed away,
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I mean, we could say technically under natural causes like heart attack or something like that, right? But but it's not necessarily spirit induced at that point. But then if you're looking at somebody who was still in a state of possession when this occurs,
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then what has happened is you have this displacement of the soul and the soul is now within vibratory alignment of this entity and it can become a used to device like a wraith under um this, this, uh, this demonic entity. Okay. And then what ends up happening there is you have to banish the entity and then you need to essentially cross the person's spirit, but you have to kind of purify them first. So are you familiar with the term wraith? Yes. Yes. So yeah, like ah a corrupted human spirit. Yeah. So ah essentially a person can naturally become a wraith, you know, if they die under the right circumstances, you know, suicide, murder, things like that. Right. But, but they can also be pushed to that if they wouldn't have become one. And then if they're
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under the influence of, ah you know, a demonic entity, then they can kind of, it would appear that that they're in collusion together, that they're working together, but really it's just this, this rape is no longer really the intelligence of a human. They're they are kind of like a reactionary force and they're emotionally reacting and the entity itself will kind of instigate or it'll kind of push, you know, the buttons of this rape and it'll have it essentially hunt or get victims for it. And then it can feed off of the killing. So it'll just kind of swoop in and it will consume the, the ether, the energy from that. We use them as basically like hunting dogs. Yeah. That's interesting. It's it's like the old Dracula story, you know, like you, the one guy brought Dracula, all the people to all the victims and Dracula kept them alive just enough to keep doing that.
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right I like that. but but But this would be like if that guy was on autopilot and didn't know what he was doing. Right. right and that's And that brings me to my next question. This is really good. So if I want to avoid infestation, I want to avoid being possessed, what are the early stages? What can I do to stop it before it starts?
Preventing Possession and Trauma Work
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Really good question. so If you want to stop it before there's before it starts, there's two really essential things that you could do. One would be um working on your own um resonating field. So ah the Institute of Heart Math has found that we have, ah depending upon stimulation and et cetera, like we have a eight to 12 foot radius of, um
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electromagnetic field that emits from our hearts like when we think about like what powers the body literal electricity electricity actually powers our body so our heart emits this electromagnetic field which can be measured and um when you interact with people right it has a resonance of its own it's like somebody's in a really really foul mood they can bring you down right this they're affecting your emf field and so if we're affecting um Our own emf field if we're able to manipulate our own emf field that means that we could actually resonate at a higher level But how do we do that? cultivation of sadhana sadhana is a daily spiritual practice now a
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I'm not telling you, you have to go find a guru or a master or anything like that, but doing practices such as yoga and qigong, tai chi, right? yeah and And having these sort of practices that cultivate and cleanse, renew and build our energy. It's the spiritual equivalent of lifting weights and it makes us stronger and it has us vibrating at a higher, higher resonance. So if if we could do that,
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then not only are we able to um to be at a higher level of cultivating our own energy, we have a greater degree of control with it. And so with that greater degree of control with it, we are able to prevent obstacles or penetrative forces from overriding us. And the other part of that is also working on one's trauma.
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because trauma is something that these entities, when when they take over the neurology, right they the way that they're so effective and so cunning is that they're able to um use your trauma against you. So what you might find scary in a horror movie is not really what's truly scary, but imagine you're unable to wake up from a dream.
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and you're reliving your worst trauma that's ever happened in your life and you're feeling it, full sensory feeling it, all five senses, experiencing it on a loop, infinitely. And it's only been a few minutes and you've experienced that trauma on a loop for the equivalent feeling of a hundred years. Yeah. It's, it's enough to make anyone go that. That's essentially what I was out there for students.
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Yeah. I mean, that's exactly, it's like putting in reps would call it like put your reps in and yoga. And I love the one you're measuring in Tai Chi and she gone. Like I do those like, yay. Awesome. Can't I'm working at my trauma later. So all this is
Exploring Saruda's Offerings
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great information. And if people want to reach out to you, you can go, they can go to the Sada.
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the yeah h yeah so it's it's the vaudda dot com l t h e s a d h u um d dot com yeah vi saudda dot com great And we also have the Etsy score. I look at your Etsy score store, not score, sorry. And I see the amulets and I have to say, these look really good. They, they, they, and these are all the ones with the energy field. I'm looking at the animal animal, let's spell candles. And we got the magic wax and oil spirit bound amulets right there. That's what I'm looking at right now. And a perfect score. And that's the, I love it. So I love that people can get.
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across the world, get the help they need from you. Right. That's an amazing thing.
Episode Conclusion
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And I have to say, thank you very much for being a guest. I look forward to seeing more from you. And I i want to say thanks again for making this time. I know it's got to be late, late, late, late night for you right now. So I want to say thanks again. Yeah, you're very, very welcome. It's been an absolute pleasure.
00:30:52
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been great. Thank you very much. All right. And that's it. If you want more, you must follow the click through links, go to the website, go check it out. And of course you can always, always, always contact us at what's cracking and we will be sure to give you those links.
00:31:13
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That's it for me. Thank you very much. My special guests. I do that. We've learned a lot. We got scared and we learned. I love it. This is me, Jim Phoenix signing off. Thanks everyone. Bye.