Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this episode, I chat with former Navy SEAL Slade Cutrer for a candid conversation about military service, trauma, spiritual warfare, and the search for healing.
After spending fifteen years in one of the most demanding military communities in the world, Slade found himself facing challenges that combat training could not prepare him for. We discuss the realities of life in the SEAL Teams, PTSD, hyper-vigilance, sleep paralysis, and why he came to see many of his struggles as spiritual rather than merely psychological.
Slade shares his experiences with New Age practices and psychedelic healing retreats, why he believes they ultimately failed to provide lasting answers, and the profound realization that led him to seek Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Topics include:
• Growing up and early religious influences
• BUD/S training and life in the SEAL Teams
• PTSD, hyper-vigilance, and life after combat
• Sleep paralysis and spiritual warfare
• Psychedelics, New Age healing, and false shortcuts
• The challenges of transitioning from warrior to civilian life
• Marriage, family, and finding purpose after military service
• The role of silence
• Finding peace, order, and healing in the Orthodox Church
Follow Slade: instagram.com/slayderaider
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Please consider supporting me on Patreon: patreon.com/counterflow
Visit my website: counterflowpodcast.com
Audio Production by Podsworth Media: podsworth.com
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The Counterflow Podcast is a weekly show featuring discussions and interviews with people who are outside of and critical toward mainstream liberal and conservative politics. Counterflow challenges the conventional right/left binary and is concerned with the more important distinction of free vs unfree. The show will feature thinkers from all backgrounds, who do not fit into the narrow framework of fashionable opinion. The show will address cultural and lifestyle issues as well as philosophy and politics. Host Buck Johnson (formerly of The Death To Tyrants Podcast) is a musician and firefighter and has always had an interest and drive to go one way while everyone else runs the other direction.
In this episode, I chat with former Navy SEAL Slade Cutrer for a candid conversation about military service, trauma, spiritual warfare, and the search for healing.
After spending fifteen years in one of the most demanding military communities in the world, Slade found himself facing challenges that combat training could not prepare him for. We discuss the realities of life in the SEAL Teams, PTSD, hyper-vigilance, sleep paralysis, and why he came to see many of his struggles as spiritual rather than merely psychological.
Slade shares his experiences with New Age practices and psychedelic healing retreats, why he believes they ultimately failed to provide lasting answers, and the profound realization that led him to seek Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Topics include:
• Growing up and early religious influences
• BUD/S training and life in the SEAL Teams
• PTSD, hyper-vigilance, and life after combat
• Sleep paralysis and spiritual warfare
• Psychedelics, New Age healing, and false shortcuts
• The challenges of transitioning from warrior to civilian life
• Marriage, family, and finding purpose after military service
• The role of silence
• Finding peace, order, and healing in the Orthodox Church
Follow Slade: instagram.com/slayderaider
Sign the petition against windmill farms near Holy Trinity Monastery:
change.org/p/wind-turbines-endanger-historic-monastery-hub-of-orthodox-christian-community
Please consider supporting me on Patreon: patreon.com/counterflow
Visit my website: counterflowpodcast.com
Audio Production by Podsworth Media: podsworth.com
Leave us a review and rating on iTunes! Thanks!
The Counterflow Podcast is a weekly show featuring discussions and interviews with people who are outside of and critical toward mainstream liberal and conservative politics. Counterflow challenges the conventional right/left binary and is concerned with the more important distinction of free vs unfree. The show will feature thinkers from all backgrounds, who do not fit into the narrow framework of fashionable opinion. The show will address cultural and lifestyle issues as well as philosophy and politics. Host Buck Johnson (formerly of The Death To Tyrants Podcast) is a musician and firefighter and has always had an interest and drive to go one way while everyone else runs the other direction.
