The Feri tradition affirms a distinctive teaching of the Three Souls and the cultivation of ecstatic personal power. In Feri anthropology the human being comprises three souls or aspects (commonly a lower or animal soul, a conscious talking self, and a higher or divine self), which the practitioner works to align and integrate. Feri is an intense, poetic, and ecstatic tradition of witchcraft, emphasising direct experience of the divine, sensory and sexual mysticism, and the awakening of personal power, and it draws on diverse mythological and mystical sources.
Feri terminology names the three souls the Fetch (or the "sticky" self, seat of animal vitality, emotion, and magical power), the Talker (the ordinary conscious, reasoning self that negotiates with the world), and the God Soul (or Divine Twin, the higher self connected to the sacred). The scheme draws acknowledged influence from Max Freedom Long's mid-twentieth-century popularisation of what he presented as ancient Hawaiian psychology (Huna), a system since criticised by scholars of Hawaiian religion as a modern American reconstruction bearing limited resemblance to genuine traditional Hawaiian spiritual concepts; Victor Anderson nonetheless incorporated its three-part model of the self as a central structural element of Feri practice.