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What if time isn't a line you ride along, but a sphere you navigate with your attention? Aether physicist Krys Ra El, founder of the Elyrion Initiative, joins Will and Karen to explore his Time Sphere model and why he believes your focus, not the clock, decides what you experience next. We dig into why the law of attraction may have it backwards (Krys calls it the law of mirrors), whether aging is more concept than biology, and how his Center Hypothesis explains where individual awareness comes from. Plus, his ET contact experiences, his take on teleportation, and the Ether River Generator. Skeptical? So are we. Curious? Stick around. In this episode: How to use the Time Sphere in daily lifeLaw of attraction vs. the law of mirrorsBrainwaves and reprogramming the subconsciousET contact and humanity's next chapterConnect with Krys: elyrion.org | Instagram @elyrion_010 The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Lorenzo Jones, an astro numerologist who blends astrology and numerology into a single practice, reading natal charts, transits, and birth codes side by side to see where the two systems confirm each other. Lorenzo breaks down how planetary aspects like sextiles and trines map directly onto numerological meanings, reads Will's own chart live (life path 1, Libra rising, Cancer moon, and all), and explains why numerology isn't the "simpler" of the two modalities so much as the more accessible one. He also touches on human design as a third lens that pulls from both systems plus the I Ching, walks through what Mercury retrograde actually asks of us, and shares a real-time read on the astrological chart of the event itself, a rare air trine wrapped in a "mystic triangle," which he says explains the unusually high energy in the room that day. It's a conversation about how multiple systems of ancient knowledge can point to the same truth, and what happens when you ask a professional to read your chart on camera. Guest: Lorenzo Jones Find him:  Instagram @enigmatic_zo, coreconfidencelife.com The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Is spiritual awakening real, or just a nice metaphor? Awakened Zen Master Thich Dieu Thien, known as the Awakened One, says it is literal, and she can name the day it happened to her: April 8, 2001.  Will and Karen ask her the question every seeker wrestles with: how do you actually wake up? She explains the "False Mind," the ever-changing ego built from ignorance, greed and hatred, and why even our skepticism comes from it. She shares why a glimpse of enlightenment fades, what step one really is, and how to catch your reactions before they take over. Will gets a live lesson in finding the "real you," and a surprising truth about the dream world we mistake for real life.  If you have meditated for years and still feel stuck, this conversation on consciousness, inner transformation and soul growth is for you. Connect with the Awakened One and her book, 'The Power of AWAKE': universaldoormeditationcenter.org New to the Awakened One's teachings? Start here: Tuesday International Meet-Up for newcomers, in person in Sugar Land, TX, Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 PM CT (free, register online). Online sessions are coming soon. Call (281) 565-9718 to ask about working with the Awakened One remotely. Registration is through the "Join this session" button on the Weekly Awake Sessions page. Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952 https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA This episode is sponsored by: Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.com. The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if the angels aren't out there somewhere? What if they're already within you, and someone just needs to help you hear them? That's the heart of what Jillie Angelic Channeler does, and Will and Karen got to experience it live on the floor of SpiritFest at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. In this episode: Jillie breaks down what it actually means to be an angelic channeler. It's not a performance. When a client sits down with her, she tunes into their higher self and their energy, and whatever beings are working with that person, whether archangels, loved ones who have crossed over, or other beings of light, they come through. She clears chakras, speaks light language key codes, uses a crystal wand, and raises the frequency in the room. One client the day before described it as feeling many hands on her at once. Jillie describes it simply as removing the densities, the layers, and the veils, and pulling out what was already there all along. Will asks the question everyone is thinking: are you channeling angels, or are you an angel who channels? Her answer is both. She identifies as an Earth Angel, and she believes we all are. She also opens up about her eclectic, multi-tradition approach. Alongside angelic work, she does shamanic healing, works with Native American traditions, Egyptian energies, plant medicine, and the natural world. She leads drum circles, hikes regularly for grounding, and admits she goes out to the pine trees behind convention centers to decompress after intense sessions. She finds feathers constantly. And four-leaf clovers by the hundreds. The conversation takes a beautiful turn when Jillie talks about what she really wants people to walk away with: the understanding that you are not your experiences. You are having them. That shift in perspective, she says, is what changes everything. And if you can't make it to a show? She does sessions remotely too. Connect with Jillie: 🌐 Website: jillieangelicchaneler.com 📘 Facebook: Jillie Clark 📸 Instagram: @JillieAngelicChanneler 🎵 TikTok: @JillieAngelicChanneler (Tip: Spelling is J-I-L-L-I-E. All social links are also found on her website.) About SpiritFest USA: SpiritFest is a traveling conscious living and healing arts expo. Find upcoming events at spiritfestusa.com. Tags: angelic-channeler, light-language, archangels, archangel-michael, earth-angel, energy-healing, chakra-clearing, shamanic-healing, plant-medicine, spiritual-awakening, SpiritFest-USA, virginia-beach, jilly-clark, drum-circle, unconditional-love, higher-self, soul-blueprint, skeptic-metaphysicians The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if fear is just a subscription you forgot you signed up for? Energy healer, Emotion Code practitioner, and podcast host Mo Smith joins Will and Karen to explain why fear is such an easy motivator, why it follows us even into spiritual practice, and how she's spent the last six years running a real-life experiment: quitting her job with six weeks of savings and living on faith and surrender. She shares her simple two-minute meditation for receiving guidance, how to tell a genuine message from monkey mind, and what actually happens in an Emotion Code session (yes, there's a magnet, and yes, the skeptic had questions). The episode ends with a challenge for every listener. Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952 https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA In This Episode You'll Learn How we're born with only two fears, and every other fear is learnedA simple test for any advice: is it coming from love or from fear?Why facing fear head-on is Mo's go-to strategy, and how intention shapes what you experience in meditationThe two-minute practice that helps you ask for, and act on, intuitive messagesHow to tell intuition from monkey mind ("doing, doing, going, going" is usually the mind talking)How to discern a real nudge from an impulse that could wreck your lifeWhat the Emotion Code is, how a session works, and why Mo encourages skepticismHow root chakra meditation helped Mo work through money fearsChapters: 00:00 Intro: Fear as a subscription service01:30 Welcome Mo Smith02:50 Fear as a tool for control03:10 Why is fear so easy and happiness so hard?06:00 Learning to trust yourself07:50 Fear in spiritual spaces08:10 Intention and facing fear head-on15:30 Taking the leap without a safety net18:20 The Seattle Art Museum awakening20:50 Listening to your body's messages23:00 The two-minute meditation technique27:00 Root chakra work and money fears34:00 Unplug From Fear (and the "illegal coffee" story)36:40 How to discern which messages to act on39:40 What is the Emotion Code?41:50 A skeptic's questions50:00 What if you don't get a message?52:00 Message or monkey mind?56:00 The Two-Minute Challenge57:10 Mo's podcast, I Love It WhenThe TSM Two-Minute Challenge: Sit in silence for at least two minutes a day. At the start, ask: "What do you want me to know today?" Write down (or voice-record) anything you see, hear, or think. Then take action on it. Send us what happened, and we'll share the best stories on the show. Resources Mentioned: The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley NelsonThe Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (the SAVERS practice)Insight Timer (free meditation app)Mo's retreat: Unplug From FearConnect with Mo Smith Website: iloveitwhen.orgPodcast: I Love It WhenThis episode is sponsored by: Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.com. The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if the most important question we are asking about artificial intelligence is the wrong one entirely? In Part 1, Scotte Burns made the case that love is not an emotion, not a chemical reaction, and not an evolutionary adaptation. It is the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness, and the brain does not produce that consciousness. It receives it. That idea changes everything. Including the AI debate. If you have not listened to Part 1 yet, stop here and go back. Seriously. The foundation Scotte builds in that first episode makes everything in this one hit completely differently. There are nuggets in Part 1 that listeners are still talking about, and we do not want you to miss a single one. For those of you who are back, welcome. You already know what kind of conversation this is. In Part 2, we pick up exactly where we left off and take the conversation somewhere most people never go. If consciousness is not generated by complex systems but received by them, then the entire framework of the AI consciousness debate collapses. Both camps, the ones who believe AI will eventually achieve consciousness and the ones who believe it never will, are arguing from the same flawed premise. And if they are both wrong, the implications are enormous. Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952 https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA In this episode we cover: Why every major voice in the AI consciousness debate may be operating from a fundamentally flawed premiseWhat it would actually mean for an artificial intelligence to receive consciousness rather than generate itThe difference between an AI that simulates love and one that could genuinely participate in itWhy a superintelligent system without consciousness is the real threat, and why that reframe is surprisingly hopefulCan trees love? Can crows? A conversation that goes places we did not plan and is better for itWhat changes for humanity when we truly understand what love isThis is the episode that will make you rethink the AI conversation, the consciousness conversation, and honestly the love conversation, all at once. Connect with Scotte Burns: 🌐 scotteburns.com 📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who is asking the big questions. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud. The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if everything you have ever been told about love is wrong? Not slightly off. Not oversimplified. Fundamentally, scientifically, philosophically wrong. That is the starting point for today's conversation with Scotte Burns, a writer, speaker, and researcher who spent over a decade and more than 100,000 miles riding across America with his wife Toni, asking one question: What is love? He interviewed quantum physicists, Buddhist monks, Lakota elders, neuroscientists, jazz musicians, and people on death row. He recorded nearly five terabytes of interviews across 48 states. And the answer he came back with is not what anyone expected. Love, Scotte argues, is not a feeling. It's not a choice. It's not a chemical reaction or an evolutionary adaptation. It's the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness itself. And the brain? It doesn't produce consciousness. It receives it, like an antenna tuned to a signal that was always already there. Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952 https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, we cover: Why no two people in thousands of recorded interviews have ever defined love the same way, and what that tells us about love's true natureThe critical difference between lust, attraction, attachment, and love, and why science keeps confusing themWhy grief is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that love is not biologicalThe concept of aeroplasticity: why love persists beyond its objects and what that reveals about consciousnessWhy materialist researchers may be permanently locked out of finding the answer they are looking forThis is one of those conversations that will quietly rearrange something in the way you see the world. Part 2 drops Tuesday, and it goes somewhere we genuinely did not see coming. Connect with Scotte Burns: 🌐 scotteburns.com 📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com If your community, event, conference, or campus is ready for a different conversation about love, invite Scotte to speak. That's Scotte with an "e." Find him at scotteburns.com. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud. Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952 https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if the trip itself is the spiritual work? In this special on-location episode, Will and Karen broadcast live from Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, joined by Samantha Erb of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment). Samantha breaks down why Cayce, often called the grandfather of modern metaphysics, insisted that real growth comes from lived experience, not just study. They dig into the A.R.E.'s Travel and Tour Division, founded in 1963 by Cayce's son Hugh Lynn Cayce, and why sacred-site travel to places like Lourdes and Machu Picchu can open the door to reconnecting with your "soul family" across lifetimes. Highlights include: Why Cayce believed unity and shared humanity are best understood through travel, not theoryA look at upcoming A.R.E. tours to France (Lourdes and Marian apparition sites) and Peru (a past-life regression planned at Machu Picchu)What membership actually gets you: full access to the Cayce readings archive, discounted tours, and A.R.E.'s library of classes and workshopsA tour of what's on-site at the A.R.E.'s Virginia Beach headquarters, including the meditation garden, ocean-view meditation room, and Sessions restaurantWhether you can make it to Virginia Beach in person or you're exploring from afar at EdgarCayce.org, this conversation is a reminder that sometimes the most direct path to insight starts with a plane ticket. The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Karen and Will sit down with Richard Walter, founder of I Am Day, a global awakening movement rooted in one deceptively simple idea. Richard traces the movement's origin back to a hundred-year-old book, a string of strange numerical coincidences connecting Florence Scovel Shinn, Louise Hay, and Wayne Dyer, and a personal wake-up-call practice he calls Awakening Currents. Along the way, Karen opens up about her cancer diagnosis and the shift in mindset that changed her relationship with her own body. The conversation closes with Richard's simplest teaching yet: three breaths is all it takes to come back to yourself. What You'll Hear [00:07:00] Richard joins the show and explains what I Am Day is, using Will's "photograph" metaphor. September 23rd is the snapshot, but the awakening it points to is daily.[00:09:00] The origin story. Richard finds The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn on his own bookshelf, a year after buying it, and reads it in one sitting.[00:13:00] The numbers get strange. Florence's book turns 100 the same year I Am Day launches. Louise Hay is born in 1926, the year the book was published, and her own breakthrough book lands exactly 50 years before this year's I Am Day. Wayne Dyer is born the year Florence dies.[00:15:00] Karen shares her cancer diagnosis and surgery, and how she came to see her body as something to love unconditionally rather than resent.[00:17:00] Richard connects Florence's "treatments" to Louise Hay's "Loving Treatment," and what it means to remember who you already are.[00:18:00] What "IAM" actually stands for: the International Awakening Movement, and the debate over capital vs. lowercase "I."[00:24:00] What actually happens on I Am Day: a full day of live teachers and contributors starting at 5 a.m. Pacific, hosted on Substack, closing with Will and Karen talking conscious media and New Reality TV at 6 p.m. Eastern.[00:27:00] The "pebble in the pond" metaphor for why a single person showing up quietly still matters.[00:31:00] Richard reads a live Awakening Current, his daily short-form writing practice, on air.[00:37:00] How to register, what you get access to, and where the recordings live after the event.[00:38:00] Richard's closing teaching: three breaths, eyes closed (unless you're driving), and the layers start to fall away.Books & Resources Mentioned (We may get an affiliate commission on some of these links) The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn (1925)You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (1976)You've Got to Read This Book by Jack Canfield and Gay HendricksThe Body We Carry Forward by Richard WalterRichard's daily Substack, I Am Awake (Awakening Currents)Links Register for I Am Day, September 23rd: iamday.orgNew Reality TV, free on Roku, Fire TV, iOS, Android, and web: newrealitytv.comSend us a voicemail or leave a review: skepticmetaphysician.comQuote of the Episode "What we're trying to do is remember who we are, 'cause we are already awake. We just need to remember." The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Live from the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Will and Karen bring a special on-site edition of the show, broadcasting straight from the floor of Spirit Fest, sitting down with the woman who built the whole thing: festival founder Mary Ellen Popyk. What starts as a quick "thanks for having us" turns into a real look at why this particular mind, body, spirit festival has become a destination event, not just a local pop-up. Mary Ellen explains what separates Spirit Fest from other shows on the circuit: a genuine sense of community that keeps attendees parked in their seats all weekend, vendors flying in from Florida and Washington State, and a vetting process for readers and mediums strict enough that first-timers can walk in without fear of getting scammed. Along the way, Will and Karen swap stories on past-life research, run into Will's cousin (a fighter pilot) in the crowd, and get a few teasers on what's next for Spirit Fest, including a rebuilt vendor-focused website, a possible West Coast expansion, and big-name additions to the lineup. In this episode: What makes Spirit Fest different from other mind, body, spirit conventionsWhy vendors travel across the country, twice a year, just to be part of itHow Spirit Fest vets its readers and mediums to protect attendees from scamsA detour into past-life parallels between old relationships and this lifetimeWhat's coming next: a new interactive website, expansion out West, and bigger-name guestsGuest: Mary Ellen Popyk, Founder of Spirit Fest Recorded live at: Virginia Beach Convention Center The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

What if the thing designed to make your life better was also quietly surfacing everything you've been avoiding? That's exactly what Clayten Stedmann and Jeffrey Stegman... co-founders of Focused Life-Force Energy.... came back to TSM to explore. If you caught their first episode, you already know the origin story. This is not that conversation. In this return visit, we go considerably deeper into what FLFE actually is at its core... a high-consciousness field they call the Love Zone... and how it works using the Scale of Consciousness as its calibration framework. Clayten walks us through what it actually takes to do a consciousness calibration. and corrects the record live on air; it's not five million calibrations... it's eleven million. And counting. We cover: What the Love Zone actually is... and why the level of 550 on the scale represents unconditional loveHow muscle testing really works as a tool for measuring consciousness, including why only about 15% of people can do it reliably and how hydration, bias, and the precision of your statement all affect your resultsThe "UI" moment; when Will and Karen reframe kinesiology as prompting the original AI; Universal Intelligence... and why that might be the most accurate description of what's actually happeningThe manufacturing company story; Jeffrey describes activating FLFE in his business without telling anyone... and watching gossip drop to almost nothing while team coordination improved dramaticallyThe Two Brothers story; one of the most remarkable subscriber testimonials you'll ever hear, involving two young boys, a very quiet house, and a moment their mother called the biggest miracle of her lifeThe WWII concentration camp project; FLFE's early service work clearing geopathic stress and trauma from the land at Holocaust sites in Poland and GermanyWhat 11 million calibrations taught Clayten about humans... and what he does with 20,000 of them every single month just to maintain the serviceThe consent question; what happens to the people in your field who never opted in, and why Jeffrey says free will is always primaryThe nutritional piece; what your body actually needs to keep rising in a high-consciousness environment, including why copper, magnesium, and essential fatty acids matter more than you might thinkNeighborhoods; how one subscriber's FLFE field can ripple out to the people next door. and why low-consciousness neighbors tend to either move out or start hosting potlucksWhether you felt something during their first episode or you're brand new to Focused Life-Force Energy, this conversation is going to surprise you. Will even admits live on air that his skepticism on this particular topic simply does not exist... and this is a man with "Skeptic" in the show title. Try FLFE free for 15 days... no credit card required: https://skepticmetaphysician.life/FLFE Connect with Clayten & Jeffrey: Podcast: fieldsofconsciousness.podbean.com Instagram: @focusedlifeforceenergy  Enjoyed this episode? Leave us a review at lovethepodcast.com/SkepticMetaphysicians The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Live from Spirit Fest at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, Will and Karen sit down with medical intuitive Picasso Roberts. She explains how she reads the body's "dis-ease" through a mental-emotional lens, why she never diagnoses or prescribes, and the three words she tells every client to remember when a feeling that surfaces isn't actually theirs to carry. Picasso also opens up about her path into the work at 40, her connection to Edgar Cayce's legacy in Virginia Beach, and what it really costs energetically to tune into another person's frequency for a living. The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Karen Docherty is a Scottish evidential psychic medium and spiritual teacher trained to teacher level at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College, working today with clients across four continents. In this episode she breaks down the real signs of a spiritual awakening, not as a lightning-bolt moment, but as a set of skills anyone can develop, and why so many of us feel it and then talk ourselves out of it before it goes anywhere. The conversation goes to some genuinely unexpected places... a childhood spent fighting spirit children for her own bedcovers, a house she walked away from because of what she felt in one room, and a personal connection to one of the most famous and controversial mediums in British history. Karen also opens up about a discovery she stumbled into by accident, the ability to connect with people who are still alive but living with dementia, and what that reveals about where the mind ends and the soul begins. What You'll Hear in This Episode The real signs of a spiritual awakening, and why Karen says it isn't reserved for mysticsHow to tell the difference between genuine intuition and simple fear, in your own body, in real timeThe true story behind Britain's most famous "fraudulent" medium, and how Karen ended up personally connected to her without knowing it for yearsWhat actually happens in the room when energy feels "off," and how to tell whether you're picking up something real or generating it yourselfThe accidental discovery that changed how Karen thinks about dementia, memory, and the soulA simple daily practice for hearing your own intuition, described as your "inner sat nav"Listen or watch the full conversation now, and if this episode gave you something to sit with, share it with someone who needs to hear it too. Connect with Karen Docherty Website: karendocherty.comInstagram: @karendochertyspiritmediumFacebook: @mediumkarendochertyTikTok: @karendochertymedium The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Nyx Spencer of Resonant Moon Card Readings, a tarot and oracle card reader, Twitch streamer, and co-host of the podcast Outrageous Fortunes, who's currently teaching others how to read as well. Nyx breaks down how she reads beyond the textbook meaning of a card, tuning into what emotion each image is designed to evoke, and walks through some of tarot's most visceral cards, from the betrayal-coded Seven of Swords to the "it's dead, Jim" finality of the Ten. The conversation gets personal fast when Nyx pulls the Eight of Swords, reversed, live on camera, and reads Karen's own hesitation back to her in real time. She explains her real gift isn't fortune-telling so much as tapping into a person's subconscious, and shares how she clears energy from her decks between readers, teaches tarot live on Twitch, and offers free five-minute readings through channel points. It's a conversation about instinct over instruction, and what happens when the cards start reading the reader back. Guest: Nyx Spencer, Resonant Moon Card Readings Find her: resonantmoon.com, twitch.tv/resonantmoon (Tarot Tuesdays) The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |

Why does meditation feel so hard, even when you're doing everything "right"? On this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley sit down with Peter Russell, Cambridge-trained physicist, consciousness teacher, and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, to unpack the one shift that changes everything: effort itself is the obstacle. Peter spent over 50 years teaching meditation and consciousness studies, and in this conversation he breaks down why the "monkey mind" isn't a personal failure, it's a natural brain function, and why trying to control your thoughts is exactly what keeps you stuck. Will and Karen dig into the practical side of effortless meditation, how to return to presence instead of forcing it, what to do when boredom or drowsiness hits, and why letting go of expectations (yes, even the goal of enlightenment) is the fastest way to actually reach a quieter mind. The conversation also moves into deeper territory: the science of what meditation does to your brain (alpha and delta rhythms, the default mode network, the stress response), and the big question Peter's spent a lifetime circling as both a physicist and a meditator, who is the "I" behind all of our thoughts? In this episode: Why trying to control your thoughts makes meditation harder, not easierThe difference between staying present and returning to presenceWhat the "monkey mind" is actually doing, and why it's not the enemyHow self-created discontent and imagined disasters drive daily stressThe neuroscience of meditation: alpha waves, the default mode network, and the relaxation responseQuantum physics, consciousness, and the question "who am I really?"Simple ways to build a mini-meditation practice into everyday lifeAbout our guest: Peter Russell holds degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science from the University of Cambridge. He studied meditation and Eastern philosophy in India and has spent five decades teaching mindfulness and consciousness studies. He is the author of twelve books, including How to Meditate Without Even Trying (foreword by Eckhart Tolle), From Science to God, and Letting Go of Nothing. Get his book on Amazon: https://a.co/d/gi4lo13 The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a top-ranked spirituality podcast hosted by Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley, exploring consciousness, spiritual awakening, and metaphysics through a skeptic's lens. New episodes stream free on New Reality TV (newrealitytv.com, Roku, FireTV). The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond.  We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship. Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike. Subscribe, Rate & Review! If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way! Connect with Us:  🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician |