#166 No Matter What Sign You Are With Cayelin K Castell

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Cayelin K Castell is the co-founder of Venus Alchemy, My Star Alchemy and the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School. In addition to writing monthly Celestial Timings for over 25 years, she enjoys sharing these mysteries through personal readings and teaching both online and in person events, changing lives and perspectives from the visionary understanding that we inform the mysteries as much as they inform us!

In today’s episode, Cayelin shares how astrology and shamanism can help us understand the mysteries of life that we have come to investigate.

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  • Cayelin’s Personal WEBSITE

  • Venus Alchemy WEBSITE

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  • Todays’s episode is named after the song by the Supremes. Listen HERE

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#165 With Love From Ethiopia

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In today’s special episode, my dear friend Zemene shares her beautiful story of maintaining hope and faith in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Zemene is now working on her Master's degree in computer science at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. In the future, her dream is to help those less fortunate to live their dream of going to school. In this episode, Zemene reminds us of the importance of kindness and gratitude.

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  • Click HERE to watch the documentary about Zemene’s life

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#164 The Beauty and Research of Microdosing With Kathryn Starfly

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Bio for Starfly:

Greetings beautiful humyn, 

My early life experiences included sexual trauma, and a strong protective response that significantly  dimmed my natural connection to spirit and intuitive gifts until late in my 50s. As I awoke from my depression/repression I sought to heal, to discover and align with my higher life purpose. During this journey a friend encouraged me to try psilocybin mushrooms to assist in re-writing my neural pathways. 

Much of my life I functioned as a clinical pharmacist, until I became disenchanted with the monetary focus emphasized by much of “big pharma”.  Seeking another way, I began asking to co-create with the plants, fascinated by authors such as Suzanne Simard (The Mother Tree), Stephen Harrod Buhner (Secret Teachings of Plants), Findhorn garden, festivals like Plants EnChant and chance encounters with amazing humyns like author, herbalist and mycologist Dr. Christopher Hobbs. 

I have felt for some time that the entire plant holds much more pharmacological wisdom and spirit than selected portions or synthesized re-enactments do. I have been sitting with different plant medicines and asking to hear and feel their energy and their messages. I am delighted to say that this is now happening! 

In this amazing space of co-creation with the plants and other beings, I feel myself dropping into the great web of oneness where we all exist in love and peace. It is my greatest desire to facilitate that for other humyns, to support loving intentional harmony and assist in humyn evolution, divinely so.

In today’s episode, Kathryn Starfly shares her beautiful journey with micro-dosing psilocybin including how it has improved her quality of life and helped her move beyond depression.

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#163 Shaman, Shamanism and Healing With Rick Olsen

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About Beth & Rick Olsen

One moment, Beth and Rick Olsen were enjoying an ordinary life filled with all the joys and frustrations of raising their two children, Josh and Jessie. The next moment, a drunk driver plowed through a red light at eighty miles per hour, hitting their van and changing everything.

Non-Traditional Approaches to Healing

The Olsens attempted traditional healing methods but quickly found that counseling did nothing to help them get a grasp on their monumental loss. They then turned to nontraditional approaches—a decision that led them to Peru. It was there they finally began to undergo the immense physical, mental, and emotional changes that allowed them to understand that everything—including the accident—happens for a reason.

The Nazca Lines are a group of pre-Columbian geoglyphs etched into desert sands in southern Peru, the origin of which remains a mystery.

Rick & Beth participated in a powerful ceremony along a double spiral, similar to a labyrinth flowing inward. The idea is to shed your past and your burdens the further you walk in and feel it peel away as you walk back out. When Rick exited the spiral, his hair had turned white.

Spirit has a master plan

In a split second our lives as we knew them died forever. Spirit has helped to heal us, and has put both of us in many different situations where we have been able to help others. We have integrated the tangible world and the spirit world, and can move between the two. And if you stay open and responsive, Spirit will work on your behalf.

In today’s episode, Rick Olsen shares his and his wife’s beautiful journey of healing after a great loss that led them to discover that with the passing of a loved one, not all is lost.

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#162 Let the Sunshine In With Christine Ramos

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Christine Ramos is an author and Maternal-Child Health Registered Nurse who has worked as a Certified Childbirth Educator, Certified Doula, and an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She is also a physical empath who can perceive the human energy field. Christine has earned two professional degrees and has worked for the New York City Department of Reproductive Health, major NY hospitals, and her own private practice. Prior to becoming an RN, Christine was a social worker for 10 years in the mental health field. There she worked therapeutically with people who have mental health and substance abuse issues. Currently, Christine is a contributing writer for health, parenting, and spirituality publications worldwide. Her newly revised and updated book, “A Journey Into Being. Knowing And Nurturing Our Children As Spirit” was just re-published in June 2021. Born and raised in New York City, Christine now lives on Long Island, NY with her husband and children.

In today’s episode, Christine shares how children are our greatest spiritual teachers for living life abundantly full of love.

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#161 Don't Stop Believin' With Krista Gorman

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Krista Gorman is a Physician Assistant who, only three weeks after graduating as a PA, suffered cardiopulmonary arrest and died while in labor with her daughter.

Krista died as one person and woke up as another. For 10 years afterward, she tried to integrate the lessons she learned during her NDE but wasn’t successful until she experienced “life on life’s terms” to the point where she was unwilling to keep living that way. She understood life was hers for the creation, for the living, with self-love being the framework and Love for all the entire house. Krista actively began to do the things she needed to do in order to create her life the way she wanted it to be, which included creation of Twelve Principles for Daily Living (directly taken from her NDE) which provided the blueprint Krista needed to shape her thoughts, words and deeds each moment of each day, which has become her beautiful life.

Some of her story and the lessons she learned in the afterlife are shared in her self-published book, I Died And Learned How To Live, available on Amazon. Her NDE account is also featured in a book by Dr. Penny Sartori and the late Kelly Walsh titled The Transformative Effects of Near Death Experiences as well as the book Awakened By Death by Karen Swain and Cyrus Kirkpatrick. In 2017 she and her daughter were featured on the program Story Of God With Morgan Freeman on the National Geographic Channel episode titled Heaven And Hell.

Krista is an active member of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and presented at their conferences from 2014-2017, several presentations were with her husband, Ainsley Threadgold, who also had a NDE. She is scheduled to speak in person at the 2022 IANDS conference in Salt Lake City. In addition, Krista speaks both formally and informally to various groups online and in person. Krista earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1993 and graduated from her Physician Assistant program in 2000. She has been a practicing PA-C ever since. She and Ainsley currently live in Hawaii. Her website is kristagorman.com. She has a YouTube page and Facebook page and can be found on Twitter at Krista_Gorman and Instagram @kgorman717209. She is also on Tiktok. Contact her directly at KGorman717@gmail.com.

In today’s episode, Krista beautifully details her experience of the afterlife and how what she saw changed her entire perspective on life.

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#160 What Happens to You in Your Life and Your Afterlife With Craig Hogan

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R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., is the president of the Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Inc. 

He has been a business professor at three universities, curriculum and training administrator at two universities and a medical school, and founder and director of an online business writing school.

Craig developed the Self-Guided Afterlife Communication method, freely available on the Internet, that has been used by thousands of people to communicate with their loved ones in the afterlife.

In today’s episode, Craig shares his beautiful pursuit of spiritual truth and how his research has expanded his perception of reality.

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#159 Healing With Nic Whitham

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Nic Whitham co-owner of Banyan Retreat in the UK, specializing in Spiritual Mediumship Development and Natural Healing modalities. Now semi-retired and making classes available online now that Banyan Retreat centre has closed due to the Covid pandemic. Nic has returned to the northwest of England close to where he grew up and is settled with his partner and dog where they enjoy the beautiful countryside surrounding their new home.

Born into a family of healers and developing his own healing ability from around the age of fifteen, Nic has a great understanding of healing and communication with the spirit world. Communication and healing have been key in his spiritual development and now he has a greater understanding of how the spirit world assists when healing is offered to those in need. Offering online healing classes to people from all around the world - Nic loves to share his understanding of healing with all who share this interest. Each Sunday he holds an online contemplation called SoulQuest, where participants channel healing energy for peace and the benefit of humanity and mother earth.

Nic is also co-chair of the Spiritual Truth Foundation which supports spiritualists who fall on hard times. The charity was set up by Maurice Barbanell (medium for Silver Birch) and the sale of books containing the ageless and timeless philosophy of Silver Birch provides financial support in this regard. This charity now occupies much of Nic's time and he loves to promote this timeless philosophy.

In today’s episode, Nic and I have a beautiful conversation about how developing our connection to spirit can bring peace and healing.

“It takes many years of practice to be able to invite the spirit world into a safe place with you.”
— Nic Whitham, on Trance Mediumship
“Love is automatically embedded in all that you do in a healing capacity.”
— Nic Whitham

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#14 A Fascinating Look at Spiritual and Energy Healing with Nic Whitham

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Nic Whitham is Director of Banyan Retreat, a beautiful sanctuary nestled in the heart of Kent in the UK where healing and other spiritual modalities take place.  Nic grew up in a spiritual family, however before he began his spiritual work, he was Executive Director and VP at Goldman Sachs.  Nic now works full time as a healer, with his partner Steven Sui, directing and offering a variety of spiritual and healing programs at Banyan. Podcast listeners will be captivated by this rare glimpse into the world of spiritual healing, trance mediumship, seance and more.

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“It takes many years of practice to be able to invite the spirit world into a safe place with you.”
— Nic Whitham, on Trance Mediumship
“Love is automatically embedded in all that you do in a healing capacity.”
— Nic Whitham

  • Nic Whitham grew up in a family of healers and was exposed at a young age to the remarkable results of energy healing on other humans. He knew early on that this would ultimately be his calling.

  • After a career in finance that took him around the globe, he returned to the UK and the world of energy healing and founded Banyan Retreat with his partner, Steven Sui.

  • There are many kinds of energy healing, including Reiki, Platform Mediumship and Trance Mediumship.

  • In trance healing, a medium invites the spirit world to blend its energy with that of the medium, who needs to be 100 percent submissive to allow this to happen. That energy can then be channeled through the medium to the places where it is most needed.

  • Most energy healing can be accomplished by the healer tapping into universal energy without the need to merge with the spirit world.

  • In Nic’s work, he is able to see people’s auras (colors) which enables him to know which area of the client’s body has issues. He can then channel his energy towards that part of the body that needs repair.

  • Energy healing often requires multiple sessions to be fully effective.

  • Nic described two miraculous examples of using healing practices to cure young children. Children, more so than adults, are more accepting of energy healing because they are less removed from the spirit world and more connected to the aura field.

  • In the US it is difficult to find reputable healers. The UK has its own umbrella organization: The British Alliance of Healing Organizations.

  • Interestingly, healing energy knows where it is needed most. Healing can also be accomplished remotely.

  • Nic highly encourages parents to support their children’s connection to the spirit world, and to talk about their experiences with imaginary friends, etc.

  • Nic described a most extraordinary Christmas Seance at Banyan retreat, where the spirits of children who has been denied happy childhoods were invited to visit and experience holiday gifts and toys.

  • Click HERE to read a wonderful article about Nic and Steven’s work at Banyan Retreat.

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