Episodes

A dying grandfather wakes up and says two children just called him Grandpa. Nobody else in the room knew about the two miscarriages. Clinical psychologist and paranormal researcher Dr. Frederick Woodard has spent years collecting stories like this from ordinary people, and he joins Will and Karen to explain why some people have supernatural experiences and others never do. You’ll hear his two tests for telling a real experience apart from imagination, who the “invisible beings” around us might be, and the one trait that seems to open the door. Just because you haven’t seen it yet doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

What happens to consciousness when the brain goes completely offline? Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven, knows firsthand. A rare bacterial meningitis wiped out his neocortex and put him in a coma. During that time he went through three realms of an afterlife: a dark “earthworm’s eye view,” a radiant Gateway Valley where life reviews happen, and a Core realm of pure oneness with the divine. He explains why his case challenges the idea that the brain creates consciousness...

Days after Pope Francis died, a skeptical medium felt him trying to get her attention. So she told him to prove it. What happened next in Rome still gives us chills. Deborah Hanlon has never told this story publicly, until now. She also has some opinions that might ruffle a few feathers, even among other mediums. Why does she say the dead never experience death? Why might your loved ones never send you a cardinal? And what if grief isn’t something to get over, but the most powerful force for change you’ll ever feel? Grab a tissue. You might need it for the laughs, too.

What if divine guidance has been available to you this whole time... and you just needed someone to show you how to tune in? Our VIP sponsor Sue Elliott is an angel coach, author of My Angel Coach, and someone who walked away from a 30-year media career because the angels wouldn’t stop calling. In this short message, she shares what she offers and how to connect with her. And yes, there’s a free gift waiting for you at myangelcoach.com/soothing. Listen to learn how to access it. The Skeptic Me...

You’re already getting divine guidance. Around the clock. The problem? You keep talking yourself out of it. Sue Elliott spent 30 years in mainstream publishing; car magazines, automotive trade shows, hundreds of TV appearances, before the angels showed up and completely redirected her life. Now she’s an angel coach with one simple question that tells you, in any situation, whether what you’re feeling is actual divine guidance or just your own mental noise. And once she explains it, you won’t believe how obvious it’s been all along.

What if the person you’ve been trying so hard to become was never the assignment? Joseph Bongiovi spent decades in the music business chasing everything that’s supposed to equal happiness, got sober at 21, and found that none of it delivered. In this conversation, the author of "Wake The F*ck Up!" makes the case that real transformation isn’t about reinvention, it’s about remembering who you were before the conditioning, fear, and noise took over. We put the skeptic’s question to him: isn’t the “true self” just another story? His answer surprised us. You’ll also leave with a simple 90-second practice for the next time emotions run hot.

Conversations from The Skeptic Metaphysicians Some moments in an interview are too good to leave buried at minute 37. Conversations is our series of short, single-topic episodes taken from our interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in consciousness, spirituality, and the science of the unseen. There’s no warm-up and no detours. You get one guest, one big idea, and a few minutes that might change how you see your life. Think of each one as a doorway. Play it on your commute, betwee...

What if you’re not late, you’re just on the other side of the sphere? Ether physicist Krys Ra El joins Will and Karen to make the case that time isn’t a line you ride, but a sphere of possibilities you steer with your attention. Along the way, he claims the pyramids were once free energy devices, that teleportation is a matter of practice, and that a student of his unlocked a door with her mind. Mind-bending idea or beautifully built rabbit hole? Tune in and decide for yourself.

She says she woke up fully on one specific day, and has never gone back to sleep. So we asked her the question everyone on this path wants answered: how do we do it? Her answers surprised us, challenged a few things we thought we knew, and at one point turned the spotlight right back on Will. If you've ever had a glimpse of something bigger and watched it slip away, this conversation is for you.

What if the thing keeping you stuck isn't your circumstances, but a subscription you forgot you signed up for? This week, energy healer and Emotion Code practitioner Mo Smith joins Will and Karen with a surprisingly simple way to cancel it. It takes two minutes, it sounds a little crazy, and it might be the easiest thing you'll never do. Along the way, she explains why she walked away from her job with barely six weeks of savings, how a stranger at a stoplight proved a point she'd only thought to herself, and why the skeptic in the room ended up questioning a magnet. Plus, a challenge for every listener. Press play and find out whether you're ready to unplug.

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...

You have been told love is a feeling. A choice. A chemical reaction. What if none of that is true? Scotte Burns spent a decade and 100,000 miles riding across America to find out, and what he discovered will quietly rearrange the way you see everything. This is not a conversation about romance. It is a conversation about reality.

What if you're not broken, lost, or behind, just asleep? Richard Walter, founder of the global I Am Day movement, joins Karen and Will to unpack a discovery hiding in plain sight on his own bookshelf: a hundred-year-old book, a string of coincidences too strange to ignore, and a practice so simple it almost sounds too easy. One question drives the whole conversation: what actually happens when you stop trying so hard to wake up? Press play to find out, and why September 23rd might be the day you've been waiting for without knowing it.

What if the very thing designed to elevate your life was also quietly surfacing everything you've been avoiding? Clayten Stedmann and Jeffrey Stegman, the co-founders of Focused Life-Force Energy, return to TSM for a conversation that goes considerably deeper than their first visit. We're talking eleven million consciousness calibrations, a manufacturing company that stopped gossiping overnight, two young brothers who suddenly started sharing their feelings, and the quiet service work happening at WWII concentration camp sites that nobody ever paid them for. Whether you felt something during their last episode or you're brand new to Focused Life-Force Energy, this one will surprise you. And yes — the field is active while you listen. Scroll Down For a Special Offer From Focused Life-Force Energy!

Most people going through a spiritual awakening don't recognize it while it's happening, they just notice they're suddenly picking up on things they used to ignore, and don't know whether to trust it. Karen Docherty has spent 25 years teaching people to recognize exactly that feeling. Trained to teacher level at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College, Karen breaks down the real signs of a spiritual awakening, how to tell genuine intuition from fear, a childhood spent fighting spirit children for her own bedcovers, an unexpected personal connection to one of the most controversial mediums in British history, and an accidental discovery about connecting with people who are still alive but living with dementia.

Peter Russell, a Cambridge-trained physicist turned meditation teacher of fifty years, joins Will and Karen to explain why trying so hard to meditate might be the very thing standing in your way. Drawing on his book How to Meditate Without Even Trying, Peter breaks down why chasing stillness or fighting off the "monkey mind" only creates more tension, and offers a simpler approach: notice when your attention has wandered, gently let the thought go, and return to whatever's actually happening right now. The conversation moves from practical meditation troubleshooting into the neuroscience of relaxation and, eventually, the deeper question of who we really are beneath the thoughts, the body, and the story we tell about ourselves.

If you've ever felt spiritually exhausted, burned out on meditation, breathwork, retreats, and wellness culture pressure, this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians is the permission slip you didn't know you needed. Hosts Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley sit down with licensed psychotherapist and DIY Spirituality author Faith Freed to dismantle the myth of the "right" spiritual practice and replace it with something far more liberating. your own. Through Faith's Divine Disco Ball framework, covering mind-body connection, soul and spirit, nature-based spirituality, and divine source, this conversation explores spiritual authenticity, conscious living, mindfulness, higher consciousness, and the surprisingly radical idea that spiritual awakening doesn't require a single crystal, a silent retreat, or anyone else's instruction manual. Just you, your curiosity, and the courage to build a spiritual path that actually fits your real life.

Most of us have tried to fix our relationship with money from the neck up. We've done the affirmations. We've read the books. We've tried to think differently, speak differently, believe differently. And yet the fear is still there. The guilt is still there. That low-level shame that shows up every time we look at our bank account, still there. What if the problem isn't your mindset at all? In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will and Karen sit down with Sarah McCrum, author of “Lov...

Watch the full interview here: https://tinyurl.com/39rma6cr Dr. Alisha Das returns to TSM for a third time, this round to celebrate. Her long-awaited book, Your Angelic Ancestry, hit #1 in Angels on Amazon within 24 hours of release. Will and Karen dig into the behind-the-scenes fight to keep the book's most esoteric chapter intact, a live channeled message from Archangel Michael, and a 30-second exercise listeners can try right now to feel what she's spent 30 years describing.

What if everything you've been doing in the name of spiritual growth is actually just... marketing? The meditation apps, the retreats, the affirmations. What if the real thing looks nothing like any of that? That's the question Shaman Abhay Oyun walked into our studio with. He's a Siberian shamanic elder with 35 years of practice, 40 countries, and a lineage stretching back 40,000 years. He predicted the Ukraine invasion before it happened. He performed ceremonies for 2,500 people at the base o...

What if dying is actually a skill? And what if most of us are completely unprepared for the one experience that is absolutely guaranteed to happen? This week we sit down with Darnella Ford, award-winning author, trauma facilitator, and restorative guide, whose twenty-year journey into the non-physical began not with a spiritual calling, but with a breakup, a depression she couldn't shake, and a night of breathwork that sent her flying through a black void at incalculable speed. What followed c...

Will and Karen sit down with licensed hypnotherapist Cat Cazimi, co-host of Hippie Chicks Live, for a deep dive into what hypnosis really is, and whether it can fast-track you to spiritual awakening. Cat breaks down the biggest myth about hypnosis: the idea that it's a sleep-like state where you lose control. In reality, she explains, hypnosis is a hyper-focused state of receptivity, not unconsciousness, and you can never be made to do or say anything you don't want to. She walks through the di...

What actually happens after we die? Not the comforting version. Not the tunnel and the light and the everything-is-fine. The specific, structured, verifiable version…mapped in detail by someone who has spent more than 20 years studying the invisible architecture of the soul. In this episode Will and Karen sit down with internationally recognized intuitive healer and bestselling author Inna Segal to explore one of the most profound and underexplored questions in all of spirituality: what the sou...

What if everything you've ever been taught about the ego has been wrong? For 3,000 years, spiritual traditions have delivered the same prescription: dissolve it, transcend it, kill it. And yet, for most people, no amount of meditation, prayer, or spiritual work has made that nagging disconnection go away. Dr. Nickolas Martin has spent 40 years in clinical psychology watching that prescription fail, and he thinks he knows exactly why. The ego, he says, isn't the enemy. It's a patient. A licensed...