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Will & Karen | Hosts of The Skeptic Metaphysicians - Awakening Seekers of Spiritual Growth & Expanded Consciousness

The Skeptic Metaphysicians
One Truth. Many Paths. Endless Curiosity. 

Join Will and Karen, hosts of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, as they dive into spiritual awakening, ascension, expanded consciousness, and metaphysical mysteries with humor and humanity.

Born from an existential breakdown (yep, the spiritual kind), the show dives headfirst into the wild world of spiritual awakenings, energy work, consciousness expansion, soul growth, near-death experiences, psychic phenomena, manifestation, mysticism, inner work, and the quantum mysteries that connect us all.

Each week, Will brings the wide-eyed curiosity of a seeker reawakened to his soul purpose, while Karen balances the vibe with grounded intuition, mindfulness, thoughtful insights, and just the right amount of side-eye. Together, they create a safe space for exploring spirituality, alignment with your higher self, and the deeper dimensions of wellness without losing your grip on the real.

Whether you're a full-on spiritual explorer navigating your soul journey or just metaphysical-curious about raising your vibration, this show is your backstage pass to conversations with:
 • Mediums & mystics
 • Spiritual awakening coaches
 • Scientists of consciousness and quantum healing
 • Energy healers, channelers & ascension guides
 • And everyday people with extraordinary stories of transformation
Why listeners love it:
It's smart, soulful, funny, and deeply validating. Like having a chat with your most spiritually woke friend who gets both the profound and the practical sides of soul growth… and still knows how to laugh at themselves.
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It's not about blind belief. It's about brave exploration of consciousness, inner work, and remembering your connection to the quantum field of infinite possibilities. Tune in. Wake up. Align with your highest self. And maybe...just maybe...remember who you really are.

New episodes every Wednesday and bonus episodes throughout the week!

The Skeptic Metaphysicians - Metaphysics, Spiritual Awakenings and Expanded Consciousness

What happens when your spiritual awakening goes quiet?
 
In this deeply personal solo episode, Will does something different; recording his thoughts while walking, right in the middle of a season where spirituality felt distant, joy felt muted, and life felt heavy. No studio. No script. Just an honest exploration of what happens when modern spirituality collides with real-world challenges.
 
From family health struggles and burnout, to surrender, presence, and an unexpected moment of reconnection, this episode is a reminder that spiritual growth isn’t a straight line...it’s a spiral. And sometimes, feeling disconnected is not failure… it’s part of the process.
 
More importantly, Will doesn’t just share the story, he offers practical, grounded steps you can take to reconnect with: • Presence
 • Joy
 • Consciousness
 • And your own sense of spiritual awakening
Whether you’re actively exploring intuition development, navigating a spiritual plateau, or simply trying to feel something again, this episode meets you exactly where you are, without pressure, performance, or spiritual bypassing. 

In This Episode, You’ll Explore: • Why trying to “feel spiritual” often pushes presence further away
 • How surrender can unlock healing when control fails
 • The role environment and energy play in consciousness and emotional well-being
 • Why joy is usually quiet, subtle, and easy to miss
 • A powerful reframe for spiritual awakening when life feels heavy
 • Simple, realistic practices to reconnect with yourself, even when motivation is low
This is an episode for anyone navigating spiritual growth in real life, not just in theory.

Why This Episode Matters 
If you’ve ever questioned your soul purpose, doubted your path, or wondered why intuition and connection suddenly feel muted, this conversation will remind you that nothing has gone wrong. 
Sometimes, awakening isn’t about rising higher. Sometimes, it’s about coming back to the moment you’re already in.

Listener Invitation / CTA 
How have you been feeling lately? What challenges have shaped your spiritual journey this year? 
We’d love to hear from you. Leave a review, send us a message, or share your experience... because this show has always been about community, not perfection. 

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🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 
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When Spiritual Awakening Feels Distant: Reconnecting With Presence, Joy & Consciousness

If you’ve been telling yourself you’re stuck...stuck in your career, your relationships, your spiritual growth, or your sense of purpose...this New Year’s Eve episode challenges that assumption head-on. 
In this powerful solo reflection, Will explores a truth many people encounter during spiritual awakening but rarely talk about: that feeling of being stuck often isn’t confusion or lack of clarity, it’s fear of becoming the next version of yourself.
 
This episode dives into the quieter, more uncomfortable side of modern spirituality... the part that doesn’t promise instant manifestation, constant alignment, or easy answers. Instead, it looks at how awakening expands consciousness before it brings peace, why insight without action creates anxiety, and how real transformation begins with release rather than effort.
 
You’ll hear a grounded, honest exploration of: • Why awareness doesn’t automatically lead to change
 • How identity shifts affect intuition development and decision-making
 • The hidden emotional cost of staying “almost ready”
 • Why growth often feels destabilizing before it feels freeing
 • How to recognize when a chapter is truly complete
Rather than offering resolutions or surface-level inspiration, this episode invites deep self-inquiry, the kind that supports genuine spiritual growth, clearer intuition, and alignment with your evolving soul purpose.
 
If you’re navigating awakening, questioning old beliefs, or sensing that something in your life has quietly run its course, this conversation is designed to meet you exactly where you are...without bypassing, platitudes, or pressure to pretend. 

Listen with honesty. Sit with what surfaces. And allow space for what’s ready to begin.

KEY THEMES & TAKEAWAYS • Spiritual awakening doesn’t always feel peaceful, it often feels unsettling
 • Why fear is a signal of expansion, not failure
 • The difference between insight and integration
 • How intuition strengthens when you stop betraying what you already know
 • Why release is often the missing piece in manifestation
 • Letting go of outdated roles, identities, and expectations
 • Reframing “stuck” as a threshold of consciousness

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You’re Not Stuck...You’re Afraid of the Next Version of You | Spiritual Awakening & Consciousness at the New Year

This is a standalone crystal bowl sound healing designed to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system, and return to a more balanced internal state.
 
Recorded live during our conversation with sound healer Ryan Stanley, this session uses the resonant tones of crystal alchemy bowls to support deep relaxation, mental clarity, and emotional release, without effort, belief, or prior experience required.
 
Use this audio when you’re feeling overstimulated, anxious, scattered, or simply need a reset. Listen with headphones or speakers, get comfortable, and allow the sound to do the work. Many listeners return to this session repeatedly as a grounding practice, meditation aid, or stress-calming ritual. 

No talking. No analysis. Just sound, vibration, and space to recalibrate.

Enjoy!

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Crystal Bowl Sound Healing for Nervous System Reset & Deep Relaxation

What if the key to silencing your overactive mind exists at a specific frequency? In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, hosts Will and Karen dive deep with Ryan Stanley, owner of Sacred Sound of the Soul, to uncover how sound healing moves beyond relaxation fluff into genuine neurobiological transformation.

Ryan, a former corporate executive who pivoted to exploring consciousness expansion through sound, reveals the science-backed mechanisms behind why crystal bowls induce immediate calm, from vagus nerve stimulation to frequency-based entrainment. But here's what makes this conversation different: he refuses to oversell the "woo," instead grounding energy healing in practical, observable results that listeners can replicate at home.

In this episode, you'll discover why stress has become our baseline operating system and how 15 minutes with a crystal bowl can reset your nervous system. You'll learn the neurobiological mechanics of how sound vibrations impact your vagus nerve and central nervous system. Ryan shares how to choose your "bowl mate"; the one that matches YOUR unique energy signature, and demystifies the myth about crystal bowls and chakras. The hosts experience a live sound healing demo and Will even leaves his body, proving online sound healing genuinely works. You'll hear Ryan's personal spiritual awakening story with the "super grade" crystal bowl that triggered samadhi at 3 AM, and discover practical daily-use strategies whether you have 3 minutes or 60+ minutes to dedicate to vibrational medicine.

This is modern spirituality for skeptics, practical tools for spiritual growth, and everything you need to understand why your body responds to vibration even when your mind says BS.

Coupon: Listeners of Skeptic Metaphysicians can use the code SKEPTIC to receive $100 off their first alchemy crystal singing bowl from Sacred Sound of the Soul

Key Topics & Keywords
Sound Healing & Vibrational Medicine: Frequency-based healing, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, sonic frequency therapy, vagus nerve stimulation

Consciousness & Spiritual Development: Spiritual awakening, consciousness, consciousness expansion, spiritual growth, frequency entrainment, somatic experiencing

Energy & Metaphysics: Energy healing, energy signature matching, subtle body work, frequency alignment, vibration entrainment, modern spirituality

Intuition & Soul Connection: Intuition development, soul-level resonance, intuitive bowl selection, soul purpose, inner knowing, somatic listening

Personal Transformation: Stress relief, anxiety management, nervous system regulation, emotional reset, rest & digest response, awakening

Spiritual Guidance: Spiritual teacher perspective, consciousness hacking, accessible spiritual practice, practical metaphysics

Timestamps & Deep Dive
[00:00] – Intro: "Stress as our baseline operating system" & the one tool that shuts your brain up faster than a dead iPhone battery

[00:04] – The neurobiology of sound: How your eardrum, neural pathways, and brain interpret vibration into healing

[00:06] – Three theories of how sound healing works: energy entrainment, somatic holding space, and the science we don't fully understand yet

[00:08] – Real talk about tinnitus, frequency sensitivity, and whether sound healing can trigger trauma (and why that might be progress)

[00:10] – Why your nervous system responds to bass differently than Karen's (psychological vs. physical frequency reception)

[00:12] – The yoga studio revelation: How thousands of fidgeting students instantly got still the moment a bowl was played

[00:14] – Skin benefits, deep rest, and how sound healing indirectly supports skin health through restorative biology

[00:15] – From five-dimensional consciousness to actual morning playlists: How your "vibe match" determines your entire day

[00:17] – Crystal bowl mechanics: Why width, height, and wall thickness create different frequencies

[00:19] – Can you change a crystal bowl's frequency with water? (Wine glass effect explained)

[00:20] – The frequency spectrometer myth-buster: Every bowl contains infinite frequencies—your intention determines which one you "hear"

[00:22] – Ryan's personal awakening: The 16-inch super-grade crystal bowl that triggered samadhi and a 3 AM kundalini pull[

00:24] – Why the magic isn't just in expensive bowls—accessibility matters

[00:25] – How to play crystal bowls (2-3 minute learning curve)

[00:26] – Session duration breakdown: 3-5 minutes for clarity, 1+ hours for deep meditation, 15 minutes for optimal balance

[00:28] – One bowl or an orchestra? The receptivity-and-strength dance of extended single-bowl sessions

[00:30] – Harmonic bowl families: Why assembling sets means you "never hit the wrong note"

[00:32] – Live sound healing experience—15 minutes of pure crystal bowl frequency (best with headphones)

[00:47] – After the sound bath: Reports of tingling, sinus opening, top-of-head burning, and profound nervous system release

[00:48] – Does online sound healing really work? The science of how vibration travels through digital mediums and directly impacts your body

[00:52] – Crystal vs. Tibetan bowl differences and why one requires effort while the other flows

[00:53] – The "Bowl Mate" concept: Finding your soulmate bowl through visual intuition and energy signature matching

[00:54] – How to buy a crystal bowl: In-person consultations or online sound recordings for remote buyers

[00:56] – Contact info and Ryan's approach to helping people find their perfect bowl

Guest Bio
Ryan Stanley is the founder and owner of Sacred Sound of the Soul, a crystal bowl healing studio in Encinitas, California. A former corporate executive who transitioned from "crunching numbers" to facilitating consciousness expansion through sound healing, Ryan has spent years mastering the subtle art of crystal bowl selection and vibrational medicine. He's witnessed thousands of people experience immediate nervous system shifts, emotional breakthroughs, and spiritual awakening through his work, and he approaches it all with refreshing skepticism and genuine humility about what he does and doesn't understand.Resources & Links
 • Sacred Sound of the Soul: 
www.sacredsoundofthesoul.com • Email: info@sacredsoundofthesoul.com
 • Location: Encinitas, California (consultations available online and in-person by appointment)
 • Bowl Selection: Browse 500+ unique crystal bowls with audio recordings available online
Listener Takeaway
You don't need to understand why sound healing works to benefit from it. What matters is that your body responds. This episode strips away spiritual jargon and gives you practical tools to use crystal bowls for immediate stress relief, deeper meditation, and the kind of spiritual growth that happens when your nervous system finally stops fighting to survive. Whether you're seeking tools for anxiety relief, meditation enhancement, or genuine spiritual awakening, sound healing deserves a place in your consciousness toolkit.

Perfect for: Skeptics curious about alternative healing, meditation practitioners, anxiety sufferers, yoga instructors, conscious creators, energy workers, and anyone exploring modern spirituality without sacrificing critical thinking.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians: Where we question everything, ditch the fluff, and dive straight into tools that actually shift your consciousness.

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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!
 
Subscribe to The Skeptic Metaphysicians on your favorite podcast platform and YouTube for more deep dives into spiritual awakening, consciousness, spirituality, metaphysical science, and mind-body evolution.

Connect with Us: 
🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 
📱 Follow Us on Social Media – https://www.facebook.com/SkepticMetaphysician | https://www.instagram.com/skepticmetaphysician

From Stress to Stillness: How Crystal Bowl Sound Healing Rewires Your Nervous System

Welcome to Classic Skeptic Metaphysicians! We're re-releasing some of our back catalog so that these gems can be re-discovered!

This week: Travelers: A Spiritual Quest for Proof of the Metaphysical World

What if the line between mental health, spiritual awakening, and non-ordinary reality is far thinner than we think?
 
In this episode, we sit down with Donald Altman—psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, internationally known mindfulness teacher, and award-winning author of Travelers: A Spiritual Quest for Healing.

Altman has spent decades at the intersection of consciousness, mindfulness, and the mysteries that modern psychiatry can’t explain. His new novel isn’t just a story—it’s a guided initiation into the deeper layers of the self: grief, fear, synchronicity, healing, and the unseen forces shaping our lives. 
Altman doesn’t come to this conversation with vague spirituality or soft-focus platitudes. He brings lived experience, clinical insight, and firsthand encounters with the “impossible” — including a real-life synchronicity mirroring the events in his novel down to the injuries he described months before they happened.
 
This is the kind of conversation that forces you to reevaluate what’s real, what’s possible, and what the human mind is truly capable of. 

In This Episode, We Explore: 
✔ The real difference between mindfulness and meditation 
Why one trains focus, while the other trains perception — and why confusing them sabotages your inner work.
 
✔ Emotional eating, distraction culture, and why most of us are terrified of presence 
Altman’s brutally honest account of using food to numb emotions… and the monastery moment that changed everything.
 
✔ A psychotherapist’s take on spiritual awakenings vs. schizophrenia 
Where the line really is, what most people get wrong, and why some awakenings mimic mental illness.
 
✔ Quantum consciousness, astral experiences, and non-local events 
Including the stunning moment Altman lived out a scene from his own book — in a place he had never visited before writing it.
 
✔ How fear blocks intuition, spiritual growth, and authentic manifestation 
And why stepping into the unknown is the true doorway to transformation.
 
✔ The healing power of story, symbolism, and myth 
Travelers isn’t entertainment — it’s a mirror, a catalyst, and an invitation to confront the parts of yourself you’ve avoided.
 
✔ Mental health through a spiritual lens 
Mindfulness techniques, energetic awareness, and presence-based practices that help reduce anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm. 

Why This Episode Matters 
Because your awakening doesn’t happen in meditation apps. It happens in the moments you’d rather avoid: fear, grief, confusion, uncertainty, longing.
 
Altman shows how spiritual growth and psychological healing aren’t separate journeys — they’re the same road. And Travelers might just be the companion guide you didn’t know you needed. 

Who This Episode Is For • Anyone navigating a 
spiritual awakening • Seekers exploring 
modern spirituality • without bypassing reality
 • Listeners curious about 
manifestation • , consciousness, or intuition development
 • Those healing grief, loss, or emotional trauma
 • Anyone fascinated by the edges of science and mysticism — 
quantum consciousness • , synchronicity, and non-ordinary experience
 • Readers who loved 
The Celestine Prophecy, • 
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, • or 
The AlchemistLinks & Resources • Donald Altman’s books & blog: 
MindfulPractices.com • His Psychology Today column: 
Practical Mindfulness • Meditation community: 
Facebook.com/mindfulpractices

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🌎 Website – SkepticMetaphysician.com 
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A Mindful Metaphysical Odyssey into Spiritual Awakening & Consciousness

What if the most powerful tool for emotional healing, trauma release, and spiritual awakening has been inside you since birth?
 
This week on The Skeptic Metaphysicians, we sit down with Kurtis Lee Thomas, global corporate mindfulness trainer, founder of Breathwork Detox, #1 bestselling author, and the man NASA, Nike, and The Today Show call when their people are breaking down.
 
Kurtis doesn’t preach modern spirituality fluff. He delivers physiological, neurological, and emotional transformation through a deceptively simple modality: breathing. But not the casual inhale-exhale you do every day… We’re talking about a deep diaphragmatic technique capable of:
 • Releasing 
stored trauma and emotional blockages • Triggering profound 
energy healing • Opening intuitive channels
 • Rewiring the nervous system
 • Supporting 
spiritual growth • and consciousness expansion
 • Creating the clarity needed to step into your soul purpose
If that sounds impossible, wait until you hear the stories:
✔ A five-year chronic illness completely resolved in one session
✔ Instant clarity and breakthroughs in people who’ve felt stuck for decades
✔ Engineers, veterans, and skeptics experiencing Kundalini-like activations
✔ A mind-bending account of spontaneous physical healing that you’ll need to hear to believe 

Breathwork Detox isn’t just breathwork, it’s a full-body energetic purge designed to clear the emotional “weight” you’ve been carrying your entire life.
 
Whether you’re navigating your own awakening, seeking deeper consciousness, exploring intuition development, or simply trying to stop your stress from running your life, this conversation will reset your understanding of what healing can look like.

IN THIS EPISODE: 
• Why most people breathe incorrectly, and how it blocks emotional & energetic flow 
• How unprocessed experiences lodge in the body and manifest as anxiety, illness, and stuckness 
• The exact 3-part breathing sequence used in Breathwork Detox 
• The science behind clarity, flow state, and shutting down the overactive mind 
• How breathwork triggers profound spiritual awakening experiences, even in total skeptics 
• Why clarity (not bliss) is the real engine of manifestation 
• The four types of people who benefit the MOST from this practice 
• Why energy healing works even for people who don’t “believe” in it 
• How breathwork can support emotional transitions, hormonal shifts, and the stress of modern life

WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS 
If you feel overwhelmed… foggy… disconnected… stuck in old patterns… or blocked from the spiritual growth you know is possible, then you’re likely carrying far more emotional residue than you realize. 
You don’t need a guru. You don’t need a plant medicine ceremony. You don’t need a near-death experience to wake up.
 
You need to clear what’s standing between you and the truth already inside you. 
And this modality gives you the key.

ABOUT OUR GUEST — KURTIS LEE THOMAS
 • Founder of 
Breathwork Detox • Corporate mindfulness trainer for 
Nike, NASA, and Fortune 500 companies • #1 international bestselling author
 • Board Chair of the Just Breathe Foundation
 • Global teacher helping thousands detox emotional blockages, trauma, and mental overwhelm
CONNECT WITH KURTIS 
Website: BreathworkDetox.com
Free masterclass, virtual sessions, facilitator training & more inside.

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Breathwork Detox for Spiritual Awakening: 1 Session That Could Change Everything

What happens when a sixth-generation shaman, psychic medium, and spiritual activator sits down with us live at Spirit Fest? Energy surges so strongly it literally knocks the livestream offline. 

In this electrifying conversation, we meet Jax Cassie, the first female shaman in her powerful Vietnamese lineage, a role traditionally passed only to men. But Jax didn’t choose the path. The path chose her… and it began the moment her father appeared to her one week after he died. From that moment forward, Jax stepped into a destiny rooted in spiritual awakening, intuition development, and deep ancestral alignment.

During our conversation, she demonstrates her ability to: 
✨ Communicate directly with the spirit realm
✨ See and feel energies, ancestors, and spirit guides
✨ Astral project into someone’s home to diagnose energetic imbalances
✨ Track a person’s life purpose, alignment, and future opportunities
✨ Deliver real-time intuitive readings that activate the listener’s own awakening 

And yes… she gave both of us a shockingly accurate on-the-spot reading...including predictions about collaborations, media expansion, and a major consciousness-driven platform shift. 

Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, this episode pushes you to rethink modern spirituality, the mechanics behind manifestation, and the real-world application of energy healing in everyday life.
 
You’ll hear Jax explain:
 • Why true shamans serve as “Oracles of the Village”
 • How she sees spirits through their skin, and how she learned to control her vision
 • The difference between wishful thinking and aligned manifestation
 • Why intuition is useless without action
 • What a 
12-month energetic forecast • really looks like
 • The role of ancestors in guiding your 
soul purpose • Why awakening often accelerates when you meet certain people at exactly the right moment
If you’ve ever wondered how near-death experiences, life after death, spirit communication, and higher-level healing might actually operate behind the scenes… you won’t want to miss this conversation.
 
This is spiritual growth with no fluff. Awakening with no filters. Practical mysticism for the modern world.
 
And according to Jax, if you’re listening to this episode, it isn’t an accident... it’s an activation.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode
 • The truth about shamanic lineage and why certain abilities are inherited
 • How ancestral energy influences your success, relationship choices, and timing
 • What a psychic actually sees when a spirit enters the room
 • Why many people misunderstand manifestation
 • How to know if you’re in alignment with your soul purpose
 • What happens when your energy field begins expanding faster than your life circumstances
 • Why meeting the “right person at the right moment” is often a spiritual activation
About Jax:
A sixth-generation Vietnamese shaman, psychic medium, and healer, Jax is known for her ability to see energetic misalignments, communicate with ancestors, and guide people into powerful states of alignment and awakening. She specializes in life purpose, intuitive activation, and multidimensional clearing work. Her presence alone shifts energy, and Spirit Fest audiences feel it instantly.

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SixthGeneration SHAMAN Reveals Your Soul Purpose at Spirit Fest

Most people think their pets just want food, walks, or belly rubs. Alicia Sweezer says they’re doing far more than that; they’re guiding your spiritual awakening. 
 
In this eye-opening conversation with intuitive guide and professional animal communicator Alicia Sweezer, we uncover how deeply our animals understand us, mirror us, and even help us evolve emotionally, energetically, and spiritually.
 
If you’ve ever wondered whether your pet takes on your emotions, reacts to your stress, senses your awakening, or sends you intuitive messages… this episode will confirm far more than you expect. 
Alicia breaks down how pets communicate across dimensions, how they stay connected to universal consciousness, and how their behavior often reveals what’s unresolved in us...from emotional regulation to intuition development to resisting our soul purpose. 
 
Animals don’t lose their connection to 5D consciousness. We do. And according to Alicia… they’re trying to help us get it back.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 
🐾 How Animals Mirror Your Energy & Emotional State 
Why your pet’s anxiety, reactivity, or odd behaviors often reflect hidden emotional or spiritual misalignment within you. 
🐾 Are Pets Empaths? Do They Absorb Your Illness or Stress? 
Alicia explains why pets sometimes take on their human’s energetic “stuff”, and how to stop it before it becomes physical. 
🐾 Soul Purpose, Soul Contracts & What Your Pet Chose Before Incarnating 
Yes, your animals choose you, and choose how long they stay. Their “assignment” may surprise you. 
🐾 The Truth About Animal Intuition & Spiritual Intelligence 
Animals never disconnect from universal energy. Humans do. Alicia explains the bridge between the two. 
🐾 How to Tell When Your Pet Is Sending You Messages 
What signs to look for, how to interpret them, and how to avoid confusing imagination with real intuitive communication. 
🐾 How to Start Communicating with Your Pets (Even if You Think You Can’t) 
Alicia shares the foundational skill every person needs for intuitive communication, and how to discover your strongest “clair.” 
🐾 What Happens After Pets Cross Over (and How They Visit You) 
From subtle signs to unmistakable “calls,” Alicia breaks down how animals communicate from beyond. 
🐾 Why Your Pet Might Be Giving You Spiritual Homework 
No, really. And it might be exactly what your journey needs next. 

KEY THEMES
This episode dives into:
• Spiritual Awakening through the lens of animal consciousness
• Animal intuition & intuition development
• Pets mirroring human energy healing needs
• Animal experiences of life after death
• What pets know about consciousness
• Soul contracts, reincarnation, and soul purpose
• How animals guide our spiritual growth
• Pets as unexpected spirit guides
• A modern, grounded approach to modern spirituality

WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS 
If you’re on a spiritual awakening journey, you’re probably searching for clarity, guidance, and support from teachers, books, or meditation practices.
 
What if one of your greatest spiritual teachers has been sitting on your couch this whole time? 
Alicia reminds us that animals don’t get lost in the noise of the human world. They are intuitive, conscious, deeply aware, and absolutely connected to the field of universal intelligence. 

And if you know how to listen, they will help you find alignment faster than most spiritual teachers ever could. 

ABOUT OUR GUEST 
Alicia Sweezer is an intuitive guide, animal communicator, and medium who helps humans and their pets understand each other on an emotional, energetic, and spiritual level. Her work spans behavioral issues, energy alignment, intuitive development, and supporting pets and humans through life transitions...both physical and metaphysical.

RESOURCES & LINKS 
Learn more about Alicia: https://whoknewhealing.com 
Her podcast: Insights with Alicia (YouTube + all major platforms) 

If you’ve ever wondered what your pet is trying to tell you, or what wisdom hides behind their quirks, this episode will transform the way you see your animal companions forever. 

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Do Animals Hold The KEY To Your Spiritual Awakening?

For years, we were told that the secret to spiritual awakening was simple: stay positive, think high-vibe thoughts, avoid negativity, and manifest harder. But what if that entire framework is backwards? What if the real catalyst for consciousness expansion isn’t escaping low vibration...but using it?
 
In this solo episode, Will cracks open the myth of “high vibes only” and exposes why so many seekers feel stuck, frustrated, or inconsistent in their manifestation progress. Drawing from a raw, paradigm-shifting conversation with spiritual teacher David Strickel, this episode reframes low vibration—not as failure, but as the entry point to real transformation.
 
If you’ve been trying to “stay positive” your way out of discomfort, suppress your shadow, or force your way into alignment, what you’ll hear today may just save you years of spiritual wheel-spinning.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode 
• Why ‘High Vibes Only’ Actually Blocks Spiritual Growth 
Will breaks down how bypassing your shadow stalls true spiritual awakening and stops manifestation at the root.
 
• The Spiral, Not the Ladder 
Your awakening doesn’t ascend in a straight line. It winds up, down, and inward. Understanding this model can instantly remove years of self-judgment.
 
• The Hidden Beliefs That Sabotage Manifestation 
Most people don’t manifest because they’re sending a signal of need, not alignment. Will exposes how fear masquerades as desire, and shuts the door on abundance.
 
• Detuning vs Letting Go 
David Strickel’s groundbreaking concept of detuning shows you how to dissolve emotional charge without bypassing, sugarcoating, or faking forgiveness.
 
• Why Low Vibration Is Not a Problem—It’s a Message 
Fear, grief, anger, anxiety...these aren’t spiritual failures. They’re invitations to examine the subconscious patterns shaping your reality.

The Three-Step Framework for Real Integration 
A grounded, practical method to use immediately...no woo-only fluff, no 90-day shadow-bootcamps necessary:
Recognize When You’re “Down the Spiral” 1. Stop mislabeling discomfort as failure; start seeing it as a signal.
Go Into the Basement 2. Your subconscious has boxes you’ve never opened. Will guides you through how to begin...safely, intentionally, and without overwhelm.
Detune Through Appreciation 3. Not toxic positivity. Not forced affirmations. Appreciation is the only emotional state that dissolves resistance without repression.
Why This Episode Matters Right Now 
Spiritual seekers are burned out on polished, performative modern spirituality that denies half the human experience. This episode offers a grounded alternative, one rooted in intuition development, emotional honesty, and the true mechanics behind manifestation.
 
If you’ve ever wondered:
Why does my shadow keep resurfacing?Why does manifestation work one week and collapse the next?Why do positive thoughts feel like a band-aid instead of transformation?Why do I feel worse the more I try to “stay high vibe”?…then what Will shares here will land like a breakthrough.

Perfect For Listeners Interested In:
 • Spiritual Awakening
 • Manifestation (minus the clichés)
 • Intuition Development
 • Energy Healing & Emotional Regulation
 • Shadow Work that Actually Works
 • Soul Purpose & Consciousness Exploration
 • Modern Spirituality Without Bypassing
 • Life After Death Concepts & Higher Perspective Thinking
 • Near-Death Experience-inspired frameworks
 • Spirit Guides & Inner Dialogue with the Shadows

If This Episode Hit Hard… 
Share it with someone who’s tired of performative positivity and ready for real transformation. And subscribe for more episodes that challenge assumptions, deepen awareness, and make spiritual growth practical, grounded, and honest.

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What's the REAL Path to Spiritual AWAKENING?

What if the very emotions you’ve been trying to escape are the key to your spiritual awakening, your manifestation power, and your deepest soul purpose?
 
Today’s episode challenges the entire “high-vibe only” culture in modern spirituality. Our guest, David Strickel, creator of the Tya Practice (Trust Your Abundance), says we’ve been trying to skip the most transformative part of consciousness work: the shadow, the grief, the anger, the frustration...those “low-vibe” frequencies we love to avoid.
 
Instead of bypassing them, he teaches us how to leverage low vibration as fuel, how to turn trauma into clarity, and how to raise our default frequency by wrestling the dragon instead of pretending it’s not there.

Inside This Brave Conversation 
You’ll learn: 
 • Why avoiding “low-vibration emotions” prevents true 
spiritual growth • How manifestation fails when you activate the vibration of 
need • instead of creation
 • The difference between 
acceptance, surrender, and authentic appreciation • How trauma and adversity expand consciousness instead of limiting it
 • Why abundance starts in early childhood belief systems
 • The real reason “positive thinking” stops working 

And yes, we talk about how to stop bypassing, how to dismantle victimhood without shame, and how to do the work without losing yourself.

Most Mind-Bending Takeaways:

💡 Low vibration is not the enemy. It’s the teacher. It’s the doorway into sovereignty. When we avoid it, we stay stuck. When we explore it, we evolve.
 
💡 Manifestation doesn’t respond to desperation. You must shift into the frequency of “Wouldn’t it be nice…” instead of “I need this to happen.”
 
💡 Your early subconscious programming IS your life. The blocks that shape your success, money, health, or relationships can ALWAYS be traced back to your foundational belief system. If you don’t detune it, you’ll repeat it.
 
💡 Appreciation heals more than acceptance. Acceptance says, “I’ll tolerate this.” Appreciation says, “This experience expanded me.” That tiny shift changes everything. 

A Moment You Won’t Forget 
David worked with a mother whose son was murdered. The work helped her find true, authentic appreciation for the experience...not joy, not denial, but a liberated perspective that freed her from lifelong suffering. This is transformation without spiritual fluff; raw, uncomfortable, and radically empowering.

Who Should Listen? 
This episode is for anyone who has: 
✔ Tried “positive thinking” and failed
✔ Been blocked in their manifestation despite doing all the things
✔ Experienced trauma and wants liberation—not denial
✔ Felt disconnected from mainstream spiritual teachers
✔ Wanted practical and grounded spiritual awakening, not fairy dust

About Today’s Guest 
David Strickel is a spiritual teacher, channel, and founder of the Tya Practice, a belief system based on channeled Source consciousness known as the Stream. He teaches high-performing seekers how to exit the matrix by detuning subconscious blocks, transforming polarity, and cultivating authentic liberation, not perfection. 

Website: TYAAcademy.com
Listen to David’s Podcast: The Tya Podcast

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