The Knowing

We first met Claudia, in the episode, The Knowing. She described her gifts as a medium and her mission as a “light worker.” In this episode of Spirited Conversations, Claudia shares her experiences with an entity in her home that frightened her dog and involved serious electrical issues with dangerous consequences. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), and Crowander (Don't You Leave - From The Piano)

In this episode of Spirited Conversations, Bev describes out-of-body experiences arising from two close encounters with death,  discusses her cat's sensitivity to spirit, and relates encounters with departed loved ones shared by her son and a dear friend. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), and Lobo Loco (Little Lark - B (ID 1556) For Jambo)

In this episode of Spirited Conversations, Kris shares childhood encounters with the spirits of children and a mothering presence, family experiences with spirit, unspoken communication with her twin and son, and incidents involving spirit in hospital and hospice settings. She shares her views about spirit, angels, and orbs, and discusses self-protection and distinguishing psychiatric symptoms from true gifts.  Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), and Sergey Cheremisinov (Mother's Hands - Forgotten Stars)

In this episode of Spirited Conversations we meet Claudia, a medium who shares her first encounter with a psychic and spiritual path from childhood through the death of her Mother and Father. She talks about Lily Dale, NY, a 160-acre Spiritualist community founded in 1879 and home to 52 registered mediums. She explains the "clair" (or intuitive) senses, 6 out of 8 of which she possesses. Claudia describes her religion of "kindness and compassion" and her mission as a "light worker." This is installment one of two of my story-rich interview with this force of nature. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), and Anton Khoryukov (The Moment Of Light - restArt)

In this episode we welcome Jody, who we first met in Protective Presence (Season 1, Episode 3). She shares the experience of complicated grief following the loss of her father and her experience of synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon in which one experiences one sense through another. We share our experiences related to seeing auras and discuss the journey back to wholeness following trauma and loss.  Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), Peter Rudenko (Peace Within - Inner Mechanics)

In Season 2, Episode 2 of Spirited Conversations, Pamela shares encounters with a presence that warns and guides her through experiences ranging from a haunted house in her youth to adulthood spaces evidencing a negative presence, including a home with her infant son and a male friend's house that was a "really good buy" with a history.  Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Falling Into Presence by Borrtex (Falling Into Presence).

In the Season 2 opener of Spirited Conversations, Tim relates encounters with spirit during his Mother's final hours and in a rooming house that was formerly a hospital, and recounts reports of a haunted theatre, a moving experience related to chanting, and his belief about the afterlife. Tim and Teri compare memories from their high school days. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Trees In The Wind by Daniel Birch (Music for Audio Podcasts Vol. 1).

In the Season 1 finale, Episode 12 of Spirited Conversations, Liz discusses a sensitivity to spirit that has followed her throughout her life across distance and time, a gift shared by family across generations and witnessed by friends and family. She relates visitations by human, animal, and other entities; sounds of moving furniture, footsteps, music, voices, and navigation frequencies; experiences of sleep paralysis; preparation by spirit to guide souls to the afterlife; and the spiritual gifts of animals. This episode is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Warm Fingers by Blue Dot Sessions (Piano Mover).

In Episode 11 of Spirited Conversations, I engage in my family's version of StoryCorps with my older brother. Craig shares dreams of falling and flying, a near death experience and white light dream, a first encounter with death and loss, an adolescent dabbling with levitation, a shadowy manifestation of a beloved cat, and his personal philosophy about spirituality and religion. He also relates his recollection of our shared encounter with spirit at a haunted B & B. We even pick up a few electronic voice phenomena (EVPs) just as we discuss the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Coldnoise - Remember (Who Are We).

In episode 10 of Spirited Conversations, Jamie shares personal stories about encounters with spirit in a nursing home, her childhood home, and a ghost town, and in hotels and B & Bs in Arizona, Florida, and Tuscany, Italy. She relates a childhood incident in which spirit intervened to save her life, describes how she experiences light and dark entities, and how she establishes boundaries. We also learn the magical power of M & Ms and capture an attempt by spirit to interfere with our interview. Pass the M & Ms, please! Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Plusplus - Piano Song (Psycho).