The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Consciousness

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 psychologist, author of five books, and the man who literally invented the field of Egology, Dr. Nick introduces a...

She was 240 pounds, on 28 medications, and dying in a hospital bathroom when her heart stopped.

What she saw on the other side wasn't heaven. It wasn't a tunnel. It wasn't anything she expected.

She came back with a warning that flips everything the manifestation world tells you about "vibrating higher." And it might explain why your life isn't matching your energy, no matter how grateful you try to feel.

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This one gets weird fast, and Karen has questions nobody's ever thought to ask before.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a...

Most people who think they're listening to their intuition are actually replaying an old survival pattern. The difference matters more than you think, and once you understand it, you can't un-see it.
 
Laura Day is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the most respected intuition consultants in the world. For over 40 years she has worked with billion-dollar companies, Fortune 100 executives, and some of the most recognizable names in Hollywood. Her new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, is the framework she spent decades building. and surviving. to finally p...

What if your intuition has been trying to talk to you your entire life. and you just never learned how to listen?
 
In this episode, we sit down with Dallisa Hocking, a 5th generation psychic medium, educator, and founder of Spirit & Spark, for a conversation that turns the entire psychic world on its head. Because unlike most people in her field, Dallisa is not here to tell you what's coming. Her whole mission is teaching you how to develop your own psychic abilities so you never have to outsource your inner knowing to anyone again.
 

What if your spiritual awakening wasn't meant to find you...but to break you? Dr. Amy Robbins, a clinical psychologist with 20 years of practice, received an after-death communication after her aunt passed that shattered her worldview. In this episode, she reveals how life after death experiences rewired her understanding of soul purpose, why chasing enlightenment keeps you stuck, and what actually triggers transformation. A pragmatic guide to spiritual awakening that doesn't require you to abandon science.

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What if the very thing that broke you open was the point all along? That's the question sitting at the...

Hey there, we wanna tell you about someone  we believe belongs in your world. His name is John Novello, Grammy-affiliated jazz pianist, Billboard number one artist, and the man who saved his future wife's life before 9/11 with nothing but a feeling he refused to ignore.

Now, John spent six decades mastering one of the most technically demanding instruments in music, and somewhere along the way, he built an equally precise framework for something most people leave entirely to chance: how to actually hear the intelligence that has been organizing your life all along.

He calls it th...

What if the feeling you keep talking yourself out of is the most reliable thing about you? Today's guest has been listening to a voice most people would have dismissed, medicated, or kept very quiet about. Instead, he followed it for seven decades through a Grammy, a Billboard number one, and a 30-year run with one of the most celebrated trios in jazz history.

He also followed it on the morning of September 11th, 2001, when it told him something was very wrong with a flight his girlfriend was about to board.

She canceled.

The...

What if healing didn't require a diagnosis, a pill, or even leaving your house? Will and Karen sit down with Terri Bowden, Guardian of the Virginia Beach Harmonic Egg, during Day 2 of SpiritFest USA, and the conversation quickly goes somewhere unexpected.

The Harmonic Egg is a wooden, egg-shaped chamber that uses precisely calibrated light and sound frequencies to work on the body from the inside out. But here's what most people don't know: your session doesn't end when you step out. The egg continues working on you for five full days, whether you're across town or across the...

The deeper you go into psychic and energy work, the more sensitive you become, not less. If you're building a spiritual practice or just trying to understand why doing this work keeps leaving you wrecked, this episode is the one you didn't know you needed.

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Rachel White spent nearly two decades as a Senior Vice President at a global corporation, quietly doing tarot readings out of her Chicago apartment on weekends. Today she runs TOTEM Readings in Austin, TX, serves thousands of clients worldwide, and just published The Business of Woo, a...

What if the most rigorous scientific training in the world didn't make you less spiritual. it made you more? That's exactly what happened to Dr. Theresa Bullard-Whyke. She earned her PhD in physics, spent years immersed in quantum mechanics and astrophysics, and came out the other side more convinced than ever that science and metaphysics aren't opposites. They're describing the same thing from different angles.

This is one of our all-time favorite conversations, and we're bringing it back because it hits different every time.

In this classic episode, Dr. Theresa walks us through her extraordinary journey...

What if the story you've been telling about your past is keeping you stuck in the wrong timeline...and you have the power to rewrite it right now? In this episode, we sit down with Steven Fischer, the human channeler behind Jadon Se, a Cosmic Golden Dragon from what he describes as the Third Arc of Consciousness.

Steven is one half of an anonymous couple living near Mount Shasta, California, who together have produced nearly 180 free channeled messages, a seven-part Golden Codes workshop series, a physical oracle deck, and a companion app...all on a donation model, on...

What if the reason you can't figure it out is the point? In this bonus LIVE episode, Will and Karen pull back the curtain on one of those rare, unscripted conversations that reminds you why you found this show in the first place. It starts with a meditation download Karen received at the symphony... yes, the symphony... and spirals into one of the most honest and wide-ranging discussions they've had in a long time.

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The Download. Karen meditates at a Mother's Day symphony performance and receives what she can only describe as a...

You've meditated. You've journaled. You've done the work. So why do you still feel stuck? If that question hits a nerve, this episode is for you. Master Mingtong Gu has a clear and somewhat unsettling answer, and it has nothing to do with your mindset.

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Master Mingtong Gu trained at a real hospital in China where the only prescription was energy, no medicine, no surgery, no supplements, just Qigong practice, all day, every day. The results were documented. The patients were real. And the conditions being healed were the kind conventional medicine...

What if everything the alien abduction community has told you about contact is built on a broken foundation? Jeremy Vaeni has been living with unexplained encounters his entire life, and he's spent decades doing what almost no one in the experiencer community does: questioning the story itself.

In this bonus episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Jeremy breaks down why hypnosis... the tool that built the modern abduction narrative...is a storytelling device, not a memory retrieval tool. He explains why figures like Budd Hopkins actively filtered out experiencer testimony that didn't fit the "alien doctor" script, and why...

What if everything you've ever wanted isn't somewhere out there waiting to be attracted...but already here, broadcasting like a radio signal you just haven't learned to tune into yet? That's where this conversation starts. And it only gets more interesting from there.

Cathy Heller spent three years studying ancient Jewish mysticism with rabbis in Jerusalem, not on a retreat...during a war. And what she brought back has been downloaded over 45 million times. Her distinction between the Law of Attraction and the Law of Reception sounds subtle. It isn't. It changes everything about how you understand why...

Every now and then, we get to be on the other side of the mic. This week, we're sharing a conversation we had as guests on Baiba Wisse's show, Live In Technicolor, and it turned into one of the more personal conversations we've had in a while.

Baiba asked us the questions we don't always get to sit with on our own show. How did this all start? What was really going on behind the scenes? What do Will and Karen actually believe about why we're here? So that's what this one is. The origin story, the messy...

What actually happens after we die? It's the question humanity has asked for thousands of years, and for most of us, it stays theoretical. For Dr. Elisa Medhus, it became the most personal investigation of her life.

Dr. Medhus spent over thirty years as an internal medicine physician, raised by militant atheists, trained to trust only what she could measure. She had never seriously considered what happens after death...until October 2009, when her twenty-year-old son Erik, who lived with bipolar disorder and Tourette's syndrome, died by suicide.

What followed shattered every assumption she had about consciousness...

You've seen mediums on TV deliver jaw-dropping messages from beyond. But what you're watching is edited. The real thing is messier, harder, and honestly. more convincing.

This week, Will and Karen sit down with evidential medium, spiritual teacher, and host of the Mediumship Matters podcast, Hannah McIntyre, and from the first question she's already calling out the difference between a medium who tells you things that could be true for anyone. and one who shows up with undeniable, verifiable proof.

Hannah breaks down why evidential mediumship is so brutally difficult, why some mediums avoid it entirely...

What if the emotional patterns keeping you stuck, exhausted, and running in circles aren't actually yours? What if they belong to a version of you that's already ready to leave, and all that's needed is someone to open the door?

That's just one of the questions we couldn't shake after this conversation.

Our guest today is Ken Lloyd, an internationally recognized Energy Architect, Transformational Healer, and what he calls a soul-infused walk-in. Before any of that, he was a self-taught software engineer who built three global cybersecurity companies from the ground up, wrote seven professional patents...

You've done the meditations. You've interviewed the masters. You've read the books, done the breath work, and had the downloads. So why, the moment someone walks into your office, do you fall right back into ego like none of it ever happened?

That's exactly where Will found himself after a one-on-one with a big boss that did not go the way his higher self intended. And instead of quietly processing it alone, he brought it straight to the live show, to Karen, and to all of you.

In this bonus live episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians...

What if the injury that wrecked your plans was actually the most precise thing the universe ever did for you? Koya Webb was a nationally ranked heptathlete...13th in the country.... Seven events.... The Olympics were a real, scheduled destination. Then, mid-stride walking to class, her back said no. Not a pulled muscle. A full stop.

What followed wasn't a detour. It was a download. In this conversation, Koya unpacks what most of us in the wellness space refuse to admit: that the body isn't just a vehicle, it's a spiritual instrument. And it will use pain, injury...

Have you ever felt like you had to keep your spiritual beliefs a secret? Like admitting what you truly believe would cost you friendships, family dinners, or your reputation at work? You're not alone, and this episode is for you.

Will and Karen sit down with Jenn Bierma, an intuitive massage therapist, medium, author, and podcast host who made a bold leap from the spiritually open culture of Minnesota straight into the heart of Oklahoma's Bible Belt. What she discovered there... and how she navigated it... will make you rethink everything about what it means to walk your...

Is the belief that we're all separate from each other actually the root cause of everything going wrong in the world right now? Not metaphorically. Literally. That's the question Steve Farrell has spent 23 years...and one very dramatic exit from Silicon Valley...trying to answer.

Steve co-founded Humanity's Team in 2003 alongside Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch. Today the organization spans 70 countries, 700,000 members, and a streaming platform housing over 300 masterclasses from some of the most respected voices in consciousness, science, and spiritual development.

His latest initiative carries a deadline: make conscious living the planetary norm...

What if the fastest path to deeper meditation, better sleep, and genuine spiritual connection fits in the palm of your hand?

In this special live Q&A, Will and Karen sit down with returning favorite Jonathan Robinson, who has personally tested over 50 consciousness-expanding gadgets, from breath-pacing devices and heart-opening necklaces to EEG brainwave bands and red-light brain helmets.

Jonathan also shares something that genuinely surprised the skeptics: that Zoom meditations with certain gurus can transmit measurable, overwhelming energy across any distance.

Plus, the conversation covers group psychedelic experiences, AI as a spiritual guide, and...

What if every healing modality you've ever tried worked exactly as advertised, and that's precisely why none of them stuck? Dr. Darren Starwynn has spent over 30 years watching people get genuinely better, and then watching them reload the exact same pattern six months later like nothing happened.

As the inventor of the Acutron, an FDA-cleared microcurrent electro-acupuncture device he developed in 1988, he had a machine that produced near-miraculous results. Pinched nerves releasing in two minutes. Chronic pain dropping from a 10 to a 2 in a single session. And he still walked away from it.

Because the technique w...

What if the reason you feel alone on your spiritual path is simply because you forgot who's been walking alongside you the entire time?

In this episode, Will & Karen sit down with Marty Rawson, founder of Spirit Alliance, author, multidimensional healer, and certified practitioner of everything from EMF Balancing to Melek-level light work. Marty brings a grounded, no-nonsense approach to the big questions, and his answers have a way of making the mystical feel surprisingly practical.

Before the interview, Will opens with a personal reflection pulled from The Living Gita, wrestling with one of...

You've tried the therapy, the supplements, the breathwork, the retreats. And yet something still feels stuck, unreachable, like your healing keeps running into a wall it can't get past. This episode won't tell you that you're broken. It's going to suggest something stranger and maybe more useful than that.

Hillary Faye has spent 23 years working at the edge of what most people call possible. She's trained more than 5,000 energy healers worldwide, built a global community of practitioners through her Crystal Chamber Healers Academy, and developed a healing system she says was transmitted directly to her by a collective...

Have you ever felt like the universe is trying to reach you but you can't quite make out the signal? What if there are angelic beings with urgent messages for humanity right now, and two women were specifically called to deliver them?
 
In this episode, Will and Karen sit down with Pamela Downs and Lisa Roach, psychic intuitive healers, angelic channelers, and founding partners of Spirit Calling, an online spiritual community built for everyone who is waking up and wondering what's happening to them.
 
Pamela and Lisa are channels for the Great Council of Light, a co...

You've felt it. Someone leaves the room and you feel weirdly exhausted. Or you ignored a gut feeling and paid for it later. This episode names what's actually happening, and gives you a practical system to deal with it.

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If you've ever left a conversation feeling like something was stolen from you, or spent years second-guessing whether your instincts were real or just anxiety in a costume, Lisa Campion is here to hand you a very grounded toolkit.

Lisa is a Reiki master teacher, psychic counselor, author, and podcast host with o...

What if a psychic reading isn't about predicting your future. It's about seeing your options more clearly?
 
That's the reframe that Terri Jarvis brings to everything she does. A psychic reader, intuitive healer, and Reiki master teacher, Terri has been a fixture at SpiritFest USA events up and down the East Coast. Will and Karen caught up with her live on the floor of SpiritFest at the Wyndham Virginia Beach Oceanfront, and the conversation was as fun as it was eye-opening.
 
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Terri breaks down the biggest misconception people ha...

You've been blowing out birthday candles and tossing coins into fountains your whole life. Turns out, you weren't just being superstitious. You were running an experiment in quantum physics, neuroscience, anthropology, and behavioral science simultaneously, and you had absolutely no idea.

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Brownell Landrum calls herself an "Explorer of Metaphysical Mystery," and she's earned the title. After spending years synthesizing research from 70+ scientists across a dozen disciplines, she wrote The Art and Science of Wishing, an 879-page deep dive into the mechanics behind something most of us dismiss as childlike fantasy. She's a...

Are you experiencing spiritual awakening symptoms and not sure whether to call a doctor or a mystic? You're waking up at 3am. Crying at commercials. Suddenly intolerant of small talk, the career you've had for a decade, and basically every version of yourself you built before now.

These are some of the most common spiritual awakening signs, and here's what's striking: they've been documented across thousands of years, across cultures and traditions that have no historical reason to agree with each other. Sufi mysticism, Kundalini yoga, Christian mystical texts, shamanic practice, Jungian psychology, and modern somatic therapy are...

You've done the work. Meditated, journaled, shadow-worked your way through half a bookshelf. So why does the same frustration, the same anger, the same stuck feeling keep showing back up? Turns out, it's not a willpower problem. It's a filing system problem.

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Blaise Kennedy is a consciousness guide and teacher who got here the hard way. At 24, he hit a wall in drug addiction treatment and did something most people wouldn't: instead of just getting better and moving on, he got relentlessly curious about why standard answers weren't working. What emerged isn't philosophy...

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

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What happens to your consciousness when your brain shuts down completely? That's not a philosophical question for Dr. Eben Alexander. it's a medical one. And his answer, backed by peer-reviewed case reports and 25 years as a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon, might be the most scientifically credible challenge to materialist thinking you'll encounter.

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In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander fell into a week-long coma caused by a...

If you've ever thought about starting a podcast but had no idea where to begin, this one's for you.

On Thursday, March 19th at 7:00 PM Eastern (6 PM Central | 5 PM Mountain | 4 PM Pacific), I'm hosting a free live virtual seminar called Zero to Podcast, built specifically for total beginners.

When I started The Skeptic Metaphysicians, I had no roadmap. I made every mistake in the book and had to figure it all out on my own. This seminar is everything I wish someone had told me on day one.

In one evening, we'll cover: <...