The Skeptic Metaphysicians: Spiritual Awakening & Quantum Spirituality
The Skeptic Metaphysicians bring you a podcast centered on consciousness expansion, quantum spirituality, and spiritual growth. Join hosts Will & Karen for inspiring discussions on metaphysics, mindful awareness, and the journey to enlightenment.Dive into spiritual awakening, consciousness, and metaphysics when Will and Karen share a smart, pragmatic approach to spirituality, mysticism, inner work, and quantum energy work. Whether exploring ascension, vibration, or higher self alignment, this podcast provides insightful conversations that help you understand spiritual awakenings without losing touch with reality. Ideal for those seeking grounded guidance on their metaphysical journey.You're not going crazy. You're just waking up. We're...
We Asked "The Awakened One": How Do You Actually Wake Up Spiritually?
Is spiritual awakening real, or just a nice metaphor? Awakened Zen Master Thich Dieu Thien, known as the Awakened One, says it is literal, and she can name the day it happened to her: April 8, 2001.
Will and Karen ask her the question every seeker wrestles with: how do you actually wake up? She explains the "False Mind," the ever-changing ego built from ignorance, greed and hatred, and why even our skepticism comes from it. She shares why a glimpse of enlightenment fades, what step one really is, and how to catch your reactions before they take over. Will g...
Angelic Channeling, Light Language, and Why the Angels Are Already Within You - SpiritFest USA
What if the angels aren't out there somewhere? What if they're already within you, and someone just needs to help you hear them? That's the heart of what Jillie Angelic Channeler does, and Will and Karen got to experience it live on the floor of SpiritFest at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.
In this episode: Jillie breaks down what it actually means to be an angelic channeler. It's not a performance. When a client sits down with her, she tunes into their higher self and their energy, and whatever beings are working with that person, whether archangels, loved...
You're Still Paying for Fear. Here's How to Cancel the Subscription | Energy Healing & Intuition
What if fear is just a subscription you forgot you signed up for? Energy healer, Emotion Code practitioner, and podcast host Mo Smith joins Will and Karen to explain why fear is such an easy motivator, why it follows us even into spiritual practice, and how she's spent the last six years running a real-life experiment: quitting her job with six weeks of savings and living on faith and surrender.
She shares her simple two-minute meditation for receiving guidance, how to tell a genuine message from monkey mind, and what actually happens in an Emotion Code session (yes...
Can AI Love? The Consciousness Question That Changes Everything — Scotte Burns Part 2
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. The foundation Scotte builds in that first episode makes everything in this one hit...
What Is Love? It's Not What You Think — Scotte Burns on Love, Consciousness, and the Fabric of Reality
What if everything you have ever been told about love is wrong? Not slightly off. Not oversimplified. Fundamentally, scientifically, philosophically wrong. That is the starting point for today's conversation with Scotte Burns, a writer, speaker, and researcher who spent over a decade and more than 100,000 miles riding across America with his wife Toni, asking one question: What is love?
He interviewed quantum physicists, Buddhist monks, Lakota elders, neuroscientists, jazz musicians, and people on death row. He recorded nearly five terabytes of interviews across 48 states. And the answer he came back with is not what anyone expected. Love...
Why Travel Is a Spiritual Practice (According to Edgar Cayce)
What if the trip itself is the spiritual work? In this special on-location episode, Will and Karen broadcast live from Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, joined by Samantha Erb of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment).
Samantha breaks down why Cayce, often called the grandfather of modern metaphysics, insisted that real growth comes from lived experience, not just study. They dig into the A.R.E.'s Travel and Tour Division, founded in 1963 by Cayce's son Hugh Lynn Cayce, and why sacred-site travel to places like Lourdes and Machu Picchu can open the door...
You're Already Awake. You Just Forgot.
Karen and Will sit down with Richard Walter, founder of I Am Day, a global awakening movement rooted in one deceptively simple idea. Richard traces the movement's origin back to a hundred-year-old book, a string of strange numerical coincidences connecting Florence Scovel Shinn, Louise Hay, and Wayne Dyer, and a personal wake-up-call practice he calls Awakening Currents. Along the way, Karen opens up about her cancer diagnosis and the shift in mindset that changed her relationship with her own body. The conversation closes with Richard's simplest teaching yet: three breaths is all it takes to come back to yourself.
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Inside the Spirit Fest People Fly Across the Country For
Live from the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Will and Karen bring a special on-site edition of the show, broadcasting straight from the floor of Spirit Fest, sitting down with the woman who built the whole thing: festival founder Mary Ellen Popyk.
What starts as a quick "thanks for having us" turns into a real look at why this particular mind, body, spirit festival has become a destination event, not just a local pop-up. Mary Ellen explains what separates Spirit Fest from other shows on the circuit: a genuine sense of community that keeps attendees parked in...
Can You Actually Boost Your Neighborhood's Consciousness? The Science of Energy Work
What if the thing designed to make your life better was also quietly surfacing everything you've been avoiding? That's exactly what Clayten Stedmann and Jeffrey Stegman... co-founders of Focused Life-Force Energy.... came back to TSM to explore.
If you caught their first episode, you already know the origin story. This is not that conversation. In this return visit, we go considerably deeper into what FLFE actually is at its core... a high-consciousness field they call the Love Zone... and how it works using the Scale of Consciousness as its calibration framework.
Clayten walks us through what...
How Do You Know a Feeling Isn't Yours? - Spirit Fest VB
Live from Spirit Fest at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, Will and Karen sit down with medical intuitive Picasso Roberts. She explains how she reads the body's "dis-ease" through a mental-emotional lens, why she never diagnoses or prescribes, and the three words she tells every client to remember when a feeling that surfaces isn't actually theirs to carry. Picasso also opens up about her path into the work at 40, her connection to Edgar Cayce's legacy in Virginia Beach, and what it really costs energetically to tune into another person's frequency for a living.
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What Are the Signs of a Spiritual Awakening?
Karen Docherty is a Scottish evidential psychic medium and spiritual teacher trained to teacher level at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College, working today with clients across four continents. In this episode she breaks down the real signs of a spiritual awakening, not as a lightning-bolt moment, but as a set of skills anyone can develop, and why so many of us feel it and then talk ourselves out of it before it goes anywhere.
The conversation goes to some genuinely unexpected places... a childhood spent fighting spirit children for her own bedcovers, a house she walked away from...
How Tarot Cards Actually Read You: A Reader on Tapping the Subconscious
At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Nyx Spencer of Resonant Moon Card Readings, a tarot and oracle card reader, Twitch streamer, and co-host of the podcast Outrageous Fortunes, who's currently teaching others how to read as well.
Nyx breaks down how she reads beyond the textbook meaning of a card, tuning into what emotion each image is designed to evoke, and walks through some of tarot's most visceral cards, from the betrayal-coded Seven of Swords to the "it's dead, Jim" finality of the Ten.
The conversation gets personal fast when...
Free Spirit Medium Session Giveaway
The NRTV app just launched, and to celebrate, we're giving away a free session with Spirit Medium Daniel Jackson, host of Beyond the Veil.
Here's how to enter:Download the NRTV app (free, iOS and Android) - link is belowWatch the latest episode of Beyond the Veil in the appFind the codeword hidden in the episodeScreenshot it and post with #NRTVonMyPhoneFollow NRTV to be eligibleEntries close September 4th. Winner notified September 7th.
Download the app: https://tinyurl.com/3r33m29a
Official rules: newrealitytv.com/contest
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Why You Can't Stop Thinking During Meditation (And the Effortless Fix That Works)
Why does meditation feel so hard, even when you're doing everything "right"? On this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley sit down with Peter Russell, Cambridge-trained physicist, consciousness teacher, and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, to unpack the one shift that changes everything: effort itself is the obstacle.
Peter spent over 50 years teaching meditation and consciousness studies, and in this conversation he breaks down why the "monkey mind" isn't a personal failure, it's a natural brain function, and why trying to control your thoughts is exactly what keeps you stuck. Will...
Your Body Is Electric: A Doctor's Case for Fighting 5G with Magnets
Editor's Note (added 8/27/2026):
During this segment, our guest stated that brain cancer is the leading cause of death in children under ten. That's not accurate. CDC mortality data shows accidents (unintentional injuries) have consistently been the leading cause of death for children, with cancer, including brain cancer, well behind it.
The episode also described 4G as a confirmed carcinogen and 5G as significantly stronger and more dangerous. The research doesn't support that framing. In 2011, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," its weakest classification t...
Stop Trying So Hard: A DIY Approach to Modern Spirituality
Spiritually exhausted? Therapist Faith Freed reveals why your spiritual practice might be the problem, and how to build one that actually fits your real life.
What if the reason your spiritual life feels like a second job is because you've been following someone else's job description? In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will and Karen sit down with Faith Freed, licensed psychotherapist, spiritual guide, and author of DIY Spirituality: Chart Your Own Sacred Path, to explore one of the most overlooked causes of spiritual burnout: doing it wrong for you, not doing it wrong in general.
A Chemistry Professor's Case for Why Energy Healing Is Real - Spirit Fest USA Special
At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen "sit down" with Doron Shalev, a chemistry professor, crystallographer, and self-described skeptic who found his way into energy healing through an unlikely source: a stack of pandemic reading that started with crystal science and ended with a Reiki master teacher certification.
Doron makes the scientific case for "woo," walking through the statistical thresholds researchers use to validate findings like the Higgs boson, and why many energy-healing studies actually clear a higher bar of statistical significance than science is willing to credit. The conversation turns personal when Doron describes healing h...
Money Mindset Isn't Enough | The Energy Shift That Changes Everything
You've done the affirmations. You've read the books. But the fear and shame around money won't budge. What if the problem isn't your mindset at all? In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will and Karen explore the energy work, nervous system blocks, and subconscious patterns that derail manifestation, even when your conscious thoughts are "right." Sarah reveals why spiritual bypassing around money doesn't work, and how genuine energy shifts (not just affirmations) create real financial change. A pragmatic deep-dive into manifestation, inner work, and the nervous system blocks keeping you stuck.
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Words Are Magic: Inside the Ancient Egyptian Ritual Behind This Perfume House
At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Amiee Gibson of The Hidden Court of Heka, a luxury ritual perfume house built entirely around one Egyptian concept: that words, spoken, written, or simply held in the heart, are magic.
Amiee walks through her three "chambers," each a scent world built around a different sense of belonging, from resin-and-rose blends to a dream-enhancing floral chamber of blue tansy and jasmine. She explains why her perfumes age for eight to twelve weeks before they're ready, how a jojoba-oil base gives them a two-year shelf life, and...
Angels & Spiritual Awakening | Dr. Alisha Das's Bestseller Journey
Dr. Alisha Das returns for her third appearance to celebrate *Your Angelic Ancestry* hitting #1 on Amazon within 24 hours. Will and Karen explore what it actually feels like to watch thirty years of esoteric work become a bestseller, the fight to keep the book's most controversial chapter intact, and receive a live channeled message from Archangel M. Perfect for anyone skeptical about angels but curious about consciousness expansion and soul purpose.
Resources Mentioned:
Wake Up To Sleep by Charlie Morley
Guest Info:
Website: https://alishadas.com
Podcast: https://alishadas.com/l...
Ancient Minerals, Modern Healing: What the Old World Knew About Staying Well
At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Clint Greenlee of IESA Healing Arts and Soundworks to talk about Ormus — sometimes called "the philosopher's stone" — and the ancient mineral wisdom his Heal the World Project is built around.
Clint breaks down why even a "perfect" diet may only get you 70% of the way to real health, how copper deficiency quietly blocks your body from absorbing magnesium and iron, and why he believes healing should be radically simple: just a few single-ingredient tonics rather than a cabinet full of supplements. The conversation moves from Ormus tinct...
Real Spiritual Awakening vs. The New Age Trap | What Actually Works
Spiritual awakening or spiritual marketing? Shaman Abhay Oyun walks us through why most New Age practices miss the mark—and what real consciousness expansion actually requires. With 35 years of lineage practice and a track record that includes predicting global events, he challenges the skeptics and believers alike on where inner work ends and industry hype begins. A pragmatic deep-dive on authenticity in spirituality.
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?
Classic - Did Reality Change Overnight? A Physicist Explains the Mandela Effect
Ever been absolutely certain about something; a movie line, a cartoon character's outfit, a historical event, only to find out the whole world remembers it differently? That unsettling feeling has a name. It's called the Mandela effect, and it might be more than a memory glitch.
Will opens with his own real-time reality shift. A boarding pass seat number that changed right in front of his eyes mid-flight, no explanation, no logical fix. Then he and Karen bring in Cynthia Sue Larson, a UC Berkeley-trained physicist, bestselling author of "Reality Shifts" and "Quantum Jumps," and founder of RealityShifters, t...
What If Dying Is a Skill? Spiritual Awakening Through Death Preparation.
What if dying is actually a skill you can practice? In this episode, we explore consciousness expansion and spiritual awakening through Darnella Ford's unconventional journey...one that began with heartbreak, depression, and a breathwork experience that sent her flying through the void. We dig into how energy work, trauma facilitation, and inner work prepare us for the one experience we're guaranteed to face. Pragmatic, unfiltered, and surprisingly liberating.
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Darnella Ford
Website and private sessions: https://www.journeytoworthy.org/
Darnella's Book
The Next B...
Is Hypnosis a Shortcut to Enlightenment? A Hypnotherapist Explains What Really Happens in Trance
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 difference between a light trance (think scrolling your phone or watching a movie) and t...
What Actually Happens After You Die — And Why It Matters Right Now
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 soul experiences between death and rebirth, and why understanding that journey might be the most important thing you can do whi...
Why You Ignore Your Gut Feeling, Until It's Too Late - SpiritFest USA
Live from the vendor floor at SpiritFest USA in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen catch an unplanned conversation that turns out to be one of the most useful of the day.
Their guest never meant to be on the show, she just wandered in to check out the booths. But somewhere between talking about neuro-spicy sensory overload and a windshield-shattering road story, she lays out the exact difference between the old "prove your powers to me" psychic culture and the mindset actually changing people's lives right now.
There's a simple exercise anyone can start tonight to...
Why Killing Your Ego Won't Get You Closer to Enlightenment (And What Will)
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...
Classic - She Died, Saw the Afterlife, and Came Back With a Warning About Your Vibration
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.
Press play.
This one gets weird fast, and Karen has questions nobody's ever thought to ask before.
The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a...
Is That Intuition or Anxiety? Here's How to Finally Tell the Difference
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...
Develop Your Psychic Abilities. 5th Generation Psychic Medium Shows You How
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.
Why Your Spiritual Awakening Requires Breaking First | Dr. Amy Robbins
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...
The Invisible Architect
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...
How to Hear the Voice That Already Knows What Your Life Is Supposed to Be
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...
SpiritFest USA - What If Sound and Light Could Heal What Medicine Can't?
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...
Psychic Abilities Don't Protect You. They Make You More Vulnerable
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.
About This Episode
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 Does a PhD Physicist Actually Think About God, Mysticism, and Spiritual Awakening?
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...
Can A Man Actually Channel A Dragon? | Dragon Channeler Jadon Se
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...
UFO Disclosure, Infinite Consciousness, and How to Stay Sane Right Now
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.
They cover:
The Download. Karen meditates at a Mother's Day symphony performance and receives what she can only describe as a...
How Qigong Healed 200,000 People Inside a Medicine-Less Hospital
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.
About This Episode
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...
