Closer to Venus
Hosted by Johnny Burke, Closer To Venus features interviews with experiencers and researchers on metaphysical/spiritual topics such as reincarnation, the spirit world, near-death experiences, channeling, astral projection, ascension, karma, past life memories, and consciousness science.The show was created for people who feel that traditional religious and scientific beliefs do not offer satisfactory answers to existential questions such as why are we here, what is our purpose, and what really happens when we die
Connect With Your Higher Self: Past Lives & Soul Contracts
Spiritual writer and trauma-informed life coach Vasundhra Gupta returns to describe her own vivid higher self encounters. She shares the meditation that brought her peace while a loved one was hospitalized, and the past life dreams she says she processed for her daughter during pregnancy. She also explains what happens when clients meet the higher self of someone they struggle to forgive.
How the soul and the higher self differHow to tell a past life dream from an ordinary dreamWhy cutting spiritual cords can become bypassing, and how soul contracts can be reworkedFind Vasundhra at My...
Verified Past Life Memories: Carole Louie on Her Father’s Visit
Can a past life memory be checked against a real record? Medium and past life regressionist Carole Louie says hers were. Listen to her explain how a visit from her late Buddhist father changed her career and her understanding of forgiveness, life reviews, and why we choose our families.
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How a library book confirmed a past lifeHer father’s “tenth hell of the Buddha” and his releaseTesting spirit and channeled messagesA vision quest and an “Intergalactic Council” experienceFind Carole: carolelouie.net
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What to Expect in a Mediumship Reading withTerrie Huberman
Ever wondered what a medium actually experiences during a reading? Psychic medium Terri Huberman takes us inside, from her dramatic first mediumship experience on a paranormal investigation to the way she feels spirit messages in her body today. She also shares practical, skeptic-friendly advice for anyone sitting for a reading.
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Why Terri says to give a medium no information beforehandHow symbols and “I don’t know” moments can make sense laterWhy even great mediums can be wrongHow heart coherence helps a reader stay clearFind Terri on Instagram @intuitiveterrihuberman or at terrihuberman.com.<...
Past Life Memories of a WWII Soldier: Family Confirmed the Details
At 24, Benjamin Carraud began reliving the final days of a German tank officer who died at Kursk in 1943. He traced the man’s identity, found an eyewitness diary, and met the officer’s family. Listen to how those memories surfaced and what they changed.
First flashbacks and the regression that revealed his own deathThe diary and family details that matched his memoriesHis “intermission” experience between livesWhy he calls karma responsibility, not punishmentGuest: Benjamin Carraud
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Evidential Mediumship at Historic Sites: Can Spirits Be Verified?
Can a medium prove what she senses? Evidential psychic medium Susanne Arens visits Civil War battlefields, frontier forts, and ancient ruins, then researches every detail afterward to see what holds up. Listen to hear about a Confederate soldier at Franklin, a cot and stove confirmed by a museum, and a hitchhiking spirit from New Mexico.
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Why she never researches before a sessionSoul groups, exit points, and near-death experiencesHer advice for skepticsFind Susanne: crystalpeakmedium.com, plus TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook under Crystal Peak Medium.
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How to Talk to Your Spirit Guide: Cindy Anderson's Simple Method
Soulpiphany founder Cindy Anderson has spent over a decade turning contact with her spirit guide into a repeatable, testable process — no special psychic gifts required. She and Johnny talk about telling a spirit guide apart from your higher self, why skeptics often make the fastest progress, and how a simple grounding practice can quiet the noise that gets in the way.
How to tell a spirit guide from your higher self or intuitionSimple grounding techniques to start building your own connectionWhy skeptics often make faster progress than lifelong believersFind Cindy at soulpiphany.com/pod for a sp...
Evidential Mediumship: Proof from Spirit with Michelle Snelling
Evidential medium @michellesnelling joins Closer To Venus to unpack what makes a psychic mediumship reading evidential mediumship— specific names, dates, and even scents, not just "you're loved and protected." She shares real reading examples where initials, birth months, and a beloved song confirmed a connection, and explains how to tell an authentic dream visit from an ordinary dream.
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What separates evidential mediumship from general psychic readingsHow Michelle discerns spirit messages from her own imaginationRed flags to watch for when vetting a mediumThe difference between a spirit visit and a regular dreamFi...
Near-Death Experience & Spirit Guides: Meagan Leigh Rose's Story
Intuitive healer and trauma-informed guidance counselor Meagan Leigh Rose joins Johnny Burke to share a near-death experience story she's never told publicly before — including a moment of nearly drowning at age three that gave her a vivid glimpse of the other side. Meagan works daily with spirit guides, past lives, and the life-between-lives space, and in this episode she opens up about what she saw crossing over, how her guides communicate with humor and love, and why she believes a human lifetime is just "a 12-second ride" in the scope of the soul's eternal existence.
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Spirit Guides & a Past Life in Babylon, with Kelle Sparta
Shaman Kelle Sparta remembers being a temple priestess in ancient Babylon — a past-life memory that came back to her all at once, decades later. Kelle joins Johnny to talk about how to tell your spirit guides apart from your own anxious thoughts, what it's really like to communicate with ghosts and entities as a psychic medium, and her firsthand encounters with walk-ins and multiple types of alien beings.
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How to recognize real guidance from your spirit guides (and rule out anxious "spinning" thoughts)What ins...Premonitions and Merging Mysticism with Science, with Bryan Quoc Le
Bryan Quoc Le is a trained food scientist whose sharpest insights into flavor chemistry, enzymes, and DNA haven't come from the lab bench but from intuition, mediumship, and clairvoyance. In this episode, Johnny sits down with Bryan to unpack a startling premonition of his father's death a year before it happened and the detailed technical "downloads" he's received mid-project—information that later checked out against real, published research. It's a rare, candid conversation about what happens when rigorous science and psychic intuition stop being treated as opposites.
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A 2,000-mile wa...Episode 267: Near-Death Experience and Life Reviews with Stephen Weber
After a motorcycle accident put him in a coma for three weeks, guest Stephen Weber didn't just have one life review during his near-death experience — he had several. Author of The Place Between Here and There: A True and Beautiful Near Death Experience, Steve joins Johnny to unpack what surprised him most: it wasn't the highlight-reel moments, it was the painful ones.
How repeated life reviews raised his awareness each timeWhy mistakes — not victories — turned out to be his greatest teachersWhat he learned about spirit, incarnation, and the "here and now"🌐 Website: betweenhereandhere.org
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#266 Decoding Soul Contracts, Dreams, and the Akashic Records with Psychic Kelly Davis
New Orleans-based psychic and past life regression practitioner Kelly Davis joins Johnny Burke to unpack soul contracts, karmic relationships, and how the Akashic Records hold the history of every life you've ever lived. Kelly explains how dreams, déjà vu, and unexplainable "knowingness" can be clues to agreements your soul made before you were born.
How to recognize a soul contract or karmic relationship in your own lifeWhy dreams may be your subconscious revealing what you can't say out loudHow the Akashic Records reveal the roles people have played across your past livesWhether you're new to pa...
#265 Soul Blueprints and Akashic Records with Erin Celise
What if every choice you've made—and every one you haven't made yet—is already recorded somewhere? Akashic Records reader Erin Celise joins Closer to Venus to break down what an Akashic Records reading really reveals: your soul's origin, its past-life karma, and the soul contracts quietly shaping your life right now.
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What the Akashic Records actually are (and aren't)How soul contracts and past-life karma show up in everyday patternsThe connection between spirit guides and your higher selfWh...#264 Astrology, Gene Keys and Human Design with Ann Marie Grace
Johnny Burke interviews soul alignment coach and podcast host Ann Marie Grace about her work combining astrology, human design, and Gene Keys into what she calls the “soul’s unique blueprint,” alongside guidance from spirit guides to clarify purpose.
She describes how breathwork and meditation beginning in 2008 helped her shift from depression into yoga and esoteric interests, with a pivotal 2012 astrology and “flower reading,” and a deeper dive into human design and Gene Keys in 2023 after closing a rigorous therapeutic yoga business. She explains her “soul meets strategy” approach: using birth data to read energetic patter...
#260.4 Allison Carmany- What Is Generational Trauma?
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#263 Soul Frequency Healing with Rebecca Keating
Shamanic healer Rebecca Keating joins the show to share how a personal crisis in nursing school led her to shamanism, and how that path eventually became Soul Frequency Healer — a modality blending ancient shamanic practice with quantum root-cause healing. She also opens up about a spontaneous, out-of-nowhere past life experience that permanently changed how she understands time and trauma.
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How shamanism and quantum healing intersect in root cause timeline repairWhat it's like to spontaneously relive multiple past lives at onceWhy chronic illness and injury can trace back to trauma from another li...#262 My Past Life of Tchaikovsky with Chris Nielsen
Chris Nielsen, past life regression practitioner and author of Being Pyotr Ilyich, joins Johnny Burke to share her uncanny past-life connection to composer Tchaikovsky. Drawing on over 20 regression sessions, Chris explains what she experienced in the "life between lives," why parallel lives can split from a single soul, and what actually keeps a spirit earthbound after death.
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Why the afterlife phase of a regression matters more than the past life itselfHow one soul can split into parallel — even opposing — livesWhat it really takes to help a spirit find the lightFind...
#261 QHHT: How Emotions Shape Healing with Christi Clemons Hoffman
Christi Clemons Hoffman — intuitive Reiki Master, channel, and Level 3 QHHT practitioner—returns to Closer to Venus for a deep dive into how buried emotions and unresolved trauma manifest as physical illness and even pass down through families and lifetimes. Christi shares real client stories of chronic pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and even cancer resolving once the higher self is invited to heal.
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How unprocessed emotion becomes "genetic" family disease patternsWhy the body sends symptoms as literal messagesWhat happens when clients talk directly to their higher self in a QHHT sessionFind Chri...
#260 Evidential Mediumship with Allison Carmany
Psychic medium and intuitive healer Allison Carmany joins the show to unpack evidential mediumship — the specific, verifiable details from spirit that go far beyond a vague reading. She also talks about her work healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and the collective awakening she believes is unfolding across the planet.
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What evidential mediumship is and how it differs from a typical psychic readingHow mediums receive unprompted, specific details a sitter can later confirmWhy spirit often communicates through symbols instead of wordsFind Allison on Instagram and at soulfulevolution.com.
#259 Shamanism, Ancestors and Sacred Sites with John Paul Eagleheart
In this episode of Closer to Venus, Johnny Burke sits down with shaman, "site whisperer," and theater/film director John Paul Eaglehart to explore what it really means to move between worlds. John Paul shares how his 27th-birthday Saturn return launched him into decades of communicating with ancestors, guardians, and land spirits at sacred sites across six continents.
Why shamanism is about purpose, not curiosity—every journey between dimensions is meant to bring back help for the communityHow time works differently at sacred sites, where spirits perceive visitors as "ghosts from the future"A firsthand account of contacting th...#258 Multidimensional Intelligence with Carol Talbot
Host Johnny Burke interviews Dr. Carol Talbot, founder of the Possibility Hub, about “multidimensional intelligence,” described as accessing information beyond linear thinking through a quantum field of intelligence and strengthening a “glitchy” human signal. Talbot distinguishes it from intuition, noting that many additional senses can be safely activated through structured methods that emphasize grounding and embodiment. She presents DNA as a transmitter/receiver and “antenna” for consciousness, arguing distortions—attributed to tampering, conditioning, and modern food and water—project trauma and illness into perceived reality, while “tidying” DNA can bring more consciousness online. Talbot discusses “source feeding” (breatharian/prana nourishment), pre...
#257 Mediumship, Soul Contracts, and Paranormal Investigations with Danielle Worthen Cullumber
Host Johnny Burke interviews Danielle Worthen Cullumber, a paranormal investigator, psychic medium, clinical social worker, and founder of Willow Medella Wellness, about blending trauma therapy with mind-body-spirit healing. Danielle describes realizing her mediumship at 19 through precognitive and lucid dreams, then deepening it after a post-death dream conversation with an aunt who died by suicide, followed by ongoing communications with other family members. She discusses suicide stigma, observing loved ones’ continued growth “across the veil,” and experiencing “soul contracts,” especially after multiple family deaths in 2019 that intensified her gifts and led her to holistic spiritual support. Danielle recounts witnessing “welcoming pa...
#256 Past Life Regression with Craig Meriwether
Certified clinical hypnotherapist Craig Meriwether, author of The Past Lives Guidebook and founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy, joins Johnny Burke to talk past life regression, life-between-lives work, and why some emotional wounds don't seem to start in this lifetime. A self-described skeptic, Craig shares client stories that pushed even his own doubts aside.
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Why Craig calls the brain a "receiver," not a memory warehouseA 20-year chronic pain case resolved through a single regression sessionHow researchers like Ian Stevenson, Michael Newton, and Brian Weiss built the case for reincarnation#255 Ancestral Trauma and Mediumship with Isabella Skrypczak
Isabella Skrypczak is a lightworker, medium, and author of A Polish Girl in Siberia, who spent years translating her grandmother's memoir of the Soviet gulag system — and along the way began seeing the traumas her ancestors lived through. In this episode, she and Johnny explore how unprocessed generational and war trauma gets stored in the body, passed down through DNA, and repeated in modern conflicts and relationships.
How unhealed ancestral trauma can show up as physical illness (liver issues, asthma, chronic anxiety)Why "earthbound" spirits and residual energy can linger in places for centuriesHow clearing ancestral pain helps bo...#254 Kundalini Awakening, ET Contact and The SoulPod app with Crystal Cassidy
Crystal Cassidy is a biochemist-turned-mystic and founder of the spiritual wellness app SoulPod. In this episode, she joins Johnny Burke to unpack her kundalini awakening, a near-death experience she survived during a severe 2020 illness, and the extraterrestrial and interdimensional contact that followed—including guidance tied to the Pleiades, ancient Egypt, and the oracles of ancient Greece.
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How a kundalini awakening moves through the body and mirrors near-death "oneness"What surrender during her NDE taught her about living her purposeHow SoulPod pairs ancient spiritual practice with modern, personalized toolsFind Cr...
#253 My Near-Death Experience: Why Death Is an Illusion with Lorraine Kane
Lorraine Kane was 26, trapped in a car after a head-on collision, when she died — and found herself out of her body, watching rescue workers cut her free. In this episode, the Reiki master, author, and elementary school teacher shares what she experienced during her near-death experience, why it upended her traditional religious upbringing, and how it launched her into a life of intuitive healing.
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What Lorraine saw and felt during her life reviewWhy she believes trauma lives in the body, not just the mindHow her NDE opened up mediumship abilities she didn't ha...#252 Journeys Into Past Lives with Jonathan Robinson
This week on Closer to Venus, host Johnny Burke sits down with certified hypnotherapist and Reiki practitioner Jonathan Robinson, who guides clients through past life regression and spiritual hypnotherapy to uncover the roots of fear, anxiety, and recurring patterns. Jonathan shares some of his most unforgettable sessions—from clients who were once energy beings on other planets to a client who lived through the fall of Atlantis.
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Why children often remember past lives more vividly than adultsHow near-death experiences validate what happens during past life regressionWhat Atlantis, Egypt, and off-planet lives re...#251 Somatic Alchemy and Waking Up From The Matrix with Elizabeth Stauder
Host Johnny Burke interviews post-trauma growth coach and “somatic alchemist” Elizabeth Stauder about integrating somatic trauma reprocessing neuroscience, shamanic ritual, and energy medicine to restore balance and “wake up from the matrix.” Stauder explains somatic alchemy as body-based transmutation of symptoms across physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual levels, and links it to dreamtime consciousness and lucid-like agency to work with chaotic dreams. She discusses shamanic initiation dreams, including a “great snake” dismemberment dream, the three worlds (lower/subconscious, middle/waking, upper/higher perspective), and “shaman’s sickness” as initiatory crisis that reveals weaknesses to be strengthened. As a transformation dou...
#250 Channeling, Trance Healing, and Spiritual Awakening with Jennifer Rose
Psychic medium, channel, and healer Jennifer Rose joins Johnny Burke to talk about her journey from quietly intuitive kid to full-time trance channel — plus the intense spiritual awakening and living near-death experience that reshaped how she sees reality. It's a candid look at what actually happens behind the scenes of mediumship work.
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Why anyone can develop mediumship—but not without real training
What trance channeling feels like from the inside, and how it differs from mediumship
How a health crisis during COVID triggered a profound "no separate me" awak...
#249 Your Soul Aura Color with Helen Plehn
This week on Closer to Venus, Johnny sits down with Helen Plehn—a intuitive, angel channeler, Vedic astrologer, and author of the Aura Color Wheel. Helen shares how a 2011 mental health crisis led her into seven years of spiritual study, a spontaneous Kundalini awakening, and channeled visions that revealed a 36-color soul discovery system rooted in the ancient Egyptian zodiac.
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How clairvoyance and channeling differ from mediumshipWhy Helen believes she carries Pleiadian starseed originsHow aura colors reveal a soul's gifts, wounds, and lessons00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
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#248 Spirit Encounters and Messages from Future Souls with Kendra Lockheart
Johnny Burke interviews Kendra Lockhart, a ministerial dropout and former professional psychic who now teaches “awakeners” higher mind mastery to unlearn collective programming and normalize paranormal experiences through intuition, intention, and integration. Kendra recounts a group prayer demonstration in a church class where the room crackled with an electric presence and her rent money arrived the same day, shifting the faith of about 45 people. She explains leaving professional psychic work because clients used it as a crutch, preferring a coaching approach. She describes childhood clairaudience, including a disturbing entity in a new home urging her to “come to the ot...
#247 Spirit Encounters and Mediumship Through Tarot with Carly Ann Corrar
Host Johnny Burke interviews Carly Ann Carrar, a pagan witch, tarot reader, and medium who has seen and communicated with spirits since early childhood, including a frightening Native American spirit in her bedroom and an early obsession with visiting cemeteries. She explains the differences between earthbound spirits and visiting spirits based on the heaviness of their energy. She talks about how her oldest son has similar abilities and how she supports him through spiritual protection, deity-based grounding, and a cleansing spray made with sage, white quartz, and moon water. Carly describes how her Catholic grandmother encouraged her to...
#246 Disclosure, Reptilian Treaties, and the False Matrix with Rachel Corpus
Channel medium and angel incarnate Rachel Corpus returns to Closer to Venus with an urgent message from the angelic realm: a secret 1954 treaty between President Eisenhower and a reptilian race, and what its unraveling means for humanity right now. Rachel walks through the "false matrix" we've been plugged into, why the Epstein files are really about breaking reptilian control, and how a coming wave of disclosure will shift our collective vibration.
The real story behind the alleged Eisenhower–reptilian treatyWhy the "false matrix" isn't fake; it just lacks spiritHow to mentally prepare for a sudden wave of global di...#245 Spirit Orbs, Mediumship and ET Contact with Susanne Arens
Psychic medium Susanne Arens joins Johnny Burke to share how the loss of her daughter opened the door to a lifetime of spirit communication—and how she's since captured hundreds of photos and videos of orbs, portals, and interdimensional beings. She also opens up about a personal encounter with extraterrestrial visitors and what she believes they want us to know.
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#244 Angelic Realms, Entity Removal, and ET Encounters with Laura Van Tyne
What happens when a middle school teacher starts getting choked at night by something invisible? Laura Van Tyne—psychic healer, past-life regressionist, and remote viewer—shares how a decade of paranormal attacks in her own home led her to a full-time practice removing dark entities and helping earthbound souls cross into the light. She and host Johnny Burke dig into angelic hierarchies, shapeshifting spirits, and both friendly and hostile ET types.
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Why "binding, burying, or casting away" entities doesn't actually workThe real difference between a ghost energy and a dark entityHow to p...#243 Akashic Records, Christ Light Transmissions, and Past-Life Healing with Kelly S Jones
Kelly S. Jones is an Akashic Records reader, teacher, and author who left a corporate career for the metaphysical world after a chance introduction to feng shui — and later, to the Records themselves. In this episode, she explains how the Akashic Records work, why past-life memories surface only when they're useful for your present, and shares the unexpected childhood encounter that set her on this path. Johnny also receives a live Akashic Records reading on air.
What the Akashic Records actually are (and aren't)Why past-life information only comes forward when it serves your present healingWhat "Christ Light Tr...#242 Angelic Guidance and Consciousness Shifts with Sue Elliot
Johnny Burke interviews Sue Elliot, an angel coach and author of “My Angel Coach,” about receiving angelic guidance and dissolving limiting beliefs and subconscious programming. Sue describes shifting from an automotive media career to hearing persistent messages she identifies as a loving, playful collective of angels focused on helping humanity rise in consciousness, and discusses alien interference alongside support from beings like Arcturians, Pleiadians, and Sirians. She explains “95 threads” of simultaneous lives, timelines as shifts in trajectory, and concepts of 3D, 4D, and embodying 5D in physical reality. Sue shares impressions of past lives (including ancient Egypt), critiques “ordering f...
#241 QHHT, Mediumship, and What Happens After Death with Rev. Elaine San Soucie
Host Johnny Burke welcomes Reverend Elaine Sans Soucie, an ordained spiritualist minister, medium, and level three QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) practitioner, to discuss what happens after death and how her intuitive modalities help people overcome limitations. She describes claircognizance and intuition, explains that spiritualist services include healing, an inspirational talk, and message work from deceased loved ones or guides, and notes the ongoing stigma around mediumship and energy work despite the wider acceptance of practices like Reiki. She shares QHHT experiences involving non-human guides and star races, such as the Arcturians and Sirians, and...
#240 Cosmic Sovereignty and Interdimensional Journeys with Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez — cosmic weaver, medium, channel, and quantum alchemist — joins Johnny Burke to unpack what it means to be a starseed hybrid living multiple lives at once. Initiated into shamanism at age eight, Maria shares how she communicates with galactic beings, extracts interfering entities, and helps clients reclaim their "cosmic sovereignty" and original divine blueprint.
How starseed DNA connects us to races like the Andromedans, Arcturians, and PleiadiansThe difference between dimensions, parallel lives, and timeline jumpingWhy raising your vibration keeps lower-frequency entities from attaching to your fieldFind Maria at 360Prosperity.com or evolve360.online.
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#239 Metaphysical Adventures and Higher Dimensions with Mark Worthington
Mark Worthington calls himself a "metaphysical adventurer"—an author, channel, and healer whose life changed the night Archangel Michael appeared at the foot of his bed. In this episode, Mark walks through his hundreds of psychic experiences, his channeled conversations with angels, ascended masters, and Jesus, and what he's learned from exploring over a thousand of his own past lives.
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Why Mark believes we're 12-dimensional beings living a 3D experienceHow past-life karma shapes the struggles of this lifetime — and how it can be releasedWhat Mark says Jesus told him about a comi...