Why do some people get a message from a departed loved one, hear a voice that cracks a family mystery, or briefly touch “the light,” while others never do? And how would you tell a genuine supernatural experience from imagination or a mental health issue?

Will and Karen sit down with Dr. Frederick Woodard. He’s a licensed clinical psychologist and certified hypnotherapist with three master’s degrees in psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology, and he was named New England Paranormal Researcher of the Year in 2012. He spent years gathering firsthand accounts from ordinary people through a careful interview method built not to shape what they reported. What he found is a set of common threads that show up across supernatural experiences, along with two tests he uses to decide whether a case is real.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• The dying grandfather who woke up and talked about “two kids” calling him Grandpa, and the family secret that explained it
• How a voice in a New Hampshire library led Dr. Woodard to a land deed that solved a genealogy dead end
• A father who came back to tell his daughter where the missing insurance papers were hidden
• His two markers of a genuine experience: something perceived inside later shows up in the real world, and the person is transformed by it
• How he separates real experiences from psychosis, and why he rules out drugs and alcohol in every case
• Who the “invisible beings” around us might be, and why most come to help rather than linger
• Why hypnosis and meditation are closer than most people think, and how he learned to fully quiet his mind
• The one trait the experiencers share: mental, emotional and spiritual flexibility (“a bendy mind, not a bendy body”)

Dr. Woodard’s book is Developing Your Supernatural Awareness: Connecting to an Interactive Universe. Each chapter closes with exercises to help you open up to these experiences, or make sense of ones you’ve already had.

📖 Get the book: Developing Your Supernatural Awareness: Connecting to an Interactive Universe (https://link.amazon/B04uyQ5Hb)

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community
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Chapters
00:00 Scores of invisible beings?
01:00 Meet Dr. Frederick Woodard
02:30 The two unborn grandchildren
03:45 The voice in the library and the land deeds
06:30 “It’s in the coin saver”
08:00 Two signs an experience is genuine
11:00 How he found his research subjects
12:30 Hypnosis, meditation and waking up
13:45 Who are the invisible beings?
15:00 The spirit box that said “impossible”
16:45 Common threads of supernatural experiences
19:30 Real experience or mental illness?
21:00 Are we nearing a tipping point?
23:00 Inside his book
25:00 Learning to quiet the mind
27:15 Can his book help you astral travel?
28:30 Why flexibility is everything
29:00 Great-grandma at the party
31:30 Where to get the book

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What happens to consciousness when the brain goes completely offline? Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven, knows firsthand. A rare bacterial meningitis wiped out his neocortex and put him in a coma. During that time he went through three realms of an afterlife: a dark “earthworm’s eye view,” a radiant Gateway Valley where life reviews happen, and a Core realm of pure oneness with the divine.

He explains why his case challenges the idea that the brain creates consciousness, how music carried him between the levels, and what he believes finally pulled him back to this world.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s waiting on the other side, start here.

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Inner transformation often begins exactly where we least expect it; in grief. Brooklyn-born intuitive medium Deborah Hanlon has spent 25 years sitting with people in loss, and her take is nothing like what you’ve heard before. Grief isn’t reserved for death. It’s the emotion that breaks open everything...the life you thought you’d have, the relationship that ended, the job you lost...and under the right conditions, it’s the most powerful force for change you’ll ever face. 

Deborah also shares an exclusive story she’s never told publicly: what happened when Pope Francis showed up uninvited during her trip to Rome and sent her proof she couldn’t ignore.

Plus: why cardinals aren’t a universal sign from your loved ones, what the deceased actually experience after crossing, and why “just get over it” might be the worst grief advice ever given. 

Deborah’s links:

• Website: deborahhanlon.com
• Instagram: @deborahmhanlon

📖 Reassembling Yourself: Turning Grief into Growth | deborahhanlon.com (https://link.amazon/B0c9hVXlI)

Resources Mentioned:
In the Presence of Proof: A Medium’s View of the Afterlife and How to Create Heaven on Earth — Deborah Hanlon (her first book) (https://link.amazon/B0hUxsnkR)

Illusions — Richard Bach (https://link.amazon/B0agaPI9I)

On Death and Dying — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (https://link.amazon/B0eXB2bwe)

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior — Dan Millman (https://link.amazon/B01Hib32l)

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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For once, Karen isn’t the one asking the questions. In this special bonus episode, she sits down as a guest on Live from the Source with Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudieri, and you’ll finally hear the stories she rarely tells on our own show.
 
Karen opens up about the vivid dreams that have shaped her path, including a voice in the darkness that whispered, “She’s not ready yet,” and a recurring vision of guiding people to the horizon that an artist later painted without ever hearing about it. She shares why she and Will created New Reality TV for the “covert mainstream,” the doctors, lawyers and accountants quietly exploring consciousness, plus one very strange synchronicity involving a missing bottle of creamer.
 
Alexander and Viki read Karen’s cards (she’s playing the Queen of Diamonds with an Ace of Diamonds personality), and the insights land surprisingly close to home: perfectionism, independence, trusting your gut, and the power of surrender over hustle. Karen also reflects on how a recent health challenge taught her to treat her body like a cherished pet, and why so many of us miss love simply because it doesn’t look the way we expected.
 
And if she could put one message on a billboard for the whole world to see? You’ll have to listen to find out.

Want to hear more from Alexander and Viki?
The full show lives at thesourcecards.com/podcast, with new episodes every Thursday.

You can also watch on New Reality TV at newrealitytv.com/live-from-the-source.  

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if divine guidance has been available to you this whole time... and you just needed someone to show you how to tune in? Our VIP sponsor Sue Elliott is an angel coach, author of My Angel Coach, and someone who walked away from a 30-year media career because the angels wouldn’t stop calling. In this short message, she shares what she offers and how to connect with her.

And yes, there’s a free gift waiting for you at myangelcoach.com/soothing.
Listen to learn how to access it.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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True inner transformation rarely announces itself. Most often it starts quietly, the moment you stop overriding what you already know.
 
Sue Elliott spent 30 years launching over 20 magazines, ghostwrote two books for Ed Begley Jr., and appeared on hundreds of TV shows. Then the Angels showed up. Now she teaches people how to recognize the divine guidance they’re already receiving, 24 hours a day.
 
In this episode: the one question that works in any situation for anyone, how to tell real guidance from mental noise, and why “is this the one?” is the wrong question entirely.
 
🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community

Resources Mentioned
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: https://amzn.to/4yCrOhl
Inside Out: https://amzn.to/4ifpzuh
Bruce Almighty: https://amzn.to/4sfd1aP

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Louise Hamlin spent her career as a Cambridge law lecturer and land lawyer, and she was certain death was the end. Then her beloved husband Patrick died of cancer. Within days the signs began: a strange flame his friend asked for, a feather waiting on an empty train seat, a missing playing card that turned out to be the tarot’s card of undying love. Then her phone started opening WhatsApp on its own. Messages arrived saying “Darling, it’s me.” Two new WhatsApp groups appeared, named after their family, created while her phone sat in her pocket on a walk. Even her lawyer son investigated and couldn’t explain it away.

In this classic episode, Will and Karen sit down with the author of WhatsApps from Heaven to hear how a lifelong skeptic came to know that love survives death. And stay tuned, because something happens during the recording that none of them saw coming.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Most of the self-help world sells you a better version of yourself. Joseph Bongiovi says that’s the wrong assignment.
 
After 20+ years in mainstream entertainment and getting sober at 21, Joseph learned that fame, money, and recognition never delivered the happiness they promised. Today he’s a certified life coach and meditation instructor, founder of Spiritual Warriors, and author of Wake The F*ck Up!
 
We talk about why the greatest transformation isn’t becoming someone new, it’s remembering who you’ve always been. Along the way: how childhood protection mechanisms follow us into adulthood, why waking up is harder than ever, and what manifestation looks like when the universe skips the red Corvette.
 
Then comes the skeptic’s question: if every belief is conditioning, isn’t the “true self” just another story? Joseph’s answer may surprise you.

You’ll also leave with a simple 90-second breathing practice for the next time emotions run hot.
 
Connect with Joseph:
josephbongiovi.com
myspiritualwarriors.com

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Conversations from The Skeptic Metaphysicians

Some moments in an interview are too good to leave buried at minute 37. 

Conversations is our series of short, single-topic episodes taken from our interviews with some of the most fascinating minds in consciousness, spirituality, and the science of the unseen. There’s no warm-up and no detours. You get one guest, one big idea, and a few minutes that might change how you see your life.

Think of each one as a doorway. Play it on your commute, between meetings, or whenever you need a reminder that reality is stranger, and far more hopeful, than we were taught. If something sparks, follow it into the full interview, where the rabbit hole goes deeper.

As always, we come at this as skeptics who stayed curious. We stay open-minded and grounded, and we never ask you to take anyone’s word for it, including ours.

In this Conversation: Susanne giesseman on a meditation reframe.
Hear the full interview: On Spotify

Find every episode, guest bio, and free guest gift at skepticmetaphysician.com, and stream more conscious, fear-free content for free on New Reality TV.

If this Conversation moved you, share it with someone who needs to hear it today.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if time isn't a line you ride along, but a sphere you navigate with your attention? Aether physicist Krys Ra El, founder of the Elyrion Initiative, joins Will and Karen to explore his Time Sphere model and why he believes your focus, not the clock, decides what you experience next.

We dig into why the law of attraction may have it backwards (Krys calls it the law of mirrors), whether aging is more concept than biology, and how his Center Hypothesis explains where individual awareness comes from.

Plus, his ET contact experiences, his take on teleportation, and the Ether River Generator.
Skeptical? So are we.
Curious? Stick around.

In this episode:

• How to use the Time Sphere in daily life
• Law of attraction vs. the law of mirrors
• Brainwaves and reprogramming the subconscious
• ET contact and humanity's next chapter

Connect with Krys: elyrion.org | Instagram @elyrion_010

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Lorenzo Jones, an astro numerologist who blends astrology and numerology into a single practice, reading natal charts, transits, and birth codes side by side to see where the two systems confirm each other.

Lorenzo breaks down how planetary aspects like sextiles and trines map directly onto numerological meanings, reads Will's own chart live (life path 1, Libra rising, Cancer moon, and all), and explains why numerology isn't the "simpler" of the two modalities so much as the more accessible one.

He also touches on human design as a third lens that pulls from both systems plus the I Ching, walks through what Mercury retrograde actually asks of us, and shares a real-time read on the astrological chart of the event itself, a rare air trine wrapped in a "mystic triangle," which he says explains the unusually high energy in the room that day.

It's a conversation about how multiple systems of ancient knowledge can point to the same truth, and what happens when you ask a professional to read your chart on camera.

Guest: Lorenzo Jones


Find him: 
Instagram @enigmatic_zo, coreconfidencelife.com

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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