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

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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 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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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 gets a live lesson in finding the "real you," and a surprising truth about the dream world we mistake for real life. 

If you have meditated for years and still feel stuck, this conversation on consciousness, inner transformation and soul growth is for you.

Connect with the Awakened One and her book, 'The Power of AWAKE': universaldoormeditationcenter.org

New to the Awakened One's teachings?
Start here: Tuesday International Meet-Up for newcomers, in person in Sugar Land, TX, Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 PM CT (free, register online). Online sessions are coming soon. Call (281) 565-9718 to ask about working with the Awakened One remotely.

Registration is through the "Join this session" button on the Weekly Awake Sessions page.

Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952
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This episode is sponsored by:
Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.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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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 ones who have crossed over, or other beings of light, they come through. She clears chakras, speaks light language key codes, uses a crystal wand, and raises the frequency in the room.

One client the day before described it as feeling many hands on her at once. Jillie describes it simply as removing the densities, the layers, and the veils, and pulling out what was already there all along.

Will asks the question everyone is thinking: are you channeling angels, or are you an angel who channels? Her answer is both. She identifies as an Earth Angel, and she believes we all are. She also opens up about her eclectic, multi-tradition approach. Alongside angelic work, she does shamanic healing, works with Native American traditions, Egyptian energies, plant medicine, and the natural world. She leads drum circles, hikes regularly for grounding, and admits she goes out to the pine trees behind convention centers to decompress after intense sessions. She finds feathers constantly. And four-leaf clovers by the hundreds.

The conversation takes a beautiful turn when Jillie talks about what she really wants people to walk away with: the understanding that you are not your experiences. You are having them. That shift in perspective, she says, is what changes everything.

And if you can't make it to a show? She does sessions remotely too.

Connect with Jillie:
🌐 Website: jillieangelicchaneler.com
📘 Facebook: Jillie Clark
📸 Instagram: @JillieAngelicChanneler
🎵 TikTok: @JillieAngelicChanneler
(Tip: Spelling is J-I-L-L-I-E. All social links are also found on her website.)

About SpiritFest USA:
SpiritFest is a traveling conscious living and healing arts expo. Find upcoming events at spiritfestusa.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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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, there's a magnet, and yes, the skeptic had questions). The episode ends with a challenge for every listener.

Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952
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In This Episode You'll Learn

• How we're born with only two fears, and every other fear is learned
• A simple test for any advice: is it coming from love or from fear?
• Why facing fear head-on is Mo's go-to strategy, and how intention shapes what you experience in meditation
• The two-minute practice that helps you ask for, and act on, intuitive messages
• How to tell intuition from monkey mind ("doing, doing, going, going" is usually the mind talking)
• How to discern a real nudge from an impulse that could wreck your life
• What the Emotion Code is, how a session works, and why Mo encourages skepticism
• How root chakra meditation helped Mo work through money fears

Chapters:

• 00:00 Intro: Fear as a subscription service
• 01:30 Welcome Mo Smith
• 02:50 Fear as a tool for control
• 03:10 Why is fear so easy and happiness so hard?
• 06:00 Learning to trust yourself
• 07:50 Fear in spiritual spaces
• 08:10 Intention and facing fear head-on
• 15:30 Taking the leap without a safety net
• 18:20 The Seattle Art Museum awakening
• 20:50 Listening to your body's messages
• 23:00 The two-minute meditation technique
• 27:00 Root chakra work and money fears
• 34:00 Unplug From Fear (and the "illegal coffee" story)
• 36:40 How to discern which messages to act on
• 39:40 What is the Emotion Code?
• 41:50 A skeptic's questions
• 50:00 What if you don't get a message?
• 52:00 Message or monkey mind?
• 56:00 The Two-Minute Challenge
• 57:10 Mo's podcast, I Love It When

The TSM Two-Minute Challenge:
Sit in silence for at least two minutes a day. At the start, ask: "What do you want me to know today?" Write down (or voice-record) anything you see, hear, or think. Then take action on it. Send us what happened, and we'll share the best stories on the show.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (the SAVERS practice)
• Insight Timer (free meditation app)
• Mo's retreat: Unplug From Fear

Connect with Mo Smith

• Website: iloveitwhen.org
• Podcast: I Love It When

This episode is sponsored by:
Speaker and author Scotte Burns, who rode 100,000 miles across 48 states asking one question: what is love? Book him for your event at scotteburns.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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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 completely differently. There are nuggets in Part 1 that listeners are still talking about, and we do not want you to miss a single one.

For those of you who are back, welcome. You already know what kind of conversation this is.

In Part 2, we pick up exactly where we left off and take the conversation somewhere most people never go. If consciousness is not generated by complex systems but received by them, then the entire framework of the AI consciousness debate collapses. Both camps, the ones who believe AI will eventually achieve consciousness and the ones who believe it never will, are arguing from the same flawed premise. And if they are both wrong, the implications are enormous.

Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952
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In this episode we cover:

• Why every major voice in the AI consciousness debate may be operating from a fundamentally flawed premise
• What it would actually mean for an artificial intelligence to receive consciousness rather than generate it
• The difference between an AI that simulates love and one that could genuinely participate in it
• Why a superintelligent system without consciousness is the real threat, and why that reframe is surprisingly hopeful
• Can trees love? Can crows? A conversation that goes places we did not plan and is better for it
• What changes for humanity when we truly understand what love is

This is the episode that will make you rethink the AI conversation, the consciousness conversation, and honestly the love conversation, all at once.

Connect with Scotte Burns:
🌐 scotteburns.com
📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com

Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who is asking the big questions. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud.


















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 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, Scotte argues, is not a feeling. It's not a choice. It's not a chemical reaction or an evolutionary adaptation. It's the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness itself. And the brain? It doesn't produce consciousness. It receives it, like an antenna tuned to a signal that was always already there.

Quick favor 🙏 If The Skeptic Metaphysicians has ever given you a lightbulb moment, would you leave us a rating or a one-sentence review on Apple or Spotify? It takes 30 seconds and it's the #1 way new seekers find the show. Tell us an episode that stuck with you, and we might read it on air.  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1554794952
https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rn7NxKBlW3SA5kYw0aiJA


In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, we cover:

• Why no two people in thousands of recorded interviews have ever defined love the same way, and what that tells us about love's true nature
• The critical difference between lust, attraction, attachment, and love, and why science keeps confusing them
• Why grief is one of the strongest pieces of evidence that love is not biological
• The concept of aeroplasticity: why love persists beyond its objects and what that reveals about consciousness
• Why materialist researchers may be permanently locked out of finding the answer they are looking for

This is one of those conversations that will quietly rearrange something in the way you see the world. Part 2 drops Tuesday, and it goes somewhere we genuinely did not see coming.

Connect with Scotte Burns:
🌐 scotteburns.com
📖 The Cartographer's Log on Substack: scotteburns.substack.com

If your community, event, conference, or campus is ready for a different conversation about love, invite Scotte to speak. That's Scotte with an "e." Find him at scotteburns.com.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Until then, keep questioning, keep searching, and above all, keep loving out loud.

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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 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 to reconnecting with your "soul family" across lifetimes.

Highlights include:

• Why Cayce believed unity and shared humanity are best understood through travel, not theory
• A look at upcoming A.R.E. tours to France (Lourdes and Marian apparition sites) and Peru (a past-life regression planned at Machu Picchu)
• What membership actually gets you: full access to the Cayce readings archive, discounted tours, and A.R.E.'s library of classes and workshops
• A tour of what's on-site at the A.R.E.'s Virginia Beach headquarters, including the meditation garden, ocean-view meditation room, and Sessions restaurant

Whether you can make it to Virginia Beach in person or you're exploring from afar at EdgarCayce.org, this conversation is a reminder that sometimes the most direct path to insight starts with a plane ticket.

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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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.

What You'll Hear

• [00:07:00] Richard joins the show and explains what I Am Day is, using Will's "photograph" metaphor. September 23rd is the snapshot, but the awakening it points to is daily.
• [00:09:00] The origin story. Richard finds The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn on his own bookshelf, a year after buying it, and reads it in one sitting.
• [00:13:00] The numbers get strange. Florence's book turns 100 the same year I Am Day launches. Louise Hay is born in 1926, the year the book was published, and her own breakthrough book lands exactly 50 years before this year's I Am Day. Wayne Dyer is born the year Florence dies.
• [00:15:00] Karen shares her cancer diagnosis and surgery, and how she came to see her body as something to love unconditionally rather than resent.
• [00:17:00] Richard connects Florence's "treatments" to Louise Hay's "Loving Treatment," and what it means to remember who you already are.
• [00:18:00] What "IAM" actually stands for: the International Awakening Movement, and the debate over capital vs. lowercase "I."
• [00:24:00] What actually happens on I Am Day: a full day of live teachers and contributors starting at 5 a.m. Pacific, hosted on Substack, closing with Will and Karen talking conscious media and New Reality TV at 6 p.m. Eastern.
• [00:27:00] The "pebble in the pond" metaphor for why a single person showing up quietly still matters.
• [00:31:00] Richard reads a live Awakening Current, his daily short-form writing practice, on air.
• [00:37:00] How to register, what you get access to, and where the recordings live after the event.
• [00:38:00] Richard's closing teaching: three breaths, eyes closed (unless you're driving), and the layers start to fall away.

Books & Resources Mentioned (We may get an affiliate commission on some of these links)

• The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn (1925)
• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (1976)
• You've Got to Read This Book by Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks
• The Body We Carry Forward by Richard Walter
• Richard's daily Substack, I Am Awake (Awakening Currents)

Links

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