Episodes

What if the very thing designed to elevate your life was also quietly surfacing everything you've been avoiding? Clayten Stedmann and Jeffrey Stegman, the co-founders of Focused Life-Force Energy, return to TSM for a conversation that goes considerably deeper than their first visit. We're talking eleven million consciousness calibrations, a manufacturing company that stopped gossiping overnight, two young brothers who suddenly started sharing their feelings, and the quiet service work happening at WWII concentration camp sites that nobody ever paid them for. Whether you felt something during their last episode or you're brand new to Focused Life-Force Energy, this one will surprise you. And yes — the field is active while you listen.

Most people going through a spiritual awakening don't recognize it while it's happening, they just notice they're suddenly picking up on things they used to ignore, and don't know whether to trust it. Karen Docherty has spent 25 years teaching people to recognize exactly that feeling. Trained to teacher level at the world-renowned Arthur Findlay College, Karen breaks down the real signs of a spiritual awakening, how to tell genuine intuition from fear, a childhood spent fighting spirit children for her own bedcovers, an unexpected personal connection to one of the most controversial mediums in British history, and an accidental discovery about connecting with people who are still alive but living with dementia.

Peter Russell, a Cambridge-trained physicist turned meditation teacher of fifty years, joins Will and Karen to explain why trying so hard to meditate might be the very thing standing in your way. Drawing on his book How to Meditate Without Even Trying, Peter breaks down why chasing stillness or fighting off the "monkey mind" only creates more tension, and offers a simpler approach: notice when your attention has wandered, gently let the thought go, and return to whatever's actually happening right now. The conversation moves from practical meditation troubleshooting into the neuroscience of relaxation and, eventually, the deeper question of who we really are beneath the thoughts, the body, and the story we tell about ourselves.

If you've ever felt spiritually exhausted, burned out on meditation, breathwork, retreats, and wellness culture pressure, this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians is the permission slip you didn't know you needed. Hosts Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley sit down with licensed psychotherapist and DIY Spirituality author Faith Freed to dismantle the myth of the "right" spiritual practice and replace it with something far more liberating. your own. Through Faith's Divine Disco Ball framework, covering mind-body connection, soul and spirit, nature-based spirituality, and divine source, this conversation explores spiritual authenticity, conscious living, mindfulness, higher consciousness, and the surprisingly radical idea that spiritual awakening doesn't require a single crystal, a silent retreat, or anyone else's instruction manual. Just you, your curiosity, and the courage to build a spiritual path that actually fits your real life.

Most of us have tried to fix our relationship with money from the neck up. We've done the affirmations. We've read the books. We've tried to think differently, speak differently, believe differently. And yet the fear is still there. The guilt is still there. That low-level shame that shows up every time we look at our bank account, still there. What if the problem isn't your mindset at all? In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Will and Karen sit down with Sarah McCrum, author of “Lov...

Watch the full interview here: https://tinyurl.com/39rma6cr Dr. Alisha Das returns to TSM for a third time, this round to celebrate. Her long-awaited book, Your Angelic Ancestry, hit #1 in Angels on Amazon within 24 hours of release. Will and Karen dig into the behind-the-scenes fight to keep the book's most esoteric chapter intact, a live channeled message from Archangel Michael, and a 30-second exercise listeners can try right now to feel what she's spent 30 years describing.

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? That's the question Shaman Abhay Oyun walked into our studio with. He's a Siberian shamanic elder with 35 years of practice, 40 countries, and a lineage stretching back 40,000 years. He predicted the Ukraine invasion before it happened. He performed ceremonies for 2,500 people at the base o...

What if dying is actually a skill? And what if most of us are completely unprepared for the one experience that is absolutely guaranteed to happen? This week we sit down with Darnella Ford, award-winning author, trauma facilitator, and restorative guide, whose twenty-year journey into the non-physical began not with a spiritual calling, but with a breakup, a depression she couldn't shake, and a night of breathwork that sent her flying through a black void at incalculable speed. What followed c...

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 di...

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 sou...

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...

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 He...

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 outsour...

What if the very thing that broke you open was the point all along? That's the question sitting at the heart of this conversation with Dr. Amy Robbins, a clinical psychologist with nearly two decades in private practice who had her world quietly flipped inside out by something she couldn't explain away. When her aunt passed unexpectedly, Dr. Amy received what she now understands was an after-death communication... specific, verifiable, and impossible to dismiss. What followed was a years-long j...

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 a...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

What if everything the alien abduction community has told you about contact is built on a broken foundation? Jeremy Vaeni has been living with unexplained encounters his entire life, and he's spent decades doing what almost no one in the experiencer community does: questioning the story itself. In this bonus episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, Jeremy breaks down why hypnosis... the tool that built the modern abduction narrative...is a storytelling device, not a memory retrieval tool. He expl...

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

What actually happens after we die? It's the question humanity has asked for thousands of years, and for most of us, it stays theoretical. For Dr. Elisa Medhus, it became the most personal investigation of her life. Dr. Medhus spent over thirty years as an internal medicine physician, raised by militant atheists, trained to trust only what she could measure. She had never seriously considered what happens after death...until October 2009, when her twenty-year-old son Erik, who lived with bipola...

What if the emotional patterns keeping you stuck, exhausted, and running in circles aren't actually yours? What if they belong to a version of you that's already ready to leave, and all that's needed is someone to open the door? That's just one of the questions we couldn't shake after this conversation. Our guest today is Ken Lloyd, an internationally recognized Energy Architect, Transformational Healer, and what he calls a soul-infused walk-in. Before any of that, he was a self-taught softwar...

You've done the meditations. You've interviewed the masters. You've read the books, done the breath work, and had the downloads. So why, the moment someone walks into your office, do you fall right back into ego like none of it ever happened? That's exactly where Will found himself after a one-on-one with a big boss that did not go the way his higher self intended. And instead of quietly processing it alone, he brought it straight to the live show, to Karen, and to all of you. In this bonus li...