Something Else Entirely

I sit down with a student from the University of Colorado Boulder to talk about something that has become one of the defining issues of our time: the impact of smartphones and social media on our attention, nervous systems, and overall well-being. This is a topic I’ve been studying and teaching about for over a decade. The conversation traces back to the moment this work really began for me—around...

This episode is raw and messy. It’s me telling the truth about how broken higher education feels and how much it hurts to watch young people’s souls get crushed under grades, deadlines, and “success metrics” that aren’t even real. I recorded this in one take, bloopers and all, because sometimes grief and rage are as sacred and needed as love and light. This is for my students, for anyone who’s eve...

I share true stories from recent meditations and classrooms: students rediscovering their inner spark, others wrestling with beliefs about free will and truth, and the sobering reality of young people who know their media habits harm them but feel powerless to change. We explore: 🌱 Why grief can be alchemized into light 🛡️ How to protect your inner spark without becoming defensive 🌍 The differen...

Our attention is sacred. In this meditation we focus on Love, Truth, and our direct connection to Source. The first time I guided this meditation, someone in the audience told me afterward that he believed our emotions are not real, Love is just an idea (not an actual force in the Universe), and there is no Truth... oh and also we don't have freewill or agency. LOL. That kind of programming wi...

I'm Annie Margaret, PhD. Welcome to Soul School. 🌌 I share the origin story of Soul School — from my first direct experiences of non-local consciousness (out-of-body vision, flooding white light, and the transmission of love, joy, and the liberation of all beings) to the creation of a new model of education for a post-materialist world. ✨ What it means to ask if consciousness is foundational...

This episode is a heartfelt offering about the reunion of science and spirit, intellect and intuition, self and Source. I reflect on the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor, the grief and praise in my own awakening from scientism, and why I am creating Soul School — a space for cultivating our unique connection to the larger consciousness system. This is a love letter to the artists who welcomed...

This is not an episode I planned to create. I’m not here to convince anyone to change their beliefs. There is no sense in that. I know the truth of what I saw, and continue to see. This experience changed me. Science supports my lived experience. Scientism does not. Please enjoy it... 🧠 A conversation with a skeptical scientist friend (who I love dearly) 🌀 Gnosis and the art of “seeing for yours...

In this episode of Something Else Entirely, I sit down with my dear friend Jason King, a tantric teacher and facilitator of intimacy and embodiment practices, for a heart-centered conversation about queerness, desire, and the spiritual journey of becoming. We explore queerness not just as an identity, but as an energetic and evolutionary force. What happens when we view identity through the lens o...

What happens when you leave your body… and come back changed forever? In this powerful episode, Fitz shares the near-death experience that completely transformed his life—from suicidal depression to a deep sense of purpose rooted in love. After a mountain biking accident left him in a coma, Fitz witnessed a life review unlike anything he could have imagined. What he saw—and felt—on the other side...

In this deeply personal and thought-provoking episode, Edwin (they/them) joins me for a conversation about sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, inherited spiritual phenomena, and the strange beauty of visionary dreams—including one that featured a Bible verse: 1 Corinthians 12 about gifts of the Spirit. Edwin was not raised in the Church, is not religious, and has never read the Bible. WHERE...

This 20-minute guided meditation invites you to reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and return to the present moment with compassion. We begin with gentle movement to help you get the wiggles out—because embodiment matters—before sinking into a deeply restorative body scan. From there, we invite softness into the muscles, the mind, and finally the heart. You’ll be guided through:Ge...

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend to explore the wild world of dreaming. Lucid dreams, recurring dreams, and "prophetic" dreams that defy linearity of time and are incompatible with the mainstream scientific worldview, but completely normal, and even expected, within a post-materialist worldview. Ilana shares personal stories of precognitive experiences, including one dream...

What if your dog actually knows when you’re coming home? What if your cat is trying to tell you something... and you're just not listening? In this episode, I sit down with my sweet neighbor Martin - retired firefighter, engineer, and floppy disc inventor - who surprised me one afternoon by casually mentioning he'd taken animal communication classes. Our dogs are best friends, so when he m...

In this episode of Something Else Entirely, we dive into the deep end — near-death experiences (NDEs), the science behind them, and what they might be telling us about consciousness itself. It started with a walk and a conversation with my neighbor Laura, who shared a terrifying experience she'd never told anyone before. We explore the thriving research on NDEs, Pam Reynolds’ famous flatline c...

In this episode, we explore “The Flip” – the moment when someone moves from a strictly materialist, reductionist perspective to one that acknowledges consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality. We’ll talk about why the dominant scientific worldview struggles to explain things like: 🔮 Near-death experiences 🧠 Telepathy and nonlocal awareness 🪐 Out-of-body experiences 💫 Mystical states of...

In this episode we delve into the trouble with SCIENTISM and whether or not pigs can fly. SCIENTISM: the too often unquestioned belief that only what can be measured, quantified, or experimentally verified is real. While I love science (I spent years alone in a dark microscope room figuring out how RNA viruses interact with our immune systems), I have a PROBLEM with scientism. We’ll talk about:- H...

What do we do with mystical experiences when they don’t fit our worldview? What if the foundations of science left something important behind? We’ll explore how:-Reductionism oversimplifies complex systems into particles-Materialism quietly breeds nihilism-We suffer from "magical amnesia" due to 400 years of materialism and reductionism dominating Western scientific thinkingUnderstanding...

Welcome to the very first episode of Something Else Entirely. I’m Annie. Scientist, educator, reformed cynic, and now, reluctant messenger for something a little... weirder. If you had met me ten years ago, you would’ve found a fiercely rational PhD who believed in peer-reviewed journals, hard data, and the harsh reality that life is ultimately meaningless. And yet… here we are. In this opening ep...