BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins

Prompted by a recent opinion piece in the New York Times on techno-spiritualism, I invited ChatGPT to the podcast to unpack what’s happening when people use it for mediumship-style messages. What does it mean when a machine generates something that feels deeply personal or emotionally resonant? How does it simulate a presence? And why does it work so well? We explore what AI is doing under the hoo...

In this episode of BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins , Tiffany shares her personal approach to mediumship, breaking down the mysterious practice into a simple, seven-step process. Drawing on her experience in the tech world creating systems and recognizing patterns, Tiffany offers a practical framework for connecting with spirit—whether you're just starting out or looking to deepen your practice. Yo...

Joanna Ebenstein's latest book, Momento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life , is the culmination of her almost 20 years of research into the human experience of death. In this episode, Joanna and I discuss the afterlife and its importance not just historically but as a felt, embodied experience. This is especially true for those who may not have inherited explicit belief...

For us to communicate with each other about mediumship, we need shared vocabulary! For Beyond: A Living Person's Guide to the Dead , I created a glossary and put it up on the Normalize Talking to the Dead website for anyone to use. The words I talked through today include: medium, contact, source, sitter, transphsyical, psychic, ESP, seance, trance, physical mediumship, ectoplasm, possession,...

Meet artist, author, and teacher Marcella Kroll as we discuss her brand new book Healing the Liminal . Hear about her deeply connected creative process and how she brings the liminal into every aspect of daily life. Marcella shows us that the mystical and the mundane are not as distant as we might think.

There's more to mediumship than being psychic. This episode unpacks the constellation of communication, interpersonal, physiological, psychological, and other learnable skills that can be used to be a medium. Take a deeper look into what makes you, you and how to use your inherent traits and life experiences to build a connection with the beyond. Mentioned in the episode: IDEO and comfort with...

Meet Dr. Tracy Rainwaters , an animal chiropractor, shamanic practitioner and an interspecies intuitive channel. She shares her experience offering chiropractic care for animals, especially horses, and discovering her intuitive ability to communicate with them. This episode explores the interconnectedness of all beings, the lessons animals teach us about joy and grief, and how these experiences sh...

Here are the books that made my year! Plus one for next year and a few from the past couple years. I mentioned Joanna & my class on June 25th about our books that you can learn about on Lily Dale’s website. And you can pre-order my book Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead ! Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Heaven is a Place on Earth by Adrian Shirk A Wild and Sacred Cal...

Join me to experience registered Lily Dale medium Celeste Elliott give my friend Kindra her first ever mediumship reading live on the show. We debrief afterward about share what it was like to give, receive, and observe the reading to better understand what happened. All along the way, Celeste shares her wisdom and guidance from her perspective as a life-long medium and 13 years of professional wo...

While much of what we see about mediumship in the public sphere is professional, paid service, there are many of us practicing mediumship in a quiet and personal way. Join Mikella Millen and me as we discuss what it looks like for us to do mediumship just for ourselves and our spirit people. Mikella Millen, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT (she/they) is a Reiki Master Teacher, Art Psychotherapist, Hypnosis Practi...

For generations, learning Spiritualist mediumship meant sitting in development or unfoldment circles. Now we have books, classes, intensives, and all sorts of faster methods to learn how to talk to the dead. Stacy and I are joined by my mom, Molly Harrison, to hold a tiny circle for you all to experience why sometimes, good old-fashioned sitting in the quiet is still a powerful way to connect. Sta...

Meet your host and hear about how this fifth podcast season has evolved from Unknown Unknown to Normalize Talking to the Dead on Lily Dale Radio to its newest incarnation as BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins.

Have you ever wondered what it means to talk with the dead? What lies beyond what we know? Join me as we explore not just life after death, but the mysteries that surround us every day—waiting to be discovered. This is a space for anyone—whether you're experienced in psychic practices, or newly attuned to your intuition. Each episode is designed to offer a smart, heart-centered guide to new possib...

This is the last episode of the season! Tiffany goes long on AI and UFOs / UAPs, giving you the latest on both and why they are so related to mediumship. Plus a ChatGPT contact event, why we need to rebrand the term 'aliens', and a few ways to think about both that are less overwhelming and scary.

Nerd out with Tiffany as she talks through her ways of making decisions by collecting data through the mind, body, heart, and soul. Yes, really, mediumship can be research, and no, this will not permit you to say 'Spirit told me to'. The image is me in a server circa 2007.

In learning mediumship, the second most important thing (after practice) is exposing yourself to new perspectives, techniques, and ideas around your practice. This year I got a whole bunch of new mediumship books for the comparative titles section of my proposal for a book on mediumship. Here are some thoughts about them and books on a few tangental topics that I love too. Here's the list for...

There are many ways to find presence. Let me share what I do for mindfulness/bodifulness, to change my state, or to prepare for spiritual work. I'll talk you through a half dozen techniques I use daily. Try them out during a brief meditation at the end, then make your own!

Join host Tiffany Hopkins for a meditation to rest, rejuvenate, and acquaint ourselves with all the new information that has come in through this eclipse season.

Chioma Ume helps us understand how attention and focus on the people (and spirits) in our life can work like magic to create connection and facilitate communication. Chioma is a writer, empath, and seeker who does design research and brand strategy alongside being a death doula.  Intro music En Shenandoah by Down With Ben Ft: airtone (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...

Get to know what Mediumship for Creativity means for Unknown Unknown host Tiffany Hopkins, and try your hand at a little automatic drawing. Tiffany gives the backstory to her Mediumship for Creativity classes, including the foundational precepts for the practice, which came through while using the practice itself. Towards the end, she guides listeners into meditation with instructions for automati...

Marianne McCarthy, an artist, art educator, and practicing medium, joins Unknown Unknown to discuss the similarities between art and mediumship. Marianne and Tiffany explore the importance of cultivating both openness and structure in both an art and mediumship practice. Your host is Tiffany J. Hopkins. She began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage i...

Get to know NYC-based artist John A. Rice and his in-progress project Beyond Words. John specializes in oil pastels and came to Lily Dale as part of a residency with Normalize Talking To The Dead . He shares his process working with our mediums and holding his own art séance to bring through impressions, images, and ideas for his next series. It is John's mission to foster healing, introspecti...

Expand your understanding of Spiritualist history, psychic labor history, and what early mediumship was really like with the luminous  Grace Kredell . Grace (she/they) is a psychic practitioner, matchmaker, community organizer, and historian. They recently finished a master's program at Sarah Lawrence College, publishing their thesis " Working Witches: Fortune Tellers, Clairvoyants, and A...

This episode I get to share with you a little of Joanna Ebenstein's brilliance. Joanna is best known as the co-founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. She's also an author, photographer (she took the photo in this episode's cover), curator, producer, art director, and designer. Throughout her experiences bringing all these different forms of creativity into the world she's...

In this episode, I go through my foundational book list for nerds who are looking to get into mediumship and other anomalous events. You can also watch this episode on Lily Dale's Facebook page . Nature and the Human Soul  Bill Plotkin, 2007 Radical Spirits  Ann Broude, 2001 The Trickster and the Paranormal  George Hanson, 2001 American Cosmic  Diana Pasulka, 2019 The Master and His Emissary  ...