Lucid Cafe

Mitch Horowitz invites us to break through the walls of convention and explore the numinous, mysterious, and uncertain places that lie beyond those walls. In this episode Mitch serves as a tour guide taking us on a thought provoking journey of the spiritual, the occult, the magickal, and the extra-physical.    Mitch is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices...

After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients. Ed Cohen has a Ph. D. in Modern Tho...

Acharya Shunya has written a feminist manifesto rooted in class Vedic teachings and brought to life through India’s primary goddess archetypes titled Roar Like A Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous & Peaceful . She is a highly-rated motivational speaker, podcast host, workshop facilitator and retreat leader with over 20 years of experience as a spirit...

Howard G. Charing is the author of The Accidental Shaman , a book recounting his incredible introduction to shamanism as well as the co-author of Plant Spirit Shamanism and The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo . He holds workshops internationally and plant medicine retreats in the Peruvian Amazon.  In this episode, Howard discusses: His relationship with artist Pablo Amaringo How the oracle dec...

Taylor Ellwood encourages people who are interested in practicing magic, as well as veteran practitioners, to break free from dogmatic approaches to practicing magic. Instead, as the manifesto on his website states, he encourages you to become a Magical Experimenter; to create your own magical systems, develop your own magical workings and challenge what’s known by venturing into the unknown. In t...

Dr and Master Zhi Gang Sha is a Tao grandmaster, healer, teacher, and author of 30 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers. He’s both a Western medical doctor and a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. In this episode, Master Sha shares: How Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus author John Gray encouraged him to write his first book His motivation for writing books and...

Amikaeyla Gaston is an international award-winning singer, activist, and executive director/founder of the International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute. In this episode, Ami discusses: The profound role that music and vibration plays in our lives The hate crime that almost took her life, and the near death experience she had Her TEDx talk: Dare to Be Dauntless   Performing for the...

My guest Linda River Valente offers her clients a lifetime of collected, eclectic wisdom through her work as a seasoned astrologer, witch, holistic sexuality educator, tarot visionary, magic maker, and Burlesque producer and performer.  In this episode, Linda discusses: What Holistic Sexuality Education is Reasons why someone might seek out this service Breaking the ice with clients American cultu...

Diane Dreher, PhD, is the author of five nonfiction books including the best-selling Tao of Inner Peace. She is an award-winning university professor and positive psychology researcher whose work on hope has been recognized internationally. In the episode Diane discusses: Her early introduction to Asian culture An overview of Taoism Her martial arts training A technique to avoid conflict What it m...

Shirley Blancke is an archaeologist and anthropologist who recently released the book write The Way of Abundance and Joy: The Shamanic Teachings of don Alberto Taxo. I n this episode Shirley discusses: How she became interested in archeology and was introduced to shamanism The connections she made with American Indigenous tribes The chain of events that led to her meeting don Alberto Taxo An overv...

Lisa Masé is a Board Certified Nutritionist, Registered Health Coach, herbalist, and intuitive eating guide in central Vermont and beyond.  In this episode, Lisa discusses: How we all have the power to heal ourselves with food How she healed herself after a decade of chronic parasites, anxiety and depression, an eating disorder, infertility, and food allergies Living in Italy as a child and the cu...

In 2013 William J Peters founded the Shared Crossing Project to explore and research the Shared Death Experience (SDE). He is the author of At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better - A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration – rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research – of the many ways the living can and do accompany the...

Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and teacher of Buddhist meditation and Buddhist psychology. Drawing on decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation teacher, she helps people understand the trauma behind their painful emotional patterns in her new book Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at Last In this episode, Radhule d...

Erica M. Elliott, MD, is a medical doctor with a busy private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Referred to as “the Health Detective,” she has successfully treated patients from across the country with difficult-to diagnose health conditions. She served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this episode, Erica discusses: Her search for her purpose and the surprising p...

Dawn Torres of Dakini Healing guides clients and students to wake up their deeply rooted inner guidance systems through Yoga, Meditation, Reiki, Sound Healing and a multitude of transformation tools she’s gathered throughout the years.  In this episode, Dawn discusses: How she incorporates different traditions and modalities in the work she does Why she’s drawn to the energy healing technique Emot...

Emma Brandon is a mental health clinician with a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, specializing in issues of Spiritual Emergency. Benjamin Asher is a New York City based, board-certified Head and Neck Surgeon who is renowned for his innovative, non-surgical approaches. He is currently an integrative physician focusing on the psycho-spiritual aspects of health and chronic illness. Emma and Benjamin...

In her book The Space In Between: An Empath’s Field Guide and in this conversation , Signe Myers Hovem shares the importance of developing the traits needed to better understand your own sensitivities and how doing so will influence your relationship with yourself, others, and your environment.  In this episode, Signe discusses: How she reverse-engineered empathic receptivity Being empathic vs bei...

Gerette Buglion, B.A. Elementary Education and Special Education, earned her ‘Master's Degree’ in cult awareness education from the school of life. She is the author of the memoir An Everyday Cult . In this episode, Gerette discusses: Her definition of cultic involvement How she became involved in a cult The subtle nature of indoctrination The concept of being “love bombed” How seeds of dependence...

I think this quote from Kevin Hancock’s book Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse pretty much captures the spirit of his message and his journey: “You can learn a lot by losing your voice.” In this powerful episode Kevin shares: How a rare speech disorder led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation  How his time in South Dakota became an unintended spiritual quest What he learn...

Tina Zion is a fourth-generation intuitive medium, educator, and is considered an expert in medical intuition. She is an award-winning author, specializing in medical intuition and teaches internationally.   In this episode Tina shares: How she came to be a medical intuitive Her definition of intuition What it takes to become your own medical intuitive Her mentorship program How she works with stu...

Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a retired clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, a businessman, and a shamanic practitioner, author, and philanthropist. He is the best-selling, award-winning author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life and Change the Story of Your Health. In this episode, Carl discusses: His motivation for writing a self-help inspired memoir His later-in-life career change How we c...

Linda must have to use very small type on her business card to capture all the skills she’s amassed over the years!  In part one of my conversation with Linda we discuss: How astrology and magic got her attention when she was a teen Spellwork and practical magic How American culture makes doing magic challenging How she sees astrology as the symbolic language of time How your astrological chart ca...

Gina Caputo is an ACE Certified Health Coach, Behavior Change Specialist and a seasoned yoga instructor. During the pandemic she created The Yoga Potluck as a way to be in relationship and community with people from all over the world.  In this episode Gina discusses: Her definition of yoga How practicing yoga applies to daily life The consequences of poorly managed stress Bringing focus inward Se...

Controversies regarding the treatment of Lyme disease abound. This episode is chock full of helpful information…and for people struggling with chronic Lyme disease, hopefully some validation.  In this episode, Dan discusses: The history of Lyme disease The “Lyme Wars” Prevalence Where Lyme cases are found The “myth” of Lyme in the medical world Symptoms of chronic vs acute Lyme The role of trauma...

Martin Lee is a veteran journalist and the co-founder/director of Project CBD - a California-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting and publicizing research into the medical uses of CBD and other components of the cannabis plant.  In this episode Martin discusses: The collaboration between Project CBD and Reader’s Digest The pro-cannabis shift that’s happening How CBD challenged the public’s view...