Tales from the Truth Seekers

In a world that’s falling apart and seems laden with suffering, there’s a simultaneous unfolding of a collective awaking to our true nature and purpose on this earth. In this realm of duality, perhaps these extremes are unavoidable, yet the natural inclination towards balance is what can always bring us hope. I know, from a deep experiential place, that the human spirit, and all of creation, is ma...

Lainie Gratz has had her beautiful, albino, pet corn snake for years now. She recalls upon her first day having him, a spiritual teacher claiming the snake was an oracle. Not thinking much of it, years went by, until one day during her intuitive work she realized some of her downloads might actually be coming from her lovely, elongated, limbless, companion. At this point, Lainie had many spiritual...

At a young age Todd favored connecting with nature over the stuffy atmosphere of the church. His temple was “true wilderness.” Later in life, after becoming reacquainted with psychedelics, he began to understand that he was somehow relating with a consciousness that was beyond his own. This realization led him to become involved with organizations like The Pari Center in Italy, a place dedicated t...

Dr. Krista Stanley was no stranger to unexplainable phenomena from an early age. As a child she seemed to possess the ability to simply “know things,” and was always curious about how this all worked, eventually leading her to earn a PhD in Wisdom Studies, concentrating specifically on psychic mediumship. A doctor of mediumship? Not a combination you typically hear about, due to certain societal e...

Even as a small child, Rowena Worth intuitively knew that patriarchal religion was lacking, and her intuition didn’t stop there. But like so many of us, she was told that kind of magic was “not okay.” After moving from the UK to Australia as a young girl, and growing up across the world, she found herself being drawn to the healing path of The Goddess. But it wasn’t until she traveled to the sacre...

The Skeptical Shaman a.k.a. Rachel White, has rejoined us to elaborate on how to navigate this increasingly wild, modern landscape of clouded reality. If you listened to her initiation story of waking up to “the woo,” (Season One, Episode 6) , you might have expected her to go into depth about demons. But nowadays, it seems a more direct, and possibly even scarier threat, is our collective breach...

This episode of Tales from the Truth Seekers is slightly shorter, slightly lighter, and covers a slightly different topic. Not just to shake things up, but to share with you my delightful friend Mr. Dave Welty and his incredible E.T. experience story. These kinds of stories parallel spiritual awakenings directly because usually no one believes you, leaving you feeling isolated, your entire percept...

Rae Dwyer, who I initially noticed on Substack because her writing was so saturated with spiritual wisdom, learned from a young age to stifle her spiritual gifts and experiences, eventually turning to drugs in her early twenties in order to further suppress them. She then found herself experiencing plant medicines, “drugs” that create the literal opposite of spiritual suppression, and in this epis...

Dr. Maria Rothenburger has a Ph. D, is a clinical psychotherapist, and a fertility specialist. She was never really interested in becoming a psychic medium at all. However, sometimes you do not have a choice in the matter, and when you finally give in, accept the fact that you’re not “hallucinating,” and discover the incredible healing possibilities that come with being able to communicate to non-...

Chelsea thought she had it made when she landed her big-time job at Coca-Cola, only to find herself somewhat miserable, lost amongst the toxicity and egos that continue to infiltrate corporate America. After turning towards the mysterious side of life for guidance, Chelsea brings us along on her journey with the plant medicines that ultimately changed everything, including her entire perspective o...

For our last episode of Season One , I had the pleasure of interviewing my long-time friend, mentor, and astrology teacher, Mr. Nick Lasky. In this episode, Nick takes us into his real-life spiritual awakening journey from growing up agnostic, to his first sip of the Holy Grail, and into the adventures he’s encountered on his life-long quest to find it again. And as we have learned throughout Seas...

Welcome to Season One, Episode 9 of Tales from the Truth Seekers . In this episode I had the great pleasure of interviewing a new friend and fellow spiritual seeker, Mark Phillips. Mark's life has been dotted with various spiritual experiences that illuminate the presence and power of our loved ones beyond the grave. Mark opens up about these very beautiful and life-changing events, bringing us al...

Patrick Belisle and his wife Jane built a life together that checked all the American Dream boxes. So when they found themselves still somewhat unfulfilled, they set off to travel the world to find whatever it was that they were missing. They proceeded to visit Australia, New Zealand, China, Thailand, and India and had numerous eye opening experiences along the way. But it was through a breath wor...

In Season One, Episode 7 of Tales from the Truth Seekers I had the pleasure of connecting with Lydia, a former university art professor who is deep in the midst of her spiritual journey, and recently returned from an extended residency at a Zen Buddhist monastery. In this episode, she shares her initial spiritual experience with us which encompassed vast, never-ending lightness, as well as intense...

In Season One , Episode 6 of Tales from the Truth Seekers , I had the pleasure of interviewing my good friend and mentor, Rachel White, host of The Skeptical Shaman Podcast ! So how does one go from Catholic school to atheism to modern shaman you may ask? Well her story is nothing short of mind-blowing, as so many of these stories are, and her ability to stay completely open while still maintainin...

Sometimes it is when we are most hurried, most distracted, and most distraught that these unexplainable experiences suddenly enter our lives. In Season One, Episode 5 of Tales from the Truth Seekers , I had the pleasure of interviewing Roger Oney, my podcast launching mentor, about the spiritual experiences he has had throughout his life, and the ways in which they have changed him. The most poten...

This episode is a special episode. Not long after I recorded this interview with Jewels , she passed away. I didn’t know she was sick at the time of recording, or at all. I am grateful that the nature of my podcast is to ask about the person‘s entire life. So I look forward to sharing and celebrating the incredible life of Jewels Maloney with you. Rest in peace dear one. In Season One, Episode 4 o...

Welcome to Season One, Episode 3 of Tales from the Truth Seekers . You may have heard that juniper trees hold significance in the Bible, or that they can be traced back to the ancient goddesses of Canaan or Greece. You may have heard talk of spiritual energy vortexes in and around Sedona, Arizona and that they are mysteriously linked to the juniper that grows there. But it's another thing altogeth...

Welcome to Season One, Episode 2 of Tales from the Truth Seekers . In this episode I interview the incredible Monica Rao. Her story is quite unbelievable and yet it is 100% true, a perfect story to help open our minds and hearts to what is actually real and possible. For example, what do you do when the doctors tell you that you have a terminal illness that has severely shortened your lifespan, an...

Before we begin: If you know me, and you listen to this episode, I want you to understand that you are unknowingly healing a painful perceived gap between us that I have been experiencing for a long time, and I extend my utmost gratitude to you in advance.

If you had told me in April of 2014 that in ten years time I would be hosting a podcast complied from interviews of people who have had real spiritual awakening experiences, I would have not believed you. Before everything happened the word “spiritual” felt cheesy to me, all religions looked no different from cults, and if someone had an awakening it meant they’d been taken. The very idea of culti...