The Glimmering

When Laura Tati Laira was growing up, her entire family had abilities that extended beyond the five senses, but she had to keep her own work as an intuitive and channel closeted from her stepfather, who was leery of anything outside of the material world. As Laura delved deeper into her purpose in connecting people to their Akashic records, she began to learn more about herself, her connection to...

Marilyn Kapp doesn't refer to those who have passed on as dead; she calls them "out-of-body people," because she can see, hear, and channel them. She explains that they are very much alive, and beyond that, they're helping those of us here on earth through a process she calls spirit networking. Learn more about Marilyn at marilynkapp.com Read Marilyn's book, Love is Greate...

Lauren Levine grew up in an old home filled with spirits that only she could see, but she came from a long line of women who worked with the unseen. Her gifts followed her through her dance career, guiding and protecting her. But what she didn't know is that every mysterious thing that had happened through her life was leading up to the moment she would need her trust in the spirit world to c...

Just before turning three-years-old, Michelle Brock's mother died, but for months afterward Michelle could see and speak to her. As she grew older, Michelle received other hints that the world other people were experiencing was not the same as her own. It wasn't until decades later, as a result of a near-tragic experience, that she got re-awakened to her soul's true path during a pa...

When Meli was a child, she could hear and sense spirits around her, but she shut them out with her fear. As time went on, she found herself being drawn toward the edge of spirituality, only to back away again, shutting the door behind her. But then, in the midst of the chaos of raising a toddler, she came to a breaking point that pushed her to tiptoe into her spiritual gifts. What she found on the...

Growing up, magic was folded into Paula Victoria's everyday life--though her family didn't call it that. Those who had passed on were always present, whether they appeared visually as apparitions, through signs, or through dreams. At an early age, Paula discovered a book on palmistry and taught herself to read palms. Over the years she used this skill casually and sporadically, until one...

When Brittany Woods was a child, she was passed around between family members after her parents were sent to prison, which led her to be adopted by someone who was not a blood relation—her soul family. Brittany's adoptive grandmother opened her up to her spirituality, but when it became clear that her gifts separated her from her peers, Brittany tried her best to blend in.  Then one night, in...

Why do we incarnate? Where are we from? And if we aren't our bodies, who are we, really? Just as season one of The Glimmering told the story of the unfolding community around my spiritual awakening, each episode of season two follows my quest to find answers to these questions.  Over three years, I worked with and befriended mediums, energy healers, Akashic Records readers, a palmist and a pa...

At the beginning of 2022, I became inundated with information on lucid dreaming. Then, through a mediumship reading, Jack brought it up. He said that it was one way of getting what I’d been asking for; information about what it’s like on the other side.  For the rest of the year, I became my own science experiment, working to teach myself how to become lucid within my dreams. In the process, I bec...

Long before James and I met, his life was filled with mysterious encounters which gave him a peek into the unseen energies influencing our world. Though he never went out of his way to get more information from behind the curtain, these experiences helped him to understand that there is so much we don't understand about life, and as a result, there are so many ways to be in the world. But whe...

When Rosie Chuong graduated from college, she took the first step toward healing from her childhood trauma: finding a job that would prevent her from having to rely on anyone else. She applied to dozens of organizations. Only one called her in for an interview, but it was there that she met Jess, who not only became her boss but also her advocate, friend, and proxy family member. Jess opened so ma...

Kerri Jones wore her fear as a protective shell, as if turning away from anything dark would cause it to disappear. But then, in 2018, the worst thing she could imagine happened when her 22-year-old daughter, Mikaela, passed away unexpectedly. Even though Kerri, her husband Johnny, and their son Alex were left in a stunned state of disbelief and grief, they immediately began receiving communicatio...

To the outside world, it seemed as if Maggie Battista had been born under a lucky star. Her blog, Eat Boutique, quickly became popular and soon grew into a food gifting business serving some of the country's most prominent companies. She went on to host pop up markets serving tens of thousands of customers. On the cusp of opening a permanent retail space, something happened that halted her mo...

As a child, Carol Cottrell could communicate with the spirits of people who had previously lived in her family's homes. But when a Reiki master told her, decades later, that she was a medium, she had her doubts. She began learning how to deepen her connection with the spirit world, and as she aligned with her true purpose, her life changed in mysterious and surprising ways. To learn more abou...

Jack and I had always had a psychic connection. We could read each other’s thoughts, and sometimes we even shared dreams. But after hurting each other for years, we stopped talking for a decade. Then, at the start of 2020, when Covid became rampant in Boston, I knew I needed to get in touch with him. I had the strong feeling that I was going to die, and I wanted to say goodbye before I left. As it...