The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Consciousness

What if the reason you feel alone on your spiritual path is simply because you forgot who's been walking alongside you the entire time? In this episode, Will & Karen sit down with Marty Rawson, founder of Spirit Alliance, author, multidimensional healer, and certified practitioner of everything from EMF Balancing to Melek-level light work. Marty brings a grounded, no-nonsense approach to the b...

You've tried the therapy, the supplements, the breathwork, the retreats. And yet something still feels stuck, unreachable, like your healing keeps running into a wall it can't get past. This episode won't tell you that you're broken. It's going to suggest something stranger and maybe more useful than that. Hillary Faye has spent 23 years working at the edge of what most people call possible. She's...

Have you ever felt like the universe is trying to reach you but you can't quite make out the signal? What if there are angelic beings with urgent messages for humanity right now, and two women were specifically called to deliver them?   In this episode, Will and Karen sit down with Pamela Downs and Lisa Roach, psychic intuitive healers, angelic channelers, and founding partners of Spirit Calling,...

You've felt it. Someone leaves the room and you feel weirdly exhausted. Or you ignored a gut feeling and paid for it later. This episode names what's actually happening, and gives you a practical system to deal with it. Episode Overview  If you've ever left a conversation feeling like something was stolen from you, or spent years second-guessing whether your instincts were real or just anxiety in...

What if a psychic reading isn't about predicting your future. It's about seeing your options more clearly?   That's the reframe that Terri Jarvis brings to everything she does. A psychic reader, intuitive healer, and Reiki master teacher, Terri has been a fixture at SpiritFest USA events up and down the East Coast. Will and Karen caught up with her live on the floor of SpiritFest at the Wyndham Vi...

You've been blowing out birthday candles and tossing coins into fountains your whole life. Turns out, you weren't just being superstitious. You were running an experiment in quantum physics, neuroscience, anthropology, and behavioral science simultaneously, and you had absolutely no idea. About This Episode Brownell Landrum calls herself an "Explorer of Metaphysical Mystery," and she's earned the...

Are you experiencing spiritual awakening symptoms and not sure whether to call a doctor or a mystic? You're waking up at 3am. Crying at commercials. Suddenly intolerant of small talk, the career you've had for a decade, and basically every version of yourself you built before now. These are some of the most common spiritual awakening signs, and here's what's striking: they've been documented acros...

You've done the work. Meditated, journaled, shadow-worked your way through half a bookshelf. So why does the same frustration, the same anger, the same stuck feeling keep showing back up? Turns out, it's not a willpower problem. It's a filing system problem. Episode Overview Blaise Kennedy is a consciousness guide and teacher who got here the hard way. At 24, he hit a wall in drug addiction treatm...

Welcome to Classic Skeptic Metaphysicians! We're re-releasing some of our back catalog so that these gems can be re-discovered! This week: What happens to your consciousness when your brain shuts down completely? That's not a philosophical question for Dr. Eben Alexander. it's a medical one. And his answer, backed by peer-reviewed case reports and 25 years as a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon, might...

What if the reason your life feels like someone else's rough draft is because, technically, it is? According to today's guest, 95% of the thoughts running your subconscious right now were written by people who no longer have any business running your life. And the universe? It's been listening to every word. Episode Overview Will and Karen sit down with Brenda Lee Mattausch, a consciousness guide...

in a live interview at SpiritFest in Virginia Beach, we sit down with Jadardana Krishna Das to explore what it really means to live as a monk in the Hare Krishna tradition, and why spiritual life doesn’t have to mean walking away from the world  He shares the vision behind a 70-acre eco-village outside Atlanta designed as a hybrid retreat, monastery, and self-sustaining community where anyone, fro...

You're doing the journaling, the breathwork, maybe even the meditation...and something still feels like it's missing. Not because you're doing it wrong, but because no one ever taught you why the energy you're working with matters, or how to stop giving it away. This episode is for the person who is spiritually curious but over the cosmic chaos, and ready for something that actually sticks.  Episo...

Welcome to Classic Skeptic Metaphysicians! We're re-releasing some of our back catalog so that these gems can be re-discovered! This week: Should We Fear Death? An Honest Conversation with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden Death. It’s the one certainty we all share...and the one topic most of us avoid like the plague. For years, Will openly admits his biggest fear was dying. Not just the process… but t...

Is civilization collapsing… or evolving? If you’ve ever looked at the news and thought, “This can’t be progress… can it?” ...you’re not alone. War, division, climate crisis, institutional breakdown... it can feel less like spiritual awakening and more like collective unraveling. So what if this chaos isn’t the end… but a transition? Episode Overview In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians ,...

If you’re curious about detox, energy healing, or quantum-based wellness—but immediately skeptical when someone says “just carry a bottle”—you’re not alone. This episode sits squarely in that tension: genuine curiosity vs. rational resistance. And instead of asking you to believe anything, it asks a better question: what framework are these claims actually operating within?   Episode Overview Reco...

You've been meditating. You've been clearing your mind. And nothing's happening. What if the problem isn't that you're doing it wrong, it's that you're doing exactly what prevents connection from occurring? A former Navy Commander turned evidence-based medium and spiritual leader explains why emptiness isn't always the goal, and what one simple reframe could change about your entire spiritual prac...

Everyone in the spiritual space suddenly has predictions about 2026; apocalyptic warnings, transformative awakening, intense upheaval. But here's the problem: when we outsource our discernment to future-focused prophecies, we drain our power in the present. This episode asks a radically different question: not what's coming, but how do we engage with predictions without letting them hijack our ner...

You've done the vision boards. You've raised your vibration. You manifested the thing, and two weeks later, reality snapped back like you never tried at all. This episode isn't about trying harder or finding another modality. It's about why change doesn't stick, and what happens when you address the patterns operating underneath your conscious efforts. Karen Cheong, who went from high-powered real...

What happens when curiosity meets uncertainty... live ? In this inaugural episode of Ask The Skeptic Metaphysicians , Will and Karen step out from behind the edit button and into real-time conversation, answering viewer questions about spirituality, consciousness, relationships, doubt, and everything in between.   This episode matters now because more people are questioning old assumptions about s...

You know the pattern is there. You've seen it loop enough times to wonder if the universe is taking notes. If you've ever felt like certain doors refuse to open, or open too easily at exactly the wrong moment...this conversation reveals what's been quietly influencing your choices before you even made them. Episode Overview Astrologer and intuitive guide Gabrielle Celeste joins Will and Karen to e...

If the world feels louder, heavier, and more emotionally exhausting than ever...and your spiritual practice isn’t giving you the calm it used to...this episode is for you. What if the problem isn’t that you’re “doing it wrong,” but that you’ve misunderstood what peace actually is? In this reflective solo episode, Will shares a Zen-inspired story; The Silent Mountain, and uses it as a grounded fram...

What if consciousness isn’t passive...but responsive ?   *SCROLL DOWN FOR SPECIAL OFFERS FROM HEATHER!* In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians , we explore a grounded, modern approach to the Akashic Records, not as a mystical abstraction, but as a  living field of consciousness that reflects your patterns, choices, and potential in real time.   Our conversation reframes the Akashic Records...

Reality doesn’t always break loudly...sometimes it just misplaces a nut, duplicates a shirt, or drops a thought into your mind at the wrong moment . In this first short-form episode, Will explores true, head-scratching “Matrix glitch” stories, starting with one he and Karen personally experienced, and invites you to decide: coincidence, subconscious mind, or something stranger at work? Listen in,...

What if manifestation doesn’t fail because you’re doing it wrong, but because your nervous system is stuck in survival mode?   In this episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians , Will and Karen sit down with Christy Whitman , two-time New York Times bestselling author and transformational teacher, for a grounded, practical conversation about flow , energy mastery , and why so many well-intentioned spi...

Welcome to Classic Skeptic Metaphysicians! We're re-releasing some of our back catalog so that these gems can be re-discovered! This week: Consciousness Expansion & Heart Opening with Cacao Plant Medicine What if one of the most powerful tools for spiritual awakening and consciousness expansion has been hiding in plain sight—inside something you’ve already consumed most of your life?   In this...