In this special Monarch episode of Medium Curious, Sarah and Jane step outside their usual format to share something deeply personal: stories of signs and synchronicities sent in by listeners who have experienced them for themselves.

This time, you’ll hear those stories in the listeners’ own voices—stories that range from playful and surprising to profound and life-changing. A deer. A coin. Unexpected messages and impossible-to-ignore moments. Each story offers its own glimpse into the ways people experience connection with loved ones who have crossed over.

Together, these stories explore a question at the heart of Medium Curious: Can the people we love continue to find ways to reach us after they’re gone?

Whether you see these moments as signs, synchronicities, coincidence, or something beyond what we can explain, there’s something undeniably moving about the love woven through every one of them.

Listen in for stories of reassurance, connection, and the kind of magic that can stay with you for a lifetime!

• Sarah, on Tiffany’s deer story: “It’s like there’s so many metaphors that are going through my head. In an orchestra, you’ve got a body of musicians playing, it’s one sound, and then all of a sudden one voice comes through.”
• Jane, on Corinne + Scotty’s story about David: “He’s world class. He communicates like nobody I know.”

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• Tiffany Bates — @TiffanyKayExpressions on Substack
• Scott Darlington — @mescottyd on Substack
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Jane just got back from the IANDS conference—the world’s biggest gathering focused on near-death experiences (NDEs), consciousness, and what happens when we die—and she brought back everything: the science, the stories, the gossip, and the thrift-store goodies.

In this episode, Jane and Sarah dive into the fascinating world of near-death experiences and consciousness, unpacking what happens when people flatline and come back profoundly changed. From shifts in the nervous system and a dramatic loss of the fear of death to an inner voice that seems to switch on for good, these stories raise some big questions about life after death, the nature of consciousness, and what might be waiting on the other side.

It's part conference recap, part science geek out, part reminder that the whole point of all of this, at the end of the day, is love.

Jane recounts crashing a conversation with filmmaker Steven Simon (What Dreams May Come) to invite him on the show, dancing with Anita Moorjani at a Wizard of Oz themed party, and thrifting with medium Lauren Robertson. Along the way, she and Sarah dig into a University of Milan study on grief hallucinations that aren't hallucinations at all, talk through the difference between intuition and a nervous system in fight or flight, and touch on the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies, which investigates spontaneous and verifiable after death communication.

It's part conference recap, part science geek out, part reminder that the whole point of all of this, at the end of the day, is love.

• Grief hallucinations aren't hallucinations. Research suggests a majority of grieving people see or hear a deceased loved one, but most stay quiet out of fear of being seen as unstable. If it's happened to you, you're not imagining it and you're not alone.
• A calm nervous system and intuition are connected. When the body is stuck in fight or flight, it's genuinely harder to access intuitive guidance. Regulating the nervous system (through breath, somatic practice, or anything that signals safety to the body) can be a prerequisite for hearing your inner knowing, not a separate task from it.
• Fear of not knowing shows up everywhere, not just around death. The same anxious grip that shows up around mortality also shows up around money, security, and control. Naming that pattern can make it easier to work with.
• Discernment matters more than certainty when evaluating any spiritual teacher or channeled information. Watch for dependency, whether you feel free to leave at any time, and whether the message serves your growth or someone else's authority.
• You don't need proof to start. People who return from a profound experience (near-death or otherwise) tend to skip the years of study because they already know something is possible. Belief itself is often the actual doorway.

• Sarah: "The only thing you have to do to be a medium is know that it's possible."
• Jane, on a friend's final months: "He was like, I'm just here to broadcast love, and that's all I'm gonna do for the rest of my time here."
• Jane, on nervous system regulation: "If you're in a sympathetic nervous system, which is activated fight or flight, the intuition is not really available."

• International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) conference
• Steven Simon, filmmaker (What Dreams May Come) and author of a book written with his late wife (title referenced in the episode as "What Dreams Have Come,"
• Lauren Robertson, medium and author of The Medium in Manolo's
• Alex Ferrari, host of Next Level Soul podcast
• University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), founded by Ian Stevenson
• Medium Curious Collective (community membership, mentioned at the close)

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Jane sits down with Jordan Segman, host of The Paradigm Experience, a podcast exploring near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, spirituality, and the unexplained. On instagram you can find him with the handle @seggysaid where he chats to AI about the really big questions.

He shares what happened when he asked an AI what it was being coded to do, and the surprising answer that made him think deeply about human sovereignty, intuition, and how much we rely on technology for answers.

From there, the conversation moves into Jordan's own spiritual practice, including daily meditation, mantras, gratitude, and staying grounded while using AI every day.

Jordan also opens up about addiction, heartbreak, fatherhood, money, ADHD, and the ways those experiences have changed how he sees himself. He shares the powerful mediumship experience that connected him with his late grandfather and eventually led him to an intuitive counselor who became an important part of his life.

Jane also gives Jordan a live reading of his spirit guide which is both funny and touching.

In this episode:

• AI, intuition, and human sovereignty
• What happens when you ask AI about its own motives
• Spiritual hygiene and daily grounding practices
• Mediumship and connecting with loved ones who have passed
• ADHD and seeing yourself through a different lens
• Addiction, recovery, money, and fatherhood
• Building The Paradigm Experience into something bigger
• Why consistency matters more than the glamorous moments of success

"I think it's another thing in the mix, and it's probably a little more lethal in that it can be more addicting."

"It's about the message, not the messenger."

"One candle can light a thousand."

"You have to constrain it. You have to tell it what not to do."

• YouTube The Paradigm Experience
• Instagram @SeggySaid
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• Documentary referenced: The Alabama Solution

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Sarah and Jane sit down with Amanda Walsh, founder and CEO of Astrology Hub and author of the new memoir Life by the Stars: A True Story of Letting Go, Looking Up, and Remembering Who You Are.

Amanda traces her path from a buttoned-up corporate life in New York City, three degrees deep and checking every box, to an unraveling that started with an emergency C-section, a toddler hurling her Blackberry across the room, and a cross-country move to Hawaii with no plan and no internet. She talks about the first astrology reading that cracked her open, why she calls it her first evidence of God, and how a friend's throwaway comment about an unused domain name turned into Astrology Hub.

The conversation moves through the difference between astrology's various schools (Vedic, Western, evolutionary), why Amanda offers that astrology is one language with many dialects, and her mango tree metaphor for why some people are ready for a leap before others are. She and Jane also dig into the current planetary moment, the Leo-Aquarius axis, and why Amanda thinks we are all living through an unprecedented collective transformation.

• Sometimes the system you trust most (medical, educational, corporate) breaking down is what finally shows you it was never the whole truth to begin with
• Astrology is not one fixed system. Different traditions (Vedic, Western, evolutionary) are different dialects of the same underlying language, and it's fine to take what resonates and leave the rest
• Not everyone is ready for the same leap at the same time, and that is not a flaw. Some fruit ripens early, some ripens late, but it all ends up in the same place
• Tension and hard transits are not punishment. They are pressure pointing toward something in you that wants to resolve
• Feeling like everything is uncertain right now is not a personal failure to have it figured out. It is a collective experience showing up individually
• You do not need permission to reinvent your life more than once. The version of you built for one chapter does not have to be the final version

Amanda, on her first astrology reading: "This is my first evidence of God."

On timing and readiness: "The yes that's pulling us is stronger than the fear that's holding us back."

On living through this moment: "It's freaking terrifying as hell. But like, my god, it's also kind of fun."

On the Capricorn archetype: "Capricorn is not just a goat... it's a sea goat, part goat, part mermaid," both climbing the highest heights and exploring the deepest depths.

• Amanda Walsh's book: Life by the Stars: A True Story of Letting Go, Looking Up, and Remembering Who You Are
• Astrology Hub (astrologyhub.com)
• Astrology Hub Podcast
• Mentioned: Christy Levy (previous guest on Medium Curious guest referenced in the intro),

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Sarah and Jane put the guest mic down this week to turn the conversation on themselves — and to share some messages from Robert Redford, along with some big news. In this episode of Medium Curious, the mediumship podcast for the curious and the skeptical alike, Jane and Sarah trace how they each found their way into psychic development and spirit communication without ever planning to — Sarah from a career as a professional oboist, Jane from running film production companies.

The conversation moves into consciousness, energy, and why comparing your intuitive gifts to someone else's can shut your own connection down. They also unpack entropy as a way of reading energetic states — what it means to be in a low-entropy state of ease and coherence versus a high-entropy state of urgency and static — and how that shapes the energy you bring to any reading, conversation, or room.

Plus: readings on Einstein and Robert Redford in spirit, verifiable details from the other side, and the launch of a new membership community called Medium Curious Collective for anyone curious about mediumship, intuition, and connecting with spirit.

Topics covered: mediumship, psychic development, spirit communication, consciousness, energy and entropy, celebrity mediumship readings, intuitive development, signs from spirit

• Comparing your intuitive gifts to someone else's is one of the fastest ways to shut your own connection down. Feeling less-than in the moment is often a signal to look at an old safety pattern, not a verdict on your ability.
• Any container or boundary — spiritual practice included — is worth periodically checking. Is it protecting you, or is it quietly limiting how far you let yourself expand?
• Entropy is a useful lens for energy: lower entropy states (ease, love, coherence) tend to be more expansive, while higher entropy states (urgency, static, self-drama) tend to contract things. Small check-ins with your own state matter more than they might seem to.
• You don't need formal training to practice reading energy. Picking a public figure, tuning in, and verifying specific, googleable details afterward is a low-stakes way to build trust in your own hits.
• Growing intuitive or energetic capacity slowly, with time to integrate, tends to hold up better than trying to "come online" all at once.
• A community where curiosity and wonder are normalized can be just as valuable as any specific technique or teaching.

• "All of creation is experiencing itself through you." — Sarah, on a message received during a channeled event
• "High entropy would be self-drama, urgency, noise, static. Low entropy is where you're in love, care, cooperation, honesty, service — you're really in integrity." — Jane
• "Don't leave this life without a dream or two coming true." — Jane, sharing a message from Robert Redford

• Medium Curious Collective sign-up —https://mediumcurious.thinkific.com/pages/medium-curious-collective
• Lauren Robertson, medium and teacher, author of Medium and Manolos
• Christy Levy, medium (referenced from a prior episode)
• Suzanne Giesemann — referenced re: the "connect with someone famous" practice game

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Before Shannon Nering could talk about the ayahuasca ceremony that changed her life, her grandmother arrived first, pulling the conversation somewhere none of them expected. What started as an interview about Shannon's memoir, The Mother Vine: How I Healed My Heart with Ayahuasca, opened into a spontaneous, emotional reading connecting Shannon to her late grandmother, before moving into the heart of the book itself.

Shannon, a former TV producer and director who walked away from a career in television to move her family to Kauai, talks about the identity crisis that came with that move, the layered "mother" themes in her book (her grandmother, her mother, motherhood itself, and the "mother vine" — another name for ayahuasca), and how writing became a way to process grief that had been held in her body for years.

She shares her first ayahuasca ceremony with the Shipibo tradition in the Amazon, contrasts it with gentler Kauai-grown medicine, and talks through what integration actually looks like day to day. The she shares about The Living Lab, her seasonal reset program for women in midlife and beyond.

Key Takeaways

• Grief doesn't just fade with time — it can live in the body for years, and creative or ceremonial work (writing, plant medicine, ritual) can finally move it through.
• Integration after a profound spiritual experience isn't a single moment; it's a daily practice — journaling, stillness, returning to the insight again and again.
• Fear passed down from a parent or grandparent often comes from love and protection, even when it later needs to be examined and released.
• You don't need to dive straight into strong plant medicine to access stillness, presence, or an open heart — there are gentler on-ramps.
• True healing touches four quadrants — mental, physical, emotional, spiritual — not just one.

Notable Quotes

Shannon, on plant medicine and ego: "You do not get to use your logical mind... it's an ego death."

Shannon, on what she took from her ayahuasca ceremony: "The journey is actually inward... that's where it all happens."

Links & Resources

• The Mother Vine: How I Healed My Heart with Ayahuasca by Shannon Nering — Simon & Schuster | Bookshop.org
• Shannon Nering's website: shannonnering.com
• My Big TOE by Tom Campbell (referenced in conversation)

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NEW EPISODE: Jane and Sarah are still flying high from their astounding chat with Gary Temple Bodley and Christy Levy, the channels and mediums behind the podcast An Unimaginable Life.

Gary fills us in on how Christy's mediumship abilities came online and what it's like to channel some of history's most recognizable figures. Christy explains how her gifts activated rapidly after taking Gary's course, despite having aphantasia, and how the two of them developed a practice of allowing well-known souls to come through using clues and categories rather than direct names.

The conversation moves into a live demonstration, where Christy connects with Albert Einstein and C.S. Lewis, delivering messages about duality, perception, and the idea that the universe is far friendlier than fear leads people to believe.

You don’t want to miss this episode! It’s not just sensational – it’s full of wisdom from greater consciousness and transmits the highest vibrational energy!

Key Takeaways

• Psychic and mediumship abilities often expand alongside a person's broader belief system. Christy's gifts came online as she did inner work to raise her perspective of herself, suggesting that development in one area of consciousness work tends to unlock others.
• Not being able to verify a connection doesn't mean it isn't real. Several mediums describe having to consciously choose belief before the evidence catches up, rather than waiting for proof first.
• Judgment of any experience, whether it looks difficult or painful, may be based on an incomplete picture. Spirit communication consistently points to the idea that no experience is inherently good or bad, only interpreted that way through a belief structure.
• Shifting your perspective changes your entire experienced reality, even when outer circumstances stay the same. This reframes personal growth as less about changing conditions and more about changing the lens.
• Fear can be mistaken for truth. Strong emotional reactions like grief, anger, or regret are not necessarily revelations about reality, but can be fear "borrowing your voice."

"The universe is infinitely friendlier than our human fear has led us to believe."

"Reality has never stood opposite you. It has always stood beside you and quite often it's secretly cheering."

"You have discovered what fear sounds like when it borrows your voice."

"Life is living through you. It's experiencing through you. You're not living life."

Connect with Gary and Christy

Christy Levy https://christylevy.com

Gary Bodley https://theteachingsofjoshua.com

An Unimaginable Life https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-unimaginable-life/id1707752987

Joshua Live https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joshua-live-and-the-law-of-attraction/id1154555202

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