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Nerd out with Tiffany as she talks through her ways of making decisions by collecting data through the mind, body, heart, and soul. Yes, really, mediumship can be research, and no, this will not permit you to say 'Spirit told me to'. The image is me in a server circa 2007. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

In learning mediumship, the second most important thing (after practice) is exposing yourself to new perspectives, techniques, and ideas around your practice. This year I got a whole bunch of new mediumship books for the comparative titles section of my proposal for a book on mediumship. Here are some thoughts about them and books on a few tangental topics that I love too. Here's the list for reference: Answers From the Ancestral Realm by Sharon Anne Klingler Ancestor Medicine by Daniel Foor Brujas by Lorraine Montegut The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie Modern Mediumship by Johan Poulsen Medium Mentor by MaryAnne DiMarco Stay Woke by Justin Michael Williams Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn Magickal Mediumship by Danielle Dionne The Book of Seances by Claire Goodchild DIY Magic by Anthony Alvarado The Creative Act by Rick Rubin The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber & Wengrow --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

There are many ways to find presence. Let me share what I do for mindfulness/bodifulness, to change my state, or to prepare for spiritual work. I'll talk you through a half dozen techniques I use daily. Try them out during a brief meditation at the end, then make your own! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Join host Tiffany Hopkins for a meditation to rest, rejuvenate, and acquaint ourselves with all the new information that has come in through this eclipse season. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Chioma Ume helps us understand how attention and focus on the people (and spirits) in our life can work like magic to create connection and facilitate communication. Chioma is a writer, empath, and seeker who does design research and brand strategy alongside being a death doula.  Intro music En Shenandoah by Down With Ben Ft: airtone (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Get to know what Mediumship for Creativity means for Unknown Unknown host Tiffany Hopkins, and try your hand at a little automatic drawing. Tiffany gives the backstory to her Mediumship for Creativity classes, including the foundational precepts for the practice, which came through while using the practice itself. Towards the end, she guides listeners into meditation with instructions for automatic drawing on your own and with a spirit. If you want more, join her Friday evening Mediumship for Creativity circles hosted by Morbid Anatomy. Intro music is "uncertain times (Duty Calls Remix)" by Ben Blohowiak --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Marianne McCarthy, an artist, art educator, and practicing medium, joins Unknown Unknown to discuss the similarities between art and mediumship. Marianne and Tiffany explore the importance of cultivating both openness and structure in both an art and mediumship practice. Your host is Tiffany J. Hopkins. She began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage in Lily Dale, the world's largest community of Spiritualists. She combines a university-trained mind with a universe-connected heart in her work as an educator and independent futurist. She'd like you to join her at Normalize Talking to the Dead. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Get to know NYC-based artist John A. Rice and his in-progress project Beyond Words. John specializes in oil pastels and came to Lily Dale as part of a residency with Normalize Talking To The Dead. He shares his process working with our mediums and holding his own art séance to bring through impressions, images, and ideas for his next series. It is John's mission to foster healing, introspection, and creativity through otherworldly art — empowering the internal world so that we can enrich our outer world. You can find him on Instagram @jarstudionyc. Intro music is Random Alien Sonata by septahelix (c) copyright 2023 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/66168 Ft: airtone, Javolenus, Apoxode, copperhead, Mr_Yesterday --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Expand your understanding of Spiritualist history, psychic labor history, and what early mediumship was really like with the luminous Grace Kredell. Grace (she/they) is a psychic practitioner, matchmaker, community organizer, and historian. They recently finished a master's program at Sarah Lawrence College, publishing their thesis "Working Witches: Fortune Tellers, Clairvoyants, and Astrologers in the Golden Age of Spiritualism" in late 2022. Grace is the Associate Director of Golden Dome School, a community dedicated to mysticism and the arts. They are also a Spiritualist Church of New York City member and aspire to a summer home in Lily Dale. Grace moves between worlds and shares their findings from traversing the real-life details of historical research and the fuzzy mysteries of the unseen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

This episode I get to share with you a little of Joanna Ebenstein's brilliance. Joanna is best known as the co-founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. She's also an author, photographer (she took the photo in this episode's cover), curator, producer, art director, and designer. Throughout her experiences bringing all these different forms of creativity into the world she's found some really meaningful philosophies, habits, and tools, which she shares with us during our wide ranging conversation. You can see more about Joanna on her website. The Morbid Anatomy Patreon is an online journal of videos, lectures, essays, and recordings. On the Morbid Anatomy site you can sign up for their mailing list and enroll for their classes like Joanna's Manifesting from the Beyond class. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

In this episode, I go through my foundational book list for nerds who are looking to get into mediumship and other anomalous events. You can also watch this episode on Lily Dale's Facebook page. Nature and the Human Soul Bill Plotkin, 2007 Radical Spirits Ann Broude, 2001 The Trickster and the Paranormal George Hanson, 2001 American Cosmic Diana Pasulka, 2019 The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist, 2009 The Flip Jeffrey Kripal, 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

This is a preview episode for the new season of Unknown Unknown which is kicking off new Monday night shows on Lily Dale Radio.  Anabel Zenith and I go far out as she interviews me about my favorite psychic experiences, her brilliant game MERGE / CHANNEL / BANISH and setting up the perfect séance. You can find Anabel as @anabelzenith and at AnabelZenith.com  You can tune in live starting March 6th on BlogTalkRadio.com/LilyDaleRadio, on Lily Dale's Facebook page or catch the recordings here the next day.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

George and I discuss topics that have come up in reading chapters 9, 4 & 7 including questions about entropy & the physical sciences as ways to understand the supernatural, taboos & physical danger in studying vs practicing paranormal subjects, why we talk to the dead more than aliens and the difference between being tricked by a magician vs a medium. Here's the link to SciHub that George mentioned. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

George and I have our second conversation about his book The Trickster And The Paranormal starting with Chapter 8 on Disenchantment. We also get into rationalization, sources of power & authority, new genres of media, the importance of democracy, the paranormal as vitality plus the requisite aliens, Lily Dale and unanswerable questions about how to fix social ills. He mentions his paper on Rationalization and the topic of Demythologization. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

George and I kick off the Morbid Anatomy reading group with a wide ranging conversation about why it is so hard for us all to grasp the paranormal. Topics include the book's creation story, Trump as Trickster, Jung & UFOs, the importance of carnivals and much more. Read chapters 2 and 22 in George's The Trickster and the Paranormal to complement your listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

In the fifth Unknown Unknown interview, we hear Stargazer Li speak the story of now: dancing with the Universe, notice & acknowledge, learning languages, a revolution unlike any revolution we've ever had. What happens when we just be? Stargazer Li's website: https://stargazerli.com/ The Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

We're back! This season we'll be focusing on the foundational ideas and practices needed to be a medium. We'll start with quieting: getting the busy self to be still enough to experience the subtle influences from beyond. Meditation alert: I'll guide you through a quieting process - driving or otherwise engaging in an outward activity will not be possible! Music courtesy of Secret Jane and Siddhartha Corsus. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Hannah and I talk about what we've learned in the four interviews this season, touching on a few timely topics these days in the process: living with less, letting go, anxiety and embodiment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

I sat down with my beloved grandmother to talk about her spirituality. She shares stories of her childhood I'd never heard before and we meander into topics as diverse as the fall of empires and the power of family love.  Join us for a special episode with the first person who taught me that there was more to life than meets the eye. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Today we talk with mediumship teacher Dr. Judith Rochester. We discuss daily practice, the transition she made from academic knowledge to soul knowledge, how to test non-intellectual information sources, the polarity of actively seeking and allowing, starting your own home circle and much more.  Get in touch with Judith via email (drjudithrochester@gmail.com) or by phone 716-595-3526. You can see her Winter class schedule on the website of Church of the Living Spirit. Her Spring & Summer classes will be on the Lily Dale Assembly website. You can get her book To Touch the Soul: How to Become a Medium on Amazon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support