{"podcast":{"title":"Tales from the Truth Seekers","slug":"tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556","podcast_index_feed_id":7086556,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1761502.rss","website_url":"https://nataliesidhe.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1761502/5a7ece64dabea55d87c3db53ab7a3476.jpg","author":"Natalie Fehlner","episode_count":47,"summary":"Real stories of awakening, near death experience, and spirituality beyond the aesthetic. Astrology as a muse.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T02:20:19.826540+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556"},"episode":{"title":"Sleep Paralysis as a Spiritual Gift, with Dr. Sheila Pryce Brooks","slug":"sleep-paralysis-as-a-spiritual-gift-with-dr-sheila-pryce-brooks","published_at":"2025-12-25T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556/sleep-paralysis-as-a-spiritual-gift-with-dr-sheila-pryce-brooks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556","url":"https://nataliesidhe.substack.com/p/sleep-paralysis-as-a-spiritual-gift","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/182294609/9bd89272dc3a74280124107269fc46e8.mp3","summary":"The commonly held belief surrounding sleep paralysis is that it is a disorder, a glitch of the brain if you will, nothing more. If that is the case, the why have millions of people, over the course of thousands of years, all experienced the same beings? The hat man, the incubus, the smoke entity, implying the existence of one common realm where they reside. Tales from the Truth Seekers , Season Four is coming to you tomorrow, the night before Christmas, opening with Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks . Sheila shares her insights and expertise on the spiritual experience of sleep paralysis. How appropriate. I believe a certain well-known old, English miser would approve of this perspective of the spirits that come to haunt you in the night, and how they’re actually a revelation of spiritual awakening… Humbug? I don’t believe so. Because according to Sheila’s life long experience with this phenomenon, it is very real indeed, and while many modern materialists chalk it up to a simple sleeping disorder, Sheila has come to find that it is actually a spiritual gift. Although sometimes terrifying, sleep paralysis is a great threshold to the beyond. Sheila’s Bio: Dr. Sheila Pryce Brooks is a researcher, writer, and speaker who explores sleep paralysis as a powerful, and often misunderstood, altered state of consciousness. Drawing from over 30 years of lived experience and academic inquiry, she bridges science, spirituality, and contact. She hosts the Sleep Paralysis News Podcast, and shares posts on Substack opening conversations around anomalous states and their deeper meaning. Natalie’s Links: Solas - 1:1 Mystical Self-Discovery Program Substack Website Etsy IG - @sidhe.channelled.art My Story, Part I My Story, Part II Tales from the Truth Seekers Podcast available on Spotify , Apple ,…","meta_description":"The commonly held belief surrounding sleep paralysis is that it is a disorder, a glitch of the brain if you will, nothing more. If that is the case, the w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3344,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556/episodes/sleep-paralysis-as-a-spiritual-gift-with-dr-sheila-pryce-brooks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-truth-seekers-7086556/sleep-paralysis-as-a-spiritual-gift-with-dr-sheila-pryce-brooks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}