{"podcast":{"title":"The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Enlightenment","slug":"the-skeptic-metaphysicians-a-pragmatic-guide-to-spiritual-awakening-metaphysics-enlightenment-1382483","podcast_index_feed_id":1382483,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5652646/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ec64751f2a63b825bd133268472f9109.jpg","author":"Will Rodriguez","episode_count":491,"summary":"The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a smart, funny take on consciousness and spiritual awakening for curious minds who want reassurance, not dogma...and a pragmatic way into the unknown. Join Will and Karen, hosts of The Skeptic Metaphysicians, as they dive into spiritual awakening, ascension, expanded consciousness, and metaphysical mysteries with humor and humanity. Born from an existential breakdown (yep, the spiritual kind), the show dives headfirst into the wild world of spiritual awakenings, energy work, consciousness expansion, soul growth, near-death experiences, psychic phenomena, manifestation, mysticism, inner work, and the quantum mysteries that connect us all. Each week, Will brings the wide-eyed curiosity of a seeker reawakened to his soul purpose, while Karen balances the vibe with grounded intuition, mindfulness, thoughtful insights, and just the right amount of side-eye. Together, they create a safe space for exploring spirituality, alignment with your higher self, and the deeper dimensions of wellness without losing your grip on the real. 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It's the question humanity has asked for thousands of years, and for most of us, it stays theoretical. For Dr. Elisa Medhus, it became the most personal investigation of her life. Dr. Medhus spent over thirty years as an internal medicine physician, raised by militant atheists, trained to trust only what she could measure. She had never seriously considered what happens after death...until October 2009, when her twenty-year-old son Erik, who lived with bipolar disorder and Tourette's syndrome, died by suicide. What followed shattered every assumption she had about consciousness, energy, and the nature of reality itself. In this episode, Dr. Medhus walks us through her journey from hardcore skeptic to one of the most well-known voices in afterlife research, not because she went looking for it, but because the evidence kept finding her. A phone call from a twelve-digit number that led to nowhere. Electronic voice phenomena analyzed and confirmed as non-human by audio experts. A militant atheist father... a man who told her Erik would \"turn to dust\"...calling her three days after the death to report that Erik had appeared, changed into a young boy, and curled up in his lap. And eventually, holding her son solid in her arms for three seconds at the foot of her bed. We cover what the afterlife actually looks like according to Erik's accounts; the colors that don't exist here, buildings made of spirits, and what happens in the moments immediately after death. We talk about the Channeling Erik community, now fifty thousand subscribers strong, and the book Erik dictated from the other side, My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven, described by readers as the most convincing account of the afterlife ever written. We also go deep into Dr. Me…","meta_description":"What actually happens after we die? It's the question humanity has asked for thousands of years, and for most of us, it stays theoretical. 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