The Soul Unleashed podcast is a spirituality podcast for type-A, left-brained spiritual skeptics who know something else is out there beyond their highly organized lives, but they don't know how to find it! Join host Mike Nicholas, a recovering left-brainer who endured a painful spiritual awakening, as he leads fellow tightly-wound seekers on a journey of self-discovery. With abundant humor but a profound lack of exotic incense and strange flowers, Mike is on a mission to help others unleash their souls from the dogma and controlling beliefs that dominate their lives, and help them break through to inner peace and happiness. Enjoy this podcast that touches on everything from spiritual awakening to soul journeys and a discussion of age-old mind-expanding questions.
Are mediums really communicating with deceased people, or could they actually be talking to demons?
That is one of the most common objections I receive whenever I share experiences involving spirit communication and my medium friend RM. And it is a fair question, especially for Christians who know that the Bible contains serious warnings about mediums, consulting the dead, and deceptive spirits.
In this episode, I go directly to Scri...
Can children communicate after death?
In this episode, RM, my medium friend, connects with a young girl in spirit who identifies herself as Ida Barger. She tells us about her family, describes her gravestone, remembers life on a farm with chickens and horses, and says she died from what she calls “the pox.”
But one thing Ida keeps asking for is surprisingly simple: she wants someone to play with.
We later travel to t...
What happens to souls who don’t cross over after death?
In this episode, I visit Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, where RM, my medium friend, connected with several Civil War soldiers at their gravesites.
These soldiers described confusion about time, waiting for God, memories of war, and the possibility that some souls may not understand why they have not moved forward yet.
What We Explore:
• The Civil War Sp...
In this episode, I share three things I’ve been learning through spirit communication about the afterlife: the life review process, the way each soul’s crossing-over experience may be personally crafted, and the possibility of different levels or planes of existence after death.
I’m not sharing this as a spiritual guru or telling you what to believe. I’m sharing what I’ve been learning through my medium...
What do our loved ones really do in heaven after they die? In this episode, I share a surprising message from my son that made me question what life after death may actually be like. I also share what my mother and other souls have described about daily life in the afterlife, including the activities they enjoy and the experiences they continue to have. Their messages raise an intriguing question: do we carry our interests and unfi...
In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, I explore one of the biggest questions I’ve been asking through repeated spirit communication and mediumship: when souls cross over, do they meet Jesus right away?
As a lifelong Catholic with an engineering mindset, I’ve been asking souls what happens after death, whether they are in life review, whether they have seen Jesus, and how this connects with purgatory, heaven, paradise, a...
Many of us wonder what really happens after death. Do we go straight to heaven, do we face judgment, is purgatory real, or is there something more personal the soul must go through before reaching paradise?
I’ve wondered about those same questions, especially after my son passed away in 2020. Through repeated spirit communication and mediumship, I’ve been hearing a consistent description of what spirits say happens when ...
Is the afterlife real? Can spirits see us, reach us, or communicate from beyond the veil?
In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, I explore life after death, spirit communication, scripture, purgatory, and what spirits have described about what happens after we die.
The episode focuses on three questions: can spirits see us, can spirits reach us, and what happens after death? I also address common objections about necromancy, the Bibl...
In this Part 2 episode of The Soul Unleashed, I explore the cha purgatory, or what spirits have repeatedly described as “life review” or “life purification,” and what may happen to the soul after death.
This episode focuses on the 8 characteristics of life review and the 6 things that may happen after that process is complete.
As a lifelong Catholic with an engineering mindset, I compare these spirit communica...
What happens after we die? Is purgatory real? These questions have fascinated believers, skeptics, theologians, and spiritual seekers for centuries. In this episode, I explore what happens after we die by comparing traditional Christian teachings about purgatory, heaven, and the afterlife with information coming through from spirit communication.
After recording more than 200 episodes investigating life after death, I continue to en...
What if you could ask a loved one in spirit what happens after death?
In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, I share an unusual and deeply personal experience involving my son Matt, spirit communication through a medium, and direct questions about the afterlife. I asked about life review, purgatory, hell, reincarnation, time in spirit, Jesus, and what happens after death.
As a skeptical father, former Army officer, and engineer, I do...
How do you ask spirit guides for help without feeling like you’re abandoning logic, faith, or common sense?
In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, I share how I used the idea behind Hiring the Heavens to create a structured spiritual team for genealogy research, public speaking, travel planning, and personal projects.
As a left-brained skeptic, I didn’t come to spirit guides, guardian angels, synchronicity, mediumship, or...
I wrote my book, The Soul Unleashed, because my son, Matt, asked me to from spirit. What I didn’t know then was that he’d still be teaching me.
In this episode, I talk about a theme that has come through repeatedly in medium sessions involving my son Matt, my family members, and others in spirit: they’re still learning. Some describe it as being “in school.” Others talk about life review, life lessons, ...
What happened to Civil War soldiers who never made it home, and what did a “good death” really mean during the Civil War?
In this Civil War mystery, I explore the story of Union soldiers killed during the 1864 Battle of Mount Zion Church in Loudoun County, Virginia. These Civil War soldiers from Massachusetts and New York died far from home and were buried in unmarked graves or lost burial sites, leaving families without...
Why would a Civil War soldier appear in a place where he was never buried?
At Mount Zion Church in Aldie, Virginia, historical records show that Union cavalry trooper Owen Fox died miles away from the battlefield and was likely buried in an unmarked grave. But during a visit, a medium identified him at the cemetery and described details that matched the historical account.
This is part of an ongoing Mount Zion Civil War investigation...
What Happens After Death? Do Souls Keep Learning in the Afterlife?
In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, I explore a question that challenges traditional beliefs about the afterlife: Does learning continue after we die?
Drawing from Catholic teachings on purgatory, writings from Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo, and modern research from figures like Michael Newton, this episode examines whether the soul remains active, evolving...
What really happened to the Union soldiers connected to Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery in Aldie, Virginia?
Official records say the grave markers at Mount Zion Church are only Civil War cenotaphs, meaning the Union soldiers killed during the 1864 battle are not actually buried there. But when we examine the Civil War history of Mosby’s Rangers, local records, and the mystery surrounding these Union soldier graves, the sto...
On July 6, 1864, a hot but peaceful afternoon at Mt. Zion Church was shattered by the "rebel yell." In a matter of minutes, a detachment of the 2nd Massachusetts and 13th New York Cavalry was overwhelmed by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby’s Rangers.
Timestamps:
00:00:48 - Introduction
00:01:21 - The Story of Mt. Zion Cemetery
00:11:55 - Recording Session at the Wall: Meeting ‘Tick’ at Mt. Zion
00:22:08 - Explaining t...
This episode is for the skeptic whose rigid view of life restricts them from considering things outside the tightly organized spiritual paradigm they grew up with. Mike explores one of the most provocative questions in modern spirituality: Is Christianity simply a continuation of the ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt and Greece?
Mike discusses the universal archetypes, including death and rebirth, light versus darkness, and the quest...
On the Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel, Mike dives into one of the most powerful yet problematic traditional Catholic prayers. While Saint Michael is famously known as the protector of God's armies against Satan, Mike reveals why his spiritual awakening has forced him to rethink the concept of a literal Hell and the existence of an external, literal demon.
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