The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Consciousness

The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Consciousness

You are not going crazy. You're just waking up. We're here to help you understand what's happening, through a pragmatic lens that helps you realistically wrap your mind around the concepts, without falling too far into the WOO. The Skeptic Metaphysicians invite you to explore spiritual awakening, consciousness, and metaphysics with curiosity and humor. Join hosts Will and Karen as they delve into mysticism, spirituality, inner work, and quantum mysteries, offering a pragmatic guide through ascension, vibration, and energy work. Perfect for seekers wanting a grounded yet expansive approach to spiritual growth and higher self alignment. This 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. 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. Whether you're a full-on spiritual explorer navigating your soul journey or just metaphysical-curious about raising your vibration, this show is your backstage pass to conversations with: Mediums & mystics Spiritual awakening coaches Scientists of consciousness and quantum healing Energy healers, channelers & ascension guides And everyday people with extraordinary stories of transformationWhy listeners love it: It's smart, soulful, funny, and deeply validating. Like having a chat with your most spiritually woke friend who gets both the profound and the practical sides of soul growth… and still knows how to laugh at themselves. ⸻ It's not about blind belief. It's about brave exploration of consciousness, inner work, and remembering your connection to the quantum field of infinite possibilities. Tune in. Wake up. Align with your highest self. And maybe...just maybe...remember who you really are. New episodes every Wednesday and bonus episodes throughout the week!

Episodes

August 11, 2026 12 mins
At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Amiee Gibson of The Hidden Court of Heka, a luxury ritual perfume house built entirely around one Egyptian concept: that words, spoken, written, or simply held in the heart, are magic.

Amiee walks through her three "chambers," each a scent world built around a different sense of belonging, from resin-and-rose blends to a dream-enhancing floral chamber of blue tan...
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She's back for the third time, and this time there's something to celebrate. Dr. Alisha Das's long-awaited book, Your Angelic Ancestry, officially released this week, and it hit #1 in Angels on Amazon within 24 hours. In this episode, Will and Karen sit down with her to talk about what it actually feels like to watch thirty years of work become a bestseller overnight, the behind-the-scenes fight to keep the book's most esoteric cha...
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At Spirit Fest in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen sit down with Clint Greenlee of IESA Healing Arts and Soundworks to talk about Ormus — sometimes called "the philosopher's stone" — and the ancient mineral wisdom his Heal the World Project is built around.
 
Clint breaks down why even a "perfect" diet may only get you 70% of the way to real health, how copper deficiency quietly blocks your body from absorbing ...
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What if everything you've been doing in the name of spiritual growth is actually just... marketing? The meditation apps, the retreats, the affirmations. What if the real thing looks nothing like any of that?

That's the question Shaman Abhay Oyun walked into our studio with. He's a Siberian shamanic elder with 35 years of practice, 40 countries, and a lineage stretching back 40,000 years. He predicted the Ukraine invasion bef...
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Ever been absolutely certain about something; a movie line, a cartoon character's outfit, a historical event, only to find out the whole world remembers it differently? That unsettling feeling has a name. It's called the Mandela effect, and it might be more than a memory glitch. 

Will opens with his own real-time reality shift. A boarding pass seat number that changed right in front of his eyes mid-flight, no explanatio...
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What if dying is actually a skill? And what if most of us are completely unprepared for the one experience that is absolutely guaranteed to happen?
 
This week we sit down with Darnella Ford, award-winning author, trauma facilitator, and restorative guide, whose twenty-year journey into the non-physical began not with a spiritual calling, but with a breakup, a depression she couldn't shake, and a night of breathwork that...
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    Will and Karen sit down with licensed hypnotherapist Cat Cazimi, co-host of Hippie Chicks Live, for a deep dive into what hypnosis really is, and whether it can fast-track you to spiritual awakening.
     
    Cat breaks down the biggest myth about hypnosis: the idea that it's a sleep-like state where you lose control. In reality, she explains, hypnosis is a hyper-focused state of receptivity, not unconsciousness, and you can ne...
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    What actually happens after we die? Not the comforting version. Not the tunnel and the light and the everything-is-fine. The specific, structured, verifiable version…mapped in detail by someone who has spent more than 20 years studying the invisible architecture of the soul.
     
    In this episode Will and Karen sit down with internationally recognized intuitive healer and bestselling author Inna Segal to explore one o...
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    Live from the vendor floor at SpiritFest USA in Virginia Beach, Will and Karen catch an unplanned conversation that turns out to be one of the most useful of the day.

    Their guest never meant to be on the show, she just wandered in to check out the booths. But somewhere between talking about neuro-spicy sensory overload and a windshield-shattering road story, she lays out the exact difference between the old "prove your power...
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    What if everything you've ever been taught about the ego has been wrong? For 3,000 years, spiritual traditions have delivered the same prescription: dissolve it, transcend it, kill it. And yet, for most people, no amount of meditation, prayer, or spiritual work has made that nagging disconnection go away.

    Dr. Nickolas Martin has spent 40 years in clinical psychology watching that prescription fail, and he thinks he know...
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    She was 240 pounds, on 28 medications, and dying in a hospital bathroom when her heart stopped.

    What she saw on the other side wasn't heaven. It wasn't a tunnel. It wasn't anything she expected.

    She came back with a warning that flips everything the manifestation world tells you about "vibrating higher." And it might explain why your life isn't matching your energy, no matter how grateful you try to feel.

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    Most people who think they're listening to their intuition are actually replaying an old survival pattern. The difference matters more than you think, and once you understand it, you can't un-see it.
     
    Laura Day is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the most respected intuition consultants in the world. For over 40 years she has worked with billion-dollar companies, Fortune 100 executives, and some of the mos...
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    What if your intuition has been trying to talk to you your entire life. and you just never learned how to listen?
     
    In this episode, we sit down with Dallisa Hocking, a 5th generation psychic medium, educator, and founder of Spirit & Spark, for a conversation that turns the entire psychic world on its head. Because unlike most people in her field, Dallisa is not here to tell you what's coming. Her whole mission is te...
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    What if your spiritual awakening wasn't meant to find you...but to break you? Dr. Amy Robbins, a clinical psychologist with 20 years of practice, received an after-death communication after her aunt passed that shattered her worldview. In this episode, she reveals how life after death experiences rewired her understanding of soul purpose, why chasing enlightenment keeps you stuck, and what actually triggers transformation. A pragma...
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    June 23, 2026 1 min
    Hey there, we wanna tell you about someone  we believe belongs in your world. His name is John Novello, Grammy-affiliated jazz pianist, Billboard number one artist, and the man who saved his future wife's life before 9/11 with nothing but a feeling he refused to ignore.

    Now, John spent six decades mastering one of the most technically demanding instruments in music, and somewhere along the way, he built an equally precise fr...
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    What if the feeling you keep talking yourself out of is the most reliable thing about you? Today's guest has been listening to a voice most people would have dismissed, medicated, or kept very quiet about. Instead, he followed it for seven decades through a Grammy, a Billboard number one, and a 30-year run with one of the most celebrated trios in jazz history.

    He also followed it on the morning of September 11th, 2001, when ...
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    What if healing didn't require a diagnosis, a pill, or even leaving your house? Will and Karen sit down with Terri Bowden, Guardian of the Virginia Beach Harmonic Egg, during Day 2 of SpiritFest USA, and the conversation quickly goes somewhere unexpected.

    The Harmonic Egg is a wooden, egg-shaped chamber that uses precisely calibrated light and sound frequencies to work on the body from the inside out. But here's what most pe...
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    The deeper you go into psychic and energy work, the more sensitive you become, not less. If you're building a spiritual practice or just trying to understand why doing this work keeps leaving you wrecked, this episode is the one you didn't know you needed.

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    Rachel White spent nearly two decades as a Senior Vice President at a global corporation, quietly doing tarot readings out of her Chicago apartment ...
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    What if the most rigorous scientific training in the world didn't make you less spiritual. it made you more? That's exactly what happened to Dr. Theresa Bullard-Whyke. She earned her PhD in physics, spent years immersed in quantum mechanics and astrophysics, and came out the other side more convinced than ever that science and metaphysics aren't opposites. They're describing the same thing from different angles.

    This is one ...
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    What if the story you've been telling about your past is keeping you stuck in the wrong timeline...and you have the power to rewrite it right now? In this episode, we sit down with Steven Fischer, the human channeler behind Jadon Se, a Cosmic Golden Dragon from what he describes as the Third Arc of Consciousness.

    Steven is one half of an anonymous couple living near Mount Shasta, California, who together have produced nearly...
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