Midnight, On Earth

In this episode, we dive into another rare lecture and sit with the timeless wisdom of Ram Dass... With his unmistakable warmth, humor, and honesty, Ram Dass explores what it means to grow older within a culture that often fears aging and avoids the reality of death. Through deeply personal stories and reflections, he invites us to look beyond the changing body, the roles we play, and the identities we have accumulated—and to recognize the part of ourselves that remains present, aware, and untouched by time.This lecture is not simply about aging or dying. It is about learning how to live more authentically while we are here. Ram Dass challenges us to examine the “suit” we have been given in this lifetime without confusing it for who we truly are. He reminds us that beneath our fears, expectations, and attachments exists a deeper awareness rooted in love, compassion, humor, and presence.As we listen together, we consider our own relationship with impermanence, identity, and the inevitable transformations of life. What does it mean to age consciously? How can the awareness of death help us become more fully alive? And what becomes possible when we stop resisting change and simply allow ourselves to be who we are now? This lecture was recorded at the Omega Institute in 1995.www.ramdass.orgRam Dass Bio:Ram Dass was an American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author who helped introduce Eastern philosophy and meditation to a wide Western audience. Born Richard Alpert, he was a Harvard professor before traveling to India in the 1960s, where he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and received the name Ram Dass, meaning “servant of God.” His landmark book Be Here Now became a cornerstone of the modern spiritual movement, blending Hindu teachings, mindfulness, devotion, and personal transformation. Through his books, lectures, and humanitarian work, Ram Dass spent his life encouraging people to move beyond ego, live in the present moment, and approach life with compassion, humor, and love.

In this episode, I welcome back Sara Artemisia for a beautiful and expansive conversation about plant consciousness, nature-based healing, and the living intelligence of the Earth. Together, we explore how plants communicate, how nature reflects our own inner wholeness, and how the plant kingdom can help us reconnect with our deeper wisdom, purpose, and coherence. Sara shares her perspective on plants as conscious beings and multidimensional healers, offering us guidance, regulation, and remembrance in a world that often pulls us into fragmentation. We reflect on the evolutionary synthesis that plants and humans have together as living spirits.We also talk about Sara’s current work as a mental health therapist for intuitives, empaths, old souls, and healers. This part of the conversation looks at how those who are called to support others can also tend to their own emotional and energetic well-being, while staying grounded in their path and purpose.From there, the conversation opens into bigger questions about Gaia, ancestral healing, spiritual evolution, and the possibility that humanity and the plant kingdom are evolving together. Sara offers a deeply grounded yet mystical perspective on how connecting with nature can help us clear old patterns, regulate our nervous systems, and remember our place within the greater web of life... An absolutely incredible episode! Drop in!www.multidimensionalnature.comSara Artemisia Bio:Sara Artemisia, MS is a Plant Spirit Wisdom Teacher, Akashic Flower Essence Practitioner, Herbalist, and host of the Plant Spirit Podcast. She helps wellness professionals, empaths, and healers connect with the energetic language of plants and collaborate with the conscious wisdom of Nature.In her current practice, Sara also supports healers in tending to their own mental and emotional well-being, helping them move through overwhelm, self-doubt, and energetic fatigue while staying grounded in their purpose. For over fourteen years, she has guided people through obstacles and into a deeper relationship with the Earth, their inner wisdom, and a greater sense of joy and purpose.Sara lives in Southern Oregon, on the traditional ancestral homelands of the Takelma and Shasta people.

In this episode, I talk with psychologist, mystic, breathwork facilitator and author Dr. Colleen Quinn to explore her powerful new book, Essence Merging.Through her deeply personal story, Colleen takes us on an extraordinary journey through trauma, healing, near-death experiences, spiritual awakening and the rediscovery of joy. Blending psychological insight with mystical experience, she shares how surrendering to a higher intelligence helped her unravel deeply rooted pain and reconnect with the sacred essence beneath the surface of everyday life.A major part of our conversation centers around conscious breathwork and its ability to bring us out of the analytical mind and back into the wisdom of the body. Colleen explains how the breath can become a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds, allowing stored emotions to surface, the nervous system to soften and expanded states of consciousness to emerge. We also discuss embodiment, divine connection, synchronicity, devotion and what it means to stop merely surviving life and begin fully merging with it.At its heart, Essence Merging is more than a memoir. It is a multidimensional love story and an invitation to awaken to the deeper intelligence moving through our lives. This was a beautiful and expansive conversation about healing, presence and the possibility that our longing for something more may actually be the voice of the soul calling us home. Drop in!www.essencemerging.comColleen Quinn Bio:Dr. Colleen Quinn is a transpersonal psychologist, child specialist, breathwork practitioner, researcher, and author of Essence Merging.Rooted in the original meaning of psychology as “the study of the soul,” Colleen’s work explores healing as a return to direct relationship with the deeper self. Through decades of teaching, research, and private practice, she has integrated Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, and conscious breathwork to help people access and heal stored trauma in the body.After her second near-death experience in 2018, Colleen uttered the prayer, “Let me be love in every moment,” which became the catalyst for her spiritual awakening. Essence Merging chronicles that raw and intimate transformation, weaving psychology, mystical synchronicity, ancient wisdom, breathwork, shame shedding, and an unconventional love story into an invitation to return home to the sacred self.

In this episode, I talk with author and translator Chris Berryman to talk about his fascinating book, The N-1 Sessions: Seasonal Reflections from the Outer Dimensions of Light, a channeled work credited to The Orion Contingent and transmitted through a being known as N-1.The book centers around a series of channeled transmissions that Chris says he received from N-1, a multidimensional intelligence connected to a larger collective known as The Orion Contingent. In our conversation, Chris explains how these sessions unfolded, what the process of receiving and translating the material was like, and why the messages were organized around seasonal reflections. We explore the core ideas presented in the book, including humanity’s spiritual amnesia, the influence of higher-dimensional beings, the relationship between consciousness and planetary evolution, and the call for human beings to reconnect with their own inner guidance during a time of increasing confusion, technological acceleration, and energetic intensity.Together, we talk about the deeper messages within The N-1 Sessions, including humanity’s disconnection from soul, the distractions of politics, technology, fear, and control, and the possibility that we are living through a profound transformation of consciousness on Earth. An incredible episode... Drop in!www.berrymanbooks.com Chris Berryman Bio:Chris Berryman is a Detroit-based writer, theatre artist, filmmaker, and author of Flying Saucer Visions and The N-1 Sessions. His work blends speculative storytelling, spiritual inquiry, and metaphysical themes, exploring extraterrestrial contact, consciousness, and humanity’s evolving relationship with the unseen. He is also the founder of Detroit Theatre Collective, where he works as a director, actor, and producer of theatre and media.

In this episode, I talk with author and researcher Judith Dillon to explore her latest book, Futhark Rune Mysteries: Origins of Magic and Divination in the Primal Alphabet. Judith brings more than 40 years of study into the relationship between early alphabets, Mystery Traditions, language, and sacred symbolism.Together, we explore the hidden lineage of the runes, tracing their possible journey from Egyptian hieroglyphs through Phoenician and Semitic writing systems into northern Europe. Judith reveals the runes not just as letters carved into stone or wood, but as magical symbols, spiritual portals, and initiatory tools connected to divination, myth, transformation, and the deeper architecture of reality.We also dive into Norse sagas, runic poems, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and the ancient understanding of passage through life, death, and the afterlife. At the heart of this conversation is the mystery of language itself: the idea that alphabets may have been far more than practical systems of communication, carrying encoded wisdom, ritual power, and secret knowledge about the soul’s journey and its return to the light.This conversation opens a doorway into the living power of symbols and the ancient belief that language itself could shape reality. It is a journey through history, mythology, magic, and the sacred codes hidden within humanity’s earliest alphabets. An incredible episode... Drop in!https://berkeley.academia.edu/JudithDillonJudith Dillon Bio:Judith Dillon is an author and researcher whose work explores the relationship between ancient alphabets, sacred symbolism, runes, oghams, Hebrew, Phoenician, and the Western Mystery Traditions. She holds a degree in Near Eastern languages and anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has spent more than 40 years studying the hidden spiritual and esoteric dimensions of early writing systems. She is the author of Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions and Futhark Rune Mysteries: Origins of Magic and Divination in the Primal Alphabet.

In this episode, we take another dive into current human culture and explore...the news! Brynn Anderson and I take a look at some of the strange, wild, and unreal stories that have popped up on Earth's news feed recently. This episode features: The First Solo Robot Airplane Flight, Police vs. Bees, A New Form of Matter Discovered, Major UFO File Release, Angelic and Demonic Aliens, Johnson & Johnson Ketamine, The Psychedelic Renaissance, Robot Wolves, African Genital Thieves, Quantum Advancements, Maj. Ed Dames Final Prediction, and so much more... As we uncover this incredible information, we discuss each article's finer points.. Drop In!Brynn Anderson Bio:Life long lover of all things nature, Brynn Anderson has been studying herbs for over 27 years...Her natural mindset has led her to a life of herbology, and a life of teaching. She operates the company 'Vital Force Herbs' an organic herbalism company based in Portland, OR.All the products Brynn creates are made with ingredients grown in her own organic garden.Brynn's service is rooted in providing an outlet for the plant spirit to assist all life on Earth.www.vitalforceherbs.com