Episodes

  • Introducing The Extraordinary Project: A Podcast that Explores Our Relationship to the Otherworldly

    Introducing The Extraordinary Project: A Podcast that Explores Our Relationship to the Otherworldly
    Sep 29 2017
    Extraordinary— anomalous, highly strange and exceptional—experiences happen to all of us. So why don't we talk about them? Precognitive dreams, synchronicities, angel contact, a visit from the dead, telepathy, clairvoyance and miracles of healing have been reported across the world since antiquity. This podcast explores our relationship with the otherwordly and the cultural taboo surrounding the stories and science behind intuition, energy medicine, and all things mystical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    5 mins
  • S1E1 Dearly Beloved: A Meditation on After Death Communication

    S1E1 Dearly Beloved: A Meditation on After Death Communication
    Oct 1 2017
    After Death Communication, or ADC, is a spiritual and transpersonal phenomenon as varied and mysterious as death itself. Seen by science as a common response to grief, contact with the dead through dreams, visions, voices, or physical sensation appears in literature and testimony around the world, across all religious, ethnic and socio-economic populations. Both skeptics and believers share testimonies in this debut episode that explores the stories and science of our last moments with our dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 mins
  • S1E2 The Second Sight: The Science of Detecting the Future Across Space and Time

    S1E2 The Second Sight: The Science of Detecting the Future Across Space and Time
    Oct 8 2017
    The Second Sight, better known as precognition or presentiment, is a predictive gift that dates back to the Old Testament and in mystical texts from around the world. Oracles, shamans and monks of the past offered intuitive guidance and insight to royalty and politicians based on precognition (detecting future events mentally across space and time) or presentiment (sensing a future event physically in the body), but our modern use and understanding of this extraordinary ability has lapsed into skepticism and ignorance. This episodes reveals the recent science and historical evidence of ordinary people tapping into the backwards flow of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 mins
  • S1E3 Oracles of Las Vegas: Gamblers Who Use Precognition to Wager and Win

    S1E3 Oracles of Las Vegas: Gamblers Who Use Precognition to Wager and Win
    Oct 22 2017
    Astral projection, the ability to send the "subtle" or energetic body across space and time, is an ancient shamanic practice with little relevance to professional gamblers. But much like card counting, this unusual technique appeals to a small sector of professional gamblers interested in gaining an edge. At the Applied Precognition Conference in Las Vegas, luck comes by way of a modern incarnation of astral projection known as Remote Viewing, a tested form of precognition once used by the military but now used by science-minded gamblers in sports wagering. Drawing the pictures in your mind can be profitable, they say. This episode explores whether the method really works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 mins
  • S1E4 When the Dead Speak: A First Hand Experience of Mediumship

    S1E4 When the Dead Speak: A First Hand Experience of Mediumship
    Nov 4 2017
    Mediumship, the ancient practice of talking to the dead, posits that certain highly attuned individuals can perceive some part of our consciousness that survives death. While at odds with Western materialist science, societies for millenia have depended on mediums to contact their discarnate loved ones during periods of severe loss. In the Western world, loss due to war, disease and family tragedy continue to drive individuals to find skilled practitioners of this intimate therapeutic service to provide hope and guidance by reaching beyond the veil. Skeptics of mediumship, whether rigorous to amatuer, share the mission to disprove the objective reality of a medium's work. By focussing on literal or material evidence only, skepticism sometimes discounts the powerful transpersonal experience sought after by the medum's client. In this episode, narrator Suzanne Clores approaches her mediumship experience with open minded skepticism, laying aside the cultural taboo to engage in a personal encounter with the dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 mins
  • S1E5: Chasing E.L. and the Truth about Spirit Communication

    S1E5: Chasing E.L. and the Truth about Spirit Communication
    Mar 18 2018
    Spirit Communication, or contact with the discarnate through an intuitive medium, can shake one's sense of reality and prompt paradigm shifting questions. How could an intuitive medium possibly know intimate details about your life and loved ones? Skeptics—and common sense— say don't trust a stranger who purports to have unique knowledge about you. In Western Materialism, we believe much of a medium's intuition comes from cold reading personality traits and context clues. But mediums throughout the centuries have claimed that an invisible information field surrounds all of us. What if you could interview an intuitive medium and ask about their reading process? Discuss and deconstruct their intuitive information gathering? In Episode 5, narrator Suzanne Clores does this very thing by following E.L., the elusive intuitive medium from Episode 4, across the country for a face to face interview about how the mediumship process works. The answer is chilling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • S1E6: A Remote Viewing Experiment to Silence the Skeptics

    S1E6: A Remote Viewing Experiment to Silence the Skeptics
    Aug 8 2018
    Narrator Suzanne Clores agrees to conduct a field experiment in the city of San Francisco to see if EL's gift of intuitive mediumship and skill as a Remote Viewing can corroborate objective reality. From the lobby of San Francisco's Clift Hotel, Clores, EL and a group of perfect strangers agree to run an "outbounder" experiment, in which one stranger goes to an undisclosed location and the Remote Viewer tries to find them. This Season Finale brings new understanding to why our extraordinary encounters are so hard to explain, but impossible to ignore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • The Message Service of Lily Dale: Spiritualism, Seances and Photographing the Paranormal

    The Message Service of Lily Dale: Spiritualism, Seances and Photographing the Paranormal
    Nov 8 2019
    Host Suzanne Clores talks to photographer Shannon Taggart about her incredible photographic journey through the world of Spiritualism, the American 19th century religion that popularized the seance, or sacred circle in which to communicate with the dead. Taggart spent 17 years documenting entranced mediums in the historic Spiritualist community in Lily Dale, New York, and hunting across the world for mediums who could produce the elusive substance of ectoplasm. She shares her incredible discoveries about Spiritualist Mediums, Spiritualist History, and the art of capturing paranormal phenomena on film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 mins