Medium Curious: Spirit, Signs & Intuition Tips for Spiritual Seekers

Have you ever received signs from a loved one who has passed? In this special Medium Curious replay from Season One - Jane and Sarah share six incredible listener stories about signs from spirit, synchronicities, after death communication, and the powerful ways our loved ones in the spirit world continue to send guidance, comfort, and messages when we need them most.

In this Sunday Solo episode of Medium Curious, Jane Morgan explores the power of intuition, inner knowing, and learning how to trust the voice within — especially during life’s biggest decisions. Jane shares deeply personal (and often hilarious) stories about communicating with her “higher self,” including an animated conversation with her own heart before a medical scan, and the emotional moment her son realized he may have found his life’s calling.

We’re bringing back one of our favorite conversations all about crystals, energy, intuition, and spiritual connection with the radiant Emelie Collet. (replay - originally episode 29) Whether you’re crystal-curious, already working with stones in your spiritual practice, or just love exploring different healing modalities, this episode is full of grounded, practical insight. Sarah, Jane, and Emelie dive into how crystals interact with our energy, the importance of intention, and why intuition matters more than “doing it perfectly.” Emelie shares her personal journey with crystal work, how certain stones can support grounding and spiritual connection, and why clear quartz is one of the most powerful tools for amplifying energy.

In this deeply personal Sunday Solo, Sarah shares something she has been unpacking for most of her adult life: what happens when the spiritual framework you were raised in stops fitting who you are, and what you find when you finally give yourself permission to look beyond it. Sarah grew up immersed in faith. Church was community, church was family, church was the lens through which everything was understood. There was genuine beauty in it: the hymns, the stories, the practice of prayer, the feeling of being held by something larger than yourself. And there were also questions, lots of them, that a sensitive and curious kid couldn’t quite make fit. Questions she eventually stopped asking, until life made her start again. She traces a journey that will feel familiar to a lot of listeners: leaving organized religion behind in college, finding her footing in the material world, becoming a parent and reaching back toward the big questions, and then being confronted by loss. The death of her best friend’s six-year-old son, her own child’s best friend, was the moment she could no longer stay comfortable in a purely material worldview. Sarah went down the mediumship rabbit-hole looking for answers. Along the way, Sarah reflects on her mother’s sustaining faith, the compassion she found for her parents as she understood why they made the choices they did, and an unexpected encounter with the late Rachel Held Evans during meditation. This episode isn’t about leaving faith behind. It’s about what happens when you stop outsourcing your spiritual knowing to someone else’s rulebook and start trusting the one that lives inside you. If you’ve ever felt like your beliefs needed to evolve but weren’t sure you had permission, this one’s for you.

Ready to feel all the feelings? Sarah and Jane sit down with author and mystic Perdita Finn on the eve of the launch of her new book, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors — and the timing feels nothing short of divinely arranged. Perdita is also the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, and this episode picks up right where that book left off: the dead are not gone, they are available to help us.

Sarah and Jane sit down with Dr. Linda Howe, widely considered the leading international expert on the Akashic Records. If you’ve heard the term and still gotten a blank stare when you mention it to someone, this episode is your answer. Linda starts from the ground up, explaining the records as a vibrational archive of every soul and its journey as a human being. No robed figures, no mystical gatekeeping. Just a profound and surprisingly accessible energetic field that anyone with a sincere desire to know themselves can enter.

This week's Sunday solo starts with something that caught Sarah's attention in the news — the Artemis moon mission and the astronauts who came back changed. Looking at Earth from space, small enough to disappear behind a thumb, they returned with more interest in connection and meaning. Researchers have a name for it: the overview effect. And it got Sarah wondering — what else can crack us open like that without requiring us to leave the atmosphere? That question leads her into a deep dive on near-death experiences: what they are, what the research actually shows, who's done that research (hello, Dr. Bruce Greyson and his 50 years at UVA), and why NDEs have been quietly moving from the fringe into legitimate scientific conversation. She covers what experiencers commonly report — the altered time, the life review, the overwhelming and unconditional love — and the striking aftereffects that tend to follow people home: less fear of death, more compassion, deeper purpose, heightened intuition, and a sense of mission that doesn't fade. And then she makes her case for mediumship, because here's the thing: the love that pours through in a reading? It sounds a lot like what NDEers describe on the other side. NDEs tear the veil open in one dramatic, involuntary moment. Mediumship, and any serious spiritual practice, does the same thing more slowly, more deliberately, and as a practice you can return to. And here's the part that might surprise you: you don't even have to have an NDE to be changed by one. Studying them does it too. Which means this episode already counts. Key Takeaways The overview effect is real and it's been documented. Astronauts who see Earth from space come back fundamentally changed — less focused on division, more oriented toward connection and meaning. NDEs produce the same shift. You don't have to go to space or to the edge of death to access it, but it helps to know it's possible. Near-death experiences are not hallucinations. Thanks largely to 50 years of research by Dr. Bruce Greyson at the University of Virginia, NDEs are now a legitimate scientific field. The Greyson NDE scale has been translated into 20 languages and used in hundreds of studies. This is not fringe territory anymore. What NDEers come back knowing reads like a blueprint for a spiritually evolved life. Loss of fear of death, heightened compassion, less attachment to status or material gain, deeper intuition, a sense of purpose — these are the aftereffects. And they tend to deepen over time, not fade. You don't have to die to be transformed by an NDE. Researcher Kenneth Ring found that students who simply studied NDEs were changed in the same ways as experiencers. Dr. Penny Sartori found the same thing after 17 years as an ICU nurse. Learning about them does something. This episode counts. Mediumship is doing deliberately what an NDE does accidentally. The overwhelming unconditional love that NDEers describe on the other side is the same energy that moves through a reading. It's the same landscape, accessed differently — slower, more intentional, and available as a daily practice. Links NYT piece — "What I Saw When I Peeked Over the Edge of Consciousness" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/opinion/near-death-conference-grief-chicago.html HuffPost NDE article (woman who choked on steak) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choking-near-death-experience-nde-life-review_n_69a3753de4b0213c067615cf Dr. Bruce Greyson's book After on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/After-Doctor-Explores-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/1250263034 IANDS https://iands.org Kenneth Ring's book "Lessons from the Light" (2000)https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Light-Learn-Near-Death-Experience/dp/1930491115 Near-death.com overview of Ring's research: https://near-death.com/kenneth-ring/ Previous episode with Mary Beth Pemberton (playwright and NDEer) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/downloading-the-muse-writer-mary-beth-pemberton-on/id1726468626?i=1000730728932 Websit

Let’s calm our nervous systems using sound healing, breath, and presence; cause the news is legitimately insane and we all need it! It’s spring break over here, and in honor of your nervous system (and ours), for the next two weeks we’re bringing back two of our most soothing, supportive conversations. This is the first of two replays—a soothing bath of an episode we loved then -episode 27 -and maybe need even more now at 97!

Sarah and Jane are back with another round of listener questions — and this one goes deep. From decoding what a real mediumship connection actually feels like, to energy sovereignty at a horse clinic, to the eternal debate of monkey mind versus intuition, Part 2 of their Q&A is packed with honest, experience-based answers that only two working mediums could give.

What if not having it all figured out isn't a problem — it's actually the point? In this Sunday Solo, Sarah sits inside one of life's most disorienting truths: that loss, magic, grief, and wonder don't cancel each other out — they live at the same table. Inspired by two beautiful books (The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown and An Immense World by Ed Yong), a season of unexpected loss, and the synchronicities that showed up anyway, Sarah explores what it really means to be a spirit in a body — and why the mystery isn't a gap where answers should be. It is the thing itself. Takeaways The mystery isn't "out there" — it's us. We aren't separate from the unknown; we are the unknown, experiencing itself through human form. Your brain is a receiver, not the source. Dan Brown's noetic science-inspired novel points to research suggesting consciousness circulates outside the body — and mediums, meditators, and intuitives may simply have learned to receive more of what's already here. Every being lives in its own reality. Ed Yong's An Immense World shows us that a bird, a dog, and a rattlesnake in the same dark room each experience a completely different world — and our human experience, as vivid as it is, isn't the whole picture. Grief and magic live at the same table. Sarah shares the real losses that surrounded the making of this episode — and how synchronicities kept arriving anyway, right in the middle of it. The best mediumship connections come through surrender. Letting go of controlling the outcome — and releasing the need to please the sitter — is what actually opens the channel. Curiosity over control, every time. Not getting a connection is not a failure. Spirit has its own agenda. Sarah shares openly that it doesn't always work — and why that's part of the mystery, not a mark against the medium. Reframe "uncertainty" as "spaciousness." The mystery doesn't have to feel terrifying. What if it's actually full of potential? Direct Quotes & Soundbites "Grief and loss sit at the same table with magic and joy. And somewhere in the middle of it is where the mystery lives. That's where we live." "The best connections come when I surrender — when I stop trying to control the outcome and just allow spirit to lead." "It requires curiosity, and it requires being willing to sit inside the mystery without demanding from it." "We don't have to solve the cosmos to belong to it. We don't have to understand the divine to have a divine experience. We are the divine. We are the mystery." "All of creation experiences itself through you." — channeled phrase from Sarah's February meditation Books Mentioned The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown — a #1 NYT Bestseller thriller weaving noetic science, consciousness research, and the question of what survives physical death. Dan Brown spent 8 years researching and went in a skeptic; he came out convinced. An Immense World by Ed Yong — a Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of how every species perceives its own version of reality. One of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year. Perfect woo-friendly science read. Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com Explore the Intuition & Mediumship Course: https://www.mediumcurious.com Book a reading with Sarah Rathke https://www.sarahrathke.com/ Book a reading with Jane Morgan https://www.janemorganmedium.com/ Jane's Substack:https://janemorgan.substack.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mediumcuriouspod/

Jane and Sarah sit down with Lauren Nichols, a Boston-based psychic medium, former paranormal investigator, federal government employee, and new mama. Lauren shares how a period of personal upheaval led her to wander graveyards for peace — and ultimately to capture full-body spirit apparitions on camera. What started as an unlikely foray into paranormal investigation blossomed into a full mediumship practice centered on one core mission: making spirit communication accessible, human, and far less scary. The conversation moves from reframing ”haunted house” phenomena as simple requests for connection, to the surprising ways motherhood has cracked Lauren’s mediumship wide open, to her use of Spirit Box technology for live, audible communication with the deceased. Lauren also reflects on the current cultural and political moment through both her government lens and her spiritual one — and makes a compelling case that mediums may be uniquely positioned to help humanity evolve.

(Mercury Retrograde Re-Release) In true Mercury retrograde fashion, this week’s recording disappeared — so we’re bringing back a favorite conversation from a year ago about wonder, awe, and grounded spirituality. If you’re an empath feeling overwhelmed by collective energy, navigating spiritual awakening, or trying to stay grounded in uncertain times, this episode is for you. Sarah and Jane explore how wonder and awe regulate the nervous system, counter fear, and help us evolve consciously — without spiritually bypassing our very human experience. (fyi the announcements edited into the middle are from Spring 2026!!)

Reincarnation and the Akashic Records: How to Access the Long Story In this Sunday Solo, Sarah explores “the long story”—the idea that our lives are part of a vast web of interconnection across people, lifetimes, timelines, and dimensions. She shares why zooming out can be genuinely soothing (your anxiety stays valid… it just gets smaller), then offers personal stories that cracked open her trust in reincarnation: a striking synchronicity thread featuring Robert Redford, and her child’s vivid memories of an “old dad.” Sarah also explains how she experiences the Akashic Records—less like immediate, verifiable proof and more like resonance, pattern recognition, and a deep felt sense of being seen without judgment. The episode closes with an invitation: try shifting perspective into the long story, and share your own experiences. Keywords + topics: Medium Curious Podcast, Sarah solo, long story, zooming out of anxiety, reincarnation, past lives, soul groups, Akashic Records, synchronicities, spiritual comfort, metaphysical, consciousness, intuition, mediumship, Perdita Finn, Jim Tucker, Linda Howe, pathway prayer. Key Takeaways Perspective is medicine. Zooming out doesn’t invalidate anxiety—it helps it stop running the whole show. Follow the thread. Synchronicities can be “breadcrumb trails” that build meaning over minutes, weeks… or lifetimes. Kids sometimes say the quiet part out loud. Past-life-style memories (whether you interpret them literally or symbolically) can reveal how mysterious consciousness is. Akashic Records = resonance over receipts. For Sarah, the records feel less like “proof” and more like pattern, knowing, and deep compassion. The long story reduces pressure. If love and learning continue, you don’t have to perfect everything in one lifetime. Scarcity shifts with consciousness. A change in mindset—from separation to “one with the cosmos”—can change the felt experience of need. “When you're losing yourself, who you are, go sit under a tree.” “There is no way that I can suffer from scarcity when I know that I am one with the cosmos.” Linda Howe: How to Read the Akashic Records; Accessing the Archive of the Soul and its Journey Jim Tucker Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives Medium Curious Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com Jane’s Website: https://www.janemorganmedium.com Sarah’s Website: https://www.sarahrathke.com Jane's new cohort 'Source Studio'; https://www.janemorganmedium.com/higher-calling Instagram: @mediumcuriouspod https://mediumcuriouspod.substack.com/