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What does it actually feel like when someone who has died tries to communicate with you—and how can you tell a genuine experience from your own thoughts? Julie Ryan sits down with psychic, remote viewer, shaman, and longtime consciousness-research participant Gail Hayssen to explore spirit communication, signs from deceased loved ones, near-death experiences, remote viewing, precognition, and the evidence surrounding consciousness after death.
For Gail, communication associated with someone who has died can arrive as a physical sensation, sudden knowing, vivid dream, or persistent impression that she feels compelled to share.
But how do you know whether it's really them?
Julie and Gail explore what these experiences feel like, why they can be profoundly meaningful for people experiencing grief, and whether connecting with a deceased loved one can help someone feel less alone after loss.
Gail also discusses research into the survival of consciousness, including the work supported by Robert Bigelow and investigations into whether consciousness may continue beyond bodily death.
Then the conversation gets even stranger.
Gail takes Julie behind the scenes of her decades of participation in remote-viewing and psi experiments with researchers including Dean Radin and Russell Targ. She describes experiments in which she attempted to perceive targets she couldn't conventionally see—including experiences she interpreted as accessing information before a target was selected.
What could experiences like these suggest about intuition, consciousness, and our perception of time?
Gail also shares her deeply personal journey, including a near-death experience during childbirth, her relationships with Indigenous and shamanic traditions, and her initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in Mongolia.
Julie and Gail explore:
What does spirit communication actually feel like?
Can deceased loved ones still reach us?
What does research say about survival of consciousness?
Can the mind perceive information across distance—or even time?
Are some people naturally more intuitive than others?
Can intuitive abilities be developed?
And if time isn't as linear as it appears, what does that mean for our lives?
Finally, Julie asks her signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
Whether you've experienced an extraordinary dream about someone who died, wondered whether a sign was really from your loved one, or questioned how far human consciousness might extend, this conversation will leave you thinking differently about what may be possible.
Guest Biography:
Gail Hayssen is a psychic, remote viewer, shaman, podcast host, and longtime participant in scientific research exploring psychic and paranormal phenomena. Experiencing precognitive dreams and other unusual phenomena since childhood, Gail later trained in remote perception and medical intuition and has participated in experiments with prominent researchers including Dr. Dean Radin and Russell Targ since the late 1990s. Her extraordinary life has included a near-death experience during childbirth, deep relationships with Indigenous and shamanic communities in Mexico, Alaska, and Mongolia, and initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in 2011. She has participated in numerous psi and remote-viewing studies, appears in Russell Targ’s documentary Third Eye Spies, and was featured in research discussed in Dr. Radin’s Supernormal. Gail is also the host of the podcast A Small Medium at Large, where she explores consciousness, psychic phenomena, spirituality, and the unexplained.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) What Does Spirit Communication Actually Feel Like?
(0:01:50) Is Talking to the Dead Real?
(0:05:13) Is There Evidence for Life After Death?
(0:07:05) Gail’s Near-Death Experience During Childbirth
(0:15:23) Can Spirit Communication Help Heal Grief?
(0:18:40) What Shamanic Traditions Have in Common
(0:25:25) Can Your Mind See Something Miles Away?
(0:31:28) Inside Gail’s Psychic Experiments With Dean Radin
(0:36:09) The Science of Remote Viewing
(0:43:17) Can Anyone Develop Psychic Abilities?
(0:44:56) What If Time Isn’t Really Linear?
(0:47:43) Can Your Thoughts Affect Your Future?
(0:49:50) Why Do We Incarnate?

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What if your symptoms aren't simply problems to eliminate—but signals asking you to pay attention? Julie Ryan sits down with Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher, and The Inflammation Code author Dr. Shivani Gupta to explore chronic inflammation, stress, unresolved emotions, boundaries, sleep, intuition, and what your body may be trying to communicate.
Dr. Shivani explains “inflammaging”—the chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—and why she believes many of the symptoms people dismiss as simply getting older deserve a closer look.
Julie and Shivani explore the many factors that can influence inflammation, including diet, sleep, circadian rhythms, environmental exposures, chronic stress, grief, and lifestyle patterns. They also discuss Ayurveda's approach to understanding the individual through the Vata, Pitta, and Kapha doshas and how ancient practices can be adapted to modern life.
But the conversation goes deeper than physical health.
Can constantly overriding your own needs affect your well-being? What happens when grief and stress aren't fully processed? Why do so many women become accustomed to saying yes when their bodies seem to be saying no?
Julie shares her medical-intuitive perspective on how she perceives inflammation during an energetic scan, while Shivani discusses Ayurveda's traditional understanding of the relationship between mind, body, energy, and health.
You'll also learn about practical Ayurvedic rituals Dr. Shivani uses and teaches, including tongue scraping, oil pulling, morning hydration, circadian walks, breathwork, meditation, digestive health practices, and prioritizing restorative sleep.
They discuss why sleep is foundational, how our daily routines influence the nervous system, and why Shivani encourages women to create moments of intentional stillness throughout the day—including her simple “Tea Time Is Me Time” practice.
Finally, Julie and Shivani explore the connection between intuition, inflammation, purpose, dharma, and spiritual well-being, ending with Julie's signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
If you've been experiencing fatigue, stress, poor sleep, digestive issues, brain fog, aches, or simply the feeling that your body is asking for something different, this conversation offers a new framework for listening.
Guest Biography:
Dr. Shivani Gupta is an Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher, author, and speaker who blends classical Ayurveda with functional medicine to help women reduce inflammation, support hormone balance, and restore energy. With a Master’s in Ayurvedic Sciences and a PhD focused on turmeric, she translates ancient healing wisdom into practical daily strategies for modern life. She is the author of The Inflammation Code, host of the Fusionary Health Podcast, and creator and host of the Emmy-nominated TV show Vibrant Health with Dr. Shivani Gupta. For more than 20 years, Dr. Shivani has helped women and families create sustainable wellness routines, with a particular focus on inflammation, midlife hormone health, metabolism, gut health, and the therapeutic use of spices.
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Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) What Are Your Symptoms Trying to Tell You?
(0:01:52) Is “Inflammaging” Making You Feel Older?
(0:07:07) Ancient Ayurveda Meets Modern Wellness
(0:11:53) Why Is Chronic Inflammation So Common?
(0:16:02) Can Emotions Affect How Your Body Feels?
(0:20:21) Julie’s Medical-Intuitive View of Inflammation
(0:24:07) Boundaries, Grief & the Mind-Body Connection
(0:32:55) How Do You Decode What Your Body Is Telling You?
(0:34:44) Discover Your Ayurvedic Mind-Body Type
(0:42:38) Simple Daily Rituals to Support Your Body
(0:48:48) Digestion, Fasting & Your “Digestive Fire”
(0:53:43) Tongue Scraping, Oil Pulling & Ancient Rituals
(0:54:35) Why Sleep May Be Your Most Important Reset
(1:01:28) Can Physical Wellness Strengthen Intuition?
(1:05:13) Why Do We Incarnate?

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She felt perfectly healthy—until a routine blood test revealed stage 3 kidney disease. How could something so serious happen without obvious warning signs?
We've got callers from Florida, Kentucky, St. Augustine, Texas, Long Island, Scotland, Northern California, and Canada—all with questions about their health, their past lives, and their spiritual development.
Hear about the new Ask Julie Ryan® app, my upcoming Angelic Attendant Training™ in Atlanta, and opportunities to develop your spiritual gifts.
Whether you're curious about medical intuition, energy healing, past lives, spirit communication, or the connection between physical health and spiritual awareness, I hope this conversation brings you insight and encouragement.
Episode Chapters:
00:00 Welcome, Hurricane Update & New Ask Julie Ryan® App
03:56 Unexpected Bleeding After Menopause: Psychic Scan
09:50 Tongue Dysplasia After Cancer: Medical Intuitive Reading
20:43 She Felt Healthy—Then Stage 3 Kidney Disease
31:33 Is People-Pleasing Connected to a Past Life?
37:58 Hormone Therapy, Bleeding & Endometrial Thickening
43:25 Dental Problems, Tooth Pain & Energy Healing
46:40 Are You a Starseed? Signs & Spiritual Identity
49:15 20 Years of Headaches, Memory Loss & Brain Scan
58:08 Free Session Winner
1:02:14 Can Anyone Learn Medical Intuition?
1:06:00 Upcoming Training & Closing Thoughts

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Is there scientific evidence that consciousness survives death—and could technology someday allow us to communicate with people who have died? Julie Ryan sits down with afterlife researcher, author, and Soul Proof founder Dr. Mark Pitstick to explore decades of research into consciousness, near-death experiences, after-death communication, mediumship, signs from departed loved ones, and experimental attempts to detect communication beyond physical death.
Mark has spent more than 50 years exploring some of humanity's biggest questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What happens when we die? And will we see the people we love again?
In this conversation, Mark discusses his work alongside consciousness researcher Dr. Gary E. Schwartz and the experiments behind the SoulPhone Project, which is investigating whether technology can detect responses attributed by the researchers to what they call “post-material persons.”
Mark explains why the research team interprets experimental results as evidence supporting survival after bodily death—and why he believes the implications could eventually transform how we understand grief, medicine, spirituality, religion, end-of-life care, and human consciousness.
Julie and Mark also explore something much more personal:
How can you know whether a sign from a deceased loved one is real?
They discuss synchronicities, pre-planned signs, continuing bonds between parents and children, after-death communication, terminal lucidity, end-of-life experiences, and the extraordinary ways grieving families describe maintaining connections with loved ones who have died.
Mark also shares the unusual spiritual experiences that began during his childhood, including experiences he describes as clairaudient communication that shaped his lifelong search for answers about God, consciousness, suffering, and the purpose of human life.
Then Julie and Mark go inside the SoulPhone research, discussing photons, experimental detection systems, the proposed “Soul Switch” and “Soul Keyboard,” and the researchers' long-term goal of developing increasingly sophisticated methods for attempted communication with people after physical death.
Could science eventually demonstrate that consciousness continues beyond the body?
Could technology ever allow meaningful communication across the boundary we call death?
And what if the people you've loved and lost aren't truly gone?
This episode explores the evidence, experiences, research, and extraordinary possibilities surrounding one of humanity's oldest questions:
Does death actually end us?
Guest Biography:
Dr. Mark Pitstick, MA, DC, is an author, holistic health practitioner, consciousness researcher, and spiritual educator with more than 50 years of experience helping people explore life’s biggest questions, including who we are, why we’re here, what happens after death, and whether we remain connected to departed loved ones. With training in clinical psychology, pastoral counseling, chiropractic health care, clinical nutrition, past-life regression, and afterlife-related practices, Mark has worked in hospitals, mental health centers, counseling settings, and holistic health clinics. He is the author of Soul Proof, Radiant Wellness, The Eleven Questions, The Afterlife Evidence, and Ask the Soul Doctor, and co-author of Greater Reality Living and The Big Picture of Life. His 2024 book, Shining Light Parents Speak, shares insights from 130 parents who found meaning, peace, and purpose following the deaths of their children. Mark also produced the Soul Proof documentary, has interviewed leading voices in consciousness and near-death research, works with the SoulPhone Project, supports Helping Parents Heal, and founded the Greater Reality Healing, Living & Helping Program to help people navigate loss, change, and life’s challenges through a greater-reality perspective.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) Is There Scientific Evidence We Survive Death?
(0:05:13) Where Does the “99.9%” Claim Come From?
(0:06:12) Does Our Personality Survive Death Too?
(0:09:16) Is the Brain Filtering Most of Reality?
(0:10:41) Can Loved Ones Send Signs After Death?
(0:11:26) What Julie’s Brain Scan Revealed
(0:18:54) Can Grief Become a Spiritual Awakening?
(0:23:34) End-of-Life Visions & Terminal Lucidity
(0:24:37) Mark’s Childhood Experiences With Spirit
(0:32:55) The Evidence That Changed Mark’s Mind
(0:36:53) How Grieving Parents Stay Connected to Their Children
(0:46:29) How Do You Know a Sign Is Really From Them?
(0:48:42) Is Death Still Humanity’s Greatest Mystery?
(0:50:14) The SoulPhone: Can Technology Reach the Afterlife?
(0:53:56) The Strange “700% Brighter” Experiment
(0:58:21) What Would Proof of an Afterlife Change?
(1:03:19) Why Do We Incarnate?

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What happens when a clinical psychologist begins experiencing what she believes is contact with a multidimensional cosmic being? Dr. Marilyn Gewacke joins Julie Ryan to share her extraordinary journey from traditional psychology to channeling ZaZar—and the experiences that completely changed how she understands consciousness, trauma, death, human potential, and our place in the cosmos.
Marilyn describes unusual experiences beginning in childhood, including memories she interprets as visits to a massive “teaching craft,” where she says she encountered human and non-human beings and learned extraordinary consciousness practices.
Decades later, her life changed again.
Marilyn describes undergoing a two-year process that she believes prepared her to channel ZaZar, whom she describes as an omni-dimensional cosmic intelligence. She even recounts an extraordinary incident in which she says communication associated with ZaZar appeared through her flip phone, complete with unusual sounds and symbols.
Julie and Marilyn explore:
What actually happens during channeling?
Can trauma obscure our connection to our deeper selves?
Are some people experiencing an expansion of consciousness?
What happens to consciousness after physical death?
Could humanity be moving toward a new understanding of itself?
And why do our souls choose to incarnate at all?
Marilyn shares ZaZar's teachings about what she calls the multidimensional human, including expanded awareness, creativity, intuition, unity consciousness, and humanity's potential relationship with other forms of intelligence.
The conversation also ventures into Marilyn's beliefs and experiences involving extraterrestrial contact, star beings, hybrid origins, consciousness projection, remote viewing, DNA activation, multidimensional reality, wormholes, and hundreds of cosmic civilizations she says ZaZar has described.
Julie shares some of her own unusual spiritual experiences, including past-life imagery, energetic healing, spirit communication, and what she perceives when working with people who are gravely ill.
Then, near the end of the conversation, Marilyn channels ZaZar and shares messages for Julie and humanity about awakening, unity, consciousness, and humanity's evolving relationship with the cosmos.
Finally, Julie asks her signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
Whether you interpret channeling as spiritual communication, an altered state of consciousness, or something else entirely, this conversation explores extraordinary experiences and profound questions about who we are, why we're here, and what consciousness may be capable of.
Guest Biography:
Marilyn Gewacke, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, visionary teacher, author, and channel for ZaZar, an omni-dimensional cosmic being whose teachings explore awakening, transformation, heart consciousness, and humanity’s multidimensional nature. She is the founder and director of the Sanctuary for Evolutionary Vision (SEV), where she leads workshops, retreats, and immersive experiences focused on consciousness expansion, spiritual connection, and planetary evolution. Marilyn is the author and channel of the two-time award-winning The ZaZar Transmissions: The New Human in a Multidimensional World and author of The Oneness of Being: Birthing the New Human, which received Gold Medal honors from both the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Living Now Book Awards. Through her work with ZaZar, Marilyn helps people explore expanded consciousness, soul embodiment, unity, and what she describes as humanity’s evolving relationship with the greater cosmos.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) How Did a Psychologist Become a Cosmic Channel?
(0:06:44) Her Childhood Encounters on a “Teaching Craft”
(0:19:44) Who—or What—Is ZaZar?
(0:29:42) Cosmic Contact & What Happens After Death
(0:43:37) DNA Activation & 611 Cosmic Civilizations?
(0:54:02) Are We Becoming Multidimensional Humans?
(1:08:14) ZaZar Channels a Message for Humanity

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