WTF Just Happened?!: All about the afterlife. No woo.

Rebecca Kastl, pediatric speech pathologist and healer, shares her profound two-year spiritually transformative experience that began when she had a spontaneous spiritual awakening while journaling at age 26. After surviving sexual trauma at 13 and spending years healing, Rebecca saw a beautiful light over her bed that looked into her heart, spoke to her, and changed everything.
For the next two years, Rebecca saw glowing white light emanating from every person she encountered, had psychic dreams that accurately predicted a car accident and carbon monoxide poisoning with verifiable details, witnessed alternate timelines of her life, experienced a spontaneous life review feeling her sister's emotions in her body, and sensed the eclipse's energy physically. She remained fully functional as a Columbia graduate student while living between two worlds, until a vivid dream ended the experience and left her searching for meaning in the woods for years.
Rebecca explains the difference between her soul and personality, why language for these experiences is limited by societal upbringing, how trauma opened her to spiritual reality despite being raised by an MD father with a PhD in biochemistry and a psychologist mother, what it means to see light in everyone, and why she now offers sacred soul sessions helping others heal and reconnect with their inner light.
Guest: Rebecca Kastl Website: https://rebeccakastl.com
Book: Daily Moments with the Angels: A Year of Messages for Hope and Healing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.kastl
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Betty Guadagno, former homeless addict turned manifesting teacher, reveals how she used the Law of Attraction to rebuild her life from rock bottom and shares practical techniques for manifesting money, relationships, and abundance.
Betty shares her transformation from drug addiction, homelessness, and prostitution to becoming a manifesting workshop leader after a life-changing near death experience. She explains why manifesting is not toxic positivity or bypassing real emotions, the difference between manifesting and mindset, and how the universe works as an echo chamber responding to your vibration. Betty breaks down the chakra system and which affirmations work best for different goals (I am, I feel, I have, I love, I speak, I see, I know), why money is the energy of love and not evil, and how to dismantle poverty consciousness and limiting beliefs around wealth.
We discuss her concrete manifestation story of manifesting her first apartment with the exact amount needed appearing in her tax return, why you cannot fake your vibes or trick the universe, how to start with small manifestations like a Snickers bar to build confidence, the importance of taking action alongside visualization, why detachment from outcome is essential, and how rejection is redirection to something better. Betty explains why fear blocks manifestation, how to identify which chakra to use for affirmations, the power of writing things down with a pen, and why your romantic partners are spiritual mirrors showing you your own wounds.
Guest: Betty Guadagno
https://buddhabetty.com/ 
Instagram: @buddah.betty
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@buddhabetty

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AJ Capasso, paranormal investigator and near death experiencer, shares his journey from opioid addiction and 12 overdoses to founding an international paranormal podcast and investigating the mysteries of the afterlife.
AJ survived a profound near death experience after his final overdose in 2014 during the opioid epidemic. He describes leaving his body, standing above two paramedics working on him, and being able to simultaneously exist in multiple places just by thought. He experienced a life review where he felt the pain he caused others through their eyes, traveled through hyperspace passing stars, and arrived at a vibrant landscape with colors he'd never seen, extinct animals like wooly mammoths, creatures that don't exist on Earth, and angels of all different sizes. A being of pure light 9-10 feet tall told him it wasn't his time before he was pulled back into his body when paramedics used the paddles.
 
After his NDE, AJ developed abilities to feel energy and presences in rooms, sense what people were feeling (hunger, anger, sadness), and feel crystals vibrating in his hand. He founded Coventry Circle Paranormal and launched Talking with the Source, an international podcast featuring paranormal teams, researchers, and experiencers from around the world. His most mind-blowing evidence includes a spirit box session where his friend's deceased wife predicted a future Mother's Day event six weeks in advance with impossible accuracy, and another session predicting a blood disease diagnosis two days before doctors discovered it.
 
Guest: AJ Capasso 
Podcast Host and Founder of Talking with the Source + Paranormal Investigator 
https://linktr.ee/talkingwiththesource
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There is one spot available in an upcoming private virtual salon and I would love for you to join us!
This is an intimate event capped at five people, where a scientifically certified psychic medium conducts live readings for every person and Liz walks the group through in-depth scientific evidence for an afterlife — focusing on data, research, and personal experiences that changed her mind and made her think, as a science-minded skeptic, that there is actually an afterlife.
What's included: A live group reading by a scientifically certified psychic medium, plus a talk by Liz on the science behind afterlife research. Five guests maximum, so every attendee has the opportunity to be reached.
Cost: $200 per person
Date is TBD and will be confirmed with the group.
To claim your spot or ask questions, email [email protected]

Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, a neuroscientist and emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, shares her journey from materialist scientist to consciousness researcher and her work on telepathy in children with nonspeaking autism, terminal lucidity, and near death experiences.
Dr. Woollacott was a strict materialist who believed the brain creates consciousness until a meditation initiation changed everything. She describes feeling a current of electricity flow from her forehead to her heart, radiating pure joy and love throughout her body. Her worldview shifted overnight, though it took 25 years to integrate her neuroscience career with her meditation practice. She explains how she lived a double life, kicking her husband under the table at dinner parties when he'd mention energy healing, terrified of losing credibility with colleagues.
We discuss her research on telepathy in nonspeaking autistic children, including a boy who typed five digit numbers with 99% accuracy by reading his mother's mind (compared to 5% above chance in typical adults). She addresses skeptics' concerns about agency and facilitated communication, explaining the rigorous controls in current studies. Dr. Woollacott shares her work on terminal lucidity, where people with severe dementia or brain damage regain full consciousness in their final hours, recognizing loved ones and saying goodbye before dying peacefully. She describes how this phenomenon challenges materialist neuroscience since damaged brains should not produce lucid consciousness.
 
The conversation covers Dr. Bettina Peyton's near death experience during childbirth when her heart stopped and she watched the resuscitation team save her life despite having her eyes taped shut. Marjorie explains how meditation and NDEs reduce neural filters (the default mode network, reticular activating system, language centers) that normally limit our awareness, allowing expanded consciousness and psi abilities. She discusses Ian Stevenson's reincarnation research, birthmark cases that match past life wounds, and why consciousness creating the body makes more sense than genes alone.
Guest: Marjorie Woollacott, PhD
https://marjoriewoollacott.com/
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