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

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

Written by: Sarah Rathke and Jane Morgan
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If you’ve ever wondered whether your signs are real, if Spirit is trying to reach you, or if you can trust your intuition, Medium Curious is your safe place to explore those answers. As two moms turned mediums, we share personal readings, real spirit stories, and intuitive lessons that help you feel supported, grounded, and more connected than you realize. Every episode blends humor, heart, and healing so you can deepen your intuition, find comfort in the signs around you, and know you’re never navigating the spiritual world alone.

Sarah Rathke and Jane Morgan 2025 Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • What Are the Akashic Records? Dr. Linda Howe on the Pathway Prayer and Soul-Led Living

    What Are the Akashic Records? Dr. Linda Howe on the Pathway Prayer and Soul-Led Living
    Apr 29 2026
    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. Linda walks us through the origin story of the Pathway Prayer Process, channeled at her kitchen table in 2001, the Saturday before 9/11 — and what it felt like to receive it. She talks about writing her original book, How to Read the Akashic Records, getting rejected by Hay House, telling the universe somebody else was going to have to call her, and then getting the call from Sounds True a year and a half later. That book has now been in the publisher's top 15 bestsellers since 2009, and Linda has just released a fully revised and expanded edition through Macmillan; 100 new pages and a glossary of terms developed through decades of teaching around the world. The conversation looks at what the records can actually offer: emotional safety, honest self-reflection, and the radical idea that our ultimate soul purpose is learning to love ourselves, imperfection and all. Linda also shares what the records have to say about the current moment in the world, and why she believes real collective change has to start with the individual turning inward. Jane shares the story of the orange book basically chasing her around a crystal shop until she put it in her basket. We believe her. Key Takeaways: You cannot be removed from the record, and neither can anyone else. Every soul is part of the Akashic field. This isn't just a spiritual nicety — it's the architecture of why the records carry no judgment and hold space for every version of who we've been.The pathway prayer works by creating emotional safety, and emotional safety is what makes honest self-reflection possible. Linda's point is simple and worth sitting with: without that safety, growth isn't really growth. The records create the conditions for the kind of honesty we can't manufacture on our own.Most of us don't have one soul purpose — we have many. And underneath all of them is the same fundamental question: how do I learn to love myself, even now, even imperfect, even mid-mistake? The records orient us toward that question whether we come in asking for it or not.Real change in the world has to start inside each person. Linda's reading of the current moment through the records is that every institution people have looked to for change — political, religious, economic — has limits, and that a soul-led life is both the path and the point.Following the path that's truly yours often looks like not following the plan. Linda didn't set out to be the world's foremost Akashic Records teacher. She kept going because every time she thought she was done, the field revealed more. That orientation — staying open to what keeps unfolding — is something the records model and also teach. If This Episode Resonated…Share it with a friend who’s been feeling the shift too. Or send it to someone who needs the reminder: You’re doing it perfectly! You are the LIGHT!✨ Direct Quotes: "The Akashic Record is a vibrational archive of every soul and its journey as human." "The change must come as a result of the transformation within each person. The more I am aware of who I am, of my soul — that can only bring us the change we seek." "The ultimate purpose for everyone is: how do I love myself? Even though I'm not perfect, even though I just made a mistake." "Anyone who wants to — anyone with a sincere desire to know their own soul more — can through the Akashic Record." Links Linda Howe Center for Akashic Studies: https://lindahowe.com/ How to Read the Akashic Records: Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey: Revised and Updated: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781649634474/howtoreadtheakashicrecords/ Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com Explore the Intuition & Mediumship Course: https://www.mediumcurious.com Book a reading with Jane Morgan https://www.janemorganmedium.com/ Book a reading with Sarah Rathke https://www.sarahrathke.com/ Jane's Substack: https://janemorgan.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediumcuriouspod/
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    58 mins
  • She Saw Spirits for Years Before Knowing She Was a Medium -Tammy Tocheniuk

    She Saw Spirits for Years Before Knowing She Was a Medium -Tammy Tocheniuk
    Apr 22 2026
    What happens when a woman who's been casually watching spirits walk through her bedroom walls for a decade finally learns she's a medium? For Tammy Tocheniuk, it was less of a revelation and more of a remembering. In this episode, Sarah and Jane sit down with the psychic medium and animal communicator who built an extraordinary practice almost entirely on her own terms, with zero formal training and zero apologies for it. Tammy shares how her gifts unfolded in layers, from reading the energy of adults in a room as a child, to waking up in her twenties with multiple spirits standing at the foot of her bed, to accidentally launching her mediumship career by helping a grieving coworker connect with a friend who had been murdered. She talks honestly about what it cost her, including adrenal fatigue, flashbacks from criminal cases, and a full year off from all things spiritual, and about why pivoting to animal communication changed everything. This conversation goes deep into what it actually feels like to communicate with animals in spirit versus animals who are still alive, why animals have a profoundly different relationship with death than humans do, how Tammy navigates one of the hardest conversations a pet owner can have (is it time?), and the reading that brought a husband to tears when his dog remembered the engagement ring around his neck. Tammy also gets candid about normalizing her gifts for her three sons, keeping a regular day job as a cover story, and why doing it her own way, without the usual cookie-cutter mediumship school training, turned out to be exactly right for her. Key Takeaways Psychic and mediumship gifts often emerge naturally over time rather than all at once. For many intuitives, the abilities unfold in layers across childhood, young adulthood, and beyond, whether you're actively seeking them out or not.Sometimes the most validating moment in a medium's journey isn't a dramatic reading. It's simply hearing the right word, the right label, and feeling something click into place like a remembering.Intense mediumship work, especially around trauma, crime, or grief, can lead to real physical and emotional exhaustion. Burnout is real, and stepping back, even for an extended period, is not giving up. It's part of the practice.Setting boundaries around the kind of work you take on is not a limitation on your gifts. It's how you sustain them. Knowing what you're willing to do and what you're not is part of developing as a medium.Not having formal training has both gifts and costs. Your voice stays your own, but mentorship and community matter, especially when it comes to protecting your energy and knowing when to ask for support.Animal communication and psychic work tend to require less energetic output than evidential mediumship. If you're feeling drained, exploring these modalities might offer a gentler on-ramp or a much-needed reset.Animals can be powerful messengers in readings, even when the session is focused on a person in spirit. Don't be surprised when they show up and steal the show.When communicating with animals around end-of-life decisions, the most important thing you can offer a grieving pet owner is peace, not a verdict. Meeting people where they are matters as much as the message itself.Animals have a profoundly different relationship with death than humans do. Their acceptance and presence can be a gift not just to their owners, but to the mediums and communicators who work with them.Normalizing your gifts in your everyday life, with your family, your kids, your language, helps create an environment where intuition is treated as natural rather than strange or scary. "I would wake up at night and there would be a spirit in my bedroom. Sometimes two, three, four of them at one time. And I call it seeing 3D. I was seeing them like a piece of furniture." "I rarely have an animal that's not accepting of death. It's very different than people. They seem to understand intuitively that this is a transition." "Their messages are fairly simple and straightforward. A lot of times, people just want to know: are they still there, and do they remember me?" If This Episode Resonated…Share it with a friend who’s been feeling the shift too. Or send it to someone who needs the reminder: You’re doing it perfectly! You are the LIGHT!✨ Tammy’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammytochintuitive/ Tammy’s Website: https://www.tammytoch.com/ Tammy’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feathersandsmudge1? Website: https://www.mediumcurious.com Explore the Intuition & Mediumship Course: https://www.mediumcurious.com Book a reading with Jane Morgan https://www.janemorganmedium.com/ Book a reading with Sarah Rathke https://www.sarahrathke.com/ Jane's Substack: https://janemorgan.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediumcuriouspod/
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    56 mins
  • How Near-Death Experiences Can Transform You (Even If You've Never Had One)

    How Near-Death Experiences Can Transform You (Even If You've Never Had One)
    Apr 19 2026
    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 Website: https://www.mediumcurious.comExplore the Intuition & Mediumship Course: https://www.mediumcurious.comBook a reading with Jane Morgan https://www.janemorganmedium.com/Book a reading with Sarah Rathke https://www.sarahrathke.com/Jane's Substack: https://janemorgan.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediumcuriouspod/
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    26 mins
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