Yggdrasil Meaning in Norse Mythology: The Tree of Life and Your Mind
The Yggdrasil meaning in Norse mythology, as Jeremy Van Wert tells it, is a map of human consciousness. The tree holds nine worlds, and in this story a squirrel carries messages between a cruel serpent at its roots and a wise eagle at its top. Jeremy uses it to show why you don't have to believe every anxious, shaming thought.
Plato's Cave Allegory Explained: Awakening, ADHD and Masking
Plato's cave allegory explained simply: prisoners chained in the dark mistake shadows on a wall for reality, and the one who is pulled into the sunlight can never see the cave the same way again. In this Campfire Story, Jeremy Van Wert retells it and reads the chains as masking, perfectionism and people-pleasing, and the return as the hardest part.
Personality Profiling and Astrology: Why One Expert Keeps Them Apart
Personality profiling uses validated assessments to show how a job candidate is likely to behave, perform and fit a role. Michael Spremulli has done it for companies for over 20 years, and he is also a professional astrologer. He tells Jeremy Van Wert why he never mixes the two, how skills, motivation and mental horsepower predict fit, and what evidence-based astrology means to him.
Sound Healing and Drumming: A Rock Drummer's Path to Self-Worth
Sound healing, in Clementine Moss's approach, uses sound to help a person connect to their own guidance rather than to be healed by someone else. A drummer with the Led Zeppelin tribute band Zepparella and a practitioner of vipassana meditation, she explains how drumming and stillness taught her the same lessons about power, self-judgment and self-worth.
Taking Power Back: Heal From Trauma and Stop Living on Autopilot
Taking power back means noticing where you hand your control to a job, a relationship or fear, and choosing again. Soul empowerment coach and light language healer Birgitta Visser explains what that looks like in conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, from healing after trauma and setting boundaries to a one-minute grounding exercise.
What Is Shamanic Initiation? The Andean Path Step by Step
What is shamanic initiation? Andres, a teacher of Andean shamanism, describes it as a structured, step-by-step path rather than a one-time retreat, built around three modules that move from taking responsibility, to ancestry, to harmonizing the fields around you. He explains it to Jeremy Van Wert and shares the story of his own initiation in the Andes.
Limiting Beliefs: Where They Start and How Recoding Works
Limiting beliefs often start in childhood, according to Elizabeth Makepeace, a spiritual guide who works in Australia. She tells Jeremy Van Wert that children absorb the patterns around them before age seven, and that a belief like not good enough can then run in the background of adult life. She explains her method, recoding, and how she says people loosen those beliefs.
Past Lives and Psychic Readings: What a Practical Medium Does
Past lives, in the view of intuitive counselor Corby Mitleid, are not for entertainment. She says they are for healing, service and opening doors. Corby has read tarot since 1973 and calls herself a practical psychic. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, she explains what a reading covers, why she protects your free will and how to spot a fake.
Letting Go of Old Patterns: Why Success Did Not Satisfy Him
Letting go of old patterns, according to coach and ceremonialist Michael Peterson, starts with asking how you want to be rather than only what you want to do. After two master's degrees left him searching, he turned to energy work and plant medicine. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, he explains emotional armor, failure and what a short coaching session looks like.
Law of Attraction Not Working? One Coach on Old Programming
If the law of attraction is not working for you, ascension coach Susanna Kennedy believes old subconscious programming may be the obstacle. She says affirmations can collide with beliefs and emotions absorbed in childhood, and she describes a guided meditation method for clearing them. These are her personal beliefs, shared in conversation with Jeremy Van Wert.
How to Handle Big Changes in Life: The Infinity Wave Practice
To handle big changes in life, spiritual teacher Hope Fitzgerald suggests moving quickly into a flow state of love and compassion instead of resisting. She calls her tool the Infinity Wave, an image she says came to her in a 2010 vision. Hope and Jeremy Van Wert also discuss letting go of old identities and preparing for the fact that nothing stays the same.
Sound Healing and Meditation for a Stressed Nervous System
Sound healing uses specific rhythms and music to guide the body from stress toward a calmer state, according to medical hypnotherapist Dr. Susan Sophia James. She tells Jeremy Van Wert how entrainment works, why guided sound can be easier than sitting in silence, and why she says the change is subtle and builds with practice.
Raise Your Vibration: Unplug, Live Well and Reconnect With Spirit
To raise your vibration, Dr. Paul Meckes says, start by unplugging from the news and social media and by changing how you live day to day. In this conversation with Jeremy Van Wert, he talks about his book The Great Awakening, a spiritual retreat at Mount Shasta, and everyday habits such as time in nature, morning mantras and forgiveness.
Catholicism and Psychedelics: Can Faith and Plant Medicine Coexist?
Catholicism and psychedelics can seem like opposites, but Dr. Andrew Del Rossi, who directs a spirituality and retreat center at a Catholic abbey, says faith and plant medicine can meet when a person arrives with a foundation, an intention and humility. In this first public conversation on the subject, he tells Jeremy Van Wert how his experiences deepened his sense of Christ.
Raising Your Frequency: A Healer's View of Pure Source and Spirits
Raising your frequency, as Dr. Heather Bird describes it, starts with finding what she calls pure source and then spending a few quiet minutes with your best possible self. Dr. Bird, an acupuncturist who also does what she calls spirit and frequency healing, explains her view to Jeremy Van Wert. This is one practitioner's spiritual worldview, not medical advice.
Spiritual Confidence: What It Means and How to Build It
Spiritual confidence, in the words of author Zeus Yiamouyiannis, means to trust with spirit: to build your sense of worth on your own inner genius instead of a job title. He tells Jeremy Van Wert why he believes the industrial "grid" is breaking down, and offers a way forward made of small courage steps, time for contemplation and living for the value of a thing itself.
Norse Spirituality: A Christian Chaplain's Path to Odin
Norse spirituality, as Mark Weisman describes it, is a path of feeling and honor rather than rules. A former Christian chaplain who now follows Odin and is called a Norse shaman by others, Mark tells Jeremy Van Wert why he left the church, how he connected with his Danish ancestry and what he teaches veterans and others.
Healing Generational Trauma: Patterns, Wealth and the Timeless Self
Healing generational trauma, in Masati's view, means looking at the foundation of a life instead of repairing the house. In this live Mindful Mutiny event, he explains how he believes inherited family patterns shape wealth, love and success, and what he calls sacrificing backwards. These are one person's beliefs, not science or medical advice.
Teilhard de Chardin Evolution: Where Spirituality Meets Psychology
Teilhard de Chardin evolution is the idea that the universe is growing in complexity and consciousness, moving closer to God. Theologian Andrew Del Rossi explains it to Jeremy Van Wert and shows how it connects with Jungian psychology, silence, humility and everyday struggles. He also talks about doomscrolling, the Prodigal Son and what a spiritual homecoming looks like.
Spiritual Awakening Story: From Sales Success to Sound Healing
A spiritual awakening story can begin at an ordinary desk. Bjorn Lestrud, a sound healer and founder of Blue Dragon Healing, tells Jeremy Van Wert how a successful sales career with a downtown condo still felt empty, what happened when he finally cried at work, and how that led to shamanic practice, sound healing and a four-stage framework he calls the Primal Path.