Alchemy with Nancy

Elizabeth Lord had been asking big questions about the afterlife since grade school, and after the military, a lot of churches, and a crisis of faith, she was between jobs and wanted to write a thriller about a psychometrist, someone who can touch an object and pick up impressions from it. To research it, she walked into an open meeting at the Rhine Research Center, which began as a parapsychology lab at Duke University in the 1930s, as a total stranger and started taking notes. A lot of what she heard sounded like fiction to her, but the people telling those stories meant every word, so she kept coming back, and more than ten years later she sits on the Rhine’s board.

What You’ll Hear

• The young dice player who walked into J.B. Rhine’s office and started a whole new field of study
• The 1940s newspaper a group of sitters in England say appeared in the room looking like it had just come off the press
• Why Elizabeth calls precognition “the worst one”
• The car accident story that changed how she thinks about people’s experiences
• The experiment she’d love to try with slime mold

Links & Resources

• Rhine Research Center
• Rhine Education Center courses
• New Thinking Allowed Foundation
• New Thinking Allowed on YouTube
• Psi Games
• Windbridge Research Center (Dr. Julie Beischel)
• Forever Family Foundation
• Real Magic by Dean Radin
• Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson
• The Premonition Code by Theresa Cheung and Dr. Julia Mossbridge
• The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
• The Scole Report
• Calliope O’Callahan and the Psy Syndicate by Elizabeth Lord (writing as Tantlian)

Curious to learn more? Follow Alchemy with Nancy wherever you listen so you don’t miss the next episode.

Jodi Nicholson works with the blind. During part of her coursework, while training in a total blackout mask, she experienced something she had only ever read about happening, on rare occasions, to people who have been blind since birth. Not to sighted people like her. She set it aside, until she saw children online doing things in blackout masks that she couldn't explain. Jodi went looking for answers, and that search led her to mindsight and all the way to the 2026 Psi Games.

What You'll Hear

- The birthday Jodi discovered while she was in school to teach blind children
- How a very level-headed friend reacted when she brought up mindsight
- The one big difference she found between mindsight practice and what kids already do in school
- How she ended up in an EEG study before realizing where else she knew the researcher from
- What it's like to watch a blind friend practice mindsight

Links & Resources

- Psi Games: https://psigamesinternational.com
- The Telepathy Tapes: https://thetelepathytapes.com
- Dr. Jeff Tarrant: https://drjefftarrant.com
- Daniel Kish and World Access for the Blind: https://visioneers.org
- Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS): https://noetic.org
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com
- Jodi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perceptual_goals
- Support Jodi's work: https://buymeacoffee.com/jodinicholson

Curious to learn more? Follow Alchemy with Nancy wherever you listen so you don't miss the next episode.

What happens when you stop letting everyone else decide what you should believe about your own experience?

That's a question I kept coming back to during my conversation with David Tran, a former corporate executive who spent 25 years working in digital marketing and data analytics before a profound shift in his life led him into the world of consciousness and psi.

David is a back-to-back Psi Games precognition competitor, taking first place in 2025 and second place in 2026. We talk about what precognition actually looks like in competition, what happened when his brainwaves appeared almost completely flat on the EEG monitor, why he thinks we're entering a renaissance of human abilities, and what happened when he finally decided to leave his corporate career and follow his calling.

We also talk about something much bigger: why we have such a hard time with uncertainty, how our brains constantly predict reality, why different consciousness communities sometimes divide themselves into tribes, and what might happen if we stopped trying to decide which experiences are “real” long enough to actually explore them.

What You'll Hear

• What it was like for David to walk into the Psi Games with virtually no training in the consciousness space and leave as a precognition winner
• Why David immediately dropped into meditation mode during his competition and what happened with his EEG readings
• The surprisingly simple way David explains precognition using the everyday gut feelings we've all experienced
• Why David believes the future of psi may be much more ordinary than people expect
• What happens when you finally stop outsourcing your own knowing and have the courage to follow the thing that won't leave you alone

Links & Resources

• Psi Games International
• The Premonition Code
• LightHaus Within
• David's Instagram

Curious to learn more? Follow Alchemy with Nancy wherever you listen so you don't miss the next episode.

My new friend S, who I met at Psi Games, sent me a meditation she created.

I put in my AirPods, laid down in bed, and tried it. At some point, I felt like I was floating in space.

But S's experience went much further.

After an incredibly difficult period caring for her dying mother while also taking over and trying to sell her family's 100-year-old pickle company, S began experimenting with the Gateway Tapes. There was just one problem: she couldn't visualize.

S eventually discovered she has aphantasia, so she began finding her own way into meditation using sound, touch, music, movement, and sensation.

What happened next became the inspiration for Sonic Vessel.

In this conversation, S shares the out-of-body experience she says allowed her to encounter her deceased parents, how profoundly it changed her afterward, and how she and musician Lisa Iwanycki turned that experience into an entirely different approach to meditation.

What You'll Hear

• How S discovered that other people could actually see pictures in their minds
• What happened when she stopped trying to meditate the way she thought she was supposed to
• The experience with her deceased parents that changed everything
• Why sound and sensation became central to the creation of Sonic Vessel
• What happened when I tried S's meditation for myself

Links & Resources

The Sonic Vessel

The Monroe Institute

Lily Dale Assembly

Contact in the Desert

Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.

Curious to learn more? Follow Alchemy with Nancy wherever you listen so you don't miss the next episode.

On Day 2 of the Psi Games, I somehow managed to stick a quarter to a wall—twice. Then I tried to recreate it on camera, and suddenly it wouldn't work.

So I went into Day 3 with questions. By the end of the night, I had even more.

In this episode, I'm sharing the final day of my Psi Games experience—including meeting UFO experiencer Chris Bledsoe, hearing Nick Cook speak about UFOs, psi and consciousness, trying MindSight for myself, and the experiment that ended with a quarter staying on my forehead for an hour and 26 minutes.

• What the perceptualists told me when I asked why the quarter stopped sticking when I tried to film it
• What it was like meeting Chris Bledsoe after hearing his story the night before
• The ideas Nick Cook shared about UFOs, psi, consciousness and our understanding of reality
• What happened when I tried MindSight for the first time
• The 86-minute quarter experiment that left me with even more questions

Psi Games
Chris Bledsoe — UFO of God
Nick Cook / EXO Institute
The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook
JK Ultra / Jennifer Carmandy
Monroe Institute

Curious to learn more? Follow Alchemy with Nancy wherever you listen so you don't miss the next episode.

What would you do if someone handed you a quarter and told you that if you set an intention and believed you could stick it to the wall, you could?

And then…it actually worked?

Because that’s what happened to me on day two of Psi Games.

And that was only part of the day.

I watched people compete in remote viewing, mind sight, precognition, psychokinesis, and dowsing. I met some incredibly interesting people, ended up in places and conversations I never expected, and witnessed a few things I’m still trying to wrap my head around.

In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my second day at Psi Games and sharing what I saw, what I experienced, and the questions I came home with.

What You'll Hear in This Episode:

• What remote viewing, mind sight, precognition, and psychokinesis are
• What it was like watching the Psi Games competitions in person
• The precognition question I cannot stop thinking about
• The wild quarter-on-the-wall experience
• What happened when I tried to recreate it on camera
• Why NOT being able to do it again left me with even more questions
• The people I met and some of the unexpected conversations I found myself in
• A little preview of what happened when I tried telekinesis on day three
  

Resources

• Psi Games International
• Chris Bledsoe and UFO of God
• Rhine Research Center
• The Premonition Code by Julia Mossbridge

If you're curious about consciousness, intuition, psi abilities, UFO phenomena, or just want to hear what happens when someone willing to be curious actually goes into the room and experiences these things for herself, this one is for you.

What happens when you almost stay home, go to dinner anyway, and end up having a full circle moment you never could have planned?

In part one of my PSI Games experience, I am taking you inside a weekend that left me inspired, overwhelmed, and still unpacking some of what I witnessed. From meeting researchers and perceptualists to watching demonstrations of mindsight and hearing about remote viewing, day one opened up even more questions about intuition, consciousness, and what may be possible.

And then there was the dinner I almost skipped.

I was exhausted, starving, and running on three hours of sleep. But deciding to go anyway led to an unexpected encounter with Laura Lynne Jackson and a conversation that gave me more confirmation than I could have imagined about the direction of this podcast and the work I am building next.

Whether you are deeply interested in intuition and psychic phenomena or you are skeptical but willing to explore, there is a lot to think about in this one.

What You'll Hear in This Episode

• Why attending PSI Games felt like such a powerful full-circle moment for me
• What it was like meeting Dr. Jeff Tarrant and other people I had followed for years
• The mindsight demonstrations that completely blew my mind
• What I learned about intuition from psychic medium Pam Coronado
• Why the perceptualists at PSI Games did not feel like typical competitors
• The unexpected connections I made throughout the day
• How Liz Entin helped me discover the PSI Games media partner opportunity
• The dinner I almost skipped and who I unexpectedly ran into
• The rainbow story that Laura Lynn Jackson remembered
• Why not getting the interview I had hoped for was replaced with an even cooler experience
• Why PSI Games gave me so much confirmation about the direction of Alchemy with Nancy

Links and Resources

• Join the Course Waitlist
• Join Nancy's Email Newsletter
• Follow Nancy on Instagram
• Books Mentioned: The Light Between Us. Guided, Becoming Psychic, The Premonition Code

I am also sharing more about the beta course I am creating for women who know there is something more they want to do with their lives but are not sure what direction to take. If that sounds like you, join the waitlist through the link above.

What if the thing you're most afraid to share is actually the thing that changes your life?

As Alchemy with Nancy approaches its second anniversary, I'm reflecting on the leap that started it all, the people it brought into my life, and the unexpected opportunities that followed once I trusted my intuition.

I'm also sharing where I'm headed next, including exclusive coverage from Psy Games and a first look at a brand-new course designed to help you discover your gifts and reinvent yourself with confidence.

What You'll Hear in This Episode

• Looking back on two years of Alchemy with Nancy
• Why fear almost kept me from starting
• What synchronicity looked like after saying yes
• Behind the scenes of Psy Games
• What I'm creating next and why it matters
• Practical thoughts on personal reinvention and alignment

Links & Resources

• Join Nancy's Email Newsletter
• Follow Nancy on Instagram
• Listen to Nancy's conversation with Jess Desilets

Join the waitlist to be the first to hear when the reinvention course opens.

There is a version of meditation that has nothing to do with sitting still and emptying your mind, and once you hear about it, you might never think about consciousness the same way again. Jessica Desilets from Chapter of Us walks me through her years at the Monroe Institute, a 50-year-old research center built around the idea that we are far more than our physical bodies. We talk about energy work, remote viewing, and a story involving a roommate, a hidden picture, and a conversation that had not happened yet. Even the most skeptical listener will want to hear this one through.

What You'll Hear in This Episode:

• The difference between your ego mind and your conscious mind
• How sound technology called Hemisync helps quiet a busy brain
• The remote viewing story that still gives Jessica chills
• How energy "reballs" were used to ease physical pain in real time
• What Jessica is most looking forward to learning next, lucid dreaming
  

Resources mentioned: Jessica Desilets and Chapter of Us (presentchapter.com), the Monroe Institute (monroeinstitute.org), Sync Creation by Joe Gallenberger (synccreation.com)

Have you noticed the world feels like it is shifting under your feet lately? There is a reason for that, and it is written in the sky. In this episode, astrologer Megan Feken joins me to break down the rare outer planet shifts happening right now, Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, and what they mean for the next several years. Even if you are skeptical of astrology, this conversation connects some dots about the collective moment we are all in that are hard to ignore.

What You'll Hear in This Episode:

• Why this astrological moment hasn't happened in over 80 years
• How outer planets shape entire generations, not just individuals
• What your rising sign reveals about where you'll feel the biggest shake-up
• Why Megan thinks AI's rise is written directly into the current astrology
• How to find your own chart and start reading it yourself
• A live, on-air read of my own chart that got a little too real

Resources mentioned: Megan Feken and the Holistic Treehouse (holistictreehouse.com), Chani.com, Astro.com Want your own reading? Use code ASTROLOGY20 for $20 off a birth chart reading with Megan.

If this episode resonated with you, come join my email list for more conversations like this one.