“I am one with God, but I am not God.”

Michael Monk describes himself as a spiritual teacher of energy mastery and metaphysics with a devotion to God. His path there has been anything but simple.

In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Michael shares why he rejected the church as a teenager, the experience he believes was his first encounter with God, a healing he describes as miraculous, and how those experiences eventually led him deeper into spirituality.

He also opens up about a period when his pursuit of spiritual power changed direction. Michael began believing that he was God, experienced what he describes as intense spiritual warfare, lost relationships and much of the public life he had built, and eventually returned to a belief in God outside of himself.

We explore organized religion, the Bible, miracles, spiritual experiences, free will, love, Christ, spiritual ego, and the difference Michael sees between being God and being connected to God.

Michael also shares his perspective on the living Word of God, why he believes spiritual experience can exist beyond religious institutions, what he means when he talks about energy mastery, and how his understanding of God has changed throughout his life.

Questions to sit with:

How do you know when an experience is God?

Can spirituality bring someone closer to God and also pull them away?

Where is the line between spiritual empowerment and spiritual ego?

Can someone experience God outside of organized religion?

What happens when the beliefs that once made us feel powerful no longer serve us?

How do we decide whether a spiritual experience is truth, interpretation, psychology, faith, or something we do not yet understand?

Listen with curiosity. You do not have to agree with every perspective to consider what it reveals about belief, identity, faith, and the ways humans try to understand experiences that are difficult to explain.

About the Guest

Michael Monk is a spiritual teacher focused on energy mastery, metaphysics, and devotion to God. He is the founder of the Avatar Energy Mastery Institute and the Metaphysical Church of the Tree of Life. His work explores spiritual development, extrasensory perception, out of body experiences, and what he describes as energy mastery.

Learn more about Michael and his work at MichaelMonk.bio.

Earth Xperiences is an ongoing study of self, belief, and how we make sense of this experience we share together.

Who Are You When You Stop Performing? | Dr. Crystal Harrell on Work, Faith and Being Seen

“I didn’t see myself. I didn’t acknowledge my own gifts, my own creativity, my own intellect, my own intuition. I neglected me first.”

Dr. Crystal T. Harrell spent more than a decade pursuing education as her path out of poverty, eventually earning more than $1 million in scholarships and grants and graduating from Yale. Then she entered the corporate world she had worked toward for years and found herself confronting a different question: What happens when achievement still doesn’t make you feel seen?

In this conversation, Crystal traces that question back through childhood, the loss of her father at eleven, becoming a high achiever, learning to grieve years later, and recognizing how much of her life had been shaped by performance and the desire for acceptance.

We also explore her changing relationship with Christianity and spirituality, what she believes God means to her now, why she describes love as presence, and how entrepreneurship became a way to create work that feels meaningful to her.

Crystal also shares the memory of a father who repeatedly reminded her there was nothing wrong with her, even when the world made her believe otherwise.

Questions to sit with after listening:

How much of what you have accomplished was created from desire, and how much came from wanting to be seen?

What are you asking the world to recognize in you that you have yet to recognize in yourself?

Does your work give you energy or continually ask you to perform?

What does it mean to love someone without trying to possess or change them?

Who are you when you stop trying to prove who you are?

Crystal T. Harrell, PhD is a Yale trained public health researcher, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and founder of a holistic health and beauty company created alongside her sisters.

Continue exploring Crystal’s work through her website and social platforms mentioned at the end of the conversation.

Is Capitalism the Root of All Evil? Financial Trauma, Faith & AI with Rahkim Sabree

“A dysregulated person is a profitable one.”

What if our relationship with money is telling us something about the systems we live in, the experiences we carry, and what we believe makes a good life?

In this episode of Earth Xperiences, I sit down with financial trauma expert, author, speaker, and financial therapist Rahkim Sabree.

Rahkim shares how leaving a decade long career in banking eventually led him into financial therapy and the work behind his book, Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success.

Our conversation begins with money, but it does not stay there.

We explore financial trauma, capitalism, financial literacy, credentials, who gets to be considered an expert, and why simply telling people to budget better can ignore the larger systems shaping their choices.

Rahkim makes a provocative declaration during our conversation:

“Capitalism is the root of all evil, not money.”

So I ask him another question.

If capitalism is the root of evil, what is good?

His answer is community.

From there, we explore what community actually requires, why individual success can still leave people disconnected, and whether the systems designed to help us can sometimes become another form of gatekeeping.

We also talk about AI and the possibility that technology could free people from some forms of labor while creating entirely new questions about power, surveillance, inequality, environmental impact, and who ultimately benefits from technological progress.

Then the conversation becomes deeply personal.

Rahkim shares the story of an intuition telling him to return home shortly before discovering his house on fire. His dog was still inside.

That experience leads us into a larger conversation about God, intuition, Islam, fasting, spiritual readings, ancestors, purpose, love, and the experiences Rahkim believes have shaped the work he is here to do.

We eventually arrive at one of my favorite ideas from the conversation.

What makes us human may be our ability to experience.

AI can collect information. It can generate language. It can recognize patterns.

But can it ever have an experience?

QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE

What parts of your relationship with money were actually taught to you, and what parts developed through experience?

When does a credential protect people, and when can it become a gate around knowledge?

Can we criticize capitalism while benefiting from it?

If financial success requires someone else to struggle, how should we define success?

What does community require beyond simply belonging to a group?

Do you believe intuition can tell us something that reason cannot?

How do you decide whether a spiritual experience is meaningful, coincidence, or something else?

What does love look like when performance, money, status, and expectation are removed?

If AI eventually becomes capable of reproducing much of human knowledge, what remains uniquely human?

And finally, what do you believe makes a human?

ABOUT RAHKIM SABREE

Rahkim Sabree is a financial trauma expert, author, speaker, Accredited Financial Counselor, financial therapist, and Forbes contributor whose work explores money, trauma, culture, systems, and financial healing.

CONNECT WITH RAHKIM

Website
https://www.rahkimsabree.com

Instagram
@RahkimSabree

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahkimsabree/

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/rahkimsabree

Substack
https://rahkimsabree.substack.com

READ OVERCOMING FINANCIAL TRAUMA

Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success

Book information
https://www.rahkimsabree.com/book

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Financial-Trauma-Redefine-Success-ebook/dp/B0FZF5BSRX/

Part 2 of 2 with Julie @abercadabermcdoo

"Somebody's got to stop hurting other people first."

How do we challenge racism without losing sight of each other's humanity?

In this Earth Xperience, Julie returns for the second half of her conversation to explore one of the most difficult questions of our time. How do our experiences shape the way we see race, trust, politics, justice, and one another? Rather than avoiding disagreement, this conversation leans into it with curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to examine beliefs that are often left unquestioned.

Julie reflects on growing up surrounded by racist ideas, the experiences that led her to reject those beliefs, and why she now speaks openly about racism, policing, and systemic injustice. She shares how stories such as Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd became moments that challenged her understanding of authority and changed the way she viewed the world.

Throughout the conversation, we wrestle with difficult questions surrounding race, fear, trust, political identity, and whether it is possible to evaluate people as individuals while still acknowledging historical and systemic patterns. Rather than searching for simple answers, the discussion becomes an exploration of how personal experience, media, relationships, and community shape the conclusions we reach.

The conversation also shifts into motherhood, grief, accountability, and healing. Julie speaks candidly about parenting through unresolved trauma, the moment her adult son confronted her about her anger, and how that conversation changed the course of their relationship. She reflects on learning self awareness later in life and why personal growth often begins with the courage to examine ourselves before trying to change the world.

Together we explore belief systems, God, morality, kindness, community care, homelessness, personal responsibility, and what it means to become more human through reflection instead of certainty. Even where perspectives differ, the conversation remains rooted in a shared desire to understand how people arrive at the beliefs they hold and whether those beliefs produce compassion, justice, and healing.

Each Earth Xperience has its own fingerprint. The X represents the lived experience being explored. In this conversation, the X is the experience of deconstructing inherited beliefs, confronting painful truths, and asking whether curiosity can create space for deeper understanding across difference.

Can we challenge racism without judging every individual?

How do childhood experiences shape political beliefs?

Can people truly deconstruct prejudice?

What makes someone feel safe or unsafe?

How do trauma and grief shape the way we parent?

Can accountability repair broken relationships?

What makes a human worthy of dignity?

Can kindness become a form of justice?

How do we balance personal experience with objective truth?

What beliefs have you inherited that deserve another look?

Julie is a creator whose work centers on anti racism, self reflection, and examining the beliefs that shape society. Through storytelling and personal experiences, she explores race, privilege, parenting, politics, and personal growth while encouraging others to question inherited ideas and engage in honest conversations about social change

In Part 1 of this two part Earth Xperiences conversation, Julie, known on TikTok as @abercadabermcdoo, reflects on the experiences that shaped how she understands race, goodness, accountability, and personal change.

She examines the racism she has had to recognize within her own thinking and the difference between appearing like a good person and becoming honest enough to grow. The conversation also revisits the TikTok video that inspired the episode and includes an improv exercise centered on the phrase “White Savior.”

Julie shares her thoughts on shame, defensiveness, grace, performative allyship, and the fear of getting something wrong while trying to become better.

What does accountability look like when protecting your image is no longer the goal? How do you remain open to truth when it challenges the person you believe yourself to be?

This is Part 1 of 2 with Julie from TikTok, @abercadabermcdoo.

What happens when you stop performing the life you were taught to live and begin discovering the one that feels true?

In this Earth Xperience, Tyresha "Sunie" Flemister, also known as Guided by Sunie, shares her journey through Christianity, faith deconstruction, sexuality, nervous system healing, grief, and spiritual transformation. As a licensed mental health clinician, transformation guide, nonprofit founder, and travel advisor, Sunie reflects on how loss, curiosity, and lived experience reshaped the way she understands God, love, identity, and what it means to live authentically.

The conversation begins with Sunie's upbringing in the church, speaking in tongues as a child, serving faithfully throughout her youth, and the questions that surfaced when her experience of sexuality no longer fit the framework she had inherited. Rather than abandoning every part of her faith, she describes deconstruction as an ongoing process of discerning what still produces good fruit and what no longer aligns with truth as she has come to experience it.

As the conversation unfolds, Sunie shares how the death of her father became a turning point that challenged everything she believed. Meditation, silence, grief, and eventually Scripture itself became part of a new journey, one that led her to identify as religion free while remaining deeply connected to many of the teachings of Jesus. She explains why she believes embodiment matters more than performance and why healing begins by creating safety within the body before trying to change the mind.

Together we explore the relationship between Christianity and spirituality, church and community, trauma and identity, sexuality and belonging, masculine and feminine energy, nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, emotional healing, and the courage required to question inherited beliefs. Rather than asking listeners to agree with her conclusions, Sunie invites people to become more curious about their own lives and the stories they have accepted without examination.

The conversation also examines why so many people are leaving religious institutions, what discernment looks like in spiritual spaces, why grief often becomes the beginning of transformation, and how practices like meditation, travel, rest, and self reflection can reconnect us with ourselves. Throughout the episode, one message continues to surface: transformation is less about becoming someone new and more about remembering who you were before fear, performance, and expectation shaped your identity.

Each Earth Xperience has its own fingerprint. The X represents the lived experience being explored. In this conversation, the X is the experience of questioning inherited beliefs, reclaiming personal agency, and learning to build a life that feels emotionally safe, spiritually honest, and deeply aligned.

Can you deconstruct your faith without losing God?

What does it mean to embody love instead of perform it?

Can spirituality and Christianity exist together?

How does grief change the way we experience faith?

Can nervous system healing transform your spiritual life?

What if authenticity requires disappointing other people?

Why are so many people deconstructing religion?

How do you know which beliefs are truly yours?

Can emotional safety change the way you experience God?

What does it mean to choose the different?

Tyresha "Sunie" Flemister is a licensed mental health clinician, transformation guide, founder of Tide and Temple, travel advisor, and creator of Guided by Sunie. Her work focuses on faith deconstruction, nervous system regulation, grief, identity, emotional wellness, travel, and helping people reconnect with themselves through embodied healing practices. Through retreats, coaching, and community, she helps people navigate life's transitions while cultivating greater self awareness and emotional freedom.

Questions explored in this episodeAbout Sunie

“The world isn't out to get me. I was just in the wrong one.”

What happens when the beliefs that shaped your identity no longer fit?

In this Earth Xperience, Tyson Porter, healer, creator, musician, and spiritual teacher, shares the journey that took him from the Baptist church through Buddhism, Hinduism, meditation, astrology, ayahuasca, and ultimately back to Christianity with a completely different understanding of faith.

The conversation begins with Tyson's struggle after walking away from football, the identity that had defined him for most of his life. Losing the athlete persona forced him to ask a deeper question: Who am I without the roles other people gave me? That search eventually led him into years of meditation, where moments of complete silence challenged everything he thought he knew about himself.

Throughout the episode, Tyson explores consciousness, ego, astrology, and what he believes are the archetypes that shape human behavior. Rather than viewing spirituality as competing belief systems, he explains how each tradition helped him understand different parts of himself before returning to the teachings of Jesus with fresh eyes.

One of the most moving moments comes when Tyson describes why he returned to Christianity. After years of searching for answers intellectually, he realized he had grown emotionally distant from people and from himself. Revisiting Scripture became less about religion and more about softening a heart that had become guarded by disappointment, fear, and performance.

The conversation expands into questions about masculinity, femininity, healing, identity, meditation, trauma, purpose, astrology, and what it means to live from love instead of fear. Tyson shares why he believes many people spend their lives wearing identities that never truly belonged to them and how awareness allows us to reconnect with what is authentic.

Together, we explore the relationship between personal experience and belief, asking whether our worldview is shaped by truth or simply by the limited environments we were raised in.

Each Earth Xperience has its own fingerprint. The X represents the lived experience being explored. In this episode, the X is the experience of searching for yourself beyond labels, questioning inherited beliefs, and learning how awareness can become a path toward healing.

Can meditation bring you closer to God?

What happens when the identity you built no longer fits?

Can astrology and Christianity exist together?

Why do we mistake our environment for reality?

What does it mean to soften a hardened heart?

Can awareness heal emotional suffering?

How do childhood identities shape adult relationships?

What makes a human truly free?

Is love the absence of defensiveness?

Can you outgrow the person the world expected you to become?

Tyson Porter is a spiritual teacher, musician, healer, and content creator whose work explores consciousness, meditation, astrology, identity, Christianity, and personal transformation. Through conversations, music, and coaching, he helps people examine inherited beliefs, reconnect with their authentic identity, and cultivate greater awareness in everyday life.

Connect with Tyson

Instagram: @tysonwporter

YouTube: Tyson W. Porter

TikTok: @tysonwporter

Episode DescriptionQuestions explored in this episodeAbout Tyson Porter

“What makes us human is that we take what is inside and make it visible.”

In this Earth Xperiences conversation, Dani speaks with Francina Simone, founder of Midnight Scholar Society, about truth, ancestry, writing, spirituality, witchcraft, Christianity, Black church, God, joy, and what it means to become yourself in real time.

Francina shares how she understands herself as someone moving between spiritual language, scholarly study, lived experience, and creative practice. The conversation moves through her childhood, her relationship with books, the meaning of witchcraft, the role of ancestors, the difference between honesty and brutality, and why writing can become a tool for self awareness.

This episode is part of the Earth Xperiences practice of listening across belief systems. The goal is not to force agreement, but to notice how people explain truth, identity, God, spirit, and the human experience.

♡ Questions to Explore from This Conversation

What do you consider truth, and how did you learn to recognize it?

When does spiritual language create understanding, and when does it create confusion?

Can writing help us organize the parts of ourselves we do not fully understand yet?

How do ancestry, religion, culture, and personal experience shape what someone calls God?

What makes a human able to turn their inner world into something others can see?

♡ Search for Francina Simone

Francina Simone
Midnight Scholar Society
Books for Plebs
francinasimone.com
Smash It by Francina Simone

"Life is literally what you make it. That is the most true thing in life that you can ever be told." De'Vonte Owens

What if the beliefs you defend the hardest were handed to you by an algorithm?

In this episode of the Earth Xperience Podcast, host Dani sits down with De'Vonte Owens, a Jamaican American marketer who calls himself a Pan African realist, for a wide open conversation about identity, conditioning, and what it really means to think for yourself in a world that seems built to keep us divided.

De'Vonte has spent ten years inside the social media machine, and he uses that insider knowledge to break down what he calls engineered tribalism, the way platforms quietly feed you content that doubles down on what you already believe until you cannot see any other side. From there the conversation opens into colorism and the pressure of light skin versus dark skin, the difference between being pro black and being Pan African, and why so much of what we call truth may really be psychological conditioning we never chose to examine.

Dani and De'Vonte go deep on religion and deconstruction, the line between spirituality and organized religion, and how language itself shapes the way we experience pain, identity, and reality. They explore good and evil as a question of intention rather than fixed labels, what it means to recognize real love and why he believes it is so rare, and De'Vonte shares unexpected and deeply personal spiritual experiences, including astral projection and an encounter he believes was his late grandfather.

This is a conversation for critical thinkers, free thinkers, realists, and anyone who has ever felt the pull to step outside the box and ask whether they are looking for their tribe or looking for the truth.

Questions to sit with:

What beliefs do you hold right now that you have never actually examined for yourself, and where did they truly come from?

If your social media feed has been quietly shaping what you believe, what would it take to step outside that box and really hear the other side?

When you think about good and evil, do you measure them by intention, by outcome, or by something else entirely?

Have you ever had an experience you could not explain, and how did your existing beliefs decide whether you called it good, bad, or something in between?

About De'Vonte Owens:

De'Vonte Owens builds social media and television ad campaigns for businesses. Born and raised in the United States, he creates content for two audiences, realists and free thinkers who want honest and unfiltered conversation, and business owners and entrepreneurs looking to grow.

Find De'Vonte Owens:Instagram: @iamdevonteownsTikTok: @xxoutsidetheboxxxTwitter: De'Vonte OwensWebsite: theprofithuntersmarketing.com

Topics covered: engineered tribalism and social media algorithms, echo chambers, Pan Africanism and black identity, colorism, religion versus spirituality, faith and deconstruction, critical thinking, good and evil, philosophy and moral relativism, the power of language, love and relationships, marriage, spiritual experiences, astral projection, and conscious conversation

"The biggest thing I experienced in hell, more than the fire, more than the pain, more than the sights that I saw, was the pain of regret." Pastor Dominic Morrow

What happens when the person you built yourself to be is the exact person standing between you and eternity?

Pastor Dominic Morrow grew up in Chicago between two worlds. Half African-American and half Afro-Cuban, raised between Christianity and Santeria. By his teens he was deep in gang life, selling drugs, and surrounded by people who feared him. He thought religion was for the weak.

Then in June 2009, he was shot twice in the stomach. Clinically dead for 3 minutes and 47 seconds. In that time, he went somewhere.

In this episode of the Earth Xperience Podcast, Pastor Dani sits with Dominic for a conversation that does not stay on the surface. He walks through leaving his body, falling faster than the speed of thought into a living darkness, arriving at the gates of hell, and what the Lord showed him before sending him back. He breaks down what demons actually are, how Santeria disguises darkness as light, and why regret is the greatest pain a soul can carry.

This is also a story of rebuilding. After coming back, Dominic moved through Islam and Hebrew Israelite teachings before fully anchoring his faith in Yeshua. He founded the Narrow Path Society and Blessed to Be Chosen ministry and authored three books including 3 Minutes and 47 Seconds in Hell.

Topics: near death experience, NDE, hell testimony, afterlife, spiritual warfare, gang life, Chicago, Santeria, Yeshua, Jesus Christ, redemption, regret, eternity, second chances, life after death, deliverance, out of body experience, faith.

Questions to sit with:What will you regret most at the end of your life, and what are you doing about it now?What beliefs did you inherit from your family or culture that you have never fully examined?What would it feel like to see your entire life with total clarity in one instant?Where in your relationships do you see fear holding people together instead of love?

Find Dominic Morrow:youtube.com/@DominicMorrowIncblessedtobechosen.comBooks on Amazon: The Toughest Enemy in Life is You, Passport to Eternity, 3 Minutes and 47 Seconds in HellSupport the nonprofit: Cash App at NarrowPathSociety