Spring isn't just a season — it's a threshold. This week we're going deeper than vision boards and fresh starts. We're talking about what every ancient civilization independently agreed happens at the spring equinox: the veil between worlds gets thin. We cover the science of near death experiences, quantum immortality, and time dilation — and Sasha shares a personal story about driving off a cliff at 45mph and somehow not hitting the ground. We also get into synchronicities, Jung's scarab, grief and the dead returning, and Ian Stevenson's forty years of reincarnation research that nobody talks about enough. Plus listener stories that don't have clean explanations — and maybe don't need one. Happy Aries season. Trust the charged air. 🌸

📚 References & Further Reading

• Grimm, J. (1835). Teutonic Mythology. (Ostara & Germanic equinox traditions)
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — Nowruz listing. https://ich.unesco.org
• Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) — El Castillo pyramid equinox phenomenon, Chichén Itzá. https://www.inah.gob.mx
• Green, M. (1997). The World of the Druids. Thames & Hudson.

• Everett, H. (1957). Relative state formulation of quantum mechanics. Reviews of Modern Physics, 29(3), 454–462.
• Tegmark, M. (2014). Our Mathematical Universe. Knopf.
• Eagleman, D. (2011). Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Pantheon Books.

• van Lommel, P., van Wees, R., Meyers, V., & Elfferich, I. (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet, 358(9298), 2039–2045.
• Kerr, C. (2020). Death Is But a Dream. Avery/Penguin Random House.

• Jung, C. G. (1952). Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. In Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 8. Princeton University Press.
• Jung, C. G., & Pauli, W. (1955). The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche. Pantheon Books.
• Sheldrake, R. (1999). Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. Crown Publishers.
• Guggenheim, B., & Guggenheim, J. (1995). Hello from Heaven! Bantam Books.

• Stevenson, I. (1966). Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. University of Virginia Press.
• Stevenson, I. (1987). Children Who Remember Previous Lives. University of Virginia Press.
• Stevenson, I. (1997). Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Praeger.
• Leininger, B., & Leininger, A. (2009). Soul Survivor. Hay House.
• Trungpa, C., & Fremantle, F. (Trans.). (1975). The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Shambhala Publications.

• Forrest, S. (2008). Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation. Seven Paws Press.
• Spiller, J. (1997). Astrology for the Soul. Bantam Books.