Hidden Wisdom

Join Meghan and Elle Hales for part 2 as she shares insights into spiritual gift development, the importance of ethics in mediumship, and how to navigate the unseen realm responsibly. This episode demystifies spiritual abilities, emphasizing humility, discernment, and service in connecting with Spirit.

In this episode: 

The mechanics of mediumship: perception, signs, and altered states
Ethical boundaries and responsibility in spiritual work
The role of intention, bias, and ego in receiving messages
How to develop and trust your spiritual senses: clairvoyance, clairaudience, and more 
Personal stories of Spirit communication, including visualizations and evidence-based guidance
Practical tips for protection, setting boundaries, and maintaining spiritual hygiene
The significance of humility, patience, and joy on the spiritual journey
How spiritual gifts can serve others and foster self-growth
 

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Spirit communication and gifts in action
00:23 - The importance of authenticity and signs in spiritual practice
01:06 - Sign seeking vs. true intention: understanding heart-centered asking
01:41 - Significance of God’s timing and receptivity in miracles
02:30 - Discerning readiness and size of signs, gratitude in receiving gifts
03:13 - The ethics of psychic work: responsibility and boundaries
05:01 - Navigating spiritual boundaries and responsible use of gifts
06:24 - Personal boundary-setting and managing spiritual overload
07:21 - The reality of spirit worlds and protective boundaries
08:45 - Visualizing and interacting with spirit guides in everyday life
10:01 - Spirit communication mechanics: visuals, emotions, impressions
12:18 - Handling sensitive information & respecting others' boundaries
14:29 - The importance of continual self-awareness and humility in gift development
15:20 - How mediumship works: altered states & divine tool usage
16:12 - The subjective experience of intuition and perception channels
18:08 - Recognizing energetic impressions: tension, emotions, and clair senses
19:32 - The different “clairs”: clairvoyance, clairaudience, and others explained
21:00 - Smelling, tasting, and sensing spirit's messages in everyday life
22:34 - Developing personal propensities and biases in spirit communication
24:15 - Layered experiences: impressions, visions, voices, and feelings
25:45 - The interpretive role of the medium: translating spirit messages
29:02 - Protecting yourself spiritually: prayers, visualization, and awareness
30:24 - The importance of high frequency and spiritual hygiene
32:44 - Trusting divine timing and God’s protection in gifting practice
34:16 - The journey of growth, deception, and returning to love
36:26 - Demonstration of mediumship: connecting with guides and loved ones
46:38 - The sacred responsibility of holding space and handling feelings
55:10 - Embracing opposites: divine masculine and feminine within us
62:33 - Healing inner conflicts, childhood wounds, and self-love
70:25 - Recognizing your children’s unique spiritual journeys
78:58 - Joy, gratitude, and embracing the seasons of life
85:17 - Small acts with big impacts: cultivating awareness and lessons learned
90:45 - The promise of ongoing spiritual experiences and growth
98:39 - The eternal progression of the soul and continuous learning in Spirit



Resources & Links

- Through the Veil Podcast
Spiritually Gifted Course
Elle Hales on Instagram

Note: This episode combines personal stories, spiritual teachings, and practical applications, aiming to empower listeners on their own spiritual journeys—always emphasizing humility, ethics, and service.

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Can we develop spiritual gifts without leaving Christ behind?

In Part 1 of this conversation, spirit communicator Elle Hales shares her remarkable journey from fear-filled childhood experiences to a Christ-centered understanding of spiritual gifts, discernment, and the reality of the spirit world. Together we explore faith, intuition, divine guidance, and how to distinguish fear from truth.

In future episodes, Elle gives Megan a live reading that leads into conversations on motherhood, family patterns, healing, and raising spiritually aware children.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
 02:15 Elle's childhood spiritual experiences
 11:00 Finding Christ through fear
 20:00 Why spiritual gifts matter
 27:00 Ministering angels & life beyond the veil
 38:00 Discernment: love vs. fear
 45:00 Discovering your spiritual gifts
 59:00 Preview of what's next

Elle Hales is a spirit communicator, educator, and co-host of the Through the Veil podcast. She teaches a grounded, Christ-centered approach to spiritual gifts, intuition, and discernment.

Through the Veil Podcast

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What if one of the biggest keys to better health isn't another supplement—but light?

In this episode, Meredith Oke shares how understanding circadian rhythms, sunlight, and our body's natural rhythms transformed her recovery from chronic fatigue. We explore quantum biology, rest, mitochondria, and simple practices that help restore energy and resilience.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
 02:00 Meredith's burnout story
 08:30 Learning to truly rest
 10:15 Why light matters
 17:45 The healing power of sunlight
 23:30 Signs of circadian disruption
 26:00 Simple daily practices
 31:30 Returning to nature
 36:00 Meredith's work & resources

Meredith Oke is founder of the Quantum Biology Collective and host of the Reverse Aging Podcast, where she helps make emerging science around light, circadian biology, and health accessible to practitioners and the public.

•  Quantum Biology Collective

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What does it really mean to embrace the divine feminine while remaining firmly rooted in Jesus Christ?

In this bonus episode of the Latter-day Disciples Podcast, Megan Farner sits down with Julie Dean Richards to explore the symbolism of the feminine, Heavenly Mother, spiritual discernment, astrology, scripture, and the balance between masculine and feminine attributes. Together they discuss why many women fear their own spiritual power, how to pursue truth with discernment, and practical ways to embody feminine wisdom without losing a Christ-centered foundation.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why the feminine often feels mysterious or intimidating
 • The symbolism of the Tree of Life and the Mother Tree
 • Balancing masculine and feminine spiritual gifts
 • How fear can keep women from embracing their divine identity
 • Spiritual maturity, discernment, and grounding in Christ
 • Women's archetypes and the feminine life cycle
 • The launch of the Feminine Alchemist community

If you're seeking a deeper relationship with God, a greater understanding of Heavenly Mother, and a more embodied approach to feminine spirituality, this conversation offers thoughtful perspectives rooted in faith and personal study.

00:00 – Introduction & why this conversation matters

01:40 – Meet Julie Dean Richards

04:00 – Why the feminine often feels fearful

05:30 – The Olive Tree, Jacob 5 & scattered truth

09:00 – The Mother Tree & Divine Feminine symbolism

12:20 – Fear, discernment & pursuing good fruit

15:15 – Spiritual maturity before deeper exploration

16:45 – Balancing masculine and feminine

18:00 – Generational conditioning & women's power

24:00 – Learning to trust feminine intuition

31:00 – Archetypes, symbolism & spiritual patterns

38:00 – Women's seasons and feminine cycles

43:00 – Why every woman is a life-giver

46:20 –  Final encouragement & invitation

Julie Dean Richards is an attorney, researcher, linguist, and teacher who has worked with organizations including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Google, and Amazon. Her work focuses on feminine spirituality, symbolism, language, and helping women better understand their divine identity while remaining rooted in faith. She also studies astrology as a symbolic language and explores its relationship to spiritual timing and divine pattern.

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What if God's blessings aren't being withheld—but you're simply out of alignment with the laws that govern receiving them? In this conversation, Leslie Householder shares practical principles on overcoming fear, aligning prayer, cultivating abundance, and partnering with God through "Rare Faith." Discover how mindset, agency, gratitude, and eternal laws work together to create lasting transformation.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro & Hidden Wisdom
 02:42 Leslie's journey from struggle to Rare Faith
 08:54 Why most prayers don't work as expected
 13:48 False beliefs about wealth & God
 17:18 Where true security comes from
 23:34 Practical tools for overcoming fear
 27:28 The law of faith: choosing belief
 31:53 The power of language & vision
 34:26 Surrender vs. striving
 41:30 Rare Faith vs. the Law of Attraction
 43:10 Books, resources & current work
 50:19 Final thoughts on intentional creation

Leslie Householder is an award-winning author, speaker, and co-founder of the School of Life Mastery. Through her Rare Faith teachings, she helps individuals understand and apply timeless principles that increase faith, expand capacity to receive, and align daily life with God's natural laws.

Links Mentioned:

•  Rare Faith 
•  School of Life Mastery

Resources & References

• The Jackrabbit Factor — Leslie Householder ; Available in the Hidden Wisdom app
• Hidden Treasures — Leslie Householder ; Available in the Hidden Wisdom app
• Portal to Genius — Leslie Householder ; Available in the Hidden Wisdom app
• Rare Faith: Moving Mountains (working title) 
•  Doctrine & Covenants 67:3 
•  Teachings from Bob Proctor

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What if joy isn’t something you achieve — but something you allow?

In this episode of Hidden Wisdom, Megan Farner sits down with Stacie Shifflet, creator of Modern Consciousness and author of Treasure Map to Joy, to explore self-awareness, emotional triggers, personal transformation, and the hidden patterns shaping our lives. Together they discuss healing after divorce, breaking cycles of self-sabotage, trusting intuition, and learning how to consciously create a life that feels aligned, intentional, and deeply fulfilling.

This conversation blends grounded personal development with spiritual clarity, offering practical tools for anyone navigating change, emotional healing, or a season of reinvention.

Topics covered include:

•  Emotional triggers and self-sabotage 
•  How to cultivate joy in everyday life 
•  Breaking unconscious behavior patterns 
•  Healing after loss and divorce 
•  Self-awareness and personal transformation 
•  Intuition, intentional living, and inner clarity 
•  Conscious relationships and communication 
•  The journey toward self-trust and emotional freedom 

Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction to Hidden Wisdom & Stacie Shifflet
 01:50 – Stacie’s unconventional life journey and reinvention
 03:16 – Following intuition and building confidence
 05:49 – Divorce, loss, and personal awakening
 08:01 – The Modern Consciousness framework explained
 10:45 – Why joy is something we allow, not chase
 12:58 – The transformative power of self-awareness
 15:20 – How to live with greater intention
 17:40 – Communication, relationships, and emotional clarity
 20:10 – Healing emotional trauma and shifting beliefs
 23:12 – Small steps toward personal transformation
 23:34 – Emotional triggers and reclaiming your power
 24:59 – Self-sabotage habits and joy patterns
 27:59 – Final wisdom: learning to trust yourself
 28:25 – Closing thoughts and Hidden Wisdom invitation

Stacie Shifflet is the creator of Modern Consciousness, a grounded personal development framework focused on clarity, emotional awareness, and intentional transformation. Through coaching, courses, and her bestselling book Treasure Map to Joy, she helps individuals understand their inner patterns, overcome self-sabotage, and create lives aligned with greater peace, fulfillment, and authenticity.

Modern Consciousness

Treasure Map to Joy by Stacie Shifflet

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What happens when profound grief becomes the doorway to spiritual awakening?

In this powerful conversation, Julie Cluff shares how the tragic loss of her two youngest children transformed her understanding of God, angels, the afterlife, and spiritual connection. Through near-death-like experiences, angelic encounters, mediumship, and years of healing, Julie discovered a deeper relationship with the divine that ultimately led her beyond traditional religious frameworks.

Together, Julie and Meghan explore grief as a catalyst for transformation, spiritual gifts, soul planning, faith deconstruction, angel communication, discernment, direct revelation, and how to maintain a grounded connection with God outside institutional structures.

If you've experienced loss, spiritual awakening, religious deconstruction, or a desire for deeper connection with the divine, this conversation offers hope, perspective, and practical wisdom for navigating your own journey.

In this episode:

•  Julie's transformative experience after losing her children 
•  Encounters with Yeshua and angelic guidance 
•  Signs, synchronicities, and spiritual communication 
•  Mediumship and connecting with loved ones beyond death 
•  Faith deconstruction and spiritual expansion 
•  The role of grief in awakening consciousness 
•  Discernment, intuition, and receiving divine guidance 
•  Spiritual practices for connecting with God and spirit 

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00:00 Introduction & Parting the Veil Retreat
 02:00 Meet Julie Cluff
 04:10 The tragic accident that changed everything
 07:35 Encountering Yeshua after the accident
 11:00 Grief, darkness, and spiritual awakening
 13:30 Death, rebirth, and soul transformation
 17:00 Soul planning and life's deeper purpose
 20:25 Grief, spirit, and divine presence
 25:20 Sin, ego, and remembering who we are
 27:45 Leaving religious certainty behind
 32:00 Angelic guidance and spiritual signs
 35:00 Teaching about angels and awakening gifts
 38:25 Discovering mediumship and sacred communication
 41:15 How God actually speaks
 42:20 Faith deconstruction and healing religious grief
 46:15 Rebuilding spirituality after religion
 51:15 Embodying divinity and releasing certainty
 55:15 Conversations with Yeshua
 56:50 Developing spiritual gifts and intuition
 59:35 Creating spiritual structure outside religion
 1:00:20 Calm, Clear, Connect practice
 1:05:25 Angel message for the audience
 1:07:55 Final reflections

Julie Cluff is a spiritual teacher, psychic medium, grief specialist, and podcast host whose work centers on healing, spiritual connection, and personal transformation. Following the loss of her two youngest children in 2007, Julie experienced a profound spiritual awakening that led her into decades of study and service focused on grief recovery, consciousness, angelic communication, and spiritually transformative experiences. Today, she helps others navigate loss, awakening, and the journey toward deeper connection with the divine. Learn more at Juliecluff.com

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What if the Atonement was about more than paying for sin? In this thought-provoking conversation, Meghan Farner and Meg Rittmanic explore a symbolic and deeply spiritual interpretation of Christ’s Atonement through the lens of Heavenly Mother, divine adoption, sacred coverings, and spiritual rebirth.

Drawing from scripture, ancient symbolism, early Christian writings, temple imagery, and the recurring motif of weaving, Meg presents a framework that sees Christ not only as Savior, but as Life-Giver—one whose sacrifice creates a path for humanity to be spiritually adopted into the family of God.

Together, they examine the symbolism of birth, labor, garments, the Lamb of God, the temple veil, wisdom traditions, and the divine feminine. This episode is also an open invitation for collaborative discernment as Meg gathers feedback on concepts from her forthcoming book.

In this episode:

Heavenly Mother as the divine weaver
The connection between birth, death, and resurrection
Reframing the meaning of the Lamb of God
Adoption versus birth as spiritual metaphors
Sacred garments, coverings, and covenant identity
Early Christian teachings on ascension and divine inheritance
The feminine dimensions of Christ's Atonement
The role of wisdom traditions in spiritual transformation

Share your thoughts in the comments: Does the idea of spiritual adoption deepen your understanding of the Atonement? How do these symbols resonate with your faith journey?

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to Hidden Wisdom & Guest Meg Rittmanic
01:27 Meg's Journey Discovering Heavenly Mother
06:02 Studying Divine Feminine Symbolism Across Traditions
07:35 Why This Discussion Needs Community Discernment
10:50 Weaving, Creation & the Womb in Scripture
15:32 Heavenly Mother as the Cosmic Weaver
19:08 The Atonement as Spiritual Labor & Birth
23:36 Birth Imagery, Death & Resurrection
26:46 Reframing the Lamb of God
31:16 Adoption Into the Family of God
36:04 Garments, Coverings & Covenant Identity
40:12 Heavenly Mother, Wisdom & Sacred Nourishment
41:03 Becoming Children of God
44:36 Adoption, Agency & Eternal Progression
47:58 Layers of Transformation & Spiritual Ascension
52:53 False Coverings vs. True Identity
55:41 Questions for Collective Discernment
57:09 Final Reflections & Closing Thoughts

Meg Rittmanic is the host of the In Her Image podcast, where she explores and celebrates Heavenly Mother through scripture, scholarship, symbolism, and lived spiritual experience. Over the past eight years, she has undertaken an extensive personal study of the divine feminine, reading hundreds of books and researching wisdom traditions across cultures. She is currently completing a book focused on Heavenly Mother, sacred symbolism, and spiritual transformation.

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What does it really mean when scripture says that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever?

In this throwback solo episode, Megan Farner explores one of the most misunderstood phrases in scripture and challenges the common assumption that "the same" means "unchanging." Drawing from the King Follett Discourse, Lectures on Faith, the Book of Mormon, and broader spiritual principles, she examines how God's consistency may be rooted in perfect obedience to eternal law rather than the absence of growth or progression. 

Topics include:

 The true nature and character of God 
 Joseph Smith's teachings on eternal progression 
 The King Follett Discourse 
 Faith as a principle of power 
 The doctrine of Christ and spiritual transformation 
 Eternal laws, agency, miracles, and divine potential 
 What it means to become more like God 
If you've ever wrestled with questions about God's nature, eternal progression, or the relationship between faith and spiritual growth, this episode offers a thought-provoking perspective.

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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
 00:15 What Does "God Is the Same" Mean?
 02:04 Why Understanding God's Nature Matters
 06:00 The Problem with "Unchanging" Interpretations
 07:05 Joseph Smith on God's Progression
 10:47 God and Eternal Law
 13:53 The Law of Gender & Divine Partnership
 15:31 Polarity, Opposition, and Creation
 19:25 Symbolism and the Law of Correspondence
 21:59 Thoughts, Agency, and the Law of Attraction
 24:40 Faith as a Principle of Power
 27:27 Cause and Effect: The Law of the Harvest
 29:01 Rhythm, Cycles, and the Doctrine of Christ
 29:59 Consecration and the Law of Abundance
 31:36 Oneness, Zion, and Atonement
 33:03 Scriptural Evidence for God's Consistency
 38:25 God as a God of Miracles
 43:00 Faith, Repentance, and Spiritual Alignment
 44:47 No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Changing
 47:42 The Counterfeits of Eternal Law
 55:51 Learning to Become Like God
 58:16 Divine Potential and Co-Equality with God
 01:00:28 Temple Covenants and Eternal Laws
 01:01:24 Final Thoughts

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Was Joseph Smith restoring more than early Christianity? In this episode, Maxine Hanks explores Mormonism as a wisdom tradition—one rooted in revelation, spiritual vision, Sophia wisdom, apocryphal texts, and direct connection with the divine.

Together, Meghan and Maxine discuss Gnostic Christianity, the role of women in early Christianity and early Mormonism, Joseph Smith’s engagement with wisdom literature, the First Vision as a wisdom-seeking event, and why many of the truths people search for outside Mormonism may already exist within the Restoration.

If you're interested in Mormon mysticism, esoteric Christianity, Sophia, Mary Magdalene, continuing revelation, and the deeper dimensions of the Restoration, this conversation offers a compelling framework for reexamining LDS origins. 

Timestamps

00:00 Intro & Pentecost Themes
 02:40 Why Maxine Calls Mormonism a Wisdom Tradition
 08:30 Early Christianity & LDS Restoration Parallels
 18:00 Women, Priesthood & the Elect Lady
 27:00 What Is a Wisdom Tradition?
 37:00 Vision Traditions, Mysticism & Revelation
 48:00 Esoteric vs. Exoteric Religion
 58:00 Apocrypha, Wisdom Literature & Sacred Texts
 1:08:00 Joseph Smith, Wisdom of Solomon & the First Vision
 1:16:00 Nested Levels of Spiritual Truth
 1:20:00 Gnostic Themes in Mormon Theology
 1:28:00 Hugh Nibley & Rediscovering Ancient Wisdom

Maxine Hanks is a Mormon theologian, historian, author, and researcher known for her work on women in Mormonism, early Christianity, mysticism, Gnostic traditions, and Mormon theology. Her scholarship frequently explores the intersections of restoration theology, spiritual experience, the divine feminine, and religious history.

Links Mentioned

•  Hidden Wisdom App 
•  Wayfair Festival (Faith Matters) - July 11th, Heber UT
•  The Way of Healing: Restoring Wholeness to the Soul

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