Lucid Cafe

Dr. Bernie Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to systemize the study of coincidences. In our conversation, Bernie shares:

• An overview of the research he’s done on coincidences
• The “weird coincidence” survey that you can take
• Why coincidences are actually not unusual
• Why they happen
• When they’re likely to happen
• ‘Self-observer’ concept
• The role of curiosity and introspection
• Pattern recognition
• The meaning of meaning
• Synchronicity
• Types of coincidences
• Looking for coincidences that aren’t there
• Positive expectations
• How to increase the likelihood of coincidences

To learn more about Bernie Beitman’s work:

Website: https://coincider.com/

Book: Connecting with Coincidence: The New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life 

Podcast: Connecting With Coincidence 

Take the “Weird Coincidence” Survey 

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website

Is it ever okay to lie? Is the human species more valuable than other species? Do you need hope to live a good life? Do you need religion to be a moral person? These are some of the questions my husband John and I tackle while sitting on our couch having a cocktail.  

For more information about the book The Moral Landscape, please visit Sam Harris’s website 

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website

Sharon Prentice found herself at the threshold of a very dark place when her newborn daughter died, and then she crossed that threshold when not long after her young husband fell ill with a mysterious illness he was unable to survive. Being in this dark place opened the door to an incredible experience. Similar to a Near Death Experience, Sharon had what she calls a Shared Death Experience. She wants all of us to make peace with death.

In this fascinating episode, Sharon shares:

• The nature of a Shared Death Experience (SDE)
• What happened during her SDE and how it changed her
• What inspired her to write the book Becoming Starlight: A Shared Death Journey from Darkness to Light
• Her spiritual transformation
• How her SDE influenced her life’s work
• The importance of talking about death
• The beauty of accessing gratitude when grieving
• How to avoid regret
• The wisdom terminally ill children have access to
• Why she doesn’t use the word “heaven”
• Her views on hell and reincarnation
• The myth of closure

To learn more about Sharon or to purchase a copy of her book, please visit:

Web: www.sharonprentice.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-h_-eUFII

Facebook: http://facebook.com/seprentice

Twitter: http://twitter.com/seprentice

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: 

There’s a good reason why the 5-day summer program Eva Goulette started in 2014 is taking off: Parents see lasting positive differences in their kids after they attend Spirit Camp. 

In this episode, Eva shares:

• How Spirit Camp nurtures a child’s spirit and teaches them that they’re more than a body and a mind
• The importance of forging a connection with the natural world
• How the curriculum deepens a child’s self awareness in fun and playful ways
• The importance of learning these skills early in a child’s development
• The Spirit Tool Box kids take home with them that helps them cope with life’s challenges at any time 
• The Chaos to Calm exercise as well as other skills children learn
• That she created 45 minute modules that can be easily translated for use in public and private schools
• The importance of addressing your “inner critic” at a young age
• How she’s developing a Spirit Camp for adults and teens
• The new teacher training program that’s available to meet the growing needs of the program
• How a life changing health event led to the origination of Spirit Camp

To learn more about Dancing Jaguar’s Spirit Camp and teacher training, please visit Eva’s website

Learn more about Wendy’s inspirational children’s book, Inside Out 

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website

Rick Strassman, MD, is known for the DMT studies he did in the 1990s, but ultimately he’s interested in understanding the nature of spiritual experience and has dedicated his life to studying the Hebrew Bible as a way to gain insight into these experiences.  

In this episode, Rick discusses:

• What he would like his legacy to be
• How DMT research was a prelude to asking deeper questions about the spiritual experience
• How DMT opens the user up to different realities 
• The mysterious source of these experiences 
• The importance of setting intention in the DMT experience
• Psychosis vs. spiritual experience
• The various models used to describe the DMT experience
• What the DMT data reveals about achieving the enlightenment experience 
• His transition from studying Zen Buddhism to the Hebrew Bible
• The compared experiences of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible and the volunteers in his DMT studies
• What he believes the ingredients are for making a person more suitable for divine influence
• False prophecy vs true prophecy
• God and atheism 
• Psychedelic-assisted therapy

To learn more about Rick Strassman’s work, please visit his website or connect with him on facebook

Visit Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley's website

You might remember Mayda Poc from episode 1 of this season when she shared her powerful story of transformation. She’s back, and this time we’re talking about gender. Specifically, about how the role of women in the workplace seems to be changing. 

In this episode:

• Mayda shares her experience working in the field of finance
• Wendy shares her experience being active duty in the military
• How the concept of consent is changing
• The importance of not assuming you know someone’s intentions when they’ve triggered you
• The evolution of gender stereotypes
• Indigenous prophecies about this time in history - moving towards a time of balance between the masculine and the feminine
• Pendulum swinging process
• Global trauma and political trends
• The importance of women moving into leadership positions
• Healing individual wounds
• Trends Mayda’s noticing in her work with women
• And Mayda’s observation of what she refers to as ‘misplaced loyalty’
• The powerful role parents play in role modeling for their children
• Our tendency to resist change
• Creating an atmosphere of adaption and flexibility 
• Mayda share communication tips (ie, how to assert yourself as a woman)
• Accessing confidence - pretending vs knowing
• Who are you separate from your gender?

To contact or learn more about Mayda, please visit her website https://www.maydapoccoaching.com/

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My guest Heidi Schmidt of Vineyard Sound Herbs is like a Plant Medicine Fairy. She has such reverence for the Earth and her bounty that stepping into Heidi’s world can be a magical and nurturing experience. 

In this episode, Heidi shares:

• Her path to becoming an herbalist
• How nature offers accessible, inexpensive medicine
• The birth of her herbal store in Martha’s Vineyard
• How she studied phytotherapy in England
• The importance of intuition when working with plants
• Her individualistic approach to working with each of her clients 
• The best way to work with herbs for them to be effective
• An exercise to tune into the rhythms of nature
• How healing with herbs is not a “one-size fits all” approach
• The beauty of a simple approach when working with plant medicine

Contact Heidi Schmidt through her Vineyard Sound Herbs facebook page

Or via email [email protected]

Visit Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley's website

My guest Suzy Harris is a seasoned natural health physician and chiropractor…and then some. In this episode, there’s not much we don’t cover with respect to wellness:

• Applied Kinesiology and how it works
• Suzy’s dream of creating a multi-disciplinary community healing forum
• What Suzy has learned about healing over the 20 years she’s been in practice and how her perspective has changed
• Joe Dispenza’s work regarding how perceptions influence our health
• Wendy shares the ancient Hawaiian wisdom describing the nature of the self: the soul cluster
• Importance of encouraging people to investigate possibilities regarding their health for themselves
• How much stress plays a role in wellness
• The connection between the beliefs we have and our health
• Harmonics and frequencies of cells - Energy Genesis light and sound healing chamber
• Importance of sunlight
• Blue zones on earth
• Suffering vs enjoyment
• Having a spiritual perspective to put suffering into perspective 
• The perspective of the higher self
• Wendy proposes the idea that the energetic realm is separate from the realm of consciousness
• What unplugging from the stress of life does to the body
• Important self care tips
• Suzy shares her thoughts regarding why we may be seeing so much cancer
• Value of having an accountability buddy or as Suzy puts it, an “accountabili-buddy” 

To learn more about Dr Suzy Harris and her practice, please visit her website

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Susan Loynd is an old friend who has a story to tell. I’m thrilled that she finally relented to my incessant badgering and came on the show to share that story.

In this episode, Susan shares:

• Her talent for avoidance (hence not coming on my show)
• How powerful facing fears can be (who knew?)
• How Shamanic Healing has been a helpful way to address things she needed to address
• And how this approach is a gentle way to look at difficult stuff
• How she pushed herself to take risks and try improv, stand-up comedy, and acting
• The road to her new passion, storytelling
• A very personal Moth-style story that she’s presented at storytelling venues around Vermont

Also mentioned: Wendy’s other podcast, that she co-hosts with her buddy Claire (that’s irreverent and frequently inappropriate and not for everyone, which probably makes you want to listen even more) is: Inside the Box with Claire and Wendy Because Life Isn’t Absurd Enough

Visit Wendy's website, Lucid Path Wellness

Herbalist and health coach Marie Frohlich generously offered to come back on the podcast to help me talk about the Energy Genesis (or EG), the healing chamber I acquired 5 years ago and the catalyst for opening Lucid Path Wellness in Montpelier, Vermont. 

In this episode we discuss:

• How I learned about this technology
• My first mind-blowing experience 
• The prevalence of stress in our culture and how the EG gives your nervous system a delicious reset
• Marie’s experience in the EG: “A massage with sound and light”
• How injuries and traumas get encoded 
• And how the vibrations in the EG can reveal old injuries
• The concept of “retracing” old injuries and bringing them gently into harmony
• The recommended EG protocol of 3 sessions in 3 consecutive days
• The releases that can happen
• The challenge of putting the EG experience into words
• Paradigm shift: Your Body Can Heal Itself
• How the EG puts the body in self-healing mode
• How each experience is unique
• Common feedback users give
• Chronic issues like Lyme disease 
• Sessions process over time
• How I choose music for each session
• Effects of percussion on the body
• Diagnosis not relevant when doing EG treatment
• How sessions can deepen your meditation practice
• Addressing claustrophobia
• Data collected

Check out Energy Genesis testimonials

To connect with Marie Frohlich, please visit her on the web:

mariefrohlich.com

Taproot Herbals

To connect with Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley and to learn more about Lucid Path Wellness, please visit her website