I'm Annie Margaret, PhD.

Welcome to Soul School. 🌌

I share the origin story of Soul School — from my first direct experiences of non-local consciousness (out-of-body vision, flooding white light, and the transmission of love, joy, and the liberation of all beings) to the creation of a new model of education for a post-materialist world.

✨ What it means to ask if consciousness is foundational or just a byproduct of the brain.

✨ The “Brain as Filter” model of consciousness.

✨ Stories from students of visions, seraphim, and premonitions

.✨ Why current education is failing students — filling their “filters” with unnecessary content, stress and emptiness instead of cultivating intuition, discernment, and connection to Source.

✨ Student survey data showing:

42% of students report out-of-body experiences.

50% report transcendent or mystical experiences.

71% say they feel a deep need for meaning and purpose.

64% say extrasensory perception is real (and another 21% say “I don’t know”).

I share a powerful moment of support from a university administrator who resonated with Soul School, calling my work “an important mission that will authentically guide students out of tremendous suffering.”

The message is clear: these aren’t fringe anomalies — they are lived experiences shaping the inner worlds of our students. If universities won’t recognize this, then something new must rise. Soul School is that rising. A place to tune our instruments to love, peace, to restore our imaginations — and to remember that the free world is inevitable.

WE ARE FREE. WE ARE FREE. WE ARE FREE.

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Disclaimer: I work for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. My colleagues and immediate administrators are in no way part of the educational problem I am describing in this episode. Our students have way more freedom than most. And I'm not just saying that to play it safe, I'm way past that ;-) They're truly wonderful people and I want to be clear who I AM (and am NOT) referring to.

This episode is a heartfelt offering about the reunion of science and spirit, intellect and intuition, self and Source. I reflect on the prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor, the grief and praise in my own awakening from scientism, and why I am creating Soul School — a space for cultivating our unique connection to the larger consciousness system.This is a love letter to the artists who welcomed me back, the scientists who still might be listening, and anyone navigating the collapse of our information ecosystem with curiosity in the mind and compassion in the heart.— Consciousness as foundational— Why Soul School?— Reconciling science with lived experience— The prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor— The necessity of holding curiosity and compassion— Grief, trust, and the courage to believe in a more beautiful worldIf you’re still here: thank you.The Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor at Turtle Lodgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIrp9tA0ssThe Eagle & The Condor Prophecy: Elder's Interpretations, From Several Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUTLRST-Tw

SOUL SCHOOL

Wednesdays630-730pm MT

Starting August 27, 2025🎧 Subscribe for more episodes of Something Else Entirely📸 Follow on Instagram: @annie.are.we.okay^DM for Soul School link

This is not an episode I planned to create.

I’m not here to convince anyone to change their beliefs. There is no sense in that.

I know the truth of what I saw, and continue to see.

This experience changed me.

Science supports my lived experience. Scientism does not.

Please enjoy it...

🧠 A conversation with a skeptical scientist friend (who I love dearly)

🌀 Gnosis and the art of “seeing for yourself”

🧘‍♀️ Meditative states and accessing information across space and time

💔 The vulnerability of trying to validate spiritual experiences in a materialist world

❤️ Why remembering who we really are is the key to our future

✨ Soul School Office Hours, beginning August 27 — a free weekly zoom gathering for those curious about consciousness, near-death experiences, intention, healing, and the next evolution of what it means to be human.

Thank you to Laura Inserra for the music! https://www.laurainserra.com/

Stay tuned on Instagram @annie.are.we.okay

The transmission of love and joy and the liberation of all beings.

May we grow stronger in spirit.

In this episode of Something Else Entirely, I sit down with my dear friend Jason King, a tantric teacher and facilitator of intimacy and embodiment practices, for a heart-centered conversation about queerness, desire, and the spiritual journey of becoming.We explore queerness not just as an identity, but as an energetic and evolutionary force. What happens when we view identity through the lens of non-dual consciousness? What does tantra teach us about authentic desire, expansion, and creative expression? And how do we make peace with the boxes we build — even as we desire to break free from them?This episode is a meditation on the complexity of being, the longing to be whole, and the courage it takes to live in alignment. 🔹 Topics we explore:Tantra’s perspective on desire and soul expressionQueerness as spiritual archetype and evolutionary energyThe dance between identity, labels, and liberationMoral vs. spiritual bypassingWhat it means to align with your inner truth📍 Disclaimer: We are not scholars of queer theory or gender studies. This is an intimate conversation between two friends, sharing lived experience, reflection, and spiritual exploration.🎧 Listen, feel, take what resonates, and let the rest compost.

What happens when you leave your body… and come back changed forever?In this powerful episode, Fitz shares the near-death experience that completely transformed his life—from suicidal depression to a deep sense of purpose rooted in love. After a mountain biking accident left him in a coma, Fitz witnessed a life review unlike anything he could have imagined. What he saw—and felt—on the other side gave him a reason to live, and a message for all of us: love is not just a word. It's a state of being.We explore the difference between dissociation and spiritual awakening, how real love feels in the body, and what it means to truly choose life.This is an episode about remembering who you are… and why you're here.🎧 In This Episode:-Fitz’s childhood intuition and precognitive dreams-The accident that led to a coma and near death experience-A life review through the smiles of loved ones-Depression, dissociation, and what changed-The true meaning of Love—and how to live it like children do-Why so many young people are suffering and how to remember the truth of your soul

In this deeply personal and thought-provoking episode, Edwin (they/them) joins me for a conversation about sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, inherited spiritual phenomena, and the strange beauty of visionary dreams—including one that featured a Bible verse: 1 Corinthians 12 about gifts of the Spirit. Edwin was not raised in the Church, is not religious, and has never read the Bible. WHERE DOES THAT INFORMATION COME FROM??!We talk about consciousness as foundational to reality, the experience of nonlocal perception, and the importance of recognizing and cultivating our spiritual gifts—especially in a world that often demands we suppress or deny them.If you've ever had sleep paralysis, strange visions, or the unshakable feeling that your mind can be somewhere else entirely… you are not alone.🕯 Topics include:-Intergenerational sleep paralysis and visions-What it really means to leave your body-Dreams including a vision of Corinthians 12 (on spiritual gifts)-Why younger generations may be more psychically attuned-The failure of materialism to hold these truths-Consciousness, community, and ecosystem healing-Imagining a better world—one spiritual gift at a time🔔 Subscribe for more consciousness-expanding conversations, spiritual realism, and things too weird to say in the classroom.

This 20-minute guided meditation invites you to reconnect with your body, calm your nervous system, and return to the present moment with compassion. We begin with gentle movement to help you get the wiggles out—because embodiment matters—before sinking into a deeply restorative body scan. From there, we invite softness into the muscles, the mind, and finally the heart.You’ll be guided through:Gentle somatic awareness and movementA full-body relaxation scanBrain hemisphere softeningLoving-kindness (metta) meditationWhether you’re transitioning between meetings or decompressing after a long day, this practice offers a moment of calm, clarity, and compassion—available anytime you need it.

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend to explore the wild world of dreaming. Lucid dreams, recurring dreams, and "prophetic" dreams that defy linearity of time and are incompatible with the mainstream scientific worldview, but completely normal, and even expected, within a post-materialist worldview. Ilana shares personal stories of precognitive experiences, including one dream that may have saved her from a dangerous situation in rural Ecuador.

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-The connection between dreams and meditation

-How fish oil unexpectedly led to nightly lucid dreaming

-What it means to develop noetic skills like clairvoyance and intuition

-The challenges of integrating mystical experiences into daily life

-Why cultivating presence and rest is essential for navigating nonphysical realms

What if your dog actually knows when you’re coming home?

What if your cat is trying to tell you something... and you're just not listening?

In this episode, I sit down with my sweet neighbor Martin - retired firefighter, engineer, and floppy disc inventor - who surprised me one afternoon by casually mentioning he'd taken animal communication classes.

Our dogs are best friends, so when he mentioned this in the backyard, and I had to stop him mid-sentence to hit “record.”

We talk about his firsthand experiences learning to communicate with animals, the eerie accuracy of telepathic readings in class, and what it feels like when you suddenly know something you shouldn’t. Along the way, I dive into the science and history of animal telepathy, including the bizarre and well-documented Soviet experiments on circus dogs, rabbits, and long-distance mind-reading.

BOOKS:

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. Rupert Sheldrake. 1999.

Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery. Rupert Sheldrake. 2012.

MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSsBczNOEBs&t=2857s&ab_channel=JimmyAkin

In this episode of Something Else Entirely, we dive into the deep end — near-death experiences (NDEs), the science behind them, and what they might be telling us about consciousness itself. It started with a walk and a conversation with my neighbor Laura, who shared a terrifying experience she'd never told anyone before. We explore the thriving research on NDEs, Pam Reynolds’ famous flatline case, and what thousands of people report about being pulled out of their bodies and into the light.

🔎 What if consciousness doesn’t come from the brain, but flows through it?

🧠 What if subjective experience is viewed as valid?

🌌 And what happens when the people who return say it was more real than this life?

Whether you’ve had an NDE, know someone who has, or are just curious about what science can’t explain away, then this one’s for you.

🧬 Dr. Pim van Lommel’s AWARE Study – Cardiologist and NDE researcher

🌐 Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) – Over 5,300 NDEs collected→ https://nderf.org/index.htmhttps://iands.org/

📘 BOOKS

Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander – A neurosurgeon’s own NDE story

Light and Death by Dr. Michael Sabom – Detailed report on the Pam Reynolds case

Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean

The Science of Near-Death Experiences by John C. Hagan III

🎥 Want to explore more NDE stories?https://www.youtube.com/@UC4IFgmVjowpy8D7nXmFZL2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5n2dzN1joUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o96LNLaiDsc