In this expansive and deeply reflective 6th episode of The Metaphysical Word, Rev. Liz Harlow and licensed Unity teacher Daryn Wells enter into an articulate exploration of the psychic realm. The conversation serves to deepen our understanding of the psychic realm by demystifying it, grounding it, and placing it firmly within the framework of spiritual law and metaphysical understanding. This poignant conversation is guided by the reality that Rev. Liz works professionally in what we call the “psychic” realm in her facilitation as a spiritual medium and energy healer, as she is known as a “psychic” to many of her clients who come to her for spiritual facilitation.

Rev. Liz opens the conversation by anchoring listeners in Unity teachings, drawing from How I Used Truth by Emily Cady and Teach Us to Pray by Charles Fillmore to define the psychic realm as the mental or soul plane. This is the field of consciousness where thoughts, emotions, and ideas take form before manifesting into physical reality. Rather than treating the psychic as mystical or extraordinary, she reframes it as a natural phase of human awareness: the intermediary space between spirit (the divine “I Am”) and the body (manifest expression), where we engage with the soul (consciousness). In this mental plane, or psychic realm, individuals actively shape mental forms, which later become lived experience.

Throughout the episode, both Rev. Liz and Daryn emphasize a key distinction: the psychic realm is not inherently spiritual. It contains both aligned and misaligned thought forms, including what Unity metaphysics describes as “errors in thought.” These errored thought forms are energetic patterns that only gain power through attention and identification. Because of this, the practice of discernment becomes essential. Listeners are invited into the discipline of “holding the high watch,” a teaching rooted in the words of Jesus, meaning the ongoing cultivation of awareness that allows one to distinguish between what is of divine mind and what is not.

The conversation deepens as Rev. Liz shares insights from her own work in the energetic and intuitive field, addressing common misconceptions about psychic abilities. She speaks candidly about human temptation to use such faculties to predict outcomes, control circumstances, or demonstrate personal will. Instead, she redirects the focus toward inner mastery, understanding that true spiritual power lies not in manipulating the psychic realm, but in aligning with divine law as it expresses through the psychic realm into manifestation, or material demonstration.

Daryn expands on this by bringing in the symbolic interpretation of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, particularly the call to “turn stones into bread.” Through a metaphysical lens, this story becomes a teaching on the misuse of power and the illusion that external conditions can be altered outside of divine order. He emphasizes that all transformation begins in consciousness, not in the material world, and that even the Christ operates fully within, not outside of, universal law.

Together, they weave a powerful reminder that the psychic realm is a tool, not a destination. The episode touches on the importance of not confusing heightened perception with spiritual realization. This conversation ultimately invites listeners into a deeper embodiment of their own spiritual authority. It calls forward a grounded awareness that true dominion is not about exerting control over unseen realms, but about living in harmony with divine will, moment by moment, thought by thought.

Whether you are new to metaphysical teachings or deeply immersed in spiritual practice, this episode offers a clear, honest, and practical framework for understanding the psychic realm without distortion. The conversation brings the focus back to where it belongs: inner alignment with truth, love, and the ever-present activity of divine mind.

Session 5 – Prayer, Meditation, and the Wisdom of Emptiness: The Path of Non-Attainment

In this contemplative session, Rev. Liz Harlow and Licensed Unity Teacher Daryn Wells explore the deeper metaphysical dimensions of prayer, meditation, and spiritual mastery. Opening with prayer and the lighting of the Christ candle, the conversation moves into an examination of sense consciousness, intuition, and the development of spiritual awareness through the teachings of Charles Fillmore and the Unity tradition.

Rev. Liz shares her observation that prayer fills the human energy field with divine substance, bringing greater mastery in refining thoughts and emotions in order to demonstrate truth. From that foundation, she reflects on Fillmore’s 1913 sermon, The Extension of the Senses, expanding the discussion into the relationship between prayer and meditation, identifying prayer as the experience of divine substance and meditation as the practice that leads us toward the realization of emptiness.

Drawing from the Heart Sutra and Buddhist wisdom traditions, Rev. Liz explores the paradox of spiritual realization: the attainment of non-attainment. By releasing attachment to phenomena, including spiritual gifts of sense consciousness such as intuition or telepathy, we become open vessels for divine idea so that the Christ presence expresses through us.

Together, they reflect on the unity between Christian mysticism and Buddhism, revealing how these teachings converge on a shared insight: the path of awakening requires both emptiness and divine substance, meditation and prayer, surrender and expression.

The episode also highlights the importance of persistence on the spiritual path through the teaching story of Rumi, reminding listeners that depth is not found by endlessly searching for new paths, but by remaining present long enough to reach the wellspring of truth within.

As the conversation unfolds, the hosts reflect on the Unity principles of prayer, meditation, and demonstration, including the process of spiritual transformation referred to as chemicalization. They emphasize that awakening is not about acquiring power or attaining status, but about releasing attachment so that the divine presence may express fully in and through life.

Through prayer, meditation, and conscious practice, we learn to empty ourselves of attachment and become vessels for the living Christ, the kingdom of heaven expressed here and now.

In this profound and timely conversation, Rev. Liz Harlow and Daryn Wells explore the deeper metaphysical meaning of Leviticus 5:19, “He is certainly guilty before Yahweh,” and what it means to trespass without even knowing we have done so.

Beginning with the law of the trespass offering in Leviticus, Rev. Liz reflects on the mystery of unconscious error: the sin we commit not through defiance, but through unawareness. Guided to Mysteries of John by Charles Fillmore, she uncovers a powerful insight, the sin of omission. Not the wrongdoing we actively choose, but the good we fail to embody. The divine potential we neglect. The inner guidance we override.

Together, Liz and Daryn unpack:

• The metaphysical meaning of sin as “missing the mark”

• The danger of drifting unconsciously rather than claiming our divine identity

• “Somersaulting into the impossible” as an act of spiritual faith

• Dominion over the inner kingdom, even when outer conditions cannot be controlled

• Sacrificing the animal nature as a symbol of transcending survival patterns

• Listening to divine guidance without overriding it with personal will

• The upward pull of grace whispering, “Go forward”

Rev. Liz shares personal reflections on discernment, spiritual sovereignty, and the courage to step away from dynamics that no longer align with divine order. The conversation explores mammalian survival patterns, ancestral memory, and the evolution of consciousness. The episode also examines the journey from ritual sacrifice to embodying the light of Christ.

At the heart of this episode is a living paradox. We are called to demonstrate the Christ in every condition, and we are called to listen deeply to inner guidance about where we are meant to be.

This is a conversation about spiritual maturity, dominion, genetic and energetic evolution, and the power of the Word to activate new realities within us.

If you have ever felt the quiet nudge to rise higher. If you have sensed the difference between divine guidance and personal will. If you are ready to stop drifting and begin consciously aiming at the mark.

This episode is an invitation to remember who you are.

Go forward.

In Healing Science Lineage: The New Thought Continuum, this third episode of The Metaphysical Word, Rev. Liz Harlow and licensed Unity teacher Daryn Wells explore the living lineage of New Thought healing, and our evolving understanding of God, consciousness, and healing science.

The conversation opens with a reflection on the life and contribution of Reverend Paul Hasselbeck, whose work challenged Unity and the wider New Thought movement to expand its language for God beyond anthropomorphic, gendered, and limiting constructs. Building on the foundations laid by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Hasselbeck invited a reframing of God as Principle and encouraged open, spirited dialogue as a catalyst for expanding consciousness.

From this foundation, the episode weaves together scripture, metaphysics, and healing science. Rev. Liz and Daryn reflect on the healing of the crippled woman in Luke 13, recognizing her healing as a natural and lawful expression of spirit moving in divine order through the human energy field.

The discussion then traces a rich historical arc through the healing traditions that inform New Thought. First discussed is Franz Mesmer’s exploration of universal energy and magnetism; Phineas Quimby’s insights into the subconscious mind and mental causation. Next, they discuss Wilhelm Reich’s work with living energy (orgone) and characterology, and the later developments of bioenergetics through Alexander Lowen, John and Eva Pierrakos, and Barbara Brennan. Together, these streams reveal an unfolding understanding of how spirit and science are not in conflict, but complementary tools in the same divine toolbox.

Central to this episode is a call to create balance within language, theology, and the human being itself. Rev. Liz speaks to the necessity of integrating masculine and feminine energies within consciousness as essential to health, wholeness, and the full expression of divine idea. The conversation honors the often-overlooked contributions of women in the New Thought movement while inviting listeners to examine how inherited religious language shapes both personal healing and collective reality.

Throughout the episode, Rev. Liz Harlow and Daryn Wells return to a core Unity truth that consciousness is the vessel through which divine possibility is expressed. As awareness expands, so does our capacity to heal, to grow, and to participate consciously in the ever-expanding universe.

This episode is an invitation to question inherited assumptions or embedded theology, to hold science and spirit as allies, to engage in courageous dialogue, and to allow illumination to move in and through your own life with ease, grace, and joy.

Ezra 3: Laying the Foundation of the New Temple frames this episode of The Metaphysical Word, as Rev. Liz Harlow and licensed Unity teacher Daryn Wells enter a Christ-centered space of reflection and healing. The conversation opens with grounding in the ever-present Christ light and unfolds into an honest exploration of what it means to release former identities while faithfully embodying one’s current spiritual calling.

Rev. Liz shares personal experiences of being repeatedly drawn back into stories from her past life as an international model, as others frequently request these tales of glamour and notoriety. These stories others perceive as glamorous, yet they no longer reflect her current life experience, her lived reality or soul trajectory. Rather than revisiting old narratives, she expresses a desire to witness the “good news” of spiritual awakening, healing that appears miraculous, and the active presence of Christ consciousness that shapes her daily life and ministry.

Rev. Liz expresses being guided to Ezra Chapter 3 as a metaphysical framework for understanding this tension. The rebuilding of the temple becomes a powerful symbol of evolving consciousness: some weep for the former glory of Solomon’s Temple, while others rejoice in the laying of a new foundation. Together, Liz and Daryn explore how spiritual practice, ritual, and discipline prepare the inner ground for transformation, while also acknowledging how ritual can become empty if disconnected from living awareness. The dialogue invites listeners to recognize where they, too, may be honoring old temples while being called to participate in the construction of something new within.

Daryn adds insight from his own religious formation, reflecting on Catholic and Unity traditions, the role of ritual, and the necessity of moving beyond external forms into embodied spiritual understanding. The conversation emphasizes spiritual compassion for others and for oneself, especially where various stages of consciousness coexist, especially in family, community, and social settings.

The episode concludes with a moving tribute to the life, teachings, and recent transition of Unity minister and metaphysical teacher Paul Hasselbeck. Rev. Liz reads his final written Word on peace. The conversation honors his embodiment of metaphysical Christianity and his impact on countless lives. Daryn reflects on Paul’s mastery of language, oneness, and resilience, celebrating his ongoing presence in Christ light.

This episode offers listeners a rich blend of scripture, metaphysical interpretation, lived experience, and prayerful remembrance. This is an invitation to bless the past, remain faithful in  the power of spiritual practice, build the future through the eternal now, and consciously participate in the unfolding of the new temple within.

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In the inaugural episode of The Metaphysical Word, Rev. Liz Harlow and licensed Unity teacher Daryn Wells explore the sacred practice of breaking bread as an expression of living prayer. Drawing from Scripture, Lessons in Truth by Emily Cady, and the writings of Charles Fillmore, this conversation reveals shared nourishment as conscious participation in the spiritual alchemy that occurs in the presence of the multidimensional Christ essence.

Through metaphysical insight, the hosts reflect on how meals shared in spiritual consciousness become amplified experiences of communion with the Divine, where divine substance is consciously received and incorporated into the body temple. As taught in Unity, substance is the underlying spiritual reality that stands beneath all visible form, the living energy out of which life, intelligence, and manifestation emerge. When individuals gather in awareness of the Christ presence, everyday acts such as eating and fellowship become vehicles for spiritual awakening and blessing.

This episode also explores the transformative role of prayer practice in shaping the human energy field. Prayer, silence, and meditation are presented not only as devotional acts, but as spiritual technologies that condition consciousness and draw divine substance into embodied awareness. When one enters prayer, the energy field becomes centered, grounded, and aligned with the indwelling Divine. In this state, the human energy field is ripe with spiritual substance, capable of sustaining healing and demonstrating prosperity in harmony with divine will.

Rev. Liz and Daryn discuss how living prayer creates coherence within and between energy fields, allowing Spirit to move more freely through voice, presence, and community. This prayer-conditioned field stands in contrast to uncentered or fragmented states of awareness, revealing why Unity Center of Illumination places such emphasis on daily spiritual practice. Through prayer consciousness, individuals awaken to themselves as divine ideas in expression, radiating centers through which love, abundance, peace, and wisdom naturally flow.

Listeners are invited to reflect on their own relationship with prayer, nourishment, and communion with the Divine, recognizing themselves as living wellsprings of divine substance continually renewed from Source. This opening episode establishes The Metaphysical Word as a space for sacred dialogue, practical spirituality, and conscious co-creation, a space where everyday life becomes an intentional partnership with the Divine.