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Karah Richardson was born in 2007, spending much of her childhood moving to and exploring new states across America. She met a variety of people though having prosopagnosia (face blindness) made recognizing them a challenge. Karah loves challenges.

Growing up, she had a fascination with studying faces, assuming that she could “learn” how to memorize family and friends by drawing them over and over. This led to a lifelong love of art. She’d blend together a wide variety of separate features and piece them together like a puzzle, relying on others to tell her if it looks “correct.”

Due to such an early start on such a potent hobby in her life, she quickly discovered many teachers, family, and friends wanted to encourage her to cultivate this study into a real-life applicable skill. They helped her branch out beyond her comfort zone of faces into just about anything, allowing her to combine this new joy in art with her deep appreciation for stories.

The Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests are the most prestigious writing and illustrating competitions in the world with the Writers of the Future being in its 43rd year, the Illustrators of the Future in its 38th year and they are judged by the premier names in speculative fiction. Mike Strickland has made a career out of writing everything from marketing copy and finance articles to technical documentation and mobile app messages—and even twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions. Other jobs he's been paid to do include scuba diver, navigator, call center representative, user experience designer, and now, science fiction author. His love of words began with fantasy and sci-fi, where it has now brought him full circle. After a long hiatus from fiction, Mike started writing and publishing again in 2024. A year later, he earned a master's degree in creative writing and won the prestigious Writers of the Future Contest.

Mike currently lives and writes in a Denver, Colorado suburb, but other places he’s called home include San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Japan, Honduras, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and even a 1973 Volkswagen Squareback. He's not sure if this itinerant lifestyle emerged from his love of travel or vice versa, but his wanderings have undeniably inspired his writing.

The story idea for “As Long as You Both Shall Live” was born from a dream two days before the Writers of the Future contest deadline. Mike wrote most of the story on the day of the deadline itself—his most prolific day of writing yet. The inspiration that powered such output focused on this question: “If technology allowed a person’s consciousness to be transferred to a virtual environment, disconnected from their physical body, what would happen if that person’s body died while their consciousness was in that state?” Mike explores the ethical questions inherent in this premise through the context of a hopeful love story—as all the best stories are told.

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Not just an aircraft": U.S. Navy revolutionary MQ-25 Stingray drone just hit a major milestone with maiden flight — with largest US UAV ever built set to become world's first autonomous tanker to fly from an aircraft carrier and maybe one day feature in a Top Gun movie Iran’s regime has so far withstood U.S. and Israeli bombardment, but the economic forces that sparked the most serious conflict in decades have only gotten more severe. Jeff Bezos Selling $500M Yacht Amid Reports He’s ‘Hanging on for Dear Life’ with His New Wife as He ‘Bankrolls’ the Met Gala The US Navy shot out the rudder of an Iran blockade runner with a Super Hornet's 20 mm cannon China sentences former defence ministers to death with reprieve Bright lights and hot orbs: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation to the public

Homeland Security filmed a UFO over Puerto Rico - then it hit the ocean Scientist accidentally finds shortcut to Mars that could slash travel time in half The US Navy Just Sent a Powerful Message to Iran Democrats dealt major blow as Virginia Supreme Court tosses new map Woman dies for 20 minutes and returns with a message about Earth FBI files reveal reports of 'four-foot tall' beings emerging from UFOs Watch NASA discover something strange on the surface of Mars Ancient lost city found off Cuba stuns scientists

Golden Pen Award Winner Michael T. Kuester from Cincinnati, Ohio, with his story “In Living Color,” and Golden Brush Award Winner Bohuslav “Bafu” Argalas from Ruzomberok, Slovakia, with his illustration of the story “Saffron and Marigolds.”

Michael is an engineer by day, a science fiction writer by night. An avid hiker and cooking enthusiast, he is a passionately curious individual and lives his life by the motto “In the twenty-first century, there’s no excuse for an unanswered question.” His story, “In Living Color,” evolved into a surprisingly personal allegory for social isolation, generational misunderstanding, and neurodivergence.

Bafu began drawing before he learned to read or write. That passion led him to study art at the private school of Applied Arts in Zilina and later at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. Bafu creates illustrations and comics filled with humor, emotion, and a touch of the strange, hoping to make people smile, think, and drift away from reality—even just for a moment.

Michael can be found at michaeltkuester.com/

Bafu can be found at www.bafu.art/

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Spirit Switchboard

Episode #159

May 8th,2026

Aliens and The Near Death Experience

Guest: P.M.H Atwater

What happens when near-death experiences and alien contact seem to point toward the same larger mystery? This week on Spirit Switchboard, welcomes P.M.H. Atwater, one of the leading voices in NDE research, to discuss her latest book, Aliens and the Near-Death Experience. From luminous beings and altered consciousness to cosmic communication and life beyond the body, this conversation may challenge what you think you know about death, contact, and the universe itself.

Guest Bio:

P. M. H. Atwater, LHD, is a distinguished researcher of near-death experiences, a prayer chaplain, spiritual counselor, and visionary. The author of 27 books, including Coming Back to Life, Future Memory, We Live Forever, The New Children and Near-Death Experiences, and Children of the Fifth World, she lives in

Charlottesville, Virginia.

Guest Links:

Website: http://www.pmhatwater.com/

Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/michelle_desrochers1031/

Host Links:

https://linktr.ee/kerrilynn.shellhorn

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A formal disclaimer: The opinions and information presented or expressed by guests on Spirit Switchboard are not necessarily those of the Host or the United Public Radio Network/UFO Paranormal Radio Network and its producers. As always Spirit Switchboard strives to hold space for open, respectful dialogue with show guests and listeners.

Fr. Shawn’s Paranormal Ministry welcomes back Samuel Chong

May 8th, 2026

EP: 60

Topic: The Divine Order of the Universe

BIO:

Samuel is a Motivational Keynote Speaker on Wellness and Positivity

Jiulio Consiglio, LIVE, May 8th, 2026 Friday, 3 PM ET

Title: The Ego’s Role in Ascension: Why Your Ego Might Be Blocking Your Spiritual Evolution

Bio:

Jiulio is a former dental health care provider and educator turned spiritual writer and teacher. Following several personal adversities, Consiglio, while in his early thirties, experienced an unfathomable and life-altering spiritual transformation that resulted in the transcendence of the conditioned mind. His writings and teachings focus on the transformative power of inner stillness, psychic abilities development, and the mind-body-spirit connection.

His message is unadorned and to the point: there is life beyond fear and incessant thinking and it is found in the dimension of inner stillness. Jiulio currently offers his consciousness-based teachings to individuals and groups. Jiulio is the author of Challenge Your Thoughts: Healing Mind, Spirit and Body with Truth, The Healing Frequency: Transform Your Life through the Wisdom, Power and Clarity of Inner Stillness, Open Your Third Eye: Activate Your Sixth Chakra & Develop Your Psychic Abilities, Cosmic Contact: Spiritual Insights into Triangular UFOs, Extraterrestrial Communication & Encounter Preparation, collaborative author of Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace, Your Inner Healer: Using Chakras and Energy Medicine to Achieve Wholeness and Your Highest Vibration: Realize Your Full Potential through Chakra Work and Meditation (2026).

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/jiulioconsiglio/?hl=en

https://www.tiktok.com/@jiulioconsiglio

https://www.facebook.com/jiulioconsiglio

https://m.youtube.com/@jiulioconsiglio

https://www.jiulioconsiglio.com

The Outer Realm welcomes the return of Marilynn Hughes

Date: May 7th, 2026

EP: 716

TOPIC: Tonight Marilynn Hughes returns to talk about her new book “ The Sutra of the Ounce- The Ounce of the Vow for the Creatures of the Earth“ . An ounce is enough. An ounce of attention. An ounce of care. An ounce of love quietly offered. In these small gestures, illumination blooms — subtle, persistent, and enduring.

Contact for the show -

Michelle Desrochers and The Outer Realm :https://linktr.ee/michelledesrochers_

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About Marilynn:

"Marilynn Hughes founded The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation in 2003 (Mission: Reduce Spiritual Hunger Worldwide). Marilynn has experienced, researched, written, and taught about Out of Body Travel and Mysticism since 1987 and has spoken on dozens of radio and television programs to discuss her thousands of out of body experiences.

She has studied the Ancient Sacred Texts of all Major and Minor World Religions, as well as Catholic Mystical, Ascetical, Biblical, Doctrinal, Dogmatic, Systematic, Liturgical, Catechetical and Moral Theology. She has also studied Individual Schools of Theology, to include Franciscan, Carmelite, Ignatian, Dominican, and Benedictine. Marilynn has also trained as a Remote Viewer in Transdimensional, Controlled and Associative Remote Viewing and is a Hypnotherapist. She received certifications in various psychological and therapeutic modalities including NLP, REBT, CBT, ACT, DBT, MBCT, EFT, TFT, SFBT and NBA Therapies.

Marilynn Hughes has authored 138 books, 40 magazines and 18 CD's on Out of Body Travel and Comparative Religious Mysticism including her seminal classic The Mysteries of the Redemption: A Treatise on Out-of-Body Travel and Mysticism, which was in development to become a feature film/tv series. She was featured in the documentary film, The Road to Armageddon: A Spiritual Documentary, and in Documentary Film Productions: The Grand Phases of the Soul, The Stairway from Earth to Heaven, How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience, The Tao of Mysticism, The Initiations into the Mysteries, The Rites of Passage, The Prayer of the Twelfth Hour and At the Feet of the Masters.

She is the author of an English Language Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts, The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages (In Twelve Volumes). Her out of body travel work has been featured in The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World, by Constance Victoria Briggs and in Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness, (along with Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Ingo Swann) by Dr. Thomas Streicher. KC Armstrong, (Former Producer of the Howard Stern Show), in his book named Marilynn as one of thirteen Simply Amazing Women.

Marilynn Hughes has been the subject of several Research Studies including The Out-of-Body Experiment by Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko. Marilynn Hughes and Dr. Rudy Schild (Professor Emeritus Astrophysics Harvard) co-authored a chapter entitled The Science for Moral Law. She has been featured to speak about Out-of-Body Travel on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell, the Joan Rivers Show among others. Marilynn Hughes was on the the original board of The Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraordinary Experiences and is a continuing contributor.

Marilynn Hughes

The Out-of-Body Travel Foundation

https://outofbodytravel.org

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Paranormal Insight welcomes Jen & Mondo from 305 Paranormal on the show.

A husband and wife team of paranormal investigators.

May 7th, 2026

EP: 78

BIO:

Jenny and Mondo, a husband-and-wife team also known as 305 Paranormal, and are paranormal investigators from South Florida.

Jenny and Mondo host a live podcast show every Sunday evening on YouTube called Spooked Coast to Coast, with another paranormal couple who reside on the west coast. During these live shows they interview many other paranormal investigators, equipment builders, mediums, and haunted location owners and more under the paranormal umbrella.

Jenny and Mondo have been featured on multiple segments for both local Spanish TV networks Univision and Telemundo and they also have been featured on many different podcasts as guest speakers.

They also help host events in various haunted locations in South Florida and provide educational investigations at these public events.

LINKS:

https://linktr.ee/305paranormal

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