Over the years friends, family, colleagues, and sometimes complete strangers have shared personal stories with me of encounters with departed loved ones or with unknown entities that couldn't be explained away. These stories have always intrigued me both
In Season 2, Episode 2 of Spirited Conversations, Pamela shares encounters with a presence that warns and guides her through experiences ranging from a haunted house in her youth to adulthood spaces evidencing a negative presence, including a home with her infant son and a male friend's house that was a "really good buy" with a history. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Falling Into Presence by Borrtex (Falling Into Presence). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In the Season 2 opener of Spirited Conversations, Tim relates encounters with spirit during his Mother's final hours and in a rooming house that was formerly a hospital, and recounts reports of a haunted theatre, a moving experience related to chanting, and his belief about the afterlife. Tim and Teri compare memories from their high school days. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Trees In The Wind by Daniel Birch (Music for Audio Podcasts Vol. 1). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In the Season 1 finale, Episode 12 of Spirited Conversations, Liz discusses a sensitivity to spirit that has followed her throughout her life across distance and time, a gift shared by family across generations and witnessed by friends and family. She relates visitations by human, animal, and other entities; sounds of moving furniture, footsteps, music, voices, and navigation frequencies; experiences of sleep paralysis; preparation by spirit to guide souls to the afterlife; and the spiritual gifts of animals. This episode is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Warm Fingers by Blue Dot Sessions (Piano Mover). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In Episode 11 of Spirited Conversations, I engage in my family's version of StoryCorps with my older brother. Craig shares dreams of falling and flying, a near death experience and white light dream, a first encounter with death and loss, an adolescent dabbling with levitation, a shadowy manifestation of a beloved cat, and his personal philosophy about spirituality and religion. He also relates his recollection of our shared encounter with spirit at a haunted B & B. We even pick up a few electronic voice phenomena (EVPs) just as we discuss the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Coldnoise - Remember (Who Are We). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In episode 10 of Spirited Conversations, Jamie shares personal stories about encounters with spirit in a nursing home, her childhood home, and a ghost town, and in hotels and B & Bs in Arizona, Florida, and Tuscany, Italy. She relates a childhood incident in which spirit intervened to save her life, describes how she experiences light and dark entities, and how she establishes boundaries. We also learn the magical power of M & Ms and capture an attempt by spirit to interfere with our interview. Pass the M & Ms, please! Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Plusplus - Piano Song (Psycho). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In episode 9 of Spirited Conversations, Bonnie shares her experiences with premonitions, ghostly occurrences, encounters with negative entities, and her understanding of the connection between seemingly serendipitous events and entanglement theory. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), Krackatoa - All Roads Lead Home (Dry Creek), and Borrtex - Our Home (Our Home). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In episode eight of Spirited Conversations, childhood friend Naomi shares personal experiences with the mischievous spirit of her father-in-law and the deaths of her father, mother, and sister. We discuss our shared faith and cultural traditions, encounters with eagles and doves, reference Erma Bombeck, and explore the challenge of "what do we do with the things?" after losing cherished family members. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race) and Allysen Callery (Gentle Is The Angel That Blows The Candle Out). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In episode seven of Spirited Conversations, Joy and Jay share experiences with deceased grandparents and other entities, including a cherished pet and a tender experience with an unborn child. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), and Kristina Budzhiashvili - The Promise (Memories). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In the sixth episode of Spirited Conversations, Sandi shares experiences with past lives, dreams, spirits, and an encounter with Big Foot. She offers her philosophy of good and evil, life and death, healing and suffering, and the importance of acceptance and forgiveness. Sandi's empathic heart and soul traverse time and space as she explains that everyone has a story to tell and references her Chippewa heritage, The Shack, Michael Newman, Ram Dass, the music of Nat King Cole and John Prine, and her life in Hawaii. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), Yusuke Tsutsumi (Heaven), and Daniel Birch (Music Box & Sunshine). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
In the fifth episode of Spirited Conversations, Chandra shares her journey from a childhood steeped in Catholicism to adult explorations of mysticism. She shares early experiences with hypnosis and past life regression and a life-changing visit with a medium which ultimately leads her on a path of mantras, meditation, and yoga. She discusses the influence of mystics, healers, and philosophers including Edward Cayce, Caroline Myss, Ram Dass, and Henry David Thoreau. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), Dlay (On My Mind, Truth Day), and Siddhartha Corsus (Let Go of Time - and Time Will Let Go of You, Gayatri Mantra - Tapestry of Light, Heart Sutra - Gate Gate). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
The fourth episode of Spirited Conversations features a conversation with Susan, who shares a life-changing premonition and her explanations about what others may consider to be paranormal experiences. She explains hypnagogic, "the drowsy state that occurs in the transition from wakefulness to sleep" and hypnagogic hallucination, "transient, dreamlike image[s] experienced while falling asleep" (American Psychiatric Association, 2020), and shares her personal philosophy and beliefs about experiences she's had that she can't quite explain away. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), The Ghost in Your Piano (Flux, Climb, Lullaby, Adventure) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
This third episode features a conversation with Jody, who shares her experiences with a protective presence that has been with her since childhood. Sometimes a strong feeling, sometimes appearing as a crow, the presence has taken on different forms over time, but always appears when she is in need of support. We share our lived experience as empaths and discuss the importance of trusting and internalizing self-protective instincts. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Teri (When Two Hearts Race), The Ghost in Your Piano (Climb, Lullaby); Horse Sound Effect (Horse Clydesdale 6 by SFX Producer) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
This second episode features a conversation with my dear friend and former colleague, Deb, who shares her experiences including a Ouija board, timely interventions, mediums, miracles, and dreams. She introduces me to the Mandorla, symbolizing where heaven meets earth. Music Credits: Intro/Outro: Teri (When Two Hearts Race); Transitions: Just A Little Bit More, Teri (Where Heaven Meets Earth) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support
This first episode features my conversation with a dear friend I've known for many years from whom I heard my very first story about an experience with spirit. Patricia shares her experiences ranging from moving objects to premonitions to an apparition, and we discuss the importance of setting boundaries with spirit to prevent unwanted intrusions and creating a psychologically safe place to discuss these experiences. Music Credits: Intro/Outro by Teri; Transitions by The Ghost in Your Piano (Flux, Lullaby); Pennies Sound Effect by Sarah Weis (Pennies From Heaven) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teri-kennedy1/support