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What does it actually feel like when someone who has died tries to communicate with you—and how can you tell a genuine experience from your own thoughts? Julie Ryan sits down with psychic, remote viewer, shaman, and longtime consciousness-research participant Gail Hayssen to explore spirit communication, signs from deceased loved ones, near-death experiences, remote viewing, precognition, and the evidence surrounding consciousness after death.
For Gail, communication associated with someone who has died can arrive as a physical sensation, sudden knowing, vivid dream, or persistent impression that she feels compelled to share.
But how do you know whether it's really them?
Julie and Gail explore what these experiences feel like, why they can be profoundly meaningful for people experiencing grief, and whether connecting with a deceased loved one can help someone feel less alone after loss.
Gail also discusses research into the survival of consciousness, including the work supported by Robert Bigelow and investigations into whether consciousness may continue beyond bodily death.
Then the conversation gets even stranger.
Gail takes Julie behind the scenes of her decades of participation in remote-viewing and psi experiments with researchers including Dean Radin and Russell Targ. She describes experiments in which she attempted to perceive targets she couldn't conventionally see—including experiences she interpreted as accessing information before a target was selected.
What could experiences like these suggest about intuition, consciousness, and our perception of time?
Gail also shares her deeply personal journey, including a near-death experience during childbirth, her relationships with Indigenous and shamanic traditions, and her initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in Mongolia.
Julie and Gail explore:
What does spirit communication actually feel like?
Can deceased loved ones still reach us?
What does research say about survival of consciousness?
Can the mind perceive information across distance—or even time?
Are some people naturally more intuitive than others?
Can intuitive abilities be developed?
And if time isn't as linear as it appears, what does that mean for our lives?
Finally, Julie asks her signature question:
Why do we incarnate?
Whether you've experienced an extraordinary dream about someone who died, wondered whether a sign was really from your loved one, or questioned how far human consciousness might extend, this conversation will leave you thinking differently about what may be possible.
Guest Biography:
Gail Hayssen is a psychic, remote viewer, shaman, podcast host, and longtime participant in scientific research exploring psychic and paranormal phenomena. Experiencing precognitive dreams and other unusual phenomena since childhood, Gail later trained in remote perception and medical intuition and has participated in experiments with prominent researchers including Dr. Dean Radin and Russell Targ since the late 1990s. Her extraordinary life has included a near-death experience during childbirth, deep relationships with Indigenous and shamanic communities in Mexico, Alaska, and Mongolia, and initiation as a Buriat White Shaman in 2011. She has participated in numerous psi and remote-viewing studies, appears in Russell Targ’s documentary Third Eye Spies, and was featured in research discussed in Dr. Radin’s Supernormal. Gail is also the host of the podcast A Small Medium at Large, where she explores consciousness, psychic phenomena, spirituality, and the unexplained.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:00) What Does Spirit Communication Actually Feel Like?
(0:01:50) Is Talking to the Dead Real?
(0:05:13) Is There Evidence for Life After Death?
(0:07:05) Gail’s Near-Death Experience During Childbirth
(0:15:23) Can Spirit Communication Help Heal Grief?
(0:18:40) What Shamanic Traditions Have in Common
(0:25:25) Can Your Mind See Something Miles Away?
(0:31:28) Inside Gail’s Psychic Experiments With Dean Radin
(0:36:09) The Science of Remote Viewing
(0:43:17) Can Anyone Develop Psychic Abilities?
(0:44:56) What If Time Isn’t Really Linear?
(0:47:43) Can Your Thoughts Affect Your Future?
(0:49:50) Why Do We Incarnate?
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