BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins
by Normalize Talking to the Dead
Have you ever wondered what it means to talk with the dead? What lies beyond what we know? Join me as we explore not just life after death, but the mysteries that surround us every day—waiting to be discovered.Tiffany Hopkins began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage in Lily Dale, the world's largest community of Spiritualists. She combines a university-trained mind with a universe-connected heart in her work a medium, writer, and researcher. She’d like you to join her over at NormalizeTalkingtotheDead.com
Episodes
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ChatGPT's Digital Mediumship
Prompted by a recent opinion piece in the New York Times on techno-spiritualism, I invited ChatGPT to the podcast to unpack what’s happening when people use it for mediumship-style messages. What does it mean when a machine generates something that feels deeply personal or emotionally resonant?…
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Mediumship as a process
In this episode of BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins, Tiffany shares her personal approach to mediumship, breaking down the mysterious practice into a simple, seven-step process. Drawing on her experience in the tech world creating systems and recognizing patterns, Tiffany offers a practical framework...
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Joanna Ebenstein's Momento Mori
Joanna Ebenstein's latest book, Momento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, is the culmination of her almost 20 years of research into the human experience of death. In this episode, Joanna and I discuss the afterlife and its importance not just historically but as a felt,...
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Mediumship vocabulary
For us to communicate with each other about mediumship, we need shared vocabulary! For Beyond: A Living Person's Guide to the Dead, I created a glossary and put it up on the Normalize Talking to the Dead website for anyone to use. The words I talked through today include: medium, contact, source,...
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Marcella Kroll's Healing the Liminal
Meet artist, author, and teacher Marcella Kroll as we discuss her brand new book Healing the Liminal. Hear about her deeply connected creative process and how she brings the liminal into every aspect of daily life. Marcella shows us that the mystical and the mundane are not as distant as we might...
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Mediumship as a constellation of skills
There's more to mediumship than being psychic. This episode unpacks the constellation of communication, interpersonal, physiological, psychological, and other learnable skills that can be used to be a medium. Take a deeper look into what makes you, you and how to use your inherent traits and life...
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Dr. Tracy Rainwaters' Animal Connection
Meet Dr. Tracy Rainwaters, an animal chiropractor, shamanic practitioner and an interspecies intuitive channel. She shares her experience offering chiropractic care for animals, especially horses, and discovering her intuitive ability to communicate with them. This episode explores the...
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My Favorite Books of 2024
Here are the books that made my year! Plus one for next year and a few from the past couple years. I mentioned Joanna & my class on June 25th about our books that you can learn about on Lily Dale’s website. And you can pre-order my book Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead! Rest is...
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Behind the scenes of a reading with Lily Dale medium Celeste Elliott
Join me to experience registered Lily Dale medium Celeste Elliott give my friend Kindra her first ever mediumship reading live on the show. We debrief afterward about share what it was like to give, receive, and observe the reading to better understand what happened. All along the way, Celeste...
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Mediumship as a Personal Practice with Mikella Millen
While much of what we see about mediumship in the public sphere is professional, paid service, there are many of us practicing mediumship in a quiet and personal way. Join Mikella Millen and me as we discuss what it looks like for us to do mediumship just for ourselves and our spirit people....
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Sitting in Circle with Stacy Schuerman
For generations, learning Spiritualist mediumship meant sitting in development or unfoldment circles. Now we have books, classes, intensives, and all sorts of faster methods to learn how to talk to the dead. Stacy and I are joined by my mom, Molly Harrison, to hold a tiny circle for you all to...
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Season Premiere
Meet your host and hear about how this fifth podcast season has evolved from Unknown Unknown to Normalize Talking to the Dead on Lily Dale Radio to its newest incarnation as BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins.
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Welcome to BEYOND with Tiffany Hopkins
Have you ever wondered what it means to talk with the dead? What lies beyond what we know? Join me as we explore not just life after death, but the mysteries that surround us every day—waiting to be discovered. This is a space for anyone—whether you're experienced in psychic practices, or newly...
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AI and UFOs: Intersections of the Unknown
This is the last episode of the season! Tiffany goes long on AI and UFOs / UAPs, giving you the latest on both and why they are so related to mediumship. Plus a ChatGPT contact event, why we need to rebrand the term 'aliens', and a few ways to think about both that are less overwhelming and scary.
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Mediumship as Data Collection
Nerd out with Tiffany as she talks through her ways of making decisions by collecting data through the mind, body, heart, and soul. Yes, really, mediumship can be research, and no, this will not permit you to say 'Spirit told me to'. The image is me in a server circa 2007.
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Reading Reading Reading
In learning mediumship, the second most important thing (after practice) is exposing yourself to new perspectives, techniques, and ideas around your practice. This year I got a whole bunch of new mediumship books for the comparative titles section of my proposal for a book on mediumship. Here are...
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Getting Into Sorts
There are many ways to find presence. Let me share what I do for mindfulness/bodifulness, to change my state, or to prepare for spiritual work. I'll talk you through a half dozen techniques I use daily. Try them out during a brief meditation at the end, then make your own!
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Post-Eclipse Meditation
Join host Tiffany Hopkins for a meditation to rest, rejuvenate, and acquaint ourselves with all the new information that has come in through this eclipse season.
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The Potency of Care with Chioma Ume
Chioma Ume helps us understand how attention and focus on the people (and spirits) in our life can work like magic to create connection and facilitate communication. Chioma is a writer, empath, and seeker who does design research and brand strategy alongside being a death doula. Intro music En...
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Channeling Precepts for Channeling
Get to know what Mediumship for Creativity means for Unknown Unknown host Tiffany Hopkins, and try your hand at a little automatic drawing. Tiffany gives the backstory to her Mediumship for Creativity classes, including the foundational precepts for the practice, which came through while using…
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Artfully Accessing The Mental Filing Cabinet with Marianne McCarthy
Marianne McCarthy, an artist, art educator, and practicing medium, joins Unknown Unknown to discuss the similarities between art and mediumship. Marianne and Tiffany explore the importance of cultivating both openness and structure in both an art and mediumship practice. Your host is Tiffany J....
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Beyond Words with John A. Rice
Get to know NYC-based artist John A. Rice and his in-progress project Beyond Words. John specializes in oil pastels and came to Lily Dale as part of a residency with Normalize Talking To The Dead. He shares his process working with our mediums and holding his own art séance to bring through...
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The Fox Sisters and Beyond with Grace Kredell
Expand your understanding of Spiritualist history, psychic labor history, and what early mediumship was really like with the luminous Grace Kredell. Grace (she/they) is a psychic practitioner, matchmaker, community organizer, and historian. They recently finished a master's program at Sarah...
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The Mysteries of Making Things with Joanna Ebenstein
This episode I get to share with you a little of Joanna Ebenstein's brilliance. Joanna is best known as the co-founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. She's also an author, photographer (she took the photo in this episode's cover), curator, producer, art director, and designer.…
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Get Your Mind On Board
In this episode, I go through my foundational book list for nerds who are looking to get into mediumship and other anomalous events. You can also watch this episode on Lily Dale's Facebook page. Nature and the Human Soul Bill Plotkin, 2007 Radical Spirits Ann Broude, 2001 The Trickster and the...
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Kicking Off 2023 with Anabel Zenith
This is a preview episode for the new season of Unknown Unknown which is kicking off new Monday night shows on Lily Dale Radio. Anabel Zenith and I go far out as she interviews me about my favorite psychic experiences, her brilliant game MERGE / CHANNEL / BANISH and setting up the perfect séance....
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Conversations with George P. Hansen: Power, Change & Status
George and I discuss topics that have come up in reading chapters 9, 4 & 7 including questions about entropy & the physical sciences as ways to understand the supernatural, taboos & physical danger in studying vs practicing paranormal subjects, why we talk to the dead more than aliens and the...
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Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to Disenchantment
George and I have our second conversation about his book The Trickster And The Paranormal starting with Chapter 8 on Disenchantment. We also get into rationalization, sources of power & authority, new genres of media, the importance of democracy, the paranormal as vitality plus the requisite...
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Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to the Trickster
George and I kick off the Morbid Anatomy reading group with a wide ranging conversation about why it is so hard for us all to grasp the paranormal. Topics include the book's creation story, Trump as Trickster, Jung & UFOs, the importance of carnivals and much more. Read chapters 2 and 22 in...
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The Realness of Now
In the fifth Unknown Unknown interview, we hear Stargazer Li speak the story of now: dancing with the Universe, notice & acknowledge, learning languages, a revolution unlike any revolution we've ever had. What happens when we just be? Stargazer Li's website: https://stargazerli.com/ The Long Now...
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Shhhhh....! How Quieting Helps Mediumship + Meditation
We're back! This season we'll be focusing on the foundational ideas and practices needed to be a medium. We'll start with quieting: getting the busy self to be still enough to experience the subtle influences from beyond. Meditation alert: I'll guide you through a quieting process - driving or...
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Season One Wrap Up
Hannah and I talk about what we've learned in the four interviews this season, touching on a few timely topics these days in the process: living with less, letting go, anxiety and embodiment.
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Choose To Believe
I sat down with my beloved grandmother to talk about her spirituality. She shares stories of her childhood I'd never heard before and we meander into topics as diverse as the fall of empires and the power of family love. Join us for a special episode with the first person who taught me that there...
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A Drawing Out
Today we talk with mediumship teacher Dr. Judith Rochester. We discuss daily practice, the transition she made from academic knowledge to soul knowledge, how to test non-intellectual information sources, the polarity of actively seeking and allowing, starting your own home circle and much more.…
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Changing the Question
Today we talk with Mark Thomas about other than conscious communication (OTCC), the difference between transformational and informational knowledge, embodied spirituality, what happens when you start to get the answers to life, why "link don't think" gets you to the unknown unknown and a heck of…
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Feel, Think, Do
We talk with Marza Millar of Ancient Earth Apothecary about the ancient prophecies and what they mean for us today.
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Pilot: Poof, Get Out There
In this episode, get to know your host, what's behind the name and some basics about prophecy, divinations and readings in general.
About this show
Have you ever wondered what it means to talk with the dead? What lies beyond what we know? Join me as we explore not just life after death, but the mysteries that surround us every day—waiting to be discovered.Tiffany Hopkins began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage in Lily Dale, the world's largest community of Spiritualists. She combines a university-trained mind with a universe-connected heart in her work a medium, writer, and researcher. She’d like you to join her over at NormalizeTalkingtotheDead.com
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