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Unknown Unknown

25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago -

This is a lo-fi recording of the live Lily Dale Radio show that airs at 7pm on Mondays.

Explorations of alternative forms of information: where they come from, how to use them and what they mean for our world.

Your host is Tiffany J. Hopkins who 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 as an educator and independent futurist. She’d like you to join her over at NormalizeTalkingtotheDead.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

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Episodes

AI and UFOs: Intersections of the Unknown

June 13, 2023 01:00 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Mediumship as Data Collection

June 06, 2023 00:31 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Reading Reading Reading

May 23, 2023 00:25 - 37 minutes - 51 MB

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 some thoughts about them and books on a few tangental topics that I love too. Here's the list for reference: Answers From the Ancestral Realm by Sharon Anne Klingler Ancestor Medicine by Daniel Fo...

Getting Into Sorts

May 16, 2023 00:47 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MB

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Post-Eclipse Meditation

May 08, 2023 00:17 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

The Potency of Care with Chioma Ume

May 04, 2023 00:11 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MB

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 Shenandoah by Down With Ben Ft: airtone (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknown...

Channeling Precepts for Channeling

April 25, 2023 00:49 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MB

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 the practice itself. Towards the end, she guides listeners into meditation with instructions for automatic drawing on your own and with a spirit. If you want more, join her Friday evening Mediumship f...

Artfully Accessing The Mental Filing Cabinet with Marianne McCarthy

April 17, 2023 16:11 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

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. Hopkins. She 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 mi...

The Art of Openness and Structure with Marianne McCarthy

April 17, 2023 16:11 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

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. Hopkins. She 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 ...

Beyond Words with John A. Rice

April 11, 2023 16:30 - 43 minutes - 60 MB

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 impressions, images, and ideas for his next series. It is John's mission to foster healing, introspection, and creativity through otherworldly art — empowering the internal world so that we can enrich o...

The Fox Sisters and Beyond with Grace Kredell

April 05, 2023 13:28 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MB

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 Lawrence College, publishing their thesis "Working Witches: Fortune Tellers, Clairvoyants, and Astrologers in the Golden Age of Spiritualism" in late 2022. Grace is the Associate Director of Golden Dome S...

The Mysteries of Making Things with Joanna Ebenstein

March 28, 2023 22:36 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MB

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. Throughout her experiences bringing all these different forms of creativity into the world she's found some really meaningful philosophies, habits, and tools, which she shares with us during our wide ranging ...

Get Your Mind On Board

March 21, 2023 14:30 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MB

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 Paranormal George Hanson, 2001 American Cosmic Diana Pasulka, 2019 The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist, 2009 The Flip Jeffrey Kripal, 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcast...

Kicking Off 2023 with Anabel Zenith

March 06, 2023 20:26 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

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. You can find Anabel as @anabelzenith and at AnabelZenith.com  You can tune in live starting March 6th on BlogTalkRadio.com/LilyDaleRadio, on Lily Dale's Facebook page or catch the recordings here...

Conversations with George P. Hansen: Power, Change & Status

November 28, 2021 20:36 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MB

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 difference between being tricked by a magician vs a medium. Here's the link to SciHub that George mentioned. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/messag...

Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to Disenchantment

October 29, 2021 01:09 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MB

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 aliens, Lily Dale and unanswerable questions about how to fix social ills. He mentions his paper on Rationalization and the topic of Demythologization. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters....

Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to the Trickster

October 16, 2021 17:43 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MB

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 George's The Trickster and the Paranormal to complement your listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcast...

The Realness of Now

March 23, 2021 20:07 - 1 hour - 91 MB

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 Foundation: https://longnow.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknown...

Shhhhh....! How Quieting Helps Mediumship + Meditation

November 23, 2020 21:39 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MB

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 otherwise engaging in an outward activity will not be possible! Music courtesy of Secret Jane and Siddhartha Corsus. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunkno...

Season One Wrap Up

April 17, 2020 17:38 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Choose To Believe

April 14, 2020 15:28 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MB

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 was more to life than meets the eye. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unkn...

A Drawing Out

March 10, 2020 17:55 - 1 hour - 112 MB

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.  Get in touch with Judith via email ([email protected]) or by phone 716-595-3526. You can see her Winter class schedule on the website of Church of the Living Spirit. Her Spring & Summer clas...

Changing the Question

January 12, 2020 16:03 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MB

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 a lot more. Here are some links from Mark: https://excelquest.com/product/dave-dobson-intro-to-otcc-and-nfp/ https://www.otcc.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod...

Feel, Think, Do

December 13, 2019 17:47 - 39 minutes - 54 MB

We talk with Marza Millar of Ancient Earth Apothecary about the ancient prophecies and what they mean for us today. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support

Pilot: Poof, Get Out There

November 26, 2019 17:46 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB

In this episode, get to know your host, what's behind the name and some basics about prophecy, divinations and readings in general. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unknownunknown/support