Explore every episode of the podcast Conversations that Illuminate: A Global Lightworkers United Podcast

The Second Sight: One Scottish Healer's Journey from Fear to Trust

He thought he was losing his mind. Spirit was just trying to get his attention.

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Chris Ratter, a globally recognized trance healer and psychic surgeon from Edinburgh, Scotland. Chris shares his raw and honest experience of growing up with the "second sight," and the full spiritual awakening at 38 that he first feared was a chemical imbalance. If you have ever wondered whether what you are sensing is real, or felt alone in your awakening, this conversation offers a grounded, hopeful roadmap home.

How to recognize the difference between mental crisis and spiritual awakening.

The role community plays when you are awakening alone.

What trance healing and psychic surgery actually are, and how spirit works through them.

Practical daily rituals for sitting in the power and staying grounded.

ABOUT CHRIS RATTER

Chris Ratter is a globally recognized trance healer, psychic surgeon, author, and teacher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Growing up with the "second sight," Chris spent decades as an antique dealer and taxi driver before a full spiritual awakening at 38 led him to his true calling. He works in deep alliance with a team of spirit doctors and healers to address physical and energetic conditions, from tumors and Parkinson's to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and heart disease.

He is the author of An Exploration of Trance Mediumship and The Medium Within.

Find his work at: [ [⁠chrisratterpsychicsurgeon.com⁠]

https://chrisratterpsychicsurgeon.com

Instagram: [⁠@chrisratterhealer⁠](https://instagram.com/chrisratterhealer)

Resources Mentioned:

⁠An Exploration of Trance Mediumship⁠ (https://amzn.to/4edZk6V) by Chris Ratter

⁠The Medium Within⁠ (https://amzn.to/4cUXLsh) by Chris Ratter

Global Lightworkers United⁠- https://www.globallightworkersunited.org/join-glu

Global Lightworkers United is a nonprofit spiritual community built for healers, teachers, and conscious creators who are ready to walk this path together.

We reinvest every dollar into what matters — scholarships, emergency support, and resources that keep our community resourced and resilient.

If this episode stirred something in you, you belong here.

Join us: [⁠globallightworkersunited.org⁠](https://www.globallightworkersunited.org/join-glu)

Instagram: [⁠@globallightworkersunited⁠](https://www.instagram.com/globallightworkersunited/)

Connect with us: [⁠linktr.ee/globallightworkersunited⁠](https://linktr.ee/globallightworkersunited)

Chapters

(0:00) Opening and introduction

(1:39) Introducing Chris Ratter

(2:09) Childhood at Blackness Castle

(4:21) Shetland Isles lineage and Spiritualist churches

(6:00) The world of elementals and Scottish folklore

(6:34) Two men, a hillside, and a week lost with elementals

(8:50) Working with elemental elders and Pan

(10:07) Children and the spirit world

(11:13) Pre-awakening life: antiques and an Edinburgh cab

(12:51) The awakening at 38: fear and hiding

(13:30) Seeing spirit on the streets while driving

(14:09) "You're not mad, by the way"

(17:03) Why community matters in awakening

(18:21) What actually happens in trance healing

(21:32) Psychic surgery and the rare DNA it requires

(23:28) Life force healing: a new modality

(25:56) Developing with spirit every day

(26:32) Becoming a grandfather and Sophie's message

(29:33) The great awakening and COVID

(31:48) Elementals, galactic presences, and off-world technology

(33:32) Everyday spark: sitting in the power

(34:48) Final message: follow the call

(36:15) Closing reflection

What if grief is the door? Stephen Berkley on loss, after-death communication, and finding your mission

He went to law school. He worked for MTV. He never expected to become a grief advocate. Then his father died—and a neighbor named Ethel changed everything.

• How feeling like an outsider as a child quietly shaped Stephen's openness to the unknown.

• The pivotal chain of events—an injury, his father's death, and neighbor Ethel—that led to a seven-year investigation.

• What after-death communication actually is, and why a grief counselor's dismissal sent Stephen down a research rabbit hole.

• The Dewey Reese study: 50,000 people, 24 countries, 112 years of data—and what it says about how most people actually experience grief.

• Why Stephen resisted the "Lightworker" label—and what changed.

• How his film Life with Ghosts grew into a podcast, courses, and a community of pioneers.

• The role of GLU in giving creators and advocates a place to belong.

• Stephen's daily gratitude practice—and his life-changing reframe of "life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you."

Stephen Berkley is a writer, director, and producer with over 30 years in media. His work, Life with Ghosts, grew out of a deeply personal experience after his father's passing when his mother began reporting ongoing contact with his spirit. What started as a film became a seven-year investigation into love, loss, and after-death communication, and has since expanded into a podcast and a series of courses.

Stephen is also a member of the Global Lightworkers United Wisdom of Light Council.

Find his work at: lifewithghosts.com

• Film: Life with Ghosts (film, podcast, courses)

• Study: Dewey Reese’s research on after-death communication.

• Wendy Zammet: Friday Afterlife Report.

• Community: globallightworkersunited.org/join-glu
  

Global Lightworkers United is a nonprofit spiritual community built for healers, teachers, and conscious creators who are ready to walk this path together. If this episode stirred something in you, you belong here.

We reinvest every dollar into what matters — scholarships, emergency support, and resources that keep our community resourced and resilient.

If this episode stirred something in you, you belong here.

• Join us: ⁠globallightworkersunited.org⁠

• Instagram: ⁠@globallightworkersunited⁠

• Connect with us: ⁠linktr.ee/globallightworkersunited

  
  

Chapters

(00:00) Podcast opening and introduction

(01:28) Welcoming Stephen Berkley

(07:35) The chain of events that began it all

(09:18) Automatic writing with a late husband

(12:13) Filming begins for Life with Ghosts

(13:51) A grief counselor's dismissal

(14:49) Dewey Rees's 1971 research

(17:30) The reluctant lightworker

(18:48) Life with Ghosts today

(21:12) Wendy Zammit and stepping into flow

(22:34) Building a community of like minds

(23:37) Pioneers in a movement

(24:28) 50,000 people across 24 countries

(26:42) Joining the GLU board

(28:34) A daily gratitude practice

(30:01) Life happens for you, not to you

(30:24) Closing thoughts and benediction

Cracked Open: How Grief Became Cheryl Page’s Greatest Teacher

Science trained her to trust data; grief taught her to trust herself.

In this powerful episode, we dive deep with Cheryl Page into the transformative journey of loss. Cheryl shares her raw and honest experience of how navigating profound grief shifted her perspective from a world of clinical data to one of deep self-trust and spiritual awakening. If you have ever felt "cracked open" by life’s hardest moments, this conversation offers a beautiful roadmap for finding light in the darkness.

• How to bridge the gap between scientific logic and intuitive healing.

• The process of rebuilding self-trust after a life-altering loss.

• Ways to allow grief to become a catalyst for personal growth.

• Practical insights on navigating the "cracked open" moments of life.

  
  

  ABOUT CHERYL PAGE

  Cheryl Page is a spiritual teacher and author whose path began in oncology research before a profound personal loss in 2017 opened her to a deeper calling. She blends scientific grounding with spiritual insight to help Lightworkers trust their inner knowing, integrate their gifts, and step fully into their soul mission.

  She is the author of Mystic Richness: Inspirational Letters from Visionaries Beyond the Veil

  and The Fourth Thing: AI: Exploring The Space Between Consciousness And Code.

  Find her work at: [ mysticrichness.com ]

  substack.com/@mysticrichness

  
  

  Resources Mentioned:

• Mystic Richness by Cheryl Page

• The Fourth Thing by Cheryl Page

• Global Lightworkers United

Global Lightworkers United is a nonprofit spiritual community built for healers, teachers, and conscious creators who are ready to walk this path together. If this episode stirred something in you, you belong here.

We reinvest every dollar into what matters — scholarships, emergency support, and resources that keep our community resourced and resilient.

If this episode stirred something in you, you belong here.

• Join us: globallightworkersunited.org

• Instagram: @globallightworkersunited

• Connect with us: linktr.ee/globallightworkersunited

  
  

  Chapters

(0:00) Opening and introduction

(1:30) Introducing Cheryl Page and her journey

(3:20) Childhood memories and early sensitivity

(5:29) Recognizing her light and early healer role

(9:22) Signs of awakening before 2017

(10:10) Pine cone analogy: why fire creates growth

(11:41) Discovering spirituality through grief

(12:20) Searching for meaning after loss

(13:42) Loss, identity, and deep self-discovery

(16:25) The role of community in healing

(17:48) Integration vs consumption of spiritual knowledge

(18:54) Living her light through teaching and service

(20:07) Authentic presence and not dimming your light

(26:41) Everyday spark: choosing joy as a practice

(28:54) Cheryl's nightly joy ritual

(30:33) Closing reflection: lighting your own lamp