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Dear Community,

Can your body sense an event before it happens? And if we can glimpse a possible future, can we change it? In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with cognitive neuroscientist Richard Silberstein, PhD, to explore consciousness, intuition, and the experiences that have led him to question whether the mind is confined to the brain.
Richard is Professor Emeritus at Swinburne University of Technology, founder of its Brain Sciences Institute, and the author of Stranger and Stranger: The Neuroscience of How Mind and Cosmos Communicate. Drawing on more than four decades of neuroscience experience, he shares the research and personal experiences behind his perspective on a conscious, responsive universe. Thank you to my partners, Inner Traditions for this collaboration! 
“The universe, is conscious and responsive to our focused intent.”
— Richard Silberstein

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We discuss:

• Precognition research investigating whether the body responds to an event before it occurs.

• Telepathy, identical twins, and what Ganzfeld experiments seek to reveal about perception beyond the senses.

• Richard’s view of the future as a set of possibilities, and the role he believes focused intention plays in shaping them.

• Synchronicity, visualization, and the tension between conscious desire and unconscious fear.

• How analytical and empathic ways of thinking relate to intuition, and why both brain hemispheres matter.

• Remote viewing, its reported applications

We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

I am also hosting a 90-minute workshop on space clearing on November 13th! The workshop will be recorded for those who can't make it.

Best,

-Yasmeen

Dear Community,

You don't want to miss this episode.  In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Sarah Elkhaldy, known as The Alchemist, a spiritual teacher, author, and contemporary mystic whose work explores spiritual alchemy, intuition, and multidimensional awareness.

I’ve spent hours exploring Sarah’s teachings, and I loved the depth and honesty she brought to this conversation. We explore her understanding of the heart as the philosopher’s stone, the inner child as a gatekeeper to expanded awareness, and why the desire to forgive can sometimes move us past the very feelings that need our attention.

“On one hand, it’s to honor oneself. And on the other hand, it is to let go of oneself.” — Sarah Elkhaldy

We also talk about:

• The distinction Sarah makes between the heart chakra and the heart center.

• Meeting shame and self-judgment with love, including a simple mirror practice.

• Why peak spiritual experiences don’t necessarily translate into lasting emotional growth.

• What Sarah calls “false light,” and how both spiritual superiority and excessive self-effacement can reflect imbalance.

• Discernment and boundaries: knowing when to receive feedback and when to trust your own knowing.

• Her interpretation of Mary Magdalene’s seven seals and the ways our perceptions can expand.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, right-brain pattern development, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Best, 

-Yasmeen 

Sarah also shares her personal experience of living with chronic illness, the role intuition played in her search for healing, and the unexpected joy of discovering a life beyond constant pain.​​
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This conversation is an invitation to bring more honesty, compassion, and discernment to your spiritual life—and to give the parts of yourself you’ve struggled to love a place at the table. Explore Sarah’s work and her book, Book of the Body, at thealchemist.community. You can follow her on IG @the.alchemist------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and author Mark Stephens for a fascinating exploration of pranayama, the ancient yogic science of working consciously with the breath. Mark has been practicing yoga for decades, and his newest book takes a deep dive into the history, science, philosophy, and practice of pranayama.

We talk about the difference between breath and prana, how breathing can influence our nervous system and state of consciousness, and why nervous-system regulation doesn't simply mean becoming calm. As Mark explains, a healthy nervous system is flexible: sometimes we need to settle, and sometimes we need to mobilize. The deeper question is how we can prepare ourselves to meet what the moment requires.

We also explore alternate nostril breathing, Breath of Fire, breath retention, the bandhas, nadis, chakras, Kundalini, sleep, and the relationship between subtle-energy traditions and modern anatomy.

In this episode, we explore:
• What pranayama actually means—and why prana is much more than breath
• How changing the breath can change our physiological and emotional state
• The relationship between breath, consciousness, and the nervous system
• Why nervous-system regulation isn't synonymous with relaxation
• Breath of Fire, alternate nostril breathing, retention, and other pranayama practices
• Kundalini, bandhas, chakras, nadis, and the subtle body
• Where ancient yogic wisdom and modern science intersect—and where they don't
• Why preparation and gradual progression matter in breathwork
• The potential risks of intense or one-size-fits-all breathwork practices
• How conscious breathing can help us become more present in our everyday livesWe're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Best, 

Dear Friends 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Tim Kelley, a global expert on purpose and author of the book (which just released today) True Purpose. Tim has worked with leaders and executive teams at organizations including Alibaba, Oracle, ING, and PwC, trained more than 1,000 coaches and consultants in his methods, and even explored purpose at the level of entire countries.
We explore why so many people struggle to identify their purpose and Tim’s framework for understanding its different dimensions: essence, blessing, mission, and message. We also discuss why discovering your purpose is only part of the equation, and how fear, resistance, and our desire for safety can keep us from actually living it. We also explore projection, relationships, dreamwork, Internal Family Systems, and how to distinguish resistance that tells us something isn’t our path from the resistance that appears because something deeply aligned scares us.
You can listen to the entire conversation here: 
Takeaways:
- Purpose has multiple dimensions: who you are, how you impact others, your larger mission, and the message you are here to share.
- Fear can keep us from living our purpose, even when we already sense what we are being called toward.
- Shadow work brings unconscious patterns into awareness, helping us understand what may actually be driving our choices.
- The people who trigger us can reveal our own projections and unconscious material.
- Knowing your purpose isn’t enough. Purpose still needs a plan.
“Give yourself permission to learn what your purpose is without having to do it. You’re just investigating. You’re just gathering information.” — Tim Kelley
We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Best, 

Dear Friends,

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer Tammy Weis to explore the extraordinary world of Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa, the mystical energy of Portugal, the Fifth Empire, and the synchronicities that can unfold when we become open to receiving.

Tammy shares how a chance encounter in Lisbon’s Alfama district led her to Pessoa’s poetry, and ultimately inspired Soul Whisper, her album setting his words to music. What followed were dozens of what she calls “Pessoa miracles”: unexpected encounters, collaborations, and synchronicities that completely changed the course of her life. We also explore Pessoa’s many identities, his vision of the Fifth Empire, dreaming and imagination, presence, intuition, frequency, and why his work feels perhaps even more relevant today.
One of the central questions Pessoa’s work continually brings us back to is beautifully simple: “Who am I?” 

And perhaps Tammy’s greatest lesson from this entire journey: “I’m open to receive.”You can listen to the entire episode here: 

In this episode, we explore:
- Fernando Pessoa and the many selves within us, and why his heteronyms were far more than pen names.
- The Fifth Empire, Pessoa’s vision of an empire rooted in language, culture, imagination, intellect, and spirit.
- The mystical energy of Portugal and why Lisbon seems to create such powerful experiences of synchronicity and connection.
- How to stop overthinking and become more grounded in the body, intuition, and the present moment.
- Dreaming and imagination as ways of experiencing realities beyond what is immediately visible.
- Synchronicity and resonance, and what can happen when we stop forcing and become open to receiving.
- Music, frequency, and intention and how Tammy intuitively heard music while reading Pessoa’s poetry.
- Presence before explanation, experiencing life before immediately analyzing or judging it.
- The deeper invitation of Pessoa’s work: to question who we think we are and become more open to the mystery of what we might be.
Ultimately, this conversation is an invitation to think less, perceive more, and become open to the synchronicities already trying to find us. We're now opening a private Gateways Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Best, 

-Yasmeen 

What if reality is far more fluid than we’ve been taught to believe?

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Cynthia Sue Larson, bestselling author of Reality Shifts, Quantum Jumps, The Mandela Effect and Its Society, and High Energy Money.

Cynthia has a background in physics from UC Berkeley and has spent decades exploring consciousness, reality shifts, synchronicities, quantum phenomena, and what happens when our experience of reality doesn’t quite match what we thought was possible. 

She wrote the book about the Mandela Effect, which Cynthia describes as “collective alternate memory,” and why different people can seemingly remember the same events, words, places, or cultural moments differently.

 “We are the dreamer. We are in the dream.” - Cynthia Sue Larson 

We begin by exploring what Cynthia calls reality shifts, those strange moments when something appears, disappears, changes, or seems to exist differently than we remember, and her belief that consciousness plays a fundamental role in how we experience the physical world.
Throughout the episode, we explore:
- What reality shifts are and how to begin noticing them
- Whether consciousness can influence our experience of reality
- Quantum jumping and moving between possible timelines
- Why our internal state and perspective matter
- The Mandela Effect and collective alternate memories
- Whether the past, present, and future are as fixed as we assume
- Individual versus collective realities
- Free will, destiny, and conscious agency
- Why Cynthia asks herself every day: “How good can it get?”

Thank you for listening! 

We're now opening a private Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

#quantumjumping #cynthiasuelarson #realityshifts

Dear Friends, 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Gold Porter, founder and spokesperson for Artifact Guardians, and Marza Flowers, a Stanford scholar of archaeoacoustics and Egyptian sound consciousness, registered nurse, clinical herbalist, medicine woman, and longtime student of ancient civilizations and Indigenous medicine ways.

Raised in Indigenous medicine ways, she carries ceremonial teachings connected to the sacred Door of the Ant and works across Egyptian temple studies, vibrational medicine, cymatics, plant medicine, and shamanic traditions.
We explore ancient crystalline artifacts and skulls emerging from Mexico and Gold and Marza's experiences of them as objects carrying consciousness or information.

Rather than approaching these artifacts through ownership, they describe their work through the lens of guardianship and relationship. Marza shares her perspective on ancient Egyptian sound technology, sacred architecture, portals, and the importance of approaching sacred sites with discernment and proper training.

We also explore her views on timelines, the Mandela Effect and CERN, and why she believes humanity is being asked to evolve our consciousness alongside our rapidly accelerating technology.

In this episode, we explore:
- Ancient crystalline artifacts and what it means to become their “guardian”
- Crystal skulls, consciousness and the possibility of information held within matter
- Egyptian sound consciousness and sacred architecture
- Ancient civilizations, portals and the importance of discernment
- Marza's perspective on CERN, the Mandela Effect and overlapping timelines
- Indigenous knowledge and our relationship with the Earth
- Ancient intelligence versus artificial intelligence
- Why our humanity must evolve alongside our technology
- Prayer, heart coherence and unified consciousness

“Everything for me is that word home—going inward and finding your inner compass.” — Gold
“The thing that calibrates our humanity is our heart.” — Marza

Thank you for listening! 

We're now opening a private Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Best, 

Dear Friends, 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with my new friend, David Lorimer, writer, poet, philosopher, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, and Chair of the Galileo Commission. We recently met in the South of France, while I was on Dr. Nicola Amadora's Mary Magdalene tour.

For decades, David has been at the forefront of conversations exploring consciousness, science, spirituality, near-death experiences, and the deeper nature of reality.
We begin with David’s lifelong “quest for wisdom” and why true wisdom cannot be separated from love, compassion, discernment, and direct experience. 

We also dive into the research surrounding near-death experiences, survival of consciousness, and the possibility that death is not an ending, but a transition into another mode of consciousness. David shares decades of experience studying these phenomena and the recurring patterns reported by people who have come close to death.
“We have to wake up, and we have to try to use our lives to contribute to the larger common good, and to grow in love and wisdom.”
— David Lorimer
Key Takeaways
- Wisdom is more than knowledge. True wisdom integrates discernment and deeper understanding with love and compassion.
- Intuition is fundamental to discovery. Major scientific breakthroughs often begin with intuitive insight before the analytical mind works out the science.
- Our current scientific understanding of consciousness may be incomplete, opening the door to a much larger exploration of the nature of mind and reality.
- Death may be a transition rather than an ending. Near-death experiences show striking recurring patterns, including peace, out-of-body experiences, beings of light, and life reviews.
- We may be expressions of one consciousness, raising profound questions about interconnectedness and the nature of the self.
- The mind and heart need to develop together. Intellectual or spiritual knowledge alone does not necessarily create an integrated human being.
- Mary Magdalene offers another lens on the Divine Feminine and the integration of sacred masculine and feminine principles.
Our lives can serve something larger. The invitation is to wake up, expand our consciousness, contribute to the common good, and continue growing in love and wisdom.

Thank you for listening! 

We're now opening a private Community membership for those interested in processing the podcast and joining live monthly calls to discuss the content. Learn more here. 

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the ⁠Inner Knowing School,⁠ where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, ⁠A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life⁠, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

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What if sound is one of the fundamental forces shaping our bodies, our consciousness, and even the world around us?

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with legendary sound healer, Grammy-nominated musician, author, and pioneer Jonathan Goldman, who has spent more than 50 years exploring the transformational power of sound.

We dive into Jonathan’s newest book, Ascension Harmonics, and his exploration of the Divine Name, an ancient sequence of sacred vowel sounds he describes as a “hotline to the Divine.”

“It is not only the frequency of the sound that creates its effect. It is also the intention of the person making and receiving the sound.” — Jonathan Goldman 

In this episode, we explore:

• Why Jonathan believes everything can be understood through vibration

• How sound may help restore the body to resonance and balance

• The principle Frequency + Intent = Healing

• Why love, gratitude, kindness, and appreciation transform the way we use sound

• The science and practice of humming

• Why every person is a unique vibratory being

• The ancient Divine Name and Jonathan’s work with sacred vowel sounds

• Sound, the biofield, and what Jonathan calls the “Gaia Matrix”

• Collective intention and planetary healing

• The relationship between sound, water, and DNA

• Jonathan’s extraordinary experience of sound becoming light

• Why silence is just as essential as sound

• And why healing ourselves and healing the planet may ultimately be the same act

Jonathan leaves us with a beautifully simple practice: take a breath, hum, and then become silent. In a world filled with noise, the space between sounds may hold some of the greatest gifts of all.

We would LOVE to hear from you! What did you learn? 

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Dear Friends, 

I am excited to announce a new monthly membership for listeners of Gateways, called Gateways to Inner Knowing, where I'll be sharing reflections, takeaways, meditations, live calls, occasional guest drop-ins, and more. You can learn more here: 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Dr. Sue Morter, internationally recognized teacher, speaker, bioenergetics expert, and author of The Energy Codes, to explore the relationship between consciousness, energy, the body, and our deeper spiritual nature.

Sue’s work brings together ancient wisdom, energy medicine, meditation, and our understanding of the human body to ask a profound question: How do we move from intellectually understanding who we are to actually embodying it?

“The body isn't something we need to transcend in order to awaken. It may be the very instrument through which awakening becomes embodied.” - Dr. Sue Morter 

Big thank you to my soul brother Bruce Cryer for the introduction!

We explore why so many of us live primarily from the mind, what it means to bring our awareness back into the body, and how our energetic patterns can influence the way we experience ourselves and the world around us.

In this conversation, we explore:

• What The Energy Codes are and how Sue developed the framework

• Why consciousness and embodiment must work together

• What it means to live from the Soulful Self rather than the Protective Personality

• How energy moves through the body and why the central channel matters

• The relationship between breath, the nervous system, and consciousness

• Why intellectual insight alone doesn't always change our patterns

• How our bodies can carry unresolved energetic and emotional experiences

• What it means to embody rather than simply understand our spiritual nature

We would LOVE to hear from you! What did you learn? 

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Dr. Edith Ubuntu-Chan, Chinese medicine doctor, consciousness pioneer, founder of the Luminous Human Institute, and one of the leading voices exploring blindfold vision, intuition, and expanded human perception.

Dr. Edith shares the remarkable journey that led her into the world of blindfold vision after witnessing children seemingly perceive information beyond their ordinary senses. What began as curiosity evolved into years of research, training hundreds of families, and exploring how these practices may unlock far more than the ability to "see" without sight.

Together, Yasmeen and Edith explore the intersection of intuition, telepathy, consciousness, education, and the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence. They discuss why joy, play, coherence, and relaxed awareness appear to be essential ingredients for expanding human perception, and why cultivating our inner capacities may become one of the most important skills of the future.

In this conversation, you'll discover:

• What blindfold vision (or Mindsight) is, and why it's about much more than seeing without eyesight

• Why Edith believes intuition and expanded perception are innate human capacities

• How children often access these abilities with remarkable ease

• The surprising relationship between blindfold vision and telepathy

• Why coherence, play, and curiosity unlock greater perception

• How parents are transforming alongside their children through this work

• What these practices reveal about education, consciousness, and human development

• Why our greatest challenge in the age of AI may not be technological—but deeply human

• How cultivating our "inner technology" may become one of the defining skills of the future

Whether you're curious about intuition, consciousness research, telepathy, education, or the next frontier of human potential, this conversation invites you to consider a profound question:

We would LOVE to hear from you! What did you learn? 

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Thank you,

I'm celebrating my 300th episode today! 

I am also launching the ⁠⁠Gateways to Awakening Patreon community ⁠to share behind-the-scenes voice notes and live monthly online gatherings to process the episodes. [Just launched!]

I just returned from one of the most profound experiences I've had in years, a pilgrimage through Southern France exploring the teachings of Mary Magdalene with Dr. Nicola Amadora, renowned spiritual teacher, holistic psychologist, women's leader, author, and speaker. I was so deeply moved that I knew I had to invite her onto Gateways to Awakening.
In this conversation, we explore what it truly means to embody the Divine Feminine. We talk about why so much of modern spirituality has become disconnected from the body, our emotions, relationships, and the fullness of our humanity, and why awakening isn't about transcending our human experience, but learning to inhabit it more fully.

"You don't become enlightened by escaping your humanity. You become more fully alive by inhabiting it." - Dr. Nicola Amadora 

"Take your meditation cushion into the world." - Dr. Nicola Amadora 

Nicola shares a radically embodied perspective on spirituality, reminding us that the sacred isn't somewhere "out there" waiting for us to find it, it's already here, alive in our bodies, our hearts, our relationships, and the natural world. ​

​We also dive into the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene, her role as a teacher, healer, leader, and embodiment of the sacred feminine, and explore the history of the Cathars, the Way of Love, and why these teachings feel so relevant in the world today. Dr. Nicola also spent time with Mother Teresa, Amma, the Tibetans, Thich Nhat Hanh, and so many wisdom teachers, and is truly one of the most embodied teachers I've met.

In this episode, we explore:

• What the Divine Feminine actually is, and why it's so often misunderstood

• Why embodiment is essential to authentic awakening

• The relationship between spirituality, shadow work, and emotional healing

• How to move beyond spiritual bypassing and fully inhabit your humanity

• Mary Magdalene's teachings and her role in restoring the sacred feminine

• The Cathars, the Way of Love, and their extraordinary legacy

• Why love isn't something we transcend into, it's something we embody

Dr. Nicola Amadora is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, holistic psychologist, women's leader, author, and speaker who has spent more than 30 years guiding thousands of people worldwide in the revolutionary path of love, liberation, and embodied spirituality. Rooted in the ancient wisdom of the feminine and the teachings of Mary Magdalene, her retreats, professional trainings, and transformative programs invite people to awaken their deepest life force and live from greater authenticity, courage, and compassion. 

She is the author of Love Unleashed and the founder of a global movement dedicated to the rise of the feminine, inspiring profound personal transformation and a more heart-centered world.

We would LOVE to hear from you! What did you learn? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Thank you,

-Yasmeen

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Dear Friends, 

I sit down with renowned soul mentor and spirit telepath Alicia Power to explore the invisible worlds that surround us, and why developing discernment, sovereignty, and energetic integrity may be more important than ever. Together we dive into the nature of spirit guides, higher-dimensional mentors, free will, timelines, psychic hygiene, intuition versus imagination, and the unseen forces influencing human consciousness. Alicia shares insights from more than three decades of working directly with what she calls Creator Beings, while we talk about spiritual responsibility, energetic boundaries, and navigating today's rapidly changing world.
"Never give your power away—not even to God." — Alicia Power

You can listen to the entire conversation here: 
We talked about these topics and so much more: - Why spiritual sovereignty is the foundation of authentic awakening
- How to distinguish intuition, imagination, and genuine spiritual guidance
- The role of spirit guides, higher mentors, and what Alicia calls "Creator Beings."
- Why free will is one of the most important spiritual principles—and how to reclaim it
- Practical ways to protect your energy through "psychic hygiene."
- How to discern whether a spiritual presence is aligned with love and integrity
- Why discernment matters more than ever in today's spiritual landscape

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

 If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. We also love reviews! 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Thank you, 

-Yasmeen

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What if reality is far more malleable than we've been taught?

In this special episode of Gateways to Awakening, I'm sharing the opening preview from my audiobook, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life.

This book is the culmination of over two decades of studying intuition, consciousness, kundalini and somatic yoga, meditation, evolutionary astrology, natural law, and human transformation. Along the way, I've come to believe that the most profound shifts don't begin by changing the outer world, they begin by changing the way we perceive it.

A Glitch in the Matrix explores how our attention, emotions, beliefs, and imagination shape the reality we experience. It offers a practical framework for recognizing unconscious patterns, reclaiming your energy, and creating a life that is more intentional, coherent, and aligned with your deepest knowing.

Whether you're new to this work or have been walking the path for years, I hope this preview offers a glimpse into the ideas that have transformed my own life and the lives of so many students I've had the privilege to work with.

If this resonates with you, I'd love for you to listen to the full audiobook and continue the journey with me.

Thank you, as always, for being part of this community.

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What do non-speaking autistic children know about consciousness that the rest of us have forgotten?

In this fascinating conversation, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with author, intuitive development teacher, and The Telepathy Tapes contributor Dalia Burgoin, mother of the prolific telepathic and autistic daughter Lidu, to explore one of the most compelling frontiers in consciousness today.

Dalia shares the remarkable journey of her non-speaking autistic daughter, Lidu, whose ability to communicate through spelling opened the door to extraordinary experiences, including telepathy, shared consciousness, intuitive perception, and what she describes as "The Hill," a multidimensional space of learning, healing, and guidance.

Together, they explore what these experiences may reveal about the nature of consciousness, intuition, autism, spirituality, and our untapped human potential.

You can listen to the entire conversation here:

• How Dalia's daughter Lidu, first demonstrated telepathic abilities

• What "The Hill" is and why so many people report similar experiences

• The hidden intelligence and gifts of many non-speaking autistic individuals

• Telepathy, intuition, and the possibility of a shared field of consciousness

• The role of dreams, guides, and what Dalia describes as our spiritual "teachers"

• Why Dalia believes telepathy is a natural human capacity waiting to be remembered

• Practical ways to begin developing greater intuitive awareness in your own life​

​Whether you're interested in consciousness research, intuition, spirituality, autism, or The Telepathy Tapes, this episode offers an invitation to question some of our deepest assumptions about reality, and what's possible for humanity.

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential.

 If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. We also love reviews! 

You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Thank you, 

-Yasmeen 

In this episode, you'll discover:​

Dear Friends, In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with Aiylah Valkyrie, water priestess, ascension guide, and channel, to explore the deeper intelligence of water, the power of remembrance, and what it means to live in alignment with your soul’s path.

This conversation moves beyond traditional spirituality into something more embodied, intuitive, and elemental. Aiylah shares her perspective on water as a living consciousness, how it holds memory, and how we can begin to co-create with it in our daily lives, as something we are in constant relationship with. Big thank you to my soul brother Kevin for the introduction! 

We talk about the following and so much more:

- Water is not just physical—it is a living, intelligent field that holds memory and responds to intention
- True knowing comes from remembering what is already encoded within you, not just learning externally
- Your thoughts are frequency signals—what you hold consistently shapes your reality
- Sovereignty means aligning your life fully with your soul’s mission and removing what is not in resonance
- Simple daily rituals (with water, breath, or nature) can restore balance and connection
- Light language is a non-verbal, energetic transmission that transcends traditional communication
- The elements (water, fire, earth, air, ether) are pathways to deeper consciousness and embodiment
- Time is not linear—it is fluid, cyclical, and accessible through awareness
“When it’s a thought, it’s already a thing.” - Aiylah
Her IG is here: https://www.instagram.com/alleyvalkyrie/
Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential. If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Technology Institute | Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts.
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

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What if telekinesis, telepathy, and intuition are not extraordinary abilities reserved for a gifted few, but natural human capacities waiting to be remembered?

In this fascinating episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Alex Stefan, international trainer, researcher of human potential, and founder of Extra-Ordinaries, to explore the frontiers of consciousness, telepathy, psychokinesis, and the hidden capabilities of the human mind.

Alex is known for his immersive trainings that help ordinary people experience telekinesis, remote viewing, extraocular vision, and telepathic communication firsthand.
Together, we explore what happens when belief, perception, and consciousness begin to influence reality itself. Alex shares remarkable stories from his workshops, including people moving objects with their minds, magnetizing metal, teleporting coins, and developing telepathic abilities that challenge conventional assumptions about space, time, and human potential.
The conversation also dives into the deeper implications of these experiences: What do they reveal about the nature of reality? Are we living inside an informational universe? And how might telepathy transform society by creating greater empathy, transparency, and human connection?You can listen to the entire episode here: 
We talked about the following and so much more: - The difference between telekinesis, psychokinesis, telepathy, and remote viewing
- How random number generators have been used in scientific consciousness research
- Why belief plays a critical role in influencing reality
- The "Sheep and Goat Effect" and what it reveals about consciousness
- How people learn to move objects and influence matter through intention
- The surprising relationship between hypnosis, psychology, and extraordinary abilities
- Why children often access intuitive abilities more naturally than adults
- The connection between telepathy and emotional intelligence
- How telepathic communication could reshape human relationships and society
- The role of intuition, presence, and non-judgment in developing psychic perception
- Why telepathy may be the next stage of human evolution
- How small shifts in belief can create entirely new realities
"We're not waiting for some future generation to change the world. Every one of us has the ability—and the responsibility—to expand what's possible for human consciousness." — Alex Stefan
This conversation is ultimately about much more than moving objects or reading minds. It is about possibility. It is about questioning the limits we've accepted, exploring the nature of reality, and discovering what becomes available when we move beyond fear and into curiosity. You can learn more about Alex and his work at Extra-Ordinaries.com and follow him on Instagram at @im.alexstefan

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential. You may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Technology Institute | Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts.
You can also explore her latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with clinical psychologist Richard Louis Miller, who has spent over 65 years at the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and psychedelic medicine. He is the founder of Wilbur Hot Springs in the Bay Area.  

Together, they explore the full spectrum of psychedelics, from their profound therapeutic potential to the often-overlooked psychological risks. This conversation goes beyond the hype, offering a grounded and transparent look at what these medicines can truly unlock, and what they can destabilize if approached without care.
We talk about the following and more:

- Psychedelics are facilitators of healing, not the healing itself; the real work happens through integration

- Set, setting, and dosage determine whether an experience is supportive or destabilizing

- A “bad trip” can be a gateway to confronting unresolved inner material, and ultimately, growth

- We are in a mental health and connection crisis, amplified by isolation and disconnection

- Small, consistent acts of connection and self-kindness are powerful tools for real transformation.

This episode is an invitation to approach these powerful tools with discernment, and to remember that healing is ultimately about how we live, relate, and integrate.

“These medicines are not therapy, they are facilitators of therapy.” - Richard Louis Miller

Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential. If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts. We also love reviews! 
You can also explore Yasmeen's latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Thank you, 

-Yasmeen 

Dear Friends, What if health isn't just biochemical, but energetic, informational, and deeply connected to our relationship with light, water, movement, and even our thoughts?
"The body isn't broken. It's sending messages. It's out of coherence. And there are so many roads back to coherence, but some of the most beautiful roads are so simple."  - Dr. Catherine Clinton

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Dr. Catherine Clinton, naturopathic physician, educator, and author of Optimize, to explore the emerging field of quantum biology and what it reveals about healing, coherence, and human potential. Together they unpack how light influences our mitochondria, why water may function like a biological battery, how fascia acts as a body-wide communication network, and why emotions such as gratitude, awe, and presence can have measurable effects on our physiology.

Dr. Clinton shares her personal journey from illness to healing, the daily practices that help her cultivate coherence, and why some of the most powerful health interventions are also the simplest.
In this conversation, you'll discover:
• What quantum biology is, and why it's changing how we understand health
• The science of heart coherence and its impact on the body
• How sunlight, infrared energy, and circadian rhythms influence vitality
• The surprising relationship between fascia, hydration, and emotional well-being
• Why movement is a form of hydration
• The role of structured and energized water in human health
• How thoughts, emotions, and language shape our biology
• Simple practices to restore coherence and reconnect with your body's innate intelligence​​
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Tune into Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, mystics, entrepreneurs, and consciousness pioneers exploring the future of human potential. If this episode resonates with you, you may also enjoy Yasmeen's work through the Inner Knowing School, where she teaches intuition, energetic mastery, multidimensional awareness, and nervous system regulation through private immersions and executive cohorts.
You can also explore her latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and in print. The book explores intuition, consciousness, timelines, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

Dear Friends, 

What if your dog is not just your companion… but a spiritual guide?
In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with author and spiritual teacher JJ Flowers to explore the deeper, often unseen relationship between humans and dogs. Based on her book The Spiritual Dog: Emissary of Unconditional Love and Healing, JJ shares a powerful perspective: that dogs are not companions, but intentional beings who enter our lives to support, heal, and evolve with us.
Together, they explore the idea that dogs are carriers of unconditional love, operating from a level of awareness that most humans have forgotten how to access. From telepathic communication to emotional mirroring, JJ explains how dogs constantly read our energy, reflect our inner world, and in many cases, transmute what we cannot process ourselves.

The conversation moves through grief, healing, and the unseen realms, as JJ shares her personal journey of loss and the spiritual awakening that followed, opening her perception to a deeper connection with both the animal kingdom and the energetic world beyond the physical.

Yasmeen and JJ also explore practical ways to deepen your connection with your dog, including simple techniques for intuitive communication, understanding your dog’s behavior as energetic feedback, and how practices like breathwork and meditation can strengthen your sensitivity to subtle energy.

Special shout-out to my adopted dogs, Goose and Lucky. Love you both so much. :)  And to all the dogs that bring us so much love. We love you. 

In this episode, we explore:
- Why dogs may choose us—and the idea of soul contracts across lifetimes
- How dogs mirror and absorb human emotional states
- The role of unconditional love as a healing force
- How to begin communicating with your dog intuitively
- The energetic and spiritual anatomy shared between humans and animals
- How grief can open the doorway to expanded awareness
- Why connection—to animals, to each other, and to something greater—is at the core of healing
- This episode invites you to see your dog—and perhaps all of life—through an entirely new lens

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes To Become The Main Character of Your Life here! 

All the very best, -Yasmeen 

Dear Friends 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Geeta Sidhu-Robb, a dynamic entrepreneur, founder, business strategist, and transformational coach, for a conversation that is equal parts hilarious, piercing, and profoundly important. 

Geeta shares her origin story as the first non-white woman to stand for Parliament in the UK, the deep childhood influence of Sikh tradition and Seva (service), and the inner duality that has driven her life: a fierce intolerance for injustice alongside real fear—both voices present, both equally loud.
From founding Nosh Detox and helping commercialize the cold-pressed juice movement to coaching powerhouse leaders, Geeta’s path has been defined by relentless clarity and the courage to be visible.

But in 2023, just as she planned to finally rest, a court transcript about workplace sexual abuse jolted her back into activism—leading to the creation of W Corporation, a certification designed to help companies build workplaces that truly support women’s biology, leadership styles, and lived reality.
“I’m a very powerful woman, and I like that about myself.” - Geeta Sidhu-Robb 

Key Takeaways
- Seva “service” as a leadership compass: how service can become a lifelong strategy for courage and impact.
- Why workplaces are structurally “male by default”—and what it actually looks like to make them fit-for-purpose for women.
- The W Corporation model: a practical certification process that rewards workplaces that support women across caregiving, perimenopause, promotion dynamics, and more.
- “Women are not small men”: why women often need to be invited into promotions, and why job ads and workplace reward systems frequently disadvantage them.
- Visibility as a power skill: how being willing to be seen changes what you can build—and what you can influence.
- One metric can change the world: Geeta’s bold goal to move UK venture funding to women-led teams from 2% to 3%, and why that single shift matters.
- Relentlessness over perfection: why Geeta doesn’t wait for a perfect plan—she commits to the mission and lets reality organize around it.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes To Become The Main Character of Your Life! 

Dear Friends, What if your life is not linear… but happening across multiple dimensions at once?

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Patricia Walls, author, teacher, and founder of Earth Woman LLC, to explore the nature of multidimensional reality, light language, and the hidden architecture of consciousness.

Patricia shares a radically expanded perspective on time, revealing that past, present, and future are not separate, but coexisting experiences. Together, we explore what it means to live across timelines, how intuition operates beyond logic, and why so many people are beginning to awaken to a deeper, more expansive awareness of reality. 

The conversation moves into the Hall of Records—an inner space where your soul’s experiences are stored—and how accessing it can allow you to release contracts, shift timelines, and reclaim your agency. Patricia offers a live, guided experience into this field, opening a doorway into self-inquiry and energetic sovereignty.

We also dive into light language as a universal, pre-verbal form of communication—one that transmits frequency, healing, and information beyond words. Patricia explains how it works, why it affects everyone differently, and how it reconnects us to a more original state of being.

In this episode, we explore:
- What it truly means to live in a multidimensional reality
- Why time may not exist the way we think it does
- The role of free will in shaping timelines and outcomes
- How fear blocks higher possibilities and aligned decisions
- What the Hall of Records is and how to access it
- Releasing energetic contracts, patterns, and subconscious imprints
- Light language as a frequency-based, universal communication system
- How to strengthen intuition and trust your inner knowing
-Energetic sovereignty, boundaries, and working with unseen forces

You can learn more about Patricia here: https://patriciawalls.net/

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know.

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life, which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice).

Here is Patricia’s Prayer for Sovereignty
I stand in full authority of my being. I claim my body, my mind, my energy, and my field as my own.
No force, seen or unseen, no influence, agreement, or attachment has permission to override, manipulate, or diminish me. I release all agreements—known and unknown— that were made in confusion, fear, survival, or unconsciousness.
They are null and void now. I call all of my energy back to me— from every person, place, timeline, and experience.
Clean, clear, and restored. I return all energy that is not mine to its rightful place, without attachment or entanglement. My field is sovereign.
My will is clear. My presence is anchored. I choose alignment with truth, clarity, and integrity. I choose to stand in my own knowing.
Only what honors my highest good may enter, connect, or remain.
Everything else dissolves. I am self-led. I am self-sourced. I am sovereign.
And so it is

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with renowned astrologer, psychotherapist, teacher, and author Debra Silverman for a deeply moving conversation on astrology, emotional intelligence, consciousness, and the human condition.

Debra is the founder of a global astrology school with more than 7,000 students and the author of I Don't Believe in Astrology and The Missing Element. Blending clinical psychology, humor, emotional honesty, and decades of astrological insight, Debra has become one of the most beloved modern voices helping people understand themselves through the lens of astrology and emotional healing.

Together, we explore how astrology is not about prediction, but permission — permission to become more fully yourself.

We also dive into:

• Why astrology can help people reclaim authenticity and stop shape-shifting for approval

• The psychological meaning behind the four elements: fire, earth, air, and water

• How emotional intelligence and intuition are deeply connected

• Why so many people are overdeveloped mentally and underdeveloped emotionally

• The relationship between Saturn, hardship, discipline, purpose, and soul evolution

• How nervous system regulation will become essential in the years ahead

• The deeper meaning behind life transitions, heartbreak, grief, and spiritual growth

• The difference between the Sun sign, Moon sign, and Rising sign

• Why astrology is ultimately a tool for self-awareness and compassion

• How cities, environments, and relationships affect consciousness and energetic alignment

• Why emotional honesty is one of the most underdeveloped human capacities

“The most undeveloped muscle in the human psyche is the generosity of our tenderness.”
— Debra Silverman

This conversation became so much more than astrology. It became a dialogue about vulnerability, emotional resilience, soul purpose, nervous system regulation, and learning how to return home to ourselves in an increasingly noisy world.

• Instagram: @debrasilverman_astrology

We would love to hear from you! What did you learn and take away?

And if this episode resonates with you, you can also explore my work through the Inner Knowing School, where I teach intuition, multidimensional awareness, nervous system regulation, and energetic coherence through 1:1 immersions and small executive cohorts.

You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, available on Audible, Kindle, and Print. The book explores intuition, timelines, consciousness, emotional regulation, and how to manage your energy instead of your time.

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Dear Community,

What if losing everything was the moment that woke you up? 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with entrepreneur, artist, and author Jeffrey Brian Grubert to explore a story that is far bigger than crypto.

After losing $71,500 in a single afternoon to professional social engineers, Jeffrey found himself not just confronting financial loss, but something deeper—his beliefs around safety, trust, and control. What followed was an unexpected and almost surreal encounter with a former social engineer, now facing federal prison, who would go on to reveal how these systems really work.

Together, they unpack the hidden mechanics of social engineering—how fear, urgency, and authority can override even the most intelligent and well-informed individuals. But this conversation goes beyond tactics. It becomes a deeper inquiry into perception, intuition, and the ways we are constantly being influenced—not just online, but in culture, media, and everyday life. You can read his latest book, Confessions of a Crypto Thief, here.

This episode is an invitation to look at where you may be outsourcing your authority, overriding your inner signal, or tying your sense of safety to external structures.

Because ultimately, this is not just a conversation about crypto.

It is a conversation about awareness.

“I realized I wasn’t losing money—I was confronting what I believed made me safe.” - Jeffrey Grubert 

In this episode, we explore:

• How a $71,500 loss unfolded—and why it could happen to anyone

• What “social engineering” actually is (and where it shows up beyond scams)

• The psychology of manipulation: fear, authority, and false safety

• Why intelligent people can be more vulnerable

• The role of intuition—and what happens when we override it

• How to cultivate real safety in an increasingly complex world

• The deeper spiritual and human lessons behind loss, trust, and awakening

This is a conversation about discernment, inner authority, and what it truly means to feel safe.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice). 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Steven Kotler—New York Times bestselling author, leading researcher on flow states, and founder of the Flow Research Collective—for a deeply expansive conversation at the intersection of neuroscience, intuition, and human potential.

We explore what it really means to access peak states—not as something mystical or fleeting, but as a trainable biological reality. Steven breaks down the science of flow, how our nervous system either supports or blocks our highest performance, and why so many people today are unknowingly working against their own biology.

We also dive into his latest book, We Are As Gods, and unpack what it means to live in a world where our technology has outpaced our internal capacity to handle it.

Some of my favorite moments from this episode:

• “Peak performance is simply getting our biology to work for us instead of against us.”

• “Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.”

• “If you have a victim mindset, your brain literally will not manufacture the energy required for peak performance.”

• “Intuition is a pathfinding system. It’s designed to tell you one thing: go or no go.”

• “Too much dopamine will screw up your intuition. Never trust the dopamine.”

• “We now have god-like technology, but we’re running it on very old human software.”

• “Information overload leads to cognitive overload, which fractures attention—and that’s where burnout begins.”

We also get into:

• How to regulate your nervous system in real time

• The difference between intuition and emotional reactivity

• Why flow amplifies creativity—and why it’s essential in the age of AI

• The hidden cost of chasing peak experiences without integration

• How to stay grounded while navigating exponential change

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.
I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice).

Dear Friends
In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with writer and teacher Ann Tashi Slater—a Tibetan-American author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and more. Ann joins us from Tokyo to explore her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World, a Next Big Idea Club “Must-Read,” and to unpack one of the most powerful spiritual frameworks for this moment in history: the bardo.

Bardo, in Tibetan Buddhism, means “between state.” It can refer to the space between death and rebirth, but it also describes the in-between moments we all live through—career transitions, identity shifts, endings, new beginnings, illness, loss, and the quiet uncertainty of not knowing what comes next.

Together, Yasmeen and Ann explore how accepting impermanence is not passive at all—it is the turning point that restores agency, clarity, and forward movement. 

Ann shares personal stories from her Tibetan family lineage in Darjeeling, including the fascinating ancestral connection between her great-grandfather and the early Western translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. 

“Acceptance is not giving up. Acceptance is the moment where we stop fighting reality and finally regain the ability to move forward.” - Ann Tashi Slater
In this episode, we explore:
1. What bardo actually means, and why it is not only about death but also about everyday life transitions.
2. Why the only real certainty is change, and how accepting that can reduce anxiety rather than increase it.
3. How “acceptance” creates calm because it helps the mind stop fighting reality and start seeing options clearly.
4. A powerful Buddhist framing of agency: action of body, speech, and mind, including the choice to take no action.
5. How victim narratives can subtly remove our power, and how the bardo teachings help bring responsibility back in a grounding way.
6. Why karma means action, not fate, and how small daily choices create “forks in the road” over time.
7. How to “practice impermanence” through everyday endings—the end of a day, a season, a trip, a conversation—so you are more resilient when bigger transitions arrive.
Ann Tashi Slater’s book is Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World, and you can learn more at anntashislater.com.​​
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If this episode resonated, please share it with someone who is navigating a transition, facing uncertainty, or standing in the in-between—and needs language for how to move through it with more clarity, grace, and power.
Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Nicholas Pearson, award-winning author and crystal educator with nearly 30 years of immersion in the mineral kingdom. Nicholas brings a grounded, practical approach to psychic self-defense—one rooted in discernment, spiritual hygiene, and real tools you can use without catastrophizing your life.

“Whether you are cursed, or you only believe you are, the remedy is usually the same.” - Nicholas Pearson

Together, they explore why so many people are becoming more sensitive right now, what “psychic protection” actually means in an increasingly connected world, and how to distinguish between external energetic interference and your own shadow.

You will also learn Nicholas’s core framework for daily energetic care—cleansing, grounding, and shielding—plus a guided crystalline light shield visualization you can practice immediately. The conversation goes deeper into the mineral science and energetic nuance of protection stones, including the key difference between obsidian and black tourmaline, and why not all protective crystals work the same way.

Nicholas also explains what it really means to “charge” a crystal (and why it is not the same thing as cleansing), and offers realistic, accessible techniques for caring for your stones when you have more than a few.

The episode closes with a beautiful invitation: re-enchant your world by building relationship not only with gemstones, but with the “ordinary” rocks around you—granite, slate, chalk, flint—because the sacred is not rare. It is everywhere.

Key Takeaways

• Why sensitivity is increasing and why “spiritual hygiene” matters now

• How to distinguish true psychic harm from projection and shadow material

• The 3-part daily framework: cleanse, ground, shield

• A guided prismatic crystal shield visualization + affirmation

• The difference between obsidian (reflection/insulation) and black tourmaline (grounding/discharge)

• What “charging” a crystal really means: intention, partnership, and co-creation

• Practical cleansing methods: salt baths, water (when safe), smoke, sound, breath, and visualization

• How to know when you are using “too many crystals” at once and how to experiment intelligently

• A grounded approach to escalation when you feel genuinely targeted: basics first, then divination and layered protection

Nicholas Pearson is an award-winning author and crystal educator who has worked with the mineral kingdom for nearly 30 years. He is the author of Crystal Basics, Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense, and 145 Gemstones for Banishing, Binding, and Magical Protection, and teaches internationally online and in person.

Where to find Nicholas:

Website: theluminouspearl.com

Instagram: @theluminouspearl

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice). 

“We are not living in a dead universe. We are living inside a field of consciousness—and we are just beginning to remember.” - Alan Steinfeld

What if everything you thought you knew about reality… was only one layer?

In this expansive and thought-provoking episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with researcher, author, and founder of New Realities, Alan Steinfeld, to explore one of the most fascinating and misunderstood topics of our time: UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and the evolving nature of human consciousness.

Together, they unpack the history of the phenomenon—from Roswell to modern-day whistleblowers—and explore why conversations around disclosure are accelerating globally. But beyond the headlines, this conversation goes deeper into what may be the real story: not just extraterrestrial contact, but a fundamental shift in how we understand consciousness itself.

Alan shares insights on the intersection of UFO phenomena, telepathy, remote viewing, and non-local awareness, offering a perspective that challenges the traditional materialist view of reality. Yasmeen brings her own lens of intuition, multidimensional awareness, and energetic intelligence, bridging the conversation into the realms of embodiment, knowing, and inner perception.

This episode also explores:

• The difference between thinking and knowing—and why it matters

• Why fear of the unknown has been conditioned into us

• The role of dreams, creativity, and altered states in accessing higher intelligence

• The connection between consciousness, extraterrestrial contact, and human evolution

• What “disclosure” might actually mean—and why it is as much internal as it is external

Throughout the conversation, a deeper theme emerges: that humanity is not separate from the phenomena we are observing. We are part of it.

As Alan shares, the universe is not something happening outside of us—it is something we are actively participating in.

This is not just a conversation about UFOs.

It is a conversation about who we are, what we are capable of, and what becomes possible when we move beyond fear… and into awareness.

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I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice).

Dear Friends,

What if Snakes and Ladders was never meant to be a children’s game?

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Polina Rud, art historian, therapist, and guide of the ancient Indian oracle gyān caupar (also known as Snakes and Arrows). Polina shares the little-known origin story behind the board we all remember: an archetypal map of consciousness designed to reveal patterns in the psyche, karmic loops, and the hidden forces shaping our choices.

Together, they explore how this “theater of fate” becomes a real-time mirror for your inner world: the role of intention (and why you have to get radically honest to enter the game), what it means when you keep landing on the same squares, and how “snakes” symbolize shadow—not as punishment, but as an invitation to integration and transformation.

They also go deeper into why ancient cultures encoded spiritual wisdom into play, how randomness can soften the ego’s grip, and why intuition must be trained—especially in a world flooded with noise, misinformation, and external authority.

This is a conversation about destiny, discernment, shadow work, compassion, and the profound spiritual intelligence hidden inside a simple board game.

In this episode, we cover:

• The ancient origins of Snakes and Ladders as gyān caupar / Snakes and Arrows

• How to use the game as an oracle (and why intention matters)

• Why repeating squares reveals repeating life patterns

• “Good company” vs. “bad company” and the psychology of truth-telling

• What snakes symbolize: shadow, projection, compassion, and growth

• Why play is foundational for mental health (and how it helps metabolize trauma)

• How to strengthen intuition without outsourcing your authority to divination tools

• Why compassion can take you further than “service” alone
  

About Polina Rud Polina Rud is a doctoral candidate in art history, an art curator and lecturer, and a therapist with training in mental health and suicide risk. She specializes in cross-cultural symbolic systems including runic oracles, theosophy, and Hindu astrology, and she guides clients through gyān caupar as a tool for self-knowledge, decision-making, and transformation.

Connect with Polina

• Website: polinarud.com (as mentioned in the episode)

• Social: “It’s Not the End”

• NGO: theworldhurts.com (free psychosocial support and resources, including support for activists)

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Dear Gateways Community - What if the foundation of your self-worth was shaped long before you had the awareness to question it?

In this deeply moving and expansive conversation on Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Sean Smith, actor, author, and master neurotransformational coach, to explore one of the most profound and often overlooked dynamics in human development: the father-daughter relationship.

He is the author of the book, Daddy, Are You Proud of Me? What Daughters Need to Hear, See, and Know From Their Dads. 

Through years of coaching tens of thousands of women, Sean uncovered a powerful throughline—self-worth is not just shaped by whether a father was present or loving, but by a single, formative question: “Was he proud of me?”

We explore how this dynamic quietly influences everything—from career success and burnout to romantic relationships and patterns of validation. We also unpack the difference between performance-based approval and unconditional worth, and why so many high-achieving women are still left feeling unfulfilled.

“Self-worth is not just shaped by whether a father was present or loving, but by whether a daughter felt: Was he proud of me?” - Sean Smith 

This conversation is not about blame. It’s about awareness, healing, and reclaiming your relationship with yourself.

We also discuss:

• How childhood patterns around approval shape adult identity

• Why silence from a parent can be more impactful than criticism

• The hidden link between self-esteem and romantic dynamics

• What healthy, “vulnerable masculinity” actually looks like

• How healing can occur—even without direct resolution with a parent

There is a tenderness to this conversation—one that opens the door to both grief and possibility. Because once something becomes conscious, it can change.

This episode is for anyone seeking deeper self-understanding, more aligned relationships, and a new way of relating to their own inner world.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know.  We love reviews!

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life which is available in print, kindle and Audible (in my own voice). 

This show is sponsored by VastuFengShuiHarmony.com

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with her friend Natalie Levy, Managing Partner of She’s Independent Investments, a women-first angel investment group making investing more accessible through action and education. 

Natalie is an engineer and mathematician by training and a former Wall Street trader and private equity professional who now blends analytical rigor with values-based, heart-led investing. They explore Natalie’s new book, Cash Is Queen: A Conscious Journey in Angel Investing, and the deeper shift it represents in how we relate to money, power, and feminine leadership.

“The business is not just numbers and data points. The business is people. It’s energy.” - Natalie Levy 

Key takeaways from this conversation:

• Why Natalie chose the title “Cash Is Queen” and how changing language can change culture, identity, and access.

• What a feminine approach to wealth-building looks like, including magnetizing and flowing versus forcing and grasping.

• Why investing is not just numbers and spreadsheets, but also people, energy, and values, and how that changes what you choose to fund.

• A candid look at unconscious bias in finance, including how privilege can create blind spots and why contrast often sharpens self-awareness.

• How to start redefining your relationship with money by recognizing that money is energy, and that nearly everyone carries some form of money trauma, whether they have wealth or not.

• Why “conscious capital” is often reduced to marketing language, and what it looks like when it is real, embodied, and practiced.

• Practical advice for founders, especially women and diverse founders, on how to think about funding, including why not every business needs venture capital and how to use accessible education tools to understand your options.

• The idea that the most powerful fundraising strategy is building something so aligned that it becomes magnetic, and support arrives through relationship and trust rather than panic and pressure.
  

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with my dear friend Sat Devbir, international teacher, speaker, and transformational guide, for a deeply expansive conversation on consciousness, yoga, nervous system healing, subtle perception, Metatron, and the multidimensional nature of reality.

Sat shares why “everything is an inside job,” and how true transformation begins not by controlling outer circumstances, but by cultivating awareness, choice, and inner coherence. We explore why so many people remain stuck even after years on a spiritual path, and why consistency, devotion, and nervous system regulation are essential for real, lasting change.

We also dive into the deeper meaning of yoga beyond posture, including the power of mantra, sound, and breath to shift consciousness and rewire survival patterns. From there, the conversation opens into multidimensional territory—Sat shares his early extrasensory experiences, his encounter with Archangel Metatron, the Merkaba, the soul of planets, and the unseen architecture of the universe.

This episode is both grounded and cosmic—a bridge between practical healing and the deeper intelligence of the field.

“Everything is an inside job. That’s where your power is.” — Sat Devbir

“The greatest accomplishment you will ever make is who you become.” — Sat Devbir

“Your true measure of success is not what you build, but the state you live in while building it.” — Sat Devbir

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means that everything is an “inside job”

• Why people stay stuck even on a spiritual path

• The difference between yoga as exercise and yoga as union

• How mantra, sound, and breath impact the nervous system

• Sat’s encounter with Metatron and multidimensional realms

• The Merkaba, chakras, and energetic architecture

• Why left-brain dominance disconnects us from intuition

• How to measure success through your state of being

Learn more about Sat @: https://www.satdevbir.com/

If you’ve been seeking a deeper understanding of consciousness, healing, and your place within a much larger field of intelligence, this episode opens a powerful doorway.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Dear Community, In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Elizabeth April, internationally recognized remote viewer, author, and intuitive teacher, for a mind-expanding conversation on quantum reality, timelines, anxiety, the Galactic Federation, disclosure, and the future of human consciousness.

We begin by exploring the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness, and why Elizabeth believes reality is rendered through observation. From there, we dive into the power of awareness, how small choices can shift us into new timelines, and why so many people are living on autopilot rather than consciously creating their lives.

Elizabeth also shares her perspective on 2026–2028 as a pivotal window for collective awakening, why humanity is being asked to choose between love and fear, and what she sees unfolding around ET disclosure, the Galactic Federation, and global timelines.

We also explore her powerful framework around past, present, and future anxiety, and why healing anxiety requires understanding its relationship to time, trauma, and our focus on possible realities. This conversation is both cosmic and deeply practical—an invitation to step out of distraction, reclaim your sovereignty, and consciously choose the reality you want to live in.

“The most important choice humanity is being asked to make right now is simple: love or fear, unity or separation.” - Elizabeth April 

We talk about the following and so much more:

• The connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness

• Why awareness is the gateway to intuition, spirituality, and creation

• How to consciously shift timelines through small daily choices

• Why 2026–2028 may be a major turning point for humanity

• Elizabeth’s perspective on the Galactic Federation and disclosure

• The difference between past, present, and future anxiety

• Why distraction keeps people disconnected from their power

• How to ask for more out of life—and be ready to receive it

• What it means to choose between love and fear, unity and separation
  

If you’ve been feeling the intensity of this moment, this episode offers a powerful reminder: your awareness is your superpower, your energy matters, and the timeline you live in is more malleable than you may think.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

We would love to hear from you! What did you take away from this episode? Tag us and let us know. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT555, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this episode, we explore:
I recently wrote the book A Glitch In The Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become The Main Character of Your Life, which is available in print, Kindle, and Audible (in my own voice).

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Jose Maria Barrera, software engineer, photographer, and author of Dendera: Temple of Time, to explore one of the most mysterious and symbolically rich temples in all of Egypt — the Temple of Dendera.

What begins as a conversation about ancient architecture quickly becomes something much deeper: a meditation on language, time, symbols, divinity, and the difference between modern precision and ancient wholeness.

Jose bridges two worlds effortlessly — the scientific and the symbolic. As a data architect and lifelong student of Egyptian cosmology, he invites us to reconsider what we think we know about ancient civilizations.

We explore:

• Why the ceiling of Dendera — with its pristine zodiac — stunned Napoleon’s scholars

• How astrology is “science expressed in symbols”

• The difference between precision (modern language) and wholeness (symbolic language)

• Why ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were considered sacred sounds

• The cyclical nature of time — and why linear thinking may limit our perception

• The Nile as a living metaphor for life, death, and rebirth

• Why the builders of Dendera weren’t building for “future civilizations” — but for eternity

Jose offers a profound reframe: the ancient Egyptians were not obsessed with death — they were celebrating life in its most finite and divine expression.

This episode is a reminder that symbols are not primitive thinking — they are a different lens of intelligence.

And perhaps most importantly:

The world is not made of matter. It is made of meaning.

1. Time is cyclical, not linear. Everything we measure — clocks, seasons, lunar cycles, the Nile flooding — is circular. The ancients lived inside this understanding.

2. Astrology is symbolic astronomy. The zodiac at Dendera reflects Babylonian, Greek, and Egyptian synthesis — science encoded through sacred imagery.

3. Precision and wholeness are two different intelligences. Modern civilization optimized for precision. Ancient civilizations optimized for symbolic integration.

4. Language shapes reality. In ancient Egypt, sounds themselves were divine. To speak was to invoke god.

5. Symbols preserve eternity. The Egyptians inscribed images in stone not for “future humans,” but because the symbols themselves were sacred and timeless.

6. Life is divine because it ends. The finite nature of existence is what makes it miraculous.

“Remember that from the moment you are born until the moment you die, you are the center of the universe. Every moment you experience is at the center of the universe — because everything is around you.”

“They (The Egyptians) did not build for future civilizations. They built for eternity.”

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

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Dear Friends,

You wont want to miss this episode, especially if you're tracking what's happening in the Middle East.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Laura Eisenhower, global alchemist and founder of CosmicGaia.org, and great-granddaughter of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, for a deeply expansive conversation on astrology, collective timelines, and the energetic dynamics shaping our world.

Laura shares why she sees linear time as increasingly fluid and why astrology is best understood as a map of cycles and probabilities rather than fixed prediction.

Together, we explore the South Node in Virgo / North Node in Pisces axis and what it is teaching humanity about mind–body–spirit integration and learning to trust the body’s intelligence.

We also dive into the powerful outer-planet alignments, including Saturn and Neptune, and what they may be dissolving within old authority structures.

A key part of our conversation explores Laura’s research into the Iran region as a significant energetic gateway within the planetary stargate framework, and how she believes trauma loops and reversal patterns in key global locations can ripple through the collective field. 

“We don’t want to lose ourselves to the fear and the outcome — we want to hold what we want to see.” - Laura Eisenhower

In this episode, we explore:

- The dissolving illusion of linear time and “divine timing”

- South Node Virgo → North Node Pisces integration

- Saturn–Neptune dynamics and collapsing old structures

- Nervous system regulation as a spiritual technology

- Discernment in the age of information overload

- Iran and the 10th Gate in Laura’s planetary stargate framework

- Reversal timelines and collective trauma loops

- Planetary grids and global energetic hotspots

- Working with water, prayer, and emotional coherence

- Choosing love, family, and community in volatile times

If you have been feeling the intensity of the current moment, this conversation offers both cosmic context and grounded tools to help you stay centered, sovereign, and connected to your inner knowing.

Guest: Laura Eisenhower

Website: CosmicGaia.org

If you enjoyed this episode we would love to hear from you!

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For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

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What if gold isn’t just a commodity… but a spiritual technology? 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Zach Zublena, healing artist, painter, transformational breathwork facilitator, and spiritual photographer, whose work centers on what he calls the sacred frequency of gold: a radiant, protective, awakening field that helps people remember their divine essence.

Zach shares the surprising journey that began as an artistic experiment in 2016, painting bodies in gold, until a near-death experience reoriented his entire path and revealed gold as a transmission: not about status or wealth, but sovereignty, remembrance, and ascension.

Together, we explore why ancient civilizations revered gold as “the flesh of the gods,” how cultures from Egypt and Mesopotamia to the Inca and Vedic tradition approached gold as sacred, and why modern extraction and hoarding distort its original purpose.
We also dive into
- The lived, practical side of working with gold as a frequency
- Gold meditations, energetic shielding, heart coherence, sound/resonance
- The way art can bypass the mind and speak directly to the soul.
- How his transformational breathwork sessions guide people into theta states where gold becomes an embodied experience
If you’ve ever felt that gold “does something” to your field, or you’re curious about beauty as a portal, spiritual sovereignty, and the alchemy of matter and consciousness, this conversation will expand your framework.
Guest: Zach Zublena
Website: ZZGallery.com
Book: The Sacred Frequency of Gold (available on Amazon)
Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. 

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

You can also check out my latest book A Glitch In the Matrix, here.

Dear Friends,

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Doug Hilton, a counselor with over 30 years of experience supporting clients through trauma, addiction recovery, and couples/family dynamics, and a Certified Universal Healing Tao instructor who has integrated Qigong into his clinical practice for two decades.

Doug is also the co-author (with Master Mantak Chia) of The Tao of Addiction and Recovery, a book that reframes addiction through a Taoist lens: not as a moral failure, but as a system-level imbalance—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Together, we explore:
- Why Doug describes addiction as an imbalance in the system, and how that insight emerged through Taoist training in Thailand
- What Taoism is (and what it is not): a spiritual system rooted in living in harmony with nature, without dogma or forced belief
- How addiction develops through natural human tendencies (adaptation, denial, pain avoidance) that can become exploited over time
- The Taoist view of recovery as harmony over willpower, and why inner balance reduces the “need to medicate”
- A practical, grounding Qigong entry point: breathing into the lower Dantian (“Where the mind goes, the chi follows”)
- The Inner Smile Meditation and the elemental organ system—how sequencing (wood → fire vs. water → fire) supports balance
- Doug’s work bridging Western therapy and Taoist energetics: EMDR, trauma, and Taoist Emotional Recycling (TER)
- A simple guided TER eye-movement practice you can try (when you are not driving) to support emotional clearing
- Shame, guilt, relapse, and how restoring flow through the “garden hose” system of energy channels changes recovery outcomes
- Why sexuality and sexual energy are often neglected in mainstream recovery—and how Taoist practices help integrate it with care
- Doug also shares his personal journey—how Taoism “found him” long before he fully understood it—and why he believes this work matters not only for people facing addiction, but for anyone touched by it.
Resources & Links
Doug Hilton: fullcirclehealing.ca
Thailand program: balancerhehab.solutions
Book: The Tao of Addiction and Recovery 
Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com

In this illuminating episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with Cindy Reynolds, soul coach, author of Soul Seeker and Soul Bridges, and founder of NeuroFit — for a deep conversation on intuition, emotional mastery, and the intelligence of the soul.

With a background spanning software engineering, QEEG brain mapping, and spiritual practice, Cindy bridges neuroscience and spirituality to offer a grounded, practical framework for working with life’s challenges.

She shares her signature “soul exercise” for transforming fear, anger, and frustration into higher emotional states like trust and peace, and explains how tuning into the soul’s perspective can clarify purpose, strengthen intuition, and support healing across the body, brain, and spirit.

Together, Yasmeen and Cindy explore how external chaos becomes internal noise — and how learning to work with that noise can become a powerful path of awakening, alignment, and self-leadership.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to distinguish between the voice of the personality and the voice of the soul
  

• A simple, repeatable process for transforming fear into trust through higher perspective

• Why we are often here to master just a few core emotions — and how to work with them

• How intuition, prayer, and emotional awareness guide purpose and decision-making

• The role of brain health and root-cause healing in spiritual and emotional well-being

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

For more from Yasmeen: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Hi Everyone, 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Jason Dilts, a yogi, writer, evolutionary astrologer, and certified KRI Kundalini Yoga instructor, for a wide-ranging, deeply practical conversation on how we evolve, how we liberate old storylines, and how we actually work with energy in a way that changes real life.

We explore 

- What makes evolutionary astrology different (spoiler: it’s not “fate,” it’s a living map), 

- Why Pluto is the key to the soul, and how the North Node / South Node axis reveals the evolutionary storyline you came here to live. 

- Jason breaks down the planet, Pluto, through the generations (Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius) and how each cohort is shaping the collective, and what it means that we’re moving into a year where multiple outer planets shift signs, resetting the energetic grid beneath humanity.

- Kundalini Yoga as a multidimensional technology. We talk about Kundalini as the yoga of angles and triangles, how mantra moves energy (not just emotion), and why developing a strong nervous system is essential in these times. 

- Jason also shares a powerful overview of the 10 Bodies system. 

- We also go into Vastu, sacred spatial alignment through gemstones, yantras, and planetary intelligence, and why building an intimate relationship with planetary archetypes can create major shifts in your home, your nervous system, and your life trajectory.
“You are alive at the turning of the ages… and what you do with your gifts helps rewrite the timeline.” - Jason Dilts

If you’ve ever felt the pull to understand your chart beyond “sun sign astrology,” or you’ve sensed that 2026–2028 is a threshold timeline, this episode is for you.
​Connect with Jason:
Find him on Instagram/TikTok/YouTube at @TegAkaldeep

He offers one-on-one readings and teaches in Los Angeles at Babaje.
You can also sign up for our 4-week Beginner Vastu and Evolutionary Astrology class on February 26th with Tashi Powers, which is not to be missed! You can also download our app here. Best, -Yasmeen 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Robert Lee Camp, leading authority on the ancient science of the cards and author of the best-selling book Love Cards and Cards of Your Destiny.

Robert has spent more than three decades researching, teaching, and translating this once-hidden system into a practical tool for modern life.
Together, we explore what “destiny cards” actually are, why a standard deck of playing cards mirrors the calendar year with uncanny mathematical precision, and how this system works as a form of spiritual psychology that is both predictive and deeply revealing. Robert shares the lineage of the work through his teacher Arnie Lean, and traces the system back through historical sources such as Olney Richmond’s The Mystic Test Book, including the idea that the cards were used as an esoteric framework for understanding fate, karma, and human nature. Big thank you to our mutual friend, Jen Hill, for the introduction! 
To explore your own cards and receive a free introduction, visit cardsofyourdestiny.com
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why a deck of cards mirrors Earth’s calendar (52 weeks, 13 lunar cycles, 4 seasons, 365 days).
- What destiny cards are and how your birthday mathematically determines your cards.
- The difference between a birth card, planetary ruling card, and decanate ruling card.
- Why the Ace of Spades is considered the symbolic “key” of the system.
- How karma cards work, and what they reveal about past patterns and current growth edges.
- How the four suits map to life stages: hearts (relationships), clubs (knowledge), diamonds (values), and spades (work and mastery).
- Why relationship dynamics can be one of the greatest spiritual initiations in a lifetime.
- How to use the system to reflect on your past, navigate your present, and forecast what is ahead.
Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com. You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

Dear Community,

This episode is a little different—in the best way.

Host, Yasmeen Turayhi, hands the mic to her friend Bella Shing for an intimate, real conversation about Yasmeen’s new book, A Glitch in the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life —a practical guide to waking up from unconscious patterning and stepping into conscious authorship.

Grounded in 15+ years on the personal development path and 250+ interviews on Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen distills what she’s learned into 10 core Energy Codes designed to help you shift your identity, reclaim your energy, and create from coherence rather than conditioning.

Together, Yasmeen and Bella explore what a “glitch” actually is: the moment you see the program running your life—and realize you don’t have to keep living it. They talk about the “Matrix” as a cultural agreement built on conditional worth and performance, how people unknowingly give their power away every day, and why identity is the real engine behind long-term change. The conversation also moves into energy mastery—presence, embodiment, intuition, nervous system capacity—and why levity, play, and humor are not distractions from the sacred, but often the doorway into it.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re living on autopilot, this episode is a transmission back to your agency.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

1. What a “glitch in the matrix” really is—and how to recognize it in your own life
2. How the “Matrix” functions as a dominant cultural program built on conditional worth
3. The most common ways we give our power away (and how to call it back)
4. Why identity is the reason most people don’t change—and how to use identity intentionally
5. How intuition differs from fear (and what “nonlinear knowing” feels like)
6. Why embodiment and nervous system capacity are essential for real transformation
7. How karma, resonance, and energetic “accounting” shape what comes back to you
8. The role of humor and play in spiritual maturity—sacred doesn’t have to mean serious

About the book: A Glitch in the Matrix is Yasmeen’s love letter to the world—an accessible, grounded framework for energy mastery, presence, and conscious creation, written for anyone ready to stop sleepwalking through life and start living from inner authority.

About the guest host: Bella Shing is an artist and creator living in Lisbon. In this episode, she also shares what she’s building next, including her new app Daily Miracles, designed to help people track serendipity and train attention toward what’s working.

If this episode resonates, share it with someone you love—and let it be your reminder: your life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

For more from Yasmeen: follow her writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

This show is sponsored by Vastu Feng Shui.

You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with Michelle Masters—internationally acclaimed bestselling author, transformational facilitator, and founder of Wired for Magic—to explore the deeper energetic and subconscious roots of money.

Michelle shares how she went from having no real interest in money to creating her renowned Money Magic workshop and book, Money Magic: Clearing Your Path to Money, Time, and Happiness. She explains why most money work fails when it stays at the level of mindset and strategy, and shows how our core money patterns are actually laid down in the womb and early childhood, often entangled with our parents’ trauma and our ancestral field.

“We will not let ourselves have more than we think we deserve.” – Michelle Masters

In this episode, we explore:

• Why money, at its essence, shows up as the energy of blessings

• How core beliefs about safety, worth, and “being too much / not enough” form before age three

• The difference between changing a behavior and changing an identity

• How ancestral grief and parental overwhelm can become our money story

• A powerful question to unlock a new future: “Even if it’s not rational or reasonable, what would I most love to experience?”

• Practical ways to start revising old wiring and inviting in more ease, abundance, and support

You can sign up for her mastermind, now on the Shift network OR her live workshop on Money in April in Marin here. 

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

You can also check out my latest book, A Glitch In the Matrix: 10 Energy Codes to Become the Main Character of Your Life, #1 New Release in the Self-Help category on Amazon, to learn more. 

On this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I speak with Maria Christina Owl, author of Planetary Ascension: The Purpose of 3D and the Choice We Face, spiritual mentor, ceremonial leader, and teacher of indigenous wisdom technologies and energy medicine. For over 25 years, Maria has helped people break trauma patterns, reclaim soul fragments, and reconnect to the living web of life.

We explore what it actually means to be a multidimensional human—through dreams, astral travel, intuition, and quantum DNA—and how many of us are unknowingly living inside “false timelines” that pull us away from our authentic soul path. Maria explains how to recognize when you’re off your true timeline, how fragmentation occurs through trauma, and how to begin calling your soul parts back through the body, somatic awareness, and loving adult consciousness.

We also dive into:

• Working consciously on the astral plane: silver cord, solar plexus portal, and why nightmares are often a recall mechanism

• Reversal grids, the “inverted pyramid,” and shifting from over-giving to receiving support from the universe

• Psychic interference and entities—and why Maria lives by the mantra “I have no enemies”

• Planetary ascension, solar light, changing Earth grids, and what acceleration in 2026–2027 might really be about

• Grief as a teacher and how being forged in the fire of loss can open us to deeper compassion and embodied love
  

If you’ve ever felt like you’re in the wrong reality, stuck in loops, or exhausted by unseen energies, this conversation offers both language and practice for coming back to your highest timeline—through love, sovereignty, and wholeness.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen speaks with transformational guide Sascha Haert to explore the deeper architecture of intimacy, embodiment, and authentic relating.

Sascha works with women leaders who have achieved external success but still feel disconnected from themselves. Together, they unpack why relational patterns repeat, how to build partnerships rooted in truth rather than performance, and what it means to live from your deepest intelligence, the intelligence of the body.

This conversation illuminates the subtle ways we abandon ourselves, how to reclaim our needs with integrity, and why intimacy always begins with honest self-resonance.

“Intimacy only works when you stop performing and start telling the truth — not the dramatic truth, but the embodied one.” — Sascha Haert

Key Takeaways

• Why many high-performing individuals struggle with intimacy and self-connection

• How the nervous system shapes our ability to stay open, present, and receptive

• The two pillars that Sascha believes every relationship needs to thrive

• How to express truth without collapsing into reactivity or performance

• Why sensuality is a doorway to self-awareness, not just pleasure

• How polyamory can act as a healing phase — and where it becomes a bypass

• Practical tools to speak the unspoken and build authentic connections

• How to recognize and stop subtle self-abandonment in real time

• The difference between compatibility and resonance

• What it means to live from “yes” instead of fear, obligation, or pattern

You can find Sascha Haert on IG here.

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness.

For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

In this extraordinary episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen sits down with evolutionary astrologer and Vastu gemstone master Tashi Powers, whose decades of experience reading charts for luminaries, from the Rolling Stones to Brad Pitt to Nobel Laureates, have made her one of the most respected astrologers in the world.

Together, Yasmeen and Tashi explore the hidden architecture of reality through Vastu, gemstone astrology, and evolutionary astrology—revealing how our homes, bodies, and birth charts are encoded with cosmic intelligence.

“Your home is a living organism. When you align your space with your planetary blueprint, the universe begins to conspire with you—fast.” — Tashi Powers

“These remedies aren’t symbolic. They’re vibrational technologies that have been working for 10,000 years.” - Tashi Powers 

Tashi explains how to personalize Vastu using your birth chart, how gemstones communicate with planetary frequencies, and why your home is a living organism that can either harmonize or distort your destiny. She shares astonishing stories about space clearing, planetary remedies, and the Deva realm, and breaks down how colors, deities, sacred geometry, and gemstones can transform your relationships, career, creativity, and emotional harmony.

This episode also dives into:

- How Vastu aligns your home with your planetary blueprint

- Why gemstones work—and how to use them for love, money, empowerment, and protection

- How the days of the week correspond to planetary energies

- What evolutionary astrology reveals about your karma, purpose, and soul path

- The power of the moon, Venus gates, and the sacred geometry of the cosmos

- How to work with natural law, intuition, and the seed cycle of the zodiac

- The importance of the galactic center and why some souls come in with a “galactic mission”

Yasmeen and Tashi also announce the relaunch of their personalized Vastu app, Vastu Feng Shui, which turns an ancient $500-$2,000 consultation into a modern, intuitive tool for anyone to use—complete with personalized remedies for love, health, prosperity, and emotional harmony.

This is a mystical, grounded, highly practical conversation for anyone ready to understand their space, their chart, and their energy in a completely new way.

Learn more at:

VastuFengShuiHarmony.com

EnlighteningTimes.com

Instagram: @tashiastrodikini @yasmeenturayhi @vastushaktifengshui

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Dear Friend, In this powerful and far-reaching episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with writer, historian, musician, and esoteric scholar Ronnie Pontiac, one of the most important living voices on Western mysticism and hidden spiritual lineages.
Ronnie’s life was shaped by decades of work at the crossroads of hermeticism, occult philosophy, Rosicrucianism, and alternative American history. From 1981–1987, he served as research assistant and designated substitute lecturer to the legendary teacher Manly P. Hall, gaining unparalleled firsthand access to the inner currents of Western esoteric thought.

 We explore his latest book, The Rosicrucian Counterculture: The Origins and Influence of the Invisible Society.  We explore the Invisible Schools, illuminating the mysterious lineage that has quietly shaped philosophy, science, art, politics, and spirituality for centuries.

“The universal reformation begins with personal reformation. You cannot transform a society if you have not already transformed within yourself.”
— Ronnie Pontiac

Together, Yasmeen and Ronnie explore:
• The hidden metaphysical roots of America and why much of U.S. history has been misunderstood, and how esoteric currents quietly shaped early American philosophy, science, and political life.
• Rosicrucianism beyond the myth - Who the Rosicrucians truly were, why their manifestos electrified Europe, and how their vision of a “universal reformation” still echoes today.
• The alchemical process of inner transformation, a rare, grounded look at how real alchemy was practiced and what its steps mean for modern seekers.
• The Hermetica, ancient Egypt, and the metaphysical revival - Why astrology, sacred geometry, and ancient esoteric philosophy are resurging today
• The battle between America’s spiritual openness and its shadow - A candid exploration of Christian nationalism, pluralism, and the long-forgotten mystical side of America’s origins.
• A profound personal story of grief, love, and spiritual revelation

Ronnie shares the moving, intimate account of losing his wife and lifelong creative partner and the extraordinary experiences that unfolded afterward, reshaping his understanding of consciousness, death, and the continuity of the soul.
Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.

Best, -Yasmeen 

Thank you to our sponsors, Vastu Feng Shui, astrocartography and space clearing for your home.

Thank you to our sponsors - Vastu Feng Shui, astrocartography and Vastu for your home.

In this illuminating episode of Gateways to Awakening, host Yasmeen Turayhi speaks with Marcie Anderson, a spiritual teacher, published author, and Sai Shakti healer with over 25 years of study in the ancient science of consciousness.

After spending a decade in India under the direct guidance of Sri Kaleshwar, where she earned her PhD in Soul Doctorism, Marcie shares the sacred knowledge of the Holy Womb Chakra — an ancient spiritual system that awakens the creative power within every soul.

Together, Yasmeen and Marcie explore:

✨ What the Holy Womb Chakra truly is — and how it serves as the source of divine creation

✨ The mantras and yantras (sacred sounds and geometries) that purify karma and open the channels of creation

✨ How healing the womb can dissolve ancestral patterns, clear past relationships, and call in soul-aligned love

✨ Conscious conception rituals that invite high vibrational souls to incarnate

✨ How silence, elemental decharging, and devotion restore spiritual sovereignty

This conversation bridges ancient Eastern wisdom with modern spiritual practice, guiding listeners to reconnect with their Divine Mother energy, embody wholeness, and awaken the sacred creative essence within.

You can connect with Marcie at: divineyoga108@gmail.com or on Instagram: @marcieandersonofficial

🎧 Experience a guided womb activation during the episode — and feel the power of this lineage for yourself.

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Thank you to our sponsors, Vastu Feng Shui.

Hey Friends, 

This episode was spectacular.  In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Jennifer Hough, best-selling author of UNSTUCK and founder of The Wide Awakening, to explore what it means to become a “cosmic instigator”, someone who catalyzes quantum leaps in love, business, and consciousness. 

Jennifer unpacks the science and spirit of holographic seeing, describing how we can perceive reality beyond linear time, and how thriving—not surviving—becomes the entry point to expanded awareness.

“You can’t imagine something that doesn’t already exist. Imagination is simply the door to a parallel reality that’s waiting for you to step into it.” -Jennifer Hough

We talk about the following and so much more:

• What it really means to “quantum jump” into a parallel reality

• Why paradigm shifts can rewrite hundreds of beliefs at once

• How resistance is simply feedback guiding us toward flow

• The role of biology in attuning to new dimensions of being

• The illusion of control — and how to partner with universal intelligence instead

You’ll get a free month's access for the Agents of Awakening course through this link: https://thewideawakening.com/aoa-30day-ac/?referredby1=Yasmeen%20Turayhi.

Quantum Leap | Reset & Renew for 2026
https://thewideawakening.com/resetrenew2026/

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For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.
-Yasmeen 

Thank you to our sponsors, Vastu Feng Shui.

On this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I speak with Ryel Kestano, the co-founder of ART "The Art of Authentic Relating" International and Kora, a new dating and relationship app rooted in the principles of authentic relating.

Ryel is also the author of the beautiful and practical book Authentic Relating: A Guide to Rich, Meaningful, Nourishing Relationships, and a pioneer in bringing the tools of authentic communication to individuals, couples, and even inmates through his nonprofit, The Realness Project.

“You are worthy of connection exactly as you are. You don’t have to filter or contrive a version of yourself to be loved.” - Ryel Kestano You can listen to the entire conversation here. 
In this conversation, we explore:
- What authentic relating actually means—and how it’s not just about being honest
- The three levels of conversation and why most of us stay stuck in the first two
- How to meet people where they are without collapsing our truth
- The five foundational practices of authentic relating, including “welcome everything” and “own your experience”
- Why relational presence is the portal to deep intimacy
- How the Kora app is reimagining dating through meaningful, values-based connection
- And how slowing down, listening, and being seen without performance can transform the way we relate—not only to others, but to ourselves
If you're craving deeper connection, clearer communication, or a new way of approaching relationships—this episode is for you.
Learn more about Ryel’s work:
ART International
Ryel’s Book
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In this powerful and delightfully unpredictable episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with filmmaker, writer, and creative provocateur Bobby Kennedy III, son of RFK, to explore one of the most wide-ranging conversations in our show’s history  spanning politics, spirituality, satire, lucid dreaming, hidden narratives, and his new book The Confessions of Anthony Fauci.

From the moment the episode begins (and yes, includes a hilarious “restart” moment due to a bio mix-up), Bobby opens the door to a candid and unfiltered dialogue. 

“You can’t wake up a society without first waking up your own shadow. Satire just gives the medicine a taste people can actually swallow.” - Bobby Kennedy III

We explore:

• How humor and satire can cut through propaganda and awaken consciousness

• Why American identity is shaped by myths, secrecy, and selective storytelling

• His family’s legacy — and the emotional, spiritual weight of growing up amid unresolved truths

• Bobby’s lifelong practice of lucid dreaming and how it became a gateway into healing, exploration, and contacting deeper realms of the psyche

• A behind-the-scenes look at his film “Fear and Loathing in Aspen” and the experiment in “backlash politics”

• The inspiration behind his new satirical book, The Confessions of Anthony Fauci — a fictionalized “tell-all” written in Fauci’s own voice

• How power, secrecy, and belief systems shape public health and public narrative

• A candid discussion on the metaphysical, occult, and psychological forces that may influence modern systems

Why Bobby remains hopeful — and how he believes humanity can cross a threshold into unity and consciousness

His call to action for listeners: Talk to someone you disagree with. Build bridges. Start small. Start human.

Bobby’s new book: The Confessions of Anthony Fauci

Find him on X: @BobbyKennedyX

Tune in to Gateways to Awakening for more conversations with leading thinkers, creators, and spiritual pioneers shaping the future of consciousness. For more from me: follow my writing on Substack (substack.com/@therealyasmeent), find me on Instagram @TheRealYasmeenT, or visit InnerKnowingSchool.com.