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I had a moment the other day, on a rainy day, drinking Earl Grey tea and writing at the Wildflower Apothecary and Tea shop where I go in the afternoons. It came over me, this wave of emotion, of realization and just awareness, in the moment.

I am who I want to be when I grow up.

I'm purposefully making that statement present tense, because I've still got a long ways to go. But I want to acknowledge that it's also happening now. If I can't be happy now, I mean, my family are all living and relatively healthy, nobody's fighting a serious illness.

My pets are happy and healthy. I am so thankful and acutely aware of that joy every single day. My favourite moments are being on the couch watching Netflix or reading a novel on Kindle with my cat Sam on my chest and my cat Scotty between my knees. My heart is so full in those moments.

And I know that they won't last forever.

I've never been more comfortable in my own body - I feel very grounded, I work out a LOT, I sleep well, I have no chronic physical complaints, no pain. I don't take high blood pressure medicine. I'm in pretty good shape for somebody going on 50.

I look in the mirror and I like myself. More so than I ever have.

I have a safe and comfortable home. It’s not some dream loft I might have envisioned, but it’s more abundance than 99.9% of the people on the planet can claim.

I have friends all over the country who trust and adore me and even though they are far away, I can text them within moments. I actually love those texting, long distance relationships. It's like this amazing, creative, humourous Improv that's always going on out there in the cloud.

The physical landscape I move through every day is pretty freaking beautiful. Nature in Chattanooga, Tennessee is a fairyland, it really is. It's the reason why I wrote about a fairyland that exists here. I would have never imagined myself moving back home, but there is an energy in this city at this time, and it’s a good time to be here.

And after all the personal friends and family and gratitude for good health and wellness, there is my work. My work is my life. THIS, right here, is my work. And I'm kind of like, Are you kidding me? That's awesome.

I make money for talking, and commenting, and giving my opinion and sharing my stories, and doing all the things I would do with you over a cup at a cafe.

And although I do work everyday, it’s because I love my work. It's part of my life and an extension of my personality. My schedule is my own, even though I'm kind of a slave driver about it.

And you know, by the way, I was just telling my mother I know this sounds like a highly superficial thing, but I drive my dream car. It’s not a luxury car by any means. It’s a hard top Mini Cooper, British racing green. And I remember a time when that seemed so out of my reach and I thought “Wow. That is THE car that I would get if I could get any car.” Sometimes I walk up to it parked on the street and I think “I love my car!"

I do! I got it.

I could go on with this list. I don’t do this enough. By the way, especially when you’re feeling bad, playing this game when you’re alone, driving around, naming things that are pretty or that make you happy on those days when you can feel happy. If you do it on the days you don't feel happy, it’s really powerful.

Just do it all the time, actually. But if you're in a place where you're trying to get that happy back, I mean, happy is such a dumb word. But you know what I mean. Whatever that means for you. I think it's something so much more quiet and less exciting than what we ...

Choosing Joy over Cancer with Italia Oliver

Shift Your Spirits

10/03/17 • 58 min

Italia Oliver is a Spiritual Life Coach, Intuitive Reader, and Conscious Vocal Channel. She's the creator of The Stairway to HealingTM, a program designed to reconnect people to the aliveness, wholeness, and empowerment that resides in all of us. As she endured cancer, she began receiving messages from Spirit.

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...channeling, Esther Hicks’ Abraham, Daryl Anka's Bashar, angels, spirit guides, extraterrestrials, Edgar Caye, fourth-dimensional being Jack, Elsheegon of the Light, light body activation, Andromedan Morenae, Archangel Haniel, Archangel Galadriel, breast cancer, October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, mesothelioma, chemotherapy...

Jamie Rota, Center for the New Age, Sedona, AZ

Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona, AZ

The Angel Store, Scottsdale, AZ

Mystic Connections, Huntington Beach, CA

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Beauty for Ashes

Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

BLT for the Soul

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Soul Mates and Twin Flames

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09/26/17 • 26 min

When you think about finding your soul mate, always ask yourself this question: "Who do you want to be when you meet the love of your life?" This approach to passion takes care of many of your needs, beyond just the sexual and romantic. This is the compass of self love that will set you on a course for a great life, no matter who you are and whether you ever choose to partner permanently.

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A Marian Shrine in Marion Country

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INTRO

Hey, thanks for listening to the Shift Your Spirits podcast.

I’m your host Slade Roberson.

For eleven years, I’ve been a professional intuitive and the author of the blog Shift Your Spirits, where I try to write about spirituality with fewer hearts and flowers than most New Age blather.

I also mentor emerging intuitives, psychics, and healers in a program called Automatic Intuition.

One of my Patreon supporters requested an episode with my views about soul mates and twin flames.

I asked her "Are you sure you want to hear what I really believe about these topics? Because I may not say the things most people want to hear... I have a pretty no-bullshit opinion when it comes to this subject.”

She said that’s what she was hoping for and to bring it on.

Listeners who support the show on Patreon can access bonus Q&A episodes, where you guys send in questions, I record answers to them, and they go out to patrons of the show exclusively.

But since I feel like this topic is a popular one, I’m going to put it out to the whole podcast audience, instead of doing it as an exclusive this time.

There is also a level of support that includes a free download of the guided meditation “Messages from your Spirit Guides."

So, if you want to find out how you can become a patron, and access the extra audio content, please go to patreon.com/shiftyourspirits

Bear with me.

This could be a random, non-linear conversation. I pulled up a lot of the material I’ve written about soul mates over the past twelve years. I’ve skimmed over it. It’s safe to say, my observations have not changed much. My opinions have deepened.

But I’m asking you to bear with me as I talk about it, because it could move in circles. Spirals, even.

My intention is that if I free-flow through this subject, as if I’m collecting little bits of wisdom and pointing them out to you, one or more of them will resonate with you and whatever questions you may have about your own life in terms of partnerships, karmic connections, soul mates.

There are a lot of messages for a lot of different people waiting to come through me.

So, I’m just going to dive in and swim around, and see what I can bring to the surface, okay?

If you’re still seeking, I will say this:

The more you grow into the person you’re truly meant to be, and you know yourself and have greater access to your wisdom... Unfortunately, it seems cruel, but your pool of potential mates gets smaller, not larger.

When you were in your teens, every potential person you caught in your net was a Young Adult trilogy just waiting to be written.

When you’re older and wiser, you start throwing back all the little fish without wasting much time and energy. You throw back some big fish, too.

And you’re okay with it.

Because you know yourself and what you truly require out of a partner.

Some of the big red flags I’ve noted for those who are seeking:

If you’re trying to find a partner, that’s problematic.

If you think you’ve found them, but you're working to make them love you. That’s a huge red flag.

If you’re calling more than one friend and/or psychic to help you decide if this one is the One, chances are ... it isn’t.

No bellows required, here. You should not find yourself over there fanning the flames, trying to keep the spark going... That’s not how this should work.

Listen, the beginning should be fairly easy, and fun, and lot of mutual chemistry and excitement... If you’re working just to get in the relationship in the early stages.

You’re in danger, girl.

That’s some of the What Not to Do. Here’s a couple of things you definitely should do:

Say yes to things. People, events, invitations. Things that don’t, on the face of it, have anything to do with dating. Meeting potential partners through other friends is healthy. It makes sense for a lot of reasons.

And always ask yourself this — number one question:

Who do you want to be when you meet the love of your life?

In o...

Shrine : Virgin of the Poor

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08/16/20 • 30 min

I recently visited a Marian Visitation shrine tucked away in the mountains of South Eastern Tennessee—of all places. I never knew it existed, I’d never heard of this particular Marian apparition, and the day I found myself there was a remarkably sweet synchronicity.

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Stranger Angels, Albuquerque

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11/03/19 • 39 min

Over the years "stranger angels" has become a kind of tag for my travel memoirs. This week, I'm sharing my experiences while traveling to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Clairaudience: I hear more than voices

Shift Your Spirits

08/06/19 • 42 min

I share my perceptions and concepts as a way for you to compare them to your own.

To de-mystify psychic phenomena and experiences.

To embrace not only the ways in which you might recognize yourself in what I’m describing, but also the ways in which in you’re different.

Talking about it can help others locate it within themselves.

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An Angel at My Table film about Janet Frame

Frances film about Frances Farmer

The Hours film partly about Virginia Woolf

Iris film about Iris Murdoch

TRANSCRIPT

Doing what the voices in your head tell you to.

It’s THE #1 disparaging joke you hear all the time that might sometimes be referring to phenomena we would categorize as clairaudience.

So, har har.

In a lot of cases, hearing voices is synonymous with the absolute deepest depths of mental illness. It was the one thing through my teens and twenties that kept me from ever, ever acknowledging the psychic phenomena I experienced.

I feared being committed against my will. I don't fear it so much lately but it's still a fear that I can access if I needed to. Like, I could drag that out and be like, yeah, I remember what it feels like to worry about that and I can see how I can put myself in a situation where everything could go horribly wrong.

It's more of a horror movie screen playing out in my mind than actual real anxiety. But when I was younger, there was definitely a real fear.

And then growing up there were all these movies about voices and craziness, and a lot of times they were about authors. There was a movie in 1990 called An Angel at my Table that was about the New Zealander poet Janet Frame who was committed at the time that she won her country's highest literary honor.

Obviously it's been 30 years since I've seen that movie, but there are a few images that haunt me. Like, I remember them bringing her a volume of her work that had just been published in hardcover and wanting her to sign it, to autograph it. She was heavily sedated in a mental ward and didn't really.. it wasn't even conscious of the fact that her book had just come out and that was like, the first time she held it. And it won the equivalent of a Pulitzer or a Booker.

And there was another scene where they put her in a padded cell and she literally writes poetry on the walls of the padded cell. That's how much she needed to get those words out.

And then there was a movie Jessica Lange starred in in the 80s about Frances Farmer, who was famously lobotomized basically for being too willful and outspoken for a woman in the 1950s. She was sort of a political activist I guess, or would've been by today's standards.

Nobody plays crazy like Jessica Lange, by the way. I mean it's a great performance.

But yeah, that feeds into all your horrors about being committed against your will, medicated, and then it all unravels, right? You lose your agency. You literally lose your rights as an adult.

Of course, Virginia Woolf, who is one of my hugest literary heroes in the whole world, who was famously so depressed for so long that she finally walked into the river with stones in her pockets. Gotta been hearing that story since I was in junior high school. And it's been dramatized in a lot of different places and shared and reshared.

Most recently, Nicole Kidman's performance in the Hours, which is an incredible performance and a great movie. But again, all this stuff about these people going nuts, especially writers.

After I watched the movie Iris, which was Judi Dench starred as Iris Murdoch who lost the faculty for words. She was technically suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's, so it wasn't craziness necessarily, but they did very distinctly dramatize the fact that this woman who was known for her phenomenal vocabulary literally lost her ability to access words slowly and was conscious that it was happening to her as an author.

This is like the worst horror ever. I get it. It's Sophie's Choice. It's these amazingly emotionally triggering dramatizations that happen in movies, but I just, at that...

What Can You Let Go?

Shift Your Spirits

07/12/20 • 41 min

So many things I have taken for granted I now have no choice but to let go of, and yet I’m still walking around magically thinking these things are going to come back.

I'm sharing observations about letting things go.

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Psychic Scanning

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11/17/19 • 40 min

I’m sharing some points to keep in mind when you are attempting to scan someone psychically. Especially if you are learning or developing this skill ... Expectations of what you think you’re supposed to be doing are probably not helping.

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Crop Circle on Sand Mountain

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10/27/19 • 37 min

A local crop circle in Sand Mountain, AL, local UFO sightings, as well as my own personal UFO experience in Southeastern TN ...

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Blue-Skinned Aliens

Communion by Whitley Strieber (affiliate link)

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Actual Natal Chart of the USA

Astrology - Chiron in Aries + You with Dena DeCastro

Shift Your Spirits

04/16/19 • 47 min

Evolutionary astrologer Dena DeCastro returns to the show to teach us all about Chiron, Chiron Return, and what the move into Chiron in Aries means for each of us.

HOW TO FIND YOUR CHIRON SIGN:

Google the year you were born + Chiron example: “1969 Chiron”

visit Chiron Sign Tables at Cafe Astrology

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Chiron Sign Tables Cafe Astrology

The National Chart of the United States interpretation

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Chiron in Aries and You

Chiron in Aries: Fight for the Right to Be You

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