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Today we're speaking with Brandy Jordan — psychologist, business creator, and sought-after spiritual guide whose gift lies in the intuitive, right-brained arts — reading the unseen currents beneath a person's story and reflecting back the truth of who they already are. In 2022, at the High Desert Human Design Conference in Santa Fe, Brandy met astrologer and Human Design Analyst Richard Corbett. What began as a professional connection became both a partnership and a love story, and together they founded Emerge — a practice built on the marriage of Yin and Yang, intuition and structure, the right brain and the left.

Brandy's own work reaches further still into Richard Rudd's Gene Keys, tracing the slow alchemy of Shadow into Gift into Siddhi. And this September, she returns to where it all began: stepping into stewardship of the very conference that brought her and Richard together, carrying the High Desert Human Design Conference in Santa Fe (September 17–20, 2026) into its sixth year.

Learn more about her work at https://www.emergebydesign.net.

High Desert Human Design Conference September 17th thru 20th

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Michael Schauch spent decades as an investment-portfolio manager in British Columbia before the mountains rearranged his priorities. An award-winning author, alpinist, and lifelong Buddhist practitioner, he has carried a quiet fascination with impermanence across a career spent scaling some of the most remote terrain on earth — not one range, but a life built peak by peak, each ascent stripping something further away until what remained felt closer to essential.

That stripping-away is the subject of his new book, Anattā: Heart of Wisdom — eight essays and poems moving between sky caves lined in crystal, villages perched at Himalayan altitude, and the more ordinary warmth of a campfire in his own backyard. Schauch takes anattā, the Buddhist teaching of non-self, and turns it away from doctrine and toward something closer to intimacy: the idea that the conflicts we carry with others begin, always, as conflicts we haven't yet resolved within. Readers have likened his voice to Thich Nhat Hanh and Pema Chödrön — plainspoken, often funny, never solemn for its own sake — and the book itself has drawn comparisons to Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard for the way it lets landscape do the teaching.

He joins us on Seekers and Finders to talk about what the mountains actually gave him, and what got left behind on the way down.

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Alisha Das: Discovering Your Angelic Ancestry
What if the part of you that feels most essentially you isn't something you built — but something you're remembering?
In this episode of Seekers and Finders, Stefan and Gary sit down with Alisha Das, angel communicator and author of the new book Your Angelic Ancestry, for a conversation that goes far beyond the usual angel-book interview — from the childhood moment her gift first appeared, to what it costs to close that kind of sight and what it takes to reopen it, to the personal, unscripted places most interviewers never think to go.

About the Book
Your Angelic Ancestry invites readers into a journey of self-discovery — an "Ancestry.com for the Archangelic" — where spiritual identity, purpose, and higher guidance come into focus. Drawing from decades of experience, Alisha Das offers a step-by-step pathway to uncover your unique Archangelic name, heritage, and soul purpose. Readers learn to use their name as a guiding force, understand the evolution of the angelic and human realms, and connect with the Great Archangels. As this awareness deepens, readers begin to embody qualities like intuition, courage, and joy — aligning spiritual insight with everyday life. A guide for those seeking clarity, connection, and purpose.

📖 Your Angelic Ancestry: Discover Your Angelic Name, Heritage, and Higher Purpose
Publisher: Hay House
Pub Date: July 21, 2026
Available wherever books are sold.

About Alisha Das
Alisha Das is an angel communicator, speaker, and spiritual teacher known for her ability to perceive and articulate the Angelic Language, helping people reconnect with their divine lineage and higher purpose. With more than 30 years of experience, she has led over 500 seminars worldwide and is the host of the Live Your Love podcast. Prior to dedicating herself full-time to her spiritual work, Alisha also worked as an actress and DJ — experiences that continue to influence her creative approach to communication, storytelling, and teaching.

🌐 Website: https://alishadas.com
📸 Instagram: @alishakdas
📘 Facebook: @alishakdas
🎙️ Podcast: Live Your Love

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Robert Atkinson, PhD is an award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist whose work bridges storytelling, transformation, and the evolution of consciousness. His latest book, The Way of Unity: Essential Principles and Preconditions for Peace (2025) invites readers to embrace the unitive wisdom guiding our collective evolution. He is a 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award winner as co-editor of Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future, a 2023 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family, and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness. He is also the author or co-editor of nine other books including, Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012), The Life Story Interview (1998) and The Gift of Stories (1995). His PhD is in cross-cultural human development from the University of Pennsylvania, with a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Chicago. He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal myth-making and soul-making, director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle with a Lifetime Achievement Award as a Visionary Leader from the Visioneers International Network.

Website: https://www.robertatkinson.net/

Purchase the book: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Unity-Essential-Principles-Preconditions/dp/1958921726

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In this episode of Seekers and Finders, hosts Stefan Bright and Gary Falk sit down with Deborah Santana — author, activist, and founder of the nonprofit Do A Little, whose work has carried education, health, and dignity to women and girls around the world.

Deborah is the author of Space Between the Stars, co-editor of All the Women in My Family Sing, and her newest memoir, Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom — a deeply personal account tracing her journey from daughter of a pioneering interracial couple, through her 34-year marriage to music legend Carlos Santana, to the spiritual awakening and rebirth that followed her courageous decision to begin again.

A holder of a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women's Spirituality, Deborah brings both scholarly grounding and lived devotion to everything she does. She is a leadership donor to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and a lead investor in San Francisco's Courage Museum.

Stefan, Gary, and Deborah share a bond that reaches back to the 1970s — all three walking the same contemplative path under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy. In this conversation, that decades-long current of shared seeking flows beneath every exchange, opening into an honest, heart-centered exploration of service, selfhood, fire, and freedom.

Deborah’s Website: https://deborahsantana.com

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Martyn Webber

Satsang ● Nonduality ● Awakening

The Ground That Never Moved

Martyn Webber is a mystic, writer, and spiritual guide whose journey to awakening was anything but sudden. After decades of earnest seeking — twenty years of Transcendental Meditation, immersion in Buddhist practice, retreats and ashrams, and eventually a deep dive into Advaita Vedanta and self-inquiry — something finally gave way in early 2015. What emerged was not a peak experience but a permanent shift: a clear, stable recognition of awareness as the ground of all being. It is from that ground that Martyn now speaks, writes, and works with others.

What distinguishes Martyn is the quality of his honesty. He doesn't traffic in spiritual performance or easy answers. His teaching draws on the nondual heart of both Eastern and Western mystical traditions — Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta alongside the Christian contemplatives — and his approach is disarmingly direct: strip away the complexity, rest as awareness, and see what remains. He also offers Shaktipat Transmission, a direct energetic support for awakening that he understands not as something passed from teacher to student, but as consciousness recognizing itself. In this conversation with Stefan Bright and Gary Falk on Seekers and Finders, Martyn brings that same quality of presence — warm, unguarded, and pointing always toward what is already here.

Website: https://martynwebber.com

Substack: https://martynwebber.substack.com

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Imogen Webber grew up inside the Transcendental Meditation movement, where the understanding that consciousness is the basis of all existence was simply the air she breathed. Yet it was not practice that brought her to awakening — it was Grace. In 2015, through a transmission of presence, the sense of being a separate doer fell away in what she describes as a lasting and irreversible shift. What followed was not a quiet arrival but a deepening — an often humbling integration of grief, childhood trauma, and everything that awakening draws to the surface.

Today Imogen offers Darshan, Divine Light transmissions, and one-to-one sessions from her home in Wales, holding space for what she calls the quiet mystic — the weary seeker tired of striving, the tender soul longing for the sacred without dogma. Her work is not a method or a path to master, but a field of presence where what has always been whole is gently remembered. She is the author of two books, including her most recent collection, Sacred Threads, and hosts the podcast The End of Seeking. Her work can be found at beyondimogen.com.

Website:

https://beyondimogen.com

Divine Light Transmission & Meditation:

Wednesdays at 8:00 – 8:30 pm:

https://beyondimogen.com/weekly-zooms/

Books:

https://beyondimogen.com/books/

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Tawnya Gilbert - Psilocybin The Return To Wholeness

There are those who arrive at the threshold of healing not as theorists but as survivors — people who have walked through the fire of the system itself and emerged carrying something the system could not provide. Tawnya Gilbert is one of those rare voices. An ICU nurse for nearly two decades, she has stood at the bedside of the most fragile human moments, and yet it was her own fragility — buried beneath a decade of alcohol, ten prescribed medications, and a diagnosis of "stable" that meant only numbness — that ultimately became her greatest teacher.

Her journey did not end with sobriety. It began there. What she discovered on the other side of the pharmaceuticals and the diagnoses was not a cure but a calling: that true healing requires a person to become the director of their own life, not a passive recipient of someone else's protocol. That conviction led her to postgraduate study in psychedelic integration, to the founding of Eleusinia retreat, and to a vision of medicine that places sovereignty back in the hands of the individual.

In this conversation, Tawnya speaks to something that touches all sincere seekers — the moment when the outer structures of healing are exhausted and a deeper inquiry must begin. What does it mean to truly know your own body? What does it mean to stop outsourcing the most intimate dimensions of your life to a system that was never designed to honor them? Her answers are hard-won, and they carry the particular authority of someone who has not merely studied the territory but crossed it.

Eleusinia Retreat

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Eleusinia Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-eleusinia-podcast/id1621181975