Marine behavior specialist Anne Gordon spent more than twenty years training animals for film and television before the ocean's largest minds pulled her life in a new direction. In this conversation, she reframes where we actually stand in the story: humans have been around 50,000 to 70,000 years, while whales first emerged some 40 million years ago and dolphins around 10 million. Beside these elder species, we're the toddlers — and we have a great deal to learn.

Anne's invitation is simple and demanding: spend time with these animals, listen deeply, and observe them without superimposing our own beliefs and behaviors onto them. Do that, she says, and our relationship with them — and with the ocean, nature, and ourselves — inevitably deepens. You can meet them in the wild, or call them into your meditations and your dreams.

Known as a bridge between science and spirit, Anne is the author of the forthcoming Wisdom from the Sea: Lessons in Joy, Flow, Healing and Love from Dolphins & Whales (Nov 23, 2026).

"Once you look into the eye of a whale, your life will never be the same again. There is a deep honesty that exists there — one that will insist upon integrity from that moment on." — Anne Gordon

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Kathleen Ready Dayan has always written about complicated human territory. Her earlier novel L.A. Ice explored addiction, recovery, love, and the difficult reality of getting sober and staying sober — a story readers with firsthand experience praised for its authenticity.

But there was another part of Kathleen’s life she initially kept out of her public story. As she became more open about her own experiences, she began talking about an unexplained encounter that challenged her worldview, spirit-guide contact, departed loved ones, past-life memories, mediumship, and the connection between sobriety and spiritual awakening.

Those experiences now inform Before We Were Born and Meet Me in Heaven, novels exploring reincarnation, soul connections, choice, and what may happen between lives. This time, we go behind the fiction: What did Kathleen experience, what did she initially resist — and what finally made her willing to talk about it?

Sometimes the bigger story begins when we stop asking, “Can this be real?” and start asking, “What is this showing me?”

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The second book is coming — a perfect reason to revisit my conversation with Jes Kerzen.

Jes is a retired teacher and advocate for neurodivergent students. Her story began when Asher, an autistic six-year-old in her class, appeared to use telepathy to communicate with the one adult he believed could “hear” him.

Jes says she had no previous experience with telepathy. But her connection with Asher opened the door to years of exploring psi, consciousness, remote viewing and the dimensions Asher calls The Realms. Their extraordinary relationship became the book A Mind Beyond Words.

One of the most fascinating details Jes shared in our interview was Asher’s apparent ability to preview material in a book and then explain concepts she found difficult to understand.

His message is equally striking: “Don’t write me (and those like me) off, if we seem limited and inadequate in human terms… We have subtler things to share, which will benefit humanity.” — Asher, October 2023

Now their story continues with a second book, expanding their conversations about consciousness, psychic ability, neurodivergence and The Realms.

Revisit the interview and discover where this remarkable teacher-student relationship began. Sometimes the person we think needs to be taught is the one who came to teach us.