Speaker Identification
Speaker 1 - Intro/Theme Voice
Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus, Host
Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson, Guest

Speaker 1 - Intro/Theme Voice:
The line is open. The light is near.
Bring your question. Leave your fear.
With angel spirit, signs, and soul,
the unseen world begins to glow.
Loved ones, guides, and truths come through.
Tonight the message may be for you.
Ask the Angel. Open your heart tonight.
Ask the Angel. Step into the light.

Now welcoming Rachel Corpus, angel incarnate and psychic medium. This is Ask the Angel.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Well, hey, everybody. What are you doing here? I am so glad you came back. You are looking good tonight. I like your hair. I like your eyes. I like your spirit.

Let's just take a minute to feel where we are and feel this existence that we are creating.

I had an amazing conversation with someone today. At the beginning of the conversation, the thought was, "I'm stuck. I am stuck in this reality, in this place, and life is happening to me." We know that feeling, right? Every one of us knows that feeling.

But then, when we brought spirit in, what they reminded us is that we are the creators. We are the writers. We are the programmers.

How many times, just in the last few weeks that we have begun this journey together on Ask the Angel, have we heard from spirit or asked each other, "What would it be like if we were creating this reality?" We have even gone a step further and said, "Look, this reality is something we are creating. It is a hologram. It is a holy simulation that we are modifying as we go." We are waking up to that reality.

By the end of the conversation I had with this beautiful person and her guides, the trajectory had changed. I could see the coding around her auric field, around her data, changing. Not just her thoughts, but the feeling of her thoughts had moved from, "This is the way it is. This is my lot in life," to, "All right, I get what happened. But now this is what I am claiming."

She started to visualize the universe as her sacred employee, not her boss, and not something that just barfs out or perpetuates the next thing. It became something that she works with in real time.

That is a lot to chew on. I hope you are awake.

Also, a weird thing happened to me today. I had a time glitch. Y'all, I had a time glitch.

I was taking a little fifteen-minute break, getting ready to get on a call with a client, and I looked at my planner. I had a little meeting at 1:15, and that went great. Then I had a session at 2:00 p.m., and that went great. Then I was getting ready to go on the next one, and I looked, and it was now 1:15 again.

It said 1:15 on my computer. My computer has one of those settings that naturally follows the time zone, so I checked my location. Still here. Des Moines, Iowa. The time had changed.

Also, I could not get on that call for the life of me. So I messaged that person and said, "Could you let me know if you are on the call? I am having a little time-glitch issue."

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Not with this person, but with another person who is very dear to me, this kind of thing has happened before.

She said, "Well, I was for a second, but then the call stopped, or you were not there, or something."

I said, "Okay. I am trying to get back on, but I am having a time-glitch issue."

I noticed that when I sent it, it was still in the 1:15 time. We emailed back and forth, and the time was changing until it was like an hour ahead, then an hour back. We worked it out. It worked out fine. And now, obviously, we are in the right time code because we are sitting here together.

But things are shifting. How does it feel?

How do you feel this week after we talked so much last week about the Hadron Collider being shut down for its scheduled maintenance? We know it is scheduled maintenance, but there is always something else going on, too. How has your spirit felt? Has your spirit been calmer? Those are some things to wonder about.

All right, let's jump into the good stuff.

This week, we are exploring a question from Quentin, who watches us from Eureka Springs in Arkansas. I am going to say Quentin. I do not know how you pronounce your name, but I am from southern Iowa, so I was getting back to my roots. I say Quentin, from Eureka Springs. But I am going to speak like the opera singer I was trained to be and call you Quentin. I do not know how you say it or how your mama says it, but tonight you are Quentin.

Here is the question:

"Dear Rachel, my spiritual coach tells me that the hardships we face in each lifetime are part of why we are here: to learn and to grow. If that is true, how do we keep from getting stuck in all the learning? When does the struggle become growth instead of just struggle?"

I have a feeling that is something a lot of us think about from time to time. I could not think of a better person to help us answer that question tonight than our guest.

Our guest tonight is someone named Mindy Jackson. She has one of those stories that reminds us that even our greatest challenges can become our greatest teachers. She is also someone who has been through it, and she has not gotten stuck there. In fact, it created this life of healing, bringing people with her, and creating from that place.

So, Quentin, when we get into the answer to your question, we get to see in real time that maybe there are two paths. We can get stuck in the learning, in that lower-dimensional hard stuff, or we can utilize it. We get to ask her about all of that.

A little bit about Mindy before we bring her in: she is a professional counselor, a Reiki master, a spiritual coach, a Rose Path initiate, and the founder of the Sanctuary of Crystal Sophia. We will ask her about that.

What I love about her is that her work bridges the worlds of traditional psychotherapy and spiritual healing, blending counseling with energy healing, intuition, shamanic practices, and other holistic approaches to help people navigate trauma, PTSD, and life's biggest transitions.

Her own spiritual journey began when she was just five years old after a near-death experience. She had encephalitis and a series of out-of-body experiences that opened her awareness in extraordinary ways.

Then, in 2023, her life took another unexpected turn when she suffered a post-operative stroke that caused significant vision loss. During that recovery, she felt called to paint all twenty-two major Arcana cards of the tarot. As she completed each painting, she found herself living the lessons of each archetype. By the time she finished the collection, which she calls Return of the Divine Feminine, she had regained about 95 percent of her vision.

Tonight, we are going to explore what healing really looks like for her now, and for all of us; how intuition can guide us through life's darkest moments; and whether our greatest challenges can become the doorway to something even greater.

Please join me in welcoming Mindy Jackson to Ask the Angel. Welcome to the show, Mindy.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Hi. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I am so glad you said yes. Thanks for sharing your time with us.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I am really excited to be here because I just started the journey of public speaking and sharing my story and the mission that I have been given in late May. I think this is podcast number eighteen or nineteen for me now. It has been a lot in a short amount of time, and I have really enjoyed every moment.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
That is interesting, because things happen, people say, in divine timing. And you would know if it were not time because you would not enjoy it.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Correct. It would be retriggering.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Yes, yes. Well, I am so glad you are here.

You had your first near-death experience when you were five. Looking back now, what are some major ways that you still feel that NDE shaping your life? Or how has it shaped your life?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I would say that it definitely kept my channel open. That is one way to put it.

When we are born, we are pretty wide open. We all have the capacity for various intuitive gifts. I think, actually, we are meant to be intuitive all the way around because that is what our nature is.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Do you think?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I do. I think maybe there are some that are not. That is a possibility, that there is a part of the population that is not, and maybe they are here to remind us what it looks like to not live from our divinity and our intuition or inner knowing.

But yes, because it happened at the age it did, I did not have a lot of the world's conditioning yet. I had some, sure, but this was in the summer before I started kindergarten. Back then, you did not have pre-K, so what conditioning I had would have been a trickle-down effect, what I say comes from thousands of years, honestly, and influences from my family, my community, and my personal experiences as a child.

I think the changes to my neurological system - that is on the physical side of things - sort of left the door open. When the conditioning did come, it just sort of made spiderwebs in the door.

Of course, there were times when I tried to shut the door and walk away, but I could not. So it has been a periodic pattern of awakening and reawakening over and over again. I think this time I was like, "Okay, I get it. Can we stop having the big lessons and now be the teacher?"

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
When I had my first NDE, it was serious head trauma as well. I feel like you are right. I feel like it changed our brain in some way and started that process of keeping us open and expanding us.

Also, like you, I feel like throughout my life I kept having more head trauma. More stuff happened to my head, including migraines and things like that. Things would open up my head to make sure I did not ever go to the side of the spectrum where I was shutting it down totally, or where I was aligning with people who were too shut down and I wanted to follow them too much.

I think there were reasons why my head kept having that happen. Maybe I wrote it in my timeline, or maybe God put it in there. I do not know. But do you think there is any validity to that? Like we had to keep getting the ding-ding-ding: keep it open, keep it open.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Well, I alluded to it a moment ago: we have had 2,000-plus years of control, systematic control. I am not trying to make a political statement here. What I will say is that we do not even realize just how conditioned we really are.

The feminine does not realize just how masculinized she is. Things like working on a schedule - that is a masculine-oriented frequency or energy. There is so much that was hidden from us, purposefully. A lot of the systems we have in place for society were manipulated, were used to control, and were used to keep us believing that we were small, weak, and sinful.

Trauma reinforces that to a degree by making us feel trapped, helpless, and powerless. So we grew up with this idea that something is wrong with me or something is bad. Depending on the different influences we have in our life, we may internalize a lot of that.

When we have these experiences that in shamanic practices are called "dying a little death," what we are having are experiences that reopen little gateways that maybe we tried to close or that the world around us tried to close. Maybe we wrote those into our timeline on purpose.

We are going to have crises, and maybe some people create more than others. I do not believe we create them, but we may create the lesson or the type of experience we need to evolve or to sharpen that particular intuitive capability. I do believe it is sort of like a reminder occasionally, and sometimes it is harsh. Sometimes it is just something smaller.

Thankfully, once I started clearing trauma - generational, ancestral, and personal trauma - from my body and my energy field, I stopped attracting it. I stopped writing that into my timeline, so to speak.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
When you stopped attracting it, is that something you did on purpose, or did it start to create itself out? Can you tell me about that?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I would say probably a bit of both. It is sort of an energetic principle of like attracts like. If you are holding on to traumatic energy in your body, whether it is your own experience or that of your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on, and it does not have anywhere to go, it wants friends. It is going to attract these things.

I think part of the purpose of it is to bring attention to it, to bring awareness to it, so it can be transmuted.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Help me, help me, help me.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes, exactly. It is trying to get your attention just like a little kid standing there going, "Mama, mama."

I see this with very difficult emotions that we were not taught how to cope with, learn from, or gain wisdom from in our culture. Once we bring our awareness to it, we satisfy a certain aspect of it because it wants our attention. It wants to be acknowledged because it is part of our story. It is part of what shapes us.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I feel like you are doing something else, too. You are helping us remember how to go back within and deal with what is being nudged at.

For so long, we were told, "When you do not know something, or you do not feel well, go ask the teacher. Go ask the doctor." That is still seeking an authority figure or an outside tool. Not that it is wrong, but it is still outside of us.

That feels like it was also part of the control pattern: "You do not know yourself, so go ask somebody else." Does it feel like it is under that umbrella of "You do not know yourself. You forgot. You forgot that you already know. You forgot that you know how to heal"?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Absolutely. The more we internalize that control or those expectations outside of ourselves, the more we look for some kind of God external to us and then try to internalize the will. Where is he? Is he in there?

We take away from that very simple wisdom of, "Oh, I am me. I am meant to be me. I am meant to have this life. I am creating it." Then we start to think about the things coming through me.

As a feminine, especially the divine feminine, we are a sacred portal. When the teachings were somewhat lost, the importance of it being sacred was lost, too. Through the feminine principles, we can birth new worlds, and that was suppressed. It was turned into something gross and nasty with all the negative connotations.

So what do we do here when we realize we have even internalized all of that external stuff? That is where conditioning really takes hold. The person tends to make decisions based on these internalized external expectations and control, and then you wonder why you feel psychotic, because your divine essence is always pushing forward.

It is natural for the human being to move toward light and toward healing. When that is blocked, when that light is pulled away from us and we feel like we are just chasing, chasing, chasing, we have to remember, "Wait a minute. Where does the light originate?" It originates inside of me.

We cannot look at it literally. We cannot look at "God is within me" as though there is some dude sitting on a cloud.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
That is the religious God. That is the man.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes. Divine is what Yeshua, who I have called him, was saying. That was my childhood friend, Yeshua. That was what he was referring to: the kingdom of heaven is within you. I do not think he said it exactly that way, but that is what he was trying to teach. He was trying to give us that.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I feel like that is what he said. The kingdom of heaven is within us.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I do not think the word "kingdom" is what I mean.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Because that would mean masculine power only, and he was not here to teach that.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Right. He was here to teach that we all are divine essence, and it is the union of our masculine and feminine. I do not think the original word had "king" in it. I think it was something like "palace" or something. I am not 100 percent sure on that.

My sense and my feeling is that it was transcendent. It meant expansion. It was the recognition of all of us as divine.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
So when you refer to Sophia, are we talking about the mother God?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes. And of God, yes. In the Gnostic terms.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Can you give us a Gnostic Sunday school lesson for third graders or fifth graders? Go.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Good way to put me on the spot. I was not raised Gnostic, but Gnostic is a nice word.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
But you felt it all along, did you not?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes, absolutely. When I say this, especially our feminine-presenting people are going to notice it in themselves.

Sophia is the feminine principle. Basically, it is this descent of wisdom. Descended from where? If you really look at it, it is higher wisdom, higher knowledge, higher consciousness.

What is wisdom? If you say "descent of wisdom," what you are really saying is the embodiment of wisdom. It is that deeper sense of, "I am more than I have been told that I am. I am this sacred portal."

Think about it: through my body, a formless consciousness becomes a human being. That is divine.

When we say Sophia, what we are saying is, "I recognize that I am wisdom embodied." I do not have to have studied all this philosophy or even psychology, or had all these life experiences and travels. I do not have to gain it. It is already there. I just have to uncover it.

The Sophia Christos is that recognition of the inner union of the divine masculine and Sophia, or the divine feminine. When the union happens together, you become a whole new being, that transcendent being. I like to say we are becoming Homo luminous.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Homo luminous. That is the second time you have said something that I want to write down. Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
You are welcome.

What we are seeing is the return. It is not becoming. It is remembering that we are.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Return. Like to turn again.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
To turn again.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
To turn again. Turn, turn.

When you say it that way, this gives me chills. What I was just shown was that when people say they want to shift into 5D, it is the return to it.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
It is the return to it, but it is also a transcendence of it. It is both, really. It is recognizing, "Here is the core of who we are as a divine essence," and transcending because we are in a different place in the universe than we have ever been before.

We have frequencies hitting our earth, our bodies, and our consciousness that we have not had before. We have knowledge and access to knowledge that we did not have before. We are literally returning to what is true.

We are using discernment to sift through all the knowledge we have at our fingertips and find what resonates. That is trusting one's inner knowing. We are returning, even if we do not realize we are returning, to that natural Sophia.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
For those who do not realize they are returning, or even for someone like me who thinks, "I am a really spiritual person, and I feel like I am returning," no matter where you are on that spectrum, will there be a moment for all where you say, "Okay, this is what it feels like"?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
It feels like hell at first.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I concur. Let me change the question.

For those who are not spiritually aware - and we say it with no judgment - but for those some people would call an NPC, will they return?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
In their own time, sure.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
That is what I have heard, too.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
When I say people do not realize they are doing it, here is what I mean. People are now looking at yoga as a normal thing, whereas even ten years ago it was a little weird. Reiki, too. People are building community because the feminine is about nurturing. It is about intuition. It is about conscious flow, sensuality, and community or family.

I think a lot of people are hitting this place where we realize that we cannot keep being separate. The whole notion, or the whole narrative, of "other" has to go, because that has been used over and over and over. We are down to the only "other" we have left being the ETs.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
So when is that like "other" narrative going to come in and be used as a system of control?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Here is a beautiful thing. They are far advanced. If they wanted to control us anymore or hurt us, it would have already happened. If they wanted to obliterate us, they would have. Our ancestors have not fared too well with our use of nuclear war in the past, so they could have stopped things.

If it feels fearful, it is probably not true.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
There are so many times that I have heard spirits say, "There is nothing and no thing to fear." When I did not understand that this was more holographic and that we were creating it, I thought, "That makes no sense. Somebody could come in my house at any time and kill us and take our money."

But I did not understand, and I did not trust at that point, what this reality was really like. They are right. There is really a lot that people are experiencing, and I do not want to diminish the stuff people are experiencing. I am clear on that. But they are really right about that. There is nothing to fear.

When you know that truth, and also recognize that there is so much fear pumped into the system to control us - well, that made my earring fall out. It is to keep us down, because if we stop fearing...

As an exorcist, the first thing they taught me was, "Do not fear. Do not show fear." When you feel the fear, ask yourself, "Where does that fear come from? Who does it belong to?"

When you are moving back into the spirit world, it knows your fear, so it is going to show you. If you are afraid of clowns, or something like in movies, it is going to show up as that. If you are worried about something happening to your kids, it is going to show you that.

So know what you are afraid of, then laugh at it or say, "You are making that up. Take your costume off." As soon as you know that, it dissipates, and it can go home to its mother or wherever it is supposed to go.

When I learned that stuff, I was like, "Okay. What are we doing here?" I know that feels very specific to me and a few people, but my prayer is that we can get more to that level on Earth, where people realize that fear is made up.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
It is. Now, that does not say that if you have experienced something very horrible, you do not have a nervous-system reaction, because we are flesh and bone also.

But if you think about fear energetically, fear is dense, heavy energy that anchors and locks in.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
And we create a physical space.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes, it can. We have had the narrative repeated and validated to be fearful over and over and over again. Just turn on the news.

The difference is that what is natural to us is always expansive. So we are always having to push against. The systems of control are always having to bring up a new narrative, new narrative, new narrative, and cause something big to happen over and over again.

But what if, just for a moment, you said, "Okay, if it kills me, I will just come back"? I know that sounds crazy.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
What is the worst thing that could happen?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Right. I do this with my clients. I say, "Tell me the worst thoughts you are having in your head. No, go worse. Go worse. Now, I want you to go to the other end of the spectrum and tell me the best-case scenario, because in reality, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, and you can move in the direction you choose."

If you are in the middle, you go one way or the other.

If we choose to continue in fear - and this is what happens when we have trauma, whether collectively, individually, generationally, or ancestrally - we carry this dense, heavy energy, and our intuitive capabilities are locked into a certain space. They cannot expand because we are constantly scanning our environment to see where the next threat is.

When my clients start to really transmute that energy, find meaning in their experience, and have a sense of purpose in all of it, what they notice is that they shift from their intuitive abilities being fear-based, looking for a threat and wondering when the other shoe is going to drop, to love-based. They begin to say, "Oh, I am a cool person. Oh, hang out with me."

They begin looking through the eyes of love or through the heart of love. Their intuition expands rather than staying locked in or contracting all the time. They are seeking positive experiences. They want to help other people heal. How many people have healed and then want to help other people heal?

Then they go in with this sense of purpose and realize, "Wait a minute. This is not who I am. There is something else that is me also." I have a great little activity I do with my clients to help them really see that for themselves.

To see them shift from fear-based to love-based is like watching them wake up. They realize the conditioning. I cannot say all of the conditioning, but they realize the conditioning and the ways it came about. They realize and recognize the lies that have been told, how things have been squashed, and how voices have been silenced.

Then we have the fury. So then we have to learn how to channel sacred fury rather than egoic anger.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Because one is helpful and one is not.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Exactly. When I say sacred fury, you are not just mad. You are not just angry about something that is going on. You are feeling the weight of all of those voices that came before you and got silenced, all of those carrying that feminine energy who were killed for it, just to continue a narrative and a system of control.

There is a reason the divine feminine threatens the toxic masculine. I am not trying to be a feminist here either, but - well, I kind of am.

When you realize, when you wake up to what is going on - and a lot of people these days say, "I have stepped out of the matrix" - basically that means you have eyes to see what you could not see before. You have awareness of something instead of being caught up in your head the way the world wants you to be, or the systems of control want you to be.

You shifted from active thinking into awareness. Try this real quick. Bring your attention to the tip of your nose. Breathe in and notice that the air is a little cool. When you breathe out, it is a little warmer.

In that three seconds, where did your mind go? It was in awareness, not active thinking.

Our world is constructed to keep us here because if we shift into awareness, we naturally go here. We go to our heart.

What happens when we go to our heart, have this expanded awareness, operate from love, build community, and see through the nonsense? Sovereignty rather than slavehood. We have freedom and liberation rather than being locked in and continually fearful, continually believing that we are powerless. We are not powerless.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
My autism needs to tell you something.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Okay.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I want to go back like one minute. You were talking about a process to talk about, and I want to validate that the way you work with your clients feels really good because it feels like they would not have to bypass anything, like their feelings or their trauma. And yet, they could feel empowered by knowing that they can create something with it and something better.

I love that because I find it to feel like nonsense when healers are like - when I said there is nothing and no thing to fear, I feel really tender about that because I do not want people to ever think we are denying that the world is real and trauma is real.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
It is not bypassing.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
And then from that, you went really cosmic, and it made sense because you went from a really grounded space.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes. I have to do a pre-screen with my clients because I am not going to work with people who are still stuck in victim mode. Go get your core services, learn some coping skills, and step out of victim mode.

Once you are stepping out of that and you can recognize that you are struggling, that is where I can come in. Maybe you have already stepped out, but now you are like, "My life just seems colorless, dampened, and I am always kind of going back to this fear." So there is this back and forth.

I teach my clients how to feel energy for themselves. We can all do it. It is not hard. We do not know we are doing it, too.

How many times have you said, "I feel the energy of that"? How many times have you been around somebody who is in a bad mood, and then you get around somebody who is really energetic and you feel better? You can feel the energy.

How many times can you put your hands near one thing, close your eyes, and somebody can move that thing, and you can tell somebody moved it? Here is another example. Have you ever been in a classroom setting or a public setting where you are sitting down and focusing, but you feel somebody staring at you, so you turn around and see they are staring at you? Then you both make awkward eyes because it is not a sexual thing. It is energy meeting energy. You can feel it calling. The coherence is there.

I help my clients go, "Okay, let's bring you back into your body. Let's bring awareness to your body." We use mindfulness skills and somatic awareness. I will say, "What feels like your stuff, and what is not?" That is not even going into the trauma. That is talking about just their everyday life right now, because their everyday life is filled with trauma reactions, negative core beliefs, and all these things that trauma as well as life in general and maladaptive adults have led to.

The person's divine self has been trying to create a way through this density and forgetting to get back to who they truly are. If you do not have the density to anchor high-frequency energy here, you cannot be here. And if you are here, like most people who are awake and awakening, you are here to help change things. You have to know what dense energy feels like to transmute it. If you cannot feel it, you cannot transmute it.

What is the first step in removing a splinter from your foot? You notice that the thing is there. That is the first step.

So with my clients, when they are talking about their everyday life, I will say, "Okay, pause for a moment. What you are feeling right now, what you are experiencing right now, how much of it feels like it is magnified because of other stuff in the background? Do you feel like you had an overreaction?" We have to define the line to begin with, right? Why do we say overreaction? Over what?

It feels like an overreaction rather than somebody else telling you that you are overreacting. That is where your own awareness comes in. That is where discernment can come in. You can say, "Oh, okay. I was right to get angry about that, but I really lost myself and blew up. So yes, there is the guilt. Let's sit with the guilt. Let's look at the shame. Where does the shame come from?"

All those negative core beliefs.

Then I ask, "How much of this is yours and how much of it is not?" With love, just say, "Return to sender," and imagine you are pushing it out.

I hate the word imagination. I really do not like the word because we have been handed this idea that it is not a valid thing. "You made that up." "That was just a dream." "You just imagined it." Well, where did it come from? It had to come from some idea somewhere.

Instead of saying, "Use your imagination and see the energy," I tell my clients to visualize. Use your visual skills and tell me what color you sense this energy is, or what texture it might feel like if you are more tactile.

I get them to really embody themselves, really get in touch with feeling the difference. All these different types of energies and emotions are energy in motion. They are not meant to be stuck in us either.

It is more empowering when it comes to that moment where the client actually grabs hold and releases, wipes their hands out, and closes the door. There are lots of different methods I use, but that moment when they do it for themselves is so important.

Can I do it for them? Sure. But that is not empowering.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I think, too, that if we have chosen to step forward as the teachers this time around, it feels like part of that sacred agreement is, "Okay, we will do it, but you should not need us forever."

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes, because my clients actually heal.

Trauma is a challenging one because it does not always get to the energy. Things opened up and started changing when Bessel van der Kolk came out with his book The Body Keeps the Score. People started getting it.

EMDR is still the gold standard. If you ask any therapist what the gold standard is to treat PTSD, they are going to tell you EMDR. But you know how many clients come to me and say, "Well, I did EMDR six years ago. It helped for a while, but then..." And I hear that all the time.

The reality is, you did not get to the root. The root is energetic. It is not just about the memory.

People are integrating psychedelics as well, which is fine. I love that for them. I tried it as well, and I love it for me. Also, you do not need that outside thing. You just need to learn how to recognize it and go within.

The transmutation process can vary from person to person. But if you just beef yourself up and say, "What is an alchemist? What is an alchemist really?" then can you not see where you are an alchemist every day?

You turn this yucky toothpaste stuff into watery spit that goes down a drain and becomes part of the earth. You just made earth. That is a simple example, but if a person can really understand, "I do have control," which is what we are taught not to have, that is powerful.

Trauma tells you that you do not have control. That is real. A traumatic experience is traumatic because it is unexpected, most of the time, and outside of your control. That is the reason your nervous system has the reaction it has. It gets overwhelmed by something it did not expect.

But let's say you are in an abusive relationship, or you are a child being abused at home, and you know, "Oh no, when Daddy gets home, he is going to hit me." Before Daddy even gets home, you are already tense.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
It changes the reality afterward because you are wondering, "Am I safe?"

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Yes. They are constantly, through fear, scanning their environment to see if they are safe.

When that child gets to a certain point in development where identity starts to form, that sense of identity and that sense of "Who am I on the inside?" can often feel absent, or it can feel shameful, because, "I must be bad since Daddy hit me."

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Or it must be my fault.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Exactly. So the whole, "You are the reason I am mad" - that adult not taking accountability for their own feelings is the reason the kid got hit. The adult made a bad choice because they did not learn to deal with their feelings when that resource was available to them.

We are taught to obey authority figures.

If you think back to being a child, we believe what we are told. We believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. We believe what we are told until our experience tells us differently. Sometimes that experience can be an older sibling saying, "Just watch. They are going to get it out of the closet."

For that child who was hurt by her dad, it is not like the old belief simply was not true. Her truth expanded into, "Okay, now authority figures are unsafe."

If they are a fighter versus a fleer or a freezer, they will buck authority. This is where you get ODD. This is where you get rebellious, oppositional kids running away from home.

My question is: what are they running from? Because that is natural for you to do, to run. If they do not have a way out, if they do not have a door, then they feel trapped and freeze. If they can run and hide and get away, they can escape. All of these behaviors turn into the kid at school who gets into fights, or the kid who runs away, or gets on drugs and alcohol. It is escapism.

Or it becomes the person who just stands there and watches the bills stack up, stack up, stack up, feeling, "I cannot do anything about it."

All this has authority over you. It has control over you. It makes you feel powerless, helpless, and trapped. Your nervous system is the innate mental health trying to get you out of that.

Then you are told, "Oh, you are overreacting. Calm down."

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Tell a woman who is angry to calm down.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
With the world constructed the way it is, where all of those same narratives are reinforced over and over again, it is radical for us to go in and say, "You know what? I am not going to do that anymore. I choose to forgive that, and I am going to choose to find meaning in that. I am going to challenge that belief, and I am going to radically trust my own inner knowing."

We get intuitive flashes constantly. How many of us pay attention to them? "Oh, I was thinking about you earlier." Why were you thinking about that person earlier, and then you ran into them at the grocery store?

That is just a vague one. How many times have you been in the grocery store and heard your name called, then turned around and there is nobody there or nobody looking at you? You think, "What was that?" That was an intuitive clairaudience experience of something, and we could have a whole other podcast about that.

We have so much. Especially if you are a mother, you are going to notice that mother's intuition. You can look at your kid and know when something is wrong. You do not necessarily know what it is, but you know that you know.

So what if you applied that "I know that I know" to everything and trusted it? Then you go to other women and say, "I have this knowing about this," and what you are going to hear nine times out of ten is, "Me too."

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I want to ask you about all this intuition of yours, and your open channel to create the tarot deck.

There are not many times you hear someone who had a post-operative stroke and significant visual loss recovering by not just lying there watching Hallmark movies, or listening to Hallmark movies. You created a tarot deck.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
It was paintings. I painted those. They were acrylic paintings.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I never published it as a deck. I just have pictures of them. I was part of the community. A few people in the community heard about what happened, and they saw where I posted pictures on Facebook of the paintings or some of them. I got invited to do a couple of art shows and a presentation, so I did that.

Where did the idea come from? That is a really good question.

In my early twenties, I discovered oracle decks and some tarot. I had always been fascinated with things I did grow up with, like dowsing. I had always heard that from older folks. "That is how they found where to dig the well," kind of thing.

I had heard all these things, and I always had this sense of, "Well, I could do that."

For a time in my early twenties, I studied tarot. But you do not really study tarot. You can go back and read about it and learn different things, but you learn to look at a trigger object and trust your intuition about it. That is really all there is to it.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
What do you mean? On the card, you look at part of the artwork?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
That is what you do with oracle cards, too. You start with what stands out to you and what that means to you, because it is coming through your constructs.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I find that tarot is intimidating to me because I feel like I do not know the layouts and all the rules.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
That is because you are taught to read it all first, rather than trust your intuition and then validate by going back.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
I am conversational with spirit, so I am all oracle.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
Here is where it is really helpful. I recognized this from the psychology program I attended. I attended a very unique one. It was humanistic, transpersonal psychology. We were one of the few in the country modeled after Saybrook Institute in California. So it was humanistic, existential, transpersonal. I had a clinical track along with really cool classes like Music, Mind and Art; Children's Spirituality; Buddhist Theory.

I got some really good education. In one class, Psychology of Myth and Symbol, we had to study Joseph Campbell's work. He was the one who coined the term "the hero's journey," if I am remembering correctly. He talks about the same thread under every movie and every story you have ever watched or read.

I got to looking at the major Arcana one day and thought, "Oh, it is the hero's journey from beginning to end."

At some point, I was looking at the suits, because the suits were always more challenging. Archetypes are easier. They are like the big picture, whereas with the suits, you have to remember what information goes with this number and this thing.

I recognized that the four suits, which is where our modern-day playing cards come from, are really the four main archangels. Each of these archangels stands in a cardinal direction holding one of these items.

Gabriel holds the cup or the chalice. Uriel holds the coin or the pentacle. Raphael is in the east; he holds the caduceus, or the wand or the rod, depending on how you interpret that. Michael carries the sword in the south.

I was like, "Okay, these are actually angelic frequencies, just like the archetypes are angelic frequencies." What is the archetype of the divine feminine?

It was this "Let me just see what happens." I took the Rider-Waite deck, which is the original that most people refer to, and where it was a masculine figure, I made it feminine. Where the color white was used, I made it black.

If anybody knows tarot, your Fool is your very first card. It is number zero. They go up to twenty-one, so you have twenty-two cards.

The Fool is on a cliff with a gunny sack and a dog. He is leaving home or leaving the community to go on an adventure, not knowing what is going to happen. He goes through the perils, gains his tools, uses them, and ascends, so to speak. He grows and becomes a new person, whatever the storyline is. He comes out having used those tools properly and having gained the knowledge of how to use them.

On the Fool card, for example, you see a male figure with a gunny sack and a white dog on a cliff. I made a woman in black robes with a wand in her hand, in front of the full moon, on a cliff with a black cat.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
That is so witchy. I love it.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
I did that except I kept the Emperor as the Emperor, but shifted him to more of an elven look, with tattoos on his hands where he is holding the sword with the Aries symbols on it. The tattoos on his hands all represent the divine feminine. You have the moon and things like that.

I had no idea what I was doing.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
That is amazing. It kind of answers Quentin's question. No matter what happens, we are growing from it.

Listen, I have loved having you on. I hope you come back sometime. How can people get ahold of you?

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
You can go to Psychology Today. Actually, the best way to see a fuller idea of what I do and how I do it is going to be there.

The little website I have for it is subpar, and the Sanctuary of Crystal Sophia website will hopefully launch this fall. So you can type that in the comments.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Yes.

Speaker 3 - Mindy Jackson:
When you go to Psychology Today, you just put in the therapist's name and the location. If you cannot remember Carrollton, Georgia, just remember Georgia and look for the redhead.

Speaker 2 - Rachel Corpus:
Very good. We will put it in all the notes here.

Everyone, thank you so much for joining us today. You can find me at RachelCorpus.com. You can catch Angel Talk, the podcast, and Thomas says he will have that in the episode description. He is so great. Thank you, Thomas. We love you.

Catch Angel Talk, the podcast. Season three is coming up. Join me all next week at the same time, and we will have a great discussion again.

I love you all. Keep being kind to yourselves and others, and keep that halo straight.

Speaker 1 - Closing Theme Voice:
Ask the Angel. Nothing's too far.
Your soul's got questions, and we have stars.
She'll bring the love. She'll bring the wings.
She'll bring the truth with a little swing.
Ask the Angel. Turn the volume high.
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