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Ask The Angel With Rachel Corpus with Rachel Corpus

From Trauma to Transcendence: Reclaiming the Light Within
Guest, Mindy Jackson, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Reiki Master and Spiritual Coach

If you like Mindy's work and would like to know more or book a consultation, visit her at her Psychology Today page:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/mindy-jackson-lpc-reiki-master-carrollton-ga/1298495?msockid=0e222bfab1e7693b38b43cd0b0df68e3

Creating Reality Instead of Being Trapped by It

In this episode of Ask the Angel, host Rachel Corpus opens with a reflection on spiritual creation, reality, and personal agency. She describes a recent conversation in which someone shifted from feeling stuck in life to recognizing herself as a creator, writer, and programmer of her own experience. Rachel frames reality as a “holy simulation” or hologram that people are actively modifying, and she shares a personal “time glitch” experience that made her feel time itself was shifting. This sets the stage for a discussion about hardship, growth, intuition, healing, and the difference between being trapped in lessons and using them as gateways.

Quentin’s Question and Mindy Jackson’s Healing Path

Rachel introduces a listener question from Quentin of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, who asks how people can keep from getting stuck in hardship if struggles are meant to teach and help the soul grow. To explore that question, Rachel welcomes Mindy Jackson, a professional counselor, Reiki master, spiritual coach, Rose Path initiate, and founder of the Sanctuary of Crystal Sophia. Rachel explains that Mindy blends traditional psychotherapy with energy healing, intuition, shamanic practices, and holistic methods to help people navigate trauma, PTSD, and major life transitions. Mindy’s own path began with a near-death experience at age five and later included a post-operative stroke in 2023 that caused significant vision loss.

Near-Death Experiences, Open Channels, and Spiritual Conditioning

Mindy explains that her childhood near-death experience helped keep her intuitive “channel” open before the world’s conditioning fully set in. She and Rachel discuss how neurological changes, head trauma, migraines, and crisis experiences can function as spiritual openings or reminders to remain connected. Mindy describes these moments as “little deaths” in a shamanic sense: experiences that reopen gateways the world may have tried to close. She says trauma, ancestral patterns, and social conditioning can make people feel small, weak, or trapped, but those same experiences can also point toward what needs to be transmuted.

Sophia, the Divine Feminine, and Remembering Inner Wisdom

The conversation moves into the divine feminine, Sophia, Gnostic language, and the idea that the divine is not merely external but already within. Mindy describes Sophia as wisdom embodied and links the Sophia Christos concept to the inner union of divine masculine and divine feminine energies. Rachel and Mindy discuss Yeshua’s teaching that heaven is within, while also questioning whether “kingdom” language fully captures the original spiritual meaning. Mindy says humanity is not simply becoming something new, but remembering what it already is: divine essence, inner wisdom, and what she calls Homo luminous.

Fear, Trauma, and Moving From Survival to Love

Rachel and Mindy then focus on fear, trauma, and spiritual liberation. Rachel shares that spirits often tell her there is “nothing and no thing to fear,” while also emphasizing that this does not erase the reality of trauma. Mindy agrees that fear can be dense, heavy energy that anchors people into survival mode, causing them to scan for threats and remain locked in past pain. She explains that her therapeutic work helps people move from fear-based intuition to love-based intuition, where awareness expands, purpose returns, and people begin to see themselves through the heart rather than through trauma conditioning.

Healing Without Bypassing the Pain

A key part of the episode addresses how Mindy works with clients without bypassing trauma or forcing false positivity. She explains that she screens for clients who are ready to move beyond victim mode and then teaches them to feel energy, notice what belongs to them and what does not, return outside energy “to sender,” and use somatic awareness to reconnect with the body. Mindy compares healing to noticing a splinter before removing it: people must first become aware of the pain, energy, shame, guilt, or inherited belief before they can release and transmute it. Rachel appreciates that Mindy’s approach feels grounded, empowering, and respectful of real suffering.

Tarot, Archetypes, and the Return of the Divine Feminine

In the final section, Rachel asks about Mindy’s recovery after her stroke and vision loss, especially her creation of twenty-two acrylic paintings based on the major Arcana of tarot. Mindy explains that she saw the major Arcana as a version of the hero’s journey and reimagined many traditional masculine figures through divine feminine symbolism. She connects tarot suits to archangelic frequencies and describes her art project, Return of the Divine Feminine, as an intuitive process she did not fully understand at first. Rachel observes that this answers Quentin’s question in action: even deep hardship can become a creative, healing, spiritually meaningful path. The episode closes with Mindy sharing how listeners can find her through Psychology Today, and Rachel directs listeners to RachelCorpus.com and Angel Talk.
Chuck And Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden

Investigations, Activist Judges, and the Nancy Guthrie Disappearance Case
Guest Host, Mark Pfoff and Guest John San Agustin

Guest Hosting With a Law-Enforcement Lens

In this episode of The Chuck and Julie Show, Mark Pfoff guest-hosts while Chuck and Julie are away, bringing his background as a retired detective from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and current investigative consultant into the discussion. He opens with political commentary before turning to the main investigative focus of the episode: the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in the Tucson/Pima County area. Later, he is joined by John San Agustin, and the two discuss law-enforcement process, investigative mistakes, digital evidence, task-force work, and the danger of letting major cases go cold.

Political Commentary, Candidate Controversy, and Public Integrity

Before the investigative segment begins, Pfoff comments on several political and legal stories. He criticizes a Maine political candidate referred to in the transcript as Plattner or Platner, describing allegations against him and arguing that political alignment should never excuse serious misconduct. He also criticizes Jasmine Crockett for remarks about a knife in a Texas stabbing case, using the example to explain the legal definition of a deadly weapon. Pfoff’s broader point is that public officials, candidates, and commentators should be held to standards of truth, integrity, and legal common sense regardless of party or agenda.

Judges, Immunity, and the Limits of Authority

Pfoff then turns to what he calls activist judges and discusses judicial and prosecutorial immunity. He uses the Judge Dugan case as an example of a judge allegedly acting above the law by interfering with law enforcement in a courthouse, then claiming immunity after being charged. Pfoff argues that judges and district attorneys should not be able to misuse authority without consequence. He also discusses Judge Boasberg, immigration-related rulings, and the limits of what courts can compel an administration to do, presenting these examples as part of a larger concern about judges exceeding their proper role.

The Nancy Guthrie Disappearance and Early Investigative Concerns

The core of the episode centers on the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, described as an elderly woman who was dropped off by her son-in-law on the night of January 31 and reported missing after she failed to appear at church the next morning. Pfoff says the case has gone on for about five months without clear answers, and he compares the initial handling to other high-profile investigations that may have been damaged early. San Agustin emphasizes that the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours are critical and argues that, given Guthrie’s age, limited mobility, and circumstances, investigators should have treated the case as potentially serious from the start rather than as a routine missing-person matter.

Experience, Resources, and the Need for a Task Force

Pfoff and San Agustin focus heavily on the importance of experience and outside resources in major investigations. San Agustin says a detective with only a couple of years of experience should not be placed in charge of a possible kidnapping or homicide without strong leadership and support. They argue that Pima County should have brought in Tucson, Phoenix, state, and federal resources early, especially because the region has experience with kidnappings, cartel-related crime, and complex cases. Pfoff compares this to the response after the Tom Clements homicide, where multiple agencies gathered quickly in a task-force environment to share expertise and leads.

Digital Evidence, Timelines, and the Risk of Lost Leads

The discussion then moves into investigative methods, especially digital evidence and timeline building. San Agustin says investigators should examine geofence data, cell-tower records, Ring video, neighborhood canvassing, forensic evidence, motive, and activity in the days before the disappearance. Both men suggest the case does not appear random and may have involved prior surveillance or planning. They also discuss a reported ransom or kidnapping note, uncertainty about whether it was genuine, the importance of physical evidence from the home, and the danger of revisiting a scene multiple times after releasing it, because defense attorneys can later challenge the integrity of that evidence.

Lifelong Learning, Expert Testimony, and Technology in Court

The final section broadens into a discussion of criminal-justice expertise, teaching, and digital forensics. Pfoff and San Agustin explain that investigators, attorneys, experts, and juries must keep learning because technology changes rapidly. They describe cell phones as a kind of modern DNA because of how much information they can provide, but they also warn that law enforcement sometimes overstates what cell-tower and call-detail records can prove. Pfoff criticizes shortcuts in digital investigations, including searches without warrants and claims that phone records place someone precisely at a location when the technology was not designed for that purpose. The episode closes with Pfoff thanking San Agustin, Chuck and Julie, and the audience, while suggesting future discussions may cover additional federal cases and investigative issues.