The Fifth Dimension

Evan McDermod

Explore the edge of consciousness, spirituality, and hidden truths with The Fifth Dimension, a podcast that delves into the mysteries that shape our world. Since 2019, host Evan McDermod has been engaging with thinkers, spiritualists, and experts worldwide to unravel the deep-rooted myths that obscure our perception of reality. From consciousness studies and personal awakening to UFO phenomena and societal transformations, each episode encourages listeners to question, reflect, and realign with a deeper sense of meaning. Discover perspectives that challenge the mainstream narrative and embrace the journey toward a more awakened understanding of self and society. 

  1. The Self-Help Trap: Growth Without Arrival

    20 JAN

    The Self-Help Trap: Growth Without Arrival

    Send us a text 314 - In this episode, we explore a quiet paradox in modern self-help and spirituality: when personal growth stops being liberating and becomes another way to postpone self-acceptance. Many people aren’t addicted to healing. They’re addicted to becoming. We examine how self-help culture, spiritual language, and “inner work” can subtly reinforce the belief that you are not enough in the present moment. From spiritual bypassing and endless shadow work to nervous system dysregulation and the commodification of insecurity, this episode dismantles the illusion that arrival is always somewhere in the future. This conversation is not anti-growth. It’s about mature growth. The kind that reduces urgency instead of intensifying it. Topics Covered • When self-help turns into avoidance • The psychology of compulsive personal growth • Spiritual bypassing and elegant avoidance • Why the nervous system heals through safety, not self-surveillance • The self-help marketplace and the business of “not yet” • The difference between becoming and inhabiting • What real inner maturity actually feels like Key Question Explored What if growth isn’t about fixing yourself… but about ending the belief that you’re unfinished? This episode is for anyone who feels exhausted by constant self-improvement, suspicious of spiritual perfectionism, or ready to step out of the endless chase and into grounded presence. If you’ve ever wondered why healing never seems to end, this conversation may offer a different answer. Listen. Reflect. Arrive. 🔔 Subscribe for deep conversations on consciousness, inner development, spiritual psychology, and reclaiming sovereignty from modern control systems. 👍 Like, comment, and share if this resonated. Your engagement helps this reach others who may be stuck in the same loop. Buy Me a Coffee Book a Donation Based New Years Tarot Spread Iron & Ether: Book Your Fitness Consultation New Fifth Dimension Merchandise Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show

    1h 7m
  2. The Return of the Soul: Reviving the Forgotten Dimension of Human Life

    11 JAN

    The Return of the Soul: Reviving the Forgotten Dimension of Human Life

    Send us a text 313 - What happened to the soul in modern life? In this episode of The Fifth Dimension, Evan McDermod explores The Return of the Soul — a deep, mythic examination of why so many people feel disconnected, restless, and spiritually depleted in a world that is more advanced, productive, and optimized than ever before. Something essential has been forgotten. Not lost — forgotten. This episode traces the journey of the soul through resistance, exile, vision, death, and reintegration, offering a language for the quiet ache many carry but cannot name. Rather than escaping the world, this conversation is about remembering how to live fully within it. 🔥 Themes Explored -Defending inner truth in a culture that pressures conformity -Remembering wholeness in a fragmented world -Embodying creativity, vitality, and inner authority -Navigating uncertainty, intuition, and the inner night -Spiritual exile in a materially abundant society -The difference between survival and belonging -Visioning a life beyond inherited timelines -Devotion through small, consistent acts -Trusting the unknown and beginning again -Necessary endings and the death of false identities -Unmasking illusion and reclaiming inner truth -Integrating spirit and humanity into a lived path 🌀 What This Episode Offers This is not a motivational talk or surface-level spirituality. It is an invitation to: -Reclaim depth in an age of distraction -Honor grief, confusion, and longing as initiatory -Reawaken intuition and inner listening -Live spiritually without abandoning the human experience -Become a bridge between the sacred and the ordinary 🌿 This Episode Is For You If… -You feel something essential is missing from modern life -You’re tired of productivity culture masquerading as purpose -You’re drawn to myth, depth psychology, spirituality, and meaning -You’ve experienced loss, transition, or identity death -You want to live with soul, not just survive Buy Me a Coffee Book a Donation Based New Years Tarot Spread Iron & Ether: Book Your Fitness Consultation New Fifth Dimension Merchandise Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show

    56 min
  3. Iron & Ether: Forge the Body, Awaken the Spirit

    9 JAN

    Iron & Ether: Forge the Body, Awaken the Spirit

    Send us a text 312 - What if training your body wasn’t about aesthetics, ego, or escape—but about presence, discipline, and spiritual integration? In this episode, I introduce Iron & Ether—a philosophy and training framework that reunites physical strength (Iron) with conscious awareness (Ether). In a culture that has separated fitness from spirituality, this episode explores how resistance training can become a grounded spiritual practice, and how embodiment is essential for true growth. We explore the core question at the heart of Iron & Ether: How do we integrate spirit into fitness without bypassing the body or diluting strength? This episode is for those who feel called to: • Train with intention, not vanity • Build strength that carries meaning • Reclaim discipline as devotion • Ground spirituality into lived embodiment Topics Covered: • What Iron & Ether really means • Why modern fitness feels empty—and modern spirituality feels disembodied • Strength training as a nervous system and consciousness practice • Breath, presence, and intention under resistance • Why the body is not an obstacle to awakening—but the doorway • Who Iron & Ether is for (and who it isn’t) • Building a body capable of carrying the soul This is not motivational fitness. This is not aesthetic worship. This is not spiritual bypassing. Iron & Ether is about becoming whole. If you’re tired of fragmented self-improvement and ready for embodied discipline, grounded spirituality, and sovereign strength, this episode is your initiation. Book a Donation Based New Years Tarot Spread Iron & Ether: Book Your Fitness Consultation New Fifth Dimension Merchandise Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show

    1h 18m
  4. Letao Wang - 2026 Forecast: Year of the Fire Horse

    4 JAN

    Letao Wang - 2026 Forecast: Year of the Fire Horse

    Send us a text 311 - In this episode of The Fifth Dimension, I’m joined once again by spiritual counselor, astrologer, and tarot reader Letao Wang for a deep-dive into the energetic forecast for 2026. We explore 2026 as a One Year in numerology, marking powerful new beginnings, leadership cycles, and the initiation of entirely new life paths—both individually and collectively. We also unpack the significance of the Year of the Fire Horse, an archetype associated with momentum, courage, truth, liberation, and decisive forward movement. Together, we discuss the major astrological and planetary shifts shaping 2026, including which zodiac signs are most poised for expansion, opportunity, and breakthroughs, and how to consciously work with the heightened fire energy rather than be overwhelmed by it. To close the episode, Letao offers a special tarot reading for listeners, providing intuitive guidance and reflection for navigating the year ahead with clarity and integrity. This conversation is ideal for anyone interested in: • 2026 astrology and numerology forecasts • Year of the Fire Horse meaning • One Year numerology themes • Collective and personal spiritual shifts • Tarot as a tool for alignment and self-leadership 🎴 Stay until the end for the tarot reading created specifically for listeners. Connect with Letao YouTube Book a Donation Based New Years Tarot Spread Iron & Ether: Book Your Fitness Consultation New Fifth Dimension Merchandise Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show Support the show

    1h 32m
  5. Anthony Schneider - The Sovereign Bridge

    24/12/2025

    Anthony Schneider - The Sovereign Bridge

    Send us a text 310 - In this powerful and grounded conversation, I’m joined by my soul brother Anthony Schneider to explore The Sovereign Bridge — the living connection between the spiritual and material worlds, and what it means to walk that bridge consciously in an age of rapid technological and energetic change. We dive deep into intention and manifestation, the responsibility that comes with spiritual awareness, and the necessity of grounding spiritual abilities into embodied action. This episode also explores the conscious use of AI, not as a force of control, but as a tool that can either fragment or amplify human sovereignty depending on the intention behind it. As we look ahead to 2026 — a 1 year in numerology and the Year of the Horse, we unpack themes of shedding old skins in 2025, karmic completion, wisdom through transformation, and the emerging potential for a new cycle of collective abundance rooted in awareness rather than extraction. This episode is for those navigating awakening without escapism — for those committed to integrating spirit into matter, vision into form, and sovereignty into everyday life. Topics explored include: -Bridging the spiritual and material realms -Intention, manifestation, and responsibility -Conscious vs unconscious use of AI -Spiritual abilities and the necessity of grounding -Collective abundance and post-scarcity consciousness -Embodiment, sovereignty, and integration If you’re walking the path of awareness while staying rooted in the real world, this conversation is for you. Book a Donation Based New Years Tarot Spread Iron & Ether: Book Your Fitness Consultation New Fifth Dimension Merchandise Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show

    1h 47m
  6. Decoding the Architecture of the Matrix

    23/11/2025

    Decoding the Architecture of the Matrix

    Send us a text 308 - What if the world you call “reality” is only a tiny fragment of what actually exists? In this episode, Evan McDermod breaks down the architecture of the Matrix — the psychological, cultural, technological, and metaphysical systems that shape human perception without us ever noticing. This is not sci-fi. This is the deeper truth mystics, shamans, occultists, and quantum theorists have pointed to for centuries: Reality is a construct. Consciousness is the author. And most people are living inside a scripted dream. We explore how the Matrix forms, who maintains it, how it programs identity, and—most importantly—how to wake up from it. If you’ve ever felt like life is scripted, like something is “off,” or that you are meant for a deeper reality… this episode speaks directly to that inner knowing. 🔍 What You’ll Learn -What “the Matrix” actually is (beyond the movie metaphor) -How belief systems, narratives, and trauma create inner prisons -How culture, media, and institutions reinforce the illusion -How algorithms, technology, and AI shape desire and identity -What ancient spiritual traditions say about the illusion of reality -How synchronicity, heartbreak, crisis, and psychedelics crack the Matrix open -How to reclaim your sovereignty and rewrite the script of your life -Why awakening isn’t escape — it’s authorship 🔥 Key Themes Covered -Reality as a construct of consciousness -The psychological and spiritual mechanisms of control -Soul amnesia and collective conditioning -Separation vs. unity consciousness -Waking up from inherited identity -Becoming the creator of your own reality -Living mythically instead of mechanically Purchase Seasons of Becoming Book a Tarot Reading Connect with Evan: Subscribe on Substack Follow on Instagram Follow on X Support the show

    1h 22m

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Explore the edge of consciousness, spirituality, and hidden truths with The Fifth Dimension, a podcast that delves into the mysteries that shape our world. Since 2019, host Evan McDermod has been engaging with thinkers, spiritualists, and experts worldwide to unravel the deep-rooted myths that obscure our perception of reality. From consciousness studies and personal awakening to UFO phenomena and societal transformations, each episode encourages listeners to question, reflect, and realign with a deeper sense of meaning. Discover perspectives that challenge the mainstream narrative and embrace the journey toward a more awakened understanding of self and society. 

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