I never set out to be a counselor for the strange and unexplainable...but as I taught meditation, continued my psychology education and opened myself to counseling work, a pattern formed. People didn’t just bring stress or heartbreak. They brought UFO sightings, shadow figures in doorways, mantis beings in dreams, voices with no bodies, premonitions that came true.These weren’t “fringe” people. They were parents, professionals, students. And they weren’t looking for someone to prove or disprove their stories... they were looking for someone who wouldn’t laugh. Someone to listen.This video is about what it’s like to sit with experiencers. How hearing enough of these stories softens your categories of science, spirituality, and psychology. How history is full of experiencers, in the form of shamans, saints, mystics, who had ritual frameworks to hold their visions, while today’s experiencers drift without containers.I talk about sleep paralysis, archetypes, Carl Jung, mantis beings, grays, and shadow people but mostly I talk about the power of witnessing without judgment. Because empathy can sometimes dissolve shame faster than explanation.It’s also about me...ewww I know and how listening to these stories has reshaped my own sense of reality. Certainty is brittle. Mystery is fertile. And maybe, in witnessing others, we start to touch a truth that doesn’t need proof to be felt.If you want to talk about your experiences...or really anything else, you're welcome to stop by our Discord server.https://discord.gg/dXKjhZrZmMOr if you prefer my unsolicited rants in written form, there is a blog on www.idiotmystic.com and a contact form. I'll warn you though...there are typos. If you made it to the end of this...I truly hope you're well, should I have said that at the start?
