#788 - Jenna Matlin - The Tarot Book of the Dead
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Tarot reader and medium Jenna Matlin joins Grimerica hosts to discuss her book, *The Tarot Book of the Dead*, and how tarot, mediumship, and cultural death rituals shape the way people face mortality. She shares the book’s initiatory structure, reflections on grief and end-of-life care, and the historical ideas behind tarot’s Death card. Matlin connects renewed interest in death after COVID with the period when tarot emerged in the mid-15th century, after the Black Plague. She describes evidentiary mediumship examples, including a taekwondo uniform and a client’s family history with...
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#787 - Dr. Rizwan Virk - Tech Advances Spike Simulation Hypothesis Estimates
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Interview starts at. 28:00 Dr. Rizwan Virk is back to discuss why Virk has raised his estimate that we may live in a simulation to roughly 75-80%, citing rapid progress in generative AI, video generation, and world models. They also explore how AI automation is already giving small operators time back, while the excerpt ends as Virk introduces a series on AI myths. Virk says his estimate has risen from slightly over 50% in 2019 to roughly 75-80% today, after previously placing it around 70%. He points to advances in LLMs, video generation, and world models as evidence that...
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#786 - Sean Robins - I, Anomaly | The Crimson Deathbringer
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Interview starts at 27:30 Sean Robbins on sci-fi, AI, and writing at full speed Author Sean Robbins joins to talk about building a career as an indie sci-fi writer, publishing 48 books across seven series, and balancing writing with a teaching job in Abu Dhabi. He also shares how his lifelong interest in science fiction shapes stories about artificial intelligence, free will, and machines learning to connect with people. In this episode How childhood sci-fi favorites like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Isaac Asimov inspired Sean’s writing Why a single story idea—such as a combat android...
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#785 - Erik P. Antoni - Nous Solis, The Monad, and The Cosmic Cycle
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Interview starts at 29:45 We welcome back Eric P. Antoni for a wide-ranging conversation about his book, Nous Solis, and the spiritual cosmology behind his work. Eric discusses how meditation, scriptural study, and reader feedback shaped his ideas about creation, consciousness, and human purpose. The conversation explores a central question: what if human evolution is part of a much larger cosmic process aimed at reintegrating consciousness into unity? Eric shares his perspective through Gnosticism, Hermeticism, scripture, and what he describes as insights from the cosmo quanta. Key topics ...
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#784 - Jeff Belanger - The World's Most Haunted Places
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The World’s Most Haunted Places with Jeff Belanger Graham and Darren talk with Jeff Belanger about the third edition of The World’s Most Haunted Places and why ghost stories keep returning to the mainstream. Belanger, a longtime paranormal writer and researcher, explains how hauntings, cryptids, UFOs, and questions about life after death all tap into the human need to make meaning from mystery. In this episode, Jeff shares stories from decades of fieldwork—from the catacombs of Paris to the White House—and explains why he sees hauntings less as random scares and more as...
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#783 - Ray Deptula - Those Damn Yankees
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Interview starts at 26:35 Ray Deptula on writing the American Revolution from the British side Ray Deptula joins us to discuss his historical fiction series set during the American Revolution. They explore why he chose to tell the story from the British perspective, how the books portray slavery and military life, and what the conflict reveals about government, freedom, and political power. The conversation ranges from colonial history and the American founding to modern debates about centralized government and free speech. Ray also shares how his Navy experience shaped his writing and talks...
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#782 - Dean Kinzer - Ancient Coin Expert | Founder of Kinzer Coins
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Interview starts at 32:00 Dean Kinzer of Kinzer Coins joins Graham Dunlop and Darren Grimes for a wide ranging conversation about ancient coins, the family roots that pulled him into collecting, and why coins are really compact historical records. Dean explains how ancient coinage evolved from electrum globs and early stamped pieces into state backed currency, and why collectors can use coins to trace politics, propaganda, economics, and the rise and fall of civilizations. We discuss why ancient coins are still accessible to new collectors, how grading and slabbed coins reduce the risk of...
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#781 - Luke Storey on loneliness, recovery, integrity, and writing A Horse Named Lonesome
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Luke Storey on loneliness, recovery, integrity, and writing A Horse Named Lonesome Luke Storey joins Graham Dunlop and Darren Grimes for a wide-ranging conversation about his new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, and the deeper themes behind it: relational loneliness, addiction recovery, spirituality, and what it means to live with integrity. The discussion also turns into a practical and philosophical look at how modern life, social media, and public identity can either deepen or dilute real human connection. This episode matters because it connects personal healing to a broader cultural...
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#780 - Wayne Purdin - Contact, Visions, Prophecy and the Golden Age
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Interview starts at 31:35 This episode follows Wayne Purdin’s early UFO encounters, his years as a UFO investigator, and how those experiences eventually led him into meditation, devotional practice, and prophetic interpretation. Graham Dunlop and Darren Grimes press Wayne on the line between extraterrestrial contact and spiritual experience, especially around CE5, grays, and higher beings. Wayne’s story centers on a 1967 sighting that he describes as a first contact experience, plus a later cigar-shaped craft sighting with multiple independent witnesses. From there, the conversation moves...
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#779 - Debra Stangl and Richard Kepple - High Vibe Relationships
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Interview starts 33:25 Debra Stangl and Richard Kepple join us for a great chat about running one of the worlds top relationship and marriage counselling workshops / resorts. And their new book "High-Vibe Relationship - Why Love Isn't The Problem - and What Actually Is". We chat about the wide variety of modalities they use and have access to, clearing out your gunk, fixing your relationships, spiritual awakenings and rebuilding love. We also get into their High Vibe System, nuturing needs, communications style and neural pathways. Become a Lord or Lady with 1k donations over...
info_outline- Matlin connects renewed interest in death after COVID with the period when tarot emerged in the mid-15th century, after the Black Plague.
- She describes evidentiary mediumship examples, including a taekwondo uniform and a client’s family history with racehorses.
- Matlin says near-death experience accounts of a life review echoed messages she encountered in mediumship, while noting the process is complex.
- She distinguishes psychopomp work from mediumship and describes supporting the transition between body and spirit, including end-of-life experiences.
- Matlin argues that wakes, physical care of the dead, and shared mourning have been diminished in many Western death practices.
- The book is structured as an initiatory journey through 20 chapters or aeons, beginning with Death and ending with the Empress.
- She discusses Egyptian concepts of the ib, ka, and ba, Tibetan consciousness transfer, and the sophistication of diverse historical death traditions.
- Matlin interprets the Rider-Waite-Smith Death card through its figures and links it to the medieval Dance of Death motif.
- The conversation touches on green burial, grief, the fear of dying alone, and allowing the dying process to unfold.
- Matlin explains how tarot activities in the book address facing one’s death, grief, mediumship, and healing difficult relationships.