Contact as Initiation with Meredith Spearman

This week we’re joined by Meredith Spearman MSN, RN, the writer behind The Maze to Metanoia. She takes us back to the night she was eight, speaking to the universe outside her bedroom window from inside a troubled home, when a rectangle seemed to cut itself out of the sky, followed by thirty years of disaster dreams, and why she thinks they stopped. Meredith believes contact is initiation, and she explains what that means. We also talk about why strange entities seem to lie so often, and how to harness the power of discernment.

A rectangle in the sky

Speaking to the universe from an abusive house

Her brother was dreaming the same thing

Dreaming about natural disasters

“We can’t save the people we love — only love them”

Contact experience as initiation

The phenomenon as a mirror (Jung’s shadow work)

Trauma and the doorway to the anomalous

The problem with the term “ontological shock,” and why it might be a public-health failure

A metaphor about natural springs and modernity

What people often see at the threshold of death