#claircognizance Archives - Closer To Venus

Johnny Burke: Welcome to Closer to Venus I’m Johnny Burke and today’s guest is Uma, Alexandra Beepat. She is a certified angel guide, spiritual medium, and Reiki master. She uses our intuitive gifts to help her clients find freedom from fear, limiting beliefs, and emotional pain, Uma, welcome to the show.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: Thank you. Good morning. And thank you for having me, Johnny. How are you?

Johnny Burke: Pretty good for a Sunday. It’s a sunny day here in Florida. So tell me, what prompted you to learn about Reiki, mediumship, and past lives?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: So it’s interesting. I didn’t really have a strong desire to follow either of the paths. It’s one of those things that, we come through our experiences through living. I became a licensed massage therapist back in 2009. And while I was doing massage, some of my clients would notice my hands get really warm. One client, in particular, said,” you should really learn Reiki” so I actually came in through massage, through Reiki, and then it just kind of led to everything else.

Johnny Burke: And speaking of which, the Reiki masters, healers, or just the discipline itself seems to be a destination for spiritual seekers. Why do you suppose that is?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: It’s very easy to learn. It’s very mainstream now. There’s actually a lot of great healing modalities. I’m certified in over 40 of them. But Reiki is well known because it’s been around for a long time. It does work. There are studies that are proving the benefits and effects of Reiki. It’s now more widely accepted because it’s now being accepted in hospitals. You can find Reiki practitioners being paid to be in hospitals now. Whereas before we had to do everything on a volunteer basis, and you actually find a lot of Reiki practitioners in cancer treatment centers, and hospices. So society’s becoming more comfortable with this particular aspect of the healing modalities.

Johnny Burke: Generally speaking, how does Reiki actually work?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: Reiki is an energy healing modality, it’s not really like a massage where you’re manipulating soft tissue or, chiropractic work where you’re working to readjust people. It’s about your energy field, the aura, this energy around us, and chakras, these energy centers on the body. We know enough about them that they exist. So Reiki works to bring energy to depleted people. So the idea behind Reiki, Rey means universal, and Chi means life energy. So the translation of Reiki is universal life energy. What it means is that we as people run ourselves down., the schedules, the life we’re living, it’s not conducive to health and wellness. We work too much. We don’t sleep enough. We don’t eat right.

So when you get a Reiki session, it’s seeking to restore you on an energy level. So most people after a Reiki session would report feeling lighter, refreshed like they rested like they took a 12-hour nap. So if you keep doing it on a continual basis, then you find people saying stuff like “I got my energy back, I’m sleeping better. I’m calmer throughout the day.” So it’s in a way, restoring them to that mind-body-spirit balance. Yeah.

Johnny Burke: The healers or practitioners are now being paid in hospitals, whereas before you’re saying they had to basically do it on a volunteer basis. Did this start happening recently or has it been that way for a while?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: No, not recently.. I became a Reiki master teacher in 2009 and it was around 2015. The first news for me was in England where they actually paid, I think it was 19,000 pounds annual salary to a Reiki healer to work in the hospital. So it’s slow-moving. It’s not as fast as it could be, but we can be thankful for people like Dr. Oz, he’s a TV personality, he’s a doctor, but his wife is a Reiki master teacher. So he would go on to his talk show and talk about Reiki and the benefits of Reiki and what he’s seen because he used to perform surgery with Reiki practitioners in his surgery practice. And he’s talked about what his wife has taught him and everything. Then you find more celebrities, Gwinnett Paltrow has this show where it literally investigates everything in the alternative health fields. Reiki, shamanic, journeys, drumming, things of that nature. We’re not there yet where we have a full thriving field for people to have this as a career and get paid for it. But I’m optimistic enough that I will see that before my lifetime is over.

Johnny Burke: It seems like it’s definitely moving in that direction. Now you are also a certified angel guide. I think these kinds of discussions hopefully can remove the new age stigma that tends to surround discussions about angels. Tell us a little bit about how that happened and what it’s taught you so far.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: The term certified angel guide, came from a specific group that I was studying from, and that was the certification they gave us after we did some study on angels, communicating with angels using angel cards. So after I went through a period of study with that particular group, that was the guide that I got. I don’t think, realistically, anybody could say a certified angel guide can access the angelic beings. And also we have to look at the terminology.

The one thing I like to say at my center is we all live on this earth, but we don’t live and exist in the same dimension. It means that nobody’s wrong. The way we think, is we think according to our dimensions. Most people actually believe angels are human, like human form- they look like us. They just have wings on their back. Other people, from different dimensions, believe angels are nothing more than energy- they’re vibrations. So the idea behind being like an angel guide with the work that I do, it’s called channeling. And what channeling is, you take yourself to a higher level within your conscious, within your psyche. And then you’re able to access some universal wisdom. In my understanding, this comes from the angelic vibrations, which are really focused on those higher values. Love, compassion, peace. Those are like the messages that would come through when I do a channeling session and they do come from those angelic vibrations.

Now the actual angel guides will say,” I’m going to channel Archangel, Michael. They’re very specific to who they channel. And I respect that because we all are operating in different dimensions and we all have different ways we see something and the way we relate to things. There’s so many healers and light workers- is what we call ourselves, that I like to support everyone. To me once they’re preaching peace, love, light, and positivity. It’s okay. Even if it differs from my belief, it’s ok.

Johnny Burke: It’s interesting that you brought up -Archangel, Michael. I just did an episode last week with a woman, her name’s Lucy Brand. And she is talking about the same type of things that you are. During the episode, she said, “he’s actually here right now.” I made a couple of jokes about it, like,” Hey, can he help me do this or help me do that? “, but she talks about that as she just described a trip to the grocery store.

So going back to, what we were just talking about, you made a remark about no one is wrong because they’re in different dimensions.’ does that mean one person might be living in the third dimension or third density?- I still get those two confused, and another person might be living in, five d?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: The fifth dimension.

Johnny Burke: Is that accurate or not?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: Yeah, that is the biggest divide we see; is the people who are living in the fifth dimension and the people living in the third dimension. So people in the fifth dimension, it is said, these are all theories, people that are in the fifth dimension practice more unconditional love. So you and I can have an argument. we can decide to separate and no longer be friends, but somebody in the fifth dimension wouldn’t look at the negativity of that. They would just see it as’ I still love this person, but our paths are leading us in different directions. We’re differently aligned. So I release them with love. It’s like a conscious breakup. Somebody who lives in the third dimension still operates to principles like right and wrong, good and bad. That’s where we start to see the heatedness coming in. Like if you don’t believe what I believe you’re wrong. That’s what we see the majority of the earth is, it’s filled with third dimension.

What light workers are trying to do is create more of that fifth-dimensional energy. . We’re trying to raise the dimensional aspects of people so that we can all be living in that fifth-dimensional reality, where it’s okay to have differing opinions and everyone still loves each other.

Johnny Burke: Speaking of different theories, whenever this comes up, 3d , 5d , different dimensions, light versus density, there are those people that think thousands and thousands of years ago, we were an advanced race or an advanced civilization that lived in a 5d world. telepathy was completely normal.

An example of that might be the pyramids were built, not on the blood and sweat of slaves, but were built with some kind of sonar device or divining rods, which we don’t even have that technology now.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: I’ve heard that theory before, but I just don’t have an actual opinion on it because it’s not the thing I tend to focus on.

Johnny Burke: So what kind of people would you suggest to go and seek an angel guide as opposed to a shaman or a past life regressionist or an energy healer for that matter? , shamanism, and energy healing, they’re related disciplines, aren’t they?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: Yeah. And I can tell you about the different types of lightworkers– why you go to each one specifically. So if you go to an angel guide or they’re more commonly known as like a Tarot card reader or, an angel card reader or Oracle card reader, you go there for like higher advice. You’re going through something in your life. You’re probably going through some difficulties in a relationship, you need to make a career change. You’re feeling kind of stuck in life. At that point, you would consult one of these angel guides, because what they do is channel information for you from a higher source. Most times if you’re an intuitive person when you get a reading from someone, it validates what you already know and that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Johnny Burke: I like that and I like the fact that there are many different types of lightworkers. It seems like there’s as many different types of lightworkers as there are medical doctors for different symptoms. You wrote a book a while back called Living The Awakened Life. Let’s talk about that. What inspired the book?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: The book, The Awakened Life, was written about my own journey. I had lots of clients that came to me for massage and they would talk during their massage and I would listen. but after a while, I felt the need to talk back because I was just getting all this information, the channeling again, as I told you. At the time I felt like I was just being helpful. I was just offering good advice, but every single time I would give information, people would get very emotional, they would start crying, and the hair on their skin stand up. It was like a supernatural experience. And this one lady said to me, now, this has been said to me many times, but for some reason, it stuck. And she said,” you know, you really need to write a book because every time I come here, you give the best advice. And when I leave, I forget everything. I just wish I had a book about the things that, you know, you believe you, you understand. So the way the universe works, is what you put out, you get back, very, law of attraction based off of law of vibration.

One night, I don’t remember when, it was maybe weeks after she had that comment to me. I just woke up at like three o’clock in the morning. And a lot of people know – that three o’clock the witching hour right? I woke up at three o’clock in the morning and from three to 11, eight hours, I just wrote, and this was done. It was just completely channeled.

Johnny Burke: So that book was downloaded?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: Yeah,

Johnny Burke: is that what that’s called? I’ve talked to people that have described themselves as scribes for spirit, which I think is very close to, if not the same thing that you’re describing with Living The Awakened Life.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: So with the Clair senses, most people know about clairvoyance, the gift of seeing and, clairsentience, the gift of feeling. I have claircognizance, which is the gift of knowing, which is what channelers use when they’re accessing this information.

Johnny Burke: Lots of intuitives talk about Ascension, waking up. Why do you suppose this is happening now?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: It’s been happening longer. What I’ve noticed in the metaphysical community is that there’s awakenings in waves. There was that awakening moment in 2000. Remember when we all were like doomsday, 1999, the, the computers, all that, right?, that was the first wave of awakening was 2000. I came in on that wave. Then after that it was 2012. That was like another wave. And then we are supposedly having another wave that came in at 2020. It’s relative to your awakening. When it happened again in, 2012 and 2020, you’re seeing what people are going through, but you already went through it. But then if you awoke in 2012, then it feels new because everybody’s going through the same thing at the same time.

Why does it happen in waves? That is a good question. The only thing I know is is that the Schumann Resonance Scale does predict it. When they start to see those high spikes go up, they know that their consciousness is raising yet again. There are many theories about it. Some people say it’s alien-oriented, that we’re all aliens and, they flip a switch and some of us turn on at certain parts in time. A lot of people also say it’s the collective consciousness growing, as we all awaken, we add to the mother brain. I really wanna say it happened with the seventies kids. the hippies.

We talk about the indigo children, now they have rainbows and crystals. My belief is that the hippies, the children of the sixties and seventies were the Scouts. So if we have these enlightened. very high vibrational beings coming from different planets. But they won’t send the whole community at the same time. For safety reasons, they won’t send the whole community, you send the scouts.

So I feel, the hippie generation were the scouts. That’s why they just didn’t fit in. They were like, I don’t wanna shower in this planet. Make love, not war. Give me the drugs. I just need to tap out. This is crazy here. They got everything backward here.

Johnny Burke: You can probably lean on your claircognizance to answer a lot of these questions because it’s, knowing. is it alien-based? according to a well-known medium that I did interview a while back, they prefer to be called star beings and referred to themselves as our star family. Because alien means apart from what I’m told, they don’t like to consider themselves as being apart from us.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: So I believe I’m a Starseed.

Johnny Burke: Right. Okay.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: I’m a claircognizant person. So when I get these things that I know, I need validation. It’s not enough for me to just have the knowing. We gotta create some form of checks and balances. So I went to three different readers on three different continents. One in America, one in Australia, one in Europe, and they all said on different readings, I’m Pleiadian. The Pleiadians are the virtual teachers. When I started to look up the Pleiadians, I very much identify with a lot of what was written.

If someone was to say you’re alien, I don’t take offense to it because I do believe in aliens. I do believe that we have this community between our world and theirs. But I just believe also too, there’s a very strong 3d reality, still existing on this planet. This planet is very much run by a matrix. Until we break out of that fear energy, we can’t really realize our divinity until we stop being afraid.

Johnny Burke: Going back to the Starseed, briefly describe for us what exactly is a Starseed?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: So a star seed is someone who has extraterrestrial origins in past lifetimes. For instance, I told you I am not the typical metaphysical teacher. I debunk a lot of things because I’m a claircognizant and things just don’t make sense. I don’t really necessarily believe in the old soul. Like people like to say, oh, “that person’s old soul”. They say somebody who has lived on earth many, many times they have a lot of rich wisdom. There is a belief that all souls originated at the same time, the energy, the substance, the particle of all of us originated at the same time.

So how could somebody be an old soul indicating they’re older than other souls? It doesn’t make sense. My knowing, my understanding is that if all of us were given a hundred lifetimes, an old soul would be somebody who lived 95 of those lifetimes on this planet, they’re more well versed. They are more knowledgeable, they have more wisdom about this planet.

A star seed has varying degrees. You have the really out there star that may have lived 90 lifetimes on other planets and 10 lifetimes on earth. So that’s what we say when people are autistic or special needs, they just are not able to communicate in this 3d dimension. That might be like an extreme star seed. Most star seeds are probably like 50 lifetimes on other planets, and 50 lifetimes on earth. So they have like a working understanding of this atmosphere and the way people are, as opposed to others. I’m a functional star seed, but there are times when I get really quirky and eccentric and people don’t understand why I say or do the things that I say or do. I don’t even understand why I say or do the things that I do, but it feels right to me. There’s some star seeds that have a ton of allergies cuz their system just did not do well on this planet. So they’re like allergic to everything. It seems almost like they’re allergic to the environment with the skin conditions they have and stuff.

Johnny Burke: I’ve heard this many, many times and I think it’s really interesting how people talk about not only past lives but past lives on other planets. . And since people talk about being reincarnated from other planets, other worlds or whatever you want to call it, I don’t think it’s very farfetched at all, I think it would be deeply silly of anyone to think this is the only planet with intelligent life; that makes no sense at all.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: so I have a funny story. I’m a past life regression therapist, and I did a past life regression on a woman from Australia. I was expecting her to go to a past life here on earth. And she described in vivid detail being a crystal person. I have never heard this before. What you do as a past life regression therapist is you put the person in a hypnotic trance, and then when they’re under hypnosis, you ask them questions, so it’s easy for me to get people into a deep enough trance. Her eyes were fluttering and everything and I was like,” where did you come from? And she said “the wall”, the wall, where?” in the cave. ” in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and everything. And she said, she just came out and she came with the wee little ones. I mentioned she’s Australian, very cute accent. She was like, “I came with the wee ones “and, there was a lady from a village who helped them assimilate and take on human form and teach them how to be human. And so she’s saying that there’s crystal people sprinkled throughout the world. It was just interesting. I’ve heard so many people flash back to different timelines and some of them are not from this earth. So I’m a believer.

Johnny Burke: When you talk about doing past lives and doing the regression work, do ancient civilizations, like Atlantis or even Lemuria come up?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: I haven’t personally had somebody come up from Atlantis or Lemuria, but I did have someone, a gentleman flashback to another planet. He was telling me about life on the planet. He was saying that on earth, it’s so exhausting because where he’s from, you communicate telepathically. You don’t use words. It’s considered the most basic form of language. And he just talked about a lot of stuff and I was just like, “wow”. That’s the cool thing about the work that I get to do, because I get to hear people’s stories that are locked in their psyche and it’s as interesting to me as it is to them.

Johnny Burke: . That’s a benefit to your practice. Speaking of the modalities that you practice, which ones do you think can tell us the most about existential questions like, why are we here? what is our purpose? And what really happens when we die?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: There’s a lot of great channelers right now. Abraham Hicks, Esther Hicks who channels the teachings of Abraham. But there is a great guy named, Lee Carroll, he channels Kryon. And what I like about those channelings is that Kryon is of course by definition, alien, because he’s not from this planet, yet he speaks about the success of humans. He says, through Lee Carroll that the pyramids were not built by aliens. He shows Lee Carroll how the pyramids were built using manpower. I went to one of the talks where they were talking about Easter Island,and Lee Carroll was showing how you can move those big rock structures down to the beach. Cuz they said it had to be by an alien. So that’s a person that I found very interesting to listen to, also Dolores Cannon– she’s amazing.

Johnny Burke: I’m, glad you brought that up because I have an upcoming guest who’s gonna talk about a regression technique that is Dolores Cannon’s technique. You just mentioned something about how the pyramids were built. Did you get an idea that it was some kind of sonar? It wasn’t just people using manpower lifting the rocks. How did they do it?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: This is what I walked away with, he was saying it was all just the people. But from what I saw in my own abilities, I saw aliens did come and give instructions on how humans can do it using human strength, using human capabilities. I don’t know if they mentioned the sonar or anything like that. I’ll tell you something. I did go to Egypt. I did see hieroglyphics on temple walls and there were aliens in those hieroglyphics.

Johnny Burke: There’s one in particular on a cave wall. I don’t know where it is, but it’s one where it shows two men, they’re holding sticks and above them looks like a..

Uma Alexandra Beepat: There’s a UFO in many of those hieroglyphics, and I saw it and people would say,” oh, it could be a rock,” but why is it elevated? And they make it in a way where it’s way above the people below like to show it’s in the air. It’s very interesting.

Johnny Burke: Really interesting. Okay. So you like some of the channelers to answer those questions. What has to happen in your opinion for the metaphysical world to basically not be lumped in that same category as new age, pseudoscience, and things like that?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: I don’t believe a lot of the light workers today are properly trained. So the problem is, is we are bringing our own selves down. When you go a light worker, just jingling bells or rubbing something on your forehead and telling you the cancer’s gone, and then the cancer doesn’t go. That looks terrible, not just in that person, but on the community as a whole. If you’re a new person to this field and you get the wrong healer or the wrong light worker, chances are 90% you’re never coming back to this field again. You’re gonna think we’re all quacks. We’re all crazy. But what I would like to say is, there’s a lot of us that have taken the time to study, learn, meditate, to understand what this is, and to teach from a respectable place. I do mentorship twice a year, and it’s a very grounded approach to this world . A lot of people that come here, they’re not mentally and emotionally stable. So now you have unstable people that are giving advice, giving healings, giving rituals to other people, and it’s, creating a mess.

So, what I would like to see is maybe accreditation. I would like to see more legislature that allows what we’re doing, but in like more formalized setting. Let’s have schools, let’s have proper techniques and timelines and requirements because it’s not okay that you can take a class from me over the weekend, become a Reiki master teacher over the weekend, and now is putting up a class, the following Sunday.

Johnny Burke: I can see there’s a clear and present danger with that type of thing happening? I’ve had a couple of people on from this nonprofit, the Forever Family Foundation, what they do is, among other things, they certify mediums, and they do it with readers and the sitters will then grade the performance to, validate the readings and the evidential mediumship and the things that come up. What you’re talking about is like a Forever Foundation-type organization that trains light workers. That might be a ways off, but I think that is, what you’re talking about.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: There are schools that train, the individual light worker. Because what you’re finding a lot of is ego. It’s not just about giving a reading and using psychic ability. You have to be a bit of a life coach. You have to be a bit of a counselor. You have to learn communication right?

Johnny Burke: I could not agree more and I really wonder, one day is going to see the meta physician, will that ever be as common as going to seeing your family doctor?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: I had a vision of a hospital where somebody walked in on the ground floor and saw an empath and the medical intuitive diagnosed them and then sent them to the x-ray lab to get x-rays. And then they went upstairs to a herbalist doctor to get a tincture. Then acupuncture is done. And then they left. So I do have a vision of what’s coming I just hope I get to see I go

Johnny Burke: If not, I’m sure we’re gonna be returning at some point more than likely. maybe we’ll go to a different planet and we’ll reunite with Prince and David Bowie and everyone else.

Uma Alexandra Beepat: That would be wild!

Johnny Burke: that would be pretty incredible. Uma thanks so much for joining us today. Very, very good content. , how can our listeners find more about you online?

Uma Alexandra Beepat: so I have a link tree and I know you’ll list the link tree and also my website, the lotusandthelight.com.

#81 Viki Quirk: From Deja Vu To The Akashic Records

August 6, 2022 by Johnny Burke

Akashic Records

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Johnny Burke: Welcome to Closer To Venus, I’m Johnny Burke and today’s guest is Vicky Quirk. She is an intuitive coach, breathwork teacher, and near-death experience survivor. Today, we will be talking about how she utilizes the Akashic Records to help people heal their past, embrace the present, and move forward into their future. Vicky. Welcome to the program

Viki Quirk: Thank you so much for having me, Johnny. I’m excited to be here.

Johnny Burke: I think this should be fun. So how did you discover when you had intuitive or what people call psychic gifts

Viki Quirk: I can think back to childhood and having a lot of Deja Vu, that’s kind of my first recollection of something being different. But my mom also had Deja Vu, so it didn’t feel all that different. Then as I got older, I would just kind of know things before they happened. And I’m like, I don’t know where this is coming from, it didn’t really become clear until like my late twenties and I was living with my then boyfriend, now husband. And I started seeing things in our apartment and I was like, I don’t know what is going on. And then I got really lucky. I was talking to the receptionist at my acupuncture place. We got to talking about all this stuff and all this work that she was doing, and I was like, oh, let me ask you something. So I started to describe it to her. And she was like,” oh girl, you’ve got some gifts that you are not using. “And I was like, “what are you talking about? “And so her and I talked about. Everything she said was like, yes, that makes sense. Yes, that makes sense.

I then started to explore, what does it mean to be intuitive? What does it mean to be psychic in any way? And started to look into books and then she put me on to a teacher who I eventually studied with for a number of years. And then I was like, ’oh, if I tap into this, if I use it, my life is easier, right?’ And I’m not seeing weird stuff all over the place at night while I’m sleeping. I’m able to manage this. And it was crazy to see how my anxiety subsided, how a lot of things became more easy for me when I started to embrace that. I could feel energies outside of myself. I could also take them into myself and needed to work on that. So it was kind of a serendipitous situation where, who expects to be talking to the receptionist at the acupuncture place and have her say to you, ” Hey, by the way, you’re gifted. ”

Johnny Burke: Actually that’s a really good point because many people get confirmation of these intuitive gifts at, it could be a number of modalities. The Reiki healer experience seems to be an entry point for a lot of people to become aware of the intuitive gifts.

Viki Quirk: Totally. Because I think that. It’s a modality that feels very safe and comfortable, and that is more well-known now than a lot of other modalities are. That was one of my first explorations also too, is after I had that whole revelation in the acupuncture office, was then I pursued receiving Reiki and later got my own attunements to become a Reiki practitioner. It’s an easy access point, but I think it’s a very profound access point. where big things can happen, even though it seems rather simple and it feels safe to most people, it can be a super profound experience in it

Johnny Burke: I think a lot of people are not expecting something like that to happen-not expecting to have an awakening or waking up or whatever you want to call it. So back to your intuitive, ability. You first got a glimmer of that when you were young, but you didn’t really get full confirmation until you’re in your twenties?

Viki Quirk: Yeah.

Johnny Burke: You also mentioned Deja Vu. Were these images? Did this happen in dreams or was it spontaneous?

Viki Quirk: Typically a dream that I would have. Then I would experience the exact same event a couple of days later. Then I was like, wait, did I dream that? Or did I do this twice? In my later teen years, it became much more prevalent than that was happening. And I would sometimes be confused in class cause I’m like, why do I already know the answer to this? I dreamed it and it was just this kind of trippy experience. And my mom had mentioned having Deja Vu, but it wasn’t necessarily a conversation we really dive deep into.

It didn’t really start to click for me is that being a part of my gifts until I was in my twenties, and actually right when my dad passed away. He had cancer twice. The second time around, he went terminal, and he was in the hospital over the weekend. And the second the phone rang, I had this flash to a dream I had had about a year before of the phone ringing, us being called to the hospital and on the way to the hospital. In the dream and in reality, I had the thought of my dad just died and when we got there, he had passed. That was like the purest confirmation I ever could have gotten because it was the exact same situation playing out.

Johnny Burke: Would that be an example of a premonition?

Viki Quirk: Yeah. Yes. I see it as that. That one feels more premonition and other events that I’ve had happened, feel more like a premonition while others are Deja Vu. Others are like, “oh, I’ve seen this somewhere, Oh, in my dreams” or a similar situation. I used to teach Pilates for 10 years. So when you do something all day long for hours a day, it’s easy to dream about it and process it. That piece was really interesting for me because there’d be times I was teaching a client,” Wait, did I teach them the left side of this exercise in my dream, or did I teach it to them just now?” And have to really kind of like navigate it, but that felt more Deja Vu. That was less about it being, I saw something coming and more about somehow, I knew that day I was going to teach those exercises. It was, it feels less dramatic.

Johnny Burke: Déjà vu; would that be like dreaming about a place that you know, you’ve seen before, but you’ve never- Vicky’s never really been there. Have you had experiences like that?

Viki Quirk: Yeah. Yeah. Actually, this house that we’re currently living in, I had that same experience and it’s been interesting for me that so much of what’s happened for me has been at times of difficulties, of times of trauma, which is that’s kind of standard, I think because the veil is thin and when you’re not in your body, you can pick up on a lot more things. I think it was more of me stepping into myself as a person, particularly my late twenties. My guides were like, “Hey, it’s time for you to embrace these things. It’s time for you to utilize these for yourself and to share these gifts with others. “That was almost like a coming home moment for me to start to say,” Oh, I can have this stuff happen.”

And at that point in my late twenties, I had a couple of teachers I was working with. I wasn’t alone in it because I think the other thing is people have these things happen and they feel very alone in it because we’re not living in a society where it’s typical. My kids are growing up with it more than I did. It’s not typical for parents to say,” Hey if you ever feel these things or you have a sense of knowing or you hear things you don’t see in the room with you. That’s okay. Those are psychic gifts. “That’s not a conversation anybody’s happening,

Johnny Burke: Not really. That’s almost like if you’re sitting around the dinner table, you can say ‘great, what past life memories do you have Jimmy? ‘or, ‘Hey, did you have an awakening experience?’ you’re right, we don’t really have those kinds of discussions. They’re not really commonplace. You had just mentioned guides. I imagine that is a reference to spirit guides, right? was your first experience with your guide or your guides and, how did that happen? What did they look like? And did you even know their names?

Viki Quirk: that’s been an interesting experience for me. So my primary psychic skill is claircognizance. So I just know that. So when people will ask me, “oh, what do guides look like?” Good question. I don’t necessarily know what they look like. I don’t have that clear visual of them, but I know what they’re like in their energy or what they feel like to me. Sometimes there will be a face or something that I know. It was in my early twenties. I was about to go on a date with a guy and I got this very male voice in my head that said, ‘this is not a good idea.’ Turned out it wasn’t a good idea. and I should have listened, but back then, I didn’t know, right? But it was like,” whoa, what was that?” And that’s happened to me a couple of times where there’ll be this knowing that I’m hearing a voice.

I have had really cool, very clear visuals of who my guides are in readings with other practitioners. I have one practitioner, in particular, whom I work with all the time, and also in my breathwork sessions. So when I practice breathwork, I’ll get sometimes this really clear visual, and they’ll like float above my face while I’m breathing. And I’m like, “oh, this is a native American guide “or “oh, this is a nomadic witch from a past life, who’s my guide.” And it’s more of the knowing that they’re there and that feeling of somebody is with me and it varies.

My guides have changed over the years and over my commitment to my work and how things have gone. It’s changed where sometimes I feel a more angelic presence, which feels really soft and easy and very soft-spoken. I have one guide, she always speaks to me in this very like, direct way where she’s just kind of like, ‘get it together, girl, like, what are you doing?’ I can always tell when I’m veering off course, because of that. The guide will appear in my writing, if I’m journaling if I’m doing breathwork, if I’m an about to start a session with a client, a guide will appear to me in some way. Usually, I will hear them say like, ‘Hey, there’s going to be some messages in this session that are also for you because you haven’t been listening.’ Mine are pretty direct!

Johnny Burke: So, I’m going to reference something which happened in another episode where this woman was about to end her earthly existence. And as she walked into the kitchen to the drawer, she heard a voice saying,” sit down”. She looked around, obviously, there wasn’t anyone else in the room and she kept walking and in a very loud voice that voice said,” sit down.” I’m not going to go into the whole episode,but is that more of a clairaudient moment, or is that more of a claircognizant or is it a mixture of the two?

Viki Quirk: I think it can be a mix. I think it depends on how she experienced it. The way I always explain it to people is that I know I’m hearing something, but I don’t necessarily hear it. Like right now I can hear the heater in this room making noise. I don’t hear it that way. It’s more like, I know I’m hearing something, but some people do with clairaudience hear it, in the room, like outside of themselves.

For me, it’s more of a voice in my head that I know isn’t mine. It doesn’t sound like mine. It doesn’t feel like mine. It’s not my thoughts. Intonation can be different. Like there could be an accent. My guides come through pretty authentically in whatever their background is in that way. Clairaudience and clairvoyance were two skills I wanted to develop a bit more. And what I’ve worked on in my like 10 ish years of doing this. I’ve worked to develop some other skills because I do think there’s value in you honoring your primary skills and value and exploring other skills that you have as well too. So you can have a more rounded experience and get more out of your communication.

Sometimes you’re going to see something that’s a sign that’s maybe a plat passing, little light or a little blip or a little something. And it’s like, wait, what was that? So you want to have your eye and your third eye all attuned to seeing all the things you want to be able to hear what’s not being said in addition to what is being said. So it’s kind of more of a rounded experience of being gifted.

Johnny Burke: Can we assume that all of us have spirit guides? Because I’ve heard that quite a bit.

Viki Quirk: Yes. I believe we all do. I think what I find when I work with clients and we’re in a session, it depends on how receptive we are to the idea that there’s some things, some beings outside of ourselves that are there to help us that are there to guide us. I’ve had distinct situations in my life where I’ve shut that channel down. Do I still feel if I look back and reflect on those times, do I still feel like I’ve been pushed and kind of directed in a variety of ways and have gotten where I needed to be anyway, despite myself? Yes. And when I look at that, do I know that comes from like my spiritual team, which to me also includes loved ones who’ve passed away, past life versions of myself, myself in alternate dimensions. All of that is there for me.

I don’t believe guides ever give up on a person, but I do believe they try to find other ways if someone’s not receptive to it coming to them in a divine way, in an energetic way. I think they put people in their life to say”, Hey, here’s what you should be doing, or here’s where you should be going.” I think they find other ways.

Johnny Burke: I’ve heard this quite a few times that our spirit guides can be our family that has passed on, and I’ve also talked to a number of people who’ve said your spirit guides change throughout your life, depending on where you are and where you need to go and what you need to learn. That seems to be a common entry point for a lot of people to discover their intuitive gifts. Is it not?

Viki Quirk: Yeah, and I think-

Johnny Burke: it seems like it.

Viki Quirk: If we’re paying attention to major things in our lives and we’re spiritually tapped in at all, we might notice that we’ve had one guide consistently or a couple of guides consistently, or we’ll notice a change. When I think about it, I think I had a complete guide turnover, to new guides when I had my near-death experience, which was during the birth of my older son.

There was so much for me in that whole experience that I totally backed out of all the work I had been doing. I refused and my friend and colleague and my trusted spiritual partner in all things that we talk about today, Andrea Mitchell, she could tell you I was very resistant to the idea of tapping back into any energy. I was very angry that I went into my older son’s birth, not knowing that I was going to have a near-death experience, that I was going to almost die. That anger sat with me for so long, and it took me a long time and it came to a point where I finally said to her,” okay, you can do a reading for me.” My guides came through saying that they did not know that was going to happen.

Johnny Burke: They did not?

Viki Quirk: They did not. That also then set me on edge because I was like, wait a minute- you’re supposed to know All the things.

And they’re like, ‘we know a lot of things. We can know many things. We can know many versions of things, but humans also have free will. And there were choices that were made during your birthing process that led to this thing happening you didn’t have in your soul’s blueprint.’ And at that point, my soul that I was born with exited my body and I had a soul walk-in happen, which I didn’t know any of this at the time, this all became known to me in processes literally years after the fact. But that was a moment where I tried for almost a year to shut down any intuitive hits. I was getting any psychic information and I did a pretty good job of it, but not completely. My guides weren’t going to let me go that easy.

But when that soul walk-in happened, and I finally came to terms with my guides didn’t know, they couldn’t have warned me. That whole team of spiritual guides that I had I felt changed within the next couple of months after that. And I had a new set of guides appear that I think we’re more in alignment with the soul I have now, and also more in alignment with where I was and could be kind of a fresh set of spiritual eyes and ears and support for me that I wasn’t so angry at.

Johnny Burke: So that’s the first time I’ve heard the term “soul walk-in, but I also think it ties into something you mentioned earlier, which is, I think pre-birth planning, which means you have a blueprint. You are in that in-between space that Dr. Michael Newton obviously wrote about, and you pick your mom, you pick your dad, and the boyfriend that’s going to break your heart and all that good stuff. And then you come back down here, and you forget about it, but then you have a near-death experience, which apparently your guides did not know about, but it’s because basically you had one soul go away and a soul walk-in. It’s almost like a musician saying’ I don’t like that plugin so we’re going to use this one, that’s a better,’ whatever. Maybe that’s a crude analogy, but it sounds like it’s almost like a transplant.

Viki Quirk: Yes, and so when a soul walk-in happens, there’s some reason that the soul that the person was born with is going to leave. Or sometimes two souls will inhabit a body together. And this can happen for a variety of reasons. What I’ve learned in my studying of this over the last couple of years, and just my own experience of it is oftentimes a soul believes they have met their purpose or surpassed their purpose for their incarnation in that lifetime and they’re ready to move on. I believe in what I’ve gathered in my own diving into my own stuff around this is that my soul was like, I’m tired. This has been a really hard lifetime. There’s been a lot of traumas. There’s been a lot of stuff. I’ve done a lot of work. I’ve changed in a lot of ways. I’ve grown in a lot of ways, but I’m ready. I can’t be here, and this body is failing. So if this body wants to continue on, I’m willing to turn it over to another soul that’s willing to incarnate into an established body versus coming into a newborn.

Johnny Burke: The example I just gave you a few minutes ago about a woman planning her suicide was warned by spirit or guides or whoever that was. I don’t really know, but the spirit basically told her, ‘if you go through with this , we’re going to bring you right back to the same type of situation or another lifetime.’ Could that be she is that person, her soul is going to walk into someone else’s body in the same situation, does that make sense?

Viki Quirk: Yes, it does make sense. In that case, I could see it happening where her soul is like, okay, I’m out and returns to the spirit realm and maybe hangs out in the spirit realm for a while, or then incarnates into somebody else. But another soul could step in, and she survives that attempt of suicide. If she dies from that attempt of suicide, she might come back, her soul wouldn’t have necessarily walked out for another one to walk in. Her soul could return to the spirit realm and then get reincarnated into another person with all the same lessons and experiences are going to vary. They might be a different flavor of those things, but that can happen.

That’s part of when we look at what our repeated patterns are in a lifetime, the things we consistently do. I always look at it from two perspectives, like what was going on for you and your upbringing that may be developed as a coping skill? And what’s happened to you in past lives? What lessons were there for you in other lifetimes that maybe you didn’t fully learn, or you didn’t fully inhabit the teachings of. So now you’re here to give it another go, and you have different resources in each lifetime. Is this the lifetime where you have the resources that you need to learn these lessons so that these lessons no longer appear for you in future lifetimes?

Johnny Burke: The subject of past lives is almost inescapable; this comes up quite a bit. Can you tell us what you have learned from your past lives, and do you recognize anyone you know today from one of your past lives?

Viki Quirk: Yes. Past lives have been interesting. I didn’t know anything about past lives until I had started working with my teacher, Vanessa, on intuitive work. And then she was doing some hypnosis work with me privately, and we got to talking about past lives. That’s how I got introduced to the Akashic records through my own hypnosis sessions with her.

And so it was very interesting for me. I believe in therapy, it’s valuable. But I also believe in bringing in these spiritual components, because what would happen when I would explore my past lives, either in a full past life regression session of hypnosis or through an Akashic record reading, I was like,” wait a second. I’ve done all this before. This is a pattern for me, or some stuff was just this lifetime, but I have these other past lives that can feed me information about how to work with this.

One of the first past lives that ever came up was between me and my husband. We were sisters in Russia in a past life, and it was a terribly difficult past life. We had a lot of trials and tribulations. We had a lot of challenges. And then when I looked at our relationship at that point, we weren’t going through the same thing. We weren’t sisters again, but we were having a lot of trials and tribulations and we kept coming back to each other, which was the same thing that happened in that past life. I have past lives with my mom, with my sister. I’ll have clients who sometimes I have past lives with, which has always trippy.

Johnny Burke: So it’s easily recognizable for you. I’ve always asked just out of curiosity, how many of the people in my current life are most likely someone I knew in a past life, and the consensus is, almost everyone. Would you agree or not?

Viki Quirk: I think it depends on the degree to which they were significant in our past lives as to how they may show up in present life. So I think we can encounter a lot of people in our life. People randomly that we bump into at the grocery store kind of thing, who we’ve had lifetimes with before, but that doesn’t make them significant. I also find it interesting when I do readings for people in the same family, past lives will come up between certain family members that only come up in one person’s reading, not both people’s readings. Because that past life was only significant to that person. So I do think we’re encountering people all the time.

I figured this out when people used to say to me, ” you look so familiar I swear I know you from somewhere. And if I tap it in that moment, yeah, I have a past life with them, but it’s not significant in this lifetime. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter to me. It might be more significant to them.

Johnny Burke: One of the things I think we can take away from this because you’ve mentioned pretty much the gamut. Past lives, Akashic Records, pre-birth planning. Soul guides, spirit guides rather. Is it a no-brainer for you that basically our consciousness, our souls, we don’t die? Our physical bodies obviously expire, but we keep coming back. For the people that don’t believe and are very skeptical, what would you tell them about this when they ask” how do you know this person isn’t just making this up to get attention or to sell a book on Amazon?”

Viki Quirk: It’s hard because I think it’s different for each person. I’ve dived deep enough into all of this. And I’ve had too many things happen that makes sense to what I’ve been told when I read for myself or when someone else reads for me, there’s just too much in my body that says, “yes, this has happened.” There’s too much there. I can’t deny that. When I work with other people and I do get on the rare occasion, it’s usually a loved one or a friend has referred someone to me for reading and they are very skeptical. I’ll say to them, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to. Some of it can be fear of what they’re going to find out and what they’re going to feel compelled to or feel like they have to do with the information they receive. And so when I have those readings where someone’s like,” no, I’ll do it. I’ll do it. “But they’re resistant. I’ll usually ask their guides, to give me something that they can connect with safely that feels comfortable for them. That feels like they’ve already known this and I’m just confirming it for them. And guides will usually share something from a loved one who’s passed that there’s no way I could’ve known it because they didn’t tell me anything about it, except that I got it from their guides.

And then I can start to build that trust and that rapport. And then people start to make their own connections, which is the most beautiful thing in a session to see is to see the person say,” this is connected to this, and this is connected to that.” Then they start to open up to the idea of a past life. I find it easiest in that supportive and safe space to have that conversation.

When I’m out kind of about in the world, most people will ask what I do and I say I’m in an intuitive coach and they’re like, what does that mean? And I’ll get to tell you about it and then I see people glaze over. That’s okay. I don’t push it, but if people are curious and they ask about it, I’ll say, tell me some things that have happened in your life that feel like you’ve done them before, but you hadn’t really. And that’s when they can start to really connect to, they’re like, “yeah, I got drawn to playing the violin, but it makes no sense. No one in my family’s musical. No one I know even knew what a violin really was besides like some squeaky string instrument.” But if I asked them, “do you feel like you’ve done this before “they say “yes, I feel like I’ve done this a thousand times. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s because they did it in a past life and their soul is like” This is good for you. Do that again. Let me draw you into that. Let me get you to something that’s going to help you.”

Johnny Burke: Let’s talk about your practice. So with the Akashic Records and past lives and maybe even the in-between space where we make our blueprint; how do these things manifest in your work with your clients?

Viki Quirk: My work has evolved quite a bit. When I first started out, I was kind of just doing straight Akashic Record reading. Like a whole protocol I went through, and I was just looking at that. But what I started to realize, as I worked with a variety of people and dive deeper into the work myself was to me, the Akashic Records are the library of everything that’s ever happened in the universe. Everything that’s happened in multiple dimensions and anything that can happen in the future. Each one of us has our own reference book that we can pull out that’s going to have that information. And the librarians are the Akashic record keepers. They’re the ones who hold our information. If we can use that, we should call in all the other things that we can use too because they’re already in the Akashic records, we should call on loved ones who’ve passed away.

So I will call on loved ones who’ve passed away and ask them to be part of a session if they want to be. If they have something to share. I asked for guides who were in animal form guides, who are of a divine nature, but not necessarily one that we have a name for. Angels. I call everybody to the party. That’s what I tell clients. I want everyone to come to the party and we’ll see what everyone has to share. So when I go into a session with someone, yes, I’m opening their Akashic record with their permission because that is sacred information. And then I’m calling in all these other components as well.

I do energy work within them. We can release energetic blocks, which will then release over time and space. So that’s what’s cool. If you’re in your Akashic record, you’re healing something present day, you’re healing it in your record, which means you’re also healing it in past lives that are available to that. And you’re healing it seven generations from in present life backward and seven generations forwards. So you can do a lot of things in there that have this reverberating effect, where it stretches outward beyond anything we can imagine.

Johnny Burke: How were you drawn to pursue understanding the Akashic Records? And also you mentioned something about healing something in the past, has that changed the past life data point? Or does that reverberate forward and have an effect on the present and the future.

Viki Quirk: So my draw to it came from my teacher, Vanessa. When I worked with her, it just made so much sense to me. And it started to fill in gaps in blanks that I couldn’t fill in with therapy. So it was like the work that I was doing on myself. I would kind of stall out on some things, but as I started to explore my own past lives, I was like, “wait, I didn’t resolve this in that past life.” So that energy, there’s like this cord or a tube where, I kind of think of it like a little hamster’s house with all those little tubes that run around. So we’re like in the base, in our present life of that tube, and we can have energy running back and forth between past lives.

So I’m like, “oh, I didn’t resolve this back then.” So if I energetically work on it, what was the story of that past life? What was happening then? What does that past life version of me need to hear or have happened in order for him or her to feel complete so I can stop having that flow of energy back and forth?

So if I work on it that way, this is amazing. Then my present life also changes so we can get all that information about the past life. We can always access that story. We can always access the lessons in the wounding and all of that, of that time, but we don’t need it affecting us in the present. So we can heal it to the best that we can now. Past lives, sometimes those versions of ourselves do not want to have something healed. They are stuck in that. If that’s the case that comes up for me or somebody else, we work to then seal off that connection to the past life that’s bringing energy into the present that’s affecting the present. And we can still access all that information, but we don’t have that feeding of energy coming through. We can leave that past life where it is, but we are also then able to heal and change what comes going forward.

People always get caught up in the idea that if you’ve healed something that means you’re done. You never see it again. That’s not my belief. My belief is if you’re healing something, it’s pretty much always active. It’s how you respond to it each time it appears, or there can be some things that you heal that you don’t see again, that you’re just complete with because you’ve had lifetimes of it, or you did it really big in this lifetime. So for me, it can work to go backward and forwards from what’s presently presenting. So that was the draw for me in the Akashic records is I can use this to help my present, and then in turn heal past, and then in turn, lay the foundation for something different to happen in the future.

Johnny Burke: From a practitioner’s standpoint, how would the path to becoming a past life regression therapist or an Akashic records reader be different? Why would they take one path versus another?

Viki Quirk: that’s an excellent question. And that’s one that I get asked more than I ever thought I would. The Akashic Records is not a past life regression. So if you’re doing a pathway for aggression, you’re actually in hypnosis, typically going back into that past life and you’re experiencing that past life as it’s happening, Whatever past life you get drawn into, you’re experiencing that. When you have an Akashic record reading, someone’s telling you, and you may have recollections while you’re in a session, but someone’s telling you what’s happening in that past life or the key points of it. So there’s a difference between experiencing it or being told about it. I’ve had both, I prefer to be told about it. Because when I experience it, I get kind of stuck in, ‘oh, I should’ve done this, or I should’ve done that. And what if I tried it this way?’, but that’s not really what the regression is for. It’s not to go back and try to redo it. It’s to go back and see what was there to heal it. It gives me to know the story versus relive the story.

I think practitioners will choose what fits them best or what they feel is most effective. I’ve found both to be effective for me, but I don’t feel drawn to help people go back into those past lives. I think there can be traumatic events there that sometimes we’re not prepared for, and we can feel re-traumatized by that regression. Now, if you have a good therapist, who’s done all the things they need to do. They will process that with you and get you through that. I have a degree in social work, so this is also a more appropriate avenue for me to work with the Akashic records this way. I am trauma-informed and have trauma training, but I also know where my limit is and will properly refer someone out. If there’s trauma that’s coming up, that needs to be processed,

Johnny Burke: okay, they’re both realistic methods or modalities for learning about our past and possibly healing them. It’s just a matter of preference. They’re both valid.

Viki Quirk: Yeah. And I’ve had clients who’ve done both. and like me have found benefits in both modalities. I think you can use both. I know a couple of really great past life regression therapists, that’s all they do and it’s awesome they see me for Akashic record reading. And I see them for a past life regression. So I think you can do both. There’s no hindrance there at all. It’s totally available. And what you feel best with.

Johnny Burke: That’s a good thing to remember because I think some people might think ‘should I do one and not the other, might there be a conflict?’ So what are the biggest takeaways you feel that listeners need to know about your work, and also how this has changed some of your views, your experience?

Viki Quirk: Wow. So that’s a big question. My focus is always on my work on meeting the person where they are and their life right now and helping them to unravel what’s already happened so that they can comfortably stand in their power to move forward. It’s important that I build the trust and rapport with the person I’m working with, but also that I teach them some skills so that they can tap into whatever they define for themselves as their spiritual team. The Universe, God, whatever it is for them, I can help to teach them some skills to do that so that they can build the trust in themselves, in their intuition, and in their relationship to source, spirit, God, their guides. So that to me is the most important part. And I think that’s been my process, which is why I work so hard on helping other people with it. My process has been learning to trust myself, learning to trust that what I see and hear and know is true, even if other people don’t see it that way.

I think that’s true if we’re talking about something spiritual or just something we’ve experienced in our life. This work has allowed me to grow beyond the human experience, to see where I am a soul, having a human experience, which is kind of cliche to say- I feel like everybody says that these days, but for me, it’s also been that evolution of, I’m choosing to be here right now in this body. I should make the most of this human experience and I can access this other information that helps me to be in this human experience. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. We don’t have to be fixated on where’s my soul going next. We got to be where we are and work on these things because otherwise, our soul’s just going to do it again. So why not work on it and have a different experience next time around?

Johnny Burke: Very good point, Vicky. Thanks so much for joining us today. Excellent, excellent information. How could our listeners learn more about you online?

Viki Quirk: my website,is www.Vickiquirk.com. And I’m on Instagram. That is @Vicki_ quirk.

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