The 5 C's:

https://instituteofspiritualhealing.com/5c/

Sufism Foundations Course:

https://instituteofspiritualhealing.com/foundations-sh/

Salima Adelstein is a Sufi spiritual guide and emotional healer with 35 years of experience accessing the deeper layers of the heart. After 25 years on a different spiritual path that included meditation and time in India, an unexpected encounter with a Sufi master in New Mexico shifted everything for her. In this conversation she walks us through the core of Sufism: the heart-mind connection, the three inner voices (the ego/nafs, the negative outside voice, and the voice of the divine), the practice of remembrance (dhikr), forgiveness and mercy, ego annihilation, and surrender. We talk about how Sufism strips away the hidden "pictures in the heart" we carry from childhood and ancestry, why peace has to start in your own heart before it can radiate outward, and what a daily practice actually looks like. A grounded conversation for anyone curious about how a heart-centered tradition meets ordinary life.

0:00 Intro

0:41 Introduction to Sufism and Salima's Journey

8:12 The Heart-Mind Connection in Sufism

13:43 Navigating Inner Voices and Discernment

18:55 The Role of Forgiveness and Mercy

26:24 Annihilation of the Ego and Surrender

34:22 Living from an Open Heart

37:29 Practical Steps in Sufism

What if your biggest struggles weren’t random—but rooted deep in your subconscious… or even beyond this lifetime?

In this episode, we sit down with hypnotherapist Peter McLaughlin, who shares his powerful journey from firefighter and EMT to helping people resolve anxiety, emotional blocks, and deeply ingrained patterns through hypnosis.

We explore what hypnosis really is (hint: you already experience it daily), how trauma gets stored in the subconscious, and how accessing these states can lead to rapid transformation—sometimes in just minutes. Peter explains how emotional patterns, beliefs, and even guilt or shame can shape our lives without us realizing it—and how they can be rewritten.

We also dive into more unconventional territory, including past life regression, spiritual perspectives on healing, and why confronting inner pain (rather than avoiding it) can be the key to lasting change.

This episode is a deep and thought-provoking exploration of the mind, healing, and what it really means to transform from the inside out.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction & Peter’s background

01:10 From firefighter to life-threatening diagnosis

02:26 Discovering hypnosis & subconscious healing

04:58 What is hypnosis really?

08:56 How hypnotherapy rewires patterns

09:49 How to enter a hypnotic state

14:44 Processing trauma in hypnosis

15:19 Creating safety in therapy

18:35 Confronting pain vs avoiding it

19:14 Making the unconscious conscious

23:05 Past life vs current life trauma

28:22 Why guilt & shame are so powerful

31:46 Why we carry trauma across lifetimes

36:18 How long does transformation take?

37:55 Are we ever “done” with the work?

41:55 Skepticism: is it just imagination?

45:44 Spiritual implications of healing

50:11 Do clients know what they’re getting into?

53:44 Who is drawn to this work?

54:24 Stanislav Grof

55:44 Birth trauma vs past life regression

58:01 Psyched**ics vs hypnosis

01:00:43 Spiritual attachments explained

01:02:51 How entity attachment healing works

In this episode, we talk with evidential medium Barbara Banner, who shares her personal journey into mediumship and how she began delivering detailed, verifiable messages from people in spirit.

We explore what mediumship actually feels like from the inside, how messages come through, and whether this ability is something only a few people have — or something anyone can learn to access. Barbara explains how grief affects the connection to the other side, why signs from loved ones often appear in everyday life, and what spirits supposedly experience after death.

The conversation also dives into deeper questions about reincarnation, life reviews, spirit guides, and whether those on the other side can influence what happens here on Earth. Toward the end, Barbara even attempts a live reading during the podcast, showing how unexpected and symbolic these messages can be.

Topics include:

• How Barbara discovered her abilities

• What happens during a medium reading

• Signs from loved ones after death

• Life after death & reincarnation

• Spirit guides and intuition

• Can anyone learn mediumship?

• A live reading during the episode

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:22 Barbara’s story – how mediumship started

2:46 Crisis work, grief support, and early experiences

5:02 Paranormal events that changed everything

6:41 First readings and learning mediumship

8:35 Mediumship and grief – why timing matters

11:08 What messages from spirits are usually about

14:02 Validations, signs, and surprising details

18:33 How spirits communicate with a medium

20:52 Can anyone learn intuition and connection?

24:30 Teaching clients to connect themselves

26:35 When messages don’t make sense at first

27:59 Who shows up in a reading?

30:52 Burnout and self-care as a medium

32:44 Negative spirits, protection, and safety

35:00 Life after death and the life review

38:57 Reincarnation and why souls come back

42:06 Can spirits influence life on Earth?

45:06 Live reading during the podcast

52:55 When messages make sense later

54:46 Where to find Barbara Banner online

55:38 Outro