Episode Summary: Communicating with the Dead — Symbols, Smoke, and Psychic Language

Originally recorded in 2022 and reposted for the public pod, this Mystic Theory episode explores the wild and wonderful question: how do the dead speak to us—and how do we learn to speak back?

Inside this chatty and thought-provoking episode:
→ Language of the unconscious: why the dead (and your intuition) speak in symbols, not English
→ A story of incense smoke spelling hello (yes, really)
→ Mediumship mechanics: how psychics develop a symbolic “vocabulary” with spirit
→ Reflections on Day of the Dead altars, ancestral lineage, and what we might be carrying in our cells
→ Thoughts on Rebecca Rosen’s book Spirited and the messy overlap of imagination and intuition

Plus:
→ Do the dead always know what’s going to happen?
→ Are mediums reading the spirits… or reading us?

This episode is one big beautiful spiral of curiosity—with no answers, just expansive questions.
If you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like if your grandma called you from the afterlife on a psychic landline… you’re in the right place.

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Sources & Things Mentioned:

Spirited - book by Rebecca Rosen

Podcast with Jameela Jamil and Tyler Henry

Life After Death show with Tyler Henry