In this episode of Let’s Get Metaphysical, I sit down with Neil "Logik" Donaldson from Stolen From Africa to explore how colonial education warps our perceptions of humanity, Blackness, history, and identity. We discuss the incredible energy Neil devotes to decolonizing education, healing ancestral trauma, and reimagining history through empathy, curiosity, and cultural storytelling.We talk about:
How Neil disrupts rigid colonial narratives with curiosity and critical thinking (5:00)
Look for the Helpers: Neil shares the influences of Mr. Rogers and Marshall Rosenberg, and how they shape his approach to conflict, resistance, and compassion (12:00)
Why “I don’t see colour” often means “I don’t recognize my privilege” (12:50)
How Western education distorts perceptions of Africa—shrinking it on maps and using media propaganda to erase culture and history (16:00)
The Western separation from Earth and natural time, and what it costs us (23:00)
Discovering Black Canadian history through Africville, Nova Scotia (27:00)
The synchronicity and leap of faith that transformed Neil’s path (32:00)
How personal healing connects to collective work and ancestral trauma repair (41:00)
Neil’s perspective on teachers—their challenges, and building empathy in the classroom (54:00)
A vision for reimagining education, history, and community healing for future generations (closing)
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***THE LION'S GATE PORTAL IS NOW OPEN.***
Find out how to work with the most potent energy of the year. In this episode, we're connecting ancient Egyptian star wisdom with modern soul alignment. You'll find out how to work with this annual influx of energy to super-charge your manifestation power.
In this episode, I break down:
What exactly the Lion’s Gate Portal is — an alignment of Sirius, the Sun in Leo, Orion, and Earth.
Its roots in Ancient Egypt, where Sirius’s rising signaled the Nile flood, fertility, rebirth, and the New Year under goddess Sopdet / Isis.
The numerology of 8/8: infinite potential, cosmic balance, and alignment of material and spiritual realities.
The modern astrological significance: Leo energy (courage, creation, self-expression) amplified through Sirius, aligning with themes of manifestation and expanded consciousness .
How the ancient Egyptians aligned the pyramids and Sphinx with Orion, acting as energetic stargates or conduits for higher frequency energy.
Practical rituals: how to harness this energy via meditation, intention setting, shadow integration, and heart-centered practices.
Why this portal is about both personal transformation and collective shift, encouraging alignment, courage, and creative expression.
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What if mental health isn’t something to fix, but something to practice?
In this episode, I talk about how burnout, breakdowns, and labels often just symptoms of energetic misalignment. I share personal stories from my corporate past, what ADHD coaching taught me about perspective, how I reconnected with my inner artist, and the moment a Moonlight Scorpio song (“Mental Health”) helped rewire my beliefs during a psychedelic trip.
I unpack why most of us are primed for mental health struggles from childhood—because we’re taught to chase roles, not listen to our souls. I share how practicing daily rituals like breathwork, movement, and creative expression helped me shift from burnout to spiritual alignment, and why consistency is key, even when life feels “good.”
I also talk about:
This episode is full of gold if you’ve ever wondered whether there’s more to mental health than the frameworks we’ve been given.
✨ For meditations I’ve recorded, search Sam Cross on Insight Timer. You deserve time with your own energy.
In this episode, I talk with mystic and channel Mars, exploring:
The rise of the Divine Feminine and collective consciousness
Why many women unconsciously embody “little girl” energy for safety
Feminine frequency as the rhythm of life—creative, intuitive, and powerful
Sacred rage, grief, and the dark feminine as catalysts for spiritual awakening
The witch wound, inner child healing, and the return to self-sovereignty
Astrology as a mirror for energetic lineage and soul purpose
Misunderstandings around the mother archetype—becoming Mother vs. seeking Mother
How poetic truth holds a deeper frequency than literal explanation
The role of storytelling, laughter, and sensitivity in spiritual expression
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Dear Straight People: it's Pride month. Most people who live under the ever-expanding LGBTQ umbrella know what that means to them.
But what does it mean to you? What if Pride is an invitation to a deeper level of humanity? What if it means something to all of us?
This is an invitation to listen to stories this Pride month, and to tell your story, too. Every single human has been "othered" in some way. Our portal to compassion (for ourselves, and for each other) is through the medium of storytelling, and COMEDY.
In this epsiode, I talk about:
My own story: coming out as a lesbian in the flaming cultural dumpster of the early 2000s
How representation shapes our sense of possibility, and why that's life-changing
The heteronormative pressure on women to be mothers as the path to "love," observing and navigating that as a childfree-by-choice lesbian
The quiet ways patriarchy conditions all of us to feel othered, including men (but we're not supposed to notice)
Why storytelling is the key to both personal and collective healing, ESPECIALLY COMEDY!!!
Check out these BRILLIANT comedians:
Jerrod Carmichael ("Don't Be Gay")
Fortune Feimster ("Crushing It")
Hannah Gadsby ("Nanette")
Sam Jay, Sabrina Jalees
Mike Birbiglia, Will Ferrell ("Will & Harper")
HAVE A WONDERFUL, COLOURFUL, VERY GAY MONTH! 🏳🌈
This is a deep episode about reparenting: Quantum Healing is about addressing all that's hurt us, at every point in time. The energetic ripple effect is complete, and affects *all versions of ourselves at every point in time* both forwards and backwards.Quantum Healing is an advanced psychospiritual approach to healing, led by the inner child. It's a powerful technique for ONE-TIME healing of what Tim calls "formative events."
On this episode, we discuss:
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CONTINUED from Ep. 34! Tim + I continue to deep-dive on the ROOT CAUSE of what we commonly refer to as "mental health" issues. (Tim is on TikTok: @mystic_timothy).
We discuss:
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
In society, we commonly (mis)understand "mental health" issues physically. We consider symptoms to come from disorders - for example, we think anxiety is generated by a disorder labeled "anxiety," and depression is generated by "depression."
In truth, these are symptoms of a disturbance in the metaphysical. Soul disconnect causes anxiety and depression. "Mental health" issues are a manifestation of metaphysical disconnect in the soul or emotional / energetic body.
Tim and I discuss this common misunderstanding, and:
Let's Get Metaphysical episodes will now come out biweekly! Part 2 of this conversation with Tim will air on May 16, 2025.
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
Life will treat you as you treat yourself.
The fabric of reality literally shifts in response to your relationship with yourself (and your energy). "Lucky" people aren't random: they share a core of self-respect.
When you know that we incarnate in the middle of patterns, you can choose to heal those patterns. Then, you escape the Karmic Circus (or "default life") and join the Cosmic Playground (of conscious, intentional living). The choice is always yours.
In this episode, we'll talk about all of this, and more.
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the karmic circus of society.
I've written the story I was meant to write.
I can't wait to share her with you. 🌟
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This episode is an intro to channeling, and then a channeled message on the Energetic Evolution of humanity.
In this episode:
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
Humans are "the thinking species," which is why we're in such bad shape.
For centuries, we've been trained to THINK and DO, when we were designed to BE, like any other species. (Bears don't have an ego about "being a bear" - they're just bears. We're learning this, slowly.)
The "healing journey" is one of self-compassion, where you balance out your "thinking" with "being." It's a journey we're all making, both individually, and as a collective. This is a great thing: we're just still catching up.
In this episode, we'll discuss:
- The gongshow of human history (and how recent this "history" is)
- The OG historical event that separated us from ourselves (and each other) 5000 years ago
- How blaming your parents is the same thing as being obsessed with world disasters / tragedies
- HOW TO BE HUMAN: 3 things you can do RIGHT NOW to ease your mind and embrace your being.
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of "modern" society.
Mathew Vetten is the hilarious, innovative, energetic visionary force behind Mad House, a BC-based non-profit community that does a little bit of everything.
Branches of the Mad House tree include Mad House Builders (a home-building and renovation service), Mad House Gut Hut (meal delivery), and Mad House Events.
Every Mad House initiative feeds its central cause: supporting artists-in-residence to realize their creative visions, giving creators the time and space to pursue their life's work.
I sat down with Mathew to discuss:
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society by helping people awaken to their inner light.
March 20 marks the beginning of the astrological new year, which means this is the PERFECT TIME to get into (higher) alignment! ✨
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The big myth that men "aren't intuitive" comes from the fact that most people don't know how intuition actually works.
Neil is one of the most intuitive men I know. On this episode, he explains that intuition is like "broadband." The stronger your connection, the better you can receive information (the answers to all of your questions, big and small) that can ONLY be delivered through your intuition.
The thing is: "receiving" is a FEMININE frequency. So, to use intuition (as Neil does), you'll need to learn a few things.
We talk about:
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
Once you can identify your ego (Level 1, personal healing) and society's ego (Level 2, collective healing) you can now become aware of the collective / Cosmic consciousness.
This is Level 3, which is awareness that we're all connected at the Cosmic level, and humanity as a species is experiencing a re-integration.
What?! Let me explain. There are 3 elements to this:
1. We're all connected. I'm talking the Circle of Life. We've been trained to think we're born, and then we die, but that's not true: we are energy that cycles in and out, over and over. Every time we cycle, we rise in consciousness.
2. We are one consciousness. Think of humanity like one giant brain. Some people represent the Ego; others represent the Higher Self. As we cycle through time, our collective consciousness increases. We evolve, and we're now experiencing a period of RAPID conscious expansion. (What looks like physical chaos is metaphysical progress.)
3. We are connected to the Cosmos. Observing the movement of planets wasn't just for "the Ancients": they knew something profound that we've been disconnected from. When you synchronize your life to the movement of the planets (Astrology), you experience an upleveling like no other. This is how we're designed to work -- in connection with the stars.
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"The culture is the family's family," says Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and that 'culture' is a toxic one. Welcome to the Wounds of the West support group!
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
2023 was the year of my rebirth. I felt like a Rubik's cube, being rearranged and reshuffled BY the Universe... while learning what the Universe WAS.
My main spiritual teacher at the time (Master Sri Akarshana) kept repeating: "everything that shows up for you, is FOR YOU." Because so much showed up all at once... I started to believe it.
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
This week, my ego had a fun little freakout (/sarcasm), which ended up being worth it, because it lead to the birth of myfavourite analogy for the sometimes-struggle between theEgo vs. the Higher Self!
The thing is, they exist in different places: the Ego lives a stressful life in the 3D, while your Higher Self is chilling in the 5D. Youknow which one to listen to, but it's not always easy.
...until you have THIS IMAGE to relate it to. Enjoy!
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
In our first meeting, Rich said something that blew my mind: "if we don't know where we come from, we don't know where we return."
Call it the Quantum, call it the Unmanifested, the Unseen Realm, Source, Creator -- call it whatever you want, but the truth remains: from whence we're created, we return.
We discuss the eternal nature of the soul:
Rich is a metaphysical counselor and spiritual badass. Find him at www.aboveitall360.com. His book, "When It's Time," is available for purchase, along with "Achievements" -- his at-home spiritual counselling resources.
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Sam Cross is a spiritual guide and creative. Her mission is to restore the cosmic connection we’ve lost in the backward circus of Western society.
