Fireside conversations for souls who gather around deep things… for those who know that the most nourishing conversations happen slowly, with room for breath and silence, with time to feel into the questions beneath the questions.

Not interviews. Not content. Conversations.

Today, I’m sharing with you the conversation I recently had with Mark Jacobs, a channeler, mentor, and author who works with the Collective… an ancient soul group of wise, loving guides devoted to humanity’s awakening.

Mark moves through the world with the consciousness of someone who listens deeply to what wants to come through, sits with his own creative overflow without scrambling to manifest everything at once, and has learned (as we all must) the difference between an idea that’s passing through and one that’s meant to take root.

We began this conversation talking about discernment… how to sort through the flood of inspiration when you’re wired to receive, to create, to answer the call. But what unfolded between us was something quieter and more essential: a remembering.

That the blueprint you’re trying to figure out? You already wrote it. Before you arrived.

And the real work isn’t discovering it… it’s learning to remember it. To stay conscious enough to say yes to what your higher self already knows.

This is a longer episode than future Ember Table conversations will be… To be honest, we could have talked longer, and this recording is about an hour long. I’m sharing it fully, though, because some conversations need that kind of time to settle into their depth. Some moments need room to breathe.

So pour yourself something warm. Settle in. And listen for what wants to remind you of what you already know.

When Mike Pauletich was 42, he was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease. Seven years later, after experimental brain surgery, he was heli-skiing, running marathons, and climbing Half Dome in Yosemite.

Then his doctor discovered he had received the sham surgery... the placebo. No treatment had ever been delivered.

He climbed Half Dome on the strength of what his mind believed to be true.

In this week's Midweek Return, we sit with the astonishing implications of Mike's miracle, and what it reveals about the world we've each been living in. Because A Course in Miracles teaches that whatever we see reflects our thoughts. That the suffering, the limitation, the closed doors... these are not fixed realities. They are images we have made.

Which means they can be unmade.

This transmission is for the sensitive soul who is carrying something heavy right now. Who has been looking at their life and believing, the way Mike believed in his treatment, that this is simply how things are.

It isn't fixed. It is projected.

And you are invited... gently, without pressure... to begin wondering what images you've been calling reality.

Wonder. Hope. And one quiet, life-changing question.

What might you climb, if you let your mind hold a different picture?

What if heaven and hell aren't places you earn or avoid, but states you generate, moment by moment, through the thoughts you tend?

This week's transmission opens with a Zen story about a samurai, a master, and the space between a sword raised and a sword lowered. In that single breath, everything shifted. Not because anything outside changed but because something within was finally seen.

We explore what Joe Dispenza teaches about the body as the keeper of our inner states, the gentle art of redirecting the mind (think: house-training a puppy, not shaming one), and what it means to stand guard at the gates of our own consciousness.

And we return, again, to this truth from A Course in Miracles:

"Why wait for heaven? It is here today."

Not someday. Today.

In this episode:

The samurai and the Zen master... a story about hell, heaven, and the pause between them

How our thoughts and emotions create biochemical states in the body

The practice of patient, persistent redirection... without shame

A reflection invitation to notice where you might be lifting the sword in your own everyday life

Set against soft music... as always created for your nervous system as much as your soul.

Press play when you have a quiet moment. ❤️‍🔥

This week's Midweek Return began with a quiet grief I didn't quite know how to name... the ache of watching even the most spiritually awake souls slip into "us and them." Into division dressed in sacred language. Into separation that feels justified because it's wearing the right spiritual clothes.

The ego is creative that way.

In this transmission, we sit with one of Alan Cohen's most quietly radical teachings... that only love is real, and everything else is just a weird dream from which love helps us awaken.

Set against soft music... as always created for your nervous system as much as your soul.

Press play when you have a quiet moment. ❤️‍🔥

In this week's transmission, we explore what it might look like to stop fighting ourselves and start getting curious instead. To meet the loud, exhausting parts of our inner world not as enemies to be defeated but as frightened friends who have been working very hard to keep us safe.

Because you don't conquer a scared friend.

You sit with them. You listen, and you let them know they can rest now.

If you were unable to join us but would like to watch the replay, you can find that here.

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"In the quiet of darkness, your true light is revealed."

Light the Way Home is a 15-minute spoken ritual and soul transmission from Dawna Kreis... Emberkeeper and Soul Guide... shared as part of the 2025 Night of Light Solstice Gathering.

It is a pause.A return.

Through sacred storytelling, guided breath, and a deep honoring of the Descent, you are invited to reconnect with the Ember that still glows within you... steady, sacred, and true.

This is for you if you’ve felt:

– Like you’re unraveling or shedding more than you understand– Tender, tired, or in-between– Called to slow down, but unsure how– Ready to remember your rhythm

You are not separate from nature.You are not behind.You are in a becoming.

Let this be your remembering. Let this be your return.

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Enjoy! 💖