The Spiritual Forum
Welcome to The Spiritual Forum, a space curated by Rev Carol Saunders for extraordinary conversations that explore the realms of spiritual living. Join us weekly for heart-to-heart dialogues with captivating individuals, delving into themes like love, faith, awakening, forgiveness, healing, spiritual practices, and divine encounters. These transformative narratives aim to inspire, fostering a deep connection to the profound experiences that shape our lives. Rev Carol’s guests include authors, filmmakers, experts, and everyday individuals who authentically share their journeys toward wholeness. These discussions transcend the ordinary, offering insights into navigating the complexities of our current world with authenticity and grace.
Welcome to The Spiritual Forum, a space curated by Rev Carol Saunders for extraordinary conversations that explore the realms of spiritual living. Join us weekly for heart-to-heart dialogues with captivating individuals, delving into themes like love, faith, awakening, forgiveness, healing, spiritual practices, and divine encounters. These transformative narratives aim to inspire, fostering a deep connection to the profound experiences that shape our lives. Rev Carol’s guests include authors, filmmakers, experts, and everyday individuals who authentically share their journeys toward wholeness. These discussions transcend the ordinary, offering insights into navigating the complexities of our current world with authenticity and grace.
Episodes

8 hours ago
The New Human with Adrian Emery - EP 385
8 hours ago
8 hours ago
1 hr 21 min
Adrian Emery returns to the Spiritual Forum to discuss what to do after recognizing the seven erroneous beliefs that he presented in Part 1. These beliefs underlie our current world and create disconnection, disempowerment, loneliness, and social dysfunction. Adrian argues real change requires a “software rewrite” of identity through spiritual transformation, not intellectual belief-swapping. You will learn seven behavioral antidotes to each of the seven erroneous beliefs and what the New Human beyond homo sapien looks like. The good news is, we are in evolutionary transition toward a more noble, connected “new human,” guided by responsibility and natural law.
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Bio-Adrian Emery is a philosopher, author and mentor from the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the founder of the LifeWorks philosophy. He has spent his life on a single question — what actually makes a human life work — and is known for naming the seven inherited beliefs (scarcity, not-good-enough, original sin, and the rest) that quietly run a person’s fear and striving, creating dysfunction in life and disturbing inner peace and happiness.
@AdrianEmery
#GardenOfEden #AdamAndEve #SpiritualAwakening #PersonalResponsibility #FreeWill #Consciousness #HumanEmpowerment #SelfAwareness #DivineConsciousness #OriginalSin #AncientWisdom #Spirituality #RewritingHistory #MindsetShift #PersonalGrowth #HumanPotential #TakeResponsibility #QuestionEverything #InnerFreedom #TruthSeekers #SpiritualPodcast #ConsciousLiving #ParadigmShift #Awakening #AdrianEmery
8 hours ago
1 hr 21 min

Oct 29, 2026
Oct 29, 2026
59 min
Philosopher and author Adrian Emery discusses his lifelong inquiry into what makes human life work. He outlines seven inherited “erroneous beliefs” which shape the Western paradigm, independent of one's religious belief. Emery argues these beliefs function as the bars of a psychological prison that keep us disempowered and compliant. How do we find our way back to Divine Source? Our next evolutionary step is exciting, but requires us to first see the structures we are to overcome. In Part 2 we will cover, “What next?”
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Bio-Adrian Emery is a philosopher, author and mentor from the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the founder of the LifeWorks philosophy. He has spent his life on a single question — what actually makes a human life work — and is known for naming the seven inherited beliefs (scarcity, not-good-enough, original sin, and the rest) that quietly run a person’s fear and striving, creating dysfunction in life and disturbing inner peace and happiness.
#PersonalGrowth #SpiritualAwakening #MindsetShift #LimitingBeliefs #SelfAwareness #Consciousness #HumanBehavior #InnerPeace #PersonalTransformation #SpiritualWisdom #SocietyAndCulture #LifePhilosophy #ReverenceForLife #MentalFreedom #questioneverything #culturaldysfunction #culturalchange #oneness #changeyourlife #originalsin #bepresent #psychologicalprison
Oct 29, 2026
59 min

Oct 23, 2026
Oct 23, 2026
1 hr 40 sec
Glaydon de Freitas, CEO of Love146, lives as Love in Action. His commitment to human rights and community restoration grew out of his unique upbringing in Brazil’s Amazon region, where he was immersed in indigenous culture and exposed to cooperative community as well as poverty and exploitation. He shares his adopted philosophy of “you are my other me” and how God expresses God’s self through the other. This is at the root of his tireless commitment to stop child trafficking and restore dignity to everyone. He discusses what child trafficking really is, the origin story of Love 146, and finally how we can all work together to free the children.
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Bio-Born in São Paulo and raised in Tocantins, within Brazil’s Amazon region, Glaydon Jose de Freitas Filho’s upbringing in close-knit communities instilled in him a profound sense of cooperation and resilience. Inspired by his father’s work as a criminal prosecutor and his grandmother’s dedication to community advocacy, Glaydon developed a lifelong commitment to strengthening communities and expanding opportunities for those facing hardship.
As a lawyer in Brazil and also holding an LL.M. in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Houston, Glaydon has dedicated his career to advancing human rights and fostering community resilience. With over a decade of executive leadership in nonprofit and legal sectors, Glaydon has led programs that provide critical support to children and families facing crisis. His experience includes directing large-scale service initiatives, implementing trauma-informed care models, and overseeing high-impact partnerships. He has worked extensively on child protection, family stability, and crisis response, developing strategies that ensure practical and lasting solutions. Throughout his career, Glaydon has prioritized ensuring that solutions reflect the needs of those most affected, promoting meaningful and sustainable change.
Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, Glaydon brings a perspective of shared humanity and a steadfast dedication to ensuring dignity and safety for children and families confronting exploitation.
@love146US
#ChildTrafficking #HumanTraffickingAwareness #ChildProtection #LoveInAction #Love146 #HumanRights #SaveTheChildren #ChildSafety #StopChildTrafficking #EndHumanTrafficking #Spirituality #SpreadLove #SocialImpact #Awareness #inspiringstories #jesusloveschildren #dignity
Oct 23, 2026
1 hr 40 sec

Oct 16, 2026
Oct 16, 2026
49 min
Linda “Moonrabbit” Zlotnik joins the Spiritual Forum to discuss how astrology can help people navigate grief and find perspective after loss. As a veteran astrologist, her exploration of death charts began after the death of her twin. Moonrabbit defines a death chart as the date, place, and time of death mapped astrologically and related to the bereaved person’s birth chart. She has refined her death chart consultation through nearly two hundred sessions with grieving clients, helping them to release guilt, clarify questions, and mitigate grief associated with sudden loss. In this episode, she shares some of her client stories, and she and Rev. Carol also discuss what astrology is spiritually and why it doesn’t go against God, as some believe.
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Bio - Linda “Moonrabbit” Zlotnick has practiced astrology professionally since 1978 and serves as Director of Certification for the Organization for Professional Astrology (OPA). She is the author of Star Sisters: An Astrologer’s Memoir of Twin Loss and teaches the Master Class in Death Charts at Kepler College. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
#Astrology #GriefHealing #DeathAndAfterlife #SpiritualAwakening #LifeAfterDeath #DeathCharts #HealingAfterLoss #Spirituality #NearDeathExperience #SoulJourney #AstrologyReading #DealingWithGrief #Afterlife #SpiritualForum #LindaMoonrabbitZlatnik
Oct 16, 2026
49 min

Oct 10, 2026
Oct 10, 2026
1 hr 9 min
Richard Harwood joins the Spiritual Forum to share how to ignite hope and inspire action in communities that feel powerless and divided (like Flint, MI, Sandy Hook in NJ, and Reading, PA). His story begins as a child with cystic fibrosis who ultimately followed a calling to make the world better by repairing societal breaches. Richard shares a refreshing new paradigm that reframes community issues from problems and blame to what actually matters to people, bringing them together to create solutions that work. Underlying Richard’s extraordinary life's work is a deep faith that calls him to action-an inspiration for all of us.
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Bio -Richard C. Harwood, President and Founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, is an innovator, author, and speaker. For nearly 40 years, he has devoted his career to revitalising the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organisations, and reconnecting institutions to society. He has been recruited to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time, including being called into Newtown, CT, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He has appeared in numerous national media outlets and has written scores of articles, groundbreaking reports, and nine books.
#Spirituality #SpiritualAwakening #PersonalGrowth #PositiveChange #Hope #Community #Unity #Healing #Consciousness #SpiritualJourney #InnerPeace #SelfDiscovery #Humanity #SocialChange #CommunityBuilding #FindingHope #Inspiration #Faith #Purpose #CivicEngagement #DividedWorld #OvercomingDivision #BuildingCommunity #CollectiveHealing #MakeADifference #TransformativeChange #AuthenticHope #SpiritualGrowth #HumanConnection #TheSpiritualForum
Connect with Richard:-
Rich's latest book is The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our Nation. It can be purchased wherever books are sold, including on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/New-Civic-Path-Restoring-Another/dp/B0F7CHH1VX/Facebook: richharwoodInstagram: rich_harwoodLinkedIn: richardcharwood
Oct 10, 2026
1 hr 9 min

Oct 8, 2026
Oct 8, 2026
1 hr 10 min
Why is the command to "love your enemies" so important? Author and TEDx speaker Gissele Tarraba explores this question, reminding us that what we’ve been doing up to this point (regarding the perpetrator-victim relationship) has not been working and bringing us real-life stories of unthinkable forgiveness. She is in the process of creating a docu-series featuring such stories to show the world the transformative power of love. Gissele discusses her journey from child welfare director to compassion advocate, and she and Rev. Carol share the unexpected challenges one experiences when following the call to higher work. They also explore the necessity of self-love and inner shadow work and the magic that happens when we live from curiosity.
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Watch, be inspired, and discover why so many people return year after year.
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Bio-Gissele Taraba (She/Her) is a TEDx speaker, Author of an Amazon best seller, researcher, Professor and entrepreneur. She is host of the award winning Love and Compassion Podcast with Gissele which now has listeners in over 65 countries worldwide. She is currently working on a documentary series entitled Courage to Love: The Power of Compassion showcasing stories of those who have done the unthinkable, forgive and love those who were most hurtful to them. She was born in Lima, Peru and has been living in Canada for over 30 years. She has two Masters, one in Epidemiology and another one in Social Work. Gissele has worked in the not-for-profit field in leadership for over 20 years and is a mother of two beautiful children. She published her first book, Reimagining Work: from suffering at work to creating a more loving, compassionate, abundant and spiritually aligned life to help others address their workplace issues and live their passions.
#Love #Forgiveness #Humanity #Compassion #Spirituality #Inspiration #Healing #Kindness #LoveAndForgiveness #PersonalGrowth #Consciousness #Empathy #InnerPeace #Transformation #SpiritualAwakening #InspiringStories #LifeLessons #HumanConnection #Mindfulness #PositiveChange #reconciliation #radicalforgiveness #selflove #shadowwork #livingwithcuriosity
Oct 8, 2026
1 hr 10 min

Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026
1 hr 4 min
What happens after death? What happens before birth? Life Between Lives facilitator and author David Allen, trained by the legendary Michael Newton, joins us to answer these questions and share the process of uncovering our soul path through past life regression. David started doing past life regression in 2005. Through his work where he chronicles regression sessions, he can assure us that we are not alone and that there is more to life and also more to death than we think.
Bio- David Allen is a long-established Life Between Lives facilitator, initially trained in the UK in 2005 by the last training team to be led by the legendary Michael Newton. He has, for many years, guided people through these incredible experiences. He is essentially a family man with two sons, 5 grandchildren and two great grandchildren, widowed in 2016 after 47 years of marriage. Now, he writes books when he has something that needs saying and routinely blogs on Substack with mainly political observations and solutions. His latest book, Life According to the Soul, explores spiritual memories, the journey between lifetimes, and how these experiences can offer insight into the challenges, relationships, and experiences of everyday life.
Connect with David - davidallenauthor.co.uk
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Link - https://youtu.be/youEjn--iHU
#LifeBetweenLives #PastLifeRegression #Reincarnation #Afterlife #SpiritualAwakening #soulfamily #pastlives #regressivehypnosis
Sep 25, 2026
1 hr 4 min

Sep 18, 2026
Sep 18, 2026
1 hr 8 min
Nearly all faith traditions have narratives around end times and many people believe we are passing through a cycle of death and rebirth now. William Wildblood, author of A Survival Guide to the End Times, joins us to explore what end times are (hint: it’s not the end of the world!) and how we can navigate through them. He asserts that we’ve lost track of what we are, why we are here, and where we should be going, thus precipitating the rise of materiality/extremism/transhumanism, the collapsing spiritual integrity of institutions, the inversion of truth, and the prominence of false spirituality. But every end brings a new beginning and William shares why this is hugely positive for humanity. He also reveals steps we can each take during these times of massive change to build our inner sanctuary and restore our innate nature.
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Watch, be inspired, and discover why so many people return year after year.
Registration Link - http://thespiritualforum.org/retreat#EndTimes #SpiritualAwakening #Spirituality #SpiritualGrowth #Consciousness #InnerLight #God #Discernment #Meditation #SpiritualJourney #materialism #falsespirituality #newbeginning #hopeforhumanity
Sep 18, 2026
1 hr 8 min

Rev Carol Saunders
Experienced Minister, Spiritual Leader, Speaker, Blogger and Podcast Host, with a demonstrated history working in spiritual organizations. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Public Speaking, Dialogue Facilitation, Spiritual Coaching, Writing, Pastoral Counseling, Premarital/Marriage coaching, Sacred Ceremonies and Conflict Resolution. Strong media and communication professional in the spiritual awakening business. For more information, Visit the about Rev Carol Saunders in the menu above








