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Unknown Unknown

Unknown Unknown

By Tiffany Hopkins

This is a lo-fi recording of the live Lily Dale Radio show that airs at 7pm on Mondays.

Explorations of alternative forms of information: where they come from, how to use them and what they mean for our world.

Your host is Tiffany J. Hopkins who began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage in Lily Dale, the world's largest community of Spiritualists. She combines a university-trained mind with a universe-connected heart in her work as an educator and independent futurist. She’d like you to join her over at NormalizeTalkingtotheDead.com
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Unknown UnknownMar 23, 2021

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AI and UFOs: Intersections of the Unknown

AI and UFOs: Intersections of the Unknown

This is the last episode of the season! Tiffany goes long on AI and UFOs / UAPs, giving you the latest on both and why they are so related to mediumship. Plus a ChatGPT contact event, why we need to rebrand the term 'aliens', and a few ways to think about both that are less overwhelming and scary.

Jun 13, 202357:55
Mediumship as Data Collection

Mediumship as Data Collection

Nerd out with Tiffany as she talks through her ways of making decisions by collecting data through the mind, body, heart, and soul. Yes, really, mediumship can be research, and no, this will not permit you to say 'Spirit told me to'.


The image is me in a server circa 2007.

Jun 06, 202349:54
Reading Reading Reading

Reading Reading Reading

In learning mediumship, the second most important thing (after practice) is exposing yourself to new perspectives, techniques, and ideas around your practice. This year I got a whole bunch of new mediumship books for the comparative titles section of my proposal for a book on mediumship. Here are some thoughts about them and books on a few tangental topics that I love too. Here's the list for reference:


Answers From the Ancestral Realm by Sharon Anne Klingler

Ancestor Medicine by Daniel Foor

Brujas by Lorraine Montegut

The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie

Modern Mediumship by Johan Poulsen

Medium Mentor by MaryAnne DiMarco

Stay Woke by Justin Michael Williams

Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn

Magickal Mediumship by Danielle Dionne

The Book of Seances by Claire Goodchild

DIY Magic by Anthony Alvarado

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber & Wengrow


May 23, 202337:07
Getting Into Sorts

Getting Into Sorts

There are many ways to find presence. Let me share what I do for mindfulness/bodifulness, to change my state, or to prepare for spiritual work. I'll talk you through a half dozen techniques I use daily. Try them out during a brief meditation at the end, then make your own!

May 16, 202343:23
Post-Eclipse Meditation

Post-Eclipse Meditation

Join host Tiffany Hopkins for a meditation to rest, rejuvenate, and acquaint ourselves with all the new information that has come in through this eclipse season.

May 08, 202329:07
The Potency of Care with Chioma Ume

The Potency of Care with Chioma Ume

Chioma Ume helps us understand how attention and focus on the people (and spirits) in our life can work like magic to create connection and facilitate communication. Chioma is a writer, empath, and seeker who does design research and brand strategy alongside being a death doula. 

Intro music En Shenandoah by Down With Ben Ft: airtone (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

May 04, 202352:02
Channeling Precepts for Channeling
Apr 25, 202352:19
Artfully Accessing The Mental Filing Cabinet with Marianne McCarthy

Artfully Accessing The Mental Filing Cabinet with Marianne McCarthy

Marianne McCarthy, an artist, art educator, and practicing medium, joins Unknown Unknown to discuss the similarities between art and mediumship. Marianne and Tiffany explore the importance of cultivating both openness and structure in both an art and mediumship practice.
Your host is Tiffany J. Hopkins. She began studying mediumship in 2018 after moving into her great-great grandmother's cottage in Lily Dale, the world's largest community of Spiritualists. She combines a university-trained mind with a universe-connected heart in her work as an educator and independent futurist. She'd like you to join her at Normalize Talking to the Dead.


Apr 17, 202348:21
Beyond Words with John A. Rice

Beyond Words with John A. Rice

Get to know NYC-based artist John A. Rice and his in-progress project Beyond Words. John specializes in oil pastels and came to Lily Dale as part of a residency with Normalize Talking To The Dead. He shares his process working with our mediums and holding his own art séance to bring through impressions, images, and ideas for his next series.

It is John's mission to foster healing, introspection, and creativity through otherworldly art — empowering the internal world so that we can enrich our outer world. You can find him on Instagram @jarstudionyc.

Intro music is Random Alien Sonata by septahelix (c) copyright 2023 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/66168 Ft: airtone, Javolenus, Apoxode, copperhead, Mr_Yesterday


Apr 11, 202343:40
The Fox Sisters and Beyond with Grace Kredell

The Fox Sisters and Beyond with Grace Kredell

Expand your understanding of Spiritualist history, psychic labor history, and what early mediumship was really like with the luminous Grace Kredell. Grace (she/they) is a psychic practitioner, matchmaker, community organizer, and historian. They recently finished a master's program at Sarah Lawrence College, publishing their thesis "Working Witches: Fortune Tellers, Clairvoyants, and Astrologers in the Golden Age of Spiritualism" in late 2022. Grace is the Associate Director of Golden Dome School, a community dedicated to mysticism and the arts. They are also a Spiritualist Church of New York City member and aspire to a summer home in Lily Dale. Grace moves between worlds and shares their findings from traversing the real-life details of historical research and the fuzzy mysteries of the unseen.

Apr 05, 202356:22
The Mysteries of Making Things with Joanna Ebenstein
Mar 28, 202355:54
Get Your Mind On Board
Mar 21, 202359:37
Kicking Off 2023 with Anabel Zenith
Mar 06, 202351:29
Conversations with George P. Hansen: Power, Change & Status
Nov 28, 202142:46
Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to Disenchantment

Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to Disenchantment

George and I have our second conversation about his book The Trickster And The Paranormal starting with Chapter 8 on Disenchantment. We also get into rationalization, sources of power & authority, new genres of media, the importance of democracy, the paranormal as vitality plus the requisite aliens, Lily Dale and unanswerable questions about how to fix social ills. He mentions his paper on Rationalization and the topic of Demythologization.

Oct 29, 202143:46
Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to the Trickster

Conversations with George P. Hansen: Introduction to the Trickster

George and I kick off the Morbid Anatomy reading group with a wide ranging conversation about why it is so hard for us all to grasp the paranormal. Topics include the book's creation story, Trump as Trickster, Jung & UFOs, the importance of carnivals and much more. Read chapters 2 and 22 in George's The Trickster and the Paranormal to complement your listening.

Oct 16, 202145:44
The Realness of Now
Mar 23, 202101:06:14
Questions Meditation

Questions Meditation

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Here's a meditation to explore receiving different types of information in different areas of your awareness. Sit back, relax and enjoy!

Mar 23, 202123:39
Shhhhh....! How Quieting Helps Mediumship + Meditation

Shhhhh....! How Quieting Helps Mediumship + Meditation

We're back! This season we'll be focusing on the foundational ideas and practices needed to be a medium. We'll start with quieting: getting the busy self to be still enough to experience the subtle influences from beyond. Meditation alert: I'll guide you through a quieting process - driving or otherwise engaging in an outward activity will not be possible! Music courtesy of Secret Jane and Siddhartha Corsus.

Nov 23, 202029:33
Season One Wrap Up

Season One Wrap Up

Hannah and I talk about what we've learned in the four interviews this season, touching on a few timely topics these days in the process: living with less, letting go, anxiety and embodiment.

Apr 17, 202037:24
Choose To Believe

Choose To Believe

I sat down with my beloved grandmother to talk about her spirituality. She shares stories of her childhood I'd never heard before and we meander into topics as diverse as the fall of empires and the power of family love. Join us for a special episode with the first person who taught me that there was more to life than meets the eye.
Apr 14, 202053:55
A Drawing Out

A Drawing Out

Today we talk with mediumship teacher Dr. Judith Rochester. We discuss daily practice, the transition she made from academic knowledge to soul knowledge, how to test non-intellectual information sources, the polarity of actively seeking and allowing, starting your own home circle and much more.  Get in touch with Judith via email (drjudithrochester@gmail.com) or by phone 716-595-3526. You can see her Winter class schedule on the website of Church of the Living Spirit. Her Spring & Summer classes will be on the Lily Dale Assembly website. You can get her book To Touch the Soul: How to Become a Medium on Amazon.
Mar 10, 202001:21:22
Changing the Question
Jan 12, 202040:53
Feel, Think, Do

Feel, Think, Do

We talk with Marza Millar of Ancient Earth Apothecary about the ancient prophecies and what they mean for us today.

Dec 13, 201939:18
Pilot: Poof, Get Out There

Pilot: Poof, Get Out There

In this episode, get to know your host, what's behind the name and some basics about prophecy, divinations and readings in general.

Nov 26, 201951:16