Big Seance: My Paranormal World

About Big Seance: My Paranormal World

Patrick Keller, of BigSéance.com, invites you to join an open discussion on all things paranormal, but specifically topics like ghosts & hauntings, paranormal research, spirit communication, psychics & mediums, and life after death. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the séance!

Publisher

Patrick Keller

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jun 2014

Latest episode

4 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 269 episodes have a transcript.

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   4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   263 - The Haunted Castle House, Séances, Spirit Communication, Folklore, and Numerology with Medium Dr. Holly Hobbs - Big Seance

   Host Patrick welcomes psychic medium and cultural researcher Dr. Holly Hobbs to explore haunted folklore, spirit communication, and the energetic role of music in séances.

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   2 Jan 2026

   262 - The Case for the Afterlife with Philosopher Chris Carter - Big Seance

   In this episode, we're joined by Oxford-trained philosopher and author Chris Carter to explore one of humanity's most enduring and controversial questions: Is there evidence of life after death? Drawing from his latest book, The Case for the Afterlife: Evidence of Life After Death, Carter argues that the survival of consciousness can be established beyond reasonable doubt through empirical evidence rather than faith alone. Our conversation ranges across research from the British and American Societies for Psychical Research, compelling cases of reincarnation involving children who remember previous lives, accounts of after-death communication, and examples of terminal lucidity. Along the way, we examine the philosophical distinction between reasonable and conceivable doubt, address the strongest skeptical objections, and consider the practical and existential implications of believing that consciousness continues beyond physical death. Visit BigSeance.com/262 for more info. Other Listening Options (https://pod.link/897260941) Direct Download Link In this episode: Intro :00 This interview was recorded on September 19th, 2025. :45 Our guest for this episode is Chris Carter, who is an Oxford-trained philosopher and the author of four highly acclaimed books, and several scholarly articles. His latest book is The Case for the Afterlife: Evidence of Life After Death, which argues that the case for the afterlife can be proven beyond all reasonable doubt, entirely on the basis of evidence. 2:15 Book Description for The Case for the Afterlife: Evidence of Life After Death. 3:16 Tension between skepticism and belief, and what counts as sufficient evidence? 4:53 The most impressive research that Carter's book focuses on, comes from both the British and American Societies for Psychical Research. 7:14 Atheism, Doubt, and Convincing Deniers of the Existence of an Afterlife. 10:36 Reincarnation and Children Who Remember Previous Lives. 13:39 The amazing story of afterlife communication from Frederic Myers, one of the founding members of the British SPR, who died in 1901. Communication came from two different, unrelated mediums on two different continents. 18:05 Reasonable Doubt vs. Conceivable Doubt. "…the burden of proof, of providing evidence, is on the person making the claim." 24:02 The Practical Benefits of a Belief in an Afterlife. 28:36 If consciousness survives physical death, what is its form? The Etheric Body. 30:57 The Skeptic/Denier's Most Fundamental Objections. 36:24 Alzheimer's and Terminal Lucidity. 38:19 "The evidence is on our side. The evidence is not on the side of the materialists, so-called Skeptics. And there's no need to make excuses for our beliefs or even take refuge in the mysteries of faith. The evidence is strong and compelling, beyond all reasonable doubt, that we survive the change called death." 40:42 Get the book, visit Chris Carter's site at WhyRichardDawkinsIsWrong.com (https://whyricharddawkinsiswrong.com/), and check out his essay, Can We Prove There Is Life After Death? (https://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/3231) 41:32 OUTRO 42:01 The Big Seance Podcast can be found right here, on Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn Radio, Amazon Music, Audible, iHeart Radio (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-big-seance-my-paranormal-w-30946144/), and YouTube. Please subscribe and share with a fellow paranerd! Do you have any comments or feedback? Please contact me at Patrick@BigSeance.com. Consider recording your voice feedback directly from your device on my SpeakPipe page! I would love to include your voice feedback in a future show. The candles are already lit, so come on in and join the seance!

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   8 Aug 2025

   261 - Hoodoo, Healing, and Helping Others: A Conversation with Jamilah Davis McKenzie - Big Seance

   Patrick interviews Jamilah Davis McKenzie, a minister and spiritual counselor, about her Hoodoo-influenced spiritual path and how she creates sacred spaces for healing and transformation.

Inside a recent episode

263 - The Haunted Castle House, Séances, Spirit Communication, Folklore, and Numerology with Medium Dr. Holly Hobbs - Big Seance

Published 4 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Does the intention work the same? Intention is magic and the intention can turn something that is one thing into something else. Right. And especially if you are working on your spiritual practice and you're working on the awareness of your own energy and working on raising your vibration and all these things that we work on. If you set an intention that you're going to turn something into something else, it will turn. I mean, we're people. We live in the real world. Right. And that's why I get so irritated with these kind of, you know, ceremonial magic wackadoodles who are like, oh, you have to at least 30 step spells of the stuff and you have to have exactly the right whatever twig or I don't know what. […]

Who has been a guest on Big Seance: My Paranormal World

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• Dr Holly Hobbs
• Jamilah Davis McKenzie
• Sarah Neoma
• Alec Tillery
• Adam Tillery

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YouTube views

130,026

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4.7 / 5

302 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

36 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

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92

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

67

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