The Intelligence of Spirit: How the Unseen World Communicates Through Us
One of the things I keep learning through my own mediumship is that the spirit world rarely seems to communicate in the neat, orderly way that the human mind would like it to.
We talk about the language of Spirit, but I’m not sure there is one universal language.
Sometimes communication can arrive as a feeling. Sometimes a memory. An image. A physical sensation. A seemingly random thought. Something in the room catches your attention. A song suddenly appears in your awareness. You remember something you saw three days ago and, for reasons you can’t immediately explain, you know it matters.
Increasingly, I think mediumship is less about receiving perfectly formed messages and more about translation.
And that was one of the ideas that stayed with me after my Soul Sync conversation with Canadian spiritual medium Nicole Powell.
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The Intelligence of Spirit: How the Unseen World Communicates Through Us with Nicole Powell
When questions about death become questions about life
Nicole’s relationship with mediumship did not begin with a desire to become a medium.
It began with questions.
As a child, somebody very close to her died tragically. Nicole described lying awake afterwards trying to comprehend what had happened and asking the sort of enormous questions that many human beings eventually encounter:
Where did he go?
What actually happens when somebody dies?
Is physical death really the end?
Later, after watching her grandfather suffer through illness before his passing, Nicole experienced death differently again. Rather than only sensing loss, she described an extraordinary feeling of freedom surrounding him.
There was something about this part of our conversation that touched me because mediumship does not make us immune from grief.
Nicole put this beautifully during the episode. Being a medium does not save you from grief. It changes your experience of it.
That distinction matters.
Mediumship should never be used to bypass the completely human experience of missing somebody. We miss the physical person. Their voice. Their presence. The ordinary things. The chair they sat in. The messages they sent. The things only they would say.
But for people whose experiences have led them to believe that consciousness continues beyond physical death, the relationship itself may begin to feel different.
Not necessarily ended.
Changed.
As somebody who works as a psychic medium and who has experienced grief very personally myself, this is one of the areas of mediumship I find most profound.
It asks us to consider whether love is entirely dependent upon a physical body.
What does spirit communication actually feel like?
Perhaps the most fascinating moment in the conversation — and the moment that ultimately inspired the title of this episode — came when Nicole described something remarkably ordinary.
She was driving one day and passed a miniature golf course.
She noticed it.
Nothing dramatic happened. There was no booming spiritual voice telling her to remember it.
She simply saw it and carried on with her day.
Several days later Nicole was giving a public demonstration of evidential mediumship and found herself between two possible recipients for a communication.
She needed something specific.
Something that would identify where the communication belonged.
And suddenly the mini-golf course came back into her awareness.
The person receiving the communication immediately recognised it: her father had taken her mini golfing every weekend.
For Nicole, that is the intelligence of Spirit.
I love this example because it says so much about how mediumship can work.
The information was already inside Nicole.
Spirit did not necessarily need to manufacture a completely new image.
Instead, the communication appeared to make use of something already stored within her own experience.
A memory became a word in the language.
And once you begin thinking about mediumship in that way, the possibilities become enormous.
Perhaps the medium is part of the language
I sometimes describe the medium as a telephone, but even that analogy feels increasingly inadequate.
A telephone is passive.
A human being isn’t.
We carry decades of memories, relationships, emotions, films, songs, smells, places, conversations, heartbreaks, jokes, fears, triumphs and completely insignificant Tuesday afternoons.
We have an enormous internal library.
If mediumship works through consciousness, perhaps that library becomes part of the instrument.
This may also explain why two mediums can communicate with the same spirit person and describe the experience differently.
The communication has to travel through an individual human being.
It comes through their senses.
Their memories.
Their vocabulary.
Their emotional palette.
Their life.
That is why I think the development of mediumship cannot only be about learning techniques.
It must eventually become about learning yourself.
Evidential mediumship still needs foundations
Nicole has spent years studying evidential mediumship, including repeated journeys from Canada to England to develop her work.
Her own mediumship appeared to open with extraordinary speed after the sudden passing of her grandmother. She went to a Spiritualist church shortly afterwards, watched the medium working and realised she seemed able to perceive much of what the medium was perceiving.
She went home and told her partner:
I think I’m a medium.
And then she tried it.
It worked.
What I respected about Nicole’s story was what happened next. Rather than assuming natural ability meant there was nothing to learn, she felt a responsibility to understand the work properly and immersed herself in the development of evidential mediumship.
I think there is something important in that.
Freedom does not mean having no foundations.
Before we can break rules intelligently, it probably helps to understand why they existed in the first place.
Evidence matters in mediumship.
Personality matters.
Memories matter.
Specificity matters.
The recipient needs the opportunity to recognise the person being described without feeding the medium all the information first.
But then something else happens as we develop.
Eventually, the framework that helped us learn can become the very thing restricting us.
There comes a point when mediumship has to become yours
This was another part of my conversation with Nicole that resonated deeply with where I currently find myself.
There is a period in spiritual development where we need teachers.
We absorb.
We practise.
We listen.
We learn the philosophy, the history and the mechanics.
And then, at some stage, Spirit seems to start nudging us towards something else:
Now find out how this works through you.
Nicole spoke about reaching a point after years of training where she started questioning things she previously accepted. Her interpretation was not that learning no longer mattered, but that she needed to begin allowing the mediumship to unfold in its own individual way.
I recognise that feeling.
I've spent a lot of time wanting to get mediumship right.
What should I feel?
Where should the evidence arrive?
What happens if I get a no?
Was that Spirit or was that me?
The irony is that all of that questioning can eventually make us so analytical that we stop experiencing the communication.
Mediumship becomes an examination rather than a relationship.
And I don't believe that is where its greatest potential lies.
Why “no” isn't always failure in mediumship
Nicole and I also talked about something almost every developing medium knows intimately:
The fear of hearing no.
At the beginning, that tiny word can feel enormous.
But Nicole offered another way of looking at it.
Sometimes a no tells her she was guessing.
More often, she said, it tells her to go deeper.
Perhaps the impression was right but her interpretation was wrong. Perhaps she polished something that should have been given literally. Perhaps there is another layer underneath it.
I think this is a much healthier relationship with mediumship.
Experiment.
Listen.
Respond.
Adjust.
Learn.
The aim isn't perfection.
It's sensitivity.
Why mediums need to live
The mini-golf story led into another idea I loved.
Nicole said that mediumship has taught her the importance of having the full human experience.
There can sometimes be a strange idea within spirituality that becoming more spiritual means withdrawing from ordinary human life.
Meditate more.
Detach more.
Retreat further.
And yes, stillness matters.
Sitting in the power matters.
Learning to quieten the noise of the mind matters.
But perhaps Spirit also needs us to go outside.
Travel.
Fall in love.
Make mistakes.
Watch ridiculous films.
Meet people.
Walk through cities.
Sit beside oceans.
Experience different cultures.
Laugh until it hurts.
Lose things.
Find things.
Live.
Because every experience gives consciousness another reference point through which communication might one day be expressed.
Nicole's mini-golf course only became useful evidence because she had driven past it.
There is a strangely beautiful message in that.
Your life isn't getting in the way of your spiritual development. Your life may be part of it.
Mediumship as creative expression
Towards the end of our conversation, we moved into trance, altered states, voice, art, writing and creativity.
Nicole is increasingly interested in what happens when we stop thinking only about mediumship as one person delivering evidence to another and instead explore what consciousness might express through us more broadly.
Through speech.
Art.
Healing.
Writing.
Music.
Trance.
Inspiration.
Her feeling was that many of us have spent years absorbing information and that perhaps we are entering a period where the invitation is to express.
That really stayed with me.
Because creativity and mediumship have something profound in common.
Both require us to tolerate not knowing exactly what is going to happen next.
The artist staring at a blank canvas has to begin.
The writer has to write the first sentence.
The musician has to play the first note.
And the medium has to speak.
There is vulnerability in all of them.
But perhaps there is also freedom.
The intelligence may be greater than the method
The more mediumship I experience, the less interested I become in trying to reduce it to one mechanism.
I am increasingly humbled by it.
A personality can emerge through a collection of impressions.
A memory can appear through something the medium saw days earlier.
A seemingly insignificant sensation can suddenly become enormously meaningful to another person.
And sometimes the information makes sense immediately.
Sometimes it does not.
That is part of what keeps me curious.
I don't think we have to pretend that we understand everything about consciousness, life after death or spirit communication in order to explore these experiences seriously.
In many ways, admitting how much we don't understand makes the exploration more interesting.
For me, mediumship is not about having all the answers.
It is about remaining open enough to the possibility that consciousness — and perhaps the intelligence behind consciousness — is far greater than we currently comprehend.
And if that is true, perhaps our job as mediums is not to control that intelligence.
Perhaps it is to become available to it.
To learn.
To practise.
To live.
To trust.
And eventually, to allow Spirit to speak through the completely individual language of who we are.
About Nicole Powell
Nicole Powell is a Canadian spiritual medium, author, speaker and teacher based on Vancouver Island. Her work includes private mediumship readings, intuitive guidance, public events, teaching, workshops and spiritual development. She has trained extensively in evidential mediumship and altered states, including studies with tutors at the Arthur Findlay College in England. Her published books include The Power – A Call to Mediumship and The Light, The Dark – A Journey to Wholeness.
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THE INTELLIGENCE OF SPIRIT: HOW THE UNSEEN WORLD COMMUNICATES THROUGH US WITH NICOLE POWELL
Soul Sync with Jason Paul
[00:00-03:10] INTRODUCTION — Jason Paul
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[03:10] INTERVIEW
Jason Paul: Nicole, firstly, welcome, welcome, welcome onto the Soul Sync. It's lovely to have you here.
Nicole Powell: Thank you so much for having me. I'm just thrilled to be here, Jason.
Jason Paul: Well, thank you! It's lovely to meet you, and I was reading, through the form that you filled out for me before you came on, and I thought, we're gonna have an interesting conversation. So, tell me about you, firstly.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, so, my name is Nicole, and I live on Vancouver Island in Canada, and I've been a professional working medium since 2015, but my history goes further back there, being a healer, being a tarot reader for, I don't know, about 17, 18, 19 years or so. And, my work here on Vancouver Island, I work a lot in person with people, I do a lot of speaking, demoing, public group mediumship, teaching classes. I also, work a lot online and do one-to-ones, and I feel... some people call me the medium next door. I'm just, like, a totally normal person. I live this very hidden, closed life where I have my basement where I do all my mediumship out of, and teach classes out of, and I think I'm quite normal, but yet I have this inner world that exists within me that's so tapped into the mediumistic world and different variant types of it. And what I love about living in Canada is I feel like I'm sandwiched between England and the USA, and I feel like they operate with mediumship so many different ways.
Like, England's very focused on history in the past, and then the US is very focused on the future and where we're going. So being in Canada, I feel like I got the best of both worlds.
Jason Paul: So...
Nicole Powell: I love how being here allows me to see the variety of how consciousness wakes up in this world, and the directions people are going with mediumship, because it's changing so much, and I love seeing how it's evolving right now with just this speed up in the world.
Jason Paul: Well, it's a beautiful place, Vancouver. I went myself, it must have been about just before the pandemic, and it's got... it just feels like such a healthy, very optimistic, forward-thinking place, actually, and I really enjoyed my time there.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, and I find that it's very health-conscious, you know, everyone runs around in their, like, workout clothes, or always dressed like we're ready to go for a hike, because at any moment, we might go on one. And we always... we're very up-to-date on our minerals and vitamins, and, you know, getting lots of daylight and nature, and it's interesting how our spirituality feeds into that. It's like spirituality and health really seem to go hand in hand where I live on Vancouver Island.
Jason Paul: Well, it, you know, makes total sense, doesn't it? It's mind, body, and spirit, but I feel that... And I think that's stood the test of time. But it's... I think people are becoming really aware of it now. And are you originally from Vancouver, or...
Nicole Powell: No, I'm from Victoria, which is the capital of BC, and it's a ferry... it's about an hour and 40 minute ferry from Vancouver, so it's an island. And I live in a place called Cowichan, which is just about an hour and a half north of Victoria, which is the major city.
Jason Paul: So... One of the things that I was reading about you prior to coming on was you... it feels like this has been in your life for a very long time, spirit, mediumship, but there was a really poignant moment that, when I was reading the form, it almost made my heart stop. About your neighbour, and that feels like it was a really pivotal moment for you. If you're okay to, it'd be really interesting to hear about that.
Nicole Powell: Yeah.
Nicole Powell: So, growing up as a kid, I was very into animals, animal communication. I was a very nature-based child that used to do, like, little seances in my yard and play, and I lived in this street. It was, like, dreamy, you know? You had all your friends on the road, we would play until the street lights, lights turned off, it was... we were all connected, right? And our next-door neighbor, they had two kids that used to play with us as well, and they were a little bit older, so they would babysit me, and I just thought they were, like, the coolest guys in the world. They were so... such gentlemen, even at, like, 12 years old. And we just grew up together, so they were such a personal influence on my life, especially because they took care of me quite a bit babysitting. And when I was 10 years old, Grant, he was... I think he was 13 at the time. He committed suicide, and he took his life while he was on a family vacation on the back of a cruise ship, and left a note and his shoes. And it was just... I remember hearing about it.
We were on a hockey tournament for my brother, and we were in the hotel room when I heard about it, and it just... I couldn't fathom what I was hearing. And mainly because at that point, up to the age of 10, I had never really heard of death. It never occurred to me that people died, or what happened after. And so, I remember hearing the news, and everyone just being gutted, and just... So sad, and I was lying in bed that night, and just looking up at the ceiling, going, like, where did he go? What happened to him? Like, where... did he know where he was going? Did he actually do this himself? Did somebody do this for him? And I feel that kind of turned a dial for me of my fascination with death and the afterlife, and wanting to know more. And so I was a kid that used to daydream all the time. I was a very deep sleeper. I would have kind of multidimensional things happen to me, where I'd have moments where I felt like I was in a different life. I remember driving down a road, being like, where's the teepees?
Like, I remember living a life where there was teepees, and also waking up from nightmares of feeling I was on a fishing boat, and I was still a fisherman. So, these things would happen to me growing up as a child, but then I became kind of a little bit obsessed with death and dying, but it was such an inner investigation for me, because I didn't necessarily talk about this. Obviously, it devastated me, and I did do therapy and stuff like that, and... but, I just wanted to know more. And then it kind of started to be a theme for me throughout my life, especially in those first 30 years, where death started to become a reoccurring instance. And I had experiences where I left my body or had close calls with death as well, too. And maybe I brought them on, because I was so fascinated by it.
Jason Paul: What a traumatic thing to happen, as well, at a young age, to, Have that happen to your friend, and to be aware of that, and to be asking, such big questions so young, and it kind of... as you were saying that, it reminds me of my own journey in so much that I was scared... very scared of death, and then I became very obsessed with death, wanting to explore it, the paranormal, all these things that... was making me ask questions, and even as you were saying that, it kind of made me feel like it was your soul, wanting to ask all these questions, because you knew that that didn't make sense, Steph, the concept.
Nicole Powell: No, it didn't make sense at all. And what happened after that, so I was 10, when I was 13, my grandfather died, but he had suffered so bad, like a brain tumor that mimicked ALS, and I watched him slowly deteriorate. And I remember when he did cross over, I felt so much joy and so much lightness. And I remember going to his funeral and being like, why is everyone so sad? Didn't you see how much he suffered? Like, he's free now, he's light. And I remember telling this to my aunts and my grandmother. I'm like, why are you crying? He's finally free. And so, by even by the age of 13, I'd already had such a different concept of death, and I remember almost getting visions of him flying freely, or feeling that kind of evolution of his spirit body soaring all around us. Yeah.
Jason Paul: It's even... as you say that, I can understand, because my dad passed away, in October last year, and I very much felt, actually, even because how he... ended up passing away, very sadly, was because he was unwell in an intensive care unit, and in the days leading up to his, passing, the amount of, spirit energy I could feel around him, and as soon as he passed, it was that... very much that lifting And that felt really reassuring to me, actually, myself.
Nicole Powell: Sweet. You know, being a medium, it doesn't... save you from grief, but it does change your experience with it, because that feeling of it being permanent and never again doesn't really exist for people who practice mediumship, or even with those with a deep spirituality, understanding and presence, and that everything's right now, and that they are just a thought away, and that it's just a transformation of a relationship opposed to the physical one. And of course, we miss their physical presence. But it... it does shift your perception, for sure.
Jason Paul: It does, and I feel that even now, with my own mediumship and where I'm up to with my own unfoldment of it, I feel that... I feel the presence of loved ones around a lot, actually, and it's incredibly reassuring, and it's, you know, even my mediumship has taught me so much about the power of your thoughts. You know, what you can do with one intention and one thought. You know, it really makes me... look a lot at how we live our lives. You know, I think that mediumship myself even came into my life at the right time, because it brought me so much in terms of, being able to trust in myself and my soul, and what I feel.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, definitely. You know, we think about mediumships, learning how to be out there, but it really... it transforms you. It's an inside job, it changes the way you see the world, or how you experience life, and it opens you up, and it's such a self-expression, right?
Jason Paul: It is. How did you... and because you made, Something... an interesting point earlier on about how you perceive to be, you know, between the US and England, and where we're doing mediumship. And I feel that our mediumship is obviously very much driven by the spiritious national union here in a lot of ways, and I do feel how we do mediumship is quite, rigid and in a box-like. How do you feel you're doing it differently there? What, you know, what are you doing to, sort of, necessarily try using it in different ways, you know, because I feel the ways you can use mediumship are limitless.
Nicole Powell: Totally, yeah. You know, when I came to study evidential Meetingship, all my training was in the UK. I just felt that they had the strongest knowledge of it, and also the proof. I really needed that for my own development. But once I felt like I got a good handle on that, it took me about 7 years of going reoccurringly over to Europe and to England to train, then I started kind of more seeing how other parts of the world were using it. And I know in the UK, it's kind of illegal to do psychic predictions, isn't it? You're sick.
Jason Paul: It's, yeah, we have very.
Nicole Powell: F.
Jason Paul: Bizarre, and it really annoys me in the UK that I have to say to someone before I do the reading that it's for entertainment purposes only, for instance.
Nicole Powell: And then... and when I started my business in 2012, I remember it was called entertainment, but when I went to get business license or insurance in, like, 2019, 2020, now it's called higher power insurance in Canada, which I find fascinating.
Jason Paul: You're famous.
Nicole Powell: It's like, oh yeah, it's not entertainment, this is higher power.
Jason Paul: That sounds something with a lot of, premium, something where the excess is quite big, she's dealing with very powerful forces, this lady.
Nicole Powell: But I find in the US, it's very much channeling, it's a lot about the future, all about the future. It's psychic predictions, they love prophecy, and I find where I sit, right in Canada, all... I'd say about 95% of my clients want evidence, and you know, life path reading. So I combine them. I usually start with one or two links, and then I spend a good half an hour just doing more life path reading, intuitive guidance, reading the aura, feeling into the soul. But if I just did one or the other, sometimes people feel like they missed out on something. And if I just.
Jason Paul: Well, you do! Yes, you do, you think, oh, I want to know about... of course I want to know about what's going on in my love life, I don't just want to speak to me Auntie Anne, yes?
Nicole Powell: Yeah, and of course, obviously, when we're doing a link, and we're bringing through evidence, they don't always have much to say about the future. So usually I educate my clients on that. I'm like, if you want me to look in your future, I need to do that more intuitively, or psychically, or prophetically. But they may have one or two hits, but it's more about, like, a gentle message and evidence and proof of survival. But I like to be able to package them both, because that's what people want. Right?
Jason Paul: Well, everyone's... I guess they're coming to you for different reasons, but people are coming for guidance, they're coming, you know, for you to help them on their path in some way. How did... so you mentioned that you came to England, but you took a leap at some stage for you to, you know, to be doing that, You know, as a profession. What did that look like for you?
Nicole Powell: Okay, well, in 2012, I opened a business when I was 26 years old as a healer, and I had spent 3 years going to school at Langara College, which was a professional school studying integrative energy healing. And through that process, I also started studying tarot cards and stuff like that, so I thought when people came for healing, I could pull a couple cards for them at the end. But I was very, like, I'm gonna be a healer, this is my life, I want to help people heal and feel better, and so I had a room, I had space, everything's set up, but I had no clients. And then I'd have one client a week, and then 2 clients a week, and that took about 3 years to get going with working a day job on the side. It was not a quick transition, building your name and building trust with people. And then...
Jason Paul: Building trust in yourself as well, I imagine.
Nicole Powell: Oh, yeah.
Jason Paul: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Nicole Powell: Definitely, and I think, you know, if it's new to you, it takes a long time to figure out how to be a business owner, too, and how to respectfully do this, right? And, when I was 29, so 3 years into it, I remember being really done with my day job, like, I just want to do healings, I just want to do tarot readings with people. And, my mom's mom, my grandmother, she passed away suddenly, and it was very unexpected. But it was like my mediumship just popped open overnight. Like, it was so fast. And I remember all of a sudden, I had a sudden urge to go to a spiritualist church, because I just had to go. And so I went, and it was within about a week of her passing. And I remember watching the medium doing the service, and I was like. I can see everything she sees. I can get the links that she can get. And I looked around the room, and I saw all these spirits standing around people, and I thought it was like, this is so cool! So I went home and told my husband Matthew, who was my boyfriend at the time, I said, I think I'm a medium. And he's like, really?
Because he's from England and understands, like, proper evidence, and he's got spiritualism in his heritage and stuff like that. So I said, okay, after dinner, I'm gonna do mediumship for you. So I did, and it worked. And he was like, okay, you know, maybe there's something more to this. So I started going to the spiritualist church every weekend, I started looking for a circle to sit in, and it was just, like. the power was just expanding through me, like, I couldn't do enough links fast enough, I wanted to read everyone, and then all my healing clients turned into mediumship clients really fast.
Jason Paul: I'm even trying.
Nicole Powell: to be a professional medium. So then I felt guilty and was like, well, I gotta get some proper training here. So then I started going to England, and then I kind of got obsessed with it and went over and over and over and over again to get as much training as I possibly could at the AFC to just absorb myself in proper evidential mediumship. And then I became a spiritualist minister. I mean, it took over my whole life. And that was... from 2015 to 2024, that whole doorway just went from beginning, middle, to other side of it, and now I'm not doing ministry anymore. I'm more focusing on my practice again, but it was, like, a monumental shift over those years. Yeah.
Jason Paul: It feels to me, even as you're saying that, that, you know, there was a lack of confidence at the beginning, a doubt in whether you should be doing this. You knew that that's what you wanted to be in, but it felt to me like there was a lack in the kind of business side, and as soon as you stepped into that power, like the... like a pressure cooker, the top just blew off.
Nicole Powell: Yeah? it literally... because I've been building the power for years, right? And I've been working as a healer for 6 years. I've been intuitively doing readings for years, but never... it was like a blind spot. I never even knew I could do mediumship. So it was almost like when I saw somebody do it, I was like, oh, I could do that. I can do that, no problem. It's just, like, a different department in my mind. I just opened up the... I kind of opened the lens, and it was like, there it is. But then.
Jason Paul: Because...
Nicole Powell: I've had so much respect for learning healing. I felt like I had to learn mediumship properly, too. I didn't want to just jump on YouTube and start giving messages to everyone and be unethical. So I felt like I had a duty for the spirit world to learn, you know, from the best, and to try getting as far as I possibly could with this, because it felt like a natural talent, or a natural ability, and I've never been gifted at anything. Like, I've had to work hard for everything. school was difficult for me, everything was... work was difficult, business was difficult for me, but this, it was like, I gave an inch, and it came back times 100. And it was a big responsibility to carry, especially when this was changing people's lives in the matter of 40 minutes, half an hour. And, people were having transformations so quickly. And, on Vancouver Island, there wasn't too many people doing evidential mediumship, so I was like, well, I better figure this out.
And then I got so excited, I started teaching little circles of all my friends in the community, what I was learning from the AFC, and that kind of took over, too.
Jason Paul: Well, do you know what? It's really interesting, and it's kind of when you accept something, and you change something in your energy as well, when you just allow, and in mediumship, I think so much of it, for me, is about Trusting, the journey of me trusting in myself with my mediumship. took... it has taken a while, and it was annoying me, because I thought any other area of my life that I turn my attention to is excelling, and mediumship, almost the more I'm trying, I'm creating some kind of resistance here, because I need to allow and just... And so much of the journey I've found from people that I've met as I've gone along my mediumship journey. It's about learning to trust yourself, and it felt to me that at that moment when you stepped in that, that's why it, you know, absolutely... the doors flug open on it, so to speak.
Nicole Powell: Yes.
Jason Paul: You're meeting people all the time now. What are you noticing and working on in your development at the moment, you know, as where you are these days?
Nicole Powell: it's a lot around voice, actually, which kind of surprised me. About a year and a half ago, I started doing voice coaching and voice training, and learning how to develop sound. That's kind of been a big piece lately, but I've noticed it, how it's affected me in trance. how it's affected me in public speaking. It's almost like... and guided meditations, it's working a lot with the sound frequency in my voice and how I'm bringing through messages and working with people. I'm also an artist, too, and I get... I used to do dog portraits where I'd paint people's dogs that passed on. That was kind of like a side hustle thing I'd do on the side, but art is a huge piece of this. And, books, I've been... I've written two, and I've started writing my third one now, but I feel like spirit is almost like you've worked so much with people, kind of burnt out a little bit. And now I'm very selectional of how many readings I do every week, so I don't kind of overdo it.
But it's almost like they want to develop a very creative side to me at this moment, and really kind of develop how I see the world and how I engage with it, as, like, this new Earth is kind of merging and coming into this world. It's... I feel like it's a lot about hope and inspiration. And, just really kind of bringing beauty back into the world of self-expression, if that makes sense.
Jason Paul: I feel, absolutely, I feel it's about authenticity now. People are craving it. People want to, feel the light. They want authenticity. They don't want to be glued on machines being brainwashed, and I feel that even recently, like I said to you before we got recording, my life has just changed totally 360 in the quickest amount of time possible. I knew I needed change in my life, because I'd been in the same industry for a long time, and I kept saying to myself for years, oh, if only I was doing something else, what could I be doing if I was really doing it? And all of a sudden, out of the blue, within the course of 24 hours, I've now got that. So, but, you know, I'm already feeling excited to be able to be authentic, and I feel that's what people want with mediumship. You know, they really do.
Nicole Powell: the real thing. They don't want the cookie cutter, the prescription of how it's supposed to look in a box. They want originality, they want people who really know themselves. I think I even read this study that the most attractive thing someone can generate in their aura is authenticity. And they did this on a double-blind study, so everyone just assumed it was love. No, it was that. It's like a magnetic power. And I feel, you're right, everything about technology and brainwashing and has, you know, collective, moving in certain ways, people are just pulling... they're just pulling right back. They want to be able to... find out what's inside of them. And after the pandemic, when, you know, American politics kind of got a bit messy there, I remember getting really collectively down, and continuously asking Spirit, I'm like, how can I... how may I serve during this Repression, our feeling of darkness that's just blanketed over the world right now. And they kept saying, go back in and express your soul. Paint more, sing more, write more, do more that makes you come alive.
And that's what I've been doing, and it's allowed me to stay focused without distracted, and allowing an outside force control my destiny, or how my moods are affected. Because when I'm doing these creative pieces, I feel really alive and well, and that this is... it's almost like you become a portal into the physical world from.
Jason Paul: Because you start tapping into that part of the brain that isn't the logical part of the brain, and that's allowing that to come through to you, and it's that inspiration, it's that passion that's coming through you, and you... and there's a difference as well, you go from not chasing to attracting as well, and there's something in that, I feel. Because a lot... I think so many people at the moment are living through a lens of fear, where they're chasing, they're chasing, they're running. But that very energy of the chasing, underlying that is fear. And instead... and that chasing energy, nobody wants that, you know? What they want is that authenticity of someone being confident within what they are doing. Yeah. And as you talk, I really feel a lot of that.
Nicole Powell: everyone wants to know what their gift is, like, what am I good at? It's like, you don't know until you start playing and practicing, and then it starts to come to life, right?
Jason Paul: experimenting, experimenting, and I think... You know, not trying to do everything through a lens of perfectionism as well. But, you know, feel free to have a go. Even with the development of mediumship, you know, the issue with the word no at the beginning, you know, when people start reading, how much we fear that. We fear having a go, we fear letting it be in the clearest channel because of the word no. You know. experienced medium now, I'm sure you were very happy with the word... well, you're not probably happy with the word no when you get one, but you learn something from it, and it's there for a reason, and, you know.
Nicole Powell: bother me, yeah.
Jason Paul: Yeah!
Nicole Powell: Two sides of it. One, it shows me if I was guessing. or that I need to go deeper. And 90% of the time is I just need to go deeper at this moment. If they give me a no, I'm like, okay, hold on, let me just throw that back, keep going, and then I'll come back in a different way. And all it's just, like, I saw it differently than what it was. Sometimes I just have to be literal and go, this is what I saw, and they go, oh yeah, that makes sense, because I was...
Jason Paul: Well...
Nicole Powell: Sugar-coating it or fine-tuning it, right?
Jason Paul: You have to experiment a lot in the beginning, because you've got to find out how the mediumship works for you, and once you've found out how it works for you, it will evolve in that in itself. And my mediumship continues to evolve, and sometimes, you know, I still... bring something through when it is a no, and I go, oh, I... you know, that is my imagination in overdrive there. But, you know, even sometimes I think the amount of time I waste questioning, earlier in my journey, oh, is this me, or is it spirit? How... if I'm in that moment of that energy, I haven't got time to be assessing this, you know, is it me or is it the spirit? If something is coming, just run with it. Does it matter where it is coming from? It's coming from somewhere.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, and I always say this to people, but use everything you got, because people go, oh, I've been really stressed, I can't do mediumship tonight, or oh, I've had a sore arm, I can't do mediumship tonight. I'm like, trust that everything that's leading up will end up probably being used in your link. Because it's almost like there's a build-up, it's like the chicken or the egg a little bit, but it's almost like they're constantly using your life experience, what you're exposed to, your visuals, the shows you're watching, who you're hanging out with. There's always, like, tidbits and all these little things, and your mood, too, because when it comes to do your mediumship. It's almost like it comes through you, like, as if you're releasing something, but it's... it's very much based on how you perceive the world, right?
Jason Paul: Well, the spirit world have chosen you, effectively, as a hypothetical telephone. They know your bank, they know your memories, your energy, where you were going to be in that specific time, and I feel that in that very moment, you were in that place at that time, in time that doesn't exist, you know, but that's where you're meant to be. But even as you say about the evidence, you know, I used to spend a lot of time earlier in the journey, waiting for things to come to me. But actually, even just, and I've seen mediums work so beautifully, whereby even just their attention, their eyes, just leading them to a certain bookshelf, the color of it, a certain book, and reading into that. You know, a lot of the time we put our mediumship, like you said earlier, in these boxes, and we think, okay, if it doesn't come to me in my third eye, then it's not from the spirit world. It is anything, and it's that learning to trust in that flow, isn't it?
Nicole Powell: Absolutely. I had an interesting thing last week, I was doing a dem, I was doing public mediumship, and two days before, maybe 3 days before, I don't know, a week or something, I passed a mini golf course. Like, I was just driving, oh, mini golf, I kept going. A week later, I'm doing a dem, I'm, you know, I'm in between two ladies. And I go, okay, Spirit, give me something that'll break this down so I know who I'm with. They showed me the mini golf course. I'm like, oh yeah! And of course, it was like, oh my god, my dad took me mini golf every weekend. And it was like, there it is. And they just pulled that from my memory bank and just had me look at it that week before, and it's like, that's the intelligence of spirit. That's how creative and fun they are. Just getting you to visual, like, see things in this world so you could pull on it later and use it. You know, it's... You don't get that from spending hours in meditation just sitting in the silence.
You know, you need a little bit of that too, but you really need to live life, and mediumship has taught me to really have the full human experience, and just how powerful we are, and just how important it is to really live, and not just spend your life checked out. You know?
Jason Paul: And when you say the full human experience, what do you mean by that?
Nicole Powell: Like, I tell Spirit all the time, I want full human experience. I want to live till I'm in my 80s or 90s, I want to travel the world, I want to have maybe more than one career, I'd like to, you know, spend time with family, I'd like to travel, I'd like to educate, I'd like to, you know, really do things, and go to different places to experience different cultures, because a lot of people live in fear, and they just stay in their home, and they don't go anywhere, and they watch TV all day, or they just stay stuck, and they never feel brave enough to live. And I know a spirit is always asking me to be brave, to do things I've never tried before, to go see places I've never been to before, and have an experience of how other people live.
Jason Paul: It's like, you want to get as much value for money into your life as possible, and I'm much the same.
Nicole Powell: You know.
Jason Paul: You know, I want to get... I want to know that I've lived my life, and even now, sometimes, I think to myself, my goodness, you know, I'm not even 40 yet, and some of the things that have happened, but... I want to do that, because I feel that there's so much I want to achieve and do with my mediumship, and, I do believe mediumship is very much... it's about, like you were saying before, creativity. It's a creative expression of the soul, and if you are doing it in a rigid sense... my granddad came through, actually, who used to be a medium. And he was a big inspiration on now why I do mediumship, and he came through recently. and said to me, stop being within a box, you know, go out there and find your own way of doing things. And it's so true, and ever since then, I thought, do you know what, I'm just gonna find my own way to do mediumship, because you can learn from all these teachers, and like you said, you invested a lot in your mediumship.
going to England, but there was something in that experience of you keep going there, where you're learning how it works, but also you're learning the sacredness of it, as well.
Nicole Powell: Yes. It's so interesting, because there's, like, a time where you have to learn, right? And you're, like, a sponge, and you're just taking up all this knowledge. And then, like, after a while, I think it took about... 7 or 8 years for me? All of a sudden, I'm sitting in class going, this is BS, or I don't believe that, or... and you're like, oh, this is Spirit saying, stop, stop. It's time to go and figure this out for yourself now. You learned everything you need for them, and you'll come back as needed, just to check in, but now we need to work with you.
Jason Paul: It's you saying you no longer should be there, and I recently have just reached that very point. I don't think I'm quite there, but I'm starting to find the... I'm at the stage now where I just need to learn from doing it.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, and of course your mind's like, are you being arrogant, or you always need a teacher? But I think the spirit honestly says, like, I need to pull you back now, and I'm so glad you learned all these skills, because now we gotta break the rules and do it our way. And again, this is back about being in Canada, and it's like, that's how England does it, that's how the States does it, this is how we're gonna do it here. And really letting it unfold In its own way. And a lot of it comes from trial and error, just working with private clients and listening to their intentions. Why are they here? And it's like, what are they mirroring back to me? And what do they need? Because I learn the most from my clients. I don't always learn the most from classes and learning from others.
Jason Paul: You learn it from practicing, it's that doing the readings. When I think the lessons I learn, I never go back to think, oh, that particular time that someone said that thing to me. What I tend to find that in, you know, when you hear people do talks about mediumship, is it helps me to understand the concepts, it helps me to understand the philosophy of it, and, you know, the times of old and what was learned, but what I've learned with my mediumship has all been from doing readings, and how I'm feeling it and sensing my way through that experience.
Nicole Powell: And the unexpected, you never saw it coming.
Jason Paul: Yeah? Well, it is the unexpected, you know, if someone had told me, 10 years ago that I'd be doing mediumship, I'd have probably laughed in their face,
Nicole Powell: Yeah.
Jason Paul: You know, absolutely, I'd have never thought this was my path. And, you know, it was staring me in the face all along, because my granddad was doing it, but it was only through the experience of his passing that then started... and the fact that I chased material success for so long... I work... I worked up until very recently, in sales, high-end brokering deals, and I didn't even realize at the time how that very energy of being in that environment of always money, money, money, money, money, where's the next deal coming from, how much, that was, you know, pulling the threads of my soul, saying, you know, I shouldn't be doing this now.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, yeah, it's true. Interesting.
Nicole Powell: Mediumship, it's like a shot of adrenaline. It hits you, and you're like, oh, I feel so good, I feel so alive, right? Because you help somebody, you're of service, you're touching a higher source and power, and you're helping somebody heal. It's just, like, the best feeling in the world, you know?
Jason Paul: It is. So you're in the process of writing a new book, I believe, The Creative Channel. Tell us about this, the concept, what's driving you to do this.
Nicole Powell: So I'm just about, I'd say, about 6 weeks into just letting it drop in, and I might change the title, I've changed it around a few times, but it really is that, of, like, how to become a stream of consciousness for spirit, for something greater, to bring through something greater. And to allow yourself to explore the different aspects of channeling. And trance and the altered states of consciousness, because it works through healing, it works through physical mediumship, it works through art, psychic art, it works through, speaking, healing. There's so many different things I've experienced. I remember going to [unclear] in Holland, I remember seeing physical mediums in England, and then also over here, there's a lot... a lot around singing and improv groups or psychic art, and I really want to use my experiences and experiential aspect of it, of being able to understand and share some of my experiences with it, and also lead people in how to become a channel for themselves.
Because I find that topic or that word, that might be very American channeling, I know in England they use the word trance in altered states. But it's hot here at the moment. It's almost like everybody wants it, and they want to know how to do it, and they want prophecy, and they want people's predictions, and they want to know that this is... that we have hope in this world. So, I... a lot of my writing is adventure writing. I talk about my travels, talk about my experiences, and then I go, hey, and this is how you do it. So, that's kind of my way of writing this book right now. It seems.
Jason Paul: It's interesting that you're really finding that, you know, people are waking up, and they're wanting this. They're wanting, to be channeled, you know, or to become a channel, or to receive this guidance. And, you know, I keep hearing from people at the moment, there is something in the water. Change is... I feel change is coming in so many ways.
Nicole Powell: if you're open to it, to try something that's never been done, Spirit will start bringing through things. And it's funny, because I thought everyone thought that it was going the technology AI way, but I'm seeing a huge pushback from that, from where I'm sitting here. People want the real thing. They don't want to be glued to a device more. You know? And that may be just a certain percentage of population, but I feel the New Earth is more about gardening, in-person communities. Again, it's about natural, healthy, and it's about really respecting the Earth, and becoming more in tune with your gifts and your power and your self-expression.
Jason Paul: I totally agree with you. I think people are, quite frankly, just having enough of, technology, politicians, power, things that don't seem right, imbalances, economic differences that societies have. I think people are craving it more than ever, and even so much so that, you know, I feel it in my waters, you know, I'm very excited to the future. despite the fact AI, and I think people want... they're starting to even worry now that they can't even distinguish between a human and a machine. You know, we're in that stage now. So, you know, but it does help, I do use AI a lot. So, do me the honour Nicole, of leaving us today on a final thought. If you do want to find out about you, Nicole, do go to the show notes.
Nicole Powell: Yeah. [unclear]
Jason Paul: To the show notes — the description where your website will live there. I did a great job there at explaining that, but yes, do leave us on a final thought today.
Nicole Powell: I just feel everyone is about hope and inspiration of our future at the moment, and what I just feel for people is that I'm really here to get more in touch with your spirit self, to go inward. And to spend that time allowing yourself to make mistakes, to experiment, to play, and see what's trying to come through you in the most natural, organic way possible. I feel like we've been absorbing knowledge for so long now, and now it's about expression. And I feel that happiness comes from this. I remember doing a reading once where a boy committed suicide, and his mom, who was here, she said. I would... does he regret it? And I said, no, I mean, it's already done. But she says, does he say anything? And I remember him being in spirit, saying, I was so depressed on Earth, but I wish I had just expressed myself more. Because if I found a channel or a way to move all that dark energy out of me, I would have really found my gift. You know? And so it's like, use everything you got, use the darkness, use the sadness, use the grief, and just allow yourself to express and come out.
If it's cooking, if it's journaling, if it's writing, if it's art. just let it out of you, because I feel like we're in a time of heightened creativity, and that, you know, the greats that came through, I think about, like, Prince and Michael Jackson and that era, when there was just amazing talent. I feel like that's coming back. I feel like we're gonna hit another wave of this because of all the repression in the world, and that this is the diamonds that are gonna be coming up. And we're gonna see... I'm just speaking from future self here, but I feel like we're gonna see some of the most amazing downloads and talent of people and their expressions in the next 5 to 10 years, and we're just gonna be blown. Just people's capacity, because we can learn from all facets and aspects of self, but this is a very special time. And don't get stuck on the computer and on your phone and the TV and, you know, check out during this. Really dive into it, because you'll look back and be like, wow, that was... that was really cool.
Jason Paul: Absolutely beautiful. And yes, express yourself, because expressing yourself is letting go, it's letting that energy move through you, and if you're not expressing yourself, what you're actually doing is suppressing yourself.
Nicole Powell: Yes.
Jason Paul: And then that energy is sitting within you. It could lead to disease, it could lead to health failures, both physical and mental, so you've got to express it, and I agree, I think we're coming up to that time.
Nicole Powell: We're here, it's... it waves.
Jason Paul: We are. Well, listen, it's been lovely. Thank you so much for coming on to the Soul Sync, Nicole. It's been absolutely lovely to have you on.
Nicole Powell: Yeah, thank you for having me, this is just perfectly aligned.