Soul Sync with Jason Paul

What if the power was never something you had to build, only something you had to accept?
In this episode of Soul Sync, I’m joined by Norwegian trance medium Kim Angel Karlskov. Kim has worked as a medium for 22 years, sat for trance for 19 and for physical mediumship for around 10, and he’s spent the last 15 years teaching mediums at his own school in Norway.
Kim grew up with spirit at the kitchen table, quite literally. His mum was one of Norway’s best-known clairvoyant mediums, and he made his first proper link at five years old, wandering out of his bedroom to pass on a message to one of her clients. As a baby he played with floating orbs of light in his bassinet, and spoons bent in his mouth so often that friends’ families started handing him plastic cutlery.
But Norway has never had a Spiritualist tradition like ours. Kim talks about learning by trial and error, doing much of the work alone, and paying a price for being open about it: bullied at school, threatened with hospital by his teachers, refused onto a bus and spat at in the street after a newspaper wrote about his platform demonstration.
We talk about why half the job of a medium is simply listening, why alignment doesn’t have to mean silence, and why in Norway they call it “accepting the power” rather than sitting in it. Kim also takes us into the trance room with his guide Martin, who he says is “way smarter than me”, and into the cabinet, where his sitters watched spirit build what looked like an astronaut’s helmet around his head.
At its heart, this is a conversation about not letting anyone else define who you are, or your mediumship. As Kim puts it, you are the defining author of how you use your power.
To find out more about Kim, you can follow him on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kim.a.stende/
What you’ll hear
Growing up with a medium for a mum, and a first link at the age of five
Orbs in the bassinet, bending cutlery and a sensitivity that never switched off
Why Norway had no Spiritualist church until 2005, and what that means for developing mediums there
Accepting the power versus sitting in the power
Why half the job of being a medium is listening, and why we chase the message
Alignment, and why it doesn’t mean being quiet inside
ADHD and mediumship
Bullying, coming out, and facing hostility for being a medium
Troll tables, table tilting and the Sámi tradition of talking with spirit
“Witch circles” in the kitchen, and a heavy table that walked across the room
Working in trance with Martin, and what happens when you disagree with your guide
Why responsibility for what comes through stays with the medium
The cabinet, transfiguration and early trumpet (direct voice) development
Who this episode is for
This episode is for anyone drawn to trance or physical mediumship, and anyone who has ever felt they had to develop on their own.
It’s also for the sensitive ones who were made to feel different for what they could see and feel, and for anyone who has let someone else’s opinion shape their development.
If you’ve ever wondered what “the power” really is, Kim’s answer might just change the way you sit.
Mentions & ideas
Accepting the power and sitting in the power (Glyn Edwards)
Trance mediumship and transfiguration
Physical mediumship and the cabinet
Trumpet mediumship and direct voice
Table tilting and Norwegian troll tables
The Sámi people
Marcello Haugen and Margit Sandemo
Kim’s spirit guides, Martin and Claire
Vibeke’s book on Martin’s philosophies
Guest links
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.a.stende/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kstende/
Read the episode blog
Five trance myths, why trance is so healing, and the full transcript of this conversation: https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com/insights/trance-mediumship-myths
Trance Circle with Donna King and me
If this episode has stirred something in you, Donna and I are starting an online Trance Circle on Zoom from Thursday 3 December 2026. It runs fortnightly on Thursdays, 7–9pm UK time, for people who can already make a connection with spirit. Places are limited, so booking is essential.
Book your place: https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com/trance-circle-online
Gentle note
This episode includes discussion of bullying, prejudice and hostility towards mediums, coming out, and a parent’s mental health struggles. Please listen in a way that feels supportive for you.
Get in touch
Soul Sync is a home for conversations about spirit, consciousness and the unlimited potential within all of us. Maybe you’ve had a spiritual experience that changed everything. Maybe your work is in mediumship, healing, meditation, psychology, science or personal growth. Or maybe you simply have a perspective on what it means to be human that you’d love to share. I’m always looking for new guests and fresh ideas for the show, so I’d love to hear from you.
Email: hello@jasonpaulmedium.com
Website: https://www.jasonpaulmedium.com
Free Tuesday Development Circle
Join my free online mediumship development circle on Zoom every Tuesday, 6–8pm UK time. It’s a warm, supportive space to practise, build your confidence and connect with spirit. Come for one hour or stay for both.
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Is there a belief about yourself you’ve carried for so long it feels like fact?
Following my conversation with Joanna O’Brien, she has kindly shared this guided hypnotic visualisation with Soul Sync listeners. Joanna is a medium, healer, hypnotherapist, Master NLP trainer and Reiki Master, and she created Releasing Limiting Beliefs to help you let go of an old belief or emotion about yourself and choose something truer in its place.
From the day we’re born, we pick up beliefs and feelings about ourselves that may not be true for us now. In this recording, Joanna guides you into a deep, comfortable state of relaxation and introduces you to your “inner physician”: the wise, caring part of you that breathes you while you sleep and only wants the best for you. Together, you find the belief that has been holding you back, see where it began, and let it go.
Before you start, choose the area of your life you’d like to change, and a simple symbol for how you’d like to feel instead, such as a butterfly, a dove or even a smiley face. Joanna will invite you to say a few words out loud, so find somewhere private where you won’t be disturbed.
What you’ll experience
A slow, gentle descent into deep relaxation
A walk through a circle of trees to a peaceful sanctuary
Meeting your inner physician, your own inner wisdom
Seeing where a limiting belief or emotion first began
Letting it go, and speaking your new belief out loud
A gentle count back up to full awareness
Who this is for
 Anyone who keeps running into the same old feeling of “I’m not enough” or “I can’t”, and is ready to put it down.
Mentions & ideas
Hypnotherapy, NLP and Reiki
The unconscious mind
Limiting beliefs and limiting emotions
Your inner physician
Releasing Limiting Feelings, Joanna’s companion meditation
Fear Was Meant to Be Your Servant, Not Your Master, my full conversation with Joanna
Becoming Limitless, Joanna’s six-week mediumship course
Guest links
 Website: https://www.joannamediumandhealer.uk/
Gentle note
 This is a hypnotic visualisation. Please listen somewhere safe and comfortable, sitting or lying down, and never while driving or operating machinery. It isn’t a substitute for medical or psychological care, so if you’re living with a mental health condition, check with your GP or therapist before using hypnosis.
✨ Develop your own connection with spirit
 Free online development circle (Tuesdays): https://jasonpaulmedium.com/free-online-mediumship-development-circle
The Power of You: Psychic Development: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-psychic-development-classes
Mediumship Development Class: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-mediumship-development-class
Book a reading: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/psychic-medium-tarot-readings
📩 Get in touch: hello@jasonpaulmedium.com
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What if fear was never meant to be in charge?
In this episode of Soul Sync, I’m joined by medium, healer, hypnotherapist, Master NLP trainer and Reiki Master Joanna O’Brien for an honest conversation about fear, self-worth, intuition and the feelings that quietly shape our lives.
Joanna has been a therapist even longer than she’s been a medium, and her work brings the two together. She helps people look past the problem they arrive with to the fear sitting beneath it.
We talk about how the unconscious mind tries to protect us by repeating old patterns. We get into why one painful experience can leave part of us shouting “danger” every time we try to open up, and how something as simple as the breath can calm the nervous system enough for real change to happen. Joanna also turns the spotlight on me, asking what love and trust really mean to me, and it got more personal than I expected.
Along the way she shares some remarkable experiences. There’s the learning difficulty that shifted as she began to open up spiritually, and the voice that sent her running into the sea moments before the waves turned on her son. And there’s the warning she ignored before walking into an armed bank robbery.
This is a conversation about fear, but really it’s about freedom: learning to see your feelings, accept them, and stop letting them make your decisions for you.
Following this episode, I’m releasing two guided meditations Joanna has made for Soul Sync listeners: Releasing Limiting Feelings, created especially for the podcast, and Releasing Limiting Beliefs. Follow the podcast so you don’t miss them.
To find out more about Joanna, you can visit her website - https://www.joannamediumandhealer.uk/
What you’ll hear
Joanna’s path from the Ministry of Defence and careers work into mediumship and healing
How being psychic quietly helped us both in our old careers
Dyslexia, a shift at thirteen, and an English literature degree
Why so many mediums seem to be neurodivergent
Strict fathers, never feeling good enough, and how it shapes who we’re drawn to in love
The conscious, unconscious and supra-conscious mind, and how hypnotherapy actually works
A panic in the dentist’s chair and the breathing technique that brought her back
Joanna’s live look at my own trust and relationship blocks
Why fear was designed as a servant and became our master
Limiting feelings, and why a feeling that should pass in 60 to 90 seconds can stay for years
Trusting intuition: the Corfu wave, the bank robbery, and my own near-miss on the motorway
The “I accept, I allow, I approve” technique behind her new meditation
Who this episode is for
This episode is for anyone who knows fear has been holding them back, whether in love, work, confidence or their spiritual development.
It’s also for anyone curious about hypnotherapy, NLP, intuition, and how mediums learn to trust what they receive.
If you’ve ever talked yourself out of something before you even started, this conversation will speak to you.
Mentions & ideas
Hypnotherapy and NLP
The conscious and unconscious mind
The imprint period (the first seven years of life)
Fear, anxiety and the fight-or-flight response
Limiting feelings and limiting beliefs
Self-worth and patterns in relationships
Neurodiversity and mediumship
Clairaudience and premonitions
Releasing Limiting Feelings and Releasing Limiting Beliefs (guided meditations)
Joanna’s six-week mediumship course, Becoming Limitless
Guest links
 Website: https://www.joannamediumandhealer.uk/
Gentle note
 This episode includes discussion of anxiety, difficult childhood experiences, betrayal in relationships, a past abusive relationship, and an armed robbery. Please listen in a way that feels supportive for you.
✨ Get in touch
 If you have a story, experience, or idea you’d love to share on Soul Sync, I’d love to hear from you.
 📩 Email: hello@jasonpaulmedium.com
🌐 Website: jasonpaulmedium.com
If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to leave a review — your feedback truly means the world to me and helps others discover the show. 💫
✨ Develop your own connection with spirit
 Free online development circle (Tuesdays): https://jasonpaulmedium.com/free-online-mediumship-development-circle

The Power of You: Psychic Development (online): https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-psychic-development-classes

Mediumship Development Class (online): https://jasonpaulmedium.com/online-mediumship-development-class

Book a reading: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/psychic-medium-tarot-readings
 ✨ Join our FREE Tuesday Development Circle! Tuesdays, 6–8pm UK on Zoom. Practise mediumship, build confidence and connect with others in a welcoming space. Join for either hour or both. 
💫 Develop further with Donna King and me through The Power of You and our Mediumship Development class.
📅 Find the circle, classes and upcoming events at JasonPaulMedium.com 🤍
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The first time I told my mum I was thinking about doing a trance course, she said absolutely not. For a lot of people, trance still carries that fear. In this episode of The Mediumship Sessions, trance medium Donna King joins me again to clear some of it up.
We talk about what trance mediumship actually is, why the pioneers so often started with it, and what it feels like as you move into the state. Donna describes taking a back seat and letting spirit take the wheel, and we get honest about the difference between trying and allowing. Even when we think we’re allowing, so much of the time we’re still in control.
We also talk about:
How to tell genuine trance, and why you should be able to feel it in the room
Ego in trance, and remembering that we’re the vessel
Choosing the right teacher, and why pressure to speak is what stops you speaking
Why intention is all it takes to start sitting
Overshadowing, and why physical mediumship was done in red light
The 2012 brain scan study of Brazilian trance mediums, and Eileen Garrett’s lifelong questions about her own trance
I also share how my dad came through during a week of sitting in trance.
Donna and I are opening a fortnightly online trance circle on Thursdays, 7–9pm UK, from 3 December. It’s for those who already have some experience of connecting with spirit. Find out more: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/trance-circle-online
Join my free weekly mediumship development circle on Tuesdays: https://jasonpaulmedium.com/free-online-mediumship-development-circle
Website: jasonpaulmedium.com
Get in touch: hello@jasonpaulmedium.com
Hosted by Jason Paul with Donna King. If this episode spoke to you, please leave a rating or review. It really helps others find the show.
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We talk about evidence. We talk about accuracy. We talk about names, memories and the details that prove someone has survived.
 But how often do we ask whether a reading actually made a difference?
 In Part 3 of The Art of Mediumship Curriculum, Jason is joined once again by Christine Morgan, internationally respected medium and tutor, to explore what it really means to be an effective medium.
 This isn’t about firing out strings of evidence. It’s about the grit - the story of a life, the purpose behind the communication, and how the person in front of you feels when they walk out of the door.
 Together, they unpack why the spirit world should always lead the dance, the danger of becoming a “sausage factory medium”, what to do when a demonstration goes badly wrong, and why Christine believes nothing negative in the spirit world can hurt you - only your own mind.
 If you’ve ever finished a reading and wondered whether you really helped…
 If you’ve ever had a demonstration you’d rather forget…
 If you’ve ever wondered why your guides don’t show themselves more often…
 This episode will bring you back to why you started.
What you’ll hear
What makes a reading effective, and why evidence alone isn’t enough
“Where’s the grit?” - going beyond surface-level messages
Why the spirit world should always lead the dance
The “sausage factory medium”, and how not to become one
Setting the scene at the start of a reading without closing your sitter down
Jason’s demonstration that went wrong, and what it taught him about trust
Christine’s car park moment, and why every honest medium has bombed
Working off adrenaline vs truly blending with the power
Can the spirit world hear every thought? Christine’s controversial answer
Guides, soul archetypes and the truth about negative entities
Who this episode is for
Developing mediums wondering whether their readings really help
Working mediums who feel stuck in the same grooves
Platform mediums who’ve had a night they’d rather forget
Anyone who feels confused, or anxious, about guides and “negative entities”
Mentions & ideas
 Effective mediumship · Evidence with purpose · Blending with the power · Stagecraft and demonstrations · Spirit guides and soul archetypes · The power of prayer · Responsibility to the sitter · Negative entities
Gentle note
 This episode touches on grief, self-doubt and difficult experiences on the platform. Please listen with care if those themes feel tender for you.
✨ Get in touch
 If you have a story, experience, or idea you’d love to share on Soul Sync, I’d love to hear from you.
 📩 Email: hello@jasonpaulmedium.com
🌐 Website: jasonpaulmedium.com
🕯️ Free online mediumship development circle: jasonpaulmedium.com/free-online-mediumship-development-circle
If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to leave a review — your feedback truly means the world to me and helps others discover the show. 💫
 ✨ Join our FREE Tuesday Development Circle! Tuesdays, 6–8pm UK on Zoom. Practise mediumship, build confidence and connect with others in a welcoming space. Join for either hour or both. 
💫 Develop further with Donna King and me through The Power of You and our Mediumship Development class.
📅 Find the circle, classes and upcoming events at JasonPaulMedium.com 🤍
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