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BY NICOLE POPE

Reiki, Research, and Real Life: What 14 Practitioners Across 6 Countries Taught Us About Energy Healing

In this episode of The Unity Code, I’m joined by Lindsay Harper, a certified Reiki practitioner and the founder of Open Your Eyes Reiki, who also works in higher education as an associate professor and archivist. Lindsay is one of my favorite kinds of people: deeply spiritual, wildly grounded, and obsessed (in the best way) with patterns, stories, and what actually works in real life. That mix is exactly why I wanted her here, because she didn’t just “learn Reiki” — she studi

Spirit Guides Aren’t Subtle — We Just Learned to Ignore Them

Most people think working with spirit guides is something you do — a practice you learn, a skill you develop, a connection you either have or don’t. In reality, spirit guide communication is less about effort and more about unlearning. Unlearning expectations. Unlearning how guidance is “supposed” to sound or feel. Unlearning the habit of overriding the quiet information that’s been coming through all along. When people tell me they don’t hear their guides, what they usually

A Light in Every House: Finding Your Role in the Spiritual Awakening

What does it actually mean to walk a spiritual path in today’s world? For many people, spirituality doesn’t begin with certainty. It begins with loneliness, curiosity, and a quiet knowing that there is more — more meaning, more connection, more truth than what we were handed by systems, religion, or society at large. This reflection comes from a powerful realization that emerged during a recent episode of The Unity Code: there is no single “right way” to be spiritual, a

Letting Spirit Lead: What Happens When Old Ways Stop Working in a New Year

This podcast episode of The Unity Code was not planned. I tried to record a completely different episode multiple times, and each time I flubbed it, stalled, or lost the thread. Eventually it became obvious that Spirit had something else to say. When that happens, I’ve learned not to push or force clarity. I stop and listen. What came through instead was a real-time reflection on what happens when you stop forcing alignment and start letting Spirit lead, especially in busines

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