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Curious Cat

Jennifer Hotes

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Curious Cat explores the shadowy space where science and the supernatural collide. Join us every week as we examine what it means to be a soul in a meat suit. The moments that prickle your skin, cause the hair to rise on the back of your neck: a kiss of chill air in a haunted space: a flash of déjà vu; a knowing when you step into a new place; a sense of connectedness to something bigger as the sun sets behind the mountains. These are the moments that cause us to wonder if there is more to t ...
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Episode Intro Last week I shared stories of my recent trip to Japan. There's one story, though, that's taken on a life of its own since being stateside once again. It all began with a visit to Tokyo National Museum in Uedo Park, seeing objects that have become icons in the UFO/UAP communities. If that wasn't enough, those odd clay figures led me to…
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I'm just off the heels of a phenomenal trip to Japan. It was precious time, two weeks with the whole family. And though I did not pack my podcaster hat, I couldn't help but immerse myself in the country, the culture, and sought off the beaten trail places where ancient history was kept alive right next to mega-modern skyscrapers. I had to share som…
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This week we're talking about witch trees - as in w-i-t-c-h - Trees thought to be embodied by the souls of witches – What? Did you think I made the concept up out of thin air? No. I was researching ghost stories around Halloween and stumbled on the true account of a cursed tree in Oregon. But before I tell you about that, and other ghost stories, I…
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As Spring days blur into endless starry summer nights, I hope you'll retreat into the piney wilderness with me. After enduring a drafty winter, it's well past time we got our faces into sunshine, feel peat moss beneath our bare feet, and savor this season of growth and renewal. There's no better way to send a refreshing chill down your spine than t…
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When I was in school, I was presented with book knowledge as if that's all there was to know, don't bother looking further. Geologic knowledge? We know how everything came to be. Zoological information? We know every species, every adaptation, every nuance. Science? Yes, these are theories, but they have been tested and true. Scientists STILL wear …
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Let's get into it. But wait, first... Full Confession - I'd recorded this episode already and as I did the audio edits, I wasn't happy with this episode. It had great information, an interesting story and a powerful message but was buried in a tangle of crossed wires. You see, the provenance of the Emerald Tablet is complicated. And a pissing match…
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My mind is blown. If you've been listening to the podcast this last month, first, thank you! I appreciate your willingness to get weird with me here. But, second, I've been on a journey without even knowing I'm on it until I have AHA! moments as I record. This is the fourth accidental installment of what the Universe has been creating. If you misse…
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This is the third episode of what has become a mind-blowing journey created by the Universe that stems from the four mysterious knocks I received on my front door during a gusty storm. If you wish to catch up, begin with The Present. Next, listen to Four Knocks, and then dive into this one. The final segment is called 3 Seemingly Unrelated Essays w…
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We've all heard of angel numbers, right? 111 222 1234? But what about knocks? Raps on the door? I remember from my Ghost Adventure-obsessing days, the crew would often hear three knocks, declaring it a sure sign of dark energies, maybe a sign of a demon - a mocking of the trilogy that is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. But recently I heard…
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Here. I. Am. Those three words have shown up for me in random ways throughout the week. Those words AND the number 222 - which is my sign for angelic besties, Metatron and Sandalphon, angelic best friends that represent the great central sun and the Earth's crystal grid (heaven and earth). All of which are clear messages to me to be in my body, be …
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This week, I focus on an archangel that risked banishment from Heaven to gift humans with divine knowledge. He has what's been called the best sense of humor in the whole of the Universe and has dominion over lightning. I'd like to introduce you to Archangel Barachiel. Let's get into it! Show Sources and Materials Meet Archangel Barachiel, Angel of…
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It's a comfort during these trying times to know that a fleet of angels led by Archangel Chamuel are there to help us all experience unconditional love. God, I love the idea of an army of love angels. I'll share about this angel, and later in the episode, confess my uglies. It's a message I share in love and with some shame. Let's get into it! Show…
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A candid conversation about jinxes, curses and hexes. Is there a downside? I've been drawn to dive deep into the realm of curses, hexes, jinxes, and even some angry fist shaking after a road rage incident. These acts, some large, some tiny, come with ramifications. I explore what they are, if they can be used without repercussions, how to know if y…
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In celebration of Opening Day of Major League Baseball 2024, I recorded an episode in the middle of Denver's National Ballpark Museum with intern, Rebecca D'Arcey to share the story of the OTHER Jackie. We all know #42, Jackie Robinson, as well we should. But have you ever heard of the seventeen year old Jackie Mitchell? She struck out BOTH Babe Ru…
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The angel Jophiel communicates with me through bursts of red-hot anger. She said we can work out a better way to talk to one another, but she's been using this method for years. Years! Yes, she's been working with me for my entire life, but I only learned her name two weeks ago. She is in charge of the cherubim, and is said to have witnessed the mo…
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A few weeks back I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Higher Side Chat. This particular episode centered around dreams, one of my lifelong favorite topics, and the guest is my honored guest today. His name is Daniel Rekshan and if you read his resume on INDEED, you might overlook half of his genius, at least. With a bachelors' from S…
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This week, I fell into the topic after spotting so many strings of ones and twos, that I took notice. Still not knowing what message I was being sent by my angels and guides, I started obsessively looking at and tracking the Moon. And then, still not getting the message, I opened my Angels and Awakenings workbook, then skipped ahead because I wasn'…
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Do we all have the divine within? Are we different bandwidths of a great God radio? All major religions tell us that God is as close as our DNA strand. We are made in their image. We are God's hands and feet. What questions are scientists still trying to answer about the voids within each cell of our being? And what does that struggle tell us about…
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This one is not for younger ears, and is not for the sensitive. This episode deals with a true and brutal crime perpetrated on my friend 30 years ago. I promise to tell it with love and compassion, to breeze (mostly) over the dirtbag that committed the crime, and share more about the woman he took from the prime of her life. (God, I hate that sayin…
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I was doing my morning minutes a few weeks ago and also thinking about AI. I'd brought up AI with members of my podcast network at a meeting and many expressed fear, and their ongoing attempt to keep a distance from this technology. It got me thinking about AI, and how it is being shaped, more specifically WHO is shaping it. If people like me, that…
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Here's a confession. This week, I did what you're not supposed to - at least if you don't want predictive algorithms to, well, predict better. After I finished my YouTube yoga, a suggested video was queued up, a ten minute motivational speech. I clicked 'Play' and it was phenomenal. So maybe AI knows me better than I know myself because I needed th…
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Today's guest is my oldest, dearest friend, Deb Sundblad. Our lives have been woven together since fifth grade when she sat beside me in the Mark Twain Elementary band. Through school, university, adulthood, motherhood, and empty-nest hood, she's always been important. Recently, she found herself in a journey only a divine, complicated, beautiful U…
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Last week, my eldest and I walked Red Rocks Park, best known for its world-renowned music venue. We found the already mystical sand stones to have another level of awe covered in a blanket of snow. As we walked near a place I alluded to last week with guest, Phill Webster, a place where the middle of a massive forty foot wall of red rocks tapers in…
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I had the joyous pleasure of speaking with author and actor, Phill Webster about his first book, Letting Glow. Our conversation meandered along a vibe-y, spiritual, and delightful path. I hope you enjoy the places we went and I am already looking forward to having Phill back on Curious Cat soon. Guest Links: Phill Webster's Website Phill Webster on…
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Well, 2023 was quite the year, wasn't it? Who better to look back AND forward with but my dear friend, Monique Pliakos. She pulls a card for the upcoming year from her dragon tarot deck, too. Welcome to the show, Monique! Guest Links (Monique's details here - Innerstandings Hypnosis - blog and book a session!) Liked the episode? Listen to one of th…
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Urban legends. Which one comes to mind first? Rumors about drug deals happening in areas where running shoes hang from powerlines? What about Slenderman? The urban legend that led young girls to attempt to kill their friend? They are stories that connect us. In fact, often it's the cousin of a friend's friend that we swear knows the legend to be tr…
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The other morning, I woke up to snow and filled my little journal with psycho-pop fluorescent snowflake sketches. Each flake was a unique configuration, it's own work of art. Fragile. Temporary beauties that melt away with the slightest drop in temperature. We're like that. Unique. Unlike anyone else on the planet. Even if we are a twin. Even if ou…
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During a recent car ride with a loved one, we had a conversation that led to them making some fun suggestions for a few "light" episodes for the run up to the holidays. I considered them, both fresh and sweet, and then consideration turned into clarification. This podcast is a place where everyone is welcome, it's a place of imperfections, of exper…
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My experiment to change fear into love. After meditation, I was drawn back to an old book I love, Angels and Awakening by Julie Jancius, a course slash workbook on how to connect with angels. I completed this course over two years ago, but as I read through the passages in the present, redoing the exercises in the margins, I saw the words in a diff…
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A few days ago, I went to a bookstore to find Lessons in Chemistry. As I walked past the non-fiction area, a book caught my eye, Eckhart Tolle's, The Power of Now. I haven't been able to put it down since. I'm writing notes in the margins and wow. Just wow. Sewn up in a few words. Being present, living in NOW, is the key to living in bliss, being o…
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This meditation was created and offered in love. It was created to bring your Higher Self and angel team together to deliver you a clear vision of your life's purpose. It goes hand in hand with Season 2, Episode 51: The Lost Art of Doing No-Thing. Did you hear the good news? Curious Cat Podcast is in the TOP TEN of Supernatural podcasts. Hooray! Th…
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Three mystical peaks in Oregon with a pool of freshwater fit for Satan himself to the south – Clear Lake that has a petrified forest perfectly preserved beneath its depths, and icy waters whose temp hovers right around freezing all year long, next Lost Lake that disappears down a deep hole, emptying it's mysterious waters to where? Some believe int…
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I'm not sure you can hear that in the background. The Seattle skies have opened up and it is pouring out! This is my favorite weather, a vibe that gets my creative juices flowing. If you are a regular listener, first, thank god for you. You are the reason I've kept at this the last month, this podcasting thing. In some summer episodes I teased Seas…
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In the woo community, we hear much about healing our past traumas, or healing our inner child. I'm no different. I've been doing the work to look back and face, then make peace with my past. It's been a journey of forgiving, both myself and others. I truly thought to meet my inner child would be a delightful, relaxing experience. We'd hug in my min…
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Heidi Stock of Wise Wolf Craft is a special human, a gifted healer, and her episode blew the minds of listeners. I polished up the last few minutes of that original interview because there is love in the remnants that needs to be transmitted. We need more love these days. Less fear and more curiosity. Less hate and more raw, unconditional love. In …
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Sometimes after the interview is recorded, bits of important information come forth. Keith is an IT professional, obsessed with data, and that's why he took meticulous records of all that happened when he resided at what has been come to be known as Bothell Hell House of Ghost Adventures fame. It's my opinion that the GAC crew did not treat Keith o…
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We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep. Do you buy the rote reason given? That it's when our bodies heal. And that's it. Not a very efficient pit stop, is it? Eight hours to heal the damage we do during the other 16? The recent addition to that is sleeping hours are when our brain processes, then stores our day. Really? That doesn't quite pas…
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This week's episode is two-thirds teaching you the CIA approved method for remote viewing and one-third true, or should I say, Pru crime? I'm being overly dramatic, but the master class I took online to learn the whats and hows of remote viewing (or RV) was presented largely by a woman named, Prudence Calabrese. A year after the filming she dropped…
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Late last night a well meaning and wonderful neighbor of ours sent us security footage of two guys that were walking around the corner of our property, shining a flashlight onto a concrete wall, talking with each other, going around the house again, and if that'd been it, I'd have assumed they were looking for a lost cat. But one of them flashed hi…
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I hope you and your people are well. It's been a helluva month, hasn't it? I'm glad to see the end of it. Like a Clint Eastwood movie, my August was good, bad and ugly. It's consisted of some serious physical and emotional work and in order to not hide in a hole, but face the work, I painted my toenails purple. It's not a color I'd normally pick, b…
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Full disclosure. This week's topic stems from a conversation I had with someone I love. I'm not naming them for two reasons. First, I didn't ask permission, and second, we have such rich, fantastic conversations, I never want them to think whatever we speak of in confidence is somehow fodder for Curious Cat. During that conversation we spoke about …
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***************** Special episode artwork inspired by the nifty fifties was created by @hotesdesign - follow Bryn on insta and cheer her on as her career skyrockets! ***************** Thanks for tuning in to CASCADIA. I hope you are enjoying our special season as we dwell in the misty valleys and ice-crusted peaks of the Cascade Mountain range. I h…
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This week we are in for a treat. Dr. Richard Sugg is an accomplished author with 13 published books. His works have appeared in The Guardian, BBC History, Der Spiegel and The New Yorker. He has only recently ventured into the podcast arena with Dark Mysteries from the Secret University. He has a new book out now, and I've linked to it in the show. …
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Special show art by Bryn Hotes. Follow this dynamic designer on Insta here! As the summer continues to dazzle with clear lake waters and lazy hazy days, my inner spooky season fangirl is relieved that the days are FINALLY getting shorter. That said, if you venture out into the wild, don't get caught without a light source. The woods feel different …
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This one was recorded on the fly after I woke up thinking about the BANANAS Schumann Resonance recorded in June. It was like a weaving to me, weaving the pieces of fabric of us together into a beautiful quilt. That got me thinking about duality, specifically the imbalance between the time we devote to our meat suits versus our souls. If you vibed w…
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This week we have a special guest who embodies the essence of Curious Cat. She is a produce and chicken farmer, but she's also doing spiritual work which began with grid healing and evolved into world building. I'm not sure what all that means, but she's here to explain everything. She reached out to the show after listening to the episode, Mind th…
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This week we venture into the Cascade Mountain range just a stitch south of Seattle and Tacoma, north of Portland to Mount Rainier, or what my kids called Mount Reindeer when they were little. Mount Rainier is Washington State's Shangri La. On a clear day it is the unrivaled star of the Seattle skyline. The mountain has served as a sacred spot for …
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This week's episode with the phenomenal Leslie Fear is only half of the story. If you are gripped by Leslie's journey, please take the time to listen to her episode with Pete, the Blue Collar Spiritualist. You'll have a front row seat to the healing journey as it unfolds in real time. Here is the link to that episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/…
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Today we have a very special guest, someone I adore. She is many things, an intuitive healer, a gardener, a reiki practitioner, an artist that creates orogon pieces, and she is a certified hypnotist. 1. Introduction 2. Monique as a Child 3. Monique's Gifts 3. Reiki Healing 4. Listening to Your Body/Insisting on What YOU Know with Doctors 5. Show Mi…
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Thanks for tuning into Curious Cat's very special season three, Cascadia. As the scorching heat of summer continues, I hope you'll retreat with us into the musky wilderness, dip a toe in a chill alpine lake, and reflect on the perfection of nature. This week we travel south to a place not far from the California/Oregon border. Double knot your hiki…
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