The Spiritual Geek Podcast: Wisdom for Modern Times · Sheila Franzen

Modern Ascension: Personal Stories of Spiritual Awakening with Carol Anne Halstead

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Sheila says she spent years as an overachiever and found "there was never peace" or "never joy."

1. The Spiritual Geek Podcast: Wisdom for Modern Times episode centers on Modern Ascension and the personal ascension stories of Sheila Franzen, Carol Ann Halstead, Tammy Manzo, and Elizabeth Tachenberg. 2. Sheila Franzen hosts the conversation, Carol Ann Halstead wrote Modern Ascension and Divine Healing, and Tammy Manzo and Elizabeth Tachenberg contributed chapters about their own paths. 3. The episode asks what ascension means as a lived spiritual process and why the book gathers 13 stories from people on that path. 4. Carol Ann says the book idea began in late 2017 or early 2018 during a conversation with Luz Victoria Winter, who said someone should write about "modern ascension." 5. Carol Ann links that prompt to a golden pen from shamanic training and a vision in the Higher Self Temple after she passed the seventh initiation in November 2018. 6. She says she posted on a closed Facebook site for the Ascending Initiates and asked whether anyone wanted to tell their story of ascension. 7. Carol Ann describes the result as a book created with no formal writing training, only faith and a request for contributors. 8. Tammy says she had also been told by a medium and psychic reader that she would write books, so she recognized Carol Ann’s invitation as a real opening. 9. Tammy says writing her chapter took months, made her cry, and brought up old memories, old emotions, and clearing work. 10. Elizabeth says she resisted at first, then wrote after another woman kept encouraging her and asking her to share her story. 11. Sheila says the book gives "glimpses of what God has done" through 13 different stories from people whose paths overlap in ascension. 12. Carol Ann explains that ascension is the active process of evolving into higher consciousness and that it does not have an endpoint. 13. Sheila reads Carol Ann’s definition of karma as negative thoughts, words, and actions from past lives and this life that are stored in the chakras. 14. The group says karma clearing involves love, forgiveness, gratitude, meditation, and surrendering the ego. 15. Carol Ann says children today may come in without karma, while earlier generations had to clear more before moving forward. 16. Sheila says rereading her own story showed her how much she struggled with joy, peace, and the drive to keep striving for more. 17. She says her recent experience of higher consciousness has made being human feel more present and more enjoyable. 18. The discussion has a conversational interview style, with Sheila reading from the preface, asking reflective questions, and letting the guests answer with personal examples. 19. People interested in spirituality, karma, reincarnation, and personal transformation would likely connect with this episode. 20. Listeners looking for secular analysis or skepticism about ascension may skip it.

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A direct, testimony-led look at ascension, healing, and staying present.

Modern Ascension gathers Carol Ann Halstead, Sheila Franzen, Tammy Manzo, and Elizabeth Tachenberg around the book Modern Ascension and the stories behind it.

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