Spiritual conversations for the present moment.
Be Present: The Diane Ray Show gathers reflective conversations with authors, teachers, healers, and spiritual voices. Episodes move gently from personal story into practical ideas about presence, meditation, emotional blocks, purpose, and change.
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Be Present: The Diane Ray Show is a warm, interview-led series built around spiritual curiosity, healing, and the search for a more intentional life. Diane Ray’s conversations often begin with the idea that the present moment is where people have the most power. From there, the show follows guests into stories of change, inner guidance, emotional blocks, meditation, and mystical experience. It is not a hard-edged advice program. It moves at a gentler pace, giving guests room to explain how their practices emerged and how listeners might apply them without needing to become experts. One episode with Monika Benoit looks at subconscious patterns, hypnosis, EFT tapping, and the feeling of being stuck. Another with Deborah Santana turns a memoir about leaving a 34-year marriage into a larger conversation about identity, soul purpose, and choosing supportive people. Oneika Mays brings meditation down from an idealized state into a practice of loving kindness and honest presence. Andrew Harvey’s appearance reaches into Mary Magdalene, Jesus, mystic traditions, and alternate spiritual interpretations of familiar religious stories. Paul Selig’s episode moves through channeling, the Guides, oneness, and divine union. Mary Madeiras speaks about the Akashic Records as a field of knowing that requires trust more than proof. Dana Micucci connects miracles, divine feminine energy, surrender, and the way spiritual and scientific language sometimes move toward each other. Michelle Phillips grounds happiness in repeatable practices like gratitude, meditation, journaling, and setting an intention for the day. Across these episodes, the show favors meaning over speed. It asks broad questions, then looks for small actions. Some claims sit firmly in metaphysical territory, so skeptical listeners may find parts too belief-forward. For spiritually open listeners, though, the appeal is clear: the show treats transformation as intimate, personal, and available in daily life.
Made for: For listeners drawn to spirituality, memoir, meditation, intuition, and personal change. It especially suits people who prefer gentle interviews over fast advice or debate.
What sets it apart: The show blends mystical subjects with grounded personal reflection, moving from channeling and Akashic Records to journaling, gratitude, and self-trust. Its strength is the calm way it turns big spiritual ideas into something emotionally recognizable.
The world is full of people with amazing stories. Hear conversations about spirituality, metaphysics, philosophy, mediumship, past lives, reincarnation, health and wellness, yoga, or connecting with the Source within you. Host Diane Ray welcomes a variety of guests sharing powerful information you can apply to your life today.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Diane Ray turns spiritual frameworks into conversations about habits, emotional resilience and the choices people make during periods of change.
Diane Ray keeps returning to a practical question: how might a belief about the unseen change the way someone handles an ordinary day? Be Present: The Diane Ray Show answers through guest interviews that connect spirituality with wellness, moving from intuition and the Akashic…
Like a spiritual advice shelf where the Akashic records sit beside your half-finished journal.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical, alternative-health conversation about hypnosis, tapping, and persistent patterns.
Monica Benoit, introduced as the Quantum Oracle, takes a familiar conversation about feeling stuck and turns it toward subconscious patterns, hypnosis, and emotional freedom technique.
A reflective conversation about rebuilding identity, spiritual freedom, and self-trust after a long marriage ends.
Deborah Santana gives this episode its steady emotional pull, reflecting on life after the end of her 34-year marriage and the inner work behind Loving the Fire, Choosing Me, Finding Freedom.
A clear, grounded conversation about intuition, spiritual practice, and how proof can complicate inner knowing.
The episode treats the Akashic Records as a kind of intuitive field, a place where thoughts or answers can seem to arrive without formal study.
A reflective metaphysical conversation on miracles, divine feminine energy, and the courage to pause.
Dana Micucci brings a journalist's grounding and a healer's metaphysical language to a conversation about miracles, complexity theory, and the meeting point between science and spirit.
Phillips shares how she prepares for the day, while Ray admits she struggles to keep journaling.
Michelle Phillips describes happiness as something she prepares for each morning. In conversation with Diane Ray, she talks through the habits she relies on: gratitude when she wakes, a little stretching, meditation, reading and journaling.
A gentle conversation about practicing joy while making room for difficult feelings.
Diane Ray talks with Sherry Elise about her book Joy Unleashed and with Felicia Rangel, whose story appears in the collection. Their conversation treats joy as something a person can choose and practice, even through difficult periods.
Quiet adventures in the British countryside.
Movie history with a widening lens.
California, explained through consequential conversations.
Maria Quintana shares her story of fleeing Castro's Cuba and building a successful life in America, as discussed in her memoir Last Flight from Havana.
Diane Ray interviews Henry Shukman about his spontaneous spiritual awakening and his new book 'Original Love', discussing meditation and the path to awakening.
Diane Ray interviews shamanic practitioner Jonathan Hammond about how ancient shamanic practices, particularly Huna, can help people find balance and become effective change makers in today's world.
Diane Ray interviews Monika Benoit, the Quantum Oracle, about reprogramming the subconscious mind to overcome emotional blocks and get unstuck in life.
Andrew Harvey discusses his book 'The Magdalene Revolution' and offers a new interpretation of Mary Magdalene's story with Jesus.
Deborah Santana discusses her new memoir about reclaiming her voice and identity after her 34-year marriage to Carlos Santana ended.
Diane Ray interviews meditation teacher Oneika Mays about her no-nonsense approach to mindfulness and loving kindness meditation, including her experiences at Rikers Island.
Diane Ray interviews Paul Selig about his new book 'The Divine Union' and his work as a channel for non-physical guides.
Diane Ray introduces Mary Medeiros, author of The Akashic Way, and frames the Akashic Records as a "Book of Life" that can support personal healing and life purpose.
Dana Micucci and Diane Ray discuss The Years of Living Dangerously, a memoir about Micucci’s work as an author, healer, and “21st century lightworker.” Micucci defines a lightworker as someone who “endeavors to hold and emanate the light,” and links that calling to sacred sites, the Essene lineage, and Mary Magdalene.
On Be Present: The Diane Ray Show, Michelle Phillips explains how to increase happiness by aligning mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional energy rather than running on “adrenaline.” Phillips recommends limiting doomscrolling, focusing attention on controllable actions, and replacing constant news exposure with books, podcasts, and other nourishing inputs.
Diane Ray interviews Sherry Elise and Felicia Rangel about Joy Unleashed, a collection of 24 stories built around practical ways to uncover joy.
Diane Ray interviews Marianne Williamson about her book 'The Mystic Jesus' and the teachings of A Course in Miracles, focusing on love over dogma.
Diane Ray interviews Joseph Selbie about the possibility of miraculous healing from diseases like cancer, exploring spontaneous remissions and the power of the mind.