The Oracle of Luna with Bridget Engels presents: Tiffany Hopkins: Author, Medium, Podcast Host of: “Normalize Talking to the Dead”- Lily Dale

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Join us, for a fascinating and meaningful conversation with Tiffany Hopkins! Tiffany Hopkins has been a year-round resident of Lily Dale, NY since moving into her great-great grandmother’s cottage in 2018. Tiffany gives mediumship readings and works to share the unique experience of living surrounded by people who practice mediumship in Lily Dale through: Normalize Talking to The Dead, a Website, Podcast, and Residency. Her first book, “Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead” (June 10, 2025) shares her story of moving to Lily Dale; a community that shares a rich history of mediumship, healing, social reform, freethinking and walks readers through how to find their own approach to Mediumship. Tiffany has degrees in Cognitive Science, Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts & Music, and Business.She lives in Lily Dale, NY *Stay tuned until the end where Tiffany gives us a short guided meditation to open and close connection to contacting beyond the veil.*

We start out by chatting about the captivating history of Lily Dale, an intentional Spiritualist community in upstate NY which has had a rich history of hosting freethinkers, social reformists, and mediums since the 1870’s. Originally Lily Dale was a summer camp for Spiritualists. There has been tie- ins with the suffragette movement, labor movement, abolition and Spiritualism with many famous mediums and notable people such as Susan B. Anthony who spoke about women's rights as regular visitors and speakers there. Gradually it became a year round live in community for professional mediums.

Lots of radical changes and utopian societies springing up in the same area of NY at that ime period in the mid-late 1800’s called the “Burnt out Region“ of upstate NY which became the birthplace of Quakers and Shakers. And interestingly, almost all the mediums were women and girls speaking in public as mediumship demonstration in a time period when women had no real power and were not permitted to speak in public before that era in American history.

We then talk about Tiffany’s new book “Beyond: A Living Person’s Guide to the Dead” and how it came from her research project in mediumship studies. Tiffany wrote a paper on the process of channeling which she expanded on into step by step approach explaining the channeling process for people to figure out how it can work for them. Tiffany believes people can learn mediumship just by doing and practicing it and paying attention to the subtleties.

Tiffany believes that it is a natural human ability to connect with the spirits beyond the veil and that psychic work has been misunderstood. She thinks that anyone can do Mediumship and connect with their departed loved ones on the other side but it does take time and consistent practice. We can start with two powerful tools we all have to develop our psychic abilities and to reignite our connection with a departed loved one: our memories and our imaginations.

Tiffany talks about how living in a supportive community of mediums at Lily Dale has helped her accept that it's normal to talk to spirits on the other side of the veil. Her goal with her book, classes and podcast is to help others develop their mediumship skills and abilities so that they can feel comfortable doing this whatever their level of psychic ability and mediumship is. Tiffany ends with

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