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Sep 4, 2026 · 52 min

Medium explains how pandemic experiences reshaped her view of intuition

Your Intuition Isn’t Yours. It’s Spirit Talking. Psychic Explains | Barbra Banner

The conversation examines how mediumship, grief, skepticism, and spiritual explanations can reshape the way people interpret loss and uncertainty.

3 key takeaways
  1. 1Barbra Banner says paranormal experiences during the pandemic led her to study mediumship and understand what was happening around her.
  2. 2She frames intuition as spiritual communication developed through meditation, openness, symbolic interpretation, and attention to bodily sensations.
  3. 3The hosts consider whether humor and laughter can make grief more bearable while easing resistance to extraordinary claims.

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Banner leads a short exercise on noticing intuitive thoughts and interpreting symbolic signs as possible spiritual communication.

The brief

Barbra Banner describes becoming a medium during the pandemic after paranormal experiences in her home, then using readings to help people process grief and loss.

Her central claim is that intuition is not merely instinct: meditation, openness, bodily sensations, and symbolic impressions can become channels for spiritual messages.

The conversation tests that framework against skepticism, difficult relationships, suicide, near-death experiences, and the idea that people enter life with pre-birth soul contracts.

Banner leads a brief intuition exercise, explaining why she believes spirits communicate symbolically and how signs or physical sensations may confirm important information.

Mayim and Jonathan close by considering humor and laughter as forms of emotional relief, turning a serious discussion of grief into a playful meditation on healing.

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