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Closer to Venus
#260 Evidential Mediumship with Allison Carmany
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Psychic medium and intuitive healer Allison Carmany joins the show to unpack evidential mediumship — the specific, verifiable details from spirit that go far beyond a vague reading. She also talks about her work healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and the collective awakening she believes is unfolding across the planet.
In this episode:
- What evidential mediumship is and how it differs from a typical psychic reading
- How mediums receive unprompted, specific details a sitter can later confirm
- Why spirit often communicates through symbols instead of words
Find Allison on Instagram and at soulfulevolution.com.
00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
00:32 What Awakening Means
01:19 The Thinning Veil and Intuition
03:03 Earth Frequency and Chaos
04:26 Cycles of Destruction
06:01 Acceleration and Accountability
06:54 Vibrations and Escaping Matrix
08:59 Deep State and Programming
09:50 Allison’s Mediumship Journey
12:49 Evidential Mediumship Proof
14:59 How Spirit Communicates
16:38 Pre Reading Signs and Grief
18:57 Healing Lineage Trauma
20:24 Cycle Breakers and Lightworkers
22:56 Starseeds and Aquarian Age
24:39 Galactic War and Telepathy
26:28 Project Looking Glass Timelines
29:47 Astrology Forecast to 2030
31:09 Where to Find Allison Closing
t Welcome to Closer to Venus. I'm Johnny Burke, and today's guest is Allison Carmeny. She is a psychic medium, intuitive healer, and spiritual guide. In addition to offering psychic readings, she also works with ancestral or intergenerational trauma as part of her healing work. In this episode, we'll discuss the soul's evolution and the collective awakening that is unfolding across the planet. Allison, welcome to the program.
Allison CarmanyThanks, Johnny. I'm excited to be here.
Johnny BurkeExcellent. Excitement is always good. So a lot of people are talking about awakening, and that can mean different things. I've heard people talk about ascension and the Aquarian age. Is that pretty much the same thing or not necessarily?
Allison CarmanyIt is. It's the same thing. Here's where it gets interesting, okay? Everybody wants to be awakened, but the reality is that it is breakdown. So in order for us to wake up, there's a lot of things that start to break down in our life because the way we've been operating is not been on truth. As we awaken, things start to shift in our, you know, relationships and the way that we are related to things because the veil is coming off of the way we saw things.
Johnny BurkeThe veil is getting thinner.
Allison CarmanySo there's a veil there that kind of keeps us from seeing everything. If we saw everything, we would be shocked about what is actually happening on an energetic level, on an interdimensional galactic level, right? So it's like there's a veil there and doesn't allow us us to see everything all at once. But as people start to awaken through past the five senses, right? So in this physical world, it's ruled by the five senses. But as we start to awaken as a collective, this is naturally happening to people, is they're starting to notice that they have extra sensory abilities, which are totally natural. To be psychic is just extra sensory. Okay, that doesn't feel right to me. I'm hearing something, I'm seeing something. All of those things are intuition, gut feelings, but we have been taught that those are bad and to discount those and override with the mind, right? And so what's happening is that veil of is lifting from us to be more tapped in on an energetic level as to what's happening.
Johnny BurkeSo it seems like the veil is there for the sake of at least in part of our own sanity, because if we saw everything that was happening, our mind would maybe explode.
Allison CarmanyYeah, and so it's also like the perception. So as a society locked into the matrix, we have a certain perception of reality, right? And that perception has been like drilled into us. This is what how you see things, or whatever. But as we all agree on something collectively, then that's the perception. And so what's happening is as more people awaken on the planet, it's like the tipping point is like only 1% of the population awakening. And when that it starts to happen, everyone's gonna be starting to awaken at a rapid rate, and this awakening is being brought on by the planet Earth. Okay, so the planet Earth has a certain vibrational frequency, and it's called the Schumann resonance, and we are connected with the Earth. So as the vibration starts to rise on the planet, we're rising in vibration. What's happening is our bodies are carbon-based in the matrix, and what's happening is as the planet and the vibrations raising, some of us are having a lot of health issues, health things that are coming up because it requires a higher vibration to be on the planet during a time of awakening. So a lot of people are leaving the planet now. Souls are leaving the planet that cannot handle the higher vibrational frequencies. And the ones that haven't aligned to that higher vibrational frequency are having a lot of breakdown happening in their life right now.
Johnny BurkeCan that at least partially explain the chaos that we're seeing around the world, especially here in the States and in other areas as well?
Allison CarmanyYeah. So everything goes through a cycle. And so there was this book written called The Fourth Turning. And they didn't mention any astrology in the book. They talked about it in cycles, but I think the guy was an astrologer, but he somehow wrote it talking about cycles. But basically, what I believe part of this awakening is is the cycle is what they've called in this book the fourth turning, which is a cycle of destruction. Okay, now that sounds negative, but think about it as in terms of yourself. Like if I'm gonna change, I'm gonna have to destruct like a habit and create something new, a new habit to replace something. And that's what I see is like systems are breaking down, all the institutions, everything is breaking down so that it can be renewed and the next cycle is a cycle of new beginnings. So then we'll start again in a new cycle.
Johnny BurkeNow, when you talk about the awakening and how it accelerates that effect pretty much across the enterprise, right? Would that explain what some people call the medium explosion? Or is that something completely different?
Allison CarmanyI've never heard about that. What is that?
Johnny BurkeThere's a book called The Medium Explosion by Robert Ginsberg. He's the founder of the Forever Family Foundation, which, among other things, actually certifies mediums. I just thought that, from what I've heard from other speakers, is that the awakening has to do with an acceleration of intuitive powers that you just mentioned a moment ago.
Allison CarmanyYeah, definitely. There's an acceleration, and even scientists have talked about this. Time is speeding up. And we're experiencing that, and I feel like our nervous systems are overstimulated because time is speeding up so much. But this is the thing about an awakening. People think it's like, oh, this is such a great thing to be awakened. But what it means is that you're more accountable and responsible for things. So it's like, oh, cutting off the driver before. It's like, okay, I was unconscious, so it doesn't matter. But when you become more conscious, you realize that you are in charge of your energy and what you do has an impact. But you get to see more of that impact when you're more conscious, right? But when you're unconscious, you don't see that feedback loop.
Johnny BurkeOkay. If you're just gliding through life just blissfully, you kind of miss a lot of things, it sounds like.
Allison CarmanyYeah, and how I see this awakening for everybody listening is there is vibrational frequencies. Okay, and every emotion, every thought has a vibrational frequency that when we think it or feel it, it sends it out in waves of vibration, right? And so if you think of a low vibration, it's like negativity, hate, self-criticism, whatever it is, all the lower vibrational states, those thoughts keep us looping, right? And that's how I feel like the matrix is set up, is to keep people in a lower vibrational state in survival emotionally and physically, right? And so we have to rise up to that higher frequency to start to access the peace, the love, the authenticity, which is the highest vibrational frequency, to escape this lower bandwidth.
Johnny BurkeOkay, so you mentioned the matrix along with lower frequencies. It seems like we're being trapped in a certain bandwidth. So, what exactly is the matrix?
Allison CarmanySo the matrix is just a setup of a program, a system, right? So everything in society is set up to keep people at a certain level, okay? And that's completely fine till you wake up and you want something more, right? Then that requires you to start to move to a higher frequency to break free from the programming. Programming is I'm not enough, I won't be loved. And it's all based on, you know, when we're born, like even before we're born, it's all a program. Everything is to program us to believe and think a certain way. That's completely fine when you're stuck and locked in the matrix. But once you start questioning your reality, you start wanting something more, is the starting of the awakening. Because that's when you start to break free from the programming and the conditioning.
Johnny BurkeDoes that have anything to do with the deep state? Who is responsible for the programming?
Allison CarmanySo I feel like there is we have the government and then we have the shadow government, which is you can call the deep state, whatever you want to call it. Our government does not make the decisions. It's made by the big businesses in the organizations that are funding and who's in charge of those that fund those to make the choices about our food, about our water, about our environment. And those very crucial choices determine whether or not our bodies are toxic enough to have the capacity to rise in consciousness.
Johnny BurkeIn your work as a medium, how exactly did you discover this? How did that happen for you?
Allison CarmanySo, first of all, I have had an obsession since I was 19. I had a health issue and I was supposed to be put on medication for my whole life, like steroids, anti-inflammatories, that I went to a nutrition school to study and learned and got off the medication, right? And it started my journey to studying consciousness and nutrition education to higher consciousness. That started from an early age. So I had already been studying that for about 35 years, and then I was doing coaching, right? So just regular personal and business coaching. And one day I was working with a lady going through an emotional issue, and I was like, Somebody's here. And I was like, I literally saw somebody here, but it was kind of like the movie Ghost. It's like, you know, an outline of this person. And I'm like, she's got a hat on, a purple dress, and she's got pearl earrings. She's like, that's my aunt Pearl. I'm like, what? I'm like, oh my god, now there's somebody else here, and they're arguing about money. She's like, Oh, that's my Aunt Pearl, my mom. They always argued about money. And this was my first introduction to spirit. And I'm like, this is just too weird. And I didn't have anybody to talk to about this because then what started to happen was I started to see this with people. Like I just be with them and I know everything was going on. So somebody told me about the school in Lilydale, New York, which is just a town that has fourth and fifth generation psychics and mediums. So it's just a closed community, just with that. And there's a school there. And so as soon as I arrived there, it felt like home. The energy felt like home. I was like, I need to be here.
Johnny BurkeIs that in North Florida someplace?
Allison CarmanySo Casadega is the sister school of this. So the lake that this Lilydale's on is Casadega. So all the people that in Lilydale come down to Casadega in the winter. So after that, I really wasn't planning on doing any psychic mediumship with anybody. I'm like, I just want to find out the answers. I want to study. I want to know more. And so as soon as I started to do it, I loved doing it, and I still hadn't come out of the closet with it. Even after I had gone to school for two years, I'm like, I don't see myself doing this. But if you're on a soul's mission, what happens is like the hero's journey, you keep getting called back to it. And that's kind of how how I got into it.
Johnny BurkeI've heard that before. It seems that it actually chooses you rather than you choose mediumship experiencers like yourself have told me the same thing. I didn't want it, I didn't wish for it. It was just there. Let's talk about your work. Can you give us some examples of let's say evidential mediumship in your readings?
Allison CarmanySo, this is the thing is I'm super skeptical. Okay, and I have had a hard time believing things and trusting my own intuition. I feel like the reason why I was brought to this journey and with the evidential mediumship is so that I could learn to trust myself. And that's really what it was about. Why I like doing evidential mediumship rather than talking to saying, oh, an angel or an intergalactic being is because I say evidence that the person can confirm. Okay, your mother lived on this street, you know, with this name, and your sister's name is this, and they had a pink bunny and did this during Christmas time. And so much specific evidence that the person knows that their loved one is present.
Johnny BurkeAnd especially if you give them evidence of something which they don't know right away, but a week or two or a month later, they realize it because you might say something about a green matchbox or something like that. And then they discover it down the line, which pretty much rules out oh, you're just reading her energy.
Allison CarmanyAnother thing that I've noticed that the spirits will do with me to confirm is the first will give the evidence of themselves, but then they will go into and it looks like you were doing this or doing something specific. When you were going through this time, I was there. And so then it becomes more irrefutable because how could I know what they were doing last week?
Johnny BurkeThat can get a bit difficult to argue against when there's no way you could possibly know that.
Allison CarmanyI'm pretty much blown away by these readings. Every single reading I'm learning. So when I'm doing psychic, I'm in control. So I'm telling the person about themselves and then I'm running the reading. But when I'm doing the mediumship talking to spirit, I'm no longer in control. I allow for that spirit of their loved one to guide me. And spirit speaks through symbols. Through my experience of working with thousands of people, I have my own symbols. Okay, I'm getting the symbol of this, and then I have their interpretation of that. And also with anybody in their life, sometimes they will get information through a symbol because that's how spirit speaks.
Johnny BurkeWhen you're in the mediumship readings, how do you get specific information? Like your sister's name is Chris and your brother's name is Kevin or something like that.
Allison CarmanyWhat happens over time with anybody that's developing these psychic abilities is that a lot of times these things come online, not necessarily all at the same time, but say, like my vision is the strongest, right? And then I'll have the knowing, which is another one that comes online for people, which is the feeling, and then the hearing. If it's a name, I'll hear. If their last name was pineapple or something, then they'll give me like a pineapple. Like I had this one where I said, Oh, I'm seeing a lucky cat. I said, you know, when you go to the Chinese restaurants, that thing that is like lucky thing, and like that was our cat's name, but I didn't know it was their cat. Sometimes it's a way that they give me something that I'll say, but I don't know why I'm saying it.
Johnny BurkeOkay, yeah, that's pretty consistent with what I've heard too. Do you ever get information about a sitter right before the reading?
Allison CarmanyYes. Oh, it's so crazy. This is when I started to get freaked out in so many instances, but this is just one example. One day I put on this turtleneck, okay, to do my reading. And I do not like turtlenecks, but I just grabbed it out of my closet. Okay, as soon as I got to the reading, the two people that came through were wearing turtlenecks, okay? The two family members were wearing turtlenecks. So that spirit influenced me. Another time, like, I feel like I need to go for a dog, and it's like, okay, this person was a marathon runner. So I always receive the information before the reading, but the thing is sometimes I'm not paying attention to it. So it just depends on what it is. Like now I'm so used to it that I don't pay attention to it, but in the beginning, I was like, wow, this is crazy.
Johnny BurkeI've been told by mediums that when someone comes to see you and they've had a recent passing, they lost a family member or a friend, that can actually get in the way of you doing a reading because the sitter is just so immersed in grief. Does it make it more difficult?
Allison CarmanyYeah, it's very emotional for them. The emotion when the person's past is a lot. But this is what is interesting is I really don't get a lot of people in grief. Who comes to me are the people that vibrate to come to me, right? So I really don't get a lot of people for mediumship as much as I'm getting the person for transformation. And how I work is if I've got somebody with grief, I'm just having to deal with what is going on with them to have closure. So in the beginning, when I wasn't clear about what I was doing, it's like I got a lot of those people, and I was like, I don't really want to work with that person. I'm really looking to transform this person that's sitting in front of me. If I only have 30 minutes, like I want to work with them to help them to guide them with what's going on in their life. And so now I'm getting people that are going through whatever they're going through in their life, and I use psychic and mediumship as a tool to help them transform their identity, transform what's going on, and help them with blocks the going on. So I use the people that have passed through helping to resolve generational trauma and cycles that have played in the lineage line.
Johnny BurkeGenerational trauma. I recently had someone on the podcast that talked about places in Poland from World War II where the vibes of the people that have passed was so heavy it almost made her sick. Is there a coincidence why it's happening now or not necessarily?
Allison CarmanySo generational trauma has always been a thing. But the thing is, we're the first generation that is the people that can work on ourselves. It's like our parents' generation, they were in survival. They were literally in physical survival, right? There's this movie out there called Heat. Okay, you can watch it on Gaia or Netflix or whatever. And they took these rats and they had them smell these cherry blossom flowers, and then they would shock them and they'd go into the stress response. The next generation of the rats, they just had them smell the cherry blossoms and they went into the stress response automatically, which shows that generational trauma is passed on.
Johnny BurkeDoes it have anything to do with this generation being a little bit farther along on the intuitive track?
Allison CarmanyYes. So this is what I'm seeing is the younger generations that are coming in and stuff, they're here to break cycles. Cycles are whenever I sit with someone, I see a threat that comes through every single person's life. I'm like in the family line. I'm like, okay, addiction's played, hatred's played, betrayal, like all these different things that have played. And because of that, it looks different, different circumstances, different situation playing in mom's life and grandma's life than what's playing for that current person. This generation trauma has been playing, they've all been addicted. The possibility to break is the moment that the person says, Hey, is this right? Should I be doing these drugs and alcohol? Should I be overeating? Should I be doing these things? That is the cycle breaker. Why? Because if you're still continuing the cycle and you're not questioning the cycle, you're not here to break the cycle. Then it'll probably just be passed down to your lineage and your kids or whoever's next is going to have to break that cycle. So if you're someone in your family that's considered the black sheep that is questioning the way people operate in their family, like, hey, this is not right how we're talking to these people, or this is not right with the behavior that we keep repeating, then you're most likely the cycle breaker and you're like carrying the torch for the entire family. And when you do that, that means that you're healing seven generations in the past and seven generations in the future. That's what science says.
Johnny BurkeThat would be considered a light worker, wouldn't it? Yeah. So what you do is use your mediumship and your psychic ability more for healing than it is for helping those that are still grieving, which is an important function. And some people are very good at that. Yeah. But it's also draining, isn't it?
Allison CarmanyI could see how that would be draining, but my thing is that I am here to awaken souls. So if somebody is coming to me in a grieving state, I literally just have to be present with where they're at, and I can't really move them from that point, right? But like I can help move somebody blocks, shifts, things in their life that are stopping. them from their next level and see those things that maybe they haven't seen or see those cycles that have been playing and then that is more exciting to me and and gives me more energy than something else.
Johnny BurkeOkay. It's a better exchange for you obviously. Right? Yeah. The energy exchange. All right. So the cycle breakers you just mentioned. Does that have anything to do with starseeds?
Allison CarmanyYeah.
Johnny BurkeAll right. So they're coming here for a reason. They're like the way showers, the light workers, the starseeds. And once they accomplish, hopefully, that mission of breaking the chain, breaking the cycle, is that going to usher us into what has been described as the Aquarian age?
Allison CarmanyWe're already going to move into the Aquarian age. That's just a cycle. But what's happening is those starseeds that are here are a higher vibrational frequency. The people that are coming on the planet now, the people that are the younger generations are more like awakened. They're at a higher vibration. People here to awaken, help awakening have had more trauma than the average person because that means they've been broken up, broken, open to spirit earlier in life, and they've had to use universal spirit and the higher vibrational energies to get through what's happened to them.
Johnny BurkeIn order to move into this new age of this coming shift, don't we need that higher vibration to get there?
Allison CarmanyYeah, we need the people on the planet to be at a higher vibrational frequency. The people that are still here are here because they're holding the frequency. The people that aren't able to hold the frequency, they're not going to be here. So that's why a lot of people are being forced in their life to get into energetic alignment now. So things are falling apart for them. Their life is self-destructing. Why? Because it's out of vibrational alignment.
Johnny BurkeThe role of the starseeds and the mediums and the psychics and the other intuitives going forward how do you see that role evolving?
Allison CarmanyI see all those people as communicators with the intergalactics and the interdimensional beings. The problem is that there's no evidence to say that it's real, right? But I feel that the people that are getting connected with spirit connecting with this they're being guided by a larger force. And because we're in a spiritual war right now and that spiritual war has been going on a long time but it's happening on a galactic level.
Johnny BurkeThat plays into the matrix and the friendly ETs and the not so friendly E.T.s that apparently has their talons into the deep state. But as you said you can't really prove it but are all these people making up what sounds like a very similar account.
Allison CarmanyYeah and the other thing I want to say to people is that with this kind of deeper knowing does that feel right what someone's saying or does that not feel right? You know but it's a lot of times telepathic communication right so if I'm getting information about the earth or something happening it's telepathic communication. So it comes in through my voice. It's not like being's voice. This information is going to come in through a knowing or your own voice. That's how people are receiving information.
Johnny BurkeSo something tells me the next few years are going to be very interesting according to what we all keep hearing. We're not going to go into that tonight but who knows that might be a part two is there anything else we need to know at least for tonight.
Allison CarmanySo I do want to talk about project looking glass have you heard about that?
Johnny BurkeNo.
Allison CarmanySo this was a CIA project and they had all these viewers look into this looking glass that saw into the future and what they saw over and over again was that the light won. Okay? And they did not want that outcome. So they tried to see how different scenarios of different timelines how that could change but nothing could change the outcome so we know in the end the light will win but it's just are we going to be in our physical bodies? When is that going to happen? And I feel like part of that is they're trying to slow it down the process of the awakening and there's two different timelines.
Johnny BurkeWhy is it that they want to delay the awakening is that due to what you call galactic influence or is it something different?
Allison CarmanyThey know that there is something happening astrology-wise and it's the global awakening so at the same time that there's a global awakening many times in history there was something called the Great Awakening but as soon as I tried to use that hashtag on TikTok it blocked me. And then I became curious and I looked it up and I saw that many times in history there was a great awakening and a movement.
Johnny BurkeYou were blocked on TikTok. Using that hashtag it's not the first time I've heard that either if the Democrats win the midterms this fall do you think that kind of activity will go away or not necessarily or is it impossible to say what activity? Blocking hashtags monitoring social media basically it's almost like a big brother thing.
Allison CarmanyYeah. Okay so during this great awakening is actually the great reset. So their agenda of the deep state is a great reset but at the same time there's a great awakening so there's two timelines so we can reset through their timeline or we can reset through our time which is the awakening I see the agenda of blue and red as just a show like the players are just all in place to implement their like hundred year plan that is going to be implemented in what they want. They think they're doing a good thing for humanity and we have the other timeline. So it's like are we going to awaken quick enough before this reset or are we going to stay asleep? And I see that in many times in history what has happened is we didn't awaken before the reset. The reset okay but supposedly we are going to win this time that's according to the project looking glass. I believe you mentioned viewers were you talking about remote viewers it was actually viewers through this looking glass the CIA project and somebody can look this up it's on the internet.
Johnny BurkeWhen do you think this Great Awakening would take place?
Allison CarmanyAccording to astrology 2027 first of all astrology wise we're in a decline in economic decline 2027 there's three peaks that are going to happen in financial demise. I hope this isn't right but if you look at astrology it shows these times and you're looking at cycles when you're looking at astrology so I think that this is the beginning of it and the beginning of a start of going to war in 2030. This is according to astrology it's not my own perspective this is the reality America is a superpower right now. But at some point in time England was a superpower right and they didn't think that they were going to lose their superpower but America took over the superpower but America's on the decline now according to astrology we will not be the superpower.
Johnny BurkeIt's a seasonal thing.
Allison CarmanyYeah this is stuff that is in the stars that is supposedly going to play out and so this is I think part of the awakening because the reality is when people are more in tough times and suffering is when they turn more spirit.
Johnny BurkeNo question. All right Allison thanks again for coming on to the show.
Allison CarmanyIn the meantime how can our listeners find you online so they can go to my website soulfulevolution.com and on social? It's just my name Alison Carmeny C-A-R-M-A-N-Y just on Instagram and all socials.
Johnny BurkeYou've been listening to Closer to Venus I'm Johnny Burke. If you enjoyed today's episode please consider subscribing you can find more info at closertovenus com. Thanks again for tuning in and we'll see you next time