The Life Stylist

My conversation on Unity Manifest takes us back to some of the darkest chapters of my life—from childhood abuse and addiction to the long road toward sobriety and spiritual awakening. We unpack how early experiences can shape our capacity for intimacy, how shame keeps us trapped in destructive patterns, and why healing requires more than simply changing our behavior. I share how these experiences inspired A Horse Named Lonesome, my new memoir about loneliness, separation, and finding our way back to connection.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Sarah and I explore her reframe of shame as a metaphysical force whose whole function is disconnection—the thing that convinces you you’re separate from the rest of the whole. She shares the vivid dream in which her towering spirit guides told her they’d taped their heads to the wall to keep from laughing at how much weight she’d put on growing up poor, and how the shame dissolved on its own afterward. A striking look at why shame isolates us, and what it takes to feel part of things again.About SarahSarah Elkhaldy is a teacher, healer, and the host of the new series Mystery Teachings on the world’s largest conscious streaming platform Gaia.com.Sarah’s work bridges ancient wisdom, modern science, and consciousness studies to help people understand how our thoughts and energy shape the world around us. We’ll explore this new partnership, what viewers can expect from Mystery Teachings, and how we can all live more consciously in these transformative times.Lonesome Conversations Limited SeriesLonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.

What really happens in the afterlife?Brendan D. Murphy is the author of The Grand Illusion and Reverse Engineering the Afterlife, and he treats consciousness the way an engineer treats a system: layered, mappable, and worth drawing properly.The conversation opens on reincarnation and the so-called soul trap, and why he doesn’t buy the version circulating online. The Tibetans, Jung, and near-death accounts all point to something more unsettling than a mechanism: your unmetabolized emotional charge becomes the environment you wake up in.From there, it turns to the evidence: Peak in Darien cases, Ian Stevenson’s birthmark research, and a woman who lived seven years inside a three-week induced coma.We also sit with a harder question: why do so many spiritually inclined people get stuck in paranoid loops about loosh harvesting and prison planets? Brendan’s answer reframes all of it, and probably your fear of dying with it.For details and discounts on Brendan's books and offerings, including his Evolve Yourself program and masterclass, visit brendandmurphy.com/lifestylist.You'll learn:[0:00] Introduction[7:31] Living in Australia through the COVID era[15:03] What makes the human psyche so susceptible to propaganda[22:31] Where the demand to be ruled actually comes from[28:37] My fear of being duped back into the recycling system[44:11] Working through your attractions and aversions before you die[51:21] Phobias as imprints from how you died in a past life[55:02] Whether past lives are sequential or stacked all at once[1:13:06] The Voice that told me you already have it all[1:17:28] Differentiation as the only thing the infinite one can do[1:33:28] Peak in Darien cases and meeting relatives you never knew existed[1:40:07] A cacophony of emotion after hunting my first large animal[1:52:29] Giving a child full autonomy to name itself[1:58:02] What loosh harvesting actually is and where Monroe landed[2:04:15] When spiritual seekers get trapped in the darkness[2:15:44] A sound-based modality born from a decade-long dark nightResources Mentioned:Read: The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot | BookEckhart Tolle | WebsiteRead: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes | BookRead: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by William Walker Atkinson | BookNear-Death Experience | WikipediaEdgar Cayce | WebsiteRudolf Steiner | WebsiteBrian Weiss | WebsiteMonroe Institute | WebsiteNick Sambrook | WebsiteFull show notes at lukestorey.com/ndeFind more from Brendan:Brendan D. Murphy | Website | Substack | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTubeRead: The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality by Brendan D. Murphy | BookFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInMy new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, launches November 17, 2026. Pre-order now at ahorsenamedlonesome.com and get bonuses: access to my Inner Circle Book Club, an exclusive Lonesome Conversations six-part miniseries, and an ebook transcript of the series.The Life Stylist is Brought To You By:JUST THRIVE | Visit justthrivehealth.com/luke and get 90 days of free digestive bitters with your first 90-day probiotic subscription.LEELA QUANTUM | Go to lukestorey.com/leelaq and use code LUKE10 for 10% off your first order.ACTIVE SKIN REPAIR | Visit lukestorey.com/skinrepair and use code LUKE for 20% off your order.NUCALM | Visit lukestorey.com/nucalm to start your free...

I joined my longtime friend Daniel Vitalis for a deep conversation about my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome, and the experiences that led me from childhood trauma and addiction to recovery and spiritual awakening. We explore the loneliness epidemic, why digital connection can never fully replace human intimacy, and how the pursuit of perfect health can become just another form of self-obsession. We also get into forgiveness, the spiritual cost of resentment, and why learning to love and serve others might be the most important work we ever do.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Oto and I go back to the loneliest stretch of his life — divorced, numbing himself with weed morning to night, “slowly killing himself” despite being a multimillionaire, down to a dog and a backpack after his apartment burned down. He shares how that string of losses felt like God rerouting him with a hard 180, and how meeting his partner a week after the fire met him at his sickest and heaviest. A raw, moving testament to how the ground falling away can be the thing that saves you.About OtoOto Gomes is a crypto investor, mentor, and founder of the Crypto Freedom Academy, an online educational platform helping people learn crypto and increase their wealth.With over 10 years experience in the crypto industry, and 10-plus years before that as an accountant, Oto has persevered through the bull and bear markets of life to find true freedom. His goal is to help others become the most abundant versions of themselves. Oto is a voice for truth, sovereignty, and a holistic approach to creating a life and world of prosperity.His mission is to create heart-centered, interdependent, and self-accountable communities to become the bridges to help themselves and others in recreating their relationship to money and re-internalizing their self worth.Lonesome Conversations Limited SeriesLonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes alongside our regular show over the coming months.