A 2-Year Spiritually Transformative Experience: Seeing Light in Everyone | Rebecca Kastl (Episode 177)
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Can trauma open the door to seeing light in everyone?
What happens when someone healing from sexual trauma spontaneously connects with spirituality and spends the next two years seeing glowing light emanating from every person they meet, having psychic dreams that accurately predict future events, and witnessing alternate timelines? Rebecca Kastl, pediatric speech pathologist and healer, shares her profound two-year spiritually transformative experience that began at age 26 while she was a graduate student at Columbia and continued while she remained fully functional in the external world.
About This Episode
Rebecca Kastl is a pediatric speech pathologist, healer, speaker, and teacher who underwent a two-year spiritually transformative experience in her 20s while healing from childhood sexual trauma. After years of intensive therapy that helped her function but didn't fully heal her heart, Rebecca embarked on a deep internal journey to understand what was blocking her from feeling whole. At 26, while writing in her journal during an intense healing practice, she had a spontaneous spiritual awakening. That night, a beautiful light appeared over her bed, looked into her heart, and spoke to her. For the next two years, she saw glowing white light emanating from every person she encountered, had psychic dreams that accurately predicted car accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning, witnessed alternate timelines of her life, and experienced spontaneous life reviews—all while completing her graduate degree at Columbia Teachers College and remaining fully functional externally. Raised in an interfaith family by an MD father with a PhD in biochemistry and a psychologist mother, Rebecca was a complete skeptic before her experience. She now offers sacred soul sessions to clients around the globe, hosts monthly seeker circles, and is the author of Daily Moments with the Angels: A Year of Messages for Hope and Healing.
In this conversation, we explore:
The Two-Year Spiritually Transformative Experience
Spontaneous spiritual awakening while writing in her journal at age 26
Beautiful light appearing over her bed that night looking into her heart
Voice speaking to her: "you don't have to be afraid, but if you are, you can wear a hat"
Graduation cap as metaphor for maintaining external life as graduate student
Experience lasting two full years while fully functional at Columbia Teachers College
Next morning waking up and seeing white light emanating from every single person
Loving literally every person she saw for two years straight
Seeing this glowing ethereal light coming out of everyone she encountered
How the light experience ended abruptly with a vivid dream and everything stopped
Verified Psychic Dreams
Dreams brighter with spotlight behind them distinguishing psychic from normal dreams
Dreaming about car accident days before it happened exactly as shown in dream
Seeing her car messed up on highway in dream, calm in dream, crying when it happened
Dreaming about carbon monoxide poisoning before nearly dying from it
Dream showing bright red lungs in bathroom mirror days before poisoning
Getting carbon monoxide poisoning from newly replaced heater hooked to wrong gas
Being pushed out of bed by invisible hands, running, turning off heater
Less than one minute from death when blood oxygen measured at hospital
Dreams about friends coming true: friend learning Russian before he mentioned it
Meeting friends in astral plane and sometimes remembering the encounters
Seeing Light in Everyone for Two Years
Waking up the morning after initial experience seeing light in all people
Beautiful white ethereal light emanating from every person for two years
Everyone looking like a beautiful glowing being
Loving every single person she encountered during this time
How this affected dating: "everyone's amazing" and seeing good in all people
Still seeing past surface wounds to people's light underneath today
Experience teaching her to look right past darkness and see beautiful heart
How this helps in her current healing work with clients
Alternate Timelines and Life Review
Living out entire alternate timeline at Hungarian Pastry Shop on Upper West Side
Opening computer to write different book, seeing and living entire alternate life
Experiencing book getting published to bad reviews as if it was real
Living out lonely and sad life in that timeline, never recovering
Closing computer and choosing not to follow that path
How alternate timelines feel like little lines you can see where they're going
Spontaneous life review after accidentally hurting sister's feelings
Feeling sister's emotions in her own body during phone conversation
Understanding viscerally how her actions affected another person
Feeling nature in her body: eclipse's waviness during astronomical events
Seeing auras around trees before they died
Trauma and Healing Journey
Sexual assault at 13 waking up on laundry room floor
Physical trauma teaching her spiritual world exists when physical world fails
Existing between two worlds from age 13 to 26
Intensive therapy including inpatient treatment for sexual trauma survivors
Therapists saying she was functional but something still on her heart
Deciding at 23 to heal all the way no matter what it took
Three years of internal healing work before spiritual awakening at 26
Internal versus external self: achievement personality versus traumatized soul
Navigating Two Years of Experiences
Thinking she had become schizophrenic and not knowing what was happening
Stepdad (indigenous background) validating experience and teaching her about healing
Visiting shaman who said "we're all schizophrenic, the whole world is a dream"
Maintaining dual life for two years: graduate student externally, spiritual awakening internally
Dating everyone because they were all glowing and amazing
Nightmares and sleep paralysis from trauma going away forever during experience
Remaining fully functional at Columbia while experiencing all of this
Two-year experience ending with swimming alone in ocean dream
Integration After Two Years
Everything stopping after the Jonathan dream: light, all gone
Two-year experience ending abruptly and completely
Feeling gut-punched and confused about why she was still here
Moving to Louisiana woods for 2-3 years looking for portal to light
Walking around woods wondering "did I make all this up?"
Taking 15 years (2008-2023) to publicly share two-year experience
Realizing the light is in her heart and she has to live in alignment with it
Reconnecting through meditation, light visualization, spiritual practices
Language and Vocabulary
Why language for these experiences is limited by societal upbringing
We don't have adequate words outside cultural and religious frameworks
Interfaith background: Jewish father, Christian mother, indigenous stepdad
Raised by MD father with PhD in biochemistry and psychologist mother
Complete skeptic before two-year experience
Soul versus personality: inner traumatized self versus external achievement self
Sacred Soul Sessions and Current Work
Tuning into same light felt during two-year experience
Holding space for people on their healing journeys
Sessions combining healing, messages, and coaching
Seeing past people's surface wounds to their light underneath
Working with doctors, therapists, ministers, people of all backgrounds
Helping people confirm guidance they're already receiving
Monthly seeker circles and classes on spiritual topics
YouTube videos and Daily Moments book
Key Quotes
"For two years, I saw glowing white light emanating from every person I encountered. Everyone was a beautiful angel. I loved literally every person I saw." - Rebecca Kastl
"The light that I saw over my bed was realer than any other light in my life. It felt more real than me and you talking right now. I felt like I was awake then, I feel like I'm sleeping now." - Rebecca Kastl
"The psychic dreams I can always tell because they're brighter. It's almost like there's a spotlight behind them, and they just seem more real. And then they come true, exactly as shown." - Rebecca Kastl
About Rebecca Kastl
Rebecca Kastl is a pediatric speech pathologist, healer, speaker, and teacher who underwent a profound two-year spiritually transformative experience in her late 20s. After surviving sexual trauma at 13 and spending over a decade in various forms of therapy and healing work, Rebecca had a spontaneous spiritual awakening while journaling at age 26. That night, a beautiful light appeared over her bed and spoke to her. For the next two years, she saw glowing light emanating from every person she encountered, had psychic dreams that accurately predicted car accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning with verifiable details, witnessed alternate timelines of her life, and experienced spontaneous life reviews—all while completing her graduate degree at Columbia Teachers College and remaining fully functional externally. Raised by an MD father with a PhD in biochemistry and a psychologist mother, Rebecca was a complete skeptic before her two-year experience. She now offers sacred soul sessions to clients globally, hosts monthly seeker circles, creates weekly YouTube videos, and is the author of Daily Moments with the Angels: A Year of Messages for Hope and Healing.
Connect with Rebecca Kastl:
Website: https://rebeccakastl.com
Book: Daily Moments with the Angels: A Year of Messages for Hope and Healing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.kastl
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