Episode 21

Exploring The Depths
with Katie Benn

In today’s episode, I speak with the wonderful Katie Benn. Katie is a multidisciplinary artist from San Francisco currently living in southern Oregon. She’s inspired by all things magical and mysterious, dreamy, silly, and absurd. She explores themes relating to the human condition and her inner world. She is a painter, muralist, illustrator, textile designer, and creator of zines and various art products. She has worked with clients including Google, Facebook, WeWork, Masterclass and much more.

In addition to her creative work, Katie is also a practicing evidential medium. She has been connecting with spirit since childhood and has strengthened her connection through years of private study, training with renowned psychic mediums in the US and UK, and offering in-person and online readings to her extended community. Katie’s mediumship is known to be down to earth, compassionate, healing, and heart-focused as she works to connect people with their loved ones that have passed on.

I've been wanting to talk to Katie for years because I love her work and am so interested in the way she explores her world and puts it into her art, so I'm very excited to bring you our conversation today.

You can follow Katie on Instagram here or online at www.katiebenn.com

Katie has generously shared an amazing list of books and podcasts she recommends:

Podcasts

This Jungian Life Podcast
Mediumship Matters with Hanna Macintyre
The Haunted Objects Podcast

Books

An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper (for dream and waking-life symbolic interpretation)
Spirit Speaks by Michael Mayo (the simplest guide I've found for mediums in-training and/or for those looking to make contact on their own)
The Vital Spark by Lisa Marchiano (for releasing barriers and stoking the internal flame)
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (a wise and comforting read for our chaotic times)
Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by F. David Peat (A great starter book for those encountering synchronicities)
Signs of Reincarnation by James G. Matlock (an incredibly thorough college level book on the parapsychological and anthropological study of past life claims)