We recently had the chance to connect with Hannah Maness and have shared our conversation below.
Hannah, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
Hannah: Ooooh… that’s magic time. I’m up a little before 5am. There is a quiet then like no other time… before I think I know anything and get in the way.
My guides basically wait for me at the bottom of the bed, “They’re like, God called. We have messages.”
I’m kidding, but it’s kind of like that. Basically, the first couple of hours is me in listening mode. Sometimes I feel a specific messenger - Jesus, my grandmother, Paramahansa Yogananda was schooling me for a while.
None of this is without a strong cup of coffee. I’m not a saint. No sugar, no alcohol, no cigarettes, but the bean has clung on. Some day.
That early morning communing is how I stay connected to something way smarter and less petty than me. I wouldn’t care so much about shutting up and listening, except for the last four years, I kinda became an accidental hermit and me and “God” wrestled a long time before I realized the reason I couldn’t pin him was because he wasn’t human.
He had no arms or edges, but was rather an infinite consciousness trying to point me to the answers pre-installed inside of me. But we humans love a good fight. We scream, “Help, help,” but if the assistance isn’t what we expected we’re suspicious. At a certain point, it got bad enough and downright weird enough, that I realized I was going to have to lean into something I didn’t fully know, but felt certain had my back.
And that thing was the reason I had the gifts and talents I had, and the reason I cared about anything, really. If I was gonna get out of hermit mode I’d better stop wrestling.
So, I hurled myself into the deep end. Early mornings I swim in the deep end. A Course in Miracles, Joseph Benner’s An Impersonal Life, and Autobiography of Yogi are texts always on the front burner.
Recently, I’ve been exploring The Gateway Experience and Darius J. Wright, confirms a lot. It’s unlocked a level of creative problem-solving I didn’t previously have access to. I realized when I first heard the tapes I realized it wasn’t the first time, but that’s a story for another time.
And then, of course, there’s breathwork, yoga, walking outside barefoot, feeding my dragon… all the stuff weird spiritual people do. Nasal clearing. All the things.
Am I kidding? You decide.
Seriously, though, I gotta start early to get ahead of the ego. Pride will kick my ass, and I got stuff to do. Can’t afford to get judgy, pissy, or thinking I know everything… beginner’s mind, it’s a thing… at least I’ve heard.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
That’s always a fun question. At the core, I’m a creative helping people remember who they are. I have a background in performing, writing, theatre, and film, and have been coaching creatives and entrepreneurs for a while. But in hermitude the spiritual gifts from my childhood escalated: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, mediumship, as well as unusual methods of “reading” people which continue to reveal themselves.
So, now I have basically conflated my spiritual gifts - which is what made me a good coach, anyway - and my tailored coaching practice and do what I call clair coaching - helping people clean up their spiritual terrain, then take new divinely-aligned action in their lives and work with their highest self.
Clair coaching is a variety of tools, exploration, resources, regular readings, and deep spiritual excavation specific to each client. It is not “chillaxed.” It’s work. I will be putting together some kind of Choose Your Own Divine Adventure type of thing eventually, because it will be too much work to keep doing tailored coaching packages for every client, though I love it.
For one client, a role-playing exercise with me acting as her Mom was instrumental. For another client whose father had passed, hearing an apology from him about a specific event in a reading gave her freedom nothing else could have. I was about to meet with another client and Spirit suddenly had me pulling out my phone to record as I walked to the grocery store for water. Things started popping out I knew were for her. They were so weird, a cowboy boot that looked like an “L”, but guess what - spot on for her. I call these readings Roam and Reads.
Things continue to get interesting. Recently added is blind drawings. Ya kinda gotta be there.
I still do readings and regular creative coaching as well, still love that, too, but not gonna help anyone write a shoot ’em up.
Everything has come full circle, I guess. It’s amazing, but I was always someone who felt Something Greater and wanted to know everything, so it does track. Everyone has access to The Divine, and no one is left out of its Infinite Love. In fact, the belief we are separate from it is our biggest problem. Sometimes when I am around “normies,” I literally forget people think that, and that they think I sound insane.
But what is insane, is that we have made what is happening in our world now okay, the hating, judging, justified violence, and on and on.
Knowing that, it’s worth it to get out of the way and be of maximum service. And ya know, sometimes people still aren’t ready. Wanting to change is easy. Change itself is hard. The most difficult thing is changing our beliefs. Even if they hurt us we cling to them. It’s human.
So I’ve been assigned to God’s re-branding team, I guess. Healing The God Wound is my jam. Normalizing the notion that God is not a sadistic terrorist in the sky and that It/She/He/They speaks in all languages to everyone, all the time, and is really quite beyond comprehension… that’s the most recent message in a soundbite. Needs work, but you get it.
My work may be a bit different from a regular psychic because I am invested in activating people to get curious and know for themselves, remember their divinity and dig into a personal experience. We all come from the same place and have access to the same Source, so while you might be “wowed” by what I know is behind door #1, it’s only because you don’t realize we all live in the same house.
What’s happening to me is happening everywhere: the more we commit to truth, the more we realize the power we have access to. In fact, that’s exactly why we are seeing so much power-mongering and overt attempts to control. It’s in the air, a growing powerful Divine connection in the collective.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
A goofball who would do anything for a laugh… and pure curiosity and love. Infinite consciousness, like we all are. And a storyteller. And a truth-teller. (Which when you’re young is called a tattletale, but I mean in the larger sense. But, yeah, a bit of a trouble-maker… let’s say boat-rocker.
I came in wanting to remind people of Home. Even as a child, I couldn’t understand why everyone couldn’t just love everyone. I remember putting a bully in a headlock when he was going after this other kid. I held his head to the ground and said something crazy like, “I know you don’t want to be mean. Say you’ll stop and I’ll let go.”
I was a weird kid. To be clear, I was no saint. One time a kid bullied me and I kicked his ass. I’ve come a long way. But I do have a post-it at my desk that says, “Pause before pressing send.”
Ya know we’re all weird… and we each so desperately want for it to just be okay to be who we are, our own little part of God-self. Bless our hearts. We’re taught to be afraid of our uniqueness and our questions. Before the world says otherwise we don’t know we’re supposed to exile the weird kid or call the one who thinks differently the devil without even getting to know them. We’re taught these things.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
You were never wrong for knowing what you knew. Your curiosity was sacred. You’re not broken. And yeah, that shit you saw and heard was real… and your questions were valid.
I’d tell any kid that.
I might tell her she was pretty. Thick glasses were tough.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
Healing The God Wound. Surprise. It’s not just one project… it’s a movement, I guess. That’s sounds so high-falutin’. What I mean is I have more than a few things I am working on… a couple of writing projects, an audiobook, finally getting off my butt with a channel, but this mission, if you will infuses everything I do.
Whether coaching, doing a reading or creating a workshop… the more I see how a certain way of thinking and viewing the world has harmed us the more devoted I become. I am determined to normalize the idea that God - by whatever name - is not a terrifying, punitive entity, but an ever‑evolving, intelligent, loving consciousness — in us, in everything, everywhere, and infinite. If you live in that truth you really don’t have to speak about it or proselytize, people want what you have, they feel it. One spiritual teacher I know who had a very spiritual teacher I know who had a similar transformation has been asked to speak at many traditional faith churches. The faith he has is palpable, beyond dogma.
And it just makes sense… just to live that way. Loving our neighbor. Who said that? A God that makes you frightened, anxious, ashamed, makes you feel alienated and embarrassed about who you are, even your natural instincts and gifts, that doesn’t make sense.
And free will doesn’t even exist if, when you don’t choose what such a god has to offer, you’re “deported” for that choice, know what I mean?
It’s surprising how tenacious the belief in a shaming, judgmental, excluding God is. It’s heart-breaking. I guess the project I’m committed to is healing that heartbreak.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: What light inside you have you been dimming?
Trusting the Divine power that comes through me. I did it a long time, not wanting to make people uncomfortable.
Then with the spiritual gifts trying to prove them instead of simply using them in service. Now I am getting down to buisness more than I ever have. I’m coaching, writing… A LOT, meeting with other creatives to collaborate. There is so much to create! I am still very much a creative.
When Infinite Consciousness and creativity come together, it’s magic. Nothing I write feels like I’m writing it. Thank God. It has a Truth-feel on a universal level that reaches beyond belief or culture. I read at a screenwriting group and you could feel that there - the desire to say something meaningful, to connect, and stretch beyond ego. Shout out to ATX Screenwriting Group. Great bunch.
I attended an online poetry workshop and felt the same thing, and Zachary Carlisle with Convergent Arts - what they are up to, they’re working at a soul level. You can feel the unity at those events. I hope to collaborate with those folks.
The Divine is up to something next-level.
Over-reliance on unquestioned so-called authority figures - political, religious, or cultural - has hijacked our natural instinct to feel into what is true.
You know how, as a kid, they say, “If an adult tells you to do something and it doesn’t feel right in your tummy, don’t do it?” Well, it’s like we have been ignoring some awful tummy aches for a long time. I want to help people stop upping the price of Pepto stock and transmute that energy into something miraculous.
I want to help as many people as possible re-ignite that divine spark they forgot was in them, so that they want to help light someone else’s. It’s the best use of my time while a blow torch is being held over our proverbial Rome, if ya know what I mean.
And like The Boss says. You can’t start a fire without a spark and ya can’t start a fire worryin’ about your little world fallin’ apart, either.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/theinTRUitivecreative
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheinTRUitiveCreative
- Other: To explore Hannah’s past creative endeavors: https://www.logansquaredproductions.com
Image Credits
Single picture of Hannah Logan – Photo credit: Hannah Logan
Hannah Logan @ “Your Essential Magnificence” by James Edward Talbot – Photo credit: Anna
Requested caption: Both Hannah and the creator of “Your Essential Magnificence” in South Congress believe in the uniqueness ,inherent goodness, majesty and essential magnificence of each human being.
Hannah and client, Kascidy Badon – Photo credit: Kascidy Badon
(Other photos in graphic are all Creative Common license)
Requested caption: Hannah often finds that seemingly random images, words, objects in a room, or phrases she hears en route to the grocery store will tell her exactly what she needs to know for. a client’s reading or session.
The InTRUitive Creative Business Card: Designed by Hannah Logan
Requested caption: Hannah says the eye on her business card is an homage to “If your eye is single your whole body will be full of light.”
Blind Drawing Art – Created by hand by Hannah Logan (additional color elements added for article)
Requested caption: A new reading technique brought to Hannah is “blind drawing,” which is drawing in a sketchbook without looking. After has the feeling the drawing is complete she interprets it for the client. She discovered it when she found herself doodling during a reading with a client and was inspired to ask questions based on what she saw, The information was accurate and helpful.
