Podcast appearances and mentions of don howard

Governments have money and foundations can take risks. Shouldn't these be marriages made in heaven? Amazingly they're not, but in California, we're starting to see partnerships that are bucking the trend, which can be spectacularly good examples of how to make great collaborations work. On this episode of Let's Hear It, Eric speaks with Elena Chavez Quezada, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation in the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Don Howard, president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, who are working together to create government/foundation partnerships that are making a real difference. Don and Elena recently co-authored a piece for the Philanthropy News Digest called “How Philanthropy Can Partner with the Public Sector to Build Equitable Infrastructure,” which sets the stage for this really lively and fun discussion. Check out this conversation that shows how governments and foundations can work together to unlock money, ideas, and energy for social good.

Governments have money and foundations can take risks. Shouldn't these be marriages made in heaven? Amazingly they're not, but in California, we're starting to see partnerships that are bucking the trend, which can be spectacularly good examples of how to make great collaborations work. On this episode of Let's Hear It, Eric speaks with Elena Chavez Quezada, Senior Advisor for Social Innovation in the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Don Howard, president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, who are working together to create government/foundation partnerships that are making a real difference. Don and Elena recently co-authored a piece for the Philanthropy News Digest called “How Philanthropy Can Partner with the Public Sector to Build Equitable Infrastructure,” which sets the stage for this really lively and fun discussion. Check out this conversation that shows how governments and foundations can work together to unlock money, ideas, and energy for social good.

Don Howard, CEO of the James Irvine Foundation, sheds light on the foundation's unwavering commitment to fostering economic mobility among low-income workers in California. With a rich history dating back to 1937, the foundation has been a pivotal force, directing over $2.6 billion in grants to various organizations across California. In 2023 alone, $180 million was allocated to support initiatives aimed at creating a more inclusive and equitable society. The foundation's mission is crystal clear: ensuring that every low-income worker in California has the power to advance economically. This goal is pursued through a multifaceted approach that includes improving access to quality jobs, enhancing workers' influence within the economy, fostering community-driven economic planning, and strengthening the safety net for those unable to advance economically. The foundation's strategy is not just about grantmaking but also about catalyzing broader systemic change. This includes initiatives like Jobs First, a state program designed to engage communities in planning their economic futures in a way that is inclusive, equitable, and climate-resilient.  Despite the challenges, Howard remains optimistic about California's future, viewing the state's diversity and innovation as key assets in rebuilding a more inclusive middle class. He acknowledges the issues of infrastructure, climate change, and inequality but sees these as opportunities for systemic transformation. Through strategic philanthropy, community engagement, and a deep commitment to economic justice, the James Irvine Foundation is leading the way in creating a brighter future for California's low-income workers. Thank you for downloading this episode of the Do One Better Podcast. Visit our Knowledge Hub at Lidji.org for information on 250+ case studies and interviews with remarkable leaders in philanthropy, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. 

Songs include: Bizet Has His Day, Day By Day, Day In Day Out, What a Difference a Day Made, Isn't This a Lovely Day, Night and Day and Oh Happy Day.  Musicians include: Fred Astaire, Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Helen Forest, Don Howard, Les Brown and Ben Selvin.

Today during this Sant Mat Satsang Podcast readings from Sant Kirpal Singh's, Spiritual Elixir, Baba Garib Das (Anmol Vachan), Swami Sant Sevi Ji, Don Howard, Jesus (Yeshua, Gospel of Thomas), Baba Ram Singh, and Mystic Poetry of Kabir. "Today's karmas become the fate of tomorrow. According to our last life actions, our mental tendencies are formed in this life. Because of our pure actions we will have the desire to seek the association of Sants (Living Masters) and to meditate." (Swami Vyasnanand, The Inward Journey of the Soul)   In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhasoami   James Bean Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts Sant Mat Radhasoami A Satsang Without Walls Spiritual Awakening Radio Website: https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com    

The state of California has some of the nation's strongest legal protections for workers. But Californians continue to suffer from various forms of abuse by their employers—from unpaid overtime to dangerous working conditions; from wage theft to racial, ethnic, gender discrimination. What are the biggest challenges for agencies and communities as they seek to turn pro-labor legislation into better workplace realities? To what extent do our systems—from the courts to workers' compensation to federal and state labor enforcement—create obstacles to realizing California's promises to workers? And what steps could state and local governments, and workers themselves, take to make jobs safe from discrimination and abuse? California State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, warehouse worker Sara Fee, and California Labor Commissioner Assistant Chief Daniel Yu talk with Zócalo on the Capitol steps in Sacramento to discuss how to make jobs more fair for workers. Introductory comments by Don Howard, President & CEO of The James Irvine Foundation. This program is part of “What Is a Good Job Now?”, a series supported by The James Irvine Foundation, focusing on workers in the low-wage sectors of California's economy, in communities across the state. Public programs and essays, grounded in workers' experiences and realities, will explore how to make the hardest jobs more rewarding, and make life better for those who do them.

Don Howard is the owner of H&W Management. Don has owned and managed multiple hotels across the bluegrass as well as building and developing them in surrounding states.Topics in this episode include:- Turning around a struggling  hotel into one running over 100% capacity.- Bringing the first Waffle House to Eastern Kentucky.- How to manage deals in times of massive growth and in times of contraction.To connect with Don, you reach him at 859-619-0982 or email him at dhoward@hwhotels.comCommonwealth Connections is hosted by Weston Wilson and Dawson Fields. To connect with hosts of the show, email dawson@novainsurancegroup.com or culverscky@gmail.com

Championship Fridays and Championship Saturdays...Greg Davis, legendary Port Neches-Groves High School graduate, talks about his storied football career, including: his years as a student at Woodlawn Junior High and PN-G;quarterbacking the Indians on their 1968 District Championship run;his return to PN-G as offensive coordinator, where the Indians won a State title in 1975, made a Semifinal appearance in 1976, and another Final appearance in 1977;his career in collegiate coaching;his seven years at Texas A&M as an assistant working under Emory Bellard, Tom Wilson, Jackie Sherrill, and alongside R C Slocum;his thirteen years as offensive coordinator at the University of Texas under Mack Brown;his insights into Texas legends Darrell Royal, Ricky Williams, Vince Young, and Colt McCoy, among others;his recollections of the Longhorns' National Championship win vs #1 USC in 2005;his thoughts on other memorable Texas matchups, including their win vs Michigan in the 2004 Rose Bowl, and their loss to Alabama in the 2008 National Championship game;his family;and other topics!The podcast brings up a wide range of names from Southeast Texas, including Doug Ethridge, Rusty Davis, Jimmy Burnett, Tip Durham, Harold Lawson, Clint Crisp, Zack Byrd,, Brandon Faircloth, Mike Simpson, Frank Stanfield, Frank Cheek, Dixie Dowden, Ken Watson, Cecil Green, Wayne Skeet Williams, Moe O'Brien, Joe Allen, Paul Carswell, Dan Ives, Butch Troy, Rodney LeBoeuf, Jack Lynch, Leyton Brown, Richard Alvarez, Tommy Landry, Don Howard, Steve Fleming, Steve DeRouen, Bobby Merrin, Tommy Alexander, Dennis Howell, Mike Owens, Gary Hammond, Rusty Brittain, Richard Grissom, Howard Esquivel, Ronnie Wilbanks, Gary Banks, Phillip Sanderson, Dennis Kiger, Mike Tibbetts, Wanda Carole Wrinkle Ford, Burt Darden, Wayne Winn, Patsy Davis, Richy Ethridge, Gary Davis, Bruce Bush, Tim Nunez, Ken Clearman, Phil Vergara, Terry Cobb, Jerry Hooper, Don Bryson, David Findley, Norman Reynolds, David Fry, Steve Worster, Glen Gaspard, Lewis Ford, Kay Davis Doucet, and more! Other well-known names included in the podcast are Mack Brown, Frank Broyles, Nolan Viator, Tom Wilson, R. C. Slocum, Emory Bellard, Jackie Sherrill, Gary Kubiak, Tony Dorsett, Bear Bryant, John Robinson, Jerry Stovall, Danny Ford, Eric Zwier, Ray Goff, Vince Dooley, DeLoss Dodds, Darrell Royal, Ricky Williams, Rob Ryan, Major Applewhite, Vince Young, Cedric Benson, Pete Carroll, Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, Gene Chizik, Nick Saban, Colt McCoy, Garrett Gilbert, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Stafford...and more!!So, sit back and bask...Always be Faithful, to Purple and White;The Spirit of Aggieland;The Eyes of Texas are Upon You...and more...Right here on Down Trails of Victory podcast!

We continue our conversation with philosopher Don Howard who has very practical ideas about, and projects engaged in advancing the principles of ethics in robotics and artificial intelligence. For dystopians, prof Howard provides hope that Silicon Valley’s rising innovators are embracing ethics. Source

We continue our conversation with philosopher Don Howard who has very practical ideas about, and projects engaged in advancing the principles of ethics in robotics and artificial intelligence. For dystopians, prof Howard provides hope that Silicon Valley's rising innovators are embracing ethics.

We continue our conversation with philosopher Don Howard who has very practical ideas about, and projects engaged in advancing the principles of ethics in robotics and artificial intelligence. For dystopians, prof Howard provides hope that Silicon Valley's rising innovators are embracing ethics.

One of Hollywood’s favorite SciFi themes, robo-wars, is in the real-world a serious topic with features and implications different from fevered movie scripts and clickbait. In this first of a two-part episode, we are joined by Don Howard, the brilliant Notre Dame professor of philosophy and ethics of technologies. Source

One of Hollywood's favorite SciFi themes, robo-wars, is in the real-world a serious topic with features and implications different from fevered movie scripts and clickbait. In this first of a two-part episode, we are joined by Don Howard, the brilliant Notre Dame professor of philosophy and ethics of technologies.“In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons.” Don Howard, Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies, November 2022.In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Systems, Don A. Howard, Dakota Digital Review, February 21, 2023Real Robots in Our Near Future: The Rise of Capable Industrial Automatons, Dakota Digital Review, Mark P. Mills, March 9, 2023This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5816500/advertisement

One of Hollywood's favorite SciFi themes, robo-wars, is in the real-world a serious topic with features and implications different from fevered movie scripts and clickbait. In this first of a two-part episode, we are joined by Don Howard, the brilliant Notre Dame professor of philosophy and ethics of technologies. “In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons.” […]

Jonathan Blake Salazar joins us in Season 1 (2021) of Birdsong. Jon is a dear buddy of mine; a healer in training; an aspiring Ayahuascero, an accomplished musician and one of the sweetest guys you'll ever meet. We first met at Spirit Quest Sanctuary, with fond memories of deep work together with Ayahuacsa and Huachuma. When it comes to Jonathans music, it's bright, hopeful, uplifting, with a tinge of nostalgia to simpler times; rising from a deepening connection to our Earth. Jonathan Blake Salazar has won "Best Male Singer-Songwriter" at the OC Music Awards, “Best Singer-Songwriter” at the Malibu Music Awards, “Best Male Artist” at the So Cal Music Live Awards, Nominated for a LA Music Award, Nominated for the Hollywood Music In Media Awards, has earned a Fender Guitar endorsement, a QSC speaker endorsement and his spotify averages 35,000 monthly listeners. You can follow Jonathan here: Jonathan on Spotify Jonathan on Apple Music Jonathan on Instagram Jonathan on Facebook POINTS OF INTEREST: Enlightenment, liberation and the path of service The Path of the Heart and The Path of Prayer How do we both connect with the sacred? Honouring our humanness and quirks and imperfections Finding the path of plant-based shamanism Meditation and levitation Blackout drinking and alcoholics anonymous The difference between a hallucination and a vision Spiritual teachings and spiritual teachers Being in ceremony space feels like home The white wizard, Don Howard, and Spirit Quest Sanctuary Drinking Huachuma and tears of gratitude Jon's developing relationship apprenticing to Ayahuasca The infinite depths of Ayahuasca and the path of service Plant dietas - bobinsana, piri piri, lopuna blanca and more…. Don Jose Campos: The shaman and ayahuacsa Dieting ayahuasca How does plant-based-shamanism inform Jonathans connection with the music industry Jon's plays us his song “Fall” on guitar, which he wrote in the jungle working with Ayahuasca

Now is the time to figure out how your funding can leverage public funding opportunities. This is especially true right now in the United States when a ton of funding is going out the door through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package and the Inflation Reduction Act. Sybil explains the biggest obstacles to overcome you want to understand how nonprofits can access federal and state funding. Episode Highlights:Do the nonprofits you support have the capacity and bandwidth to secure public funding opportunities? Is there a special funding niche you can occupy that will effectively leverage your support? Are you setting yourself up for success?Are you making the big mistake of making it seem that philanthropy can cover something that really should be covered by the public coffers? Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a true and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.Links: Alliance for a Sustainable Future https://www.c2es.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cities-advancing-climate-cation-leveraging-federal-funds-for-impact.pdAnnGoggins Gregory and Don Howard, Stanford Social Innovation https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_nonprofit_starvation_cycleFord Family Foundation https://www.tfff.org/pathways-securing-rural-federal-fundingSD Bechtel Jr Foundation, Setting the Course https://www.ncfp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sooner-Rather-Than-Later_-Chapter-1-Bechtel-2019.pdfIf you enjoyed this episode, listen to these as well:https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/69-patton-mcdowellhttps://www.doyourgood.com/blog/124-Joanna-Kerrhttps://www.doyourgood.com/blog/88-elizabeth-bastCrack the Code: Sybil's Successful Guide to PhilanthropyBecome even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools, you'll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy through my new course, Crack the Code!In this new course, you'll gain access to beautifully animated and filmed engaging videos, and many more! Link for the wait list for the Philanthropy Accelerator https://www.doyourgood.com/Philanthropy-Accelerator-Mastermind-WaitlistLink to the nonprofit email sign-up to connect https://www.doyourgood.com/ticket-to-fundraisingCheck out her website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at www.doyourgood.com. Connect with Do Your Goodhttps://www.facebook.com/doyourgoodhttps://www.instagram.com/doyourgoodWould you like to talk with Sybil directly?Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at sybil@doyourgood.com!

Today we welcome Don Howard, President and CEO of the James Irvine Foundation. We discuss the role of philanthropy, expanding opportunities for Californians, the history of the James Irvine Foundation, and more.SacTown Talks is a podcast about California politics, policy and culture. We feature interviews with California political leaders, and analysis by experts and insiders focusing on the Capitol. Like, share, and subscribe to learn more!(01:06) Don's journey to the Irvine Foundation(06:48) Investing in climate resilience and getting through the pandemic(12:25) Working together with the state of California(14:49) Promoting greater equity and access to opportunity (19:36) Working together and the role of philanthropy(23:44) Advice to those thinking of getting involved in philanthropy

"Today's karmas become the fate of tomorrow. According to our last life actions, our mental tendencies are formed in this life. Because of our pure actions we will have the desire to seek the association of Sants (Living Masters) and to meditate." (Swami Vyasnanand, The Inward Journey of the Soul) Today on the Sant Mat Satsang Podcast -- Spiritual Awakening Radio -- readings from Sant Kirpal Singh (Spiritual Elixir), Baba Garib Das (Anmol Vachan), Swami Sant Sevi Ji, Don Howard, Jesus (Yeshua, Gospel of Thomas), Baba Ram Singh, and Mystic Poetry of Kabir.

This episode features Don Howard, a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame with an interest in the ethics of emerging technologies. Shelly & Don explore the ethical considerations behind the Manhattan Project and building the H-bomb, and discuss question such as: Should scientists use their expertise to be involved in politics? What is the moral obligation to one's work? How are scientists involved in human rights work? and more. Don also shares his moving experiences as a child during the Cold War. Visit us at: mynuclearlife.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mynuclearlife

Aubrey Marcus, the Founder of Onnit, talks about how some of the lowest points in his life and relationships revealed what he was struggling with internally and what he needed to let go to move forward. Aubrey shares some incredible wisdom and discusses why gratitude is the ultimate choice, why truth comes as a whisper and how you can calm your mind so you can hear it, and why fear is the cage we all construct for ourselves. One of the things that stands out to Aubrey about how he grew up was that his parents split up early on and he quickly had two step-parents as well. Every single one of his parents was exceptional at what they did in the world and this gave him a unique, well-rounded environment and a lot of pressure to perform. His earliest memories of pain involved his father and certain moments of intense rage. These experiences shaped how Aubrey communicates and the language he uses to be effective. Another challenge was the level of expectation that Aubrey had for himself growing up. He still struggles with his internal judge and tries to make it more of a coach instead of a critic. The internal judge is often a driver for high performance, but there's a good chance that high performers would still achieve at that level without it. What could you have accomplished with a more positive mindset? Aubrey's first real spiritual mentors outside of his parents include Don Howard, Ted Decker, Joe Rogan, and Bodie Miller. Aubrey also looks to some of the great mentors of the past to learn from as well. Adversity was more of a compounding series of events for Aubrey going into 2018. He had challenges in his relationship, health, business, as well as issues with his friends and it all culminated with a car accident. That six-month stretch of his life was the most challenging he's ever experienced. In the depth of his struggle, Aubrey turned to prayer and letting go of his attachment to his business's success and accepting the possibility of failure. All the issues in his life became pearls of insight that he could share with others, and the act of sharing was one of the things that helped the most. Aubrey's podcast was initially inspired by being one of the early guests on Joe Rogan's podcast. Aubrey's clothes business developed out of what they were doing with Onnit, but the nature of a cut and sew business is very challenging. One lesson he learned along the way was that if you want to be successful, you have to back it with a lot of chips and really go all in. Every time that Aubrey has shared something vulnerable, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. As bad as the car accident was for Aubrey, it was the turning point for a lot of the issues that he was experiencing. His greatest challenge was in his polyamorous relationship where he felt overwhelmed by the pain of knowing his partner was a guy that he couldn't deal with.  There was another moment in the business where the CFO of Aubrey's company walked out in the middle of a meeting. As rough as that was, the relationships in his personal life were the hardest aspect to deal with. Struggling with the other guy his partner was going out with revealed to Aubrey that he entangled sex and love and needed to separate the two. Aubrey is grateful for his wife and his health. He feels like an unseen hand has been guiding his life and moving him forward. Gratitude is a choice, and it's one of the most important choices you can make. It changes the way you see the world and it's something that you have to practice every single day. The mind is noisy, and the truth often comes to us as a whisper. To hear that whisper you have to quiet what your body is screaming for, which is where meditation practice comes in. One of the easiest ways to hear those whispers is to get into the flow state in whatever way works most effectively for you.  People have categorized psychedelic medicines as a drug which is part of the stigma, but in the right context, they can create hybrid sobriety and free you from the habit of being yourself. That doesn't mean that plant medicine can't be abused if they are used like drugs, but when used properly they reveal your true self which isn't addicted to anything. Addiction is an attempt to solve a problem according to Dr. Gabor Mate, and studies are showing how plant medicine can help solve some of those problems. Sobriety won't necessarily solve your issue, but you usually need another practice to help you get to the root of the problem. Finding the right guide is crucial to using plant medicine correctly. Do your research and come with the right amount of respect before jumping in with both feet. If Aubrey could speak to his younger self, it would be to tell him to enjoy it more and know that it will all work out. But after five years of giving that answer, he's not sure he has been taking that advice. He's still trying to find the time to enjoy his life and do his best. Today is a good day to die is a philosophy of living in such a full way that each day is a good day to die. Living with a fullness of life and heart is a philosophy that Aubrey has embraced and an ideal that he tries to live up to. The thing that is holding us back is always ourselves. We live in prisons of our own creation, the trick is to let ourselves out. There are now more cages than ever for us to place ourselves in and there's never been more fear in the world than there is today. Coincidentally, the people most afraid to die are the most afraid to live. Fear is the real virus. Stop fearing the conversations you know you should have, stop fearing putting down boundaries in relationships that are unhealthy, stop fearing to be yourself. Aubrey's comeback story shoutout goes to his mom and her unconditional love. 

Dr. Don Howard's episode has highs and lows. We follow his journey to becoming an intensivist. He takes us through what it's like to be in the middle of Jonesboro's Covid storm while the rest of the town seemed blissfully unaware of the extent of the travesties happening within the walls of the Covid unit. He also explains how playing music gets him through the intense nature of being an intensive care unit doctor. From the front lines of the pandemic to playing tunes downtown this is an interesting convo you don't want to miss. 

Meet Amy Thomas, a magnetic mind coach as she shares her story of how she used depression, anxiety, and life challenges as fuel for self-discovery, healing, and connecting to spirituality and how she used the wisdom that came from it to help others heal and let it flow.Connect with Amy below...Facebook: Amy ThomasJoin Amy's Facebook Group Here...Get Amy's FREE Impact96 Mini-Course Here...---Connect with me on...Facebook: Rodolfo De AngeliInstagram: Rodolfo De AngeliFacebook Group: Become the Artist of Your LifeGet my Resources here...Want to share your story? Email me here...---Transcript---Rodolfo De Angeli  Here we are. Good to see you Amy it's amazing to have you here. How are you today?Amy Thomas  Oh, it's a wonderful day. Thank you. There's always a lot going on in my world. But I find that if I just remember to be present in the moment. Everything usually works out.Rodolfo De Angeli  Yeah, that is. That is absolutely true. As soon as we leave where we are we go way too far forward or backward. Everything gets out of shape, right? Amy Thomas  It's like having your foot on the dock and your foot in the boat. And it starts to drift apart and you're like, Oh, well, somebody is going down.Rodolfo De Angeli  Amy, let me introduce you the way you deserve to be introduced? And then set off this journey with you and share your story. Yeah, so I'm super excited. So I'm here today with Amy Thomas, the certified magnetic mind coach, founder of impact 96, a practice established to spread the word that we don't have to fix ourselves. We can create despite our circumstances, and I'd so love that we are not here to fix ourselves. Welcome to the show, Amy Thomas.Amy Thomas  Thank you. I just love the message that we're not broken.Rodolfo De Angeli  So true. I remember myself thinking that over and over and over again. Honestly. Back in the day, so that message to me, you hooked me for sure.Amy Thomas  Well, I'll tell you what, it's just amazing. When we look at the timeline of things that we would consider setbacks or difficulties or blows, you know, earth-shattering whatever that timeline is, it's really easy to conclude that we're the common denominator where the problem and it's so easy to slide into that trap that we have to fix something about ourselves to stop this cascade of setbacks or life or whatever is happening, but it's simply not true. It's not true. It's just life happening as life happens.Rodolfo De Angeli  It isn't amazing. Let me ask you a question. How would have live been different for you, if you had this understanding? Whenever this journey started for you,Amy Thomas  oh, it's profoundly different. But I will tell you I'm a little bit special. Because when I was a very little girl, three years old, I had what was called a class to Toma and it was a tumor that was in my ears, the mastoid process of my ear and what happens if you ignore it is it starts to devastate your hearing and it can impact your brain and it can ultimately kill you if you ignore it. My mom was on the ball and she notices that I wasn't hearing or listening anymore. And she knew that that wasn't characteristic for me. So she hustled me off to the proper health care to get this checked out, they found it, they stopped that there was surgery. And then they couldn't believe it, it went into the other ear, I ended up having happened twice. So what happened was, I lost a lot of my hearing. So from the time that I was little, I was in this isolation. And everything was just so strange to me, because I had been hearing and then suddenly, you're not hearing, you're not able to communicate like you're used to. And I really didn't get trained to be a hearing child until elementary school started. And so there was that gap there. And what I found was, it was really natural for me to reach for, say, the spiritual realm of angels. And I can remember little stories like that I can even remember that ghost stories, you know because I would have ghosts and things like that. So the implication is that I kind of viewed setbacks a little bit differently from the beginning. But I will say that it was not until I was much older, probably 2000. The year 2000, is when I really started diving into this work, that I was like, oh, it just all started clicking in place. So your original question of how would your life have been different if you knew this back then is so relevant, so relevant, even knowing that I already had kind of this jumpstart on connecting with the spiritual world, my inner world, the whole thing? And it still was, it was traumatic, it can be really traumatic to go through all those things in isolation?Rodolfo De Angeli  I bet I bet. So the change then when everything, so how long did that affect you? Like, you know, mentally, your or, you know, how long did that like.Amy Thomas  So by watching your prior episodes, I noticed that you and a lot of your constituents have dealt with depression and anxiety. And that's probably the number one thing that I had to deal with was depression and anxiety, because you just, you're constantly fighting this feeling of helplessness, fighting this feeling of the world being harder for you than it really needs to be. And then if we go back to what I said a few minutes ago about, it's somehow my fault, I created this, or, you know, I did something or I'm the common denominator that just contributes to the depression and the isolation. So it just kept compounding and compounding. When I was 15 years old, I did make the decision not to be introverted, and to be extroverted, and I could really radically see how things changed. But I still was depressed and anxious. And it went from three years old and all the way through my life as an adult. And the main thing is, is the more that I came to understand what depression was, the more I realized it was only temporary, it would seem to come out of the blue sometimes there was a catalyst, you know, a setback or something that occurred or somebody was mean or, or, you know, a disappointment occurred or your rug was pulled out from under you some time. But depression has characteristically for me had a way of just dropping in to say hello. I think it was Liz Gilbert in Eat, Pray Love, where she said that it climbed into bed with her shoes and hat and coat and said, Here I am, again, you know, something loosely paraphrased like that. And that's what depression was like, for me, it would just show up uninvited unwanted. And it's like, Okay, what are you doing here? Again, I thought we had an agreement. And but the main thing up until all this work was I would remind myself, it's only temporary. And that's how I would get through those episodes. Rodolfo De Angeli  That is so powerful, and, you know, after having suffered the anxiety and the depression, and, you know, and I don't know if he was the same for you, but when it was in the middle of it, you know, I felt like there was no way out and everything was like super overwhelming, right? But eventually today, or I guess, over the last 10 years, realizing what the soul was about and how many things actually had to change in my life. That was the cause of the way I was feeling. Um, would you agree that anxiety and depression the way sometimes I explain or I use a metaphor of, it's a little dashboard, um, you know, the little red light in the dashboard of our car, that sometimes you know, you might have You might be low in oil or whatever right? light comes on and says, Hey, not to scare you hear about, you know, on your next chance, just top up a little bit of oil, you're good carries good, everything is good, just, you know, be mindful of that and keep that in mind I'm wearing at the time for me was the engine is broken already right? So would you agree that this is that you see that that way as well that is the depression anxiety is a feeling that comes up because of something that needs to be addressed or something that we need to be aware of. And if we take care of that, it will just go.Amy Thomas  So what I have noticed is as much as it can creep in. And also, like you describe that check engine light, it's a red flag, that there were being invited to look at different things in our lives. And the number one thing that I always looked at was how am I surrounding myself with, you know, what am I taking into my body? Am I drinking too much alcohol? am I eating too much sugar, you know, check all of those things. And that's akin to your analogy of the check the oil, check the gas, you know, what else? Is there enough air in the tires? And then for me, the bigger one would be to check your own thoughts. Once your self-talk, what are you telling yourself? And if you can just get into practice. And this is me almost talking to myself and now to your audience and our audience? If you can just check to see what are you thinking about? Can you move that thought to a slightly higher vibration is slightly better feeling though, because I found that if you start out at say the continuum is a one to 10 and you're deep into depression, and you're at a one or a two and a 10 would be your bliss, there's no way to really jump from a one and a two up to a 10. And if you do manage to it's not sustainable. That's what I notice. But I did find that if I say okay, what does it look like to go from this one to two or three, four, hang out at three, four for a little bit, and then go to four or five, hang out there for a little bit and then go to 561 days, I noticed that my set points in eight, which is terrific compared to that one too. And that is a lot of that mindset that we learn about that positive thinking. And I can really dive into some of this and I have a feeling it'll come up organically. But one thing that I do caution my clients about is to not trip into the hole of denial. As Debbie Ford is my original teacher and she's saved and I always an acronym for don't even notice I am lying and I love. Denial really doesn't serve us. And the analogy that I tell my clients is, you know, if you have a pile of crap over here, maybe it's your depression, maybe it's a lousy relationship that you have, maybe you're not doing well in school like you want to be whatever your pile of crap is. And you have your whipped cream over here, the good stuff, you know, the stuff that you can appreciate and have gratitude for and say, Okay, this is good. No amount of putting that whipped cream on the crap is going to make that crap edible. keep them separate, deal with the crap and enjoy the heck out of that whipped cream.Rodolfo De Angeli  Totally, I couldn't agree more. And also the way you said before, you know, go for you can't go from a one to a 10 I totally agree. And, and I usually when I hear someone saying that they can do that, or teach that I call bullshit on that. Because it's just, it's not possible. And if it was, if it was possible, you will miss out on all the lessons that are between that journey from a one to two a 10 or an eight or a nine whatever that is because every single step we take I, you know, this is what I've learned on my own skin but also a thing in working with my clients. When you take the people in yourself to this journey, the one or two and then the three, four, and then we hit the five, we might take a step back and 567 you know, towards whatever it is that we really want to go to. Um, we can then learn the lessons along the way. And that is amazing. And it's incredible.Amy Thomas  Oh, not only the lessons to us learn but you also the people that you meet, the self-awareness, the opportunity for introspection, all of that is happening as you climb up that emotional ladder and why would you want to step over all of that I agree with you. Rodolfo.Rodolfo De Angeli  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, it's honor 10 times, you know, when people go through the challenge and feel they can go from zero to 100, you know, they feel they failing, but in reality, it's the journey. It's just simply the journey. And if we learn to enjoy that journey and to try to, you know, to, to look under the rocks and go and dig, what did what is this feeling? And like you said before, you know, when, when the thoughts that come up and all of that, right? And also what, what is the meaning that you give to those thoughts, right?Amy Thomas  Oh, yes. The number one coaching question in my book, is, what did you make XYZ mean? So if XYZ happened to you, what did you make that mean? If somebody did this to you, what did you make that mean? Because in that meaning is all of that rich, juicy opportunity to get to know yourself to understand life to understand relationships? So I agree. And we were talking about turning over the rocks to see what's under there, there's, there's so many nuggets of gold, that understanding that if we've looped back to your metaphor of the check engine light, how many of us are so shut down, or have been in our lives and so numbed out that we don't even see all the flags? So I described that the depression all of a sudden just climbed in bed with me, but maybe, in reality, I missed all the warning signs, because I was so numbed out or on autopilot, or whatever. And so I think when you go on that journey, and you appreciate that journey, you have more of an opportunity to notice those red flags, those check engine lights, and it's an opportunity while it's smaller, to address it before I can wait and heavy and it's crushing your chest.Rodolfo De Angeli  Absolutely. Absolutely. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe in the thought that? Sometimes? I don't want to say often, but let me just use sometimes just to be cautious here. But do you think that sometimes we can, we can be addicted, we can get addicted to our own depression and our own anxiety as someone would get addicted to alcohol or drugs or poor nor whatever else? Right?Amy Thomas  So that was a pivotal movie for me. I don't know if you and I ever talked about this before. But have you ever heard of a movie called What the Bleep do we know?Rodolfo De Angeli  No, I never saw that.Amy Thomas  Okay. So it's documentary style. And it talks about the premise that you just gave. And they agree that it can be addictive, much like alcohol or any other substance or shopping or gambling, and how they explained it. And I'll probably do a terrible job of it. But it'll be enough to communicate. The idea is there are biochemicals going through our body. And they can be ones that feel good they can be once they feel bad, those biochemicals have to be processed. So wherever they go to be processed, and I think they might have used the words like neurotransmitters and the receptors for the neurotransmissions. Because it's almost like a landfill, it goes to get processed. This is my analogy. Now, this was not in the movie. So if you imagine all the trash being picked up from your house taken down to the landfill, they have to move it somewhere. So they make a pile over here, they make a pile over here, they make a pile over here. And so in the same way, the body will have those neuroreceptors that process that neurotransmission and if you start to overload it with a certain biochemical it needs to have a place to process that so it develops those receptors. So let's say you do have a miracle here healing maybe Reiki does it for you or some other NLP or something like that. The idea proposed in What the Bleep do we know is that all of those neuroreceptors are still there. And they're clamoring for work. And that's the thing that agitates us. And that's what can cause us to start to create drama in our lives or to pick a fight with somebody because those neuro trans neuroreceptors are clamoring for that biochemical it comes from the stress from the drama or from the fighting from whatever it is, much like they showed with alcoholism or any other drug addiction where those chemicals have to be processed, and it triggers certain places in the brain. And it just creates this cycle of wanting more and wanting more and wanting more. So I do think that there is a very real possibility we get addicted to drama, we get addicted to the biochemicals that come from the depression or the drama or the fighting or whatever it is gossip even can do. Yeah, absolutely. Spot can do You know, whenever it is nice causing the biochemicals to flow through as there has to be processed somewhere.Rodolfo De Angeli  I totally believe in that. Because, and I want to take it. Um, and I want to take it even more personally even more on a personal level where I felt like, I can now talk for myself, but I see that a lot in my clients as well. Or when I hold retreats and people that come to attend those retreats. Oftentimes, for myself, like, like, you know, I like to talk about my story as in not to use someone else's, but I remember myself when I was deep in my anxiety, and, you know, barely being able to get up in the morning and, and go out to, you know, to make a living, or be out and have, you know, the 10th, panic attack, and so on. so forth, until, you know, I got to a point where suicide was, was my only way out, I then eventually, when I turned that page, I eventually understood also the way I was using the anxiety and the depression, to make myself actually, to get what I needed, what I was so much looking for, you know, as a kid, you know, my, my, my, my, my parents gave me away when I was eight months old. So, I was always in need of love. And I always tried to fit in into this world and whatever. And I kind of never knew how to do that. Eventually, the anxiety, the feeling that would come up, and me sharing that example, even before my wife, um, she will take care of me to look after me, she will, first of all, she will take any duties or any responsibilities, she will take him away, right? And she will look after me, she will prepare me food or make a tea or coffee or whatever, you know, look up, make me, you know, go to sleep and just rest and you know, you'll feel better later, whatever. All of a sudden, I was obviously the time I didn't realize that, although I think I probably did. That's why I played that card. So over and over and over, even though I didn't want to feel anxiety or depression. But there was something that was given to me. Yeah, just leaving something right. And any made it hard for me to let go of that anxiety because I thought, well, if I get like, if tomorrow, I don't have this, how am I going to get this?Amy Thomas  If you take like the common cold, so you get a cold near your partner or your sibling, you know, brings you soup and brings you a blanket and nurtures you and takes care of you that that becomes a benefit of getting a cold, cold. Same way, nobody really wants a cold. No, but in the same way, if it happens with depression, or it happens with codependency or it happens with alcoholism or whatever, then we end up getting indulged or cared for which is totally wonderful. So my answer to myself and to you to your clients to anyone who's listening is how can you give yourself that self-care that you're looking for or craving? And to how else can you get that self-care and that love that you're looking for instead of getting depressed or instead of picking a fight or instead of getting a cold because there's a lot of people that around me say at work that would get colds all the time, and I wasn't getting colds. So what's the difference? The coats on the shopping cart handle, you know, the different environments now because of COVID. So the analogy is a little bit looser, but before COVID you know, the common cold, there was always that person in the office that always had a cold and you can look at 1000 reasons why they always got a cold. But don't you wonder if they were getting some benefit from beingRodolfo De Angeli  Totally agree with that. And you know, one of the things that I do when when when my client when I get a new client or so, and they tell me you know, what they're going through and so on so forth. I always ask them, What are you getting from that? What is it giving you? What is the anxiety giving you and I you know as I would have done back in the days, what are you nothing is gonna give you Okay, let's settle that. Yeah, you're really what it what's the transaction? You know, when you say to a person I'm feeling this way, what are you getting back? You know, I want to bring that clarity. It brings so much clarity to the person. It's like, oh my god. Oh, right.Amy Thomas  It's true. It's true. I used to get migraines and I remember I went to GP Are you familiar with them? An author named Collin tipping. He says forgiveness he called his book radical forgiveness. And if you want a really good illustration of his premise is look up Jill's story. It's out there on the web. It's a PDF jail story and it captures the whole essence of what he teaches. Well, I went away for a three-day retreat in Atlanta, and migraines set in on the first night and I remember calling my husband and I was just crying on the phone. This is such bad timing. It's so awful. I've done I call it my Amy cocktail. You know, I take so many acetaminophen, so many ibuprofen, and a big cup of coffee, and it usually nipped it. No, I couldn't get rid of it. And I was so sick and I wanted to get the most out of this workshop and I'm weeping and weeping and all of a sudden, Rodolfo. I said, you know, if I don't try, nothing happens. And if I do try, it's so hard. And right then I saw the gift of my migraine, my migraines, were telling me, Amy, you're caught between a rock and a hard space. And as soon as I got that, the headache went away. Now I still had the after blow cuz you know, you're just sweaty and nauseous, you know, I had all that. But the headache was gone. And I was like, wow, that's powerful. So there, I mean, if a migraine can serve you.Rodolfo De Angeli  And that is exactly what did you said is so powerful. And I always say, you know, they sometimes this word, a phrase that is so powerful that if you get it, everything changes, right? If you can see what something that feels negative has for you, is there to teach you or show you or whatever, man life like that. If you really allow yourself to. Nope, say I know it all I've been here before I got it. And you know, just just just just empty the cup pride. Just empty the cup and allow What is this? Feeling? Why do I feel this way? Why is this coming up? You know that Why? Question is? It's so powerful because the answer is right there, right?Amy Thomas  Yes, it is. I have something to illustrate that a story from when I was at university and I had trouble making friends. But I had cobbled together a group of girls and we were living in an apartment together, two of us in one room to one another and to one another. So there were six of us sharing the rent. And they called me into the room for a talk and I didn't know what was going on. You know, I thought a little bit like it was an intervention. I'm like, what's going on? So that was unsettling right there. And they announced that they had all joined sororities over the course of our weird juniors going into our senior year, they had all joined sororities, and I had not and they were all going to be living in their respective sorority houses their senior year. So that man, Amy would not have a roommate. And you know how hard it is to find a roommate your senior year, you know because that's cobbled together all through university. So I remember that below. I kept a poker face. And they really weren't my friends. They pretended they were my friends and I remember them doing that. Oh, Amy, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? You know, and I don't know where it came from Rodolfo. But up out of nowhere, I said, Oh, no worries, I'll just be an RA up on the hill, which an RA was a Resident Advisor for this student dormitories. And it was near too impossible to get those jobs. And they immediately all jumped on that and said, Well, nobody can get those jobs. They're like coveted and they're already assigned and I said no, don't worry, I'm gonna get one for Delphi. I have no idea where I got that hunch from I have no idea where I got the inspiration. But I think that I was able to access it for two reasons. One because I didn't go into feeling sorry for myself my girlfriend suck. But I went into being deaf as a little girl and that intuitive. I think I heard the answer right then and it was low-hanging fruit. I just took it. Rodolfo. That's exactly how it turned out. I got the RA job. Everything worked out sweetly. I didn't have to hate my girlfriends. We stayed in a strange store. We did every step backRodolfo De Angeli  If you listen right here, it's there, you know, shut down and just go in, in crazy mode, right? Yeah.Amy Thomas  If you get yourself all worked up, you really can't get that thing, right, for sure.Rodolfo De Angeli  Amy, we're talking about spirituality just earlier, when you were going, you know, were you sharing the story, as a little girl and so on, and I feel there's a lot of spirituality and also, you know, I didn't get to ask you about and wanna, you know, get it to grow the magnetic mine couch. But I do feel there's a lot of spirituality connected with you and so on so forth. I love, to hear a little bit about your take on that.Amy Thomas  Okay, if you hit a ball, I think what I'll do is share one of my earliest stories, it's a ghost story, your constituents, okay with ghost stories?Rodolfo De AngeliAbsolutely Amy Thomas  I have permission because you never know who you are. And where I'll take it, then is how that ended up serving me later and how I even remember that. Let me just reflect for a minute. Okay, I'll start here, because there are different places to pick up your story. So I'm a three-year-old little girl, I lost my hearing. And I'm playing by myself. We lived in a haunted house that was a stone mansion, and it was on an institution. My dad was a well-known psychiatrist, and he was the administrator of the school. That was for at that time, they called it mentally retarded children. I don't and girls, they don't call it that anymore. But that's what it was back then. And this house was put on the grounds for whoever ran the school and the family could live there. And that's where we live. The only problem was, it was very haunted. My dad was very much a scientist. And even he said the place was haunted. So I was on that third floor in an empty room. And back then, this was in the 60s there was a tin dollhouse that I had and it was metal and you could rattle it, you know if your knuckles if you wanted to. And I play with my dogs. I'm pretty happy. I had my little Mary Jane's on my little dress. And you know how little girls can squat while they play in their dresses. So you got the image, I have my long hair, and I'm minding my own business. And all of a sudden three ghosts came in apparitions. And they were messing with me. They weren't really harming me. And I remember doing this kind of thing. You know, like being spooked out, but not sure. And they were doing this thing where they trailed her energy across your air. And it's just giving me goosebumps now. They laughed. They turned back and one of them said, we'll be back. So it sounds a lot like the Terminator. But that didn't trigger it for me. Many, many years later, I was in my probably late 40s working at the hospital. And my physician supervisor came in I wasn't in health care. I was in administration and I worked for a vice president. He came into the room did his thing. And then he was leaving. And as he was and I love this guy, so there was no weirdness, nothing. As he was leaving, he turned around, he said, I'll be back. And then Cheryl just went through me. I felt sick to my stomach. And I'm like, What was that? And I just said, okay, you have to tell me what that was all about. And all of a sudden that memory came back. And I remember that I was like, Oh, that's it, and what it costs for me, Rodolfo was kind of a life review of my spiritual experiences. And I was able to see this timeline of where I just kept getting visited to say, don't forget about this part of you. And you often hear that about children that are intuitive or psychic as children, they lose it. Well, mine wasn't gonna let me forget. And so as I looked at that life review, I saw how it played out and I'm like, wow, is this beautiful? and it included angelic visits and included just being really super spiritual in the Christian church, which is where I was raised to eventually becoming a weapon and then letting go of the weekend. And it's just all kind of melded into just the super-spiritual check. Who knows we have heavenly helpers. And we don't have to ascribe names or titles or anything, just gratitude and know that they're willing to help us and that's what it all boiled down to for me.Rodolfo De Angeli  So true. Wow. And do you use any of these gifts that you have in your work today still?Amy Thomas   Yes. I don't do it on purpose and they laugh at me because I never know when I'm being psychic. Okay, so I'm just like, Rodolfo, remember when you told me about X, Y, and Z and a, b, and c? And you're like, me, I never told you about them. Like, did I remember when you told me? I didn't tell you? And then it comes out that you never told me, but I definitely know it. How do I know? And my clients love it about me. In fact, that's how I got into being an angel therapist, you know, somebody who flips cards for people. And because I started out with Debbie Ford's doing integrated coaching, but I was just profoundly connecting so much that I was seeing the relevant piece that they couldn't even see it. Also remember when you did this, and that you were telling me about you're like, No, I never told you about it, but you're getting more and more irritated because I'm giving you more and more details. And migrated into Angel therapy. And that's where I can curse and use the F-bomb. And so I got titled The cursing Angel lady. But apparently, my followers were calling me the first thing, Angel, Angel lady.Rodolfo De Angeli  There's nothing worse than someone that wants to pretend to be something and keep it all together. And then you find out that they do, I believe, you know, being our true selves. And yes, sometimes the F-bombs come out and whatever it is, but this is, this is how we are, this is who we are, and we are not perfect. We were just we just another reflection of someone else, it doesn't really matter. Right? This is, um, you know, I practice and in shamanism, so they said, there's a saying in engine Maya that, that says "In Lak'ech Ala K'in," which means "I am another yourself." And, and I love that term. Because, you know, so many tried to keep everything together and be you know, super polite, or they are, you know, structured and whatever. But it's actually truly not them, and actually creates a lot of stress. Because you're so away from who you truly are just to pretend to be liked or loved or seen in a certain way, I'll be putting you on a pedestal or whatever. That is, that is a downfall to come 100%Amy Thomas  especially in our work, the connection is so important to really help our clients and receiving proper you just transmissions. times when the F-bomb came out to me and it wasn't me, I could tell it was just more like, I think this is something they're going to look into, for one reason or another. Maybe it reminded them of their dad, or maybe it reminded them of themselves, or maybe they were dropping the F-bomb in their head. You just can't push it down. I call it pinching off kind of like a hose. water flow. And if you go like this to the hose, it's good. Yeah, totally get it just let it flow out of you. And trust. Absolutely.Rodolfo De Angeli  I totally agree. I, I couldn't agree more with that. Because, um, you know, and this is something that I learned. I'm actually a lesson that I received from a teacher, that one one of my teachers in Peru, where I went, I go and practice or learn my own practice over there and hold ceremonies there. But one of the things that happened was that I met this this this person, which then became truly my, my friend, my brother many times my father for sure. Um, and my teacher, you know, my sister, Don Howard. And he used to, to, to hold the retreats at spirit quest in Peru, which is quite a famous place to go. He, unfortunately, passed away a couple of years ago, but he took me on his under his wing and started to teach me the practices and, and, and I really looked up to him, you know, I was like, Oh my god, you know, this. I mean, as a human, he was absolutely incredible. Um, as a friend and everything he was just next level right? And I got myself to really literally look up to him. You know, it's like, Man, this is incredible, especially human. But then eventually something happened that showed me behind the curtain, right and I'm which is nothing Bad on nothing that would, you know, put his practice under any sort of danger or, or a bad bad kind of thought about it. Nothing bad I was a personal thing. But what he taught me is he's only human right? It's like when who was really attended to go out on the pallet bringing with him one of his servers, and that would remind him, you're on the heels. So what, that was okay? To never look up to anybody because they only human, they're gonna reveal something about them that you will be disappointed and see, you will, you will have to make them work so hard to keep up these look, right. And all of the sudden, they will fall apart. Like if we put onto a pedestal because out crying or anybody you know. And oh, I can't say this, I can't do that, eventually will fall off that pedestal by ourselves. Because there's so much pressure. Right. And that was one of the things that I that I've learned.Amy Thomas  well in it and it's what's naturally being expressed. Absolutely. That's just what's naturally emerging and what another powerful coaching question is, who are you becoming? So who are you becoming? And if I don't feel aligned with say the F-bomb, then what was going on in that moment that the F-bomb emerged or what? Where am I going with that? You know, why did it come out? Then? Where was it taking me because something is emerging here? And ironically, maybe the F-bomb at that moment was so that I could be more relatable because maybe that tendency was there to me be on a pedestal because I'm the teacher or the coach or you know the guide. And maybe my client was starting to put me higher and higher and may be as soon as I had that fallibility that's a new F word, isn't it? It is I had that fallibility I became relatable again and now it's Yes.Amy Thomas  So I think it's just truly being tuned in tapped into who we are. What are we expressing? Why are we expressing it? And where is it taking us once it guiding us towards and I think if we keep checking on those things, we're going to be just fine. That's fine.Rodolfo De Angeli  understand and embrace it, embrace it. Beautiful Highlands you know, I always say a masterpiece. You know, if you go into a gallery and you look at a masterpiece it's you know the painter the artist was brilliant with working with shadows and lights and he put them together and that's why you know people travel all around the world to watch for this specific piece right? But our life is the same I know we live in a time where people just want the light you know I want to live in the light I am light and this that the other Well, where is the shadows because there's no light without the shadow when there are no shadows without the light ray grabbingRodolfo De Angeli  them both to push you to bring on more light if there's too much shadow and you know to bring down the shadow when he's too old bring more shadows too much light because I believe and that's only my theme but you know when it's too much light it was too much hairy fairy you know usually comes out from everywhere right? So brain some shadows there because I think you you You're way too far away into you know, this thing so I think this is a great talk that we are having now because again going back to people who suffer and again it doesn't have to be always depression anxiety, but also you know, feeling not good enough for this so that whatever you allow yourself to just be you.Amy Thomas  Yes, right. Yes. And don't apologize if you feel like you're not enough don't apologize if you feel like you don't belong. Just observe it and see when it teaches you about yourself if you think you're not worthy, observe it and then realize or reach for that better feeling thought. Alright, so I believe I'm not worthy. What's the evidence that I am worthy? You ask that question, what's the evidence that I am enough? What are the things that I am capable of? Fill in the blank? It's there, I guarantee it's there. Because everybody is worthy. Everybody is enough. Everybody is capable, everybody belongs. There's nothing you can change about the core person that will make you more belonging, or more capable, or more fill in the blank. More words.Rodolfo De Angeli  challenge that thought, right. Yes. Usually, we challenge with challenges, the positive thought, which challenge? Oh, I did really well. Not really. But if we, if our thought is negative, we don't challenge we believe that Right, right.Amy Thomas  What is that? Why don't you? Why don't we challenge it?Rodolfo De Angeli  Yeah, challenging. As you can challenge the good thing, you know, if someone tells you Oh, you did really well, right there. Oh, you know, it wasn't really I did better last time just constantly shitting on yourself, right? Where instead, um, you know, when when we when something negative, you know, we just Oh, yeah, no, that wasn't good. You know, it's like, good. What about lots of that? You did? Well, you know, we forget right. So, yeah, I think this is so crucial. And, and, and reflecting everybody, pride, we all have that thing. God is is that. But when once you see that even people talking, you know, and even, you know, the work we do, and so on so forth. And I say all the time, I don't listen to me, because I'm full of shit. Right?Amy Thomas  What do I know?Rodolfo De Angeli  What do I know? I have no idea, right? I don't know. No. So I had to, you know, too, to come like, Yeah, I don't know, someone that comes to you and wants to work with you. Sometimes they might see you like Oh, this person already, you know, is like, so way ahead. Do you know what I'm saying? When I tried to crush that? I don't want to be that I'm not way ahead. I'm actually just right there.Amy Thomas  Leveling the playing field.Rodolfo De Angeli  100%. Right. And as you think, at times, that you're not good enough. Trust me. I think that too, sometimes, as you think you're not loved or whatever, you could have done better. Hey, hang on. I got that too. Right. We all have it, anybody? Well, we might have learned is to challenge that thought, rather than only challenge the good, the positive, the things that we have done,Amy Thomas  right? I agree. And the only difference really between me and the person standing next to me, is like you said, I challenged it. And I've now recognized what it was so that I could make a different choice around my thoughts or my feelings. That's the only difference. They know that they can do it too.Rodolfo De Angeli  Absolutely. I mean, right? All we need is clarity. Sometimes we just do not see it's like in Buddhism, you know, the Buddha says we have every single human has Buddha-nature. The thing is, is like we have these mirror, where it's it's like we just had to shower and the mirror is fogged. And if you go and look in the mirror, you cannot see yourself. So all the Buddha says is to start cleaning that mirror and get a glimpse, even just a tiny little glimpse of who you are, which is there in every single soul. All of a sudden everything changes. Oh, that is me, you know and embrace that. You know, I believe it's key for healing. It's key for moving forward and be the person like you said before, who do you want to become, you know, who are you when nobody's watching? Who are you? You know, these people around and all of a sudden you have to go to the restroom. Everybody has to go there, right? And we usually go by ourselvesAmy Thomas  I'm having an experience now where somebody just passed away that was really dear to me and gave us the 29th of April. So it's really rods really. The sense I get is that they're there all the time. It changed my shower experience. It changed my bathroom experience. It changed when I'm flossing. Even as I walk in. There's clutter down here. It's like Oh, it changes everything. But you know why? It had a way of just humanizing the relationship and creating this intimacy. And actually, I know from the past that it could have made me more insecure. But instead, in this ripe age that I'm experiencing, it's actually making me more secure. So that's proof that if we can find a way to be safe with our vulnerabilities, there is power there. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. so powerful. so powerful. And you know, what happens? Compassion will come up. Yes. Cooking.Amy Thomas  Talking about the mirror, I wanted to interject and say yes, but look in that mirror with compassion.Rodolfo De Angeli  Yes, absolutely. You know, we are so hard on ourselves, people are so hard on themselves. And yet, if they see someone else, they jump all over them, and they want to make them feel right and, and beautiful. But they going there with an empty cup, you know, a little bit more compassion to ourselves, and a little bit less judgmental. Do you know what I'm saying? I mean, at the end of the day, as I said, Before, we all full of shit. Never gonna be perfect. I mean, honestly, imagine a world perfect, right? Imagine, imagine a world with the same tree, the same, the same colors, the same amount of leaves the same trunk, the same everything. It will be absolutely disgusting, right? You go to the woods, because it's, it's a mess. But that mess has so much harmony and so much reconnection to yourself. Because it's the, you know, imperfection makes it perfect, right? And all of a sudden, you kind of feel like home, it's like nature from Latin. I'm home, right to be born. So it's like, yeah, to be with ourselves. We want to be perfect. You know, we want everything to have to be that way, you know, and they're idle. And yucky, you know?Amy Thomas  So I heard it coined probably by you about getting messages from our messes. Yes, you say that a lot. I thought it was. And it's so true. There really is just so much and, and I agree, we really don't want perfection. And another little thing that I reach for is if you write the word imperfection down. I am totally imperfect I am. Yes.Rodolfo De Angeli  Once we see life like that, see, even Yes, we go through challenges, right? I mean, yes, things happen. This, like you, said at the beginning, you know about Chad, let's not deny that it's right into denial. This is not happening. It is happening. I mean, I was abandoned by my parents. I was sexually abused. I was told that you did have an issue with you. That shit happens and happens. Yes, it's unfortunate, right. But it didn't happen to hold us back. It happened because he was just, you know, another way to learn something, you know, and if we can see that.Amy Thomas  So offer it to waste. Two metaphors that will seem to contradict each other. But I'll make my point. And it has to do with that resistance that you just described. So when you have a setback or something goes terribly wrong, or there's something traumatic, definitely, there's a lot of resistance around that. No question about it. But when we get down to the idea of resistance in mechanics of the world, when we want a mountain climb, we put cleats on our shoes to create that traction. So we know we can use resistance to help propel us upwards. Likewise, if you take the sport of curling, where they're trying to get that little orange to go, they're trying to smooth out the Yes, I think the differences to mindfully decide do I want the resistance? Can I use the resistance? Or is this the time to let go of the resistance? The resistance out of the way and if we're conscious and mindful of that. Life can be so much smoother, no matter what it throws at us. Oh, my God.Rodolfo De Angeli  Yeah, totally. Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. So let me ask you... Tell me about magnetic mind coach, tell me about that.Amy Thomas  So the beautiful thing that captured me about that is I really enjoy Abraham hicks. And so I was headed into YouTube to watch Abraham hicks who know what the topic was. And I popped this, you know, redheaded guy Qt, you know, probably half my age, and he's just cute as hell. And he says, what I'm about to tell you is going to change your life forever. And I was hooked. I might have it I get hooked. It's a stupid YouTube ad. So I watch it through and the guy's premise was this, this concept of accessing the superconscious, the collective unconscious, how Carl Jung said it. And accessing that knowledge that field is Joe Dispenza calls it to govern our lives to guide our lives. And it was his promise about removing the resistance, just getting it out of the way. So what if you're depressed, create Anyway, what a great story. This is me now, what a great story. If I can say I was depressed for 50 years and look what I created anyway. Amen. Right. Amen. His main premise is don't fix yourself, you're not broken. You just wrote a book called you're not broken. It's launching tomorrow as a matter of fact. So it's out there, people want to get a real quick dive into it. It's great stuff. And I was just hooked because I was an integrated coach for 20 years. Loved it. This is Debbie Ford's take on Carl Young's and Shadow Work because you talked about the shadows. And what we would do is go in and we discover or uncover sub-personalities, so part personalities and these are the keepers of our different shadows, we can have light shadows, and we can have dark shadows. A dark shadow might be around integrity or honesty, or whatever you name it and doing well in school being pretty in school, you know, whatever it is, you know, and when it has that negative energy, it's considered a dark shadow, when it has positive energy such as she was an A student, and she has the most beautiful voice that I've ever heard. And, gosh, he's the best debater I've ever met. You know, those are the light shadows. But we tend to hide our light shadows under a basket. Like you said earlier, we discount what we're doing right. And our next dark shadows we don't even argue with we just take them for what they presented. yesterday said personality processes were all about diving in and finding out what those parts of ourselves had to teach us. So a process I did one time was I came from a family of no at all. We are just obnoxious around the table. And you know, you ask an engineering question my oldest brother takes over and will tell you everything about you know how that battery was made. You ask a psychology question, I jumped in and I know it all. It's so obnoxious, Rodolfo. So I did a process on it, to get to know it. There's no at all part of myself. And you know what the wisdom was that I heard it, just be still and listen for what you don't know. Because it will be there. So even if I think I can finish their sentences or finish their sentences better. Listen, Amy, for what you don't know. And it just changed all my relationships once I got that sub-personality. So it sounds fabulous. It's wonderful. But you know what the problem was, there was always another sub-personality that needed attention. And that was always another process that needed to be done with a magnetic mind. There isn't what you do is you just show up you say this is what I want to create. This is what seems to be standing in the way it's usually a limiting belief or it's, you know, a memory that's telling you, you can't do it or you don't want to do it because our unconscious wants to keep us safe. And then you just move that resistance out of the way and then you go and create you come out of the process with inspired action and the most important thing you do is take that action because so many people don't follow through. Yeah. And it was Campbell who said, you know that the life you ought to be living becomes the life you're living, and the doors open where you never knew they were going to be. That's what's happens when you take inspired action. When you allow your superconscious to guide you. It's just absolutely phenomenal. How I would sum up magnetic mind I just I love it. I love it. Rodolfo De Angeli  I freaking love this. All right, now in the podcast towards as we as we are getting towards the end. There's a part of the podcast where I want to share your song The song that your favorite song, right? What are we gonna do now we're gonna listen to that song. For a little bit, and then I'll get back to you.Rodolfo De Angeli  I never heard it before. But I do love it. And definitely, life is a circle. But my question to you is this, what does this mean? What does this song mean to you?Amy Thomas  Well, it definitely triggers something very sentimental into me. And what it causes me to do is really find how precious life is. And whether we believe in past lives, or we believe it's just this life that we're going through one time. I think that we revisit patterns throughout our lives, and we just keep coming back around. And at the end of the song he talks about, you know, I've met you 1000 times, I guess you've done the same because we're all in it together. And if I've met you 1000 times, you know, I've met your listeners 1000 times, right. And if we just honor what's going on in them, as we entered an honor, what's going on in the world would be so much more peaceful, there'd be so much more attractive for the lights, as we described. And I think it would just be so much more fulfilling. And the funny thing is, the song actually brings up melancholy for me, it's not necessarily uplifting, but it's so tender and so beautiful and so sincere, that I think that that's why I love it so much. And it just stirs up all this gratitude and appreciation. That is so beautiful. IRodolfo De Angeli  definitely can hear that in your voice. And you know, this is a part of when I hold my retreats, my shamanic retreats, and the people are invited to drink medicine and in medicine that comes from the end is a very, very powerful entheogen. And I know that every time I am the last person to drink, and as I lift my cup to drink before I drink I always say I drink this medicine for the good of all. Because it's not about us. Right, Amy? Learn about us. Never had. It never has been never will be. You know, it's a bad everything. It's about the good of all the good, the good of everything. Right? And that's why you do the work you do I do the work I do. It's not to be seen a different way or No. Look at me. I got it all sorted out. Man, I got so much shit. I can you know everybody does. But we still decide to push through, we still decided to instead of letting it overpower us. We tried to use it as mud to build this wall. This thing this masterpiece. That is our life. You know, so I, yeah, I totally agree with you. When you say the service and you know what the song represents? It's not just about us.Amy Thomas  Never, never will be you know, now. Now it's really not. And I don't leave self-awareness on the table by any stretch of the imagination. But I definitely my dad tells a story or told a story. He was in World War Two. And back then they at night could go off top ship. He was on some sort of carrier, he could go up and just look at the stars as the ocean. And he talked about this profound sense of significance and insignificance that occurred at the same time. And it came from looking at those stars and realizing that he was so tiny in this vast universe. Then at the same moment, he could feel that he was everything in this universe Anyway, it was really profound. I remember driving home from school one day, and he told me that story and luck, it's stuck with me. And it was the seed for this concept I have of the 100 100 theory where you're 100%, humanity, and 100% of the entity. And if you don't try to do 7030 or 5050, and you strive for that, 100 100 the service you're going to be able to provide the humanity is going to be over the top, the life that you're going to live is going to be so fulfilling the love that you're going to attract. So I just really believe in this 100 100 and it has to do with being 100% divinity 100% humanity 100% significant 100% insignificant, and just keep filling in the blank. And it's not to diminish us. It elevates us when we juxtapose the two together.Rodolfo De Angeli  This is what your dad's story 100% reflects Is this apart again? When I am during my preparation and you know about to serve the people and so on? is there's you know, speaking to spirit, I don't call it God to me, it's spirit. And I was you know, I think to show us devices as it is above it is it is within us right it's the thing you know, and yeah 100%Amy Thomas  I love the stories that I have where I experienced that are amazing because I could totally be and I fear-based experience in my human humanity and have all the symptoms sweating, shaking, heart, breathing. But then you have this overwhelming divinity that's just balancing it all out. So you have all the physiological but you have this divinity and you know, everything is okay. It's a profound experience. And I think it can deliver you the one time that it happened to me I was involved in a car accident where I should have died three times. And you know, the first part of it was well, the first part is actually me almost going off a cliff and I was talking out loud and I was terrified but I remember being really calm. I said no, no, no, we can't go over there and I'm pulling the wheel like this and then I start shooting across two-four lanes of traffic into the traffic heading on. I said that's not gonna work. I remember this fight but you know, those medians in the middle cause the car to start to roll and I can feel the client I said no, that's not gonna work either. The car clunk down, and I pulled off to the side of the road, just stood there and all my physiological emotional response, but completely calm. I got out of the car, people started pouring out coming up. One guy was ranting and raving and saying, You are all over the road. Like, I didn't know it. I put my hand on his heart. I literally touched him. I didn't say a word. And in my mind, I said, I know I was all over the road. I don't need you here. When the police come, I just need calm. And I need this to just be a miracle. I need it to be okay. So please just go. And I remember he went like this. And I didn't say any of that out loud. All I did was put my hand on his chest. He went like this. And then he turned around, gotten his truck drove away. It seemed to be a cue for everybody else. Everybody else drove away. And I was left with one woman who sort of knew me from our community. And she stood and waited till the police came and the police were completely calm. And that's what I needed was calm. I first did it. And the police were completely called. They were amazed at the cliff. They could see my wheel had gone off the cliff. They're like, how did you not like go? I'm like, I don't know. And then they could see the tire marks on the other day. How did you not I'm like, I don't know... the car was totaled. They're like, how did you I said, I don't know. Rodolfo De Angeli  This is absolutely is Wow. It's beautiful. I really appreciate you so much Amy for doing this. Now. I do this usually towards the end of the episodes of my podcast and there is a question is, if you had a question for yourself, if you could ask yourself a question and give yourself the answer. What question would that be? Amy Thomas  And as I right now, is it in the past? No. Right now, I know what question I reached for first, but I want to see if something else comes up. So let me just be quiet for a moment. Okay, now I have to listen for the answer so that computers that hold on. Okay. So the first question I heard that I automatically reach for is what I already said earlier, who are you becoming? And when I ask, Who am I becoming? I just see this magnificent person that has all of these wonderful qualities of humility, humanity, love, intelligence, ease wisdom, all of it rolled up into one. That's who I'm becoming, and I love becoming her. And that led to the real question for this particular moment is Amy, what do you love? What do you love? And it was almost beyond words, the answer that I saw because it was almost like this big, really light. And so if I had to put it into words, I would say I just love ease and lightness that lightness of beingness I love being but I also love being relatable. I love being human. I'm on the planet after all, so I don't want to be some Earth Angel. Somebody called me an earth Angel. Once I'm like, No, I'm a human being let me tell you.I'm on the planet. I wanted all that I really love all that light, all that ease all that sense of well-being but bring it baby because I'm strong enough to take it.Rodolfo De Angeli  So good. I love it. I love it. Wow. Wow.So before, before we wrap this up, Amy, anything you want to share anything more you want to add any more you want to say?Amy Thomas  Well, I'm just really dying to hear the answer view again. What question would you ask yourself and what would be your answer? Do you mind me pivoting back to you?Rodolfo De Angeli  Put me on the spot right here. The last time I worked with Don Howard Lawler in Peru. He was very, very ill he suffered from amyloidosis. And eventually, he passed away from kidney failure. He was really, really close to my heart. And when we held our last retreat together, which was in August 2018. And then he started to do chemo and went to the US because he lived in Peru and, and, and went back to the US to do some therapy. And as we finished there, he left the retreat center, but I kept on doing some more work with another teacher. Sad for another month, more or less. And before he left, he came to say goodbye. And I remember he put his hands on my shoulders. And the last words were you match on hermano! And sometimes the question is that am I matching on? You know, am I truly marching on to make no to him? not follow what he taught me in and all of that, but for me for really coming on you know full circle on my own life. Sometimes I do ask myself, am I really marching on...? The answer? The answer is I think I am. The answer, honestly, is it's not a categorical Yes. No, no, definitely not. It's not a no, but it's not a categorical Yes. And I think there's a bit of humility required on my part here, and I gotta be honest and say I think I am. Now I think there's a lot to learn still, I think there's a lot of things do to still, you know, break down and make them a little bit in smaller pieces. But I think the answer I think I am. So yeah. Thank you for putting anyone on the spot, right, there we go.Amy Thomas  He's probably with you, what do you feel? Like? That's possible?Rodolfo De Angeli  Oh, yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Because I do, you know, I hold the retreats every four to six weeks. And we have one coming up now this weekend, the next one. And obviously, I do a lot of my own work here, you know, using those antigens and, and just learning in the practice, and I follow practices 3500 years old. So it's a very old lineage that I was taught in. So there's a lot of learning that needs to go into that. So he's always there, you know, he's always coming in, his energy is always coming through. And even when I hold my retreats, you know, there, there are times where, I mean, I'm doing a particular thing during the ceremony. And I can really feel him sometimes really, truly comes through, and I can literally see him shaking the maracas thing. We had, we had a really, really strong, strong bond, also, because I never wanted to do this work to tell you the honest truth. And he was the one that actually saw more than what I ever have seen before that, and, and it started teaching me and eventually, he eventually invited me to hold ceremonies at his center, which no one has ever done before that for 45 years before that, and then eventually, we held ceremonies together at his retreat center. So he's, he's, you know, is really close to my heart and as a person that I miss in a physical way because I used to love listening to him talk, but, but I am blessed to be able to connect with him when I need to, and, and it's, it's, it's beautiful. Absolutely.Amy Thomas  The name that I give to him. And to my friends and intimates that come through are the invisible intimates. Yeah. And there, they're only him in the flesh and bone we miss. They're so present. And I love how you describe that you could see his hand coming through. Yeah, yeah,Rodolfo De Angeli  sometimes they lead through and because they, they practice and we, we have in Mesa, which is an altar, which represents the Andean cross, and this is where the ceremony goes now. And you're, you're coming towards the front, where you drink your cup in, in also when you want to connect to the energies of the altar in the ceremony. And sometimes he, he literally is at the mesa as a walk pretty much into him. It's like this, this incredible, I get goosebumps, just talking about it, but it's, yeah, it's very special, very, very special. But I have that with my dad as well, though, my father and I never had a great connection when he was alive, whenever I was unable to repair that relationship as I did with my mother. So I wish I had done that in the human room, but we did that in the spiritual realm. And my father is, is also coming in. And I get to, you know, to, I guess, hang out with him sometimes and just talk to him, especially when things got tough. And, you know, in recent years when my you know, my wife went through cancer and, and all that stuff for us losing our company and whatever, you know, they gather around.Amy Thomas  They definitely feel them. I can't really separate their energy, but sometimes you can. I know when my dad comes, he smoked certain pipe tobacco and not be able to smell it. And nobody else can. One time though, when I was at the hospital working. I remember Lisa came into the office she was, just welled up to smell that and I was smiling because I knew what she was smelling but I was waiting. I didn't want to feed her you know, so you don't have to watch.Rodolfo De Angeli  That stuff exists for sure.Amy Thomas  Yeah, oh my god,Rodolfo De Angeli  Oh my god. Um, so we have had to wrap it up one thing you would like to share with anyone who will listen to this or watch this a tip one thing two things, what to do in case of whatever, I know you have a beautiful gift for any listeners, I will put the link in the descriptions, but also on YouTube, it will obviously the link will come up as as a banner on the bottom, which is a beautiful gift from you. But yet what is.Amy Thomas  So I think I'd circle back to one of the earlier parts of our dialogue says, no matter what you're going through, always reach for that slightly better feeling slightly better thought and allow it to guide you to the next thing and feel welcome to hang out there for a little bit to see who you meet, what thoughts you have, what realizations you have, what you come to know about yourself, and then reach for the next one because there's really no ceiling on joy and love and bliss. And as you're reaching out, I would invite you to allow it. Because a lot of times as humans, we're conditioned by our depression or we're conditioned by how people treated us. We're conditioned by circumstances. And we think that if these are the circumstances or a person's treating it this way, or we have depression, that this is how we have to be, and it's not really true. So as Rodolfo said, question it. Question it. You really have to be and who are you becoming? And as you ask that question, have the courage to hear the answer, have the courage to do something different, because you probably will be invited to do something different and it might be uncomfortable. And remember, it's okay to be imperfect. It's okay because imperfect is on perfection, I am perfect. And if you do want any shortcuts, they're out there, you know, but we don't know if they're all sustainable. But I will make a pitch that the re-codes with magnetic mines so far for me have been sustainable. I've been amazed. So keep that in mind. And I think Adolfo, you've probably noticed with your work with your shamanic work, that there are different things they do with journeying. And there are different things they do with the ancestral, I'll call them treatments that do take and they do make a difference. So if you really do feel like you want to cut through all the yuck and the muck, there

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Rules For Being Guru, By Swami Vyasanand Ji Maharaj -- The Living Spiritual Path of Sant Mat Based in Bihar, India, Part 4 -- Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, a Production of Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean Program Outline: Mystic poetry of Sant Tulsi Sahib, then Kabir verses along with satsang commentary by Baba Ram Singh, followed by selections from, The Inward Journey of the Soul, the first book in English by Swami Vyasanand, on the Rules For Being Guru. And I close with another reading from the mystic poetry of Sant Tulsi Sahib. "Spiritual seeking has the not-so-modest goal of revealing nothing less than the Divine, the Truth or Ultimate Reality. For far less modest goals than this we would not dare attempt their achievement without a qualified teacher. Our universities and the degrees they confer bear witness to this fact. For example, we would never attempt to acquire the skills of a professional airline pilot with mere reading, nor would we dare take instructions from someone who himself had never flown. Common sense requires that we approach subjects such as aviation or any number of other technical subjects with the help of skillful teachers and tried and true curricula. Why then would we assume that the highest and arguably the most difficult of all goals could be achieved without a teacher or guide?" (Don Howard, Evaluating Spiritual Teachers -- In Search of a Worthy, Genuine, Competent, Qualified Spiritual Teacher)

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Don Howard is the former director and a Fellow of the University of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, where he now functions as co-director of the center’s ethics of emerging technologies focus area. He holds a permanent appointment as a Professor in the Department of Philosophy. With a first degree in physics (B.Sc., Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, 1971), Howard went on to obtain both an M.A. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1979) in philosophy from Boston University, where he specialized in philosophy of physics under the direction of Abner Shimony. Howard has been writing and teaching about the ethics of science and technology for many years. Co-editor of the collection, The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (University of Pittsburgh Press), Howard has led NSF-funded workshops on science and ethics at Notre Dame for physics REU students, is currently the lead PI on an NSF-EESE research ethics grant, and has taught courses on topics ranging from the moral choices of atomic scientists during World War II and the Cold War, to the ethics of emerging weapons technologies and robot ethics. He has also served as the Secretary of the International Society for Military Ethics. Among his current research interests are ethical and legal issues in cyberconflict and cybersecurity as well as the ethics of autonomous systems. His paper, ‘‘Virtue in Cyberconflict,’’ was published in 2014 in the volume, Ethics of Information Warfare (Springer), and his essay on ‘‘Civic Virtue and Cybersecurity’’ was published in 2017 in thevolume, The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan). His editorials on technology ethics have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, on CNN, at InsideSources, NBC Think, and in other venues. Click here to learn more about Don Howard

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John Shaughnessy has solved the mystery of the ancient pyramids built all over the world. Amazing lost scientific knowledge on how the moon is a grandmother clock that regulates large cycles on Earth, like ice-ages and interglacial periods. If you're interested in the civilizations of the ancient past, Shaughnessy proposes a revelatory, mind-blowing new theory... MENTIONED ON THE SHOW Why the Pyramids Were "Really" Created by Brandon Ellis GUEST LINKS - JOHN SHAUGHNESSY Pyramid Gravity Force 1 Video lecture Pyramid Gravity Force: How the Earth's Pyramids Work by John Shaughnessy There is Something About the Moon... by Wendy Salter and John Shaughnessy HOST LINKS - SLADE ROBERSON Slade's Books & Courses Get an intuitive reading with Slade Automatic Intuition BECOME A PATRON https://www.patreon.com/shiftyourspirits Edit your pledge on Patreon TRANSCRIPT John: Well, I'm John Shaughnessy. I come from Massachusetts. I grew up in Massachusetts a few miles outside of Boston, downtown Boston in a small suburb. I first got introduced into space, generally the... whatever you want to call it, the Cosmo. I got a part time job working on the weekends at the Museum of Science. And in the Museum of Science, they have a place called the Planetarium. I was taking tickets. I sold tickets to the Planetarium show and I just fell in love with it. I was doing special effects. I was involved with running around during the show and changing slides in the old Don Howard projectors. I had to place myself Saturday, Sunday mornings, I'd get in there early. I had to place myself, this big giant sized projector, I could... After I knew what I was doing, I was click shutting the lights down and having my own light show and... That lasted about two years but it sowed a seed in me. Later on, like, I've always had, say, psychic anomalies that would just come in and I would know stuff before it happened or... to the point where I freaked out my friends I was hanging out with. You know, I just shrugged it off, made a joke out of it, because I didn't know what was actually happening. Back in the day, you didn't have a class in middle school on how to deal with your psychic personality, you know what I mean? Slade: I still don't think they have that on the curriculum. John: Yeah! You know, there's reasons for it, you know? It scares the hell out of people. Well, the ones that are in control, anyhow. That all being said, I joined the navy. It was my first geographical cure and you know, jumped into the service. I was on a small ship, the USS Miller and we did a couple of major cruises. I was at three 6-month deployments. One of them, it was like a small shakedown cruise just going up and down the eastern seaboard, say, from Halifax to Puerto Rico and maybe down to the Bermuda Triangle. One particular day in the Bermuda Triangle, I had an event and that kind of shook me to the core. You know, we're a mighty ship and it was a clear blue day. Not a cloud in the sky and the ocean was the same colour as the sky, really. You couldn't tell where the horizon began and end. We just lost power - this mighty ship with backup generators, batteries. Everything just went completely dark, still, quiet. There was no waves. Just amazing, and it was about 10 minutes of just sitting there. The eerie thing is it wasn't a lot of talking. It was like we were just looking into each others' eyes, because we had little battery lights that lit up so you could catch people's faces. It was like a show made up of mimes, you know? We were just looking at each other. It was, What's going on? What's happening here? So it was pretty profound. After we got the power back, generators finally kicked on. We got going and really, there was no real investigation that actually came down to the crew. I wasn't an Officer. I was just an enlisted man, so it kind of triggered something in me and I started chasing the paranormal, you know? One of my favorite books back then, I forget the author, it was 'The Probability of the Impossible'. It was like, maybe hundreds of incidences where things just defied logic and science. So I just got hooked into that and the Bermuda Triangle. There was a lot of books back then of the Bermuda Triangle and von Däniken. It was Erich von Däniken's work I grabbed a lot. Chariots of the Gods. Started reading a lot. I was always interested in the unknown, the mysteries. If somebody couldn't figure something out, I'd show up. But if everybody had it all figured out, it didn't interest me. So any puzzle or conundrum wasn't working right or something like that, I kind of enjoyed solving those problems. It's just how my brain worked and a lot of times, I would get intuitive... I'm the type of guy who would get from A to C without going to B. A lot of areas in my mind.. I have the mind where I can put things together inside my brain. I don't have to draw things. I can just, you know, build up systems and troubleshoot without having to do the hard work on the bench, so to speak. I can walk it through and all that while working and kind of works like that. So I got into the power industry. I'm retired right now. I got into generating electricity at the utility level. Gas turbines and boilers, steam turbines, so pretty large machines. 100,000 horsepower. I got into hydroelectric dam operations. I used to supervise, I was a supervisor in the big utilities, Con Edison Northeast Utilities, and retired now. So that's good. So I can put more of my work into my real passion and that's these leftover enigmas that seem to be sprinkled all over the planet. One particular time I got into... I was watching, getting into the pyramids. I touch topics and I just dig deep into them. I read all I could. I just get obsessed with it and I just hit a wall. I just hit a block. I was fascinated with gravity early on. I thought that was an awesome field to get into and try and unlock and basically get some kind of anti-gravity machines going. I did a lot of experiments. I was able to manipulate the weight of an object in an apothecary scale with rotating mass. As I got deeper and deeper into this, I would be reading Einstein's theory of special relativity, a lot of Tesla's work. Self-taught, really. Whatever I kind of got obsessed with, I just dug into it until I got to the bottom or got bored with it and couldn't get any further. One particular day I came into the living room. The TV was on and Michio Kaku's a pretty famous physicist out of New York. He was cutting right to a commercial and he kind of just, the last words he said as I was doing the dead drop into the lazyboy was, 'We still don't know what these pyramids are doing!' Then it just went off to a commercial. I muted it like I usually do. I just had an epiphany in my brain, just a thought going, I wonder what's on the other side of Giza? You know, the Giza Plateau pyramids. I've always had globes around me. If you came into my house, there's globes, atlases, maps and things of that nature. So I was pretty up on geography and, like I said, I got a little bit of training when I was 16 at the Museum of Science because I was obsessed with how the universe worked. So I got up, I walked across the living room, looked at the globe. There's a floor-mount globe about a three feet high and I found Giza and I spun it 180 degrees. Same latitude. Not antipodal, latitude. My finger landed right on a Hawaiian island chain, right? So that's strange. Just my background in gravity and the tidal lock with the moon and things like that automatically clicked in subconsciously, like this, the only real connection here is gravity. It's such a large distance. Therein lies the basis, the foundation of a theory that I've put out into the world with books, videos, talks, conferences and so on and so forth. So as time went on, next couple of weeks, my brain was just set on fire. I was driving down the road writing down notes. It's like you got this proverbial download of 30,000 words in about 5 minutes. And you're like back-engineering what you just took in kind of, type of thing. Because it was pretty profound. You know, the hair on the back stands up, on your neck stands up. You get the shivers. You know you're on to something. Long story short, I started saying, If Giza lines up with Hawaiian hot spots, what are the other pyramids doing? You know. So you gotta back out of my early theory that there's a connection between the two and say, Well if there's a connection between those two there's gotta be a connection to the other ones. Lo and behold, every time I went to a large cluster of pyramids, a large pyramid, 180 degrees and on the same latitude, there would be a volcano that aligned with it. So the pyramid at sundown in Mexico aligned with Mount Sigiriya in Sri Lanka, which is an ancient volcano. It has a, if you can believe it, an alien-shaped, elongated, not alien, elogated shape skull for a magma plug, and it's got huge claws at the base of it and nobody knows where it came from, who built it or anything. They rival the size of the Spinx, so that's interesting. Then I went over to the Chen pyramids, a large cluster of pyramids and that aligned with the... ironically, the Bermuda Island, which, unbeknownst to me at the time, it was made up of two ancient dormant super calderas that actually make up that island. And then there's El Tigre. It lines up with the Andaman Islands. Down in Guatemala, those pyramids are twice as high as Giza. As I said, El Tigre, the other name escapes me but... La Dante. It was like, 'Okay, these pyramids are lining up with these volcanos, or this strip of volcanic islands, or another island with a volcano.' So after I get up to 20, and then 30, and then 40, I said, 'Okay, alright. There's definitely a connection here.' And I'm like, at the time I didn't have it all figured out. I don't know if I have it all figured out now but I'm pretty deep into the theory. I was like, 'Okay, what's driving this...' My mind at the time, I just felt like gravity was static on the earth, that my concept of gravity was static gravity like, we have the gravitational field and it's x amount of meters per second, the force of it, and... After writing the book, I wrote my book and then a lot of times you get as much information as you have, and you have to get it out of you. You have to put it in writing and so I put my first book out, Pyramid Gravity Force. During that process of putting that all together, if you look at the cover of my book, it's the earth, the moon, and a large pyramid. A large super-imposed pyramid on the planet earth and I got a little one-line diagram that goes from the pyramid down to the core and back out to the moon. So that's where the gravitational energy was coming from that was actually connecting these spots together. Now, at this particular geographical time, geological time, sorry, geological time frame that we're in right now, the Nile Valley pyramids are aligned with the Hawaiian hot spot. That particular alignment is active right now. That in and of itself is, I call the Hawaiian hot spot the Magma Relief Valve of the planet in that particular location. It's the only constant erupting volcano because it's artificially controlled from the large pyramids on the other side of the planet. So basically we spin through the gravitational field of the moon, and that is the perpetual motion. This is a perpetual motion energy machine and you get the feedback from that energy when you go down to the ocean and see the tides roll in and roll out. I mean, this is a massive energy connection between this heavenly body we call the moon. So I said, 'Okay, it is the engine, the mechanics behind the system that basically lowers the gravitational field. When the pyramids of the Giza plateau spin through the moon's gravitational field, it lowers the gravitational field under the Hawaiian hotspot and allows that magma to dribble out. Now, granted, different alignments out there in the solar system like we just went through, not to get off topic. I gotta watch out or we won't be coming back. I mean, this is a real weird alignment anyway. I'll just touch this. Hopefully I can get back to where I was going. Slade: I'll bring you back in a minute. I'll bring you back. John: Well, I mean, this is where I've sold a minimum in conjunction with that, at the same time, we have all the planets on one side of the sun. You have this huge draw of gravitational pull collectively by all the planets, and that's why... Consequently, we have this very hot summer that we just went through. On top of when the sun is at a solar minimum, it actually puts out more radiation. It's actually hotter. Most people can probably identify.. when they walk outside, it feels like someone's jumping on your head. Slade: Yup. John: Pushing down on you. It's like someone's deflecting your field. It's like you're carrying a 50lb backpack around everywhere you go. Slade: It's making us feel a little crazy, right? John: Oh yeah, definitely. It's a lot of energy coming in and most people probably intuitively will just duck in from one shaded place to the next. From one air conditioning place to the next just to stay out of it. Anyway, so that all being said, getting back to the moon and the pyramid here. When we spin through the, the alignment of the pyramids and the Giza Plateau, they're set up in the Orion configuration, or dogleg. The smallest pyramid cuts into the moon's gravitational field. Because we spin in to the moon's gravitational field. So what this does, this way they have it set up, so if you can visualize, the earth spins in to the moon's gravitational field, it sets up the Fibonacci vortex, okay? And then the other larger two pyramids, GP2 and GP1, follow suit and flow through it. Now that creates a huge gravitational vortex in that zone and it goes through the planet and lowers the gravitational field on the Hawaiian hot spot and allows the magma to freeflow . That all being said, that's kind of the mechanics of what's going on with Hawaiian hot spot and the Giza Plateau pyramids. Slade: So it's controlling the volcanic forces at work in the earth, right? It's stabilizing something, right? Like what's the purpose here? John: When you step back, the god built the planets. If you go back and all the, you go into the ancient texts, it was built by higher minded beings, God, whatever you choose. And you put a planet together like Earth, you're gonna ask, What are my biggest challenges here? One of the biggest challenges on earth is magma control, like controlling tectonic plate slips. Most of our volcanism, volcanic activity on the planet are, build up pressure, explode, kill everything for a hundred miles around and seal it back up again. So that all being said, I mean you've got the Ring of Fire, which we have, you know, consistent volcanic activity. And right in the middle of the Ring of Fire is the relief valve of the Hawaiian hot spot. So it's actually, when we do go into these alignments I just alluded to this past summer, well since April. We went in, all the planets are on one side of the solar system. When that happens, going back just 120 years, you can go back thousands of years now, but just the last 120 years that actually happened SIX times. Every time that happened, we had a 3000% increase in volcanic activity on the planet. So, stepping back, your inner solar system, your planets in the solar system and it's affected by outside gravitational influences by the planets. So you're the host planet for intelligent life. So you want to keep it calm. So what you do is, you build some pyramids and you create this relief valve using the gravitational force of the moon, which is the biggest player of gravity on the planet. The other planets do increase and decrease that force, but nevertheless the moon is the biggest gravitational force. When these energies come into play on the planet, and create magma pressure, and especially in intergalacial pressure like right now we're in the warm up period, so you're in expansion, the poles are rising, the plates are getting squished together on the equatorial region because of heavier ocean. So you get a lot of... we're going from pumpkin-shaped to spherical-shaped. So you're in a constant changing environment. So this tool, this mechanism, this engineering, that's been on the planet for eons, I think it comes and goes. These things have been, probably have been rebuilt before. These pyramid systems, they've been rebuilt as the little ones underneath have been... As a technology comes back into the human consciousness and mainstream grabs it and says, 'Hey, these things are important. We'd better do something about this.' They're actually playing a critical role in our survival. And that re-emphasizes the rebuild and the physics and everything else that comes along with this. To sum that up, that's what this is. It's terraforming, and it's also, I hate to use the word geo-engineering, because it's got a bad rap lately, but it's geo-stabilizing. In essence, when you get control over... You saw that amount of magma come out of the Hawaiian hot spot just recently because the alignment of the planets and solar minimum piggyback. And that alignment we had a lot of magma... If you didn't have the Hawaiian hot spot, the lower gravitational field with the pyramids and the Nile valley manipulating that and allow that magma just to flow out freely, and after that the Hawaiian hot spot just sealed up for a year or so. It'd have been a catastrophic explosion beyond biblical proportions. We could have been going into the Stone Age a lot sooner, so... And what that particular location does, it lowers the lower mantle and upper mantle pressures and allows it to bleed out. And it prevents super calderas like Yellowstone Super Caldera from erupting. There's another giant super caldera in South America. So there's a reason behind the madness. All the magma. No pun intended. But there's a reason behind magma control so that's what it's all about. That's kind of where I've pulled this all into some serious scientific theory. And what backs up my gravitational theory is the moon and the high tide. A lot of people aren't aware that on the moon side, you get the high tide. On the moonless side, 180 degrees opposed to it, you get a high tide also. I call that the moonless high tide. So you get the moonless high tide and a moon high tide. Therein lies the evidence. Physical, repeatable, observable evidence that this is how gravity works on the planet. Recently, just recently, like the last couple of weeks, Russian scientists released a study and got published, I think, by Itmo University, I forget the name of the university in Russia. They built the Giza GP1 to scale using the same material. And what they did was they submerged it in bath of, not a bath, they submerged it with electromagnetic energy. And what they were able to find was, the three chambers inside the pyramids, the king's chamber, the queen's chamber and the subterranean chamber actually were focal points, okay? They were concentrating the energy inside these focal points. And then they did the same thing with the non-ionizing radiation, we know it as radio waves, some form of radio wave. They got the same result. They published the result. I put a, it's in my book, you know, the different language but the pyramids of subatomic particle lenses and they published the videos on YouTube in my name on pyramids being lenses. And I've also put down, in the chambers were the focal points. I've gone out and spoke about this. I had a Russian interview on, it was like their version of the History channel. I got about 15 minutes. They were really great. They do a lot of great graphics, bring in my theories and about four years ago, three years ago I think it was, three or four years ago, so I got on Russian TV and I got to expel on that. Somebody must've been listening, 'Maybe this guy's got something going', they were actually pretty advanced in their search for understanding what the pyramids do and what it's all about. So that all being said, that came back recently to me as, okay, proof positive, your theory's right in a lot of aspects. They're actually coming back with physical repeatable evidence that are being done in controlled labs. So the next step is getting the industry to, the mainstream paranormal New agers to look at these alignments that are... There's a connection between the pyramids and volcanoes. These things are... You're not putting 6 million tons of stone together to run a couple of light bulbs, you know? It's just... It's not... And I'm not putting down anybody that comes up with theories of what have you, because it's those theories that we all build our theories on. You know. Get higher and try to figure out what's going on. Slade: So what is this... What's coming up? What does this mean? You talked about the fact that this is controlling the ice ages, right? There's going to be a pole swap at some point, correct? John: Well I'm probably the only one out there that's not in the pole-swap camp. Slade: Okay. John: But I'll tell you why. Getting into my science there, and looking at the planet and knowing how the subatomic particles flow, just like the astrophysics did, theoretical physics community and all the what do you call it, neuron, electrons, galvatron, croutons, whatever. They all come in from the poles and they go out the equatorial region and they rotate back in, just like magnetic flux line, they call it. That's so famous. That image of the magnetic field on the planet that creates the Van Allen belts and so on and so forth. But what these, I call them 'planet builders', what they've done is they've created a huge... The Antarctica continent is shaped like a hexagon, just like Jupiter and Saturn. In effect, it kind if ties in with the tetrahedron. So it's a tetrahedron. In my book, the tetrahedron, the shape of this particular continent, sets up to be a subatomic land. It's like a giant pyramid. It concentrates the inflow of subatomic particles in the southern hemisphere of the South pole. Now if you look at the North pole, there's nothing really up there. It's water. Ice. There's no giant land, so... What you have to visualize is that you're going to have a higher flow coming in to the North pole and a slower flow coming in to the South pole, because the continent is right there. Antarctica. So what that does is slows down the subatomic flow. And it also slows down, or blocks the flow, to singularity. So you have a larger, say like a 70% of subatomic flow in the North and 30% in the South. But the flows are actually going at different velocities. So this is what locks in the magnetic field. Slade: So this is maintaining the magnetic field and it's also ultimately making the planet more habitable? John: Right. Slade: Without it, it'd be too chaotic and volcanic for us to even be here. John: Yeah, exactly. So it's all part of a huge system. Anywhere you go, any continent you go to. That's why I'm a naysayer on the magnetic pole swap because the people that built this planet, that did the last rebuild terraforming, they're geniuses. They're not gonna... They don't want to come back and rebuild pyramids every year. They do it and they make it last. And they see the human consciousness when it needs to be and when we get to that level so we can understand the technology and re-utilize it and build it and re-build it. And things of that nature. Slade: Let's talk about that for a second. So first of all, let me ask you: When you talk about the planet builders, are we talking Atlantis, Lemuria, Ancient Aliens kind of concept? Where do you come in in that whole thing? Do you think somebody came here and set this all up for us? John: Yes. Slade: Well tell me a little bit about that. Because you're obviously a very science-minded guy, but then you also, you do mention Edgar Cayce. And you talked about how you were intuitive, that you get these downloads, which was crazy because this is the first time you and I ever talked, but the people who listen to this show, that's something we talk about a lot. So when you say it's coming into the consciousness, talk to me about, are you one of the people who's bringing this through currently? Do you see yourself as, okay, I'm meant to bring this information in and put it back into human consciousness? John: Yes. Yes, I feel with the trying to stay humble and keeping your ego in check is like... And yeah, I feel that my information is radical. It's new. It's not mine. This stuff was already here, you know? I'm just saying, 'Hey, I think this is the way these things work.' And this is the proof that I have. This is the physical evidence. So yes. I think there's a, it's part of the human consciousness. We get seated at different ages in the human history. This last go from the ice age into the intergalacial period was, I feel that was when humanity peaks at the peak of the intergalacial period. And then we go into the ice age and we drop off and we forget everything. Only to come back and do it again the next intergalacial period. Hopefully we won't be on the oil economy. We got sidetracked into this oil economy by some corrupt individuals. But anyways... Slade: So this is waves of rise and fall of human civilization, right? John: Right. Slade: Okay. John: Yeah. Like it's, I'll just make a point. Michael Cremo, I don't know if you know. He's done a lot of work and he's got a lot of evidence that modern man has been down here for a minimum of half a million years. There's evidence all over the place that supports this. Obviously it's buried because it goes up against the narrative, whatever the narrative is, at any particular day, so... It's just a rise and fall of humanity. Now to come into this environment, you have to take the physical form of a human being. Whether it's just walk-ins or people just coming in to you who are what have you, or you're just a real mature soul and you've ascended to a real high level of consciousness. You've got the Buddha, Gandhi... You have a lot of very mature souls. Jesus Christ and going on and on and on. I'm just talking. There's a lot of them. I'm not getting everybody obviously. I don't want to offend anybody. Just saying, there's... We get seated with these master, these masters, really, of human consciousness. And in the middle of that, we get people like Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Galileo, a lot of the Greek philosophers, you know. They come in and they pass a message along. They bring in ideas, technology, concepts, sciences, and things of that nature. So it's just a re-circulation of the human consciousness on the planet. And it's like the old proverbial saying that your soul is here to have a human experience, not the other way around, you know? So... And I think it's a tool for growth. For the spirit, if you believe in reincarnation. You know, you keep coming back and hopefully every time you come back, you utilize that space and time to ascend to a higher state of consciousness. Then maybe eventually you don't have to come back. You can just sit up on the moon and watch the big show. Slade: So in your theory, the information that you're accessing, is kind of held in the collective consciousness. Some people call it the Akashic Records. There's some other dimension where this knowledge exists and different ones of us tap into it and... I actually think a lot more people tap into it than we even give credit for. You know, there are those Ascended Masters that are kind of like the rock stars. Then there's a bunch of us that do it a little bit here and there, right? Just humbly, you know, thinking of it that way. John: Yeah. It's a collective group. Yeah, I wouldn't be where I was at... Maybe I'm supporting somebody I don't know, and they're going to come up with something that's going to add to it and... You know, the Russian scientist's doing this research and then... The time spans are amazing. I mean, you're only down here for a short amount of time and all of a sudden, you're starting to get this wave of science, you know? And it's all coming together collectively from different parts of the world. And from places you'd never expect. It's like, we're a very small pocket of humanity. People in this new age, 'truth seekers', they call them, I call us. We're not satisfied with the story. We're lifting up the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, going behind the curtain to see who's running the machine, you know? So we're a small pocket. We do add to the human family. We do add a consciousness that helps, will help in the future, I think, to navigate us through changes that are coming. And that's what I think it's all about. Slade: Do you think there's something we're supposed to do in particular, like, do the pyramids need to be refurbished in some way? Do they need to be maintained or something like that? John: Right, I mean, my mind's always going on about that. Where are we at? What do we need to do? Are we at a critical stage right now? Four years ago, they came up with there's three times the amount of water trapped in the transition zone between the upper and the middle mantle. And I'm thinking, so that ties in to the volcanism. That ties in to the magma control. A lot of times, I just get overwhelmed. I have to jump on the couch and take a nap. Slade: Do you think we're in danger of breaking something? John: Yeah, I think we're going up fast. The only thing I can say to sum up where I'm at, the science and everything. And I go back to the icicle sample. Thank god for the icicle samples. Because we can get some grounded, we can ground our thoughts on this particular source of time. It goes back a million some odd years, but... They've done a great job showing intergalacial periods and ice ages. For the most part, it's like clockwork. It's like 104,000 ice age. 13,500 on average for the intergalacial period. That all being said, all the ice is not going to melt in intergalacial period. If that ice is 1,000,000 years old, we just came out of the ice age 13,500 years ago, something big is... A lot of people are going to wait for the ice to melt. But my theory in my other book, 'There Is Something About the Moon' gets into the physics of what controls the ice age. And that is, as the ocean rises, the gravitation - this is common knowledge - the moon's gravitational field is shifting from the glaciers and the polar caps... The actual claw... There's actually five images on the moon and that tells a whole story also but anyway... So transfer to the hard surface of the ice to the girth of the ocean. What that does is it, it in effect is causing the earth to tilt from 23.5 or 23.4 to, it's gonna go to 19.4. And Tiwanaku, the Gate of the Sun, the name escapes me now, but that's 4 degrees off. The Gate of the Sun, the sun is supposed to rise in the middle of it, and it will once we get back to the ice age tilt. The ice age tilt goes from 23.5 to 19.4 degrees, and then the sun will rise up in that Gate in Tiwanaku. I think it's in Tiwanaku. But anyway, long story short, there's a highway in Mexico and they've been marking the summer solstice sun at high noon and it's been travelling 100 miles, feet, north.. south.. Let me back up a bit I'm stepping on my words here. They're actually marking it and they're marking the tilt. They're acknowledging the tilt is changing. So we are going to a lower tilt. Now I mean, you gotta go like a thousand miles to get one degree. It's a pretty significant move. We don't think it is. You know, 23 to 19, you wouldn't think it'd be that big, but it's actually a significant drop, a significant movement. And the sun actually coming up over the Tropic of Cancer in the summer, what do you call it, solstice. The summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. So what's going on is that the solstices are squeezing the Tropics, the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn will move to 19. And what that does is lowers the light on the upper latitudes, both in the north and southern hemisphere. And essentially, we're going into ice-building mode, okay? So this is the control mechanism that the moon also ties into. It's a multi-faceted engineering system that protects the planet. So if we're melting faster because of human activity, which we probably are because of the higher greenhouse gases that they surmise based on the previous ice core samples, we are way off the charts. We're going to accelerate the melting of the ice and it's going to hit what I call is the high water mark. And I think maybe [unintelligible] island out in the Pacific might be the high water mark island. It's only 5 feet high. I mean, 5 feet's a lot of water but it is... As the water increases in volume on the earth, you're gonna get more of a larger degree tilt in a period of time. So instead of 100 feet a year, you could be getting a quarter mile. At some point, it's gonna really pick up pretty quick. And that'll launch us into the Ice Age. But this is a good thing! Because we're in an environment where you can't flat-line. Because there's so much energy, you know, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy, the planets... You're either going up or down. And that's just the nature of the beast that we're here. Hopefully we attain higher level of technology that operates on the natural energy that the planet makes besides burning stuff. We're in the burn-scorch technology. Slade: Yeah. It does seem like there's probably some better stuff we could be using. My mind is spinning out as you're talking. I'm thinking about, you know, maybe I'm getting downloads too. But I'm seeing all these potential explanations for what we call astrology, I'm seeing how a lot of this ancient architecture that we have, the Henges and all this stuff that the Aztecs left behind. They really are some kind of calendars or... Like you were talking about, they're marking the stuff on a highway but that's like the really scratching on the chalkboard version of something that has been left behind for us, right? John: Mmhmm. There's a book by Derek Cunningham. He surmised that the Sacsayhuamán, you know the saw-toothed walls up there, and I did the same thing. We're different theories but he's kind of, said there was a language being... Those shapes of blocks are actually a language. Slade: Ooo! Interesting! John: Again, it's like a lot of these little tiny pockets of information. These people come in, they do the download, and they're gone. You know? So it's up to the next generation to come in and pick up and keep putting this together. But I think it's all experimentation. That whole plateau up there is literally instrumentation of where we are in the ice age, or intergalacial period, and you can actually measure the degree of tilt on a lot of these obelisks. The three big power centres: You've got the Vatican, Washington, and some other place that escapes my mind. It has these obelisks and they actually measure the tilt. That's what those giant obelisks do. You can keep an eye on and measure what's going on. There's a huge one in St. Peter's Square where I've been before. That all being said, there's instrumentation all over the place. You got Stonehenge. You got the pyramids. You got the temples. The temples are, haven't completely been transcribed as a lot of... There's information on the moon. You know, the images on the moon also tell a story of where we are in the intergalacial period. There's a famous stele with Akhenaten and Nefertiti. They're with their three children. They have a disc and they have the lines coming down. At the end of every one of those lines, is a saying, iconography of the moon, the claw, right? So you have this claw coming down. And you go through, this is actually a very short period in the span of time between the ages. This is actually just a very rare point in time on earth. The intergalacial periods are very short span of time. A normal weather pattern is an ice age on the planet. 100,000 years building ice and you know, it's habitable, humanity survives it, and life does flourish, but obviously not, you know, a mile under a glacier, but... That all being said, as far as I'm concerned, a lot of the hieroglyphs and steles and images in Egypt, because Egypt seems to have a huge amount of information on the moon and Mars and a few things. Past life on the planets. So essentially, that stele, that round circle in the middle is the moon, okay? And we rock back and forth. And you can read the moon as it comes up out of the ocean or out of the horizon with the naked eye. Any higher than that you have to get binoculars because you have a lensing effect when it comes up out of the ocean. But that tells us where you are in a time on the... There's two clocks. You got the moon clock, which I bring in through with my research with co-author, researcher, Wendy Salter, we kind of put this whole thing together on what the moon is. So there's a way of reading where you are in the intergalacial period and the ice ages. Just to sum that up. Now the other big clock is the wobble of the earth, where you know it's a 26,000 year old clock (approximately, it's a little less than that). That actually is the only time we really have besides the moon. Like, if we didn't have wobble, we wouldn't really have any real time clock. Because we're just in a Milky Way band just floating around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy and all the stars remained the same. If you didn't have that wobble, you wouldn't have the change, the zodiac houses where the sun rises up in the zodiac house. We're in Pisces right now, going into Aquarius. So those are two giant clocks. So it's like the wobble was made on purpose, to give us time. For me, every time I get into, you know, why is it like that? And it comes back with an answer. That's the answer I got for the wobble. It's not like a defect. It's not... Everything is perfect on this planet. The solar system is absolute perfection. The highest level of knowledge. Universal knowledge. Slade: Wow. Okay. Just to sum up for everyone because, again, we're just scratching the subject here, and possibly starting like, 10 different conversations that I could go on. John: You gotta take it easy on the listeners, you know? Slade: I'm going to link to all these things in the show notes for everyone. But just to break it down so everyone knows where to go to get more information. You've got a free YouTube video of a lecture that you gave. It's a pretty good length. The main book that we're talking about here called 'Pyramid, Gravity, Force - How the Earth's Pyramids Work'. And then you co-authored with Wendy Salter, a book called 'There is Something About the Moon'. What are you working on next? John: Just the last couple of weeks, I brought in some discoveries on what controls the solar minimum. The irony here is, the orbit of Jupiter is 11 years. The solar minimum is 11 years. It's like, Hello! Is anybody paying attention? Even though the earth rotates past Jupiter 11 times, it only comes in direct alignment between Jupiter and the sun, the last 11 years, right before the solar minimum, so it comes into direct alignment between the sun and Jupiter. And so basically I put a paper out. I put a video out and I do try to get my stuff published. I put stuff out and I send it to the journals and hopefully someday they'll get it through. But the bottom line is that what a lot of people don't understand is Jupiter is not in orbit around the sun. It's like a binary orbit between these two bodies, like they actually wobble on each other's axises, or elliptic orbits, rather and they kind of bounce out and around each other. So Jupiter's movement actually creates a corkscrew orbit of the sun and that also has an 11 year cycle on it also. But long story short, what happens when the earth gets in between Jupiter and go full circle, going back to the point I wanted to make, once the earth gets directly in line with Jupiter and the sun, it actually blocks the gravitational field and kind of filters it, it lowers it. That is the source of all the turbulence on the sun, the sun storms, the black spots, the giant magnetic storms. Once the earth comes in front of it, the sun just goes into this pure fusion environment. This fusion or fission. I always get the two mixed up. But anyway, it just goes into a ball and there's no spots at all for three or four months. Sometimes six months, it depends. So it actually shuts down all that turbulence. Once the earth passes out, it's like two or three months later, the torque begins between these two giant heavenly bodies and you get the massive storms. So that was a recent discovery that I've just brought in and... It's tough. I'm not in academia, so I'm outside. But I think that's where you do the most work. I don't have any constraints. Nobody's saying I can't say this and... I can say whatever I want. I don't have to.. Slade: Right. John: So this is like what's good for me and I think it seeds the, whatever you call it, the mainstream world of academia. It resonates out and they'll grab it and, you know, put something together with it. I mean, we need to know these things. We really need to get on top of what effect these planets are having on our environment. Because we're in a critical stage where we're pretty critical with the heat. There's a lot of environments that are changing yearly, rapidly, very fast and... Prior to that, I put a system together to forecast volcanic activity a little tighter with the alignments with planets and the moon and the moon's Metonic cycle. It's a huge influence on, say, volcanic eruption. So like right now, the prediction system we have right now, the USGS (United States Geological Survey), every country that has a volcano has some kind of prediction. Basically it's like, Okay if it's rumbling, they put a warning out to the local people, societies that are living at the foothills of these volcanoes. Guatemala, we lost a lot of people just this past summer. They put the warnings out to them and the people there are saying, 'Well it's been rumbling the last 10 years. Nothing happened.' I'm trying to get someone to help me build a software because all this information is available. What you can do is, you can go back the last time a volcano erupted and you can time stamp it and go back and say, Okay, get the time stamp on the last time it erupted. Go back to a solar simulator and find out where the positions of the planets were. And then also go back to the moon's Metonic cycle. And what it is is, and this is what I've done is, I've gone back and looked at where that eruption was and I went back and saw they were in the same alignment that it was 400 years ago. I don't know the date off the top, just to make a point. And so, what this does is you can go to these people and say, 'Hey look. We know it's been rumbling the last 20 years. 100 years. Nothing's every happened, but the last time it did erupt, the planetary alignments were in this position and the moon was in this particular part of the Metonic cycle.' So you have more concern. So you're coming in with a little bit more heavier warning than 'You should get out of here.' Slade: Yeah. John: It's tough for people to just pick up and take off. Their whole lives' are around these volcanoes. So that's kind of what I'm working on. I'm working on that type of thing. I'm working in on tying in this new ocean system into my volcanic theory that said three times the ocean are locked up in this material called ringwoodite. It's a blue crystal-type looking thing but it actually has a high percentage of water in it. It's equivalent.. the numbers are wild. One of the numbers was three times the equivalent of the surface ocean volume is trapped in this lime. Trying to figure out, is this something we need to be concerned with? It's a huge amount of water and my thing is, seeing that all the ice doesn't melt, we know that because, you know, going back a million years, we've had 10 ice ages with this ice that doesn't melt. And then you have the Biblical flood stories from every ancient text. And I'm thinking, Does this water that's trapped in that section of the planet, is this something that somehow ruptures and bleeds out to the surface for 40 days and 40 nights and goes back down, you know? Slade: Yeah! Ohmygod. John, this is all so truly truly fascinating. We're just scratching the surface here. I want everyone to go and check you out so that they can see the amount of research and detail there is behind all these stories and theories. Tell us where we can go to find you online. John: I'm on Facebook under my name John Shaughnessy. My websites are http://www.pyramidgravityforce.com/ and http://www.tisatmoon.com which is abbreviation for There Is Something About the Moon. You can go there too and that'll link you up. Both my books you can get on Amazon, Kindle or Lulu books. Yeah you can get my emails also. I'm available. Contact links are on those two sites. I have 62 videos on YouTube and yeah, I'm pretty much out there. Google 'John Shaughnessy'. Put 'Pyramid' or 'moon' behind it because there's a lot of John Shaughnessys. I guess we have a reputation of breeding like rabbits. There's thousands of them. So you want to get the right guy. Put pyramid and moon in and you'll get me. Slade: I'll be sure to put all those links that you just mentioned. Make them really easy for people just to click on. John Shaughnessy. Thank you so much for taking some time this morning to talk to me. John: Alright. Really appreciate you having me on too, Slade. Thanks again. Maybe we'll do it again soon.

Through many journeys and many teachers, I have never shared a relationship quite as special as my bond with Peruvian shaman I often lovingly refer to as Gandalf: Don Howard, of Spiritquest Sanctuary. His life’s work has kept alive the spirit of the ancient South American culture, Chavin, and its traditions, such as the Huachuma Mesada: a transformative plant medicine ceremony that he graciously unpacks in this rare interview during an equally rare visit to the US after spending most of many decades in the Amazon jungle.Don Howard explains how the path of service took him from a boy in Georgia with a calling, to one of the great shamans of our time. He walks us through his approach to ceremony, plant technologies ayahuasca, huachuma, and vilca, and what he believes we can do to spread the healing and awareness that can save our world.Check out SpiritquestConnect with Aubrey on Instagram Twitter Facebook or AubreyMarcus.comCheck out Aubrey's new book Own The Day Own Your LifeCheck out Go For Your Win   Get 10% off at Onnit by going to Onnit.com/Aubrey 

Don Howard Lawler is an American born, Peruvian citizen who has been practicing the art of sacred plant shamanism for 50 years. Don Howard is the founder and principal maestro of Peruvian Spirit Quest Listening to the Plants, traditional retreats and pilgrimages exploring the deepest roots of traditional Peruvian shamanism, and focusing on holistic healing, personal transformation, and realization of ancient shamanic spiritual truth. As a life-long shamanic practitioner, don Howard combines extensive knowledge of ethnobotany, pre-columbian Peruvian archeology, and traditional archaic shamanism to guide profoundly stimulating and transformative experiences for the serious seeker. This episode was recorded during a 2-week retreat hosts Andy and Mike were on with don Howard in July of 2017. It was an honour for us to sit down with this man and dive deep into his primary calling of Huachuma shamanism, post-columbian known as San Pedro. Do not miss this one! Mike has attended 5 retreats with don Howard and Andy has attended 2, with his 3rd coming again soon. If you ever wanted to attend a retreat with the highest amount of integrity, safety and traditions, this is the place. They specialize in both Ayahuasca and Huachuma Peruvian shamanism. http://biopark.org

For the last five decades, Don Howard Lawler has been practising shamanism, using his deep knowledge of plant medicines such as Ayahuasca and Huachuma (San Pedro) to heal people's depression, addictions, and to help reconnect them with their purpose and the world around them. Jon's met Don Howard before. Eighteen months ago, he went to SpiritQuest Sanctuary, the shamanic healing centre Don Howard set up in the Peruvian Amazon, and drank Ayahuasca for the first time. The medicine turned his life upside down, but Don Howard was always there to guide the often immensely challenging process with wisdom and deep compassion. As regular listeners know, Jon headed back to SpiritQuest for the second time to learn more, and this time he took a microphone with him. Few people know more than Don Howard about the history, power and practices of plant medicines. With a background in biology and natural sciences, he forms a bridge between the worlds of shamanism and western science, although he's committed to 'shamanising the west', rather than 'westernising shamanism'. Whatever your perspective on psychoactive plants, there's plenty to get your teeth into in this episode. Don Howard also shares his own personal, emotional journey to the plant medicines, from rural Kentucky to the Amazon Rainforest; seeking out Ayahuasca to heal a period of intense depression; and his mission to reconnect us with the rituals and practices – the technology – of our ancestors, whose knowledge of the plants far outstripped our own. At Voices in the Dark, we're 'Learning How to Human'. Or, in Don Howard's words, 'In order to serve, first you have to become fit for service'. What We Get Into: Ayahuasca, Peyote, Huachuma (San Pedro), and Vilca: What are they, and how to use them responsibly Why we must heal ourselves before we can help others Drugs vs. Medicines The roots of the depression 'epidemic' in the West 'Ayahuasca Tourism' How to use psychoactive substances for spiritual growth and creativity Integrating psychedelic experiences: where the real work begins Learn More: SpiritQuest Sanctuary's website Jon's personal Ayahuasca vlog series Jon's article on Ayahuasca and what he wished he'd known before drinking it the first time Aubrey Marcus's beautiful and inspiring documentary on Ayahuasca, filmed at SpiritQuest (free to stream) Be Silly. Be Kind. Be Weird.

Don Howard, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how Irvine’s strategic investments are creating opportunity across California, followed by a panel of employers leading solutions to connect youth and young adults in successful career paths. Panelists include: Alex Castellanos, HR Manager, SeaWorld San Diego, Susie Harborth, Co-Founder, General Partner & CFO, BioLabs, and Mitch Mitchell, VP of State Governmental Affairs and External Affairs, San Diego Gas & Electric. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 32399]

Don Howard, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how Irvine’s strategic investments are creating opportunity across California, followed by a panel of employers leading solutions to connect youth and young adults in successful career paths. Panelists include: Alex Castellanos, HR Manager, SeaWorld San Diego, Susie Harborth, Co-Founder, General Partner & CFO, BioLabs, and Mitch Mitchell, VP of State Governmental Affairs and External Affairs, San Diego Gas & Electric. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 32399]

Don Howard, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how Irvine's strategic investments are creating opportunity across California, followed by a panel of employers leading solutions to connect youth and young adults in successful career paths. Panelists include: Alex Castellanos, HR Manager, SeaWorld San Diego, Susie Harborth, Co-Founder, General Partner & CFO, BioLabs, and Mitch Mitchell, VP of State Governmental Affairs and External Affairs, San Diego Gas & Electric. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 32399]

Don Howard, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how Irvine's strategic investments are creating opportunity across California, followed by a panel of employers leading solutions to connect youth and young adults in successful career paths. Panelists include: Alex Castellanos, HR Manager, SeaWorld San Diego, Susie Harborth, Co-Founder, General Partner & CFO, BioLabs, and Mitch Mitchell, VP of State Governmental Affairs and External Affairs, San Diego Gas & Electric. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 32399]

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It is not news that nonprofit organizations with robust infrastructure — including sturdy information technology and financial systems, skills training, fundraising processes, and other essential overhead — are more likely to succeed than those without. Yet most nonprofits do not spend enough money on capacity building and systems. Ann Goggins Gregory and Don Howard of the nonprofit management consultancy The Bridgespan Group, look at the reasons so many nonprofits find themselves in a perpetual starvation cycle. The two consultants reveal what nonprofits and funders can do to break out of the cycle, so that overhead problems do not thwart organizations from achieving success in the pursuit of their missions and goals. They spoke at the Nonprofit Management Institute convened by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Ann Goggins Gregory is the director of knowledge management at The Bridgespan Group and a former consultant in Bridgespan’s strategy area. In her consulting work, her clients included education and youth development organizations as well as foundations. Don Howard is a partner at The Bridgespan Group, where he leads the San Francisco office. His clients have included foundations and nonprofits working to alleviate poverty, end homelessness, revitalize neighborhoods, end inequities in education, and improve the environment. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/ending_the_nonprofit_starvation_cycle