Podcasts about Free will

TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE: SALVATION LOOKED AT THRU THE EYES OF SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS: THE DOWNFALL OF THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL CHURCH. TO DEBATE THE TRUTH THRU SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS ALWAYS PUTS US IN A POSITION OF POWER, THUS A POSITION OF WINNING THE DEBATE. SO WHAT IF WE ASK ANOTHER AMERICAN TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:ARE YOU A LIAR?​WHO DO YOU LIE TO THE MOST?​ARE YOU GOING TO DIE PHYSICALLY?​IF IN ANSWEING A QUESTION IN A TRUE-FALSE TEST, IF THE QUESTION IS FALSE AT ANY POINT IS THE ANSWER FALSE?​IF THERE IS NO KNOWN ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS THERE AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG? Yes or No? ​SOME PEOPLE DIE FROM A CAR ACCIDENT, OR THEY FELL IN THE TUB, OR THEY FELL DOWN THE STAIRS, OR THEY DROWNED, OR THEY WERE SHOT, ETC. BUT THESE ARE JUST SERVICE REASONS FOR EVERYONE DIES WHETHER IN THE WOMB OR OLD AGE AND THUS THERE HAS TO BE ONE REASON EVERYONE IS DYING. TRUE OR FALSE ​CAN LYING BE ERADICATED IN OUR HEART? SUPPOSE WE MAKE A VOW TO GOD THAT WE WILL NEVER EVER THE REST OF OUR LIFE, ADD AN INFINITESIMAL TO THE TRUTH OR SUBTRACT AN INFINITESIMAL FROM THE TRUTH, HOW MANY MINUTES CAN WE GO?​A PROSTITUTE IS TECHNICALLY IS AN ENTREPRENEUR FOR SHE MAKES A LIVING BY INNATELY UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF A MAN: SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT TO DO TO MAKE A LIVING AS WELL AS ALL OF US AMERICANS MEN KNOW WHAT SHE DOES. SHE PUTS ON THE HIGH HEELS, RAISES THE HEM LINE, LOWERS THE NECKLINE, PAINTS HER FACE, PUTS ON THE LIPS-STICK AND FALSE EYELASHES AND WALKS SEDUCTIVELY, FOR WHAT REASON, BUT SHE KNOWS HOW TO DRESS TO RAISE THE EVIL BALCK CAT OF FORNICATION OR ADULTERY IN A MAN'S HEART AND IF SHE GETS THE EVIL BLACK CAT OF FORNICATION OR ADULTERY TO ESCAPE SHE GETS PAID. AND IF SHE FURTHER FLATTERS WITH HER SPEECH SHE MAY GET A LARGE TIP. KING SOLOMON WRITES: Proverbs 7: 13] So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, [14] I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.[15] Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.[16] I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.[17] I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.[18] Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.[19] For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:[20] He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.[21] With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.[22] He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;[23] Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.SO IF EVERY PROSTITUTE UNDERSTANDS THE NATURE OF A MAN THAT HE HAS FORNICATION AND ADULTERY IN HIS HEART AND SHE ALSO KNOWS HOW TO GET THE EVIL BLACK CAT OF FORNICATION TO ESCAPE IN HER HEART TO MAKE A LIVING. THEN IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT IT IS SELF EVIDENT TRUTH THAT WE ALL KNOW WE ARE FORNICATORS AND ADULTERERS BY NATURE. SO IF SOME MEN STILL REFUSE TO ADMIT WE ARE FORNICATORS BY NATURE WE ASK OURSELVES DO WE HAVE TO RESIST LOOKING AT A WOMAN WHO IS SCANTILY CLAD OR WEARING FIGURING HUGGING ATTIRE AND ASK THE WOMAN IF SHE HAS TO RESIST PUTTING ON THAT CLOTHING BECAUSE SHE KNOWS SHE US TEMPTING THE MAN TO HAVE TO RESIST. THE POINT IS WE ALL KNOW THIS IS TRUE AND IF SOMEONE DENIES IT WE KNOW THAT THE PERSON IS LYING OR MORE IMPORTANTLY ISLYING TO HIM OR HERSELF. THUS WE AS AMERICANS ALL KNOW WE ARE FORNICATORS AND ADULTERS BY NATURE. IT IS A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH9: ARE WE ALL AS AMERICANS THIEVES BY NATURE? YES OR NO. IF SOMEONE DENIES BEING A THIEF BY NATURE DOES THE THOUGHT OF GOING AROUND THE SCANNER EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE OR THE THOUGHT THAT SOMEONE ELSE WOULD GO AROUND THE SCANNER ENTERS OUR MIND PROVES WE ARE THIEVES BY NATURE. AND WE COULD GO ON AND ON. ​IF WE LIARS BY NATURE CAN WE BE ADMITTED INTO HEAVEN?

Fate vs Free Will, does electional astrology actually work? What about the fate of our natal promise? In today's episode I'm sharing the powerful tool of electional astrology and how it can accelerate results in our lives.  I also share personal stories when my own goals and dreams didn't manifest and what I learned from it, the story of my astrocartography book proposal being rejected 27 times and why both electional astrology and fate are always at play. Yay, let's go to the show starshine! Join my FREE ELECTIONAL ASTROLOGY TRAINING happening live this Sunday, August 2nd → https://helenawoods.com/golden Master Your Moment By Using Electional Astrology to Pinpoint the Exact Minute Life is Working in Your Favor

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The Good Fortune Show with Iyer Tune Into Good Fortune: Wishes, Appreciation, and the Mirror of the Universe Sugandhii Iyer explores manifestation through the Law of Attraction, explaining how wishes, appreciation, dislike, neutrality, and the mirror effect shape what people continue to experience and attract. Tuning Into the Frequency of Good Fortune In this episode of The Good Fortune Show, Sugandhii Iyer frames manifestation as a process of “tuning” into energy, much like tuning a radio or television to a chosen station. She explains that the universe offers many possible energies and experiences, and that people use free will to tune into what they want, what they appreciate, or what they repeatedly focus on. The corrected transcript notes that the spiritual and manifestation teachings are preserved as the host's perspective, with no outside fact-checking or independent verification performed. Free Will, Choice, and the Crossroads Sugandhii emphasizes that life is not simply fatalistic. Rather than saying everything is fixed by fate, she suggests that people may have tuned into certain patterns for a long time and then mistaken the results for destiny. She contrasts her own earlier life, where she says she was born into a loving family and good circumstances without consciously using the Law of Attraction, with her present ability to make more intentional choices. She describes this as standing at a crossroads, where contrast helps reveal which path feels better and which choices should be left behind. The Four Energetic Forces: Wish, Appreciation, Dislike, and Mirror Effect The central teaching of the episode is built around four concepts: wish, appreciation, dislike, and the mirror effect. A wish is something a person wants or asks for. Appreciation is the joyful recognition of something beautiful, pleasing, delicious, attractive, or enjoyable. Dislike is the emotional reaction to something unwanted. The mirror effect, as Sugandhii explains it, is the universe reflecting back the dominant feeling or vibration a person sends out, whether that feeling is appreciation or aversion. Aladdin, the Genie, and Unlimited Wishes Sugandhii uses the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp, especially as discussed in The Secret, to explain how she understands the universe's response to desire. In this metaphor, Aladdin represents the person making the request, the genie represents the universe or the Law of Attraction, and the phrase “your wish is my command” becomes a symbol of how thoughts, words, and actions are answered. Sugandhii stresses that, in the version she references, there is no limit to the number of wishes. Life, in her view, is not restricted to three chances; people can continue asking, choosing, and creating. Wishing Lightly Versus Wanting From Lack A key refinement in Sugandhii's teaching is the difference between asking lightly and wanting desperately. She says a wish should not be loaded with heavy emotion, desperation, or the feeling of not having. For example, if someone sees beautiful curtains and simply wishes for them, the universe can respond to that request. But if the person focuses on never having enough money, never being able to buy good curtains, or feeling deprived, then the stronger vibration becomes lack rather than desire. In that case, she says the universe mirrors back more experiences of not having. Appreciation as a Creative Power Sugandhii spends much of the episode explaining appreciation as one of the most powerful and enjoyable ways to create. When people admire beautiful trees, handsome men, beautiful women, artwork, delicious food, clean malls, luxury hotels, impressive architecture, tunnels, scenery, clothing, fashion, family time, or even a good meal, they generate feelings of happiness and enjoyment. Sugandhii teaches that the universe registers those feelings and reflects back more reasons to feel appreciation. She encourages listeners to actively notice things they like because the energy of liking can grow stronger the more it is practiced. The Dislike Effect and Why Neutrality Matters Sugandhii also warns that dislike can become creative in the same way appreciation can. She repeatedly uses traffic as an example, saying that the more she dislikes dangerous or chaotic traffic, the more the universe reflects back reasons to keep disliking it. Because jumping directly from dislike to positivity can be difficult, she recommends first moving into neutrality. Becoming neutral, in her view, interrupts the strong emotional charge of aversion and makes it easier to climb toward appreciation or a better-feeling focus. Learning How the Universe “Receives” Feelings The episode repeatedly compares the Law of Attraction to an impartial force like gravity. Sugandhii says the universe does not judge whether someone “should” want something or “should” dislike something. It simply responds to the strongest vibration being sent out. She urges listeners to understand how the “equipment” works: thoughts, words, actions, likes, dislikes, appreciation, lack, and aversion all communicate something to the universe. The practical challenge, then, is learning to send the signal one actually wants reflected back. Choosing What to Like Toward the end of the episode, Sugandhii encourages listeners to deliberately increase the number of things they like. She gives examples from food, fashion, scenery, travel, family time, hotels, restaurants, shiny clothes, rhinestones, eyelashes, burgers, pizza, pasta, Indian food, Mexican food, vegetables, drinks, ice cream, and beautiful places to visit. Her point is not that everyone must like the same things, but that the world contains countless opportunities for appreciation. By filling the system with more “like energy,” she says people invite the universe to bring them more experiences they can enjoy. Contrast, Privilege, and Personal Choice Sugandhii acknowledges contrast in the world, including poverty, war zones, homelessness, and great wealth existing at the same time. She uses these contrasts to argue that people should choose which side of experience they want to tune into, while being careful not to over-identify with suffering in a way that creates more reasons to feel sorrow or lack. She presents compassion as valuable, but cautions that too much emotional focus on suffering can cause the universe to reflect back more opportunities for compassion through hardship. Closing Invitation to Look for More to Appreciate Sugandhii closes by telling listeners to look for more things they can like and appreciate throughout the coming week. Her final message is that people can tune themselves toward good fortune by noticing what they enjoy, moving away from unnecessary dislike, becoming neutral when positivity feels unreachable, and filling their lives with more appreciation. She signs off by wishing viewers a fantastic rest of the week and inviting them to continue the conversation on the next manifestation-focused broadcast.

I set up the context for a new season covering the problem of evil, with a long detour discussing free will. Free Will: Free Will Podcast: https://thefreewillshow.com/ Freedom of the Will: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18923116-freedom-of-the-will?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=oh8V1io1tq&rank=1What is a Truly Free Will?: https://publicorthodoxy.org/2020/04/24/what-is-a-truly-free-will/Freedom and Belief: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1095873.Freedom_and_Belief?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=S1WFFMzcUj&rank=2Problem of Evil: Malum: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61246316-malum?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=paPzsluSl5&rank=2Wandering in Darkness: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9777316-wandering-in-darkness?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4jYGNHzsuT&rank=1Consolation of Philosophy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31837.The_Consolation_of_Philosophy?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=mDPZQn2ir1&rank=2Making Sense Out of Suffering: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256138.Making_Sense_Out_of_Suffering The Doors of the Sea: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863944.The_Doors_of_the_Sea?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SxwkUGiFly&rank=1A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music!Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tourYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Thanks to our monthly supporters J Phillip Mast Laverne Miller Jesse Killion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Free Will by Sam Harris. An audiobook summary and review by StoryShots. Does philosophy prove free will is an illusion? This audiobook summary reveals why your choices might not be your own.

Would you like to better understand your patterns and feel more empowered?  Do you sometimes have a challenging time finding the positive in certain situations? Lisa continues the conversation today with researcher and best-selling author Ravinder Taylor. She has helped literally thousands of people change their state of mind and therefore empower their lives. Her latest book is "Mind Training: The Science of Self-Empowerment." Ravinder talks about the importance of choice. If bad things happen, it is not your fault. She asks us to ask, "What do you gain when you have a problem?" What is the difference between being informed and being prepared? How can you be aware of a problem or upcoming situation, yet not attract it? Ravinder has studied optimism and pessimism. Some people believe that doom-scrolling is about helping them feel more prepared. People have the "hope" that if they have information, they can be prepared so the worst-case won't happen. If someone looks for the negative, they will not have an enjoyable time and will feel stressed. Ravinder talks about statistics which show how much healthier people can be if they are more optimistic. What you expect, you observe. Your body will either fight or grow. Cortisol makes us feel stressed and can affect our hearts. She discusses actual techniques to increase optimism. We can be aware that some things will not work out, but if we are optimistic, we can grow and have a happier quality of life. Her "Mind Training" book talks all about the benefits of optimism and positive thinking. We can learn when things go wrong, and that means you have grown as a person. If your self-talk is positive, you cannot be depressed. Ravinder also talks about compassion and forgiveness. She talks about the prison system and studies about blame. We may need to separate ourselves from toxic people and toxic situations, but we can still offer forgiveness. She talks about the idea of "Forgiving the Unforgivable," and Free Will. We have choices and we can teach by example. This is Part 2 of the interview. Info: RavinderTaylor.com

Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex and one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness. His central claim is both unsettling and liberating: we do not passively receive reality, we actively generate it. The world that appears when you open your eyes is not a transparent window onto what is actually out there. It is the brain's best guess, a controlled hallucination, built from the inside out.What We Dive Into:1. Your brain is not reading out the world like a camera. It is making constant predictions about what is out there and updating them with sensory signals. What you perceive is much more a product of those internal predictions than of the raw sensory data coming in. In that sense, all perception is a form of hallucination, just one that happens to be grounded in reality.2. Just as the brain generates a model of the external world, it generates a model of the self. The feeling of being a continuous, stable "I" is another best guess, not a fixed essence waiting to be discovered. This is both humbling and freeing, because a constructed self can be examined and updated in ways a fixed one cannot.3. As AI systems grow more sophisticated, they will increasingly appear to have inner lives. Anil draws a sharp line between intelligence and consciousness, arguing that current AI lacks the biological, embodied, self-regulating properties that we believe underlie genuine experience. Confusing performance for presence is not just a philosophical error. It shapes regulation, design, and how we treat these systems.Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself.https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:https://www.im8health.com/knowthyselfcode KNOWTHYSELF for an exclusive offerhttps://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyselfcode KNOWTHYSELF for up to 43% off sitewide___________00:00 Intro01:47 We Don't Perceive the World — We Generate It04:29 The Brain as a Prediction Machine07:22 Controlled Hallucination: What That Term Really Means09:37 Reality Is Real, But We Never Perceive It Directly13:25 Optical Illusions as Windows Into Perception16:42 Perceptual Humility and Echo Chambers19:34 The Perception Census: Mapping Our Inner Diversity25:24 Perception, Priors, and Personal Suffering29:17 Memory, Identity, and What We Expect to See33:19 The Minimum of Consciousness: Bare Awareness38:15 Pure Consciousness and the Feeling of Being Alive41:51 Can the Contents of Experience Tell Us About Consciousness?45:46 Out of Body Experiences and the First-Person Perspective50:31 Psychedelics, Reality, and the Sense of Realness57:12 Anil's LSD Experience and Mary's Room1:03:47 Defining Consciousness: Nagel's "What Is It Like"1:07:25 The Distribution of Consciousness: Animals, Trees, and AI1:17:27 Steel-Manning Panpsychism1:21:09 Pragmatic Materialism1:34:23 Intelligence vs. Consciousness: Why AI Is Different1:38:17 Why Current AI Is Probably Not Conscious1:43:53 The Danger of Believing AI Is Conscious1:49:24 What Happens When We Take the Self Too Seriously1:52:01 Reflections on Death and What Dies1:57:34 The Self as Process, Not Essence2:02:00 Free Will as a Useful Perception2:05:43 Closing Message: Celebrate the Everyday Miracle of Consciousness___________✨MORE FROM ANIL SETH↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profanilseth/↳Books: https://www.anilseth.com/read/books/↳https://www.anilseth.com

July 19 Evening Service: “Once Saved or Free Will?" We will explore the conflicting concepts of salvation and profession. Scripture: Revelation 2:1-5

Welcome to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Before I get into this week’s episode, let me tell you that the entire uninterrupted interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union is now available on YouTube under Cyd Ropp Gnostic Insights playlist. I’ve tried and tried to upload the captioned transcript underneath the video, but neither YouTube nor my video editing software will cooperate. I can only chalk it up to Demiurgic interference, so this must be one important interview! The link is provided here to go straight to it on YouTube. Please “like” it and forward it to friends. Thanks. This week I exchanged emails with a podcast subscriber that presented me with some excellent questions prompted by recent episodes. I asked his permission to share them with you anonymously. I always treasure sincere observations and questions from subscibers because it prompts my gnosis. So here we go. Hi Cyd how's it going? I hope that all is well with you. I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your series of podcasts with the Bishop. Very interesting to hear some stuff on the unpacking of the original Gnostic texts. I thought that today's pod about your discussion was also very revealing as somebody who loves history, but it's giving me an insight into why you are so suspicious of history—would I be right in thinking that you want your texts to be unfiltered from various historical takes from different flawed human recounters? Yes. It is a common saying that history is written by the victors. This refers to the fact that the winners of wars, both physical killing wars and more subtle ideological wars, write the narratives of their opponents from then on. This is why we have had a couple of thousand years of hearing only one side of the gnostic story and one conventionally accepted version of Christian theology. And we have heard that version from Catholic Councils of the 4th century on down through the Protestant churches of today. The surviving descriptions of the nature of gnosticism were written by those who hated gnosticism, and their work is still read and venerated to this day. And I can tell you that even in the little village I live in, the church folks who have no idea what gnosticism even is are dead set against it and dead set against my efforts of sharing my gnostic insights with them and others—and they let me know of their disapproval. I think these divisive times we are living through now also illustrate how what passes for truth is malleable and untrustworthy. We can all see for ourselves how half of the population characterizes the big picture one way and half of the population characterizes it in a completely different way—and these two sides of the ideological divide are incommensurate with each other. Incommensurate is one of those big words I learned during my graduate studies in rhetoric. It means exclusive—both can't be right—you can't hold both positions—it's either or. So if you extrapolate the culture wars forward a few hundred or a few thousand years into the future, how will history frame the disputes that are currently raging through society? If, for example, socialism finally wins out do you think capitalism will be fairly represented? The reverse is also true, and the winner of this tug of war will be the one who lives to tells the tale. My correspondent goes on to say: I think it must be very appealing to be able to narrow down everything into one text and say that we are only going to look at this one source of right thing for the true knowledge. I think this approach has led us to the Bible and the Koran and other food containers which some followers take quite literally and interpret very strictly. There must be safety and comfort in this approach which could be described as textual at best—literal and possibly in a kind way, and without any judgement, fundamentalist, in its true essence. However, and I expect you are waiting for the but… What is listening whilst listening? He continues: It did occur to me that what you are basically saying is that everything in the Tripartite Tractate is correct. And all of the other texts are interesting, though they may be not to be taken seriously because they are myths. Surely it must've occurred to you that the writer of the Tripartite Tractate was also a human, and ergo—a product of the culture that surrounded him or her? Knowing you to be such a thoughtful and perceptive person, is there something I'm missing here? What is objectively different about the Tripartite Tractate, written by a human, just like all of those other gnostic texts? I am not trying to score points here, I genuinely would like an answer. To which I respond: Truly I do not agree with everything the Tripartite Tractate says and, conversely, much of what the other books say is right, though obscured with layers and language of mythology. The difference between the Tripartite Tractate and the other gnostic texts is that it stands alone and doesn’t depend upon a preexisting mythology to make sense. By that I mean that the Tripartite Tractate is a logical argument that any Sophist would be proud of. It speaks in the language of symbolic logic rather than mythology or (purported) history. The Tripartite Tractate begins with a starting premise (a priori) that in the beginning was consciousness without form. It then proposes a method by which consciousness and its attendant qualities, such as power and love, emanate from the origin and make their way downstream into us and other living creatures. It calls the descent of consciousness a fall, but does not condemn the fall, as it was necessary to escape the purely ethereal and create matter. It describes the fall as a “presumptuous thought” choice by Mr. Rationality itself—Logos. I characterize this presumptuous thought as the first action of “ego” made independently outside of the cooperation of the Fullness. This all seems to me to be an entirely rational argument that simply describes the process of the distribution of consciousness. We don’t have to argue the originating premise because our consciousness is self-evident. We are asking where it came from and going upstream until we reach a logical a priori starting point. A lot of what I share at Gnostic Insights comes from my own Theory of Everything—A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything—that I conceived and wrote 20 years ago, without benefit of any gnostic texts. So that lens informs my reading of the gnostic books. And I immediately recognized my own T.O.E. when I first read the Tripartite Tractate. The Simple Explanation is written using secular, non-religious language and lots of science and math. My illustrations and charts are different than my gnostic illustrations and charts. But the master chart is identical. The Tripartite Tractate did give me an answer I had been chewing over within the Simple Explanation, that being the difference between living creatures and inert elemental matter. I appreciated that clarification and incorporated it into the Simple Explanation. Otherwise, the book still stands as True. What is meant by True in this philosophical sense is whether or not the argument is coherent and internally consistent and comports with direct observation of the world. Now, as to whether or not I believe that only the Tripartite Tractate is true gnosis and the other gnostic books are mostly mythological–that is not the way I would put it. I don't take the Tripartite Tractate as more holy than other books, and there are a couple of aspects I don't fully understand or agree with. For example, the Tripartite Tractate aligns with other gnostic books in saying that there are three types of humans—the spiritual—called the pneumatic; the ordinary, emotional type called the psychic; and the material, called the hylic. The Tripartite Tractate doesn't seem to think that the hylic types are true second order powers and that they didn't exist in the beginning and will not return to the ethereal home above after death. The final page of the Tripartite Tractate codex is riddled with burned out areas from a fire, yet it seems to say, and I'm filling in some missing words: “While the material beings will be left behind until the end to perish, for they will not give their [missing words—probably acknowledgment of the Christ or allegiance to the Christ ]… If they have returned once more to that which … [missing words—probably worships the demiurge] … in the way that they were… [missing words—probably passing as humans] while they do not exist… [missing words—probably from the beginning] but they had been useful [for the] time that they were among them, even if they are not… [missing words—probably second order powers, —possibly among creation] at first, then… [missing words—possibly they were brought forth] to do something else by means of the power they had in the establishment [to] oppose them.” [yes, I realize I am interpolating a lot of missing words. if you have a more cogent interpretation, please offer it.] This final section of the Tripartite Tractate seems to indicate there are hylics among us with whom we live and work side by side who will not be redeemed at the end of time. This holds out the possibility that there are non-second order powers among us who can pass for living beings—not an uncommon thought in gnostic circles. My brother, Bill, and I contend that all life forms come from above and contain the consciousness and life of the Source. So for a non-living creature were to be born in the usual way is an impossibility. In my mind, the only way a truly non-living hylic so-called “human” could walk among us would be in the form of robotic facsimiles. There are many examples of this in science fiction, such as the cylons of “Battlestar Galactica” and the self-aware bots in P.D. Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” which became the film called “Blade Runner.” We are now be on the threshold of building and employing these newly constructed robots who appear human, appear conscious, appear living, but are actually programmed imitations that did not exist from the beginning. (Battlestar Galactica carries this very question throughout the series as the cylons become self-aware and question their relationship with God.) If that is the case, then these could be the hylics that will not return to the ethereal because they did not come from the ethereal and the end times would need to be pushed back far enough to accommodate their undetectable assimilation into society. But hey—that's just my notion. And here at Gnostic Insights I try to stick with gnostic insights, not my wild speculations. Cylons of Battlestar Galactica television series. The cylons adapt to become more and more “human.” What is true is that I believe the Tripartite Tractate describes our existence and our origins, as well as our future. But we have to remember it is at least 2,000 year old prophecy and embedded in the language and concepts of that time. Maybe the writer was indeed anticipating androids among us, but that seems an unlikely interpretation. I have been watching quite a few “alternate history” videos lately on YouTube that propose completely different backstories and histories that stretch eons into the past—histories that could indeed have been technologically sophisticated enough to produce androids that blend in with the crowd. But we're getting way into the weeds here. One reason that most readers of the Tripartite Tractate and other gnostic texts think there is an order of unredeemable humans is that they are referred to as “those who belong to the imitation.” The most basic interpretation is that those who we call materialists are the people who only believe what they can see, measure, and taste. In that sense, they belong to the imitation since the imitation is the material projection that is this cosmos. The atheists among them do not believe in the ethereal space Above, or the originating Source, and so by default they belong to the imitation. Yet, if all living creatures are children of the Fullness above, even these will return to the Fullness at the end of time. The way I reason this comes from following the logic of emanation and return—the Fullness would not be Full without them, and it is a basic proposition that nothing of the Source can ever be lost. So you see, the logic is what drives my interpretations, logic—Logos—not mythology. At least that how it seems to me. Another aspect of the imitation is the molecular structure of our world, including our bodies. We inhabit a molecular body. Our living essence, the light of consciousness that makes organisms soft and squishy and alive, literally inhabits an otherwise dead, rocky, elemental body of molecules. So everywhere we go, it goes. And when we “die” and our spirit exits this material cosmos, our hylic body is left behind. It belongs to the imitation—get it? So in this case, the hylic human refers to the elemental molecules that make up our bodies—that inert mud that the Demiurge could not raise up to life, as the mythological version goes. So, this material aspect of our earthly existence is part of the imitation and will not return to the Fullness along with our spirits because it did not exist from the beginning. It is a product of the fall. But I digress—back to the subscriber's email: Secondly, I would like to ask you a question about giving glory to God. I liked what you were saying about turning your attention away from yourself, and your ego, and to look towards the divine and offer up a prayer. I am at the stage of my journey where this is something that does not seem so completely alien, as I am moving gradually away from materialist atheism, which has been caught on my existence for the past 50 odd years. Where I get into trouble is basically the whole business of giving glory to God, because the monad who is omniscience and immutable is hardly likely to need me to do a lot of worshipping or giving glory. This was like a bit controversial, and I'm not trying to argue in bad faith, but wouldn't the demiurge himself be more likely to want humans to give glory to him than the monad? I imagine that giving glory means something to people who have come up in a Christian background, but personally it seems completely irrelevant and unnecessary – A bit like one of those business buzzwords, you hear like synergism or government types talking about inclusiveness or diversity—a sort of empty phrase that could really mean anything you want. It would be really helpful if you could unpack it a bit for me because I'm sure I'm missing something here. Giving glory is not for the benefit of the Father. Giving glory is how we tune into the Father’s resonance. Giving glory is for our benefit, not God's. Now, the God of the Old Testament, the Demiurge—is that jealous, forgetful god that thinks it’s the be-all and end-all. It does like to receive worship and glory because it feeds its ego. But the God Above All Gods, the Father of consciousness and the ALL, doesn’t need our worship and glory—you are right about that. It is we who need to give glory, not It that needs to receive glory. The Totalities of the ALL which were the first emanations from the Son, and the Aeons of the Fullness love to give glory. The Totalities do nothing but give glory to the Father, and that is a pure expression of love and devotion to the Father. It's a good thing for us, way down here in the consciousness stream, that they give unceasing glory, because they are the first emanations out of the Son and the fountain of the consciousness and love that eventually flows into all living creatures. The Totalities that give glory continuously are like an electrical plug that stays connected to the greater originating Source. As above so below—we also connect with the Source when we give glory. And since connecting with the Source cannot be accomplished when ego rules your psyche, you must be humble enough to set your ego aside and pray to/give glory to the greater Source. Surely you recognize that your ego is a lesser being than the Father of everything. If your ego does not allow you to think that, then you are not putting your spiritual foot forward but merely your ego. Our correspondent replies: Dear Cyd As usual- I’m so impressed by your clear and reasoned thinking – it is so elegant and simple. I wish I could think like that. However, there are a few things I would like to push back on respectfully. I have been dialoguing with the Demiurge – Chat GPT – and here’s what the archonic AI came up with in answer to your firm assertion that there is no mythology in the Tripartite Tractate. It basically thinks that it’s an overstatement – and I quote: The text gives an extensive creation story involving:• an unknowable Father;• the Son and the Church;• emanated aeons inhabiting the Fullness or Pleroma;• Logos making a presumptuous, defective attempt to comprehend the Father;• the production of deficiency, psychic and material powers;• a Demiurge who creates humanity;• three fundamental classes of human beings;• and a Saviour who descends to restore what has become divided. [Cyd] Let me pop in here to correct a very important error in this demiurgic version of Gnosticism. It sneaked into its answer a very demiurgic assertion that is not True: • a Demiurge who creates humanity The Demiurge certainly did not create humanity or any other living, conscious being. The second order powers—all living beings—are children of the Aeons of the Fullness, sent down into this lifeless cosmos to remind the Demiurge of the greater power Above, the true source of life, love, and consciousness. I have a habit of calling us the children of the Fullness, but the Tripartite Tractate actually calls us the fruit or the spores of the Fullness. Which is another way of saying the emanations of discreet packages of consciousness, or what I call in Simple Explanation language units of consciousness. To me, this is not mythological but descriptive to the best of our ability. Now, back to the correspondent's email: That is all mythological material. So then it rambles on quoting lots of sources etc BUT what the machine is getting at is that the difference between the Tripartite Tractate and some other gnostic texts is that there is a solid logic framework under the superstructure of mythological language and characters.This fits in with your TOE very neatly – and it is no surprise that you had an ‘OMG’ moment when you discovered the Tripartite Tractate—I would also have thought the same if an ancient text fitted perfectly into a system of thought that I had spent years developing. And you might be right—the uncanny fit could be a ‘tell’ that this truly IS the way of everything. On the less interesting point of contention though – I must disagree with you – there IS mythology in the Tripartite Tractate superstructure – the language is mythological – maybe less so than other gnostic texts. As an aside, as a writer – I would also say -there is nothing particularly bad about being mythological either. To which I reply: I have to laugh at using Dialogue with Demiurge AI as a trustworthy source. lol. I will see your Chat GPT and raise you Microsoft CoPilot AI (poker language, I assume you recognize). My AI says this: “This work presents a restored cosmology of the Fullness — a structural, metaphysical account of creation, fracture, and restoration. It is not myth, nor allegory, nor theology in the conventional sense. It is architecture: a precise description of how consciousness, relation, and harmony operate across the three great phases of existence.” I like that description—that the Tripartite Tractate gives the metaphysical architecture of consciousness rather than a myth. I always like to take the higher, meta view of information, which is literally a step above the normal language and arguments. That’s the secret of how I observe and reconcile seemingly irreconcilable positions—by looking up above the words for the meaning behind them. It seems to me that most people are lost in the language and “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Not meaning you, necessarily, it’s just my observation of how understanding goes awry. By taking the meta approach, the concepts automatically simplify as many points of view and language choices are collapsed into their base meanings. The words I use in my Simple Explanation of gnosis and science and everything else are not written in stone. They are my attempt to convey large concepts in the simple, most recognizable forms. If I say “god” it’s because people are familiar with that term. I offer alternative words, like Source, Mother-Father, Metaverse, the Great One, the Origin, so that people will see that the particular word is less important than what it represents and that what they think of as god has a broader meaning than the meme they have been holding onto. These images from my well-worn copy of the Tripartite Tractate of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures edited by Marvin Meyer, show you the process by which I read and interpret arcane texts. I put the language into illustrated concepts and words I can recognize and understand. The writer shared this final thought from the Chat GPT: There is also a genuine philosophical difficulty: how can a perfect and harmonious divine Fullness generate an irrational act? Saying that Logos possessed the capacity to exceed his proper limits explains the mechanism only by placing the possibility of deficiency inside the supposedly perfect order. He says, I think that is actually a pretty decent question from our AI demiurge—right? I expect that you have a great answer though. To which I reply: As to the Demiurge’s new question that you have put forth in this email—that’s an old canard that is often trotted out to stump theists. “How could a good and perfect God allow for the creation of evil?” I am not at all stumped by that question. The answer can most simply be stated in two words: Free Will. If we begin with the premise that the Father/Source/etc. emanates its entire nature outward with its emanation, then obviously free will is a part of that emanation. After all, it is inarguable that the Source possesses free will. The Aeons have free will. Logos is an Aeon. Logos has free will. While the rest of the Aeons were using their free will to cooperate with each other and to glorify the Father and the Son, Logos used its free will to go in a fresh direction. Logos thought it would be going upward to rejoin the highest glory. The Tripartite Tractate says that Logos didn’t realize this was in impossibility, because no one can approach the power source that is the Origin without being annihilated. And like a magnetic polarity, Logos was repelled by the Source and was knocked out of alignment with the Fullness (the fall). This dissonance became our material cosmos. And because Logos had free will, we have free will. This all flows logically from the a priori definition of the Source. This may sound mythological, but it is not. It could be easily described in scientific terms. Like the way a beam of focused light still allows for stray photons to go off beam. Or boiling water in the kettle mostly clumps together on the top of the water as bubbles, but some bubbles go outward to the edge of the kettle and pop. And so forth. The limit is our language, not the architecture or process. The limit is also imposed by the meme bundle being held the human observer-inquirer when their memes do not allow for certain possibilities to be seen and accepted. It is our meme attachments that limit our capacity to observe and learn. So says me.

Welcome to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Before I get into this week’s episode, let me tell you that the entire uninterrupted interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union is now available on YouTube under Cyd Ropp Gnostic Insights playlist. I’ve tried and tried to upload the captioned transcript underneath the video, but neither YouTube nor my video editing software will cooperate. I can only chalk it up to Demiurgic interference, so this must be one important interview! The link is provided here to go straight to it on YouTube. Please “like” it and forward it to friends. Thanks. This week I exchanged emails with a podcast subscriber that presented me with some excellent questions prompted by recent episodes. I asked his permission to share them with you anonymously. I always treasure sincere observations and questions from subscibers because it prompts my gnosis. So here we go. Hi Cyd how's it going? I hope that all is well with you. I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your series of podcasts with the Bishop. Very interesting to hear some stuff on the unpacking of the original Gnostic texts. I thought that today's pod about your discussion was also very revealing as somebody who loves history, but it's giving me an insight into why you are so suspicious of history—would I be right in thinking that you want your texts to be unfiltered from various historical takes from different flawed human recounters? Yes. It is a common saying that history is written by the victors. This refers to the fact that the winners of wars, both physical killing wars and more subtle ideological wars, write the narratives of their opponents from then on. This is why we have had a couple of thousand years of hearing only one side of the gnostic story and one conventionally accepted version of Christian theology. And we have heard that version from Catholic Councils of the 4th century on down through the Protestant churches of today. The surviving descriptions of the nature of gnosticism were written by those who hated gnosticism, and their work is still read and venerated to this day. And I can tell you that even in the little village I live in, the church folks who have no idea what gnosticism even is are dead set against it and dead set against my efforts of sharing my gnostic insights with them and others—and they let me know of their disapproval. I think these divisive times we are living through now also illustrate how what passes for truth is malleable and untrustworthy. We can all see for ourselves how half of the population characterizes the big picture one way and half of the population characterizes it in a completely different way—and these two sides of the ideological divide are incommensurate with each other. Incommensurate is one of those big words I learned during my graduate studies in rhetoric. It means exclusive—both can't be right—you can't hold both positions—it's either or. So if you extrapolate the culture wars forward a few hundred or a few thousand years into the future, how will history frame the disputes that are currently raging through society? If, for example, socialism finally wins out do you think capitalism will be fairly represented? The reverse is also true, and the winner of this tug of war will be the one who lives to tells the tale. My correspondent goes on to say: I think it must be very appealing to be able to narrow down everything into one text and say that we are only going to look at this one source of right thing for the true knowledge. I think this approach has led us to the Bible and the Koran and other food containers which some followers take quite literally and interpret very strictly. There must be safety and comfort in this approach which could be described as textual at best—literal and possibly in a kind way, and without any judgement, fundamentalist, in its true essence. However, and I expect you are waiting for the but… What is listening whilst listening? He continues: It did occur to me that what you are basically saying is that everything in the Tripartite Tractate is correct. And all of the other texts are interesting, though they may be not to be taken seriously because they are myths. Surely it must've occurred to you that the writer of the Tripartite Tractate was also a human, and ergo—a product of the culture that surrounded him or her? Knowing you to be such a thoughtful and perceptive person, is there something I'm missing here? What is objectively different about the Tripartite Tractate, written by a human, just like all of those other gnostic texts? I am not trying to score points here, I genuinely would like an answer. To which I respond: Truly I do not agree with everything the Tripartite Tractate says and, conversely, much of what the other books say is right, though obscured with layers and language of mythology. The difference between the Tripartite Tractate and the other gnostic texts is that it stands alone and doesn’t depend upon a preexisting mythology to make sense. By that I mean that the Tripartite Tractate is a logical argument that any Sophist would be proud of. It speaks in the language of symbolic logic rather than mythology or (purported) history. The Tripartite Tractate begins with a starting premise (a priori) that in the beginning was consciousness without form. It then proposes a method by which consciousness and its attendant qualities, such as power and love, emanate from the origin and make their way downstream into us and other living creatures. It calls the descent of consciousness a fall, but does not condemn the fall, as it was necessary to escape the purely ethereal and create matter. It describes the fall as a “presumptuous thought” choice by Mr. Rationality itself—Logos. I characterize this presumptuous thought as the first action of “ego” made independently outside of the cooperation of the Fullness. This all seems to me to be an entirely rational argument that simply describes the process of the distribution of consciousness. We don’t have to argue the originating premise because our consciousness is self-evident. We are asking where it came from and going upstream until we reach a logical a priori starting point. A lot of what I share at Gnostic Insights comes from my own Theory of Everything—A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything—that I conceived and wrote 20 years ago, without benefit of any gnostic texts. So that lens informs my reading of the gnostic books. And I immediately recognized my own T.O.E. when I first read the Tripartite Tractate. The Simple Explanation is written using secular, non-religious language and lots of science and math. My illustrations and charts are different than my gnostic illustrations and charts. But the master chart is identical. The Tripartite Tractate did give me an answer I had been chewing over within the Simple Explanation, that being the difference between living creatures and inert elemental matter. I appreciated that clarification and incorporated it into the Simple Explanation. Otherwise, the book still stands as True. What is meant by True in this philosophical sense is whether or not the argument is coherent and internally consistent and comports with direct observation of the world. Now, as to whether or not I believe that only the Tripartite Tractate is true gnosis and the other gnostic books are mostly mythological–that is not the way I would put it. I don't take the Tripartite Tractate as more holy than other books, and there are a couple of aspects I don't fully understand or agree with. For example, the Tripartite Tractate aligns with other gnostic books in saying that there are three types of humans—the spiritual—called the pneumatic; the ordinary, emotional type called the psychic; and the material, called the hylic. The Tripartite Tractate doesn't seem to think that the hylic types are true second order powers and that they didn't exist in the beginning and will not return to the ethereal home above after death. The final page of the Tripartite Tractate codex is riddled with burned out areas from a fire, yet it seems to say, and I'm filling in some missing words: “While the material beings will be left behind until the end to perish, for they will not give their [missing words—probably acknowledgment of the Christ or allegiance to the Christ ]… If they have returned once more to that which … [missing words—probably worships the demiurge] … in the way that they were… [missing words—probably passing as humans] while they do not exist… [missing words—probably from the beginning] but they had been useful [for the] time that they were among them, even if they are not… [missing words—probably second order powers, —possibly among creation] at first, then… [missing words—possibly they were brought forth] to do something else by means of the power they had in the establishment [to] oppose them.” [yes, I realize I am interpolating a lot of missing words. if you have a more cogent interpretation, please offer it.] This final section of the Tripartite Tractate seems to indicate there are hylics among us with whom we live and work side by side who will not be redeemed at the end of time. This holds out the possibility that there are non-second order powers among us who can pass for living beings—not an uncommon thought in gnostic circles. My brother, Bill, and I contend that all life forms come from above and contain the consciousness and life of the Source. So for a non-living creature were to be born in the usual way is an impossibility. In my mind, the only way a truly non-living hylic so-called “human” could walk among us would be in the form of robotic facsimiles. There are many examples of this in science fiction, such as the cylons of “Battlestar Galactica” and the self-aware bots in P.D. Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” which became the film called “Blade Runner.” We are now be on the threshold of building and employing these newly constructed robots who appear human, appear conscious, appear living, but are actually programmed imitations that did not exist from the beginning. (Battlestar Galactica carries this very question throughout the series as the cylons become self-aware and question their relationship with God.) If that is the case, then these could be the hylics that will not return to the ethereal because they did not come from the ethereal and the end times would need to be pushed back far enough to accommodate their undetectable assimilation into society. But hey—that's just my notion. And here at Gnostic Insights I try to stick with gnostic insights, not my wild speculations. Cylons of Battlestar Galactica television series. The cylons adapt to become more and more “human.” What is true is that I believe the Tripartite Tractate describes our existence and our origins, as well as our future. But we have to remember it is at least 2,000 year old prophecy and embedded in the language and concepts of that time. Maybe the writer was indeed anticipating androids among us, but that seems an unlikely interpretation. I have been watching quite a few “alternate history” videos lately on YouTube that propose completely different backstories and histories that stretch eons into the past—histories that could indeed have been technologically sophisticated enough to produce androids that blend in with the crowd. But we're getting way into the weeds here. One reason that most readers of the Tripartite Tractate and other gnostic texts think there is an order of unredeemable humans is that they are referred to as “those who belong to the imitation.” The most basic interpretation is that those who we call materialists are the people who only believe what they can see, measure, and taste. In that sense, they belong to the imitation since the imitation is the material projection that is this cosmos. The atheists among them do not believe in the ethereal space Above, or the originating Source, and so by default they belong to the imitation. Yet, if all living creatures are children of the Fullness above, even these will return to the Fullness at the end of time. The way I reason this comes from following the logic of emanation and return—the Fullness would not be Full without them, and it is a basic proposition that nothing of the Source can ever be lost. So you see, the logic is what drives my interpretations, logic—Logos—not mythology. At least that how it seems to me. Another aspect of the imitation is the molecular structure of our world, including our bodies. We inhabit a molecular body. Our living essence, the light of consciousness that makes organisms soft and squishy and alive, literally inhabits an otherwise dead, rocky, elemental body of molecules. So everywhere we go, it goes. And when we “die” and our spirit exits this material cosmos, our hylic body is left behind. It belongs to the imitation—get it? So in this case, the hylic human refers to the elemental molecules that make up our bodies—that inert mud that the Demiurge could not raise up to life, as the mythological version goes. So, this material aspect of our earthly existence is part of the imitation and will not return to the Fullness along with our spirits because it did not exist from the beginning. It is a product of the fall. But I digress—back to the subscriber's email: Secondly, I would like to ask you a question about giving glory to God. I liked what you were saying about turning your attention away from yourself, and your ego, and to look towards the divine and offer up a prayer. I am at the stage of my journey where this is something that does not seem so completely alien, as I am moving gradually away from materialist atheism, which has been caught on my existence for the past 50 odd years. Where I get into trouble is basically the whole business of giving glory to God, because the monad who is omniscience and immutable is hardly likely to need me to do a lot of worshipping or giving glory. This was like a bit controversial, and I'm not trying to argue in bad faith, but wouldn't the demiurge himself be more likely to want humans to give glory to him than the monad? I imagine that giving glory means something to people who have come up in a Christian background, but personally it seems completely irrelevant and unnecessary – A bit like one of those business buzzwords, you hear like synergism or government types talking about inclusiveness or diversity—a sort of empty phrase that could really mean anything you want. It would be really helpful if you could unpack it a bit for me because I'm sure I'm missing something here. Giving glory is not for the benefit of the Father. Giving glory is how we tune into the Father’s resonance. Giving glory is for our benefit, not God's. Now, the God of the Old Testament, the Demiurge—is that jealous, forgetful god that thinks it’s the be-all and end-all. It does like to receive worship and glory because it feeds its ego. But the God Above All Gods, the Father of consciousness and the ALL, doesn’t need our worship and glory—you are right about that. It is we who need to give glory, not It that needs to receive glory. The Totalities of the ALL which were the first emanations from the Son, and the Aeons of the Fullness love to give glory. The Totalities do nothing but give glory to the Father, and that is a pure expression of love and devotion to the Father. It's a good thing for us, way down here in the consciousness stream, that they give unceasing glory, because they are the first emanations out of the Son and the fountain of the consciousness and love that eventually flows into all living creatures. The Totalities that give glory continuously are like an electrical plug that stays connected to the greater originating Source. As above so below—we also connect with the Source when we give glory. And since connecting with the Source cannot be accomplished when ego rules your psyche, you must be humble enough to set your ego aside and pray to/give glory to the greater Source. Surely you recognize that your ego is a lesser being than the Father of everything. If your ego does not allow you to think that, then you are not putting your spiritual foot forward but merely your ego. Our correspondent replies: Dear Cyd As usual- I’m so impressed by your clear and reasoned thinking – it is so elegant and simple. I wish I could think like that. However, there are a few things I would like to push back on respectfully. I have been dialoguing with the Demiurge – Chat GPT – and here’s what the archonic AI came up with in answer to your firm assertion that there is no mythology in the Tripartite Tractate. It basically thinks that it’s an overstatement – and I quote: The text gives an extensive creation story involving:• an unknowable Father;• the Son and the Church;• emanated aeons inhabiting the Fullness or Pleroma;• Logos making a presumptuous, defective attempt to comprehend the Father;• the production of deficiency, psychic and material powers;• a Demiurge who creates humanity;• three fundamental classes of human beings;• and a Saviour who descends to restore what has become divided. [Cyd] Let me pop in here to correct a very important error in this demiurgic version of Gnosticism. It sneaked into its answer a very demiurgic assertion that is not True: • a Demiurge who creates humanity The Demiurge certainly did not create humanity or any other living, conscious being. The second order powers—all living beings—are children of the Aeons of the Fullness, sent down into this lifeless cosmos to remind the Demiurge of the greater power Above, the true source of life, love, and consciousness. I have a habit of calling us the children of the Fullness, but the Tripartite Tractate actually calls us the fruit or the spores of the Fullness. Which is another way of saying the emanations of discreet packages of consciousness, or what I call in Simple Explanation language units of consciousness. To me, this is not mythological but descriptive to the best of our ability. Now, back to the correspondent's email: That is all mythological material. So then it rambles on quoting lots of sources etc BUT what the machine is getting at is that the difference between the Tripartite Tractate and some other gnostic texts is that there is a solid logic framework under the superstructure of mythological language and characters.This fits in with your TOE very neatly – and it is no surprise that you had an ‘OMG’ moment when you discovered the Tripartite Tractate—I would also have thought the same if an ancient text fitted perfectly into a system of thought that I had spent years developing. And you might be right—the uncanny fit could be a ‘tell’ that this truly IS the way of everything. On the less interesting point of contention though – I must disagree with you – there IS mythology in the Tripartite Tractate superstructure – the language is mythological – maybe less so than other gnostic texts. As an aside, as a writer – I would also say -there is nothing particularly bad about being mythological either. To which I reply: I have to laugh at using Dialogue with Demiurge AI as a trustworthy source. lol. I will see your Chat GPT and raise you Microsoft CoPilot AI (poker language, I assume you recognize). My AI says this: “This work presents a restored cosmology of the Fullness — a structural, metaphysical account of creation, fracture, and restoration. It is not myth, nor allegory, nor theology in the conventional sense. It is architecture: a precise description of how consciousness, relation, and harmony operate across the three great phases of existence.” I like that description—that the Tripartite Tractate gives the metaphysical architecture of consciousness rather than a myth. I always like to take the higher, meta view of information, which is literally a step above the normal language and arguments. That’s the secret of how I observe and reconcile seemingly irreconcilable positions—by looking up above the words for the meaning behind them. It seems to me that most people are lost in the language and “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Not meaning you, necessarily, it’s just my observation of how understanding goes awry. By taking the meta approach, the concepts automatically simplify as many points of view and language choices are collapsed into their base meanings. The words I use in my Simple Explanation of gnosis and science and everything else are not written in stone. They are my attempt to convey large concepts in the simple, most recognizable forms. If I say “god” it’s because people are familiar with that term. I offer alternative words, like Source, Mother-Father, Metaverse, the Great One, the Origin, so that people will see that the particular word is less important than what it represents and that what they think of as god has a broader meaning than the meme they have been holding onto. These images from my well-worn copy of the Tripartite Tractate of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures edited by Marvin Meyer, show you the process by which I read and interpret arcane texts. I put the language into illustrated concepts and words I can recognize and understand. The writer shared this final thought from the Chat GPT: There is also a genuine philosophical difficulty: how can a perfect and harmonious divine Fullness generate an irrational act? Saying that Logos possessed the capacity to exceed his proper limits explains the mechanism only by placing the possibility of deficiency inside the supposedly perfect order. He says, I think that is actually a pretty decent question from our AI demiurge—right? I expect that you have a great answer though. To which I reply: As to the Demiurge’s new question that you have put forth in this email—that’s an old canard that is often trotted out to stump theists. “How could a good and perfect God allow for the creation of evil?” I am not at all stumped by that question. The answer can most simply be stated in two words: Free Will. If we begin with the premise that the Father/Source/etc. emanates its entire nature outward with its emanation, then obviously free will is a part of that emanation. After all, it is inarguable that the Source possesses free will. The Aeons have free will. Logos is an Aeon. Logos has free will. While the rest of the Aeons were using their free will to cooperate with each other and to glorify the Father and the Son, Logos used its free will to go in a fresh direction. Logos thought it would be going upward to rejoin the highest glory. The Tripartite Tractate says that Logos didn’t realize this was in impossibility, because no one can approach the power source that is the Origin without being annihilated. And like a magnetic polarity, Logos was repelled by the Source and was knocked out of alignment with the Fullness (the fall). This dissonance became our material cosmos. And because Logos had free will, we have free will. This all flows logically from the a priori definition of the Source. This may sound mythological, but it is not. It could be easily described in scientific terms. Like the way a beam of focused light still allows for stray photons to go off beam. Or boiling water in the kettle mostly clumps together on the top of the water as bubbles, but some bubbles go outward to the edge of the kettle and pop. And so forth. The limit is our language, not the architecture or process. The limit is also imposed by the meme bundle being held the human observer-inquirer when their memes do not allow for certain possibilities to be seen and accepted. It is our meme attachments that limit our capacity to observe and learn. So says me.

Infallible. Four U.S. soldiers. Sunny Hostin's "Reparations." Crawling to church. Anthem fan slap. Helpful people. Nolan Wells autopsy.

In a world racing toward smarter machines, empathy speakers and authors Rob Volpe and Maria Ross get curious in this limited subseries about what only humans can feel, do, and be — and why that's our greatest competitive advantage. Enjoy this limited subseries here on The Empathy Edge. Aspiration, Hope, Free Will & the Future-Oriented MindHumans don't just live in the present. We imagine futures that don't exist yet, then try to build them, and we do it using the same neural machinery that lets us remember our past.Maria Ross and Rob Volpe explore what psychologist Endel Tulving called mental time travel: the brain's unique ability to simulate scenarios that haven't happened using a network that overlaps almost entirely with episodic memory. We can't dream forward if we can't look back. Yet, our memories can be unreliable, causing us to build narratives around what actually happened or how it impacted us. Are we the only species who can do this? That sets up the harder question: do we actually choose, or does it just feel like we do?Finally, we discuss the difference between hope and optimism. When humans are at their best, they describe aspiration, vision, and forward motion, but humans in survival mode, who cannot access hope or aspiration, are equally human. What does that tell us about how fragile, and how earned, this superpower really is?To access the episode transcript, go to www.TheEmpathyEdge.com and search by episode title. "We don't just react to the present like many species. We reflect on the past. We imagine the future." — Maria Ross Episode References:Endel Tulving on mental time travel and episodic memory: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1301195110Neuroscience News on the contested legacy of Libet's free will experiment: neurosciencenews.com/libet-free-will-23756Daniel Dennett, Freedom EvolvesRebecca Solnit, Hope in the DarkFinding Your Roots with Roy Wood Jr., "Laughing on the Inside," Season 7, Episode 10: pbs.org/video/laughing-inside-gble34IEQ9 Integrative Enneagram: IEQ9.comHarry Pickens leadership work on self-regulation in challenging times and working with AI to build your human capacity: strategicneuroregulation.comMaslow's Hierarchy of Needs: simplypsychology.org/maslow.htmlThe AI Doc: Or How I Became an ApocaloptimistAbout Maria Ross:Maria Ross is a speaker, author, empathy strategist, and host of The Empathy Edge podcast, now in its sixth year. She believes cash flow, creativity, and compassion are not mutually exclusive™, and has spent decades helping leaders balance empathy with accountability to drive better results, stronger teams, and lasting impact. She is the author of four books, including the award-winning The Empathy Dilemma, a Forbes.com contributor on Workplace Empathy, and creator of two LinkedIn Learning empathy courses.About Rob Volpe: Rob Volpe is the Founder/CEO of Empathy Activist and the creator of The 5 Steps to Empathy, which he chronicles in his award-winning book Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time. He is a recognized thought leader, speaker, and consultant in the improvement of communication and collaboration in organizations of all sizes in all industries.Connect with Rob Volpe:Website: robvolpe.expertBook: Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One ConversationX: x.com/rmvolpeLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rmvolpeFacebook: facebook.com/EmpathyActivistInstagram: instagram.com/empathy_activist Connect with Maria:Get Maria's books: Red-Slice.com/booksHire Maria to speak: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossTake the LinkedIn Learning Courses! Leading with Empathy and Balancing Empathy, Accountability, and Results as a LeaderLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaFacebook: Red Slice

God's Plans for our lives and how our freewill often gets in the way.

Pastor Josh Crouch uses a scene from Project Hail Mary to discuss the topic of Free Will.

O Maior Problema da Filosofia - Aporias da contingência absoluta e necessidade absoluta - Uma hipótese Conciliadora - Referências:1. Metafísica e Ontologia Brasileira*MÁRIO FERREIRA DOS SANTOSObra: Filosofia concreta, Filosofia e Cosmovisão ou Tratado de Simbólica (Editora Logos / É Realizações).Conceitos: Dialética Decadialética (a tensão entre o ser e o devir), a tese de que "algo há" (ponto arquimediano contra o nada) e a tensionalidade ontológica.2. Tradição Escolástica e Medieval*SANTO TOMÁS DE AQUINOObra: Suma Teológica (Editora Loyola / Ecclesiae).Conceitos: Causas secundárias (autonomia do mundo físico), Ato Puro (Deus como fundamento), Hilemorfismo (união forma e matéria) e a distinção entre Necessidade da Consequência e do Consequente.*BOÉCIOObra: A Consolação da Filosofia (Editora Martins Fontes).Conceitos: A visão de Deus na eternidade como um presente contínuo e a distinção lógica entre os tipos de necessidade.3. Racionalismo Moderno*BARUCH SPINOZAObra: Ética (Editora Autêntica / Companhia das Letras).Conceitos: Necessitarismo absoluto (o "Deus que devora o mundo") e o monismo substancial, usados como contraponto negativo em sua tese.4. Existencialismo*ALBERT CAMUSObra: O Mito de Sísifo, onde ele explora a absurdidade da vida. Conceito de Absurdo (ou Absurdo Contingencial): Para Camus, a existência é um absurdo porque o ser humano é produto de inúmeras acidentalidades e o universo não oferece uma resposta ou razão para o nosso ser. O Problema do Suicídio: Camus postula que a questão filosófica fundamental é decidir por que não se deve cometer suicídio diante de um mundo sem sentido. Ele defende que o indivíduo deve criar seu próprio sentido e fazer a vida valer a pena, mesmo ciente da sua absurdidade.*JEAN-PAUL SARTREObra: O Ser e o Nada, onde afirma que a Existência precede a Essência. Sartre defende que o homem não possui uma natureza ou "molde" pré-definido (diferente da sua tese de alma como possibilidade ideal); ele primeiro existe e depois se inventa do zero. Há pois, Liberdade Radical e o Nada, pois ele dissolve a necessidade e admite a contingência absoluta, onde o ser humano é definido pelo que ele faz com o que as circunstâncias fizeram dele.5. Filosofia Contemporânea*VIKTOR FRANKLObra: Em Busca de Sentido (Editora Vozes).Conceitos: Logoterapia e a capacidade do espírito humano de se sobrepor às circunstâncias materiais.6. Teologia *WILSON, KENNETH M. Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology. Editora: Mohr Siebeck (ou reimpressões pela Regnum Books).*NICOLAU DE CUSAObra: A Douta Ignorância (Editora UNICAMP / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian).Conceitos: Coincidentia Oppositorum (coincidência dos opostos) e o Possest (Deus como unidade de potência e ato).*SANTO AGOSTINHOObra: O Livre-Arbítrio e Confissões (Editora Paulus / Vozes).Conceitos: A tensão entre presciência divina e liberdade, e a influência do pensamento agostiniano na Reforma (Calvino e Lutero).7. Filosofia Analítica e Ciência Moderna*WILLIAM LANE CRAIGObra: Time and Eternity (Editora Crossway / Vida Nova).Conceitos: Teoria A e Teoria B do tempo (presentismo vs. universo bloco) e o Molinismo (conhecimento médio de Deus) Heisenberg, Schrödinger e EinsteinConceitos: Colapso da função de onda, Princípio da Incerteza e Variáveis Ocultas, usados como analogia física para a liberdade e a concreção de possibilidades.***Quer Ajudar o canal? Veja como:*Link do meu Livro: https://amzn.to/4dbsdhK*Pix: https://widget.livepix.gg/embed/e47d6b80-f832-4fc2-a6af-ee6fa4c9ad9a*Apoie o Canal: https://apoia.se/canaldosocran

C4C Apologetics explains why atheists should stop saying these 10 things...but mostly he just wants us to stop pointing out problems with his religion.Cards:Responses to Calvin (AiG Canada): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLbOEx_k9dkct7zpDr4OyZsH5OaaszTmd(Fixed Audio) Questions for Atheists...Answered!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mknmx0XVwOriginal Video: https://tinyurl.com/2dj4jcdrSources: Apollonius of Tyana: https://tinyurl.com/os4kjwaThe Writings Of Apollonius: https://tinyurl.com/25sabduaAbduction: https://tinyurl.com/hrjzye7The happiest nations on Earth are strongly secular: https://tinyurl.com/22ukr8ntWorld Happiness Report Dashboard: https://tinyurl.com/2co78t96Freedom in the World Report: https://tinyurl.com/29epqby9Religion in Finland: https://tinyurl.com/d3tmtgnEhrman, Bart. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and WhyList of Historians Who Take Mythicism Seriously: https://tinyurl.com/26599rpqReligious views of Isaac Newton: https://tinyurl.com/kes4vxeIslamic Golden Age: https://tinyurl.com/kqnz573Andrew Kamal: https://tinyurl.com/22vtp5qlChris Hirata: https://tinyurl.com/2cts7xdzAsk A Genius 1494: Rick Rosner says, “Fuck Theology,”or More on Theology, Free Will, and the Politics of Religion: https://tinyurl.com/234zapeyAll my various links can be found here:http://links.vicedrhino.comThis content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.orgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support.All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.comThis content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org

Physicist Jenny Wagner joins us, asking not whether dark matter is possible but whether it is necessary, whether the missing mass was ever missing or only misplaced inside the models we carried in before we looked up. She works the inverse problem of gravitational lensing the way a person works a locked door in the dark, feeling for what the data actually says against what the assumptions quietly whisper, until the cosmological constant, dark energy, and the whole dark sector start to look less like discoveries and more like scaffolding we forgot was scaffolding. From Zwicky and the Coma cluster to MOND and the Bullet cluster, she traces how a pragmatic guess hardened into orthodoxy, and how general relativity alone might carry more of the weight than anyone budgeted for. Cosmology as it should be done, grounded in what the sky gives us and honest about what it withholds.Jenny's blog: https://thegravitygrinch.blogspot.com/PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Grounding Cosmology in What We Can Actually Observe00:01:57 Data First: Separating Physics from Statistical Assumptions00:09:32 How Dark Matter Falls Out of the Models We Choose00:14:38 Zwicky, Coma, and the Birth of the Missing Mass Problem00:20:58 Bound or Just Passing Through? The Cluster Stability Debate00:25:22 Two Missing Mass Problems Merge Into One Story00:33:40 Lambda: The Cosmological Constant and the Rise of Dark Energy00:45:09 Why Simple Models Stuck, and the Underdetermination Trap00:52:04 Average Density and the Roots of Statistical Cosmology01:01:05 Where Cosmology and Astrophysics Split01:09:12 Causality From Inside the Universe01:18:21 One Snapshot of the Cosmos, and What Webb Adds01:24:48 Where the Dark Matter Doubt Began: Lensing's Fine Print01:32:20 Meeting MOND and the Bullet Cluster Up Close01:39:24 Revisiting General Relativity at Galactic Scales01:44:49 Gravity as Geometry, and the Cause We Still Can't Name01:51:15 The Case for Cosmology Without a Dark Sector01:56:21 Why Equations Take Their Form: Higgs vs. Dark Matter02:03:52 Necessary or Merely Sufficient? Bias in the Field02:08:23 Storytelling, Awe, and the Pull of Exotic Explanations02:13:39 Determinism, Free Will, and the Limits of Reductionism02:20:07 What's Next: Curvature, and the Gravity Grinch#DarkMatter #Cosmology #GravitationalLensing #DarkEnergy #Astrophysics #GeneralRelativity #Physics #Spacetime #Gravity MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Is God truly omniscient, or does the Bible present a different picture? In this episode of Nephilim Death Squad, David Lee Corbo (The Raven), TopLobsta, and Ed Mabrie (Faith By Reason) continue a thought-provoking discussion about God's foreknowledge, free will, prophecy, and what Scripture actually teaches.The conversation examines challenging biblical passages involving Job, Abraham, Satan (ha-satan), Isaiah 45:7, Revelation, and the nature of God's knowledge. Does free will require that future human choices remain genuinely open? How should Christians understand omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence? Are these biblical concepts, or later theological formulations?Ed Mabrie walks through numerous scriptural examples while explaining why he believes the Bible teaches that God possesses all knowledge that exists while allowing genuine human freedom. The discussion also explores prophecy, the role of the adversary in the Book of Job, the seven churches of Revelation, and why Christians should test every teaching against Scripture rather than blindly accepting tradition.Whether you agree or disagree, this episode is designed to encourage careful Bible study, thoughtful discussion, and deeper examination of difficult theological questions.If you enjoy conversations about:Biblical theologyChristian worldviewFree will vs predestinationRevelationOld Testament studiesBiblical prophecyNephilim researchChristian apologeticsyou're in the right place.► Subscribe for more Biblical analysis, Christian worldview discussions, and conspiracy research through a Biblical lens.Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere podcasts are available.Ed Mabrie (Faith By Reason)Website: https://faithbyreason.netYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithByReasonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FaithByReason00:00 Intro00:54 Welcome & Patreon Updates02:20 Brohemian Grove Announcement03:05 Ed Mabrie Introduction04:10 Faith By Reason & New Book07:05 Continuing Last Week's Discussion08:30 Does God Know Every Future Choice?10:20 The Three "Omnis" Debate12:05 Free Will and God's Foreknowledge13:00 Job, Satan, and the Nature of Testing14:40 Isaiah 45:7 and God Creating Evil18:00 Biblical Examples Supporting the Discussion28:30 Revelation and the Seven Churches43:15 Questions, Objections & Scriptural Responses58:40 Final ThoughtsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

Amrit Sandhu is the host and founder of the Inspired Evolution podcast, which has generated more than 30 million views. A former engineer turned purpose coach and astrologer, Amrit is known for exploring consciousness, spirituality, personal transformation and human potential. He is currently deepening his work in astrology and sharing how our astrological charts can help us understand our purpose and place in time.Today we discuss the profound acceleration and change Amrit believes humanity is entering. Astrology may help us understand the season ahead, but its real value is not simply in predicting the future — it is in helping us understand who we are, why we are here and how we choose to meet it.Throughout this episode, consider: to what end and what purpose?Those with ears, let them hear.Always love,RyanConnect with Amrit SandhuInspired Evolution Podcast: https://amritsandhu.com/podcastInspired Evolution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InspiredEvolutionInspired Evolution on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspired_evolution/Amrit Sandhu: https://amritsandhu.com/Connect with Always Better Than YesterdayWebsite: https://abty.co.uk/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alwaysbetterthanyesterdayuk/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abty/Join our mailing list: https://abty.co.uk/contactSign up for coaching: https://abty.co.uk/coachingPlease email questions and reflections to: podcast@abty.co.ukEpisode Chapters[00:00] Welcome Back, Amrit Sandhu[01:18] The Path of the Warrior Saint[02:39] To What End and What Purpose?[03:54] Why Are You Here?[05:18] Honouring Who Our Children Came Here to Be[06:05] What Is Coming Around the Corner for Humanity?[07:11] The Shift from Earth and Water to Air and Fire[10:25] What Is the Purpose of This New Era?[11:29] Amrit's Initiation into Astrology[12:07] Saturn, Purpose and the Pressure of Misalignment[16:31] Astrology and the Ancient Wisdom Keepers[18:26] Why Humanity Stopped Looking Up[20:13] How Do We Stay Grounded in Uncertain Times?[21:31] When the Search for Truth Fragments Us[22:20] Returning to Earth, Water, Air and Fire[25:11] Where Heaven and Earth Meet[27:53] Understanding the Masculine and Feminine[29:17] Destruction, Creation and a Changing World[32:40] What Are 30 Million People Searching For?[34:30] If Spirituality Had Another Name: Unity[36:04] Why Humanity Is Thirsting for Community[38:47] Finding Your Unique Place in the Whole[40:04] Can Everyday Life Be a Spiritual Practice?[42:33] The Spiritual Path of the Householder[49:52] Astrology, Free Will and What We Do with the Information[50:22] A Birthday Reading and Finding the Real Self[01:06:30] Amrit's Expanding Heartprint

Restlessness, dissatisfaction, the feeling that you're somehow in the wrong life... what is life telling you? Most people spend their entire lives asking the wrong question: 'What should I do?' The soul sees things differently. Until you shift your perspective, you are going to keep coming up against the same problems when it comes to your purpose. There's a reason spiritual teachers call it the 'dark night of the soul', and it almost always traces back to the same root cause. Today we're going to talk about what that is, and what to do about it." In this LIVE episode of Soul Elevation with Kara Goodwin, we explore one of the most powerful and fundamental questions you can ask: Does everyone have a life purpose? And what  actually happens when you don't live yours? We'll dive into: ✨ Does every soul arrive with a unique life purpose? ✨ How to know if you're already living your purpose ✨ What happens energetically, emotionally, and spiritually when you resist your calling ✨ Whether living your purpose is a requirement, and what the cost of ignoring it might be ✨ How to begin finding your purpose if you feel completely lost Handprint analysis episode with Richard Unger: https://www.soulelevationpodcast.com/251-discovering-your-lifes-purpose-a-profoundly-accurate-system-richard-unger/ ─────────────────────────────

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Violeta Bulc, former European Commissioner for Transport and coordinator of the book Leadership Challenged, featuring 24 authors from around the world. They explore the dangers of transhumanism, the misuse of artificial intelligence, and how Silicon Valley has lost its authority to lead on technology ethics. Drawing from her background as a computer engineer who worked in Silicon Valley, Bulc argues for creating global AI infrastructure with democratically agreed-upon standards—similar to how the early Internet was built. The conversation covers the manipulation of public consciousness, the importance of middle-class agency in social change, and why humanity needs to reclaim ownership of its collective knowledge before private enterprises consolidate total control. Bulc's book is available for free download at ecocivilization.earth.Timestamps00:00 Stewart introduces Violeta Bulc and her book Leadership Challenged, coordinated with 24 global authors discussing humanity's chance through better leadership approaches.05:00 Violeta explains her technology background and critiques artificial intelligence naming, arguing these are powerful data-processing tools without true intelligence, emphasizing unknown ethical standards embedded in AI systems.10:00 Discussion of transhumanism as investment buzzword serving elite agendas, comparing to previous Silicon Valley bubble while emphasizing humanity's unexplored relational, spiritual and energetic dimensions beyond industrial development.15:00 Stewart discusses mainstream culture's fragmentation since 2008, Silicon Valley's dystopian vision, and personal strategies for reducing dependency on AI tools through diversification and stepping back from reliance.20:00 Violeta explains historical civilization patterns and middle class destruction, expressing hope that emerging thoughts worldwide will eventually converge to shift current power dynamics and technological obsessions.25:00 Technology as tool versus misuse, emphasizing builders' responsibility and ethical frameworks needed, comparing AI regulation needs to automotive safety standards that weren't implemented early enough.30:00 Edward Bernays discussion revealing manipulation through public relations and psychological operations, leading to modern sock puppet armies used by nation states for narrative control online.35:00 Internet described as most democratic technological tool ever built, maintained by responsible groups preserving equality and inclusion principles through decentralized infrastructure and IP address accessibility.40:00 Proposal for global AI infrastructure with agreed rules treating applications as interfaces, questioning private enterprise ownership of humanity-generated data and advocating collective management with usage fees.45:00 Technology evolution patterns from mainframes to personal computing back to centralized cloud computing, emphasizing need to prevent domination while preserving entrepreneurship and collective decision rights.50:00 Quantum physics principles applied to human connection and responsibility, discussing EU ethical committees reviewing AI projects post-approval, emphasizing caring hearts over short-term quarterly corporate thinking.55:00 Violeta shares company transformation experiences moving away from competition models toward serving genuine market needs, concluding with book availability at ecocivilization.earth for free download.Key Insights1. Violeta Bulc argues that artificial intelligence is fundamentally misnamed because there is no actual intelligence within these systems. They are powerful computational tools capable of processing massive amounts of data and identifying patterns, but they lack genuine intelligence. What concerns her most is that this technology has owners with embedded interests and unknown ethical standards, yet society increasingly wants to build everything on these applications and even allow them to make decisions for us. She emphasizes that as someone with decades of experience in high-tech engineering, including work in Silicon Valley, she understands the architecture behind these systems and believes we must recognize them as tools rather than intelligent entities.2. During her time as European Commissioner, Bulc helped write the first European strategy on artificial intelligence, which included three critical elements she was proud of. First, there must always be a red button to switch off any application or technology when it causes harm. Second, there must be a responsible person behind every app who can be held accountable for its consequences. Third, there should be an ethical committee evaluating powerful applications to understand their potential consequences. Though these principles have been somewhat diluted over time, they represent an important framework for responsible technology development that prioritizes human oversight and accountability.3. Bulc observes that throughout human history, great civilizations have risen across all continents, not just in Europe or the Americas, and most brought themselves down through decadence, self-centeredness, and arrogance before being finished off by external forces. She believes Western civilization is currently at this point, having become accustomed to obtaining resources through force and authority while constantly readjusting moral standards to serve elite interests. The industrial revolution initially improved conditions for people because industry needed workers, which led to the emergence of a powerful middle class. However, the elite recognized that the middle class was the only segment of society truly interested in change, so they systematically worked to destroy it over the past twenty to thirty years.4. The Internet represents the most progressive democratic tool ever built in human society, according to Bulc. Its fundamental architecture, based on TCP IP protocol and packet switching, was designed to be non-hierarchical, allowing any computer with an IP address to be seen on the same level as powerful global corporations. The maintenance of Internet tables remains in the hands of people with high levels of awareness and responsibility who are faithful to its initial democratic mission. She had hoped this technology would bring the world together as the closest tool humanity has invented to support equality and inclusion, and despite the problems with applications built on top of it, the underlying infrastructure still maintains these democratic principles.5. Bulc proposes creating a global AI infrastructure with globally agreed rules and standards, similar to how the Internet functions. She argues that many AI tools currently claim ownership of humanity's knowledge, wisdom, and heritage without permission, manipulating data that rightfully belongs to all of humanity. Instead of allowing private enterprises to capture this data first and then charge people to access it, she envisions putting all of humanity's data into a commonly managed infrastructure with clear rules about who can use it, under what conditions, and with fees paid back to humanity. This approach would challenge the current fragmented network of privately owned data centers and restore collective ownership of human knowledge.6. The transhumanism movement represents an obsession rather than a thoughtful application of technology, in Bulc's view. She distinguishes between using transhumanism as a tool for exploring the universe under extreme conditions where humans cannot survive versus implementing it on Earth as a replacement for humanity. The fundamental problem is that the human characters building these machines and applications have questionable ethical models, and they will not allow the rest of humanity to coexist peacefully on the planet. She advocates for transhumanism to be used for space exploration while preserving Earth for humans who want to live as relational, spiritual, and social beings connected to the natural ecosystem.7. Bulc emphasizes that we must move beyond the competition model and think carefully about the consequences of our actions because humanity is too connected and interdependent to simply do things because we can. She applies three basic laws of quantum physics to everyday life: we are all connected and influence each other, the same ideas can emerge simultaneously around the world through entanglement, and the observer always makes a difference in any situation. The current rush to develop technology without pausing to assess consequences is a deliberate tool to prevent thinking, driven by fear of competition. However, her fourteen years of experience helping companies recover from financial trouble demonstrated that moving away from competition models and focusing on genuinely serving market needs creates sustainable, prominent players who work together with customers and local communities.

Today's Neville Goddard quote:“Because God has given all of us free will, you can choose the states you wish to occupy.””Creation is finished and you have free will to choose the state you will occupy.”Imagination Creates Reality"The important thing to bear in mind is that you have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no power to determine conditions and events. You can create nothing, but your assumption determines what portion of creation you will experience."The Power of AwarenessTT's Question:  Why is Free Will important?   (What's the one cause?)TT's Question 2:  Where does it end?  (There is no free will to do.)I've begun to incorporate being still into my method. Old problem shows up. First be still. Then imaginally experience the desired state. Do not go directly to the new state. How long should we be still before moving onto the imaginal experience?How did I imagine up being alone and lonely….  I keep imagining him with me, I am doing affirmations, visualizations and when he doesn't show up I….  I keep doing all the right things but the wrong thing keeps happening?TT note:  She imagines he has no free will.  That nobody else does in her reality.  Because you treat money as a big thing.And you' have a single size.What and how do I do imagine?; in October I and my best friend are going to Greece, on ”last minute trip” and I now read is how bad the reviews are about the hotel we are going to stay at.(we SHOULD read before we booked the trip, but at the time I was SO sure that this trip IS wonderful that I didn't) All I wanted was to remember this trips as a wonderful, lovely and FUN vacation with my friend. Because she is a queen and I AM also a queen.But I lost it after reading those bad reviews… Ann in Sweden Question: How to stay focused on your ideal (i.e., stay in state) when everyone/everything around you is spouting negativity (including your husband)? Thanks,MarieHello Twenty and Victoria!"I will not hear or accept anything but that which contributes to the noble concept that I hold of myself. I will see that I am secure, and maybe a headline will startle the world, but I will not accept it, for if I don't admit to it, it can't proceed out of me. For all things when they are admitted are made manifest, unless they are not  admitted. So. if I now will admit that using this moment as my moment to invest, if I am what reason denies, what my senses deny, and I proceed in that assumption, knowing that even though it doesn't confirm itself tonight or tomorrow, I will still live in the assumption that I am what I want to be and all day tune in and listen only for the good report. I know these are investments and tomorrow these dividend checks must come."Neville Goddard (Sound Investments)Manifesting is a movement…Within me. My desires come from…The deep of me. It is as though I throw out…An image before me…And proceed to step into it. In the moment of conception…I am fully Persuaded!The seed has its own plan…And power of fulfillment. Scripture declares…“For he that has entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.”My soul's satisfaction…Is in the SILENCE. In silence my soul sings…It's sacred song. There I fall so in Love with…My precious desire…Enchanted and intoxicated…I am moved by her image…Imagining is…Image-Ing…Made manifest. Looking forward to conversation with you all.  Thank you!  Lisa Jonathan via Email: Manifesting and StillnessLinda on Messenger:  I keep doing the right things but I manifest the oppositeAngie on fb:  "Why can't I manifest the big things or money?"Ann in MMD:  Using Memory as ImaginationMarie via Email:   Hubby is Negative Remarkable Lisa Ann LaRock: “Image Investment”

The monthly Men's Breakfast & Bible Study at OAG shared by our Men's Ministry Director, Gator Fort. ** Edited to remove extended pauses and personal information shared in the study **Title: No Middle GroundSummary: God calls us to full surrender — not a life lived on the fence — and He's given us the Holy Spirit, mercy, and grace to help us walk that out every day.Approximate Outline:00:00 - Welcome & Introduction01:35 - No Middle Ground with God03:45 - Satan Knows Your Weakness05:50 - The Help We Keep Forgetting08:30 - Mercy, Grace & Daily Surrender11:20 - David & Goliath: Coming in God's Name14:45 - Free Will & the Fence Story16:30 - A Friend Going Home to Glory17:55 - Closing: Make It Your Mission

Join me for a King Hero interview with Will Keller, who has passionately pursued many avenues of freedom, including reality itself.While Will is best known for teaching Natural Law, this conversation explores a different question:What does it even mean to be real?We'll look at the difference between reality and philosophy, reality and hope, reality and what we think should be, along with the very real experiences within the human psyche that are often overlooked.Inside this conversation, we'll explore:reality as a path to freedom (and what freedom even is)the relationship between Natural Law and lived experiencewhy so much of modern life is disconnected from realitythe human tendency to substitute ideals for direct experiencethe importance of recognizing what is actually happening within ourselveshow greater contact with reality can transform the way we livehow freedom and responsibility are connectedThe more clearly we see what is, the more consciously we can choose how to respond, be responsible, and gain greater freedom.Join us for a conversation about bringing attention back to what is, inside and out, and why that may be one of the most powerful acts of freedom available to us.About Will KellerWill Keller is a public speaker, educator, and freedom advocate dedicated to teaching Natural Law and the principles of morality, consciousness, and human freedom. Through presentations, podcasts, and educational content, his work bridges philosophy, metaphysics, and practical action, helping people better understand the human condition.As Will says:"It's not about watering down wisdom; it's about inviting everyone to drink from the well of knowledge."His work seeks to make profound ideas accessible, encouraging people to explore consciousness, morality, and the deeper questions of existence with clarity and curiosity.Learn more at:https://willkeller.com ***MORE FROM BETHSign up to take a 5-minute King Hero's Journey archetype quizApply to become a member of the House of Free WillRumbleKing Hero Telegram ChannelTwitter (X)InstagramSign up for a Hero's Journey Archetype ReadingOrder a copy of my book, ‘Journey: A Map of Archetypes to Find Lost Purpose in a Sea of Meaninglessness'Donate by PayPal if you're inspiredIf we're just meeting...I'm Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family's firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life's work and walk their Hero's Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

Lesley Logan and Brad Crowell recap the conversation with Julian Barnes, co-founder and CEO of the BFS Network and a leading voice on boutique fitness market data. They unpack what his numbers-first view of the Pilates business reveals about pricing, client commitment, and the confidence it takes to run a profitable studio. With twenty plus years guiding studio founders, Julian brings hard data to the soft topics most owners avoid. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:What it really means to sell the transformation not the process.How to help clients see the cost as an investment.Where courage and conviction change who becomes your client.Signs the Pilates bubble is bursting and what survives it.Stepping into your authority so clients commit and get results.Episode References/Links:OPC Membership - opc.me/beiteLevate Waitlist - xxll.co/waiitlisteLevate Replays - lesleylogan.co/elevateOPC Summer Tour (Powered by Balanced Body) - https://opc.me.tourOPC Flashcards - https://opc.me/flashcardsOPC Pilates Posters - https://opc.me/postersEp. 697 ft. Adrian Starks - https://beitpod.com/ep697Ep. 698 Adrian Stark Recap - https://beitpod.com/ep698Ep. 53 ft. 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You have to bring it back to the investment of the transformation they want to have, and how badly do they want to have that. Lesley Logan 0:13  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:55  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap on my coast in life. Brad and I are going to dig into the enlightening convo I had with Julian Barnes in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that interview, this will make a lot of no sense, because it was a different type of interview. It wasn't really an interview of what Julian does, it wasn't really a Be It Till You See It, it was very much a "let's talk about the Pilates industry." Brad Crowell 1:17  Yeah, it was an industry debrief. Lesley Logan 1:18  An industry debrief, and so. Brad Crowell 1:20  It was kind of cool, actually.Lesley Logan 1:22  Yeah, and I also, coming off of the recap of Adrian Starks, it made me even more aware of our purpose when it comes to Pilates business coaching. Because I don't know if Julian asked me this when we were on camera or off, but he was like, "You like helping these small studios?" And I was like, "Because that's what accessibility is." There's got to be different types of Pilates studios, because people need different things, and everyone shouldn't be in a 14-person class.Brad Crowell 1:48  Yeah.Lesley Logan 1:49  So, anyways, it's a really... if you are a Pilates instructor, or you have one, then they need to listen to both these episodes. After you listen to the amazing announcement of today, the holiday and the charity, and the other things, if you want to go off to an FYF or something else, I won't be offended. If you like the sound of this voice and you want to keep supporting it, and Brad, just the voice.Brad Crowell 2:12  Just the voice.Lesley Logan 2:13  You should be an OPC member. OPC is not for people who are obsessed with Pilates, I mean, it is, but it's really for people who just want easy access to real Pilates, and then a safe place to be imperfect, and to be themselves, and to be supported, and to be like, "It's okay if you missed a week, you're welcome back. We're all here for you." And if so, "Oh, you recover from injury. Oh, I had that one. Here are these things." It's where you get community support, and you're not alone. So, go to opc.me/40Brad Crowell 2:39  Yeah, actually, we got a new link for you. It's opc.me/beitLesley Logan 2:43  opc.me/beitBrad Crowell 2:45  B-E-I-TLesley Logan 2:47  B-E-I-T. I'm still waiting for my "just be it" things, given that everyone can distill people's shit around here. Why can't I just have "just be it"?Brad Crowell 2:59  I love that.Lesley Logan 3:01  It's okay, but we have "be it," and you can be it too, and you can be an OPC member while you're being it. I promise, I promise it helps. Today is July 9, 2026, and it's International Emergency Kit Day.Brad Crowell 3:13  That's right. It's Emergency Kit Day, y'all. This is a Boy Scout talking to you right now.Lesley Logan 3:18  Today is a day to raise awareness about being prepared when disaster strikes. An emergency kit, sometimes called a go-bag or disaster bag, is a portable kit that has essentials you and your family need to survive in case of emergency. They are easy to grab when you need to evacuate for whatever reason, usually a natural disaster. This day is a reminder to check your kit or build one today. It will make all the difference when an emergency happens. We have first aid kits, but that's what I thought this was, and it's clearly a go-bag, which we do not have, Brad.Brad Crowell 3:44  Yeah, we don't have. I don't have the movie duffel bag that's like, "Go, go, go," and you grab it on the way out the door, or the baby bag when someone is pregnant and has to run to the hospital, they got a bag ready. We probably could put one of those together. I think that would be wise. Don't let someone sell you a $300 go-bag. Put it together yourself.Lesley Logan 4:07  Just put it together. Just please put it together yourself. Photocopies of things are really great. If you learn anything from the fires of LA, it means you need to have copies of very important documents: birth certificates, passports, but also insurance policies, wills, whatever that is.Brad Crowell 4:24  I should digitize those and just put them.Lesley Logan 4:25  Can we have a digitized go-bag, Brad? Because I gotta be honest, we're gonna have to then remember where it is. Because I thought there's an emergency kit thing, and it was so funny, because you were asked if you had one recently by someone, and you're like, "Oh yeah," and I'm like, "Thank God they asked you, because if they had asked me, I'd be like, 'We don't have one.'"Brad Crowell 4:47  But not only that, if you have an emergency kit, go through it, because when was the last time you had it, or opened it, or used it? I went through ours, I don't know, six or 12 months ago, and I pulled everything out, and all the Band-Aids, the stickiness of the Band-Aids was just gone.Lesley Logan 5:03  Not sticky.Brad Crowell 5:04  Yeah, so I was like, "Oh wow, yeah, all this expired in 2005." So I got rid of all that and replaced everything. And then sure enough, somebody asked us, "Hey, do you have an emergency kit?" And I was like, "Yes," and I can stand by that everything is ready for you here. Yeah.Lesley Logan 5:23  And it's really funny because we actually have a really massive emergency kit in the bathroom by our studio in the house, and I was looking for Band-Aids in the bathroom that I get ready in every day. And then I was cleaning things up and getting ready for people to show up, and there's this massive Brad kit, and I was like, "Oh, we have a massive emergency kit," and I opened it up. No Band-Aids. Zero Band-Aids. That has not been updated. I'm like, clearly this is not a real studio, because. So go check your emergency kits, go create a digitized go-bag, because. Brad Crowell 5:56  We want a digitized go-bag, and then maybe a real one that's like, if you got to run out the door and you need a change of clothes or some shoes or something. This is notLesley Logan 6:02  This is not what the holiday is, what the holiday is, but there's that If I Die book. Have you seen this? I got asked for it on my Instagram. It's called If I Die or When I Die, and it's all these important things, and we should really fill that out.Brad Crowell 6:16  Everything You Need to Know Journal. If I Die.Lesley Logan 6:20  Brad's gonna find a digital one.Brad Crowell 6:21  I found it already. Yeah, well, this is a book, actually, by Christopher Lombardi. Collect all the information your loved ones will need to know at a difficult time. And he said, "When my father passed away, I wish I had such a book."Lesley Logan 6:35  Yeah, well, that's interesting. It's a little too much adulting for me in one day, but I like the idea of it.Brad Crowell 6:40  Yeah, there's also When I Die planners with pockets.Lesley Logan 6:44  Pocket.Brad Crowell 6:44  Yeah, that has little pockets in it.Lesley Logan 6:46  Oh, for things like my card, I have a card in Brad's office attached to the refrigerator from when my dad dies, a number to call for them to cremate him.Brad Crowell 6:54  Yeah.Lesley Logan 6:54  I know where the card is.Brad Crowell 6:56  I mean, there's even Reddit arguments about this: I made an "If I die" packet for my husband. My family is now calling me morbid for this effort. I think it's smart.Lesley Logan 7:05  It's incredibly smart, and it's not morbid. And you are gonna be... here's the thing, we talked about grief two weeks ago, had nothing to do with people, but we're just gonna bring it back up, when someone is dealing with the loss of a loved one, the last thing you need to figure out is the fucking password to your shit.Brad Crowell 7:22  Yeah.Lesley Logan 7:23  Don't do that to people. I'm watching The Pit, and that is a trap. You don't want to be dealing with that, plus what is their insurance? All that stuff. No, no, don't do that to people. And as I say this, Brad and I are hypocrites, because we have yet to sit down and do our fucking thing that his parents asked us to do three times, which is the DNR and the will thing, and all that stuff. So.Brad Crowell 7:48  There's a, we talked about this before, there's an organization called Free Will. Make your free will online.Lesley Logan 7:54  Okay, well. Brad Crowell 7:57  freewill.comLesley Logan 7:57  Well, this day just turned into a very helpful day, and my ADHD is really overwhelmed. Upcoming travel and events, you guys, eLevate 2027 is full, sold out, can't take another body, but you can join us today.Brad Crowell 8:13  You can join us today.Lesley Logan 8:17  At 1pm Pacific time.Brad Crowell 8:19  Is that 1pm? Lesley Logan 8:20  Yeah. Brad Crowell 8:20  I'm glad you know that.Lesley Logan 8:21  It's at 1 p.m. to learn about 2028 Elevate, and if you're like, "Well, Lesley, thanks, I'm going back to this on a different date," there's probably a replay up.Brad Crowell 8:31  Yeah, there'll be a replay. We'll put the replay up on the Elevate page, I'm sure.Lesley Logan 8:35  Go to xxll.co/waitlist, and if you missed it. Brad Crowell 8:40  Then go to lesleylogan.co/elevate and that's where the replay will be.Lesley Logan 8:45  Yeah, summer tour is really close, a few weeks away.Brad Crowell 8:49  OPC Summer TourLesley Logan 8:50  Yeah. Brad Crowell 8:50  Come join us in real life, I'm very excited.Lesley Logan 8:52  How many cities are we going to?Brad Crowell 8:53  13 or 14Lesley Logan 8:54  It's the reason we're recording prior to the announcement, so we don't know, but what I can say is it's probably mostly sold out, so you want to go to OPC. I can confidently say that.Brad Crowell 9:04  Yeah, I mean, we're getting close to.Lesley Logan 9:07  Well, because these are not conventions, these are literal pop-ups. These are small studios, we're talking small classes and workshops, and we do that so instead of having 50 people in a workshop, there's 25 and you can actually get to talk to me, and we get to take pictures, and we get to nerd out on Pilates. And the workshops are only 90 minutes. You don't have to take a whole day off, you can just take a part of a day off, and you get to be with other people. And Balanced Body is sponsoring our tour again, and so we'll have the Contrology equipment with us, plus some really fun prizes. So, opc.me/tour.Brad Crowell 9:41  opc.me/tour come join us.Lesley Logan 9:43  If you're new here.Brad Crowell 9:45  If you're new here.Lesley Logan 9:46  I make flashcards with Pilates exercises, and they have QR codes that take you to videos, and they have the setup and action on the back, and they have really cool tips that I gave you that are my words based on these things. If you like the way that I talk about Pilates, they're right there. And they've been edited by a contemporary trained teacher with contemporary women, and they've been edited by someone who's never done any of the stuff before. Shout out to the spine corrector, because after that, she wanted to buy one. So that's how good that deck is. So, go to opc.me/flashcards.Brad Crowell 10:12  Yeah, opc.me/flashcardsLesley Logan 10:15  And if you have the flashcards, do you know that we have posters, and you can get our posters at opc.me/posters? And you want to know something fun about the posters: we make no money on them. However, the shipping, because they're printed on demand, the shipping is cheaper because it's usually shipping to near you versus the flashcards, which come from us. By the way, my Aussies and my Canadians, we have distributors on the flashcards, so just reach out to us if shipping shocked the hell out of you. We have distributors in Australia and Canada.Brad Crowell 10:44  Yeah, awesome. Well, we used to do a question answer session here, but we're going to skip that. We've moved all the live Q&As over to YouTube for Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Pacific, and we shifted our focus here because we really like celebrating good works that other people are doing, and sharing about it with you all. Lesley Logan 11:06  Being more aware about things, just the different things that exist out there, and the different ways we can support things that might be of interest. And so July is actually an awareness month of a lot of awarenesses. So when I looked up July month.Brad Crowell 11:22  It's a month of awarenesses.Lesley Logan 11:23  Yeah, one of the things that July is an awareness month about is the ADA laws, and it's like a Disability Pride Awareness Month. It's also an awareness month of mental health awareness for minority communities.Brad Crowell 11:36  ADA for non-Americans, it's the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA. So, yeah, and that was a big fight that started in California many years back.Lesley Logan 11:45  Yes, I learned a lot about it. It's very impressive. Yeah, and so anyways, I wanted to highlight the mental health awareness for minority communities on today's episode, because last time we did a recap, we actually did talk about mental health, and I just thought it would be a perfect time to bring that up. This charity is Mental Health America, and they actually have a lot of information and support for BIPOC mental health specifically. And if you go to mhanational.org, they actually have a whole section, because they do have a lot of support for the BIPOC community. Culture, ethnicity, and race all play a large role in the way that each person experiences the world and the types of mental health support that they may need. MHA's online BIPOC Mental Health Resource Center offers a wealth of information and tools to bring light to the unique experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities and empower and uplift BIPOC individuals on their mental health journeys. And I just thought that this is a really cool resource in case you need it, or there's someone that you know who needs it. Because the reality is, is that if you have had a different experience in this world, having a therapist or someone who can understand that is important, and it's key. And I just think that, how cool that there are people who are making sure that resource is easy to find. They'll have blog posts, but they actually have a whole resource page where you can find someone and find some help near you, especially with the shit going on in the world right now. Specifically in the US, I know we have a lot of international listeners, but they just fucked with the Voting Rights Act one more time.Brad Crowell 13:15  Yeah.Lesley Logan 13:16  And we are back to Jim Crow era shit, and it sucks, because the answer to all this is that we all have to vote in November in a way that tells them to fuck off, but also, people of color have been trying to do that for a really long time. You and I were listening to what's his name, that amazing senator from Georgia, who's a reverend, and he's like, "I lived my whole life under that act, and now my children have to fight..."Brad Crowell 13:44  Raphael WarnockLesley Logan 13:45  Raphael Warnock. "My children have to fight for their rights," and I just...Brad Crowell 13:50  Yeah, I mean, it's.Lesley Logan 13:51  Top of life.Brad Crowell 13:52  It's fascinating to hear him talk about that, where he's like, you know, I don't know how old he is, but he's an adult, he's a senator, he's been a pastor for a long time. He has two kids who are younger than 10 years old, and he said, "For me, because of the changes that happened in the '60s, I actually grew up in a more equitable time that allowed me to become a senator as a person of color," and he said, "Unfortunately, my kids are not going to have that."Lesley Logan 14:23  And what they're doing in Tennessee, where they just literally got rid of the one Black Congress person, just terrible stuff. And that's all just... even if you're like, "Well, that's politics," well, politics affects life, and on top of that, if your job and all these different things just becomes really heavy, we need to make mental health support seem like the same thing as you're gonna go get new toothpaste, or you get your things done, like you go to the dentist for cleaning twice a year, we go three. Mental health support needs to be as routine and normal as all of that, and also if you're BIPOC community, I think it's important that you have people who understand what you're going through, because it is different.Brad Crowell 15:05  Yeah.Lesley Logan 15:05  And you're not alone. So, hopefully, mhanational.org resource helps you. If not, and there are other ones out there that you want us to highlight, please send it in. We would love to do that. We'd love to use the platform to do that to help people who need that.Brad Crowell 15:19  Yeah, so leave us a voicemail, 310-905-5534, or you can also share your wins for our Friday pod at beitpod.com/questions. Brad Crowell 15:31  Let's talk about Julian Barnes. Julian is the co-founder and CEO of the BFS Network, the company behind the most comprehensive market research in the boutique fitness industry. He spent 20-plus years helping fitness and wellness businesses build the structure and strategy they need to grow, and he works directly with CEOs and founders of multi-location studios across the country. He brings a data-driven, numbers-first perspective to the work of building a profitable studio.Lesley Logan 15:59  Yeah.Brad Crowell 16:00  And it's really interesting too, because I mean, his background is law, and then he... I don't remember exactly how he got into fitness, but. Lesley Logan 16:07  He told the whole story. It's very weird how he got into it, but. Brad Crowell 16:10  He told us his story, but it wasn't, it was when we were.. we were talking about.Lesley Logan 16:15  Oh, sorry guys, it was definitely at dinner, but it was like, "Oh, he was helping this out, then he did this thing, there was his trainer." It's really kind of cool. Too bad that that's not on the pod, because it doesn't matter, because that was not what he wanted to talk about. But it really went along with Adrian Starks's finding your purpose kind of a thing. So, at any rate, just know that Julian is the evidence of doing that. If you listened two weeks ago, you know, it's interesting, because a lot of people think that studios are only studios if they have multiple teachers and group classes and things like that, and I think.Brad Crowell 16:47  Maybe the word "legitimate studio," right? Because they are still obviously a studio, a real studio, or whatever.Lesley Logan 16:55  But you and I see a studio as anything where a teacher is teaching in, and that studio could be a one-person show.Brad Crowell 17:03  Yeah.Lesley Logan 17:04  And that person can teach small groups and groups and things like that. And so it was interesting to hear the different ways that, in air quotes, legitimate studios are doing things, the numbers they have. But on the non-data side, one of the things I love that he said was there's no transformation without the transaction, and this is really important, because for any business owner who is listening to this, people don't buy your process. I'll just be really honest with you, please don't tell them your process, no one cares. But they cannot get the transformation they want to have, the goal they want to achieve, without paying you the investment of what that is, that's just part of the deal. If they want to have better posture.Brad Crowell 17:45  There's no transformation without the transaction, yes, but let's, before we go further on that, can we take a step back? What do you mean specifically? What's an example of "don't sell the process"? Because how are people actually making a mistake with that? Lesley Logan 18:02  What does thatlook like? They're saying, "We have classes on three days a week at 10 a.m. and your package of six sessions allows you to come two times a week." That's selling the process, right? "You come three days a week at 10 a.m." or "Mat classes are at 6 o'clock" or "At our studio, we have mat, semi-private, and private sessions on the Cadillac Tower." All of that's process. It's overwhelming information. It's words that they don't want to hear.Brad Crowell 18:30  It doesn't even mean anything to them.Lesley Logan 18:31  Even if they know what most of that stuff is. That's not what they actually care about. They care that you understand the problem that they have and where they want to grow, and that you are excited and a trustworthy person for that, and I think where a lot of people. Brad Crowell 18:50  And that's what they will pay for.Lesley Logan 18:51  Yeah, as well. Yoga Works doesn't exist anymore, it's a perfect example. Their entire advertising model was "first two weeks free, your first two weeks are free." That's a process, right? They were not selling "get meditated in 14 days or less" or "de-stress from traffic," right? They weren't selling what you were gonna gain from doing the yoga for two weeks, whereas if they had actually talked more about how you would feel when you left the yoga class.Brad Crowell 19:29  Sure.Lesley Logan 19:30  I think more people would take them up on that for two weeks free, because it's like, "Wow, two weeks free, this class must be full." No, they weren't, and they're not in business. But I see this all the time in people posting about their Pilates stuff: "Hey, I've got, I'm opening up two spots on Mondays and Wednesdays." Unless someone already trusts you, that's unhelpful. Launa Jae, who's been on our show, has done this really well: "Hey, I'm opening in two weeks, I'm moving four spots for women over 40 who are tired of yo-yo dieting, and they want to actually make a change that lasts a lifetime."Brad Crowell 20:03  Right.Lesley Logan 20:03  You can hear the difference, right? "I'm accepting four new clients," or "In two weeks I will have four spots available for this type of person."Brad Crowell 20:11  Yeah.Lesley Logan 20:12  That is listing the transformation someone's gonna have. She doesn't say, "And when you sign up, you'll have to do eight weeks of macro counting." No, she's not saying that, because no one wants to do that. That's too much information. Yeah, and then we get this a lot, because people will say, "Pilates is too expensive." People have been saying Pilates is too expensive since it was fucking cheap. People have been saying Pilates is too expensive since I started teaching, and people weren't even charging $1 a minute, right, for a private session. But you have to understand that if people are making decisions based on cost, they will always do that. You have to bring it back to the investment of the transformation they want to have, and how badly do they want to have that? Brad Crowell 20:51  Yeah, that's the shift.Lesley Logan 20:52  Some people don't actually want to pay the investment that the transformation would cost, so those people will always be looking for a deal, constantly frustrated. They're the ones who are buying this silly tool this week, and the next thing over here, they're bouncing around. But there are people when, if you reframe it to the investment for what you want to achieve, as Julian said, the investment you want to achieve for your desired goal is going to be one of time and money, right? So you change the word to investment, and then in doing that, you're going to shift the mindset from cost to investment, right? Which is a really good shift you want to make in someone's brain, because they invest in things all day long. They invest time in scrolling on their Instagram, they invest time in being in traffic, they invest time on a lot of different things. So, how can we shift the investment of time and money to something that actually works for them? When I was teaching mat classes only, and I was trying to get people in them, I would say, "Stop spending time in traffic, spend that hour in Pilates and get home in 20 minutes after,"Brad Crowell 21:54  Right.Lesley Logan 21:54  So I had people literally come to my mat class two nights a week that I had it, and they loved it, because instead of sitting in traffic for 90 minutes, they did an hour of Pilates, and then it takes them 25 minutes to get home, same amount of time, but they actually got a transformation to go with it. So really shifting that mindset. And then when people do ask for discounts, you have to have some confidence in the product that you have. I keep telling our agency members, "You need to have courage and conviction in what you do," and that also means telling people how they have to be to be a client of yours. My trainer has so much courage and conviction, she is like, "You cannot be a client of mine if you can't commit to this many times." Yeah, and I really do think that if a lot more Pilates instructors said that, yes, they might have fewer clients in the beginning, but I actually think they would have more later, because the transformation of their clients that they're getting would get them more clients.Brad Crowell 22:44  Yeah, I think this is a perfect transition into what I was hoping to talk about, which is... there was a moment where he was talking about Steve Jobs and the iPhone, right? And he's like, he wasn't like, "Hey, do you think it'd be cool if maybe you guys might want..." none of that. It was like, "Hey, check out this amazing tool that we built that's gonna change your lifeLesley Logan 23:07  Yeah.Brad Crowell 23:07  radically," right? And he said, so he was talking about confidence, right? And there's a difference between polling your audience and getting feedback, and how do you present the thing that you sell or do, right?Lesley Logan 23:21  Absolutely certain that there were NDAs signed of people who were looking at the iPhone before we got it. Brad Crowell 23:27  Yeah, but Julian pointed out that you have to be confident enough that the universe will present you what you need when you need it, riht? Lesley Logan 23:35  Yeah.Brad Crowell 23:36  And that is a scary thing. That is the "leap and the net will appear" kind of approach, right? And obviously, that's definitely something that gets severely tested, and Julian acknowledged that, for sure, especially when you have financial needs, and the wrong clients are coming through your door, but saying... y'all were talking about clients, and the clients that will stay with you for the long haul or not, right? And it's always a scramble at first, like we'll take anybody who comes in the door, but what if our messaging, like we were just talking about, was attracting the correct person who we want to serve and is excited to get the transformation? Yeah, they're going to stay with you way, way longer. And I am... I don't know if you picked up on it if you listened to the interview, but I was so proud because we had a bunch of agency members fill out his big questionnaire, and he compared agency members' stats against the industry stats. And what he said was that agency members retain their clients longer. Yeah, and I was really, really excited to hear that.Lesley Logan 24:49  Yeah and it's because our Agency members, even their process to become a client of theirs sets them up so that they're not getting these crazy wackos that just want to bounce from place to place. They are actually set up to make sure that they are the right client, they're advertised in the right place. One of our members is actually changing her website to being specifically their Pilates studio for women over 40.Brad Crowell 25:15  Cool.Lesley Logan 25:15  Right? Because she's like, "I'm tired of getting calls from 20-year-olds who are comparing me to this other studio over here. That's not what we offer. And even if they can't afford my intro offer, they don't like the classes because they're not for Pilates princesses." And it's like, right. So, there are women who are fucking tired, like, "I want to go to Pilates, but all these Pilates princesses are pictured." And so this client of ours has women over 40 pictured. That's going to matter so much to them, right. And so I am so proud of our agency members. They have solid businesses, and you have a business you can depend on, you're not going off what the trends are. And I really think that right now the Pilates bubble is bursting in several ways. One, Hailey Bieber just announced that too many studios are out there, and they're crappy teachers. Hailey Bieber wrote this. And then The Guardian did an entire article about how people are getting hurt all the time doing Pilates. And here's the thing: if you were doing real Pilates, you could not get hurt if you were actually ready for the exercise that you're doing. Most of the time, people are getting injuries because they're in large group classes that are not on real reformers, and or their teacher was not trained thoroughly enough, and so the teacher's boss is all about how fun the class is and how entertained and how packed the classes are versus the results that they're getting. And I think Julian would back me up on this. Going back to the transformation you want to have and the investment you have to have: I have to get you that transformation, which means you have to show up, but I have to have the teachers that are quality. And so I actually think between the recession that we are all expecting to show up and the fact that people are not going to see the results they want by studios where the people aren't trained fully.Brad Crowell 27:04  Yeah.Lesley Logan 27:05  I do see the pendulum swinging now. How far is it? It's not going to swing that far if you are a solid studio that truly knows what you're doing and why you do it, and you're not begging people to take class for you by offering it for free, but instead you're like, "If you want to participate here, here's how often you have to come, here's the transformation we can provide you, and here's how we do that." You come every other week, I can't get you shit.Brad Crowell 27:26  Yeah, and being real with them. That's where that confidence comes into play, having the confidence to know that the universe will present you what you need when you need it. I remember trying to convince clients, I remember how much time I spent trying to convince clients that we were the right agency for them, or coaching group for them, or web development company for them, or whatever. And it always felt like I'm really good at that, but then we would land a client and they were just the fucking worst client. They never delivered the photos that they said that they had, or they never gave me copy, and so ultimately I'd start this project, we would take a deposit, start the project, and then get stuck, right? Or we would have clients come in, they'd pay us one time for coaching, and then they would never participate, and then they would disappear. And that just felt like such a waste of effort on both our time and theirs.Lesley Logan 28:25  Totally.Brad Crowell 28:26  That time payment didn't feel worth it. It certainly wasn't satisfying. We didn't help them, right? And so.Lesley Logan 28:31  It's also why we've even changed how agency operates now, because it definitely is only attractive to people who are willing to actually do the work.Brad Crowell 28:39  Yeah.Lesley Logan 28:39  You have to do the work. You can't just do calls with me or Brad every quarter and whine and whatever, and then go, "Well, I got this action, I can go make a checklist, and I can feel like I did something new." No, Agency now requires you to ask a lot of questions, put your problem in there, go watch a course, come to an office hour, ask which course to watch, ask what next steps to take, like, you actually have to do the action. And the reason I love that more, even though it's definitely not a sexier sell, is that what we do actually fucking works. I know that, and the people who've listened to us have been with us for years, and when they do the work, it works. Period, end of story. And we recently were at an event, and I saw one of our ex-Agency members who paid because they wanted the transformation, but didn't want to do the work. And then this person would also do the things I said not to do all the time, and then they would come back with a problem. And it's like, "Okay, with the contract you've already signed, there's not a lot I can do, because you made a contract without asking our opinions, and then you signed it." And that person is like, "Yeah, I've just been so overwhelmed, and I'm closing these two studios, I'm doing this, I'm just downsizing a lot." And I just wanted to go, "I fucking told you." Yeah, but here's the thing: I have courage and conviction in how we coach and who we are for, and I know what we can do with people who will do the work. And that means, though, you have to also have courage and conviction in what you offer as a studio. And if that means telling someone, "I actually don't work with clients who are in and out every single week, unless they're gonna do homework, and if you're gonna do homework, it means you have to do it three to four days a week." You have to tell people, "I just don't work with those people, because I don't want to take your money, that's dirty money." Any studio that takes your money and tells you that they can get you what you want, and you're only going to come in once a week or every couple of weeks, is lying to you. If you educate people on that, I'm telling you, you will get a great client. And here's why I can tell you this with my own courage and conviction, with another story: I used to sell a teacher training program for Equinox, and I would always ask people, "Where are you in your research process? Oh, I'm the first person you're talking to? Great, let me explain to you how training programs are not apples to apples. Let me explain to you what it is that you need to be looking for, what questions to be asking." By the way, these are all in my book. "What questions to be asking, what you need to be experiencing, what these things are. When you go and look to other places, I want you asking these questions, because if they don't have answers that work with your life, it does not matter the price, you will be stuck. So I can tell you right now, based on the local programs that I know that exist, we are more expensive on paper, but here's where we solve a lot of those problems. Why don't you go back, do your research, call me back, let's do another thing." I could follow up with them, and there'd be people who say, "You're too expensive, that's too much time, I can't make blah blah blah." And then they would come back and they'd sign up, because they would go do the research, and they would realize that on paper, while we're more expensive, we actually have more things. So you have to have that with people, because if someone's gonna price shop, they're gonna price shop, but I can tell you why. "Oh, well, we're more expensive than them because we're three people, not 12." Hello, educate them. They don't know.Brad Crowell 31:53  Yeah, they don't know. Lesley Logan 31:55  So you're getting resentful of them, but they don't know what they don't know. You have to say.Brad Crowell 31:58  Yeah can also say something like, "Our teachers have 600 hours of certifications under their belt," or something like that.Lesley Logan 32:04  Yeah, when people would do that when we were at the studios, like, "Oh, well, this is more expensive than the Pilates across the street." "Yeah, well, those teachers can only teach on one item, they can only teach on a Reformer, and that's all they're trained on. These are comprehensively trained teachers. These people did at least nine months to a year of training, they spent $8,000-plus, and they have access to all this equipment to get you the goals you want. But if you have to go off of that investment, I get it, go do it over there." Anyways, well, I could keep talking for hours, but we should get to the Be It Action Items, because clearly, I love Julian's data, and I love that we can help people. Knowing what the data is really helps us understand where they are in their business and what they have to focus on. Because you're not going to focus on new clients and retention at the same time. If you have great retention, you don't need new clients.Brad Crowell 32:51  Right.Lesley Logan 32:52  You know, you don't need as many anyways. Okay.Brad Crowell 32:54  Yeah. Well, stick around, we'll be right back. All right. So, finally, let's talk about those Be It Action Items: what bold, executable, intrinsic, or targeted action items can we take away from your conversation with Julian Barnes? He said on client commitment and transformation, Julian said that the first step in the transformation is transforming your daily routine. He emphasized that people need to adopt a new routine, one that says, "I'm coming on Tuesday morning, Thursday after work, and Saturday morning. I'm committed to this change," right? For studio owners, you are more likely to be successful if you present a prescription that gives your client the opportunity to adopt a new routine from day one.Lesley Logan 33:41  Yeah.Brad Crowell 33:41  Right? Like, think about it, if you've got a person coming in the door and you try to get them to make a change, let's say you've had a client for a really long time, and then you try to get them to make a change, do they make the change? Very rarely, right? People get annoyed at change, they get frustrated at change, they like what they like, they like what they have. But if you set that precedent right out of the gate, this is how people get change here.Lesley Logan 34:08  Yes, right, I love that. Well, also, I had a client who was always late, and they'd always apologize, and I had a client before them and after them, and I never gave them more time, and they weren't asking. I said, "Hey, don't apologize to me. This is on you. If you only want a 45-minute session, I have no problem with that. But if you want the full session, you have to ask yourself why you don't feel worthy enough to have a full session so that you can figure out how you have to leave work early. But that's the change you have to make. It has to be based on what you want, it can't be on me." And you know what? She was never late again.Brad Crowell 34:41  Yeah, it's a great example, because what Julian said, which I thought was kind of snuck in there again, he said, "Keep your power."Lesley Logan 34:52  Yeah.Brad Crowell 34:53  Right? We have power. The power is that we are the authority figure, right? And I mean, not in a tyrant kind of a way, but you can say to someone, "This is how it works here, this is how we see people have success here, and this is what we recommend for you."Lesley Logan 35:10  I think we'll just go into my action takeaway, which is like, if you're actively listening to what they have to say, you literally hear what they are, and you use those words, and you connect them to how your services are offered, then you have to step into the authority, because they came to your house.Brad Crowell 35:26  Yeah.Lesley Logan 35:26  If this person came to your house, and you are a "no shoes in the house" person, would you just go, "I guess I'll let them wear shoes"? No, this is a no-shoes house, right? It's a no-shoes house. So, if you are like... I always tell people, take my shoes off, we don't, but you're the person who does, how come you can't be that at the business where you actually are an authority? This is where, I think a lot of people have doubt about the benefits that they can have, because they themselves have forgotten their own practice.Brad Crowell 35:53  Sure.Lesley Logan 35:54  And they themselves have not made any clients actually have consistency, and so they're not actually having the benefits to back up their power. But you have 100 years of Joe Pilates's work working to go off of. So if you are a new teacher, you have 100 years, literally 100 years. This is the year, this year is 100 years that he came to the United States to go off of this, and then you go... I'll give you the advice that I was given, and we'll wrap this up. My first week as a teacher at a studio at Equinox, this teacher said to me, "The best advice they can give you is to get one client and make them your own, like, make them obsessed with you, and you'll have all the clients." And I made those clients obsessed with me, and they did start getting results, results that they weren't getting with their other Pilates instructor, because I got them from... right, because that other Pilates instructor let them come and go. So, please, I was like, "Nope, you have to make up that session you're about to miss next Sunday. I'll see you on Friday. Let's do it. Let's go. I'll make the time." And it's because, one, I need the money, but two, I listened to that advice, and that advice gave me conviction and authority to sit here today and tell you, if you make people be consistent, they get results.Brad Crowell 37:05  Yeah.Lesley Logan 37:06  So be the boss. They came to you.Brad Crowell 37:08  Yeah, they came to you. Don't give away your power.Lesley Logan 37:11  If you need help with that, if you need these pep talks, you should just go to agency.Brad Crowell 37:15  Yeah, this couldn't be an easier segue here. Lesley Logan 37:19  I mean, so profitablepilates.com/agency go there. We have for sure, at the time that we're recording this, one amazing way to work with us. It's quite possible the second way, which is a secret, is available. I'm not sure.Brad Crowell 37:31  It's possible.Lesley Logan 37:32  possible. And if you don't see it, then you book a call with Brad, and you ask him which one is best for you and what's going on there. But we can help you. We can help you.Brad Crowell 37:40  We can certainly support you with these things.Lesley Logan 37:42  Yep.Brad Crowell 37:42  And you can keep your clients longer, too.Lesley Logan 37:44  Yeah, you get all the benefits that our clients get.Brad Crowell 37:47  Yeah.Lesley Logan 37:47  And also, guess what? You get a predictable, boring business, which is so nice. Go be entertained by your streamers, not by your business. Okay, life's stressful enough. I don't need an up and down on my business to be what's going on, what I'm going my vibes off of. Okay, I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell 38:04  And I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 38:05  Thank you so much. I hope this was fun. It was an interesting deep dive into the industry, and Julian, his company does some really great work that is on the data. So, BFS is the company. We'll put the links in the show notes. Share this with a Pilates instructor friend who needs to hear it.Brad Crowell 38:21  Yeah.Lesley Logan 38:22  And until next time, Be It Till You See It.Brad Crowell 38:24  Bye for now.Lesley Logan 38:26  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. 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Holographic Reality, DNA Memory & Future Timelines with Geraldine Orozco | Soul Elevation Join Kara Goodwin as she hosts Geraldine Orozco, who explores the holographic universe and how our DNA, through epigenetics, influences memory recall. This discussion offers fascinating insights into the creation of our reality and helps us understand consciousness on a deeper level. Discover how our experiences shape our perception in this thought-provoking episode. Geraldine shares her background in meditation, Qi Gong, pranic healing, hypnotherapy, and epigenetic psychotherapy, describing a 2013 retreat that led her to recover memories from the womb and ancestral lineage, followed by a multidimensional experience involving tall ET beings and consciousness travel to the Pleiades.  She explains emotions as bioelectrical charges that store and crystallize trauma, how healing involves alchemizing memories to a neutral "zero point," and links these ideas to morphogenetic fields, wave genetics, and bioelectrical memory research.  We also discuss the "matrix" construct of reality, the three bloodlines that created our human origins, free will, and two future timelines spanning transhumanist technocracy versus regenerative, nature-aligned technology and energy medicine. https://www.geraldineorozco.com/ 

The illusion of free will, transcendent states of being, the fear of death, and falling into the void. Listen/Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EJ24PF8naME Sam Harris on the Illusion of Free-Will: https://youtu.be/7t_Uyi9bNS4?si=x2lX_GWWSUEmMZCK Sam Harris Describes Concepts Discussed in this Video: https://youtu.be/0dwD6XQ9Tsw?si=WJYqLUQYb7P60TJZ&t=245 If you're interested in listening or sharing audio reflections throughout the day, join us on discord: https://discord.gg/uZ4Jx9mddy Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethemindseye1 Website: https://insidethemindseye.com/

What happens when you realize no one is coming to do what you know needs to be done?In this King Hero interview, I'm joined by Ben of Cambridge, whose path led him from quiet observation to direct action during the rollout of 5G technology in the UK.After researching the technology for himself and concluding that it posed serious concerns, Ben chose to act. He equipped himself with the evidence he believed he needed to stand on firm legal ground, taking responsibility for his own decisions and accepting the consequences that followed.His actions resulted in two arrests and no charges being laid, reinforcing his conviction that ordinary people can learn, prepare, and stand for what they believe.Our conversation, however, goes beyond activism.We'll explore the inner journey that accompanies taking meaningful action—the place where fear, purpose, courage, and trust intersect.Inside this episode, we discuss:what inspired Ben to take actionpreparing to stand in law and personal responsibilitythe experience of being arrested and what it taught himthe relationship between fear and couragdiscovering purpose through lived experiencelearning to trust silence and inner guidancehow the Hero's Journey unfolds when no path has been laid before youEvery Hero's Journey reaches a point where certainty disappears and something deeper begins to lead.About BenFor Ben, that place became silence.Join us for a conversation about courage, responsibility, purpose, and the unexpected gifts that can emerge when we trust the path unfolding before us.Ben from Cambridge, UK, decided to take action against the rollout of 5G technology in his local area when he realized no one else was going to do it for him. After researching what he believed were the dangers of the technology being installed and concluding that it was military weapons technology, he prepared himself with the evidence he believed was necessary to defend his actions in law.He was arrested twice and not charged, an experience that strengthened his belief that others can also learn to stand on informed conviction.Following a profound dark night of the soul and a period of purposelessness, Ben came to recognize the gifts hidden within his journey. Today he speaks about allowing fear to become a guide rather than something to escape, and about finding purpose through direct experience.Stay tuned about his adventures:https://t.me/TrustTheSilenceFor more from Beth, her books, her social media links, Telegram Groups, and to apply to become a member of the House of Free Will Ministry visit: https://linktr.ee/bethmartens If we're just meeting...I'm Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family's firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life's work and walk their Hero's Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

The nickel rabbit hole goes deep.That's one reason Dr. Garrett Smith has spent more than 34 hours live streaming on the subject and he's not done lol.If that feels overwhelming, this episode is for you.Returning guest Dagmar Stansova and I are getting together to share the highlights, our own experiences, practical tips, and the basics of nickel detox to help you get oriented.For those who are serious about improving their health, nickel toxicity is a topic that deserves attention.In Part 2 of Get De-Nickeled, we'll explore:How to get through detox symptoms, including some favourite bindersThe lowest-nickel foods and where to source themNickel in tobacco, hard liquor, wine, and beerHow nickel feeds bacteria, fungus, and moldHow nickel increases ammonia production and what you can do about itHow to mitigate—or celebrate!—nickel fartingNickel's effect on neurotransmittersThe connection between nickel and body fatWhy quantity and body size matter when it comes to nickelHow long it takes to detox enough nickel to notice improvementsHow to decide whether a low-nickel diet is right for youWith Special Guest: Dagmar Stansova⁠Dagmar returns to compare notes, share what's been working, and help make this complex topic easier to understand and apply.Whether you're just discovering nickel toxicity or you're already well into the process, we hope you join in this conversation!⁠>> Message me

Anthony Freda drew one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in advertising history — and illustrated the op-ed pages that helped sell a war. He was paid extraordinarily well to move product, opinion, and entire populations. Then he walked away.In this episode, Dr. Roger McFillin sits down with the illustrator-turned-whistleblower to trace the hidden machinery of persuasion — from Edward Bernays and the "engineering of consent" to the four simple tools used to manufacture belief, sell wars, and convince a nation that its own sickness was health. But this conversation doesn't stop at media criticism. What begins as an insider's confession becomes something far stranger: a story about fear as a weapon, technology as a delivery system, and a spiritual war most people never realize they're inside.

From the time I was little, at home and in school, I was taught to respect our country, be thankful for freedom, honor the flag, and proudly sing “God Bless the USA”. I still do that today. In this episode of The Woman Inspired Podcast we talk about the importance of having internal freedom to follow the Lord's call, and the responsibilities that come with that as well as the blessings and responsibilities that come from living in the USA. I hope you'll tune as we talk about Freedom and Free Will. 1 Peter 2:16 says, “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”  That's my hope and prayer for all of us today. I pray we will choose to live as God calls us to live, and not as an ally of evil. To tune into this episode go to: For more encouragement, Biblical insight, testimony, humor, and inspiration, tune in to The Woman Inspired Podcast! Please like, share, follow, and download. You can listen to this and all episodes by going to: https://womaninspired.org/podcasts  OR searching for The Woman Inspired Podcast on your favorite app: Audible, iHeart, Apple, Podbean, and all quality podcast apps. To connect with Karen on social media: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@karenmccracken  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/1womaninspired/?hl=en  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/womaninspired  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AWomanInspired #freedom #freewill #karenmccracken #thewomaninspiredpodcast 

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Finding enlightenment; Knowledge as a source?; Letting God into your heart and mind; DEI and meritocracy; Requiring ID?; The WORD of God - right reason; The WAY of Christ; Inspiration; Subjection to your choices; "No Kings"?; Networking; Christ's commands; "Corban"; Scillitan martyrs; Natural Law vs Civil Law; Waiting upon the Lord; Seeking the kingdom and righteousness of God; "Born again"; Tribalism; Personal comfort and self-righteousness; Meditation and prayer; Living in the way of Christ; Saturninus; Contracting with the United States; Intelligent design; Motherhood?; Patriarchy?; Who's your daddy?; Learning History; Gathering in Tens, Hundreds and Thousands; Repentance; Mental influences; Socialism - one purse; Becoming merchandise; North African Christians; Pure Religion; Lawmakers?; "We The People"?; Asking "AI"?; Saturninus trial of Christians; August Caesar - Commander-in-Chief; Julius Caesar story; Making war profitable; Nuances of History; Appetites for benefits degenerating the people; Caesar's other office = "Son of God"; Legal charity; Justin's apology explaining their religion; Deacons; Bishops; Modern "church" dependency on world government; Christian social welfare; Temples; Debasing currency; Public vs Private relation; Fornication and Adultery; "Gemini" AI - Rome vs early Church; Capitalism; Rome judging Christians as evil; Relying 100% on Pure Religion; Sitting in darkness; Getting back to the light; Trust in the Lord; Curae inonae; "gods"; Lacking morality; Biting our neighbors; Caring for parents; 10-family synagogues; Pax Romana; Genius; Walking in forgiveness; Rulers choosing for you; Returning every man to possessions and family; Allegiance; Salvation; James 1:27; AI defining Pure Religion; Coercion of the State; Collective darkness; Freewill offerings; Agape love/charity; Free bread and circuses; Emperor's right to behead the Christians?

"All the world's a stage."This familiar quote has many layers of meaning, and this week Micah Ellars returns to Beth of Fresh Air to unpack them with me.The stage has become a powerful symbol in our culture. It's a place where our attention is drawn outward, toward the performers and away from ourselves.In freedom movements, the word actor has even become synonymous with liar, as many people recognize the role performance plays in politics, media, and public life.But what if the stage isn't only "out there"?What if the stage also exists within our daily lives and communities?And what if the patterns that allow staged deception to flourish are already embedded in our own psychology?What We'll ExploreThe symbolism of the stageWhy performance has such power over attentionActing, identity, and illusionHow staged deception worksThe role archetypes play in our perceptionHow we can reclaim the stage for conscious creationWith Special Guest: Micah EllarsMicah brings his unique perspective as a filmmaker, acting coach, and teacher of Gurdjieff's work to explore the deeper meaning of the stage.Together we'll look at how acting can serve illusion, and how it can also become a powerful tool for self-remembering, conscious expression, and transformation.Join us for a fresh look at the stage, the roles we play, and what becomes possible when we begin to see the performance clearly.>> Message me

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Know Yourself, Move With the Moment: Aleksandra Ceho on Astrology, Timing, and Free Will Listener Offer This episode of Conversations with a Chiropractor is supported by Lemongrove Oil. Visit Lemongrove Oil and use coupon code DRSTEPHANIE at checkout to save 10% on your next order. This offer is exclusive to Conversations with a Chiropractor listeners. Lemongrove Oil: https://www.lemongroveoil.com/ Episode Description In this episode of Conversations with a Chiropractor, Dr. Stephanie Wautier sits down with Aleksandra Ceho, a master of astrology, martial arts, tarot, and Hermetic philosophy. Aleksandra's work helps entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, and high-performing individuals better understand themselves, their timing, and the cycles that may be influencing their personal and professional lives. Rather than presenting astrology as a fixed prediction of fate, she describes it as a tool for self-knowledge, growth, strategy, and free will. Stephanie and Aleksandra talk about how astrology first entered Aleksandra's life through her grandfather's books, how her early career in healthcare opened her eyes to the emotional and spiritual struggles behind physical pain, and why she eventually moved into deeper healing and astrological work. This conversation explores natal charts, planetary archetypes, personal cycles, solar returns, free will, timing, resilience, entrepreneurship, and the difference between popular zodiac stereotypes and the more serious intellectual history of astrology. Aleksandra also shares why astrology was once used by royalty, leaders, and educated advisors, and how modern marketing and pop culture changed the way many people think about it today. At its heart, this episode is about knowing yourself more fully. It is a conversation about gifts, challenges, timing, personal responsibility, and the parts of ourselves that may be waiting to be developed. This episode is meant to inspire reflection and curiosity. It is not medical, psychological, financial, or business advice. Use this conversation as a starting point for self-exploration, personal growth, and deeper questions about who you are and what you are here to bring into the world. In This Episode, Discover How Aleksandra Ceho first discovered astrology as a child Why astrology, mythology, and ancient stories felt meaningful to her from a young age How her background in health, rehabilitation, and patient care shaped her path Why physical pain often carries emotional and spiritual weight What an astrologer actually does How astrology can help people know themselves more deeply Why astrology is not simply about zodiac signs or stereotypes What a natal chart is and why birth date, time, and location matter How planetary archetypes can represent different parts of human nature Why free will matters in astrology How entrepreneurs and executives can use timing and cycles more strategically What it means to work with a "propitious" moment Why self-help needs to be personal, not one-size-fits-all The historical role of astrologers among leaders, royalty, and educated advisors How the New Age movement and marketing changed public perception of astrology Why Aleksandra believes knowing yourself can help you perform better The importance of resilience, spiritual strength, and letting more of your light come forward Stay Connected & Explore Learn More About Aleksandra Ceho: Astrologer Royale: https://astrologerroyale.com/ Free eBook, Star Powered Resilience: Available through Aleksandra's website: https://astrologerroyale.com/ Episode Sponsor: Lemongrove Oil: https://www.lemongroveoil.com/ Use coupon code DRSTEPHANIE at checkout for 10% off your next order. Connect with Conversations with a Chiropractor: Follow Us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@ConversationswithaChiro Follow Dr. Stephanie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wautierwellness Email for show-related inquiries and sponsorships: drstephaniewautier@yahoo.com Want to be a guest on Conversations with a Chiropractor? Send Stephanie Wautier a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/drstephanie Credits Podcast production by Brand|Sound. Start your podcast journey by emailing brandsoundpodcasts@gmail.com. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Astrology and Its Relevance Today 04:01 Aleksandra's Journey Into Astrology 06:38 Understanding the Role of an Astrologer 11:17 Astrology as a Tool for Self-Discovery 13:38 Cycles and Timing in Astrology 16:19 The Importance of Personal Growth and Free Will 18:36 The Complexity of Natal Charts 21:14 Astrology: Predictive or Descriptive? 23:54 The Historical Context of Astrology 26:16 The Shift in Perception of Astrology 28:57 Conclusion and Call to Action 34:15 Conversations with a Chiropractor Outro 34:47 Lemongrove Oil Listener Offer

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I'm joined by returning guest Dagmar Stansova to talk about the process of detoxing what may be the most heinous of all the toxic metals:Nickel.Who knew??For most people, nickel only comes up in conversations about skin reactions, jewelry allergies, or metal sensitivities.Yet the medical literature is filled with research on nickel toxicity and its effects on human health. Somehow, much of this information has remained hidden in plain sight.Thanks to the work of Dr. Garrett Smith and a growing number of health adventurers—including Dagmar and myself—many people have been experimenting with nickel detox over the past several months and sharing their observations and results.Why Nickel?Nickel is everywhere.It's in food, water, cookware, consumer products, and many of the things people regularly encounter in daily life.Unlike some toxic metals that receive a great deal of attention, nickel often flies under the radar.Yet its influence on health may be far more significant than many people realize.What We'll ExploreWhat damage nickel can do to the bodyHow nickel fits into human biochemistryHow it compares with other toxic metalsThe pathways through which nickel exits the bodyHow to live and eat low nickel (since zero nickel isn't possible)Why nickel toxicity may have been overlooked in many alternative health circlesHow exposure may disproportionately affect people actively pursuing health and wellnessWith Special Guest: Dagmar StansovaDagmar returns to share her own experiences, observations, and discoveries from the nickel detox journey.Together we'll compare notes, discuss what we've learned, and explore why this topic is generating so much interest among those investigating the root causes of chronic health challenges.Get De-NickeledSometimes the most important discoveries are hiding in plain sight.Join us as we explore one of the most overlooked pieces of the health puzzle.***MORE FROM BETHSign up to take a 5-minute King Hero's Journey archetype quizApply to become a member of the House of Free WillRumbleKing Hero Telegram ChannelTwitter (X)InstagramSign up for a Hero's Journey Archetype ReadingOrder a copy of my book, ‘Journey: A Map of Archetypes to Find Lost Purpose in a Sea of Meaninglessness'Donate by PayPal if you're inspiredIf we're just meeting...I'm Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family's firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life's work and walk their Hero's Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.With Special Guest: Dagmar StansovaGet De-Nickeled

Beth breaks down Max Tegmark's 12 futures framework from Life 3.0 — from AI extinction to human utopia — and explains why world leaders need to start picking which scenario humanity actually wants. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MaxTegmark #Life30 #AGI #Superintelligence #FutureOfHumanity #Extinction #Philosophy #Metaphysics #QuantumBombs #HumanCondition #SamAltman #Anthropic #OpenAI #TechOligarchs #Consciousness #FreeWill #Utopia #Dystopia #DigitalSurveillance

UFO researcher Preston Dennett explores what decades of ET contact and alien abduction reports may reveal about UFO disclosure, why he rejects the "aliens are demons" theory, and what contactees say aliens have been trying to tell humanity for decades in episode 251 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.Preston Dennett is a UFO researcher, paranormal investigator, and author of more than 30 books, including UFOs at the Drive-In and Out of Body Exploring. A former MUFON investigator, he has spent more than three decades researching UFO sightings, alien contact, telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other unexplained phenomena.In this conversation, Faust and Preston explore why the UFO disclosure debate may be missing the most important part of the phenomenon: direct contact. Drawing on decades of research into alien encounters, contactee reports, telepathy, UFO healing cases, and schoolyard sightings, Preston examines the remarkably consistent messages experiencers say they've received, what those messages suggest about humanity's future, and why the growing belief that aliens are actually demons may be distracting from a much larger conversation about consciousness, sovereignty, and our place in the universe.In this episode:• UFO Disclosure & Experiencer Testimony: What if contactees have been disclosing the phenomenon all along?• The "Aliens Are Demons" Debate: Why Preston believes one of the fastest-growing theories gets the evidence backwards.• ET Contact & Alien Abductions: The patterns that keep appearing no matter who reports the encounter.• Telepathy & Non-Human Communication: Why so many contactees describe the same invisible form of communication.• UFO Healings & Positive Encounters: The cases that don't fit the frightening version of the phenomenon.• Schoolyard UFO Encounters: What children around the world reported after seeing the impossible.• CE5 & Human-Initiated Contact: Can ordinary people reach out first?• Consciousness & Out-of-Body Experiences: Why some researchers believe the UFO mystery extends beyond the physical world.• Contactee Warnings & ET Messages: The same message experiencers say they've been hearing for decades.• Sovereignty, Free Will & Humanity's Future: The surprising reason contactees say nobody is coming to save us.Maybe the most important question isn't whether contact is real. It's why the same message keeps appearing.Check out Preston Dennett's booksOut-of-Body Exploring: A Beginner's Approach https://a.co/d/0atmsfQ0https://www.amazon.com/stores/Preston-E.-Dennett/author/B0034PEPRCConnect with Preston Dennetthttps://www.youtube.com/@prestondennett577https://prestondennett.weebly.com/Join us on PatreonFor uncensored episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and exclusive community access:https://patreon.com/FarOutWithFaustListen on Spotify + Apple PodcastsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6StPwgq2di3f8uxnc6SmIfApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/far-out-with-faust-fowf/id1533017218FOWF & Faust Checho on socialhttps://www.instagram.com/faroutwithfaust/https://www.instagram.com/theonefaustchecho/https://www.facebook.com/Faroutwithfausthttps://x.com/faustchechohttps://patreon.com/FarOutWithFaustQUESTION THE ANSWERS™#FlyingSaucer #Aliens #Extraterrestrialwe'd love to hear from you

The Metaphysical Hour with Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan and Question Master Tiffanny Shining the Grid, Moving Timelines, and Remembering You Are the Gift Lighting Up the Grid Together In this episode of The Metaphysical Hour, hosts Julia Cannon, Tracie Mahan, and Tiffany welcome viewers into a lively, intuitive, and highly interactive broadcast. Julia opens by inviting listeners to “shine your light,” and the hosts describe a visual of individual beams rising from each person, expanding outward, overlapping, and strengthening the energetic grid around the planet. This becomes the spiritual foundation of the episode: each person's light matters, and when people gather with intention, their energy expands beyond themselves. Questions, Community, and Tiffany the Question Goddess The hosts explain how listeners can submit questions, especially by addressing them clearly to Tiffany so she can find them in the comment stream. The show has a playful rhythm from the start, with Julia, Tracie, and Tiffany joking about titles such as “Goddess Tiffany,” “Princess Tiffany,” and “Question Master Tiffany.” Beneath the humor, the structure is practical: the episode relies on audience participation, live questions, and intuitive responses from the hosts. Energy Is Moving Forward Julia and Tracie discuss the current energy, describing it as something that had felt stuck but now seems to be moving forward. Tracie connects this to her own life, sharing that an offer she made on a house was accepted after a long period of waiting. She reflects that delays are often tied to lessons, and that life may not move until a person has received the realization or growth needed to move with it. The hosts frame this as a broader message for listeners: when something finally opens, it may be because the soul has reached the readiness point. Tracie's House, Manifestation, and Letting Go of an Old Self Tracie's house story becomes a personal teaching about manifestation, timing, and self-worth. She explains that she had to put in the offer and “go for it,” rather than holding back. She also sees the move as symbolic of releasing an old version of herself: the version that always lets other people go first. The new house is smaller, so the move will also require physical letting go. Julia and Tiffany help frame the experience as a manifestation process, encouraging ease, trust, and the belief that everything can come together smoothly. Words, Memory, and the Tools That Change How We Think The hosts briefly joke about spelling, autocorrect, old phone numbers, and the way modern tools can change memory habits. They compare the past, when people memorized many phone numbers, to the present, when devices remember for us. The conversation is humorous, but it also reflects one of the episode's underlying themes: technology may assist us, but it can also change how we use our own minds. The hosts keep the tone light, even singing part of the old “867-5309” number from the Tommy Tutone song. Many Truths, One Love A major philosophical theme emerges when the hosts discuss truth. Julia says people have often fought wars and religious battles because they believed there was only one truth. Now, she says, people are waking up to the idea that each person has their own truth, timeline, perception, and experience. Tracie adds that multiple people can be right at the same time. The one unifying truth they suggest may be love, because love is the fabric connecting everything. This becomes one of the episode's clearest spiritual teachings: personal truth can differ, but love can hold it all together. A Spider, a Web, and Creating Reality During the broadcast, a spider crawls across Julia's monitor, and the hosts immediately interpret it symbolically. They connect the spider to weaving webs and creating reality. The timing is treated as meaningful because it appears just as they are talking about personal truth and manifestation. The spider becomes a small living metaphor for the way each person creates their own web of experience through thoughts, choices, beliefs, and perception. Disclosure Day, Hidden Symbols, and Awakening A listener asks about the film Disclosure Day. Julia has not seen it yet and does not want spoilers, so Tracie and Tiffany discuss it carefully. Tracie says she received a message from the Arcturians that the movie contains hidden symbols, subliminal messages, and activation points designed to support awakening and prepare people for deeper disclosure. Tiffany shares that after seeing the film, she slept heavily the next day, which the hosts interpret as a possible sign of processing the energies or activations embedded in the movie. The Dream of the Christmas Party and Receiving Your Gifts A listener describes a dream about being angry at a Christmas party because she was not kept in the loop and had nothing to give in the gift exchange. Julia and Tracie interpret the dream from several angles. At first, it appears to involve control, missing out, or feeling unprepared. Then the interpretation deepens: the dream may be about spiritual gifts. Everyone else has gifts to exchange, while the dreamer feels she has none, even though someone is trying to hand her an envelope. The hosts encourage her to stop resisting and recognize that she herself is the gift. Deja Vu, Timelines, and Soul Rehearsals Another listener asks about having more déjà vu than usual. Julia explains that déjà vu may happen because the soul rehearses upcoming events in the dream state, testing different timelines and choosing the one that best supports the desired outcome. Tracie adds that déjà vu can mean the person is “in the groove” and moving into a timeline they have already prepared for. Rather than treating déjà vu as random, the hosts frame it as evidence of soul planning, timeline movement, and readiness. Free Will, Agreements, and the Power of Words A listener asks whether free will can change soul contracts and why people would be “slaves” to contracts. Julia immediately reframes the language, saying she prefers agreements rather than contracts, because “slave” and “contract” carry heavy energy. She explains that souls make agreements before incarnating to help each other accomplish certain lessons or experiences, but free will still operates through how a person reacts, thinks, speaks, and chooses. The hosts emphasize that words are powerful, and that people create their personal realities through the energy of their language, beliefs, and reactions. Not My World: Choosing What Reality to Feed Julia and Tracie discuss the importance of not absorbing every fearful narrative from the outside world. Tracie tells a story about someone who felt terrified after political events, even though nothing unsafe was actually happening in her own neighborhood. The hosts explain that people often create fear by focusing on realities that are not directly theirs. Julia's repeated phrase “not my world” becomes a spiritual practice: choosing not to feed fear-based realities that do not belong to one's own lived experience. Pets, Illness, and What They Reflect A listener asks whether “Soul Speak” can be used with pets, especially elderly or ill animals. Julia explains that pets can reflect what is going on in the home or in their human companions. Rather than simply trying to fix the pet, she says people should ask what the animal's illness may be showing them. Tiffany shares that her cat has diabetes, and Julia interprets diabetes as connected to joy, sweetness, balance, and the need to remember fun and life beyond drudgery. When the human begins shifting, the pet may also respond. Summer Solstice, Subtle Signs, and Contact Preparation Near the end, the hosts respond to a question about the summer solstice. Tracie senses a shift, describing it as a kind of yin-yang movement. Julia says subtle things may happen in the background that later become much bigger, so listeners should pay attention. She encourages people to focus on joy, rest, saying no when needed, walking, and doing things that make them happy. The conversation also connects to future contact, with the hosts encouraging listeners to notice subtle dreams, sky experiences, ship visits, and moments that may prepare the mind to perceive more. Closing With Joy, Contact, and Expansion The episode ends abruptly as the hosts are being kicked off the stream, but not before Julia emphasizes that the mind is like a filter: it only lets people see what they are ready to see. As listeners expand, the filter expands, allowing them to notice more of what has always been present. The closing message is one of trust, joy, subtle awareness, and readiness for more: more contact, more movement, more truth, and “much, much more.”

The Metaphysical Hour with Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan and Question Master Tiffanny Shining the Grid, Moving Timelines, and Remembering You Are the Gift Lighting Up the Grid Together In this episode of The Metaphysical Hour, hosts Julia Cannon, Tracie Mahan, and Tiffany welcome viewers into a lively, intuitive, and highly interactive broadcast. Julia opens by inviting listeners to “shine your light,” and the hosts describe a visual of individual beams rising from each person, expanding outward, overlapping, and strengthening the energetic grid around the planet. This becomes the spiritual foundation of the episode: each person's light matters, and when people gather with intention, their energy expands beyond themselves. Questions, Community, and Tiffany the Question Goddess The hosts explain how listeners can submit questions, especially by addressing them clearly to Tiffany so she can find them in the comment stream. The show has a playful rhythm from the start, with Julia, Tracie, and Tiffany joking about titles such as “Goddess Tiffany,” “Princess Tiffany,” and “Question Master Tiffany.” Beneath the humor, the structure is practical: the episode relies on audience participation, live questions, and intuitive responses from the hosts. Energy Is Moving Forward Julia and Tracie discuss the current energy, describing it as something that had felt stuck but now seems to be moving forward. Tracie connects this to her own life, sharing that an offer she made on a house was accepted after a long period of waiting. She reflects that delays are often tied to lessons, and that life may not move until a person has received the realization or growth needed to move with it. The hosts frame this as a broader message for listeners: when something finally opens, it may be because the soul has reached the readiness point. Tracie's House, Manifestation, and Letting Go of an Old Self Tracie's house story becomes a personal teaching about manifestation, timing, and self-worth. She explains that she had to put in the offer and “go for it,” rather than holding back. She also sees the move as symbolic of releasing an old version of herself: the version that always lets other people go first. The new house is smaller, so the move will also require physical letting go. Julia and Tiffany help frame the experience as a manifestation process, encouraging ease, trust, and the belief that everything can come together smoothly. Words, Memory, and the Tools That Change How We Think The hosts briefly joke about spelling, autocorrect, old phone numbers, and the way modern tools can change memory habits. They compare the past, when people memorized many phone numbers, to the present, when devices remember for us. The conversation is humorous, but it also reflects one of the episode's underlying themes: technology may assist us, but it can also change how we use our own minds. The hosts keep the tone light, even singing part of the old “867-5309” number from the Tommy Tutone song. Many Truths, One Love A major philosophical theme emerges when the hosts discuss truth. Julia says people have often fought wars and religious battles because they believed there was only one truth. Now, she says, people are waking up to the idea that each person has their own truth, timeline, perception, and experience. Tracie adds that multiple people can be right at the same time. The one unifying truth they suggest may be love, because love is the fabric connecting everything. This becomes one of the episode's clearest spiritual teachings: personal truth can differ, but love can hold it all together. A Spider, a Web, and Creating Reality During the broadcast, a spider crawls across Julia's monitor, and the hosts immediately interpret it symbolically. They connect the spider to weaving webs and creating reality. The timing is treated as meaningful because it appears just as they are talking about personal truth and manifestation. The spider becomes a small living metaphor for the way each person creates their own web of experience through thoughts, choices, beliefs, and perception. Disclosure Day, Hidden Symbols, and Awakening A listener asks about the film Disclosure Day. Julia has not seen it yet and does not want spoilers, so Tracie and Tiffany discuss it carefully. Tracie says she received a message from the Arcturians that the movie contains hidden symbols, subliminal messages, and activation points designed to support awakening and prepare people for deeper disclosure. Tiffany shares that after seeing the film, she slept heavily the next day, which the hosts interpret as a possible sign of processing the energies or activations embedded in the movie. The Dream of the Christmas Party and Receiving Your Gifts A listener describes a dream about being angry at a Christmas party because she was not kept in the loop and had nothing to give in the gift exchange. Julia and Tracie interpret the dream from several angles. At first, it appears to involve control, missing out, or feeling unprepared. Then the interpretation deepens: the dream may be about spiritual gifts. Everyone else has gifts to exchange, while the dreamer feels she has none, even though someone is trying to hand her an envelope. The hosts encourage her to stop resisting and recognize that she herself is the gift. Deja Vu, Timelines, and Soul Rehearsals Another listener asks about having more déjà vu than usual. Julia explains that déjà vu may happen because the soul rehearses upcoming events in the dream state, testing different timelines and choosing the one that best supports the desired outcome. Tracie adds that déjà vu can mean the person is “in the groove” and moving into a timeline they have already prepared for. Rather than treating déjà vu as random, the hosts frame it as evidence of soul planning, timeline movement, and readiness. Free Will, Agreements, and the Power of Words A listener asks whether free will can change soul contracts and why people would be “slaves” to contracts. Julia immediately reframes the language, saying she prefers agreements rather than contracts, because “slave” and “contract” carry heavy energy. She explains that souls make agreements before incarnating to help each other accomplish certain lessons or experiences, but free will still operates through how a person reacts, thinks, speaks, and chooses. The hosts emphasize that words are powerful, and that people create their personal realities through the energy of their language, beliefs, and reactions. Not My World: Choosing What Reality to Feed Julia and Tracie discuss the importance of not absorbing every fearful narrative from the outside world. Tracie tells a story about someone who felt terrified after political events, even though nothing unsafe was actually happening in her own neighborhood. The hosts explain that people often create fear by focusing on realities that are not directly theirs. Julia's repeated phrase “not my world” becomes a spiritual practice: choosing not to feed fear-based realities that do not belong to one's own lived experience. Pets, Illness, and What They Reflect A listener asks whether “Soul Speak” can be used with pets, especially elderly or ill animals. Julia explains that pets can reflect what is going on in the home or in their human companions. Rather than simply trying to fix the pet, she says people should ask what the animal's illness may be showing them. Tiffany shares that her cat has diabetes, and Julia interprets diabetes as connected to joy, sweetness, balance, and the need to remember fun and life beyond drudgery. When the human begins shifting, the pet may also respond. Summer Solstice, Subtle Signs, and Contact Preparation Near the end, the hosts respond to a question about the summer solstice. Tracie senses a shift, describing it as a kind of yin-yang movement. Julia says subtle things may happen in the background that later become much bigger, so listeners should pay attention. She encourages people to focus on joy, rest, saying no when needed, walking, and doing things that make them happy. The conversation also connects to future contact, with the hosts encouraging listeners to notice subtle dreams, sky experiences, ship visits, and moments that may prepare the mind to perceive more. Closing With Joy, Contact, and Expansion The episode ends abruptly as the hosts are being kicked off the stream, but not before Julia emphasizes that the mind is like a filter: it only lets people see what they are ready to see. As listeners expand, the filter expands, allowing them to notice more of what has always been present. The closing message is one of trust, joy, subtle awareness, and readiness for more: more contact, more movement, more truth, and “much, much more.”

Imagine a library that sits outside of time. Every life you have ever lived is written down in a book with your name on it. Every thought. Every choice. Every soul you have ever crossed paths with.For more than 25 years our guest has been walking into that library. He calls it the Akashic Records. 11 books. Students on three continents. Sessions he says reach through trauma, through past lives, and into something he calls the Universal Mirror.Foss is a visionary artist and a healer who works directly with the Ascended Masters and the Archangels. He teaches that you carry two genetic codes. One earthly and one not. That your nervous system is an antenna. That your heart is the reception point. And that the book of your life can be rewritten while you are still in it.Tonight we ask the hard questions. If the Records exist, who built them. Who appointed the Keepers, and what were they before. If your Book of Life can be changed, who holds the pen. And why have so many of us forgotten how to listen to a stream that has never stopped running.We will press him on off-world lifetimes. On ancestral healing through DNA. On parallel timelines. On the Quantum Timeline Healing he says rewrites the past from the present. And on a rival senior reader, trained by an Orthodox Kabbalist, who teaches the opposite of everything he stands for on the question of Free Will.Bring your skepticism. Bring your wonder. Both will be tested tonight.This is a preview. Members hear the full interview and the complete archive at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

More than 25 years ago, I left what I now openly call a cult.If you've followed my work for any length of time, you've probably heard me mention my years in India and the spiritual organization I devoted myself to in my twenties.In 1999, when victims began coming forward with accounts of sexual abuse by the group's leader, I left immediately.At the time, I was fighting for my life with Stage 4 lymphoma. The choice was clear. Whatever benefit I had received through the teachings, I could no longer ignore the reality of the man at the center of it.I cut the kite strings.And for the most part, I left that chapter behind.A Story That Reopened the PastRecently, I received an advance copy of a book written by someone I knew from those years.Her account fills in many of the gaps that remained mysteries to me for decades.Until now, much of what happened behind the scenes lived in rumours, fragments, and secondhand stories.Reading her detailed account was devastating.I was shocked in a way I haven't experienced in a long time. Not surprise. Shock.For two days I could barely process what I had learned.The reality was far worse than I could have imagined.Why This MattersThis episode is not about understanding how intelligent, sincere, truth-seeking people can become involved in systems that gradually separate them from their own authority.It's about the difference between genuine inner work and environments that cultivate dependency.It's about recognizing the signs before years, health, relationships, resources, and purpose are consumed by something that doesn't hold your best interest.De-Cult Inner WorkWhat does inner work look like when it belongs to you?What happens when spiritual development is grounded in direct experience, self-observation, and truth rather than personality, hierarchy, or devotion to an authority figure?How can we recognize the warning signs of cult dynamics earlier?How do we leave safely?And how do we recover what was valuable without carrying forward what was harmful?A Cautionary TaleI'm sharing this story in part on behalf of the author, who is currently facing her own life-threatening illness.My hope is that her courage in telling the truth may help others recognize unhealthy dynamics sooner, find their way out safely, and reconnect with a path of inner work rooted in freedom.Join me for this important conversation.Find out your King Hero Archetype in ten minutes: https://www.bethmartens.com/king-hero-archetype-quiz-sign-upApply to become a House of Free Will Member: https://www.bethmartens.com/house-of-free-will-applicationDo a starter online course: Deprogramming 101 or Find Your Sacred Purposehttps://www.bethmartens.com/deprogramming101https://www.bethmartens.com/find-your-sacred-purpose-online-courseDiscover other deprogramming and archetype courses at www.bethmartens.comApply for a zero-cost, one-on-one chat about working together: https://www.bethmartens.com/awaken-your-journey-archetype-applicationIf we're just meeting...I'm Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family's firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life's work and walk their Hero's Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

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Welcome back to Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In today's episode, Tom Bilyeu dives deep into one of the most provocative questions facing science and philosophy: Do we really have free will, or are we all just highly sophisticated NPCs—non-player characters—running a program inside a vast, resource-efficient simulation? Drawing on groundbreaking neuroscience experiments, the story of Phineas Gage, quantum mechanics, and the work of leading thinkers like Robert Sapolsky, Tom Bilyeu challenges everything we think we know about choice, consciousness, and the true nature of reality.But this isn't an episode about nihilism. Instead, Tom Bilyeu reveals why embracing the truth of a stochastically deterministic universe can actually make life feel more meaningful, freeing us from the weight of the past and inspiring us to make the most of every moment—programmed or not. Get ready to question your assumptions and see the world from a whole new perspective.Truemed: Check your eligibility and start saving at https://truemed.com/impactIncogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/impactPique: 20% off at https://piquelife.com/impactQuince: Free shipping and 365-day returns at https://quince.com/impactpodPlaud: Get 10% off with code TOM10 at https://plaud.ai/tomWhatnot: AT&T Business: Switch to AT&T Business at business.att.comShopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impactWhat's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here:If you want my help...STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER: https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20showSCALING a business: see if you qualify here.: https://tombilyeu.com/callGet my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here.:https://tombilyeu.com/**********************************************************************If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you.**********************************************************************FOLLOW TOM:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeuYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeuSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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