Hello everybody this is Dr Tia Jolie Phillips and I welcome to Soul Decodes. This is a special episode we put 2 00:00:05,120 -- 00:00:11,040 come together for y’all because 3 00:00:11,040 -- 00:00:17,280 Thanksgiving is coming up and we are going to publish this around the Thanksgiving holiday. 4 00:00:17,280 -- 00:00:22,560 Yeah, I guess tomorrow right? Its imminent right? Imminent yeah. Well this is 5 00:00:22,560 -- 00:00:26,400 Tuesday and we’re recording this Tuesday for a Thursday first thing in the morning launch. 6 00:00:26,400 -- 00:00:30,880 Oh you are going to do it on Thursday morning, great. I mean yeah is that right? Yeah 7 00:00:30,880 -- 00:00:35,360 that sounds good. I mean you’re the boss. People wake up and listen to it. Well that 8 00:00:35,360 -- 00:00:41,520 way they can do whatever they want to do. They can practice being thankful. 9 00:00:41,520 -- 00:00:47,040 We’re still going to go ahead and have the Friday regularly scheduled show that we have already 10 00:00:47,040 -- 00:00:51,600 recorded and that’s good, it’s in the queue. Yeah but we’ve got to do one Friday as well but 11 00:00:51,600 -- 00:00:58,480 I’ll talk about that after this one. But we thought it would be a good idea to have a show today. 12 00:00:59,120 -- 00:01:02,720 You wanted to do a Thanksgiving show tell me what are your thoughts? What are some of the things you 13 00:01:02,720 -- 00:01:10,160 wanted to do? Why did you want to do a Thanksgiving Show? 14 00:01:10,160 -- 00:01:19,040 Because it an American holiday which is inbound and in if you can embody what it means to be grateful and thankful you have elevated your 15 00:01:19,040 -- 00:01:24,960 consciousness so your manifestations in the external reality are going to be upgraded too 16 00:01:25,920 -- 00:01:33,440 because external reality is a mirror of what goes on in our minds so a key spiritual practice 17 00:01:33,440 -- 00:01:38,560 is to upgrade your consciousness in order to manifest something of an upgraded quality too 18 00:01:38,560 -- 00:01:44,960 and the best way to do that is to be thankful for something. So I typically put together too 19 00:01:44,960 -- 00:01:52,160 many notes but in this case I wanted to make the most of this kind of a special coverage 20 00:01:52,160 -- 00:01:56,720 It’s a special coverage for Thanksgiving. Yeah and we’ll do one for Christmas too. 21 00:01:56,720 -- 00:02:02,000 Oh yeah for the other holidays we’ve got coming up? Every day’s a holiday might work. 22 00:02:02,800 -- 00:02:08,000 But yeah no so I thought what we do is kind of just go through some things. I have some ideas 23 00:02:08,000 -- 00:02:13,840 what I’d like to do for this episode. Go on then. I think we should start off like one of the most 24 00:02:13,840 -- 00:02:20,480 obvious things to me is the fact that you know you have a lot of history in England. Like 25 00:02:20,480 -- 00:02:24,720 to get an English perspective on American Thanksgiving but then you’re also an American 26 00:02:24,720 -- 00:02:30,800 so I think a good discussion to talk about what Thanksgiving is and also what it is not. 27 00:02:31,280 -- 00:02:36,320 Yeah so I was wondering if we could just open up with Sarah Tirri’s world, what is 28 00:02:36,320 -- 00:02:41,120 Thanksgiving is and what it’s not. Well to be thankful is a spiritual practice and 29 00:02:41,120 -- 00:02:46,480 it not something you do on the third Thursday of November, it is something you wake up doing every morning so 30 00:02:47,120 -- 00:02:56,000 that aside, it is the time when the Puritans came over because King James was apparently a real… pig 31 00:02:56,000 -- 00:03:01,120 and they didn’t like being under the Anglican rule because they didn’t think that it was pure 32 00:03:01,120 -- 00:03:07,360 enough because it was still had the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church so they got on a boat 33 00:03:07,360 -- 00:03:14,960 102 of them I believe, they came over here and then hit land and settled so I see Americans has just being 34 00:03:14,960 -- 00:03:21,840 an extension of the British we are no different. You’re an American but I’m British, but we’re the same 35 00:03:22,880 -- 00:03:28,320 Right, we just live on different continents but we’re the same. I mean okay so I hear what you’re 36 00:03:28,320 -- 00:03:34,080 saying and I got about literally thousands of buddies and friends and that really we 37 00:03:34,080 -- 00:03:40,800 see ourselves as very different in so many basic ways than the British do and this goes 38 00:03:40,800 -- 00:03:45,520 back through a couple episodes ago and you know I talked about you being the snobby silver spoon. 39 00:03:46,800 -- 00:03:52,720 I don’t think we use that was the word I used but I was sharing with you that this 40 00:03:52,720 -- 00:03:58,880 scrappy American, and you said you’re not scrappy but really Americans are pretty scrappy and when 41 00:03:58,880 -- 00:04:06,160 I say that it is not a derogatory term, it means that if we have an idea in our head that the 42 00:04:06,160 -- 00:04:11,600 correct and proper thing is that we are going to do whatever it takes to make that happen. So scrappy 43 00:04:11,600 -- 00:04:17,360 means determined. Scrappy means determined and tenacious, you know you’re not going to stop me 44 00:04:17,360 -- 00:04:24,240 I’m scrappy. In my world in the context that we talked about a few episodes ago I was simply just 45 00:04:24,240 -- 00:04:29,600 sharing that when you’re not… when life doesn’t present you with a whole bunch of abundance 46 00:04:30,160 -- 00:04:36,400 you have to literally scrap for tidbits and take whatever you can get and leverage it, maximize it 47 00:04:36,400 -- 00:04:41,680 I’ve relearned this. Scrap also means waste, you’re going to scrap something, it a quite 48 00:04:41,680 -- 00:04:48,320 a lot of texture to that word. Well scrappy would mean scrappy would mean that your waste is something 49 00:04:48,320 -- 00:04:55,040 very beneficial to me, and I was just going to say that when I moved out to the farm here, we learned 50 00:04:55,040 -- 00:05:01,920 very quickly that even a scrap piece of lumber is very valuable on the farm. If there is a piece of 51 00:05:01,920 -- 00:05:08,480 rope that is not tattered and torn or it is just three feet, we save that rope like there’s something 52 00:05:08,480 -- 00:05:13,040 you can do with a piece of three foot rope. Yeah, and so on the farm were very grateful 53 00:05:13,040 -- 00:05:18,080 We’re thankful and I will use the term grateful and thankful. No I think let stick to thankful 54 00:05:18,080 -- 00:05:22,000 because there are interchangeable at the level we’re talking about them. I think you’re right 55 00:05:22,000 -- 00:05:26,160 Yeah, and so this state of gratitude or being thankful. You could call it grateful giving or 56 00:05:26,160 -- 00:05:30,800 thanksgiving. Agreed. Yeah so let’s start a new holiday and call it Gratefulgiving - we’ll do it in June. 57 00:05:31,520 -- 00:05:38,560 I like it. I like it too. So in your world, what is thanksgiving both as a Brit and as 58 00:05:38,560 -- 00:05:45,920 an American. Is it nothing as a Brit? I didn’t even know about it as a Brit. So it was a non-factor. 59 00:05:45,920 -- 00:05:50,000 Non-factor absolutely and Halloween was another one we didn’t get into Halloween but I didn’t 60 00:05:50,000 -- 00:05:55,280 really know about thanksgiving until I started spending time in America when I was 21 and then 61 00:05:55,280 -- 00:05:59,280 I realized it’s a whole thing. I mean it’s a bigger holiday in America than Christmas. It’s 62 00:05:59,280 -- & 00:06:06,160 a huge holiday in England but thanksgiving had no meaning to me until I became a citizen of this 63 00:06:06,160 -- 00:06:11,200 country. Well I was a resident prior to that and this big holiday once a year that everyone 64 00:06:11,200 -- 00:06:14,880 gets together and celebrates that we’re grateful. We’ve got a lot to be grateful about in this 65 00:06:14,880 -- 00:06:22,800 country. So that is something in America; an agreement that we have a lot to 66 00:06:22,800 -- 00:06:30,080 be thankful for so we can agree on that. I kind of disagree on this whole idea this romanticism of 67 00:06:30,080 -- 00:06:36,320 you know these Puritans sitting down peacefully with Indians and all this stuff. I’m not really 68 00:06:36,320 -- 00:06:41,600 convinced of any of the historical fact. The history that we’ve been given 69 00:06:41,600 -- 00:06:46,560 this textbook. Oh! I have to give you your gift now. Okay, so this is 70 00:06:46,560 -- 00:06:51,840 so funny, you just say okay, now you’ve taken us onto that subject. This will have meaning now. 71 00:06:51,840 -- 00:06:56,800 So in England, we had the old red telephone boxes do you remember those? Okay they’re still there 72 00:06:56,800 -- 00:07:02,240 but they’re not used as telephone boxes anymore so they have turned them into book exchanges. 73 00:07:02,240 -- 00:07:07,760 So they have put shelves and then and filled them up with books. People go there and they take books in and 74 00:07:07,760 -- 00:07:12,240 out and I think it absolutely beautiful and they are kind of a real part of our heritage. So I went 75 00:07:12,240 -- 00:07:16,560 to this phone box and I found this book and its perfect for you so I’m going to give it to you. 76 00:07:19,760 -- 00:07:23,760 Well actually I’ll say what it is over the mic, so this is it: Forbidden History 77 00:07:23,760 -- 00:07:28,320 and you just mentioned that you’re not convinced the story of the Puritans is true 78 00:07:28,320 -- 00:07:33,120 so this is for you. This is forbidden history and now they are just people’s essays in it, so you 79 00:07:33,120 -- 00:07:36,880 haven’t got to read it from start to finish. You could just pick out an essay. Oh my god 80 00:07:36,880 -- 00:07:43,600 Yeah, you really love me because it’s a picture book. Pilots need pictures. No this is great. 81 00:07:43,600 -- 00:07:47,280 Thank you. Yeah and you can read just six pages. It’s someone’s essay about something they know about 82 00:07:47,280 -- 00:07:51,440 which is a which is a lie. So anyway, back to thanksgiving so you don’t believe in that. 83 00:07:51,440 -- 00:07:56,160 We’re not going back to thanksgiving yet, because I’ve actually got something for you. 84 00:07:57,120 -- 00:08:02,720 So thank you. So you invited us over to Jet Ski at your house 85 00:08:03,440 -- 00:08:06,800 after the hurricane. Hopefully you can still get to the jet skis but 86 00:08:08,000 -- 00:08:13,520 We, with full disclosure, bought this for some friends of ours but then they sold their house 87 00:08:13,520 -- 00:08:18,160 and they subsequently sold their pool. So I’ve got these and we want you to have them. What are they? 88 00:08:18,160 -- 00:08:26,240 Oh they are lovely. A swim tube with handles. They’re really cool swim tubes. That is lovely 89 00:08:26,240 -- 00:08:30,240 because you can’t have a beautiful swimming pool like you have. No and I love the colors. Right. 90 00:08:30,240 -- 00:08:36,560 Yeah that’s beautiful. So I like to be in in my pool in one of these and then Tony moves me 91 00:08:36,560 -- 00:08:41,440 all around the pool and then he’ll spin me and I’m looking up at the oak tree above me and at the 92 00:08:41,440 -- 00:08:47,440 clouds. It’s such a trip, so I’ll think of you when I get in one of these. LSD trip. He’ll be on the 93 00:08:47,440 -- 00:08:52,320 other one. But those are your floaties. They feel kind of heavy. They’re very heavy. Yeah they’re 94 00:08:52,320 -- 00:08:56,880 pretty. Yeah, they feel like military grade. You deserve the best. Thank you. Military 95 00:08:56,880 --; 00:09:05,600 grade floaties. I love it. Thank you. Military issue. So anyway back to what 96 00:09:06,480 -- 00:09:10,720 you were saying - that supposedly we were told that the English got 97 00:09:10,720 -- 00:09:17,440 together and then it was a peaceful lovely la la la evening with the Native Americans and that is 98 00:09:17,440 -- 00:09:23,520 what you have been sold as historical truth. And you object to that? Well, what I object to is this. 99 00:09:24,080 -- 00:09:30,880 I am what you call a truther. Right. A truther means I don’t believe any one of us has all of the 100 00:09:30,880 -- 00:09:36,160 pieces of truth. I think there’s fragments of truth scattered all about the place and each of 101 00:09:36,160 -- 00:09:42,000 us should be cognizant that yeah Sarah Tirri has got some pieces, a bit of it here and there. Yeah 102 00:09:42,000 -- 00:09:45,920 I’ve got some pieces of the puzzle. Your spouse does. My spouse does. My neighbor does. Yeah. 103 00:09:45,920 -- 00:09:50,480 Everyone’s got a piece of the puzzle. Yeah, we should approach this with the idea that if we 104 00:09:50,480 -- 00:09:55,920 collaborate in a peaceful way, we can discuss what piece do you have? Do you oh that looks like the 105 00:09:55,920 -- 00:10:01,120 piece of the barn roof. Oh this looks like the piece of the tractor. Like you know whatever the 106 00:10:01,120 -- 00:10:06,480 puzzle pieces say, we can share with each other and try to figure this out. Yeah. When we look 107 00:10:06,480 -- 00:10:11,680 at the historical aspect of what we’re led to believe that Thanksgiving is supposed to be… 108 00:10:12,720 -- 00:10:18,800 this was not a peaceful thing that Americans did. You can look at some people that said that like 109 00:10:18,800 -- 00:10:25,440 one account of America is that we have pyramids in the Grand Canyon. Like we have gold in the… 110 00:10:25,440 -- 00:10:31,600 Great, like there all sorts of accounts that are there in prehistory. There’s a prehistory. 111 00:10:31,600 -- 00:10:36,320 1600 is relatively recent, so you’re saying that something major was going on on this continent. So 112 00:10:36,320 -- 00:10:42,320 I’m not satisfied that Thanksgiving is the truth, and I think this Thanksgiving we should be thankful that 113 00:10:42,320 -- 00:10:47,920 we have the cognitive skills and the logical capability to see through lies and deception. 114 00:10:48,560 -- 00:10:54,480 When they occur. Now am I saying that is categorically false that the Puritans and the 115 00:10:54,480 -- 00:11:00,080 Indians they were huggy kissy face to face. Kumbaya. I’m not saying that didn’t happen. I’m saying 116 00:11:00,080 -- 00:11:07,280 that I have the right to question it. Yes. And I when I see evidence of written documents 117 00:11:07,280 -- 00:11:14,160 that you know George Washington was thanking the Sultan of Morocco for giving him some space to 118 00:11:14,160 -- 00:11:20,720 get the bills paid. You know I can show you those documents. Why would President Washington be 119 00:11:20,720 -- 00:11:26,000 thanking the Sultan of Morocco? That indicates that maybe North America belonged to Morocco at 120 00:11:26,000 -- 00:11:31,680 some point? So these are these are things we have to look at. And why do we have to look at them? 121 00:11:32,400 -- 00:11:37,760 This one particularly? What irks you about us believing that to be 122 00:11:37,760 -- 00:11:44,560 a real event. In a broader sense let’s ask this question. To what degree just pick any topic 123 00:11:44,560 -- 00:11:53,200 anywhere. To what degree are you OK with being deceived? Well my take on reality is that is what 124 00:11:53,200 -- 00:11:59,920 I know what’s truthful and what’s not. Now, if I was so inclined, I could do what you doing and start 125 00:11:59,920 -- 00:12:05,440 looking for the truth. And that’s going to be useful in your life plan. What you have is 126 00:12:05,440 -- 00:12:10,560 that we have got to be open. I mean, I don’t believe the Bible is what people think is a true 127 00:12:10,560 -- 00:12:15,120 event right. And I don’t believe that. It’s a bunch of stories that interpreted correctly 128 00:12:15,120 -- 00:12:20,960 might be useful for your spiritual development. Other than that, I don’t know what reality 129 00:12:20,960 -- 00:12:25,760 is now because we are told one thing on the news, and then another thing. And there is no way of 130 00:12:25,760 -- 00:12:32,240 verifying anything unless you’re prepared to spend countless hours digging. So what I prefer to do is 131 00:12:32,240 -- 00:12:38,720 pull back, and just work on my own mind and my own consciousness to manifest the world that I want. 132 00:12:38,720 -- 00:12:45,280 So I can have whatever I want within this reality. So the fact that we’ve been lied to is highly 133 00:12:45,280 -- 00:12:50,560 likely to me, about everything. I think it’s like a Dr. Seuss planet. We don’t know 134 00:12:50,560 -- 00:12:56,560 what’s up, down, in, and out. So I tend to pull back from that and not worry about it too much 135 00:12:56,560 -- 00:13:01,360 because I think that we’ve been lied to about most things. I agree with you about scriptures because 136 00:13:02,800 -- 00:13:08,560 a lot of people will badger on me because I don’t believe that their 137 00:13:08,560 -- 00:13:14,560 Book, whether it’s the Bible, or the Quran, or whatever their book is, is the definitive 138 00:13:14,560 -- 00:13:19,040 That their answer is the only answer. And if you don’t believe this way you’re a heathen or you’re going 139 00:13:19,040 -- 00:13:23,600 to go to hell. You’re going to burn in hell. You know you’re going to go to hell. Well I don’t believe 140 00:13:23,600 -- 00:13:28,560 That! I believe we all precious and we’re all beautiful creations right, or as your case maybe 141 00:13:28,560 -- 00:13:35,920 not creations, but, uh evolutions. So I don’t think…. evolution was created! 142 00:13:35,920 -- 00:13:43,360 The evolutionary process wasn’t random. 143 00:13:44,800 -- 00:13:49,040 So I’m not disparaging any group of people who believe that their book is the best. 144 00:13:49,040 -- 00:13:54,480 If it’s the best for you, use your book. Yeah, and your life better be working out if that book is 145 00:13:54,480 -- 00:14:00,720 Real. Right. You should be known by your fruit. You better be a really happy, thriving, rich, 146 00:14:00,720 -- 00:14:06,000 buoyant Christian for you to convince me that believing in that book has some merit because 147 00:14:06,000 -- 00:14:10,560 You’ve got to test your own belief system. It has to work for you. Are you suggesting that the fruits 148 00:14:10,560 -- 00:14:15,840 of the spirit should be so evident that you don’t have to tell me what your religion is? 149 00:14:15,840 -- 00:14:23,440 Yes. Okay. Yes. Nicely put. All right. Yes. Perfect. So what I’m saying is that the scriptures 150 00:14:23,440 -- 00:14:27,840 do say at least, I don’t know if all of them, you’ve read way more scriptures than I have 151 00:14:27,840 -- 00:14:32,240 like all the other books and whatever you’ve read, like your library is ridiculous. Yeah. 152 00:14:33,280 -- 00:14:38,800 And I can’t read unless there are pictures. But if it is a chapter book, 153 00:14:38,800 -- 00:14:42,720 it’s gonna be a challenge. Yeah well, this book is independent essays, so you can just do six pages. 154 00:14:42,720 -- 00:14:46,160 I can do six pages. And that’s good, and then you’ll learn something you didn’t know. 155 00:14:46,880 -- 00:14:53,840 What I’m saying is that if we’re going to come to this world as a child. Okay if 156 00:14:53,840 -- 00:14:58,880 I’m going to come to this world as a child, that means that I need to have this, not childish but 157 00:14:58,880 -- 00:15:04,160 Child-like disposition. Yes. Which is what Jesus said - Be ye as little children. 158 00:15:04,160 -- 00:15:09,760 But what do children do? They ask questions. And they don’t have preconceived ideas or dogmas. 159 00:15:09,760 -- 00:15:15,520 Children ask questions. They explore. Now here in the western paradigm with the Rockefeller schools 160 00:15:15,520 -- 00:15:19,520 We’re taught to be employees, to not think critically. You know we’re dumbed down. Drink 161 00:15:19,520 -- 00:15:25,120 the fluoride water. Do this. We’re dumbed down. Well excuse me, but I want my children to ask tough 162 00:15:25,120 -- 00:15:31,360 questions. I want them to ask questions. I never not once, and I’ve got four children and four grandchildren. 163 00:15:31,360 -- 00:15:36,080 If they have a question about anything. Anything at all. I don’t want to tell them, oh that’s a 164 00:15:36,080 -- 00:15:41,280 stupid question. No. I say, well look. Let explore it. Let’s explore that. Yeah. So I think 165 00:15:41,280 -- 00:15:46,560 one of the most valuable things we can learn from children is to learn how to ask questions. 166 00:15:46,560 -- 00:15:55,280 Mommy why does that man have no hair? Right. Mommy, why is that that lady so big? Charlie 167 00:15:55,280 -- 00:16:02,880 asked me. He my oldest son. Why is water wet? That is a brilliant question. And I thought, I have 168 00:16:02,880 -- 00:16:07,840 no fucking clue. I always joke with people. It’s like, I love children. I love children. In fact when 169 00:16:07,840 -- 00:16:13,440 I grow up I want to be one. But this whole thing about asking is biblical to ask and receive. 170 00:16:13,440 -- 00:16:18,080 Well what’s that all about? Well because you receive answers once you ask and answers is 171 00:16:18,080 -- 00:16:24,080 the evolutionary component that’s going to allow us to grow and become more. Well I mean, even knock, seek and ask. 172 00:16:24,080 -- 00:16:28,720 You know knock, and knock the door shall open right. Seek and you will find 173 00:16:28,720 -- 00:16:33,520 your answers. The problem is so few people are asking questions. We’ve been encouraged not to. 174 00:16:33,520 -- 00:16:37,520 You know, it’s like we have the what’s called the mockingbird. Told what to believe. Mockingbird media 175 00:16:37,520 -- 00:16:41,920 where you can change channels. Oh, this is stupid. I’m going to change the channel. And the next channel 176 00:16:41,920 -- 00:16:47,120 says the same thing because at 4 a.m. they are issued their talking points right. So now the 177 00:16:47,760 -- 00:16:52,640 just this week we’ve acknowledged that the mockingbird media which is called the mainstream 178 00:16:52,640 -- 00:16:58,400 media or the corporate media is gone. We are now in a point where the new administration the new 179 00:16:58,400 -- 00:17:03,840 White House is acknowledging that those front seats in the press conference the press room
Those don’t need to be always ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN. We should be there. We should be there. 181 00:17:11,120 -- 00:17:15,920 People like us the independent journalists the independent podcasts. We should be there. Let us 182 00:17:15,920 -- 00:17:22,080 ask the questions. This is not about the corporations. They don’t have the right to petition Congress. 183 00:17:22,080 -- 00:17:27,040 That is not part of our documents. It doesn’t say a corporation has the right to redress their 184 00:17:27,040 -- 00:17:33,680 grievances. It says We the People have the right to petition Congress for redress of our grievances. 185 00:17:34,080 -- 00:17:40,480 This is all to say that I think it’s important to ask questions. Vital. Because I just want 186 00:17:40,480 -- 00:17:47,600 to know the answer. What happens if you have a belief system I believe something. Yeah. 187 00:17:47,600 -- 00:17:53,200 Well, why not ask questions to challenge that belief. Well I think in Christianity particularly if you 188 00:17:53,200 -- 00:17:58,080 start challenging it you are considered a heretic back in the day. And when that was going on during 189 00:17:58,080 -- 00:18:02,320 the Inquisition, you were burnt at the stake - which has happened to me. To ask questions was frowned 190 00:18:02,320 -- 00:18:08,560 upon and then forbidden, discouraged, and you had to tow the party line. And if you did that and you’re 191 00:18:08,560 -- 00:18:14,480 obedient to God’s word and you repented, you could score a place in heaven. You’re ;re a good little slave. 192 00:18:14,480 -- 00:18:19,680 So you have this massive carrot dangling which is heaven. And don’t worry too much about planet 193 00:18:19,680 -- 00:18:24,800 Earth. You’ll get to heaven and that’s when your eternal reality begins. 194 00:18:25,440 -- 00:18:30,160 I wrote a book called Is This the Best God Could Do? And I challenged Christianity quite brutally. 195 00:18:30,640 -- 00:18:38,000 And I will be brandished heretic for doing that. Because to question God is blasphemy. And 196 00:18:38,000 -- 00:18:42,800 that;s not just Christianity. That;s a lot of other religions. And it isnt blasphemy. So for me my 197 00:18:42,800 -- 00:18:47,760 questions go to God. The nature of this reality. Who am I in relation to this God and what is the 198 00:18:47,760 -- 00:18:54,800 nature of my mind. So questioning for me has allowed me to create a belief system which at the 199 00:18:54,800 -- 00:19:02,320 moment is working very well for me. But that came around as a result of not being told... Ralph Waldo 200 00:19:02,320 -- 00:19:09,680 Emerson I think said, “Every banned book enlightens the world.” Right. In English. In American English. 201 00:19:09,680 -- 00:19:17,760 Every banned book enlightens the world. So when you ban a book. When you ban it. Banned book. 202 00:19:17,760 -- 00:19:24,480 Oh, banned. Ok banned. I thought you were talking about. B A N D What’s a banned book? 203 00:19:24,480 -- 00:19:32,640 It’s a biography of Led Zeppelin. So asking questions and not being afraid of doing that 204 00:19:33,600 -- 00:19:38,800 is what I think is vital to us solving the problems on planet Earth. So, ask and thou 205 00:19:38,800 -- 00:19:43,280 shalt receive. That’s biblical. You have to ask. That’s the nature of evolution. But we were told 206 00:19:43,280 -- 00:19:48,880 not to by a lot of institutions. This kind of segways into my next discussion, which is, who are we? And 207 00:19:48,880 -- 00:19:56,240 why are we here? I teach my people this all the time. It’s not so much what this earth experience 208 00:19:56,240 -- 00:20:02,480 gives you. It’s who you become through the process. So if you and I are sitting making a puzzle at my 209 00:20:02,480 -- 00:20:07,760 kitchen table. We have a little drink and snacks. Oh by the way thank you for the snacks. Oh yeah… 210 00:20:07,760 -- 00:20:12,400 What was the pudding? Vegan pudding. I don’t know. One looks like it’s banana because that’s yellow 211 00:20:12,400 -- 00:20:16,800 and the other one looks green. I’m not going to even tell Robin about them. I’m just going to eat them both. 212 00:20:16,800 -- 00:20:20,880 That’s very mean. It’s Thanksgiving. You have to give them both to her now to repent. 213 00:20:22,400 -- 00:20:28,800 Now you’ve got to drink water and watch her eat them! You’re so goofy. No actually 214 00:20:28,800 -- 00:20:35,120 we said it on the mics. Now I have to give her one. Now you have to. Sorry honey. Thanks. But uh golly 215 00:20:35,120 -- 00:20:38,960 I was talking about pudding now. I can’t think of anything else. Yeah I know. We’ve got to come back 216 00:20:38,960 -- 00:20:43,840 to asking questions ,and how vital it is. Right so if we’re making a puzzle on my kitchen table. 217 00:20:43,840 -- 00:20:49,840 You know when we put the last piece of the puzzle in place. What happens typically? You’ve made 218 00:20:49,840 -- 00:20:55,200 puzzles before, right. You’ve made puzzles before. What happens is you look at the… you, you’re like, oh 219 00:20:55,200 -- 00:20:59,600 well that’s pretty. It looks just like the cover and then you break it down and you pull out 220 00:20:59,600 -- 00:21:05,280 the next puzzle, or you go do something else. What brings people joy and happiness is not the 221 00:21:05,280 -- 00:21:11,600 completion of the puzzle. It’s the process of figuring it out. What’s this supposed to look 222 00:21:11,600 -- 00:21:17,920 like. So, I think that much of our journey here in this Earth space is not only figuring out who we 223 00:21:17,920 -- 00:21:24,320 are and why we’re here, but also enjoying what we’re becoming in the process. Yes exactly. So 224 00:21:24,320 -- 00:21:28,800 just this morning I’m going through some physical therapy because my hip….. I had some injuries from 225 00:21:28,800 -- 00:21:33,360 the military, so the VA… How did you get them? Were you jumping out a plane or something stupid? 226 00:21:33,360 -- 00:21:38,160 I mean that’s probably part of it. Something stupid. I’ve done that before, but it probably goes back. 227 00:21:38,160 -- 00:21:45,040 I’ve pole vaulted and hurdled. Oh my goodness it’s a combo. Pick your thing right. 228 00:21:45,760 -- 00:21:52,880 One of the most grueling races to run is the 330 low hurdles. So that’s 330 meters. 229 00:21:52,880 -- 00:21:59,440 It’s 300 meters. 300 meters and 30 hurdles. Low hurdles. So, what are they, about three feet high? 230 00:22:00,640 -- 00:22:05,360 I think like 36 inches. Okay and its really grueling. I guess, I’ve never done 231 00:22:05,360 -- 00:22:10,880 that. Oh it’s grueling, and you can knock down the hurdles. Can you? You can 232 00:22:10,880 -- 00:22:16,160 knock it down, but it slows you down. Oh yeah. So but the point is I don’t even know how we get out of 233 00:22:16,160 -- 00:22:23,280 these times. How do we get to talking about hurdles? Well we were talking about 234 00:22:23,280 -- 00:22:28,960 your hip. Okay so back to your hip. So the point is like, I’ve got this also in martial 235 00:22:28,960 -- 00:22:34,640 Arts, this is my launch - my foundational leg. Yeah, but now you got to use this one as a 236 00:22:34,640 -- 00:22:38,080 foundation. I have to kick opposite which is gonna be different. That’s good though it’s challenging. 237 00:22:38,080 -- 00:22:42,160 It’s gonna be really difficult but hopefully my goal within the year. We’ll talk about 238 00:22:42,160 -- 00:22:45,440 goals and stuff like during the Christmas episode. Yes that’s a good time. We’ll talk about new year’s. 239 00:22:45,440 -- 00:22:49,520 Yeah. Let’s do our new year’s one about goals. But I totally have some physical goals I want to 240 00:22:49,520 -- 00:22:56,160 accomplish next year. I’m going through physical therapy and this guy… like I told him he’s 241 00:22:56,160 -- 00:23:01,680 like man… are you from like East Germany? He was like torturing me. Oh my god. He’s like 242 00:23:01,680 -- 00:23:07,840 So but he was like, “Oh no Tia Jolie, you need like your hips to be you need to push into your 243 00:23:07,840 -- 00:23:13,600 navel - into your spine. Now secure that core. Okay, now don’t move your hips now, do this…” 244 00:23:13,600 -- 00:23:19,440 and they put these like elastic bands on and you have to go different directions. He was, “how you 245 00:23:19,440 -- 00:23:26,000 doing?” I’m, like crying. Yeah, it was excruciating, but the point is, I like to limp out of there 246 00:23:26,000 -- 00:23:33,440 in celebration. It’s not like, oh poor me I have this hip that needs to be 247 00:23:33,440 -- 00:23:39,680 adjusted. Well it’s not adjusted. I didn’t talk about this on the air but I go went to the VA 248 00:23:39,680 -- 00:23:45,360 several weeks ago because the pain was excruciating. Well six months ago they said, 249 00:23:45,360 -- 00:23:50,160 “Yeah captain, you need to go get your MRI. So, I got the hip and lower spine MRI and they’re like, 250 00:23:50,160 -- 00:23:57,440 “Oh yeah, you know, what you’ve got is this compound complex meniscus tear, not meniscus, labrum tear 251 00:23:58,080 -- 00:24:02,400 and I’m like, okay, whatever, I’ll fix it. They’re like no, I need surgery. I’m like, no, no, I’ll fix 252 00:24:02,400 -- 00:24:07,600 it. I know how to do this and so we go on, it’s getting better but still painful. So 253 00:24:07,600 -- 00:24:12,640 About, its been about two months ago now, I go in they say well we want you at least talk to the 254 00:24:12,640 -- 00:24:17,040 surgeon. So I go in and talk to the surgeon. What they want to do is give you a replacement? Well 255 00:24:17,040 -- 00:24:22,640 the surgeon of course… they get their surgeons, this is a good story. 256 00:24:22,640 -- 00:24:27,760 I’m glad we’re talking about this. So I go into the surgeon and she’s sitting there and she’s the 257 00:24:27,760 -- 00:24:32,720 Surgeon, and the resident is sitting there, taking notes right, and just learning and here’s this
scrappy captain comes in. You do know that Scrappy Doo was Scooby Doo’s cousin. Scrappy 259 00:24:39,440 -- 00:24:45,120 Doo. All right, yeah have a look. Okay I’ll look at the Scrappy Doo, anyway back to sitting here. 260 00:24:45,120 -- 00:24:53,200 In front of you. Thanks for always pulling me off track. I’m thankful for that. So the surgeon 261 00:24:53,200 -- 00:24:57,360 tells me it’s like, yeah captain you’re gonna have to have this hip replaced because this 262 00:24:57,360 -- 00:25:02,240 she showed me the x-ray right and it’s like completely ( and that made sense) complete arthritis. 263 00:25:02,240 -- 00:25:05,920 Right okay. I’m like, wait a minute, they said it was a compound tear to the labrum. Yeah its 264 00:25:05,920 -- 00:25:11,360 gonna say that. You’re gonna say this is arthritis and it was all white and she’s like, yeah you know… 265 00:25:11,360 -- 00:25:17,840 and I said, well here’s what’s gonna happen. I’m not gonna get surgery. I’m gonna ask you politely 266 00:25:17,840 -- 00:25:24,800 to give me physical therapy because my blood is powerful. My bones are alive. My tissues alive. Yeah 267 00:25:24,800 -- 00:25:29,680 You can regenerate. I’m gonna regenerate that hip the same way I reversed my spinal stenosis.
I’m gonna reverse this arthritis. That’s fantastic. And I told you who I am. Yeah what I do. How I do 269 00:25:36,480 -- 00:25:43,120 it. How the fluids change. What was their expression? This is awesome. The only question I 270 00:25:43,120 -- 00:25:50,480 have for you doctor/surgeon is you’ve told me two things. I’ve got arthritis which I can work on 271 00:25:50,480 -- 00:25:56,880 but you also said there’s a labrum tear in it. So could it be both? It could be. I said what are my 272 00:25:56,880 -- 00:26:03,680 physical restrictions? She said as long as you can tolerate the pain you can go to physical therapy 273 00:26:03,680 -- 00:26:08,480 to increase the motion, and do because I need to get the synovial fluid because your joints don’t
have a pump. You have to move the joint to get oxygen in. So, is it moving them that’s causing 275 00:26:13,760 -- 00:26:18,400 this pain, but it’s also the thing that’s going to heal you? And that’s why I tell people my people 276 00:26:18,400 -- 00:26:23,840 healing can be painful. Only move… just like I told my kids, just brush the teeth you want 277 00:26:23,840 -- 00:26:30,480 to keep right. Well same thing only move the joints that you want to keep because otherwise 278 00:26:30,480 -- 00:26:34,720 They’re going to seize up. So this is the same thing here if you have a 279 00:26:35,520 -- 00:26:41,360 an arthritic joint, the idea is not to protect it, it’s to try to use it to mobilize and it’s painful 280 00:26:41,360 -- 00:26:47,760 but you have to do it. So I’m in the process so the bottom line on this whole thing is I’m thankful 281 00:26:47,760 -- 00:26:55,360 I’m grateful that this guy is kicking my ass because he’s doing me a favor. Pain and gain. 282 00:26:55,360 -- 00:27:00,880 And so I’m actually thankful for that, but I think that we kind of got into this because 283 00:27:02,160 -- 00:27:08,640 when things happen to us in the world around us, if we don’t get an answer ,we like. Let’s just pretend 284 00:27:09,200 -- 00:27:15,600 Let’s pretend in the next year… We’ll get all sorts of disclosures about the hideous things our 285 00:27:15,600 -- 00:27:21,440 government has done against us. Let’s just pretend that happens. We have a choice, do we 286 00:27:21,440 -- 00:27:26,640 curl up on the ground in a fetal position and suck our thumbs and… A lot of people will. A lot of people 287 00:27:26,640 -- 00:27:33,600 will, or do we say okay let’s get together, huddle up, what are we going to do about this. You know 288 00:27:33,600 -- 00:27:39,120 what do we do? How do we make sure this stuff doesn’t happen again and that’s where a lot of 289 00:27:39,120 -- 00:27:45,200 us are, we’re like okay, we won, we won a lot of this, the war, the information war, now we have to 290 00:27:45,200 -- 00:27:52,160 disclose some things, but ultimately we want to leave this world a better place so that 291 00:27:52,160 -- 00:27:58,320 in a thousand years from now, the thanksgiving celebrations are freaking awesome… But it is 292 00:27:58,320 -- 00:28:04,240 better than it was a hundred years , you think yeah, of course yes absolutely 293 00:28:05,120 -- 00:28:11,280 life for the average person is way better than it was a hundred years ago in England - 150 years ago 294 00:28:11,280 -- 00:28:14,880 the average person didn’t have security, they didn’t have food, they didn’t have health care 295 00:28:14,880 -- 00:28:18,880 they didn’t have medicine, they didn’t have any counseling systems we didn’t have the department 296 00:28:18,880 - 00:28:23,840 and children of families to protect children, they didn’t have an official education, i mean we’re 297 00:28:23,840 -- 00:28:30,640 doing really, really well compared to any other time in human history! Wow, yeah you and I diverge 298 00:28:30,640 -- 00:28:36,880 on this because… not because what you say is not accurate, because your perspective based on… your 299 00:28:36,880 -- 00:28:45,760 data points are very accurate, but I really question 150 years ago what we are not being told about 300 00:28:46,320 -- 00:28:53,200 technologies that we used to have - even the ancient Egyptians those pyramids they were not burials 301 00:28:53,200 -- 00:29:00,240 for kings, no those were some sort of an energy system, or they were something… but that’s not what 302 00:29:00,240 -- 00:29:06,080 we’re being told, yeah, and I think that there so many things… I asked you about Tartaria 303 00:29:06,080 -- 00:29:12,400 I showed you pictures - even some of the hieroglyphs from you know the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs 304 00:29:12,400 -- 00:29:18,560 you can see things that look like flying saucers you can see them in the actual pictures… But I 305 00:29:18,560 -- 00:29:24,400 don disagree, I think, we probably have been lied to, and I think information is withheld from us all 306 00:29:24,400 -- 00:29:32,480 the time, so I don’t think that you’re wrong about any of this, I just don’t know the utility… for you 307 00:29:32,480 -- 00:29:36,560 this is very interesting and you seem to be somewhat of an historian you believe that we’ve 308 00:29:36,560 -- 00:29:44,720 been lied to, I believe too, so do you believe what these lies are 309 00:29:44,720 -- 00:29:52,080 not going to occur again with the same strength? Right now, most of the stuff’s being filmed, we can 310 00:29:52,080 -- 00:29:56,000 document everything, we’re not going to be lied to like we could in the past, we’re going
to stop being sheep and we’re going to rebel, so then we find out what’s all this information 312 00:30:01,520 -- 00:30:05,840 that’s being withheld from us. That’ll be great; some people are going to be freaked out, others 313 00:30:05,840 -- 00:30:11,200 are going to feel liberated, and then we carry on, but each of us is manifesting reality within 314 00:30:11,200 -- 00:30:17,920 this consensus reality, so I’m all for finding the truth, I love it as a project, I find it fascinating 315 00:30:17,920 -- 00:30:25,040 and for all those things you said I’m grateful, and I’m thankful, i really am, we’re at a place now 316 00:30:25,040 -- 00:30:32,960 where we no longer have to be treated like sheep, yeah where no longer will you be will like this 317 00:30:32,960 -- 00:30:38,320 is the one of the most bogus things that can happen is for this corporate school system, this 318 00:30:38,320 -- 00:30:44,320 centralized school system that teaches from Washington D C that your children will in
kindergarten learn this, first grade learn this, and we’ve spent more money on education and we 320 00:30:50,560 -- 00:30:54,640 the people are dumber than ever, yeah because we don’t teach them how to think critically and we 321 00:30:54,640 -- 00:30:58,880 don’t teach, we don’t teach them logic… But each child is receptive to a different way of learning 322 00:30:58,880 -- 00:31:02,720 and that’s very important. Sol Kahn wrote a book…. I wish I could remember what it was, but it talked 323 00:31:02,720 -- 00:31:08,000 about how children learn but we’ve all just been in a sausage factory, we as children going into one… 324 00:31:08,000 -- 00:31:13,680 a way of learning a whole load of bullshit facts that no one could give a shit about and so the 325 00:31:13,680 -- 00:31:22,160 whole education system should be broken down and then rebuilt and understanding how a child learns 326 00:31:22,160 -- 00:31:27,440 and what they’re good at at an earlier age, and not just filter them all through like they’re all the 327 00:31:27,440 -- 00:31:32,960 Same, right, I mean that is I don’t know how you pull that off logistically but that’s got to 328 00:31:32,960 -- 00:31:38,640 change because the education system is just a joke… Well you start off by decentralizing the 329 00:31:38,640 -- 00:31:45,440 Education, we don’t need a centralized Washington DC and billions or whatever it costs for some bureaucrats 330 00:31:45,440 -- 00:31:51,760 who can’t find their butts with both hands, telling us how to run our… So is Trump going to um, revamp… 331 00:31:51,760 -- 00:31:56,880 Oh, the Department of Education is on the chopping block.” “Oh good, yeah, so you’re happy 332 00:31:56,880 -- 00:32:02,880 about that, but we still need some coherence to our education systems but let’s 333 00:32:02,880 -- 00:32:08,160 bring it down to the local level or at least the county or state level right because nobody knows 334 00:32:08,160 -- 00:32:14,480 more about what your children need to learn in school or your grandchildren as it were - than us 335 00:32:15,200 -- 00:32:19,840 and if you’re in the middle of Texas, and you want you know all your whole community agrees that 336 00:32:19,840 --; 00:32:25,360 you okay to open with the pledge in the prayer, do a prayer in the morning, and that’s 337 00:32:25,360 -- 00:32:31,440 your school district and that your thing, that’s okay, but if you go to another place and you’re in 338 00:32:32,000 -- 00:32:37,520 Austin Texas or southern California and you’re not going to do the pledge or your whatever 339 00:32:37,520 -- 00:32:42,400 yeah that’s okay too, but let’s push those things down to the local levels. I don’t think we need a 340 00:32:42,400 -- 00:32:47,840 central authority telling us how to live our lives. 341 00:32:47,840 -- 00:32:54,080 I’m thankful that we have the tools we have you and I can sit in a studio throw a mic on, 342 00:32:54,080 -- 00:32:57,680 Yeah, and I want to just throw this out there because you don’t even know this yet 343 00:32:58,720 -- 00:33:06,080 in fact, I want to say to our listeners in Moscow 344 00:33:06,880 -- 00:33:15,120 Helsinki Finland, right, and we even have one listener from Malaysia nice so I want to thank first
of all - all of our listeners yes, but also the people internationally now. For those of you 346 00:33:21,440 -- 00:33:26,800 Who want to interact with us there are a couple ways you can do it, you can go to Soul decodes.com 347 00:33:26,800 -- 00:33:32,800 and there is a contact page, but also under each episode there is a spot where you can do comments 348 00:33:32,800 -- 00:33:37,440 and Sarah and I will read all of the comments and if there something really compelling ask us we 349 00:33:37,440 -- 00:33:41,680 actually put it on the air and talk, yeah we’ll do what we should, i think good, I’m really grateful 350 00:33:41,680 -- 00:33:45,760 and thankful because this is a brand new podcast that we have listeners from across the world! 351 00:33:45,760 -- 00:33:51,840 It’s very cosmopolitan, I know it is so cool. So we talked a little bit about what thanksgiving is 352 00:33:51,840 -- 00:33:56,960 So what is it not. Then tell me about… No well, I don’t know 353 00:33:56,960 -- 00:34:01,200 I was gonna ask you about thanksgiving when you were a child but it just didn’t happen 354 00:34:01,200 -- 00:34:04,960 I didn’t even know about it, we had a turkey for Christmas which was the closest thing you had to 355 00:34:04,960 -- 00:34:11,600 a celebration, well Mayday - there were pagan festivals, we had maypole dancing on 356 00:34:11,600 -- 00:34:15,840 the 1st of May. Well that sounds more fun than thanksgiving… Yeah but I really fucked it up once 357 00:34:15,840 -- 00:34:20,400 Yeah, so I was a maypole dancer, and so you each have this ribbon.. Your pole dancer too! 358 00:34:22,800 -- 00:34:30,800 Maypole! A maypole is a big pole and it has ribbons attached to it, and you 359 00:34:30,800 -- 00:34:35,120 each have a ribbon, and then you have a whole bunch of… I don’t know how many it was, it was about 360 00:34:35,120 -- 00:34:41,120 12 and then your choreographed where you have to dance in this certain dance around each other 361 00:34:41,120 -- 00:34:46,640 and it is platting the ribbon so you get this beautiful pattern in this ribbon coming down the pole
and that’s what you’re doing, everyone in the audience is looking at how you’re platting the 363 00:34:49,920 -- 00:34:55,680 ribbon so I’m really into it, it was the first time my mum came to see anything of mine so I am
dancing on this maypole, i was really excited about it, and then i fucked the whole thing up 365 00:35:01,280 -- 00:35:06,400 because i went the wrong way, so I went on the inside of a girl who now came on the outside… she’s down
here and this is this really horrible plat and that was that was Mayday and that was a festival 367 00:35:13,120 -- 00:35:18,000 I should never forget, that was so embarrassing, but Mayday was a pagan holiday and that was a 368 00:35:18,000 -- 00:35:24,240 celebration of harvest and to be grateful I would say, that would be what is remember to 369 00:35:24,240 -- 00:35:29,600 being the equivalent of Thanksgiving, and it was Mayday… and so many Americans they 370 00:35:29,600 -- 00:35:35,600 fancy themselves being all of this you know Judeo Christian which are totally opposite to Judeo Christian… 371 00:35:35,600 -- 00:35:41,600 where does that… what does that even mean, where does that overlap this whole idea of uh these 372 00:35:41,600 -- 00:35:48,320 these different celebrations being Christian based, a lot of them are based on pagan traditions, right 373 00:35:48,320 -- 00:35:53,440 Yeah, and it’s not a bad thing, when I was in West Palm Beach, I used to live in Jupiter Florida 374 00:35:54,800 -- 00:36:01,120 some of our favorite people were pagans with the celebrations like the harvest celebration
Um, it was one of the most beautiful and meaningful, i got a little goosebumps… Nice, so beautiful the 376 00:36:06,640 -- 00:36:12,800 acknowledgement of how the Earth creates abundance they would acknowledge the circle of life these 377 00:36:12,800 --00:36:19,360 such beautiful ideas, I would rather see that incorporated into Thanksgiving, than you know, a 378 00:36:19,360 -- 00:36:24,960 dead turkey carcass, with you know whatever you know like… Wait a minute, we talked 379 00:36:24,960 -- 00:36:30,080 about thanksgiving, you didn’t really have one when you were a child, Thanksgiving was the thing 380 00:36:30,080 -- 00:36:36,160 that was special when we were up in Detroit, there was always this Thanksgiving Day Parade which was the 381 00:36:36,160 -- 00:36:40,880 highlight of the day because the Detroit Lions always lost, yeah that football team 382 00:36:40,880 -- 00:36:47,360 yeah real football, not soccer, yeah yeah, some of you get what I just said about the Detroit Lions 383 00:36:47,360 -- 00:36:53,040 They used to always find a way to lose football games, American football games, they always figured out 384 00:36:53,040 -- 00:36:58,400 how to lose that… you just being facetious aren’t you? No, why would they figure out how to… 385 00:36:58,400 -- 00:37:02,720 I don know, you’ll have to go back and ask them because it was the biggest joke in Detroit, 386 00:37:02,720 -- 00:37:08,000 like you’d even see Detroit fans with their with grocery bags over their heads, like oh i can 387 00:37:08,000 -- 00:37:12,800 show up at the Lions games with grocery bags… Oh that’s awful, I know, but there was some 388 00:37:12,800 -- 00:37:18,080 They wanted to be fans, I want to support you, but stop embarrassing us, but now
it’s just the opposite, you know the Lions this year are so far 10 and 1 Oh that’s good they 390 00:37:22,880 -- 00:37:28,400 play every Thanksgiving, they used to play um i think we used to play Green Bay, I don’t know if 391 00:37:28,400 -- 00:37:33,840 it was exclusive but or maybe it was Dallas but anyway this year we’re playing, I think Chicago 392 00:37:33,840 --; 00:37:38,720 next week is a short week for us, right we’re 10 and 1 like it is so amazing, we’re like doing so well 393 00:37:39,680 -- 00:37:45,200 So I share this with you because the Thanksgiving Parade was 394 00:37:45,200 -- 00:37:49,440 that you’re a kid watching this and my mom and dad they were tired all the time and 395 00:37:49,440 -- 00:37:54,720 they didn’t really want to go, but this is our chance and our older cousins sometimes said, hey take the 396 00:37:54,720 -- 00:38:00,400 little Phillips kids, a little tribe, and throw them in our car, we’d all pile in the trunk or 397 00:38:00,400 -- 00:38:06,400 Whatever, and yeah, that was always fun, the Thanksgiving Day Parade yes, it was entertaining 398 00:38:06,400 -- 00:38:11,360 it was the bands you know, the dancers, I love all that pageantry, I love it 399 00:38:11,360 -- 00:38:16,560 It was fun, it may have the floats and everything so that it is different being on the street with 400 00:38:16,560 -- 00:38:22,000 the energy, the visual spectacle you know, and you’re a little bit cold because it is Detroit in November 401 00:38:22,000 -- 00:38:29,040 You’re like, oh yeah, come on, come on, yeah, so those were always fun now my background, I’m half 402 00:38:29,040 -- 00:38:38,160 Ukrainian and half Macedonian, all right, so my grandparents always had the most amazing Thanksgiving 403 00:38:38,160 -- 00:38:45,360 Foods, so I’d go to my mom’s mom’s house, and it was Ukrainian and we had, oh my goodness, the 404 00:38:45,360 -- 00:38:52,960 foods were just amazing, like it was 405 00:38:52,960 -- 00:38:58,080 nothing elaborate like you’d see in a restaurant, it was basically what you would call 406 00:38:58,080 -- 00:39:06,160 poor people food, so that’s potatoes, potatoes and onions, barley and cabbage and my grand mom’s 407 00:39:07,040 -- 00:39:11,760 husband who was not my original grandpa, that’s why I don’t call him grandpa 408 00:39:11,760 -- 00:39:18,320 Right, basically f he was my step-grand grandpa and he uh raised bunnies and pigeons and you 409 00:39:18,320 -- 00:39:23,600 eat those, well we didn’t know it, we didn’t know it at the time, we 410 00:39:23,600 -- 00:39:27,280 ate bunny burger, but you know, they would make you know if you;re making chicken soup 411 00:39:27,280 -- 00:39:32,800 my mom used to um do chicken and bunnies so we had pigeon soup one of my favorites 412 00:39:32,800 -- 00:39:38,800 She called it svikli What in that? It was basically like pickled beets, Oh okay, Oh my goodness 413 00:39:38,800 --00:39:43,520 That was like, I could eat the whole , it was so delicious, so I really do miss the ethnic 414 00:39:43,520 -- 00:39:48,560 part of my upbringing, it sounds healthy too oh totally and then, well more or 415 00:39:48,560 -- 00:39:53,680 Less, i mean the other side we’d have Macedonia in which for those of you who don’t know Macedonia 416 00:39:53,680 -- 00:39:59,040 It used to cover like this huge chunk of Europe and Asia right uh Alexander the Great 417 00:39:59,840 -- 00:40:05,920 very likely I am a descendant, we don’t know t for sure, but very likely because where all 418 00:40:05,920 -- 00:40:11,680 of the nexus of all the energy of the people because we’re basically from northern Greece 419 00:40:11,680 -- 00:40:15,600 Right, just north of Greece which is Macedonia I’m gonna have to look on the map now. 420 00:40:15,600 -- 00:40:19,520 A tiny little place now, but if you look at the historical maps it used to span all the way to 421 00:40:19,520 -- 00:40:23,200 right you know beyond…. like so they were allowed to keep a little part of their territory but they 422 00:40:23,200 -- 00:40:30,640 were conquered, well yeah I mean, who knows exactly, we don’t know do we, no idea 423 00:40:30,640 -- 00:40:36,880 I know were still alive we’re still fighting, you know as long as one of us is alive but we… 424 00:40:36,880 -- 00:40:42,560 um I do miss the ethnic dishes, we had what looks like spinach pie 425 00:40:43,760 -- 00:40:49,120 My grandma on the Macedonian side would make the spinach pie 426 00:40:49,120 -- 00:40:54,400 she would use pumpkin, so it’d be like you have the flaky layers the dough 427 00:40:54,400 -- 00:40:59,040 But it’d have pumpkin inside, Oh it sounds very nice Oh my goodness, yeah so i really do miss those things 428 00:40:59,040 -- 00:41:05,200 Have you ever tried and recreating those dishes you should have a Macedonian evening right 429 00:41:05,200 -- 00:41:09,440 We will all bring an ingredient, all be in the kitchen, we all have to get a separate ingredients 430 00:41:09,440 -- 00:41:14,080 we should do that, you’ll have to talk to Robin because yeah she very 431 00:41:14,080 -- 00:41:19,520 interested in that, talk to her, she migrates towards the next like two generations 432 00:41:19,520 -- 00:41:23,920 above us, if she can run into somebody that is 80 90 or 100 years old that’s got their wits about 433 00:41:23,920 -- 00:41:29,200 Them, they can teach her whatever their ethnicity is if they’re from Thailand she wants to 434 00:41:29,200 -- 00:41:34,240 Learn, if they’re from, wow beautiful from Australia or something like that, she wants
to learn their cooking methods that’s her thing, because there is 436 00:41:40,320 -- 00:41:47,680 so much depth because it’s not just some recipe, they sit there and they talk about what it means. 437 00:41:47,680 -- 00:41:53,920 How this came to be, why Ukrainians eat the wheat and barley. 438 00:41:53,920 -- 00:41:58,560 They grew so they harvest what they harvested, they were the wheat- belt of Asia of Europe 439 00:41:58,560 -- 00:42:03,680 You know that is what they did, you know, I always enjoy the stories and one other thing 440 00:42:03,680 --& 00:42:08,960 That I remember it was during the summer times especially in Michigan like as soon as the 441 00:42:08,960 -- 00:42:16,800 weather broke in Michigan, we would go to the riverfront and we had ethnic festivals this was 442 00:42:16,800 -- 00:42:21,680 this was the coolest thing and i hope we get these back sometime so an ethnic dressing up 443 00:42:21,680 -- 00:42:27,360 in national costume totally like so if it was like German week right so 444 00:42:27,360 -- 00:42:32,400 it was a week or two weeks or whatever, but you go like oh my goodness this is German week and 445 00:42:32,400 -- 00:42:37,520 everyone would go downtown Detroit on the riverfront they block it off and there’d be German you know 446 00:42:37,520 -- 00:42:44,880 bratfest and they would have all the German uh strudel and all of these really cool things to eat 447 00:42:44,880 -- 00:42:50,640 Sauerkraut, then the next week would be Polish and the next week would be Russian 448 00:42:51,600 -- 00:42:55,600 and then they have the Lebanese fest You know, i love that, i love middle eastern
What was fascinating was as a child, if you watch the news you would think that well golly 1968 450 00:43:03,280 -- 00:43:09,040 in Detroit because that I grew up in 1968 in Detroit, i was five years old so 451 00:43:09,040 -- 00:43:14,560 if you look at that era, most people are like oh there were riots in the streets and stuff, and there were 452 00:43:14,560 -- 00:43:19,280 Yeah, but those were so isolated, it was yes it was just really to mobilize the hearts and minds of 453 00:43:19,280 - 00:43:25,520 People, we would go downtown and we would watch boat races on the water we had such a good 454 00:43:25,520 -- 00:43:32,320 experience with festivals, we were Ukrainian dancers, so we would perform 455 00:43:32,320 -- 00:43:37,520 on the riverfront there would be the Ukrainian music and if you look at the Russian Cossack dancers and 456 00:43:37,520 -- 00:43:43,600 the beautiful girls, 457 00:43:43,600 -- 00:43:48,640 We need to get to the point where we can love each other and we can start celebrating our differences 458 00:43:49,520 -- 00:43:54,800 Yeah i don’t want everybody to be the same, no that would be so boring, yeah that’s what America has 459 00:43:54,800 -- 00:43:59,280 always been hasn’t it - a melting pot of cultures, and we all should get along its not happening 460 00:43:59,280 -- 00:44:07,840 Now because we’ve been divided, but we should get along um the value in America should just be to 461 00:44:08,400 -- 00:44:12,800 have what… I mean it is a Christian culture isn’t. But you should worship whatever your 462 00:44:12,800 -- 00:44:18,640 version of your god is, and just be peaceful and loving and be a great person and allow other 463 00:44:18,640 --00:44:24,640 people the expression to do the same, the only thing for me is that i don’t believe that 464 00:44:24,640 -- 00:44:28,560 Christianity has told us the premise of our existence. I believe we’re coming back to this 465 00:44:28,560 -- 00:44:33,120 planet more than once, over and over again, and we’re in a matrix, but other than that i 466 00:44:33,120 -- 00:44:38,160 give a shit about what religion anyone is, and yeah you want to do this, you want to do that, then come 467 00:44:38,160 -- 00:44:44,960 together and let’s talk about it, let’s share ideas and just be you 468 00:44:44,960 --; 00:44:49,840 A religion has got for me to be telling you the truth about what you doing on this 469 00:44:49,840 -- 00:44:55,600 planet so but I’m still fine about you celebrating that religion i don’t believe your religion is 470 00:44:55,600 -- 00:45:01,680 serving you particularly well, but you are free and i don’t judge you for wanting to be a member of 471 00:45:01,680 -- 00:45:07,280 that religion, and you should be free to do that, I;d still question religion and what the God-type 472 00:45:07,280 -- 00:45:13,360 is that is overseeing that religion, but yeah lets just embrace all other cultures and i think um i 473 00:45:13,360 -- 00:45:18,880 think most people think like us, I mean you’re correct, your statement is 474 00:45:18,880 -- 00:45:24,800 perfectly correct, most people do think like us, if you’re a Muslim and as long as you’re not hurting
other people, like if you if you’re Muslim and your relate to your relationship with your creator 476 00:45:30,000 -- 00:45:36,640 and it is serving you and your family, be the best Muslim you can be, yeah, but it is only when you try to hurt 477 00:45:36,640 -- 00:45:42,400 other people, you steal from them, take their stuff, take their land, if you doing those things - killing 478 00:45:42,400 -- 00:45:48,240 them, raping them, whatever, then that is not okay yeah and I think most of 479 00:45:48,240 -- 00:45:53,440 us know that that is not okay in terms of America being a melting pot, we do have policies and 480 00:45:53,440 -- 00:45:59,920 procedures , like if I came into Sarah Tirri’s home and and started rearranging your
furniture and am not invited, there was no meeting of the minds, i just 482 00:46:06,080 -- 00:46:11,600 showed up and started owning your house, right, I go into your living cabinet start pulling out the 483 00:46:11,600 -- 00:46:18,960 bourbon right… As long as you get the vacuum cleaner out start polishing the window 484 00:46:18,960 -- 00:46:25,360 like you’re gonna be like, who are you, like knock on the front door, use 485 00:46:25,360 -- 00:46:30,480 your manners, introduce yourself… State your intentions 486 00:46:31,280 -- 00:46:36,480 we want you here, but we want a peaceful loving nation, we want you to be peaceful so 487 00:46:36,480 -- 00:46:41,520 this is… I don’t know if this is useful or not, I like this conversation because what is Thanksgiving 488 00:46:41,520 -- 00:46:47,680 clearly to a Brit and it is nothing, but to an American like you, you have both perspectives 489 00:46:47,680 -- 00:46:54,720 I think it is based on some mythological story 490 00:46:54,720 -- 00:47:01,120 Probably right, but I like the sentiment that there is a formalization of what it means to be 491 00:47:01,120 -- 00:47:07,360 grateful and thankful, and families come together and they overeat and they chill out make each other 492 00:47:07,360 -- 00:47:12,720 Laugh, and um i think it is a beautiful holiday, i really like Christmas in the same way - 493 00:47:12,720 -- 00:47:18,080 for me Christmas feels more sacred to me for some reason, but it’s a similar thing but i would 494 00:47:18,080 -- 00:47:25,760 suggest to be thankful every day, I mean wake up and before my mind begins…. Oh, so I wrote this this morning 495 00:47:25,760 --00:47:34,240 I wanted to read this out so thankfulness okay so this is um my take on it using the full force of 496 00:47:34,240 -- 00:47:39,280 my will, i consider the active seeking of a thankful and grateful heart to be a vital part of my 497 00:47:39,280 -- 00:47:44,800 spirituality because it allows me to recognize and appreciate the blessings in my life which
foster the connection i know i have to the higher power of which i am part of, thankfulness is a resting
state and increases my mind’s ability to pursue positivity and promotes within me a sense of 500 00:47:57,920 -- 00:48:04,000 well-being because it shifts my focus away from the default setting of my ego mind which is geared 501 00:48:04,000 -- 00:48:10,640 to seek out all that is wrong with the world in order to improve it. Civilizations are built 502 00:48:10,640 -- 00:48:16,320 because the default-finding mechanism of the ego mind, but allowing one’s attention to overly 503 00:48:16,320 -- 00:48:23,280 dwell in fault-finding mode lowers one’s vibration and therefore the physical manifestations which 504 00:48:23,280 -- 00:48:30,080 appear in one’s outer reality are of a lower grade too and this theory can be tested, and in practical 505 00:48:30,080 --00:48:36,240 terms, thankfulness is nourishing because it helps me feel more positive emotions it helps me embrace 506 00:48:36,240 -- 00:48:42,880 and relish good experiences, it tangibly improves my health, helps me cope with adversity, and helps 507 00:48:42,880 -- 00:48:49,680 me build stronger relationships. That is amazing, would you mind sending that to me if you’re okay 508 00:48:49,680 -- 00:48:54,480 with it, yeah I’m going to make a pdf and am going to put that in the flow in the show notes
i think that’s relevant so thank you for sharing that, that was really amazingly well
written. Thank you no surprise there, we talked a little bit about what thanksgiving is a little 511 00:49:04,480 -- 00:49:12,640 bit about what it not, but there is one other thing 512 00:49:12,640 -- 00:49:18,960 i think all of the hallmark holidays I call them are you familiar with the term, yes, okay 513 00:49:18,960 -- 00:49:24,640 like oh my goodness it is Valentine day and if you’re not buying your loved one or significant other 514 00:49:24,640 -- 00:49:29,520 this beautiful piece of jewelry… you hate the consumerism, the consumerism is just kind of 515 00:49:29,520 -- 00:49:34,480 Overdone - money making, the same thing like with Christmas or you know whatever 516 00:49:35,360 -- 00:49:40,880 but I love gifts, I’m into this whole thing… you know everyone got their language 517 00:49:40,880 -- 00:49:45,840 they speak, like you’re a gift giver… I love to give a gift and i love to receive a gift 518 00:49:46,560 -- 00:49:51,200 and you and Robin are similar that way, so beautiful, because I am a server 519 00:49:51,200 -- 00:49:56,080 I’m not a gift giver necessarily but I like to serve people and help people and yeah make your 520 00:49:56,080 -- 00:50:01,520 life better and help you, yeah like I’m not going to impose myself on you but if you need help or 521 00:50:01,520 -- 00:50:07,120 there something is something you need, a trailer, you need this moved, My life 522 00:50:07,120 -- 00:50:12,240 is one of service, so I think we need all of us, we have different ways of expressing love 523 00:50:12,240 -- 00:50:17,440 but i do agree with you, consumerism is vulgar and it is it puts a lot of pressure 524 00:50:17,440 -- 00:50:23,120 on you as well, but I kind of like it, I love all these these holidays 525 00:50:23,120 -- 00:50:29,200 and the more the merrier for me so… the reason I bring this up is because thanksgiving 526 00:50:29,200 -- 00:50:34,240 has become so commercial, I mean it’s not even the end of summer and they are already talking about 527 00:50:34,240 -- 00:50:40,480 Christmas sales and Thanksgiving Friday… I don’t leave the house 528 00:50:41,920 -- 00:50:46,560 What is the thing about black Friday? It’s quite an ominous title isn’t it, but do you know 529 00:50:46,560 -- 00:50:51,360 what it means> No I don’t, oh yeah, so is it to do with the plague or something, i mean it sounds 530 00:50:51,360 -- 00:50:54,880 horrible but it’s just when everything is cheap and put on sale…
a plague… but black Friday is essentially an accounting term 532 00:51:00,960 -- 00:51:04,720 and maybe I’m wrong, maybe if somebody’s listening to this and I am way out 533 00:51:04,720 -- 00:51:10,960 there, but to my understanding, black Friday is simply that most companies, traditionally 534 00:51:10,960 -- 00:51:16,720 brick and mortar companies have all these expenses, its very expensive to run the company and 535 00:51:16,720 -- 00:51:22,080 pay their executives, and pay their for the buildings, and computers, and trucks, that they go most of the 536 00:51:22,080 -- 00:51:32,640 year without making a profit, so they spend 87 90 percent of the year breaking even and on this 537 00:51:32,640 -- 00:51:38,800 one day that they turn the corner, and they go from the red to the black. So this is their big
thing to really make their spreadsheet go from a net loss for the year yeah to turn a profit 539 00:51:44,800 -- 00:51:51,440 for the year. Maybe I’m wrong, but that is kind of my understanding of the takeaway from our angle and it is that 540 00:51:51,440 -- 00:51:57,200 consumerism is ridiculous and so… I’m not going to pretend to say that I don’t enjoy receiving a 541 00:51:57,200 -- 00:52:04,240 piece of jewelry or giving a gift to somebody I love, but I that the whole 542 00:52:04,240 -- 00:52:11,520 idea of Thanksgiving should not be pigeonholed into one day or one weekend I think thanksgiving 543 00:52:11,520 -- 00:52:17,600 should be a state of being, yes absolutely, a state of gratitude where it is a daily waking practice that’s
why I love what you wrote there and why i want to put it in the show notes because whenever I coach 545 00:52:22,800 -- 00:52:28,560 Somebody, I always have them do personal affirmations and write them out.
I do this first thing in the morning, the moment you wake up so what I’d
like people to do is move towards this idea that the next breath you take is a gift! Yeah you 548 00:52:44,720 -- 00:52:50,320 know I’m looking across at this beautiful Sarah Tirri smile - it’s a gift so what I teach 549 00:52:50,320 -- 00:52:59,680 my people; It is anything that serves you, that builds you, a breath of fresh air, water… toilet paper toilet 550 00:52:59,680 -- 00:53:07,200 Toilet paper is a rockin idea, yeah just be grateful for it… I mean, I am grateful now for this view that I see 551 00:53:07,200 -- 00:53:11,600 have behind you because we are up in your tree house and the light with that oak tree. I mean 552 00:53:11,600 -- 00:53:17,520 just capture the moments, i mean being thankful can take place all day long 553 00:53:17,520 -- 00:53:23,440 and you be in a higher vibration so your outer manifestations will mirror that 554 00:53:23,680 -- 00:53:28,960 yeah I mean I love this once a year tradition but I think it should be a daily waking practice 555 00:53:28,960 -- 00:53:35,200 i do too. i like that so i would say my wish for people would be that they go forth every day with 556 00:53:35,840 -- 00:53:41,680 every breath you take, every pulse, that every time your heart beats you notice 557 00:53:41,680 -- 00:53:48,320 notice it, be present with that, stay present and along the lines of your body like you mentioned 558 00:53:48,320 -- 00:53:55,040 there in your paper, you talked about health being a direct correlation you can read this 559 00:53:55,040 -- 00:54:01,840 you can study the works from Dr. Bruce Lipton oh yes… The Biology of Belief 560 00:54:02,480 -- 00:54:07,920 but if you believe you’re worthy, but - you see a lot of people they can’t go forward in this position of 561 00:54:07,920 -- 00:54:12,720 gratitude because they have this baggage they’re carrying because they did something stupid when 562 00:54:12,720 -- 00:54:18,080 they were younger, they live with regret, or the regret i should have done this way, or why didn’t I… Give yourself 563 00:54:18,080 -- 00:54:23,120 self-forgiveness, move on baby, like you know what, learn from it, do better, yeah that’s the 564 00:54:23,120 -- 00:54:28,160 nature of evolution, learn from it, do better, that’s all you can do, yeah trial and error, i just want 565 00:54:28,160 -- 00:54:34,320 people to be a lot more healthy if they cut bait from something in your past and it is 566 00:54:34,320 -- 00:54:41,040 not serving you, let it go, yes, and forget about it, don rehash it in your mind, center your awareness 567 00:54:41,040 -- 00:54:45,120 Don’t keep uploading thoughts which are self-disparaging… Yeah, Joe Dispenza talks 568 00:54:45,120 -- 00:54:51,600 about it in terms of replaying old crappy movies… yeah yeah, and it just means refocusing your
Attention. All you have to do when you see yourself trapped in a thought form like a 570 00:54:55,840 -- 00:55:00,400 crappy movie that Dispenza talks about, just refocus your attention bring it back to the 571 00:55:00,400 -- 00:55:04,400 present moment and do that all day long, and then you will actually be automatically grateful 572 00:55:04,400 -- 00:55:09,040 because the present moment is beautiful, so pretty so I am really grateful and I want to say that 573 00:55:09,040 -- 00:55:13,360 I am thankful for having you in my life, it’s been a little over a year i think we known each other 574 00:55:13,360 -- 00:55:18,720 i know we are just getting started now, you just got back from England Yes that’s a whole 575 00:55:18,720 -- 00:55:24,640 different podcast, yes, I cannot talk about it now, but I do want to talk about that, but we will do it on 576 00:55:24,640 -- 00:55:29,520 the next one okay, Any last thoughts…. well thank you to all our listeners, we are grateful 577 00:55:29,520 -- 00:55:34,480 and thankful to you for listening, get in touch with us, and any comments or questions, we are big on 578 00:55:34,480 -- 00:55:40,560 questions here I am thankful that you’re going to be healthy real 579 00:55:40,560 -- 00:55:46,080 soon with your hip - right - it happening already, you are Calling in the unseen as though it were. 580 00:55:46,080 -- 00:55:53,360 I told you, I am totally hip, I am getting stronger… well I told my daughter who 581 00:55:53,360 -- 00:55:59,440 called me from Texas, she’s has some family members on her other side that are 582 00:56:00,160 -- 00:56:05,120 not in good health, and it makes you know when when you have people around you that are suffering… 583 00:56:05,760 -- 00:56:09,200 But this would be a conversation for the next one, yes let’s do it for that one but when you have 584 00:56:09,200 -- 00:56:14,400 people around you suffering, it brings you to an awareness of the people who are not suffering and 585 00:56:14,400 -- 00:56:21,200 how valuable those relationships are, so she called and we had a conversation and i assured her that 586 00:56:21,200 -- 00:56:28,400 unless there are other plans for me, I want to hit a 100 years old in full stride! Yeah, good, let’s do it, 587 00:56:28,400 -- 00:56:32,800 full stride, let’s do it, so I am really grateful it is possible, I absolutely believe in 588 00:56:32,800 -- 00:56:37,280 the power of the mind, our body wants to be young, we get in the way of ourselves well 589 00:56:37,280 --00:56:41,840 it just our mind, we’ve got to control our minds, and this is just a walk in the park if we can do 590 00:56:41,840 -- 00:56:47,040 that, so Sarah, we are going to publish this on Thursday Thanksgiving, we also are going 591 00:56:47,040 -- 00:56:51,920 to do our regular Friday that is going to air, and then next time, we will talk about 592 00:56:51,920 -- 00:56:57,120 your trip, you have some important things to talk about and, um, we will get 593 00:56:57,120 -- 00:57:02,560 into that, and I look forward to that. Great… all right, once again thank you to Sarah Tirri 594 00:57:02,560 -- 00:57:07,440 I am Dr. Tia Jolie Phillips, please visit Soul Decodes and if we brought to you some value today regarding 595 00:57:07,440 -- 00:57:12,400 anything that we talked about that you feel can benefit somebody else, please share this with 596 00:57:12,400 -- 00:57:23,280 some people. We would love to have them on board as well. All right, bless you all, and take care.