1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 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 180 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:11,120 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 258 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:39,440 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. 268 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:36,480 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 274 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,760 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 311 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,520 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 319 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:50,560 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 345 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,440 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 362 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,920 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 364 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:01,280 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 366 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:13,120 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 375 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:06,640 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 389 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,880 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 435 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:40,320 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 449 00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:03,280 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 475 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:30,000 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 481 00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:06,080 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 498 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:52,640 foster the connection i know i have to the higher power of which i am part of, thankfulness is a resting 499 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:57,920 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 509 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:59,120 i think that’s relevant so thank you for sharing that, that was really amazingly well 510 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:04,480 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… 531 00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:00,080 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 538 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:44,800 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 544 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:22,800 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. 546 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:35,120 I do this first thing in the morning, the moment you wake up so what I’d 547 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:44,720 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 569 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,840 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.