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Welcome to Soul Decodes. Greetings, beautiful
people, and welcome. You're listening to Soul
Decodes, episode 71. My name is Dr. Tia Jolie
Phillips. Welcome. Listen, we've been around
for over a year now, and we've done some great
episodes. We're winding down the end of the year
here at 2026. It's late in the year. We've been
through quite a bit with where we've been with
Soul Decodes. For those of you who've been around
for a while, you're probably saying, well, where's
Sarah today? Sarah and I started Soul Decodes.
well, 70 episodes ago, and both of us are extremely
busy. I don't think I know many people that are
more busy than Sarah and me individually. Well,
she's writing several novels. She's a very prolific
author, and she's written several novels, and
she's really maxed out right now, and she's asked
for a respite. So we'll be hearing more from
Sarah, but not as frequently, maybe once a month.
Maybe less, maybe more. We're not really sure
how it plays out. But I'm going to be guiding
you through some things now. I've actually wanted
an opportunity to share some things with you
that I think will be helpful and possibly even
change your life or even change the course of
your journey through this earth space. So my
intent today is to make it a little bit entertaining,
maybe... share some ideas that I might have.
I'm not going to pretend to know everything and
you'll understand why I believe that way, why
I question everything I say, because this episode
is going to be about first principles. Now, for
those of you who've not ever heard about first
principles, this is going to be a very good episode.
for you. This is going to be something you might
want to bookmark. You might want to listen a
couple times actually to it and maybe even share
with some people because this affects basically
every single part of your life, or at least I
hope it will. My intention with my other podcasts
like Studio 17, the byline for Studio 17 is to
question everything, rinse, repeat. And that
really dovetails into what we're going to be
talking about today with first principles. Without
too much more detail, let's talk about what first
principles are. I'm going to be dovetailing everything
about first principles back into this idea of
what's this mean to us in our soul's journey.
So I'm going to talk about several different
areas that affect our earth lives, our journeys
through this earth space. But just understand
that I'm... My intent is to dovetail all of our
earth experiences into this idea of what does
this mean to me as a soul? Let me lay down, for
those of you who've never heard the program before,
it's my idea is that each of us has a soul, and
our soul's going through this earth space on
a journey. Some people believe we've been through
here before and we've reincarnated and maybe
we've had multiple lives. Other people, their
belief systems are such that this is our first
and only time through here. Regardless of what
your belief system is, you're on a journey. Your
soul is experiencing something, whether you're
an earthling having a soulful experience or whether
you're a soul having an earth experience, it
still means something. With that as a backdrop,
I wanted to share that. We have this spiritual
operating system that involves going through
this earth. If our soul is external to us, meaning
our soul existed before this lifetime and it's
continuing after this lifetime, then our experience
on this earth space is not a random thing. It's
actually something that we need to pay attention
to. We must ask, who are we and why are we here?
It's really, in my world, it's a developmental
journey. It's an environment where we can grow
as individuals and also help each other grow
collectively. So in my world, I sometimes refer
to this as an academy, like it's the Earth Academy.
It's a proving ground for us to learn about ourselves.
We have to learn about how we think, how we discern
fact from fiction. What does this mean? Where
does courage come from? How do I navigate myself
and the circumstances around me? What is sovereignty?
Is the world around me beholden to me or am I
some slave to the world around me? You know,
these are all things that involve our personal
ascension and our personal awakening. I'm going
to even say our remembrance of what our soul
is all about. What we're going to talk about
basically, I'm going to walk through first principles
as a governing idea, a governing concept. Then
I'm going to cover for each of the topics a little
bit about how the systems around us. have either
intentionally or unintentionally either violated
our system, the first principle systems, or distorted
the principle of first principle to create a
bias that's really messing things up for us individually
and collectively. I'm also going to explore,
take it a step further and say, okay, well, if
the first principles are messed up or biased
or distorted, what does that mean to us as we
As we look forward, you know, what does that
failure mean externally? And then finally, what
does that failure mean internally to ourself
and our soul's journey? So probably the most,
so I'm going to go through these pretty quickly.
Hopefully I don't bore you. I don't think you
will, because if you understand the impact of
what first principles are about, I think you're
going to find this to be very useful. So the
first thing is politics and government. No matter
where you are in the world, we have politics
and government. Now, for me, poly means many
and tics are bloodsuckers. So politics just simply
means many bloodsuckers. Now, you can question
that, but that's my first principle, okay? But
I'm going to go deeper than that. That's just
my personal belief. And if you don't believe
it, look up what government means. Look at the
genesis of the word. Governed means to control
and meant means mind. Right. Like mental. So
government is mind control. So my first principle
that we're going to talk about is that authority
exists. So in other words, I'm going to talk
about the United States. All right. So we're
going to talk about authority in the United States.
You could talk about it within your country,
whatever you deem as authority, whatever you
give authority to as a sovereign, as your soul
gives authority to somebody or some entity, that
entity exists. to protect your life, your liberty,
and your conscience, okay? It's not to replace
them. This is the reason we have these politicians
and then the governments is they're supposed
to serve us and they're supposed to make our
lives better and easier and they're supposed
to facilitate our pursuit of life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, right? So this is a
first basic principle. Why do we even have politics
and why do we have government? Now, what happens
is if that fails, if we give authority to one
of those entities, either it's an individual
or a group of individuals, and they fail the
first principle, and that means they don't understand
why they exist, what's their purpose for existing,
then what happens is that power begins to justify
itself. The power that we've surrendered to those
entities. begin to take a life of their own.
And you can see that every direction from the
local level, from the HOA, if you live with an
HOA, all the way up to the world level, the power
begins to justify its own existence. In a similar
manner, they create policies and laws that actually
not only justify their own existence, but also
they replace morality and ethics. So we can go
into deep dive on this, but I'm just throwing
out the framework for you. And finally, and probably
worst of all, the bureaucracy actually replaces
personal responsibility. In the case of the United
States, if we have a taxing authority that's
going to come and take my money and then they're
going to drop bombs on people, we might think
ourselves ethical people. by saying, well, that's
a good thing if the bombs are dropping on bad
people, right? But who makes that authority?
We're surrendering this decision about who lives
and who dies. We're voting for these politicians.
We're putting governments in place and entities
in place. But we're doing that pretty much that
we're surrendering our responsibility for what
happens with the money, with the taxing, with
the bombs. We've basically... We've offloaded
those responsibilities. And that's a modern failure.
What we've done essentially is we've expanded
control outside of ourselves. We've given up
control. Unwillingly or unwittingly, we've shrunk
our own personal accountability in doing so.
Being a citizen, we're reduced to this population
of managed little sheep. Basically, we're just
little robots that are subject to these... authority
figures which is not really the way it should
be if you're in a soul that's going through this
earth space you're permitting these external
authorities these politicians and these governments
to dictate to you what's going to happen in the
world around you then what happens is your soul
is no longer free it's no longer sovereign you're
actually again either intentionally or unintentionally
the more authority you give away the more you
subjugate yourself, you actually put yourself
into chains because you're giving somebody else
permission to run your life and to basically
dictate the direction of your soul. And if you
haven't noticed the past five years, you know,
when people are talking about not even permitting
each other to come within six feet of each other
because of some hypothetical situation. Right.
Or you have to cover your mask or no go in public
or don't go to your church. Those are things
that those are consequences from us independent
sovereign souls surrendering authority to nameless,
faceless people that don't really matter in the
end. So, again, what happens is we as sovereign
souls, our morality individually and collectively
kind of atrophies when we give agency to other
entities. our personal morality atrophies to
the degree that we permit these other agencies
to act on our behalf, okay? And this happens
whether it's in school or the military or really
even any way you go, even in your family, at
the family level. Another unfortunate thing when
you start to offshed, when you pass off this
sovereignty of your soul, you end up Living in
fear. So this is an interesting thing. If you've
ever noticed, if you look around you, when you
have a goal or a dream and you have the autonomy,
you give yourself the authority to pursue that
goal or the dream. Life is wonderful. Life is
so exciting. I liken it to being a child. One
of my first memories growing up was about flying
airplanes. And I would daydream and I would do...
I would read magazines. My first subscription
was to Flying Magazine. And everything was exciting
because I was moving towards a goal. And the
world was limitless because that was my raw soul
expressing itself and its desires into this earth
space. I wanted to be a pilot. And for those
of you who don't know, I was. I was a former
military pilot. I was an instructor pilot in
the military. I was a corporate pilot. I was
an instructor pilot and an examiner pilot in
the corporate world. And even now, if I wanted
to go fly airplanes again, I could go do that
as a 19 -year commercial airline captain. The
reason I say that is because my dream, my goal
was uninhibited. The world was mine and I could
go and do what I wanted to if I was willing to
go get it. But now what happens is we live in
a world where we've forgotten our own independence,
our own sovereignty, our own... our own ability
to chart our own course. And we live in this
fear realm where if I go five miles too fast,
am I going to get a ticket? If I pay my taxes
later, if I don't pay my taxes, am I going to
lose my house? Right? We have all, if I cut my
neighbor's hair and my neighbor gives me $20
and I'm not licensed by the state. to receive
that $20 for that commercial transaction, will
I be thrown in jail? Will I be fined? Will I
be penalized? Those are fears based on the acceptance
of systems or governances that are put around
us. What I'm sharing is that when we surrender
authority as a divine sovereign soul, our journey
completely stalls out. And it stalls out. And
we become obedient instead of moving towards
our own level of personal integrity. Okay. So
hopefully that makes sense to people. What I'm
saying is that I'm not averse to politics. I'm
not averse to governance, but it's a slippery
slope because at the end of the day, we're going
to go into this fear realm. We've surrendered
control to everybody around us, all these governing
authorities. And at the end of the day, they're
going to put in places laws. so they can keep
their authority, keep their control, keep their
power. And if you diverge away from what they
want you to do, it's going to put you in a fear
realm that you're going to have to then navigate.
Again, it's not a bad thing. It's part of your
soul's journey. Hopefully you'll learn a lesson.
Let me just go into, it's kind of an offshoot
of number one, but it's the economics in money.
My first principle is that money is a tool and
it's... supposed to facilitate exchange represent
creativity so if you're a creator and you give
something of value to the world you should be
able to receive benefit from that in the form
of something that's going to hold its value right
money is not supposed to be something that controls
us money is a tool for us to use so my first
principle would be that money is a tool that
we use to facilitate an exchange to be compensated
for our creativity, and to preserve value that
we bring into the world. So this could be an
interesting conversation because there's a lot
of people, if they lived according to this first
principle, that money is a tool, then it's going
to help a lot, help us a lot as we navigate into
the future. So what happens if you diverge away
from this first principle? Well, the first thing
that happens is currency replaces money. So people
say, well, money is currency, isn't it? Isn't
money currency? No, no, no. Money is a store
of value. It represents a creator's contribution
to the society, the world around us. Currency
is not money. Currency is completely detached
from what we call real value. We print money,
we go to a printing press, and there's no value.
In fact, when we print money, it actually takes
value away from... The value that I bring to
the table. Because let's just say that I create
an invention. I invent a new tool for the shed
or a new tool for the farm, right? It's an amazing
tool and I bring value to a lot of people and
I get paid money for that. Well, if somebody
can go to a printing press and print, say I've
made $20 ,000 for this invention, but somebody
can go to the printing press and print $20 ,000
for free. without bringing any value to the table,
they've created currency. They haven't created
any money from it. It's just currency so they
can exchange, so they can get value for nothing.
And what that does is it creates a debt instrument
that replaces productivity. So you're actually
creating a situation where you disincentivize
people from being productive. If you can print
money for free, why would anybody want to bring
their creativity or their... their value to the
table. It destroys the system. When we go down
that path, basically, we're creating a financial
abstraction or a derivative of sorts that actually
hides the consequences of moving away from the
first principle that money is a tool that stores
value. External to us, you can look around us,
that causes inflation, which, as I mentioned,
it's the degradation of the value of the dollar
that's in my pocket. Because if I had a dollar
in my pocket and you just print another dollar,
and those are the only $2 that exist for a certain
amount of value, then my dollar in my pocket
just got decreased by 50%. The value of real
property then becomes less valuable, so you need
more dollars, more fake currency to pay for the
same commodity. So we've seen this before. People
always say, well, when I was a kid, a gallon
of gas was $0 .25, and now it's $4, $5, $6. Well,
the gas is not worth any more. The gas is still
the same gas. It's just the value of your dollar
is degraded by 80%, 90%, 95%, 97%. When we took
ourselves off in 1933 off the precious metal
standard, and then the government took our gold,
took our silver, 1971, we lost our dollar was
completely severed and separated from the precious
metal currency. We had all this inflation. Inflation
became a problem. So there was a disconnection
there. This creates instability. It also creates,
at a financial level, it creates the situation
where there's derivative markets and things that
can manipulate value. So in other words, when
you disconnect value from money and you use currency
in place of money, real money, what happens is
you can actually create derivatives from it.
Like you can't take... If you're using real money,
if I have a bar of gold or a bar of silver, you
can't create more gold or silver from that. You
can cut it in half and have two pieces, but it's
still the same amount of gold or silver. With
dollars, if you keep printing, printing, printing
dollars, eventually you can create derivatives.
You can create paper that represents real value.
but it's not the real value itself. And by doing
that, you create instability, not only for yourself,
but also for generations. What does this mean
to our souls? I know I'm talking so much, but
this is so relevant. What does this actually
mean to our souls? A lot of us are running around.
This is a real big issue, okay? I'm going to
take a swig of water here because I'm not AI.
This is not an AI -generated program. What does
this mean if... my work my creativity my inventions
the thing the value I bring to the world what
if we diverge from the principle that I should
be paid for my creativity and my value that I
bring to the to the world well inside of me my
self -worth I've externalized it and that makes
me it degrades my own self my self -worth goes
down. This is why, and we're going to get to
this a little bit. I think I made some notes
here. This is all unscripted, but still I did
make some notes, but it makes me imagine like
when we're in school, say you have 30 kids in
school. Well, you're going to have two or three
of us that are at the leading part of the pack.
You know, we're the fastest with math. We're
the best with math and science. We're good athletes.
Some of us are at the tail end, like we're the
slowest people or we have, we don't learn as
quickly. We don't memorize. We don't do our math
tables. We don't do our alphabet as quickly.
Those are all external to ourselves. None of
those things really matter internally, but I'm
using that as an example of some of the things
we can do as an example of how we kind of get
misled away from who we are and what the core
value is of our souls. So we've all heard of
like starving artists, right? If an artist creates
something, that artwork if it brings value to
the world around them then they will get paid
for it if they're not getting paid for it that
means they're not bringing value to the world
around them that's just the economic part of
it however it doesn't degrade who they are as
a beautiful soul as a divine soul it just means
that external to them what they're doing is not
bringing enough value to the world around them.
They might need to think about doing some other
things that will bring, that'll use their skills
to bring value to the world around them. So oftentimes
though, the way the system's set up and we've
moved away from sound money, what happens is
the people who are not getting rewarded with
quote money, which is not money, it's currency,
what's happening is they're ending up not feeling
the self -worth. They feel anxious, right? Because
they feel this compulsion to go after this currency,
these dollars that don't represent value externally
and they don't, by association, they don't affect
the value of you internally. So this is a really
big deal because so many people out there, oh,
I'm worthless because I'm not making money. Nobody's
making money. They're making dollars. Dollars
is not money. Money holds value. Dollars don't
hold value. They inflate. There's a lot of anxiety.
A lot of people are anxious because they're connecting
their own self -worth to how many dollars or
how few dollars they make. I mean, the opposite
is true too. There's a lot of people, oh, I trade
paper on Wall Street. Okay, what value are you
adding to the world around you? Really? So they're
getting paid lots and lots and lots of currency
for not adding value. So that's the other side
where they're bringing no value to the real people.
They're basically bringing no value and they're
getting paid tons of currency to buy real things
with. It's a kind of a messed up system. Why?
Because we removed ourselves from a first principle.
The first principle is understanding the difference
between money and currency. Sometimes currency
is called fiat money, which is state -issued
or privately -issued money. The last thing would
be that when you squelch creativity, when you
remove the incentive for people, whether they're
entrepreneurs or creators, if they're bringing
value to the system and they're not getting paid
value back, this completely collapses any incentives
to create in the future. There's like no reward
mechanism. This first principle, again, stands
its ground because if you're a creator or an
inventor, an entrepreneur, you must go back down
to this first principle, which says money is
a tool. It should represent value. So the bottom
line with this whole money thing is that... If
we don't understand what money is and the lie
that we call currency or fiat currency, we go
into this compliance mode where we're slaves.
We feel terrible about ourselves. We trade meaning
for safety. Like we just want to exist and we
want to feel like we're worth something. And
we basically forget the essence of our own self,
which is the creative nature of ourselves. Well,
that's a lot of talking, but I hope you understand.
what what value it is i shouldn't i should point
out also that the idea what you know like what
is a first principle well it's something that
withstands questions all the way down to the
root level so think of it like looking inside
of like if i look at an onion skin i could look
at and see an onion skin but if i look under
the magnifying glass and i dig deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper at some point i'm going
to get to this foundational element so i can
best understand the entire onion by understanding
the basic element of what the onion is made of
and how that basic element works with all of
the other parts of the onion. So that's a lot.
So the next first principle that I kind of wrote
down on my note here was that, and this is really
relevant to me because for those of you who don't
know me, I'm a doctor of holistic natural health
and nutrition. As a holistic doctor, I don't
look at people as the sum of their parts. I look
at an individual as this beautiful divine manifestation
of all sorts of things that we see and also things
that we don't see and we don't perceive. So it's
a very holistic way of looking at a person. Sometimes
if a body is not functioning properly, one of
the first questions I ask is, number one, who
are you and why are you here? They're going to
give me the earth answer. I'm overweight. I've
got to drop the weight. But also, I'm going to
dive into the spiritual answer. Do you have a
soul? Is it on a journey? What's that journey
about? Because it's all connected. You're going
to find that, at least in my world, if somebody
is not following first principles, like the first
two, like the one I just covered with the money,
if they're not following first principles and
they end up feeling like a failure, for years
and years and years, and they never dig deeper,
they never go down and root down to the first
principles of who they are, why they're here,
what's this journey about, what is this government
about, what is money, what is money not, if they
don't root down to those first principles, they're
going to end up feeling like crap, they're going
to judge themselves, they're going to end up
with this funkiness, feeling like a failure instead
of feeling like a divine, beautiful, sovereign
spirit. That's here for a purpose. And what happens
then is they end up with this catatonic condition
where their systems start to shut down. Like
if they're under stress, chronic stress, because
they feel like they're a failure and they're
constantly reinforcing that failure feeling,
there's no surprise that their systems are going
to shut down. Their gut, their digestion, their
brain. Their desire to seek novelty, to knock,
to seek, to ask, to jump, to run, to play, to
exercise. Like those things are going to disappear.
And those are all critical parts of health. So
with respect to health and medicine, your body
is intelligent. It's beautiful. It's self -regulating.
It's self -balancing. But it's also an integral
part of your soul's journey. Everything your
soul experiences. touches your body and everything
your body experiences touches your soul right
that's a first principle why do i say it's first
principle because i cannot reduce that any further
than it is it can't be and it can't not be at
the same time so that's this is my first principle
so what happens and i'll go through this a little
bit more quickly but because i think i made a
good point of it when you look around you the
modern failure it shows up as people treating
symptoms as if the symptoms the enemy right you
go to the like a modern medical system they don't
they don't get paid to solve your problem they
get paid to deploy some sort of a process or
a procedure or take a lab test they're looking
at symptoms and they're they're targeting symptoms
and they're treating those as the enemies instead
of the underlying health so what happens when
you go down that path is When you separate your
body from your mind and your soul and you separate
your body into the sum of its parts, you're actually
suppressing understanding of your own self. And
your body becomes relegated to that of a machine.
This is one of the things early on when I was
getting my master's degree. We studied stuff
that doctors used to teach like 200 and 300 years
ago. This whole idea of... You know, you look
at the back of a package and there's how much
fat, how many calories, you know, what are the
macronutrients? You know, the idea that we need
so many calories. It's true. We do need calories,
but it's not the entire truth. But they want
to put it out there like calories is the only
thing you need to be thinking about. But it's
not true. What they're doing is they're reducing
us to that. Our body is a machine that burns
calories. I mean, that's what they want you to
believe. Your body is just a machine. If the
machine's broken, we need to lubricate the joint,
right? Or we need to replace the joint and put
a new joint in. And that's not true. Your body
is so much more than that by ignoring the first
principle that our body is beautiful, integral,
self -regulating, self -balancing. And we say,
oh my goodness, you must have your gallbladder
removed because it's broken or your thyroid's
broken and you never address the underlying stress.
or that you eat too many dead animals, or you
have other things going on in your life, you
just lost your spouse. If you never address those
things, then you're going to succumb to the errors
of the modern system that's been lost to these
first principles. External to yourself, it's
going to manifest, like I said, in chronic disease.
You're going to have dependencies your whole
life because everything outside of you is dictating.
who you are and what you do. So in other words,
is the world subject to you or are you subject
to the world? Well, the answer is both. It's
a little bit of both, but so many people, they've
just, they throw in the cards and they're like,
it's a, it's a despondency where it's just like,
they, they just throw up their hands. It's like,
why can't do anything? I'm just going to surrender.
And they become completely dependent. You know,
as grown up, they'd say, well, your doctor would
say, well, get another opinion, get a second
opinion, right? So 50 years ago, it was like,
get a second opinion. Now it's like, I'm the
medical doctor, I'm the expert, you should trust
me. And they get all upset if you're going to
get a second opinion or if you actually bring
things to the table. So those of us that push
back against this idea that we're just a machine,
we get, gosh, you know, a lot of blowback from
doing that. And over time, when you get enough
pushback from all your friends, your family,
your neighbors, it can become very, very difficult.
And your resilience can decline. It takes a lot
out of people to be strong and understand that
you are beautiful and you're powerful and you're
free. And there's nobody in the medical system
that's going to tell you otherwise. That's a
major external failure in the medical, in the
health and medical world. What does this mean
to our souls? I get a soul level. If my soul
is different than my body or it's disconnected,
then that leads to a lot of things. It's a loss
of self -trust. I don't share this with many
people, so here I'm sharing it with the world.
But the VA told me, the Veterans Administration
told me like, whatever, 15 years ago that I had
lupus. And I had to go for some other tests.
And I told them, I said, well, I think you're
thinking of somebody else. How long before I
have to go through other tests? They said, well,
you know, six weeks or so we'll get you in for
this advanced testing and stuff. I said, well,
before you do the advanced testing, I want you
to check my blood work again. And they're like,
well, Captain, why would we do that? I said,
well, because I don't have lupus. I'm going to
take care of that condition. It's a symptom that
you're calling a problem and I'm calling it something
that I can change. So I did several things. one
of which was I stopped all meat and dairy. I
just stopped eating meat and dairy. Took lots
of vitamin C, fresh air, sunshine, exercise,
a bunch of stuff that I was doing anyway, but
I upped it. Prayer and meditation, those things.
The bottom line is that I demonstrated the connection
between my soul, my intention, my goal, my dream,
my spirit, and the outcome because I went back
to the VA, they checked my blood, and they said
I was free to go. They couldn't find any evidence
whatsoever that I had lupus. So again, there
was nothing external to myself. There was a decision
and there was me being beautiful, powerful, and
free, right? This is where we want to go. We
want to trust ourselves and not be subject to
some person in a white lab coat that drapes a
stethoscope across their neck. That's not trusting
yourself. Trusting yourself says, Look, I'm going
to take care of my body. I'm going to drink clean
water, eat clean food. I'm going to get lots
of hugs and kisses. If you believe in a creator,
connect to that creator. If you don't, then connect
to the earth, connect to the people around you.
Don't not connect, but make those connections
and learn to trust yourself, okay? That's your
soul's experience. Your soul experience, your
body is not hostile. Your body is not fighting
you. It's not failing you. People, I've flown
some really, really cool airplanes. I've flown
worldwide. I've been to 50 countries. There's
some cool airplanes. I've been supersonic. I've
flown with zero visibility of landed airplanes.
There's some really cool airplanes out there.
I've got seven type ratings. What you have with
your body, your body is so much better than any
airplane I've ever flown. You are beautiful and
powerful. I've never had an airplane. that I
could scratch the surface and it would heal itself.
I've never had an airplane that could make its
own decisions based on morality. Yeah, there's
some cool airplanes, but you're so much better.
You're so much more awesome than any airplane
out there. Don't look at yourself as a machine.
You're so much more. Don't lose self -trust and
don't look at your body as hostile to you. It's
a beautiful avatar that represents you in this
earth space. Your body is helping you navigate
through this earth space to give you amazing
experiences. So give gratitude for your body.
Treat it with love and kindness and gentleness
and respect. You're going to want to increase
your sensitivity, increase your awareness, increase
your body's ability to sense things, to perceive,
to be empathetic, to be caring. Increase those
things. Don't let your intuition dull. Don't
become callous. Don't protect yourself from being
hurt. Like, you know, oh, somebody called me
a bad name. Do you believe you're that bad name?
No, I don't. I did this with my kids. My son
John was like, came in crying. He's like, Tim,
you said I'm a stupid idiot. I said, well, John,
are you a stupid idiot? No. He's like, well.
Why are you worried? You know yourself better
than he knows you, right? Yeah. Are you a stupid
idiot? No, I'm smart. Good. Then don't worry
about what Tim said, right? And so this is what
I taught my children when they were young. You
know yourself better than other people know you,
so go with that. The bottom line on the health
and medicine, health and medical system, if you
will, your soul, to have its... full and proper
journey through this earth space cannot be silenced
by the institutions around you. You have to listen
to it and you have to get your soul and your
body to work together. You have to appreciate
those connections, okay? All right, education.
I can still read my notes. This is cool. By the
way, this is contemporaneous. I just have these
little bullet points that I'm just trying to,
so I don't get too far off into the weeds. So
education, this is a big deal. I liken our current
modern day education system to a prison, all
right? And you can argue with me all you want.
And I went through the public school system.
So I'm in a position to tell you, I went through
public schools. I went to the Air Force Academy.
I did the entire gambit of public schools, okay?
Now, the Air Force Academy, I went to expecting
them to tell me to sit down and shut up and listen
because that's part of the program. But when
you tell a five -year -old, six, seven, eight,
your whole elementary school experience, sit
down, shut up, cows are not purple, stay in the
lines, I don't care if you have to pee, you wait
to the bell, don't talk when I'm speaking to
you, you'll talk to me when I ask you a question.
To me, that looks and feels a lot like prison.
Even the buses that they drive, that looks a
lot like prison. Here's my first principle when
it comes to education. Education, not just the
education system. I'm talking about your soul
and your journey through this earth space. Education
exists for you to cultivate discernment, to express
curiosity. Remember, we're told to knock, seek,
and ask, right? To be curious. and to foment
or develop independent reasoning. This is a really
big deal. I'm going to actually do another episode
about this in the future because we've lost our
capability to use intuition, to be critical thinkers,
to not get our feelings hurt when we're wrong.
We've lost our ability to reason. These are going
to be things we talk about in the future. So
let's talk a little bit about what happens when
the education system fails. What's it look like?
And you can look around you. You'll see this.
I'm going to just tell you right now, I have
a PhD in holistic natural health and nutrition.
To me, it means nothing. It means absolutely
zero. People ask me, it's like, well, aren't
you the expert? I'm like, please stop. I'm not
the expert at anything. The only thing I'm really,
really good at is being a student. and asking
questions. I'm really good at those things. And
if you actually look at the scientific method,
the very first spot, the very first square in
the scientific method, the starting place, is
to observe the world around you and to ask questions.
Every single model of the scientific methodology
starts with asking questions, observing the world
around you, and asking questions. So many of
us, they go into the scientific model with a
conclusion and they work the whole thing backwards.
They justify why they believe the way they do
and they work the whole thing absolutely backwards.
It's not the way it works. The first principle
involves us being curious. It involves us being
discerning and just going out there and just
being children. You know, knocking, seeking and
asking is what I like to say. The reason I bring
up my PhD is because it means nothing to me.
We're in this place where a PhD is a credential.
It has nothing to do with wisdom. There are children
that are homeschooled that are wiser than people
I know that have two and three PhDs. The credential
means nothing. You can ask fifth graders basic
things about basic civility. Simple things about
how you run your farm or your home or your garage
or your business. Simple things. If you listen
to their innate, on -board wisdom, the wisdom
of youth, you'll find that many of them are smarter
than adults because adults have stopped learning
how to question things and how to approach the
world. So credentialism is really overused. Do
not trust the experts. The experts are going
to put forth ideology. They're going to give,
they're going to put forth dogma and ideology
in place of inquiry. They're going to tell you
to not ask questions. I mean, I've been censored
by so many platforms. It's crazy. Why? Because
I ask questions, too many questions. Even as
an adult, sit down, shut up. Don't ask questions.
Stay in the lines. Nothing's changed. The other
thing is people marvel. A lot of my clients,
they come to me and it's like, you speak so differently
than the other doctors. Well, that's because
I'm coming to you as a friend. I want to help
you with your actual core problem. It doesn't
matter what my degree is. I want to just help
you. And if the medical system, the education
system did that more, then we'd be at a different
place. A lot of my doctor friends, they go through
years and years and years of school to memorize
body parts. procedures, techniques. And I'm not
saying that those are not valuable, but that's
not what makes them smart. That means that they're
good at memorizing things and taking tests. And
it doesn't mean that they have some grand understanding
of life. You were born, you woke up this morning.
I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. If you
trust yourself, And just be honest with yourself.
You woke up with more wisdom this morning than
virtually any doctor you'll ever meet. Any attorney,
any multimillionaire. You have so much onboard
wisdom. You need to trust yourself. You're beautiful
and you're powerful and you're free. Don't let
the education system tell you otherwise. The
external failure part of this education system
is it develops fragile thinkers. Did I memorize
this correctly? If I didn't, am I going to get
punished? Am I going to fail? What if I fail?
What does that mean? Am I going to lose my scholarship?
It's a fear thing. Everything's fear. Somebody
that understands and works from a true wisdom
and intuition, what they'll do is they'll say,
I'm going to do the best I can based on what
I know and based on all the information I can
get. And guess what? If I mess up, if I trip,
if I fall, I'll get up, I'll try it again, right?
I'll learn from it. So those experiences that
we have going through and failing are the very
thing that make us wiser. And then if we're smart,
we can go to our parents and our grandparents.
We can say, hey, I'm about ready to do this thing.
I know you did that thing when you were my age.
What guidance can you give me? So I don't have
to trip up. So I don't have to goof up. So I
don't have to waste money. I don't have to fail.
That's called the wisdom of the ages. Now, do
I listen to everything my elders say? No. But
if I talk to my aunt, my uncle, my godfather,
my godmother, my parents, and I talk to 20 people
and I ask them the same question and there's
a spot, there's one part of all of those answers
that they give me that... every single one of
them said the same thing, some variation of it,
then I'm going to listen to that. Now, it might
come out that it's different for me, right? Maybe
they all got it wrong, and I might have to do
things differently, but at least I'm going to
consider those things. Even if they have no degrees,
even if they don't, the smartest people I know
didn't even graduate from high school. It's not
a thing, people. Don't do this education thing.
Our current failures, they create fragile thinkers.
It creates polarization. This is so classic.
Look what our education system did. Is the earth
flat or is it round? Well, if you took somebody
from 200 years ago, they'd say it's flat. If
you took somebody from modern day, they'd say
it's round. Now, those two disparaging groups
of people that believe flat earth or round earth,
They should be able to have a discussion. They
should be able to sit down and say, well, why
do you think it's round? Well, why do you think
it's flat? But what happened is they're so fragile.
They're so invested in this. They're so attached
to being right. Their ego is, if they're in the
round earth camp, they can't be wrong. If they're
in the flat earth camp, they can't be wrong.
They're so invested, it creates polarization.
They're so afraid of being wrong that they're
not going to get the truth. If you're really
a critical thinker, or what I would call a first
principle thinker, because remember the first
principle, let's talk flat earth. If you're a
first principle thinker, education exists to
cultivate discernment, curiosity, and independent
reasoning. So what's that look like? Well, gosh,
you know, why would you believe that the earth
is spinning and the water sticking to the earth
as it's spinning at a thousand miles per hour?
Why? Why do you believe there were spinning globe?
Explain that to me. And you're going to explain
your position. And then in a civil world, the
other person I'm talking to is going to say to
me, well, why do you believe the way you to believe?
Right. So we're going to have this conversation
and I'm going to say, well, if I put a laser
over. You know, there's a missile system on a
ship that shoots down incoming missiles 100 miles
away. And I don't think a laser can do that over
a curved ocean. So I think we should have this
conversation. Right. So that's just one example.
But I'm just saying we need to have these conversations.
And it's independent of an education system.
If the education system was doing the right thing
or being effective. They would teach us how to
be critical thinkers instead of just being workers
who can sit down, shut up, color in the lines.
Another thing is people get rattled. If I ask
somebody, how did you come to believe that way?
Let's just say with the flat earth, round earth
thing. How did you come to believe that way?
They get rattled. They can't explain to me why
they believe the way they do. They cannot perform
under pressure. And they get all rattled with
that. That shouldn't happen. They should say,
well, I read it in this book or my mom and dad
told me or my teacher told me or whatever. Now,
we're going to kind of cover off on that a little
bit because that's one of the problems is when
you dig deep and you say, well, how did you come
to believe that way? What happens is the authority
replaces knowledge. Instead of saying, well,
let's go find out. Let's do some research. Let's
work collaboratively to find out the shape of
the earth. Let's work together to solve the problem.
That's what we should be doing. Finding knowledge,
true knowledge, inner knowledge, is no longer
trumped by authority. Now, you go one step further,
if you permit that to persist for any length
of time, people are just, they're going to stop
being curious. They're just going to say, well,
that's what all the teachers said. And there
was a globe in the room. since I was in kindergarten,
so it must be true. The idea of being wrong is
more important now. It's more important now that
people not be wrong than that they pursue the
truth. And so if you go back to first principles,
that would disappear. The first principle is
pursue the truth, even if it means you being
wrong, because the truth is more important than
being right or wrong. If it's left to continue,
then the soul becomes basically conditioned.
to be subservient to the idea of being right
instead of being inwardly rewarded for the process
of seeking the truth. Okay. Wow. There's a lot
here, people. Thanks for sticking. This has been
so important to me to get this out there. So
hopefully you're sticking with me. We're going
to wrap it up. I promise. This is a really, really
big deal. This next one is technology and AI.
everybody's about technology. Look around you.
Now, my first principle with AI is this. These
tools should extend human capacity, okay? They
should extend our capabilities, but they should
not erode our own soul's awareness and responsibility.
So, I mean, here's this example. I've seen, as
an instructor pilot, I've seen this happen so
many times. where you have a very skilled and
talented person flying the airplane. And over
time, they become overly dependent on the autopilot
and their skills atrophy, their piloting skills
atrophy to the point where when it comes time
for them to click off the autopilot and actually
fly the airplane, just like they did when they
were becoming a pilot, they're very rusty. So
when I was flying for Back when I was flying
for JetBlue as a captain, I would almost always
click off the autopilot and manually do the approach
and the landing, all of them manually, unless
the book told me to do it otherwise. There's
certain procedures you have to do. You have to
use technology to lighten the load under certain
circumstances. But the bottom line is that analogy,
there's been so many pilots have actually killed
themselves. by becoming over -dependent on technology.
Now that's a pretty severe statement, but it's
also very true, especially if you're one of the
passengers. So that's a big problem. So what
happens in the modern system is you have automation
without accountability. So the automation, people
feel like they don't have to read, they don't
have to study, they don't have to dig, they don't
have to do research, they don't have to, they're
shedding all of these responsibilities. And they're
replacing convenience for sovereignty. When I
was at the Air Force Academy, we had to literally
go put our name on a waiting list for a book
to come in so I could research how these lasers
work. And when the book came in, I could only
have it for two days. So we had to really work
to become accountable for gaining that wisdom
and knowledge. And if we didn't pick up the book
when it was available, it went to the next person.
big problem and it degrades the value of us operating
within our own sovereignty. And basically what
happens is instead of people thinking for themselves,
they're going to go and say, well, let me just
go Google it or let me ask AI. I'm just going
to ask ChatGPT. Hey, ChatGPT, how should I think
about this? Right? I remember when ChatGPT came
out, I was an early adopter. And I argued with
it. I was like, you're a dumbass. You know, I
was just literally this, because why? ChatGPT
is built on what's called an LLM, which is a
large language model. It doesn't do anything.
It's not intelligent. It's artificial for sure,
but it's not intelligent. All it does is it looks
at billions and billions of bits of information.
including your drunk brother -in -law blogging
about something, the most entrenched academic
in the world burping up facts that they've been
taught. So there's all of this stuff floating
out there and all AI does is aggregates it and
burps it up in your face. There's no intelligence
to it. You're the divine intelligence. So what
happens is the first principle is that these
tools should help us. But when I look at this
black box in front of my face and I say, help
me make this decision or help me write this paper
or help me do something, I'm surrendering my
decision -making, my sovereignty, and my accountability
to that. So now what's inside the black box and
how the system works, that's the bad part. Because
externally, there's a centralized control to
how that works. I remember early on, I wanted...
an image i wanted ai to generate an image for
me and it said it can't do it it won't it won't
create that image for me i'm like what do you
mean i'm looking for i was looking to put i think
it was like some some kid in a swimming pool
uh you know like a one of those life preservers
like you know those ring things i just wanted
a kid floating in a in a swimming pool and then
i had specific people i had told it around the
swimming pool. And it said it violated some sort
of an algorithm. And I'm like, I don't really
understand. So what I'm saying is that there
are centralized controls over how you use these
AI agents. But the good news is there's also,
you can take your autonomy back. You can actually
use AI on your own systems, give it your own
language models, your own databases. So you're
going to see more of that. But I'm just saying
if it's left unchecked, it's going to go out.
You're going to lose your agency because you're
going to say, well, chat GPT said this or Claude
said this or co -pilot said this. And you're
just going to run with that and you're going
to completely go right off the cliff because
you followed something that was absolutely stupid.
And so don't do that. There's also ethical blind
spots. There are severe ethical blind spots.
Where does AI get its information? Every place
on the internet, any place you can find information,
it's going to get it and it's going to burp it
up and give it to you. Well, what about if somebody's
got copyrighted information? It's going to still
burp it up and give it to you. It's actually
stealing from other people to give you answers
instead of you buying their book or instead of
you buying their research paper or whatever you
have to do. Basically, there's a lot of ethical
implications there. There's also implications
about, hey, I want you to take the president
and make him or her do something unflattering,
right? Do you have the right to use somebody
else's image and likeness in an unflattering
manner, right? These are not okay. And these
are conversations that you're shedding off to
people if you're using AI. So what does this
mean to your soul's journey? What happens if
we permit this to go? Well, we've seen it. You
go to a restaurant, or even now, if you're just
talking to a kid, a teenager, very few of them
can stay focused on what you're talking about.
By the way, for those of you listening right
now and you're still hanging in there, you're
still listening to this, God bless you. This
is great. There's a lot here. Attention fragments.
You also get this thing where you're getting
lost. Your soul is getting lost in this artificial
space. Especially when I see people walking around
with these goggles on. You're living in an artificial
space instead of having soulful experiences.
You can look through Google and have an experience
that you're walking through a garden, but it's
just so fake. It's so limited. But when you go
to my garden, you hear the bees. You look at
the butterflies. You smell the herbs. See the
dew on the flowers like in real time. There's
so much more to the real experience. What happens
is you're present in the moment. And this is
the same like looking at a beautiful baby that's
just brand new born versus seeing an image of
a baby through some goggles that you have on.
Feeling the baby, holding the baby, being there
with the baby when it's crying and then you hold
the baby. Those are tactile, soulful experiences
that you cannot get outside of yourself. You
must be present in the moment for your souls
to have those experiences. But a lot of times
these technologies and AI, they dissolve those
away. I already talked briefly about the outsourcing,
but there's also something that's sad is I find
that people... They'll say it's generational,
but even adults, they can't find stillness. One
of the coolest parts of being in this soul's
journey, and I'm going to challenge all of you
to do this, all of you. If you're still listening
to me, I want you to do this one thing, and this
is where you're going to find your soul, is I
want you to go and be quiet. Don't talk. Shut
off your AI. Shut off technology. Shut off your
cell phone. Shut off the music. Shut off everything.
Go walk through the park. Go walk in a garden.
Walk in the forest. Be present. This is one of
the most beautiful things you can do. If you
have somebody that can also go and be quiet and
go experience those things with you, That's one
of the biggest things you can do to feed your
soul is to find that quiet and find the stillness
and get your alignment between your soul and
your head. Don't let your head go spinning off
because that's what AI and technology is going
to do. What I'm talking about is getting coherence
between your brain, which is your outside world
and your inside world. We need to bring coherence
and stop scattering yourself all over these systems.
Bring yourself together back within yourself.
Your personal finance and career. Listen, I talked
about it earlier. The first principle here is
that time, energy, and talent are finite expressions
of your purpose. Your soul's purpose here on
this earth manifests in time, energy, and talent.
Now, the modern world is going to have you. They're
going to say that you're a function. of how productive
you can be. In other words, your value is based
on how productive you can be. And that's just
not true. They're also going to say that your
status, your status is the most important thing.
So there's these titles, right? We talked about
the doctor title and these, I'm an attorney or
I'm a millionaire, whatever you think you are.
It replaces contribution, right? And then this
is a big thing too. I see a lot of people going
through motions. Well, I don't get it. I brought
her roses on the anniversary. I don't get it.
I always do his laundry. I always make the bed.
I always do these things. It's not the motions.
Motion does not replace meaning. When my children,
I would rather have, like I've got four children
and four grandchildren. I would rather have my
children write a handwritten note. on the back
of a napkin and tuck it in my pocket so I can
find it. I love you. I'm so glad you're my parent,
right? I would rather that than them go and organize
some big party and do some big thing. I would
rather have the meaning of that beautiful handwritten
note that took 15 seconds, maybe a minute, to
write something and give it to me. That's more
precious to me than somebody handing me the keys
to a new Bentley convertible or something. It's
not about people, people, people, people. It's
not about the motions. It's not about the activities.
It's about the meaning, okay? Let's get there.
If you don't get there, you're going to burn
out. You see this all the time. I mean, you have
people. I can't believe this company. I worked
there for 29 years and they fired me the year
before my 30th. You know, they're chasing these
titles and they're chasing these retirements
and they're missing all these beautiful years.
And even while they're pursuing those things
within those structures, they're basically golden
cages. They're caged in. They're not sovereign.
They're not free. And they're self -imposed limitations
because their soul's not having a journey. They're
personally never advancing their soul. They're
never going towards their soul's purpose because
they've locked themselves in a cage, a structure,
an artificial structure, and they've relegated
themselves to an entire life of dissatisfaction.
That's the external manifestation of it. So what's
that mean to your soul in the long run? Well,
I always say, never confuse being busy with being
productive. A lot of people say, well, I'm always
so busy. Stop being busy. Be productive. Now
you can be productive at your work and you can
be productive with your family and with your
band or whatever you're doing. You can be productive
when it comes to your soul's journey. You must
make that a priority. Make sure that your alignment
with your soul's journey is the most productive
thing you do, right? You always have to double
everything you do back to who are you and why
are you here? I had a friend from 30 years ago.
How do you say it? It's great that people climb
the ladder of success, but let's just make sure
the ladder is leaning against the correct building,
right? Something like that. I probably botched
that, but you get the idea. So don't postpone
the inner work. A lot of people run away from
the shadow. You got to engage the soul's journey.
If the world around you is giving you something
negative, Interrogate that negative. Look at
it dead in the eyes. Try to understand what it
means to you, okay? Because otherwise, your soul
is going to go through this entire earth experience.
They're going to end up burying your body and
you're going to be exhausted. You're going to
get to the end of your life exhausted without
any personal soul victories. And then you're
going to look back and say, Oh man, I didn't
even accomplish what I came here to do. Last
one. I know it's taking a lot of time. God, there's
so much here. I just value, I've wanted to share
this information for so long. First principles,
last one. I pretty much went through all of these,
but this all ties together with this last one.
This has to do with your spiritual inner development,
okay? And again, it all ties together. The first
principle is that Truth withstands questioning
and your actual awakening requires direct experience.
Now, what does that mean? I hear all of these
people talking about, oh, we're on this awakening
journey or I'm awakened or I'm or they're woke
or they're not woke. And there are all this stuff
or whatever words. That's not the awakening I'm
talking about. I'm not talking about. The awakening
of the corruption of the deep state and all the
dirtbags, the politicians and all the people
that are doing all the dirtbag things around
the world. That's not what I'm talking about.
What I'm talking about here is your soul's journey.
The idea that to experience a swimming pool,
I can't just cerebralize it. I have to dive into
it. I have to feel it. I can understand the concept
of a hug, but it doesn't mean anything to me
until I feel the hug. I can understand what a
dog is, but until it jumps on me and licks my
face, I don't experience it. Your soulful experience,
that's what the journey is about. It's about
your experience. It's about awakening. to the
idea, the whole purpose of what I'm sharing with
you today is that you have to awaken to the idea
of yourself having a soulful experience and everything
around you is for your benefit. All of it. The
truth, whatever you perceive as the truth, even
if it's different from somebody else, your truth
is your truth. You don't have to convince somebody
else of your truth. They have their own truth.
Now, what's cool is when you meet people who
can actually talk about their truth freely and
you talk about your truth freely. Robin and I
have been married for over 30 years now. We don't
agree on everything. When she has a truth that
diverges from my truth, we have a conversation
about it. When we were newlyweds, we basically
said, look, if we're ever going to argue, let's
make an agreement that we're going to argue.
naked in bed, right? That was our thing. If we're
going to argue, it's going to be naked in bed
and we're going to come to a resolution, all
right? So those are things that I'm just saying,
those are experiences. Those are really important
things. So truth withstands questioning. It's
not something that you identify with. It's something
you're always seeking. You're always seeking
truth. Whether the earth is round or flat, it
doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. What matters
is that we collectively can figure out the answer
if we respect each other and we put our heads
together and figure out how to get the answer,
right? Now, why does it fail in today's world?
Why does this... My principle is that truth withstands
questioning. Well, opposite of that is that there's
a dogma that replaces inquiry. In other words,
I'm not, I can't question the church because
the church has got a book that's ordained and
it's canonized and it's the, there's 1500 years
ago, a bunch of guys sat in a room and agreed
that this is the truth. All right. Kind of the
same as a spinning round earth, right? It's dogma
and this is the truth and the science is settled
and I'm not allowed to ask any questions. That's
the failure. And so what happens is, Instead
of being allowed to use our discernment, it gets
schlepped off to these gurus, to these academics.
When a little girl asks, well, why do we cut
the end off the Easter ham? Why do we cut the
end off the ham? The answer to the girl is, well,
that's the way grandma did it and her grandmom
and her grandmom and her grandma. That's what
you do. That's the way you do it. But why? Don't
ask questions. But why? Why do we do it? those
questions are really important but we stop asking
those questions because ritual replaces interrogation
and we're told to sit down and shut up and color
in the lines right it's a failure of the system
it's complete failure so what happens is we end
up with this external manifestation of what i'll
call basically spiritual tribalism right there's
the muslims and there's the christians and there's
the atheists agnostics and the you know whatever
the religion of the day is right because their
truth has to be the truth and they have everything
to lay everything to lose because their truth
their truth is attached to their own ego then
it becomes spiritual tribalism by the way it
could be religious but it's also politics are
you a democrat or republican are you green are
you red or are you blue well no i'm not i'm a
person that asks questions Well, that's not right.
You have to be red or blue. Well, no, I really
don't have to be. I'm going to vote for the person
that tells the truth. Now it's like I'm in a
place where I'm not going to vote because nobody
tells the truth, right? So we're going to tear
down the system and start over. It manifests
in what I call tribalism. You're part of this
village. You're part of this tribe. You can call
it a nation, a state, a country, even a social
strata. I was just a young, probably a young
teenager. I could not believe that there was
countries that had a caste system, a caste system.
For those of you who don't know what that is,
you need to look it up. But basically, you're
born into this level, this economic level, and
there's nothing you can do to get out of it,
period. It's like, yeah, I would have sucked
at that because that, yeah. I would have been
really bad at that system so what happens now
internal to ourselves what it does is it forces
us to not ask questions if we're not allowed
to ask questions external to ourselves about
why things are the way they are then it also
manifests inside of ourselves so as above so
below as without so within if I'm not allowed
to ask questions outside of myself it or puts
a damper on my ability to ask questions about
my internal self. What's that sound like? Well,
gosh, it's the woman that's had three marriages
and she keeps blaming other people and she never
ever figures out that it's something she's doing
or not doing. It's unresolved trauma. It's maybe
things from her childhood or things that she...
belief system she has about herself, it bypasses
the internal interrogatory to find out about
what traumas are keeping you from advancing.
Same thing if a guy keeps losing jobs, right?
And he never has the internal dialogue. It's
like, why do I keep losing jobs? Why can't I
hold a job? You got to ask yourself the question.
Maybe it's because you have a foul mouth and
you keep swearing. Every three minutes you're
swearing. Maybe that's not a good thing for an
interview, right? You have to... What's causing
you to swear? Well, maybe your dad swore. Well,
is that the best thing for you to do? Is that
the best? Is that part of your soul's journey?
Or can you think of a better way to move through
life than having a potty mouth, right? Whatever
the trauma is that's causing you to believe or
act or do things a certain way, we want to turn
that inward, spiritual inner self, and figure
out how do we make ourselves better? How do we
improve our situation by towards a better way
of doing things, right? And this results in a
personal performative enlightenment. It's basically
an advancement of your personal self because
you... And I'll just tell you, I mean, I shared
this in some previous podcasts and I'm going
to share this again. I've overcome, to a large
part, PTSD. You know, I've had... trauma in my
life and during the daytime I was no problem
but the night time I would have some severe PTSD
like where I was always defending people and
getting shot like fatally injured right always
it was always me defending people and I had to
literally dive deep into that and do the intro
do the inner shadow work and say okay okay PTSD
why are you you're here to serve me I'm I'm the
queen, I'm the princess. You're here to serve
me. Teach me. What am I supposed to learn from
this? Because as soon as I learn the lesson from
you, you're going to disappear. And by and large,
it has. I almost have, I almost never have nightmares
anymore. I'm happy to report. Sometimes I do,
but they're very rare. So anyway, this is part
of, you know, dealing with your traumas, dealing
with your experiences. and making it part of
your soul's journey making it a reason for you
to advance instead of an excuse for you to not
advance hopefully that makes sense so what does
that mean on a soul level we really want to look
at finding truth that comes from your inner self
your inner knowingness instead of from an authority
figure all right the inner knowing is being currently
being suppressed and that we have to stop it
from being suppressed which is just like a muscle
you have to exercise it if you don't exercise
your inner knowing then you're going to lose
it maybe you have to come back and repeat this
repeat the course come back to the academy and
repeat it your your soul basically loops back
and it keeps you're going to keep looping back
until you learn those lessons so Unless you want
to keep coming back and repeating fifth grade,
fifth grade, fifth grade, fifth grade as a soul
in this earth experience, draw the line, look
at the trauma, face it, learn from it so you
can go to the next level, right? That's your
ascension. That's your assignment. So we don't
want to outsource. We don't want to outsource
wisdom. Let's learn to get wisdom from within.
You guys have been awesome. This is a lot. This
is an awful lot. I probably should have broken
it up into multiple episodes. So basically, what's
this amount to? When you put it all together,
the bottom line is this. When your first principles
are violated, the systems get bigger and louder
and your soul gets quieter. That's the takeaway.
So for your soul to grow, you have to move away
from the systems. It's just the opposite. Make
your soul's voice, make the little voice within
you grow bigger and bigger so the systems will
get quieter and quieter. You want to listen to
your inner self. You certainly want to respect
other people's autonomy and sovereignty and things
like that. But this is your soul's journey. Remember
that. Basically, where reality becomes mediated,
your reality is your reality. There's no external
solution or validation that you need. It's your
experience, okay? Finally, we don't want to operate
in the fear realm. I said this a bunch of times,
but you are beautiful, you are powerful, and
you're free. If your soul is eternal, then this
earth life is not about winning systems. It's
not about ego. It's about remembering your alignment,
bringing your soul purpose in alignment with
your brain's perception of your soul's purpose
you have to remember in your brain why you were
here what's your purpose for being here so these
these principles are not you know some sort of
philosophical abstraction or something these
are invariable these are spiritual determinatives
that'll anchor your soul from being distorted
from outside truths it's going to anchor you
to your internal truth You're going to restore
this coherence between all of the fragments of
yourself because the world around you wants to
fragment you. You're going to restore yourself.
And basically, you're going to move from instead
of this survivalism where you're reacting to
the world around you, you're going to move into
this bias where you're initiating. You're saying,
I own me. I'm in charge of me. I'm beautiful.
I'm powerful. I'm free. In the world, doesn't
know what's about to happen because I'm initiating
things instead of reacting to things, right?
Your lifetime is going to change if you apply
these first principles. I promise. I promise.
Your soul is, there's a compass. It's going to
move towards its goal. You have to shut, you
have to stop the brain. Stop your brain from
going crazy. Find peace. Find quiet. Your soul
is going to progress. Trust yourself. You're
going to journey through this earth space. You've
got a purpose. You're not here by accident. There's
definitely a reason you're here and you're experiencing
this. Take a breath. Listen to this over if you
can tolerate it. There's a lot of information.
Know that you're lovable, you're beautiful, you're
powerful, and you're free. I love you dearly.
This went way longer than I thought, but it's
been on my heart. It's something that I wanted
to get out there into the world. If this just
helped a single person move towards your next
level, then it was worth it to me. I love you
dearly. I hope 2026 is a great year for all y
'all. I'm looking forward to it. Love you guys.
Take care now. Thanks again for tuning in. Soul
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