I'd love to welcome Robert Simmons to the Haydash Berry Video Oral History Project and I know what your friends call you a zoo. My name is Rebecca Nichols and I'll be moderating this tape. I'd like to learn a little bit about you. I know you've been a great contributor to the Oracle and many other things in the arts and writing and spirituality. I would love to know about your early beginnings. Where were you born? I was born just a few blocks from here at St. Mary Hospital. So right near the Haydash Berry. I had Fulton and one of his brothers. Cole, somewhere right up there. Fulton and... It's still standing there right now in 2005. And what were your parents' names? My mother's name was Mary Shannon and my father's name was Warren Simmons. And I was brought up right at 6th Avenue at Fulton right next to the Goldbeard Park and I went to Lowell High School. Amazing, the old Lowell High School. And then after that I went to San Francisco State College. I heard your grandparents were also born. Yeah, I'm the second and third generation. San Francisco. I had a grandmother that lived on Calister in Fulton. Do you remember your grandmother's name? Yeah, Wilhelmina Hintz. And she was all in black and she was in a big Victorian one thing or other. And she was a bootlegger. And then we were during the time of the bootleggers in the day. So she was up there as a children. Do you remember your grandfather's name? I can't remember my grandmother's name. Sure.   Wonderful. I'm out. Do you have any brothers and sisters? I have a deceased sister. What was her name? Marilyn. Marilyn. Do you have any children? No, one child, yes. Nothing, one child. Do you know that child's name? I have a child named Carrie. Carrie, beautiful.  I would love to ask you real quickly because then I want to move to the sixties. Oh, yes. Do you remember the hate Ashbury at all before the sixties? Well, of course, because when we got out of junior, when we got out of high school at low, we used to watch as two blocks. Sure. We'd go up to eighties and we'd go up to all these restaurants and we would play football and batting and basketball and everything in the panhandle and then tennis park on the way home. Just like in the fifties? Yeah, that was like in the forties. In the forties. Yes, so I remember very vividly, you know, the Second World War, like when you asked Travis about some of the traumas that you remember. Sure. Of course, I remember the concentration. Wow. When were you born? 1929. Wow, you look great. You really look great. Chinese era. Chinese era, it's very inspiring. So you remember H. Street before the big? Oh, yes. It was very simple. It was very naive. It was right out of Foster's and, you know, the gang that hang around at Miller's eating chocolate sodas with whipped cream fillers. Do you remember any of the businesses on the street that may not be here now? Do you remember? They were all little five and dime stores. And as I say, it was very simple. Everything was inexpensive. You remember Walgreens? Walgreens and E.D.'s was the big one. Walgreens where the actual Oracle office ended up landing somewhere right near there? Right over there. Right? It was very simple. It was kind of, even though there was a war on, it was a different kind of feeling. Everybody was in uniform. Everybody was running around the market street and da-da-da. And also there was a lot going on creatively in the 40s and 50s. When I went to state college, we had, you know, all the existential plays, waiting for Boudot and Lorca and all this stuff being played. Sure. You had the beatnik era coming in the North Beach. We had the early beatnik era that was coming in. So it was a big interest in existentialism and sardine and ruling. Literary abstract painting and all of that was very active. So you got some inspiration from all of this? I went to San Francisco to take out a major liberal arts. It basically means you can take anything. So I take art history. I take Asian art. You know, this and that. They had all kinds of things. Sure. And I lived with a beautiful lady at the time, right up here on Twin Peaks. And I think we had a house with two bedrooms and rent was 3750. Amazing. That was a view. I had a house on Ashbury and Page in the middle of the Six Ages. Yes. Big, white Victorian. I paid 125. Right. But anyway, living with Barbara, she was from New York. She was a few years old. She was very sophisticated. She was up on all the latest theater films, cinemas, plays, you know. Sure. That sort of thing. So I got very turned on to intellectual, you know, lifestyle. I guess you would call it Bohemian before it would beat me through the Bohemians. Exactly. Exactly. When did you first find yourself having some type of talent with the arts or with writing that you started admiring that? Well, I went, the Korean War was on when I was in school. And everybody was afraid of getting caught in the Korean War, getting drafted and all that. And people were ducking on and out and one thing or another. Well, I happened to be a straight A student, so I got a direct commission in the Medical Corps. And I went to the 4th Center in June for a few months. And then I was sent to Fikon, which means Far East Command.  And I'm in a tea house at the August moon kind of, you know. It's a great environment, getting turned on to Buddhism and the Zen and, you know, reading books and that kind of thing. Sure. And they got very interested. When I came back, I went to the East Coast with my cousin and went into the building business for a few years. And then I made enough money to go over to Europe, where I moved to Europe and I went to the Sorbonne, Paris, studied French language and literature. I lived in southern France and I actually moved on. So traveled through most of Europe and the Greek islands and then finally Morocco. Well, Morocco, you know, the swinging place, especially in the 50s and 60s. Did you ever make it to India? It was really great. I traveled all through Morocco and wrote a novel about it called Berber King. Give a website? Well, we're building it all the time, you know. Okay. And so after Morocco, I went back to my apartment in Rome. And there were, of course, a lot of actors there in a lot of America and making Cleopatra at the time. Right. And this friend of mine, Alan Midget, said, oh, my name was still Bob Simpson and you should go to New York and see this guy, Dr. Cleary. I think he had his name that stood for Cleary. Cleary. And they're having sessions over there and it's quite fantastic. He told me all this in Rome. And I said, well, I was getting ready to go back to America. Anyway, I had been painting. I had a lot of canvases and a lot of writing to present them on and so I went to New York and as soon as I got to New York, who do I meet? I meet Dr. Mishra. I meet Leary on the outboard. I meet Metzner. I read the psychedelic review, all the books that you were talking about. Sure. All that stuff was going on. Cleary was having these big psychedelic parties and, you know, it was pretty extravagant. Do you ever go to Milbrook? Do you ever make it to Milbrook? Oh, yeah. I went to Milbrook several times. Maybe I saw you as a child. I lived at the Oshrom. Oh, you lived at the Oshrom? Yeah. And now when I was at the Oshrom, before I came out to California, it was like 1964, 1965, 1964, in comes Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in comes Bhakti Vedanta, in comes Amrit Desai, in comes Yogi Bhathalves, in come all these people. So I didn't have to go to India by the way. I was suddenly getting all this input of, you know, the whole thing. And when I remember when Maharishi was sitting up, Dr. Mishra's Oshrom, he had flowers all over. And he described everything in terms of flowers and that everything should be surrounded with flowers and that our life was like a flower, that it grew, that it exuded, that it opened up like a flower. And the fragrance of your being and your essence and your business, all comes out. So that was actually the beginning of the idea of the flower child. Wow. Because when Maharishi came out to Berkeley in San Francisco after that, the whole thing was surrounded with flowers and everybody wore flowers and danced with flowers. I would fight to the death that I wasn't a hippie, that I was a flower child. So anyway, I studied with Dr. Mishra this whole thing about the Eden, the Pingali, the right enough hemisphere of the brain, the Kundalini, the serpent consciousness, all of that stuff. The chakras. So by the time I got to San Francisco, I was ready. You were ready. I would have had to put out all this knowledge I had of travel experiences and gurus. Would you come when you first came back to San Francisco at this point? Well, what happened, I was with a lady who was Hungarian from Budapest. Remember the whole war that happened over there when people left? And she was a painter and artist also. And we came out of California. We met at a macrobiotic camp up in the mountains in New Jersey. And of course, the Paradox Restaurant in New York City was happening. Remember that one on the 6th? So there was the Paradox Restaurant. She was a macrobiotic cook. I was super interested in macrobiotics. So we said, let's go out to California, put up our opinions, and have a macrobiotic restaurant. So we did that. We moved in on Pine Street, 2140 Pine. Next door to Bill Hamm, who did the first light show, right across the street from the old Family Doorhouse. Family Door later moved up further up towards Venice. So at that restaurant that we opened up, underground macrobiotic restaurant, because macrobiotics are taboo for the straight world.  So it was there that I met Martine and that I met other people. And Gary Goldhill, Jay Thalen, Ron Thalen, and they all came in and they looked at all my paintings and said, wow, you're a part of the scene here. And I said, I've also got this writing here on my experiences. Where was your restaurant? Was there Pine? Yeah, 2140 Pine. Pine and about Webster, Buchanan. And so the next day I was over with my manuscript, the first thing I published in the Oracle, which is Yoga and the Psychedelic Mind. And I did a drawing for that. And it was about my experiences in New York City, taking acid and walking all through the streets in New York City or through the park and doing things like envisioning the bar, those fates and all that kind of stuff. It was all new. And we were looking for a vehicle for all this. There hadn't been an explosion of anything psychedelic since the time of Rambo and Berlin but they called it Poets Maudit and the Parnassian movement and the club they had Sheesh, which cocktail and all those people, they all went to North Africa and smoked all this stuff. So there hadn't been a kind of psychedelic spark since then. And this was now the big psychedelic spark that was opening these two dimensions beyond the first and second chakra, beyond your personality, into a really deep sense of freedom. Awakening was considered to be the realization of your true self as none other than your immortal self. Well, if you talk about immortal self before the psychedelic, they could put you away. They put you away.  So suddenly there was this explosion and an opening of the big self, of the Renaissance self. And actually the tradition of the whole 60s spiritual movement and everything goes all the way back to Egypt, goes back to Okhnat and goes back to Nefertiti, to Hermes, to all the Hermetic philosophers and teachers and to the masons and to the free masons and to theosophy and the whole thing. It had nowhere else to go. In other words, this was a kind of reemergence of a Renaissance because that energy moved up through Hermes and moved over to Babylon and eventually moved to Leonardo da Vinci and up to Goethe and Faust and to the man god, which was being expressed.  The goddess movement is... God completing himself in you. So all of that started then and then it all came out and came out into the woman's movement. You could say in many ways that even the 60s movement was a precursor for what they call the New Age. Surely, the Aquarian Age. The Aquarian Age and all that. And in many ways, it looked like we were against something like we were battling down the old to bring in the new and I suppose there was some degree of that. Don't forget that the Vietnam War was on and with the Vietnam War on, that tempered everything. There were very intense political people, which was of course Berkeley and San Francisco, which was more this spiritual orientation of your true self being rather than your immortal self. Sochi dnanda. Thou art that, om tatsad. If you said that around Catholics they would say you can't say that or Muslims too, these people get killed and not go up and say that. When did you first, when you came back see the amazing masses that were coming up to San Francisco, coming to the hate? Do you remember your memory? Well, it wasn't an amazing man, it grew slowly. It didn't really grow into the B.N. It was about the issue number fourth or fifth, I can't remember. And that was of course the summer of love and the B.N. The 60s movement was very brief. It only lasted about a year and a half. And it lasted about the time of the length of the oracle. But to show you the difference between the Western thing, Michael Bowen called me one day in Martín and Gary Goldhill and I was with Yaya the cook and we said let's go to Berkeley we're going to unify San Francisco and Berkeley. I said great, so we get in the car and we drive over, we're going to meet Jerry Rubins and Mario Di Stavo, you know and we drive up in front of the Steffen Wolf club, you know Steffen Wolf's magic theater and you walk in and we walk out the end and do its second car and drive away everything was so clandestine and hidden, you know in Berkeley. And so we finally meet and they're all sitting on one side and they've got beret, capstone and camouflage jackets and we're all sitting on the other side Yaya had just made a beautiful Buddha's shirt you know with all the plenty of Buddha's on and so they're looking at us and they say what do you think this whole thing is about and I said it's about fun and love, it's about celebration and joy and they all looked at me like I must have been and well that's the difference between we're into politics and confrontations we organize in Chicago 7 and you know everybody's got to be tough and so you can see the difference there between Berkeley, the difference between you know Oracle and Berkeley Bar and between the mentality and the attitudes of what you had to do What drew you to the Oracle what opened up the connection for you to be involved with the Oracle Well there was that first article that I wrote which was Yoga and the Psychedelic Mind because I knew that whole thing and don't forget I had all this expansive travel, Cherokee, Morocco different people all over the world I met all the dollies and the wallies and the mollies and the women in the world and volley and all of those people So the second one came up which I wrote which was called The Life because Timothy said tune in, tune in, drop out and it was really hard for a western person to understand we all wanted to say take over but drop out was very difficult and to this day it's used in a very pejorative negative way even if you read the paper there drop out but in India and in Morocco and everybody you can drop out and you can join an ashram and you can join a community and you can play drums and stay high all the time and you're considered a hajima long a sadhu or a wild baba you bowed to this last Kuhmela film was quite good and it shows the vastness 18, 20, 30 million people all dancing wildly well here they would put everybody in a nut house throw a dancing naked in the river you know so the thing is that's what drop out meant and that's going to drop out in this country it was very hard the massive resistance thing had a little bit of the Sachegraha thing of India but not much but where do you drop out to and that's always the question that comes up and can you drop out before you've dropped in and do you have to have a self before you can have a no self like you said you were running around doing things at a very very early age before you had the subject of object duality split before you even experienced what latency period was or puberty these things before you develop a discerning mind could you possibly go into letting it all go and dropping out and you can imagine having that dealt with all the millionaire people back in the east coast in Chicago and stuff and they leave 20 or 30 million dollars for their children to go to school and they give it all to Maharaj or Maharishi they must have flipped out because they wanted to drop out two years later they wanted to drop back in and get their money back and they couldn't go out of the situation and change and you know there was no more Roshneesh Poornam and that dada dada dada Do you write any other articles for the Oracle? Yeah well then what happened I went to Mexico and when I came back I went to Mexico during an article an awful number of four or five and six and I went to Mexico and I was down there in Mexico painting traveling around and I came back and when I came back I'd noticed the scene had changed I said my god oh don't you know the psychedilical office has been psychedilical stores have been busted and all the people that were in the store are going to court and they're having a big court case downtown and city hall with Melvin, Bella and Chulose and Alan Cohen is on the stand and J. Kalim is on the stand and the other one, Ron is on the stand they're all going to get busted and have a felony against them so naturally I went right there and I sat in on some of it and I became a good friend of Bill Chulose who later became a collector of mine of painting and art and stuff but already now they were really attempting to smash the scene down you know and they were going to court over the F word you couldn't say the F word now if you watch television whatever it's F F F F F F everything is F right? Rappers, F was one with a book that was written by the name of Leonora Candell she wrote a book called the Love Book which was a beautiful book beautifully illustrated, really powerful tantric book and she used the F word and that put everybody in jail or bail or something you know you couldn't even use the F word then what do you think in your background and you're so much like you were designed to be part of this whole thing yeah I was designed to be part of it right what do you think what do you think your passions were what drove you to I had spoken to Travis and he said he was very inspired for a whole year because Kennedy died and wars were going on and what inspired you? Well I wouldn't say that the wars were things that inspired me more than he was freedom freedom was the main thing to me and the expansion of consciousness I mean I had seen worse things in the Second World War I saw 65 million people die people say what 65 million yeah 30 million Russians 10 million Jews 10 million yeah you should open the paper to me in the million so I was interested in freedom freedom from anything Hitler like freedom from any kind of control freedom from any kind of suppressing yourself to be greater good of the Fuhrer or whatever and control and all of that so freedom was mainly my thing freedom sure so I was interested also in freedom from conformity freedom from negative past imprinting and freedom to self-realization self-integration because we had so much coming in to be able to handle a little integrate a little the male and the female the male and the female most hadn't really met yet they didn't meet until the 60s and say my god you're a whole person I thought you were a Barbie doll whatever and so it all all changed radically so there were freedom too also we had freedom with our diet which were radical changes we had macrobiotic restaurants we had health food stores we had clothing to wear these Renaissance style now what I walk around today looks just like the 60s it's retro what is macrobiotic for those that don't know macrobiotic is a balanced food diet that's between the yin and the yang see what we usually do is we usually eat extreme yin go out and have an ice cream soda you know and have a milkshake you know and have a big giant burger we had ourselves around with these extreme yin and the macrobiotic is eating in the middle it's eating grains it's eating from the earth it's a balanced way of diet that slowly opens you up and unfolds you and gives you incredible strength and wonderful connectedness to earth and to organic foods and especially to foods that are little I would say more yam foods and herbs and carrots and beets and potatoes things that are grown in the earth where they really get the minerals into them and so how long you've been eating like this oh I wouldn't say that I'm a macrobiotic the macrobiotic thing was a phase I also did gourmet food in Europe and I also lived in Thailand for what 7 or 8 years I've eaten all kinds of Thai food what are you doing in your life right now well we're having a kind of reemergence of this oracle thing that's going on right now and also that was the last piece of individual writing I did after that I started doing illustrations for Steve Levine's poetry in the last number about number 7 to about number 12 I did all of his poetry other illustrations that cover the Ichin Mandala House many things like that that are in it and so I'm continuing to do writing, poetry painting, exploration publication what's your vision for the future what's your vision for the future my vision of the future well my vision of the future is a long world I love it because this thing will leave you that's the one thing that I wanted to bring up which was if the 60's was about anything it was about love it might have been Romeo and Juliet love but you know there was this feeling of love like right now I would say because of the war and the situation that's going on TV and he had into one thing there's a slight depression of the collective consciousness well during the time there was an expression of collective consciousness that was joy happiness, peace, sharing but you know Ali Oda was in office then and he didn't want to see that go because they called him up he lied himself up to run for president he said how are you going to run for president if you can't even control the hippies wow 400 police came out of the street didn't everybody with deads and clubs it was unbelievable but that's about when my name changed when I came back from that name I used to name Azul it changed when I came back from Mexico and we were all at the Oracle office and if your name was Harvey or you became Harry Krishna and if your name was you know Gladys you became you know Govinda and everybody took on different names so this lady that was with by the name of Vicky I just came back from Playa Azul she said Azul and then Alan Cohen who was standing right there giving me my last name Zangpo and we were both reading Lamigoldinda The Way of the White Clouds and Lamigoldinda's Great Treaties The Way of the White Clouds and the other one Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism and it was all about this wonderful person Zangpo was an architect he did rivers he did castles and the hills and you know and the Tibet thing has been quite on the line also it was the first time I saw Tibet when I first saw Tibetan art I understood it completely I saw it on an island in New York City and of course we were on psychedelics about the Tibetan Sanctinians completely described every aspect of life and death and what you go through in the barro states and how the whole thing works that was really what we meant by expansion of consciousness seeing the big picture the big landscape not just the limited one that happened and people were reading Madame Belofsky and Annie Besant and you know whoever knew anything about Aquarian Ages and Piscian Ages and you know the Golden Age and the Sat Yuga and the Kali Yuga we didn't know about those sorts of things in time expansions and one thing through these interviews we're going to actually do some filming of the Oracle we're going to be able to to video some of the photography the line drawings of the writings and stuff and most of those are signed, what is your signature on your work? Azul, yeah so we'll look for that Robert Simmons goes on the checks on the checks the passports and the driver's license so in the future when young people are looking at this full of ideas, what happened here why did it happen here you know well it always happens here the Bohemian thing was very strong here after the Second World War but it moved very strong into socialism communism and the McCarthy thing and the Beatnik thing came out of that and then after the Beatnik thing you got the hippie thing the hippie was not quite the white word to use as a matter of fact when I went to France and people said what have I been doing in California I went to a hippie bien conuqua what a hippie bien conuqua it's terrible hippies are terrible they can last people who don't even clean their underwear you know so it was really something you know two minutes I used a word in a lot of my articles a spiritual revolution or the awakening the rebirth of the Renaissance I love the one family yeah the one family because as people are looking at this film in the future it's still the same family generations moving down and what happened here in the Bay Area not only affected the Bay Area it connected New York, England and London affected the world on the art scene, on the music scene the word hippie actually came from Southern California from the Mexicans they had a big watch and they used to go like this with their watch, swing it around like that and they all smote grass and that was considered you know they moved their hips, so that was considered hippie and of course the hulu hippie, it didn't even move the hips Elvis the pelvis well you know I want to thank you so much and we're going to be doing another tape a little later on in the day and we welcome you to join in on this let's do one on the evolutionary background, the total evolutionary background of the whole movement that's what we would like to talk about I want to thank you so much


Hello everyone welcome to another NARC survivor live video coming to you live from Waki Machi in Japan Just checked in to this very old Japanese house as many of you may know I do like Old things and in this video, I'm going to be talking about What the narcissist thinks of you When you finally leave them alone because yes Believe it or not When you finally leave them alone They are still Thinking of you. I know how it may look It's as though they've just Ridden off into the sunset with their new supply and they've forgotten all about you Yes, I know I understand it may look that way But that is not how it pans out in reality it doesn't pan out that way at all What you will find And what you've probably noticed already At the end of the relationship They demonstrated just how envious, jealous and competitive they were That after you finally left Then you'll see just how bitter a resentful they are And how arrogant and entitled It's like no matter how much you did for them in the relationship. It's never enough At the end of it. They've still got their hands out They're still expecting something from you. It's like no matter what you do.  They know it. They know that they are of no Significant or sustainable value to you And they know just how great you are Because you got to think of it like this If a person really thinks they're that great now that's special They're such a wonderful person And you're so bad. You can't do anything right. Everything you do is wrong They're just going to leave you to it They're just going to leave you to mess up your own life if you're that bad And if they're that great and they're having such a great time in their life They're not going to waste any time coming back trying to sabotage yours So you see how this narrative doesn't make any logical sense It makes no sense at all Quite clearly they do know just how great you are How much better your life can be without them Yes, they know that And not only that but they know how shitty their lives are going to be without you And that is why They've got to come back They're constantly thinking about you.   You're happy. You're doing well. It doesn't matter It does to the narcissist though Yeah, it matters a lot to them because despite What a lot of other people are saying on tiktok or youtube Just forget about all of that for a moment Listen to what i'm saying right now Yes, they're narcissists Even narcissists They recognize it. They think this way they can see it And you should know that because it lines up perfectly with their behavior Just look at what they're doing and how they're treating you They put you down. They devalued you they treat you with content.  Because if that's really too true if you're really no good you're nothing your garbage They should be able to move on without a care Especially if it's as they portray it on their facebook their instagram the twitter whatever it is If they already rise it off into the sunset with a new supply and they're living their best lives Why are they so worried so focused on you? Why it doesn't make any logical sense It doesn't add up and that is how you know Or you should know That yes, they do realize Just how great you are They recognize Your potential your capabilities Of how you could move on and do so much better and be so much happier without them in your life And not only that but they know they recognize That if they have to go off on their own and forget about you Their lives are going to be miserable And you're going to be having a far much better time without them Yes, they know that it doesn't matter what they've been telling you it doesn't matter about the narrative It doesn't matter about any of that You just got to look at what they're doing That should tell you exactly how they are thinking You've got to think about it like this and I've said it before If you have a very old Watch You've had it for a few years Doesn't mean anything to you Maybe it's very cheap Maybe you got it in a dollar store. It's nothing special. Just a normal watch Let's say you lost the watch somewhere You might spend about 10 minutes looking for it After that you're just going to forget about it Maybe you'll just go to the shop and get a new one Because it's very cheap. Maybe you got it in a dollar store. It doesn't matter But what if that watch Was a Rolex A very expensive watch What if it was A piece that your grandparents left to you in their will So it holds a lot of sentimental value It can't be replaced. You can't find another one You would probably go to the ends of the earth To track that thing down And you wouldn't be able to stop You wouldn't be able to sleep until you found it It would drive you insane It would be constantly playing on your mind Where is that watch It's worth all of this money It's worth 20,000, 30,000 dollars It has a lot of sentimental value. I can't just replace it Yeah Yeah Now you understand What is going on in the narcissist mind This is how they're thinking with you Just as it's no ordinary watch Be a nothing ordinary to the narcissist As the empaths that we are Doesn't matter what they're telling you That doesn't matter What they're telling you does not line up with what they're doing or how they're behaving Look at how they're treating you Why are they always on your case?  Why are they so bitter and resentful? I mean if someone Let's say someone stole the watch How mad would you be? How bitter would you be? Yes, now you understand how they think Because they feel like you're stealing yourself away from them So now they're mad now they're bitter they're resentful And they want to destroy you See now it makes perfect sense That's how they feel It's as if someone is stolen A very expensive watch from them that they cannot replace That's exactly how they feel Now you understand but it doesn't really add up though does it? Because they are crazy. They are delusional as well I mean you've got to think They never even took the time to get to know you When did they ever even sit down and have a conversation with you? When did they ever even ask you any questions about yourself? They never took any interest in you from the very beginning It was all about them It was all about their attention and admiration of what you were going to do or be for them It was never about who you actually are as a person. It was never about your feelings once in needs It was never about that at all And yet you take yourself away from them and they're so bitter. They're so mad They're so upset with you When they don't even know who you are they never even took the time to get to know you So what sentimental value do you hold to them? None They don't even know you This is just some warped fantasy in their minds Of you and in a lot of ways it is you Being so much greater than What you actually are In all honesty Because they really overthink things they overanalyze it But then in some ways Yes, we can experience life We can experience this world Relationships in a way that they will never Never get to experience As an empath and you will know exactly what i'm talking about if you are an empath It's like every little thing you do You experience You feel it at such a deep level and it could be anything You could be going for a walk in the park and it's just the way that you look at the trees You observe all of the colors You like to feel the texture of the leaves Listen to the sounds Of the birds singing It's like every little Detail you notice it You pick up in it you see it It's not like that for them It's not like that for them at all And when you're with someone when you're in a relationship They already know they've seen how you are they know you all too well In that area at least Because they've experienced that with you already at the beginning That it's like It's just holding someone's hand You're looking in their eyes And you feel something Maybe you kiss them And you feel it very deeply You feel it on a very Deep and intense level Yes, you can experience true love happiness joy satisfaction and fulfillment But it is not like that for them What do you think they do?  They know The entire time they could see it Yes, they knew they were weighing you down. They were holding you back.  They already know that Because they already know the entire time they needed you far more than you ever needed them They already knew that your life would have been far better if you never even got involved with them in the first place And that's why they targeted you.  You couldn't see what was going on right in front of your eyes And I don't blame you for that. Of course, I know you were manipulated.   From the moment that they began devaluing you. I mean, it should have been so easy for them They never invested anything into you to begin with anyway What did they ever do for you? They never really invested any time Any money any of their resources It's so easy for them to just pull out and just forget about you They never invested anything into you So why did they stick around for such a long time while they're devaluing you? When they could just walk away at any moment. It wasn't like how it was for you You gave all of your time energy and devotion all of your money and resources to them And they aligned to you the future fakes They made you have to stick around They promised you that things were going to change things were going to be better So that's why you couldn't leave straight away But there was no excuse for them their behaviors Just never line up with what they're saying It doesn't matter what they say.  I don't have to lift the finger And now what you're telling me I have to go off on my own Well, you take all of this stuff that you work for And you get to go off with that And I'm just left with what I have with what belongs to me Then our sister thinking How is that fair because their minds are warped They're so arrogant and entitled They're not looking at it like oh Oh, you've worked so hard all of your life. Of course. Yes These things are yours This is you.  I mean that's fairness That's equality If you've worked on yourself if you've worked for what you have then it's yours rightfully Even legally lawfully Narcissist doesn't see it that way though They don't really care all they see Is that you have an advantage over them It doesn't matter if you worked for it doesn't matter what you've done at all They're just looking at it like We are going in opposite directions You're choosing to leave We're going our separate ways But hold on I'm going this way My life is not going to be anywhere near as good as when it was when I was with you And because you were putting up with me and I was just this absolute liability to you And I was weighing you down And you can just go off and sprout your wings and fly away That is how they see it They are not concerned about fairness or equality They're not concerned about if you have Worked on yourself you've worked hard You've built up a business you've got a good job whatever it is You bought your own home your own car They're looking at it like Yeah This is you This is your life This is your stuff.  What did they ever bring to you? How did they ever improve your lives they never did in any way?  Thank you Let's get this message out there to other survivors. It's very important Yeah, of course they're thinking of you When you finally leave them alone, they can't stand it Especially if you are the one to discard them They want to be the ones to do that to you Remember the very arrogant They have this Sense of superiority It really makes no sense at all. I mean the entire time They need to do far more than you need them You are doing everything for them Everything they wanted from you you took care of it. They never really did anything for you to begin with And yet They have this position of authority and control over you But they believe that they are superior to you and Yeah, they're thinking of you when you finally leave them alone because They were so dependent on everything that you were doing for them That's why But for us, it's like the only thing Really stopping us from leaving the entire time We're just worried about how they're going to react Because this person has been feeding off us all of this time It's like It's like a Like a parasite That is constantly feeding on us.    To cut off my supply To take away my nourishment my nutrients And for you it's like the arrogance The audacity the entitlement How could anyone possibly think that way?    Well they can trick you into thinking That you're not as great as you actually are When deep down they already know That you are a million times better than them Why do you think they do it? To make someone at your level Feel like you are beneath them That really makes them feel special It really does That's it for this message today I'm going to relax now I'm in this old Japanese house I asked them how old it is They said they don't know I'd have a guess that it looks Maybe a few hundred years old It's all wooden But it's nice I like old things I am quite a traditional person myself Anyway, if you found this video helpful Please click that thumbs up button down below It helps the YouTube algorithm To get this important message out there So that other survivors will see it as well And let me know what you think about this video I know I went on a bit of a rant there I just wanted to provide as much value as I could In this video So I hope I managed to deliver on that Let me know what you thought about it In the comments below I do read your comments every day And also hit that subscribe button And click all notifications Make sure you do that because then You will be notified when I upload a new video If you don't click all notifications as well You might not always get the notification on time So please remember to do that And if you need more support I am available for a one-on-one coaching session Which you can buck through my website It is Narcseviver.co.uk And also you can follow me on Instagram My Instagram is Narcseviver YouTube That's it for this video I'm just going to do some more work Write up a new video Got a premiere starting soon as well So thank you all for joining me And as always I look forward to talking with you In another live video very soon


Welcome to Tool Talk from Exegetical Tools where we discuss informative resources and intelligent practices to help you rightly divide the word of truth. Today I've got Michael Heizer, scholar in residence at Lagos and author of The Unseen Realm. He's done a lot of work in ancient Near Eastern Studies, especially in this supernatural world view underlying scriptures. Really prominent something we tend to gloss over. He's written about that extensively in The Unseen Realm. It's a book at the popular level that's going to link to a lot of really scholarly resources based on a lot of peer-reviewed journals, things like this. I'm really excited to talk to him today both about the supernatural world view of the Bible and biblical Hebrew and why we all ought to probably study that if we want to really get into the nitty-gritty of the Bible. Dr. Heizer, first I just want to talk about your upbringing. You mentioned to me that you didn't grow up in a Christian home and maybe some of the ways that has affected your view of the scriptures. Tell me a little bit about that. Yeah, it wasn't overtly hostile until after I became a Christian. Prior to that it was probably pretty normal. Nobody's really taken this religion stuff too seriously. It's kind of a cultural religious background. My parents had connection with the church only in their baptism and that was the end of that. That sort of thing. Afterwards, they thought I had joined a cult and were really concerned and again fairly hostile through high school. They're believers now and they related the story to me that they used to do and say things to me when I was in high school just to see what I would do. They were testing me and again they told me that many years later as an adult. Now I can almost like do no wrong with them. They're believers, they understand it, they get it. Thank the Lord I was a good testimony as a high schooler. But it was kind of a chess match and that really contributed to I think in some way to me really wanting to be able to think well about certain things. Certain questions I would get, certain questions I would just have and wondering well is this going to be an obstacle to my parents coming to the Lord or somebody else that I knew. I was just thinking of those kinds of terms early on. So I come from a very different background. We were very conservative theologically. I was raised in a small SBC church still a proud member of the SBC. Rep and Midwestern Seminary. I love it. It's great. But came to my first year of college at a nominally Christian school. Everyone was required to take an Old Testament class but basically the profs whole angle. Instead of teaching this even as just literature you know if you want to do it that way. It was here's another reason why you shouldn't believe in this stuff. So I you know coming from us you know having heard lots of apologetics and especially when it comes to things like the natural world and sciences and young earth creation and things like this. I just you know I was appalled and still we would disagree a lot if we were to sit in a room today and I mean I don't believe he was a believer. I'm pretty sure he told that to me. But I just remember him talking about how the world of Genesis 1 through 11 was just a different world all together. And you know it was he even showed a clip of the beginning of the Lord of the Rings just to kind of this is what you should be thinking. This is all fantasy. It's a made up world. And I just remember him talking about you know the sons of God and Genesis 6 and how crazy this sounds and me going very you know hey I've got a footnote here in my Bible. Sir. And it says that that could just mean the really virtuous sons of Seth. And I thought I had got him there. And I what I hear you telling me is I didn't get him there. I think what I know you didn't you didn't get it. I didn't quite get in there. And I think it's it's what we've talked about a little bit is equating a view of the natural world and in physical observable world and saying OK. The the writers of the Bible had a particular world view as far as science goes and God spoke within that world view. And there may be some things that he would have said differently to us. And yet the truth still stands. But the supernatural. Sorry. Go ahead. I was going to say I don't I don't think any part of scripture is about teaching science. I don't think that was that was God's goal in any regard. Right. But had been his goal then he really picked he really made poor choices. Right. For offers. Yeah. Right. Sure. Yeah. So in what in what I guess I'm coming to here is I had a similar approach to things like the supernatural worldview in the opposite direction almost saying well let's let's harmonize and kind of explain away. And he would have said this professor would have said no don't explain it away they really meant what they said and it's a bunch of bunk. And he would say don't explain it away they really meant what they said and we should take God's word for it. I would say let's just if you pardon the expression. Let's just take God out of the discussion. I would say they really meant what they said. And we should realize that the ideas that they're putting forth. And it tested philosophically in terms of logic and rationality for two millennia. And there are many philosophers who don't commit themselves to these ideas, but they will admit and demonstrating their work that they are philosophically coherent.  They just know better now because the next question is how do we know better. And see then people are going to go well science when I'm waiting. This is a world by definition this is a question by definition. Is there a reality beyond the things that can be tested by science by definition science is not able to comment on these things so don't don't say when I ask how do we know. Don't give me science, because it tells that answer tells me you don't understand science. Science is about testing the physical world, not the non physical world, not the non material world. So the real question is, is there a non material reality is that intellectually defensible. And again you don't need to be a believer in, you know, Christianity to affirm and demonstrate the validity of the intellectual coherence of that idea. So I don't have a pithy way like you just had to answer the question that's what I would have said to the professor if I didn't, you know, in tune enough, you know, with him at that point, but because I can't dismiss it honestly. And because by definition, I don't really, I'm not in the place I don't have the tools and neither does anybody else to be able to dismiss it honestly. It stays on the table. And then since it stays in the table maybe the thought at least the thought does creep into my mind. Well, you know if there is a God and all these things that we believe as Christians sort of extend from that initial proposition. You know, can God actually do anything to convince people or influence people to write something. Could he become me. If he did, could he rise from the dead. I mean all these things extended from very simple ideas. And since they do and since the fundamental idea is intact. Maybe I should actually pay attention. Maybe I should, maybe I should allow for this to get some play in my own thinking, my own way of approaching scripture, my own theology. Isn't it funny, we're talking here now about does a soup, does a supernatural perspective, like in the early, let's just say in the Old Testament, can that be part of our theology. You realize what we're talking about here. We're actually asking the question, if the supernatural world view the biblical writers can be part of our theology. I mean, there's so much irony in that. But, I mean, I'll be honest that that's, that's a question that people need to need to ask themselves I mean I, and the response to unseen realm has been overwhelming and positive. But I'm always quick to add, it makes some people nervous. It troubles them. And what I try to do is I try to say the reason you're troubled is that you're now you're confronted with this question. Does this world view have a place in your theology. My response that is, Well, your theology either needs to be text driven biblical theology, or it's something else. So, there's a little subset to that. And that was probably going to make even more uncomfortable. But again, if we think about it, it's all all these kinds of questions of the way you find, you know, like, what's so normal about the resurrection. What's so normal and scientific about the incarnation. These are all things that, that as Christians, we are forced to believe.  And in the believing, you know, and again, I don't mean to be pejorative when I say or silly or, you know, kind of dismissive when I say in the believing church because I'm one of them sympathetic to it but in the believing church. There are a lot of people whose belief about the supernatural world is a lot smaller than the biblical writers, they just don't know it they don't really realize it. Because they've been taught to not see things. They've been taught to not ask the kinds of questions that we're talking about here. They, the scripture has been de-mythologized for them so that the questions never occur to them. And that's on one level that's okay.   Okay, I think because what's so normal about these things that you insist have to be believed. So you're going to be inconsistent, but you can understand the gospel and embrace it and good. That's the most important thing. But what you can't do is you can't come to me and talk to me ever again about interpreting the Bible in its own context. Because you're not doing it. Right. That's what you can't do. Yeah, so you mentioned obviously the incarnation, the virgin birth, the resurrection, these things. Let's talk then about the Old Testament. What are some of these really prominent ideas that are easily filtered out? Use that kind of language in the book. You talk about having a filter where we just kind of gloss over things that are really prominent in the text, but we give them short shrift, or we try to explain them away. And you would say, you would argue for a mosaic. Let's look at each piece and let's see how they fit together. What are some of those key pieces? Well, just on a conceptual level, I would say limiting the supernatural world to God, the triune God, Godhead, and angels, demons, and Satan. And then you tie the knot on the top of the bag and that's it. Limiting it to those things is a mistake because the biblical terminology doesn't justify that. I mean, you have a plurality of Elohim, so you have to, you know, gods, you have to do something with that. And, you know, I'm actually a pretty run-of-the-mill, Trinitarian guy. I believe that the God of the Bible, the God of Israel, Yahweh is what I like to say, species unique. There is none like him. But I also believe, because it's very obvious from the text, that there are other Elohim, there are other gods.  And we are too quick, you know, to link the term with a specific set of unique attributes and say, oh, there's only one of those. So all these Elohim passages like in Psalm 82, they're really just talking about people. Well, that works really terribly when you go over to Psalm 89, and you've got, you know, the Elohim, the Bene-Elohim, the Bene-Eloyan, you know, from Psalm 82 in the skies, you know, with God.  You know, it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work on so many levels. And so all I'm suggesting is that we need to just get a better view of what's going on in the text. And I'm trying to encourage people in the book, I'm not just trying to poke people in the eye in the book. I'm trying to encourage them, look, what you believe is coherent, but it might be coherent for a completely different reason than you suspect. And some of the arguments that you've given for it aren't very good and pardon me while I destroy them. But I'm going to put something in its place. You know, I try to be really text driven. I try to take the text in its own context. Yahweh is unique. There is none besides Him. But on the other hand, when the Psalmist, and this is, you know, lots of passages, when the Psalmist or anybody else refers to Yahweh as the God of gods, it means exactly what it says. Right. And so we need to come to grips with that. So that divine counsel motif seems to be prominent, pretty self-evident. I'm reading your section on it, it's helpful. It is intimately tied to who we are, how God looks at us as His family. It is not a coincidence that believers are spoken of as sons of God, as children of God. We get adoption language. You know, John 1-12. As many as received him to them, he gave the authority to become the sons of God. In Hebrews 2, Jesus introduces us to God and God to us in the congregation, in the council. The whole great cloud of witnesses thing. There are dozens and dozens of terms. And again, at different semantic levels, whether it be literal or symbolic or both, there are phrases and terms strewn throughout the Bible that connect us as supernatural members of God's family and God's co-rulers, participants with Him in ruling His creation. The links are deliberate. They are intentional. They are not accidental.  I just hate it. It's holy ones. If you look at it as holy ones, who are the holy ones in the Old Testament? Well, they are predominantly members of the divine council. Okay, that means something. If you understand the council is God's, you know, God's non-human family. They were created to participate with Him, to image Him in their realm. And humans are created to participate in image God in the natural realm. That this humanity was created to be fit for sacred space, to be fit as a member with the divine family. That is our intended destiny. That should be normal. In God's mind, that is normal. And we know the story about how that gets messed up. But God is constantly working toward moving things ahead to the past, back to Eden. And it's no mistake that we, to Him that overcomes, I will put Him over the nations. Who's over the nations now? That would be the sons of God that were allotted to the nations to Deuteronomy 32 at the Babel event. We displace them and replace them. They are illegitimized, you know, through the resurrection, through lots of other things. All of these ideas, it's a matrix of ideas. All of these ideas are connected intelligently and intentionally. But if you're not thinking, you know, in terms of the supernatural worldview, you can only see that partially. And in many cases, you just miss it. You don't really know when a New Testament writer picks up a thread and runs with it because you haven't seen the thread in the Old Testament. And again, I like to encourage people to think of a matrix of ideas. You know, that you're using that matrix of ideas and out of that is going to emerge this mosaic, you know, to use these metaphors. It's useful and helpful that it's intelligently designed. You know, there's a grand mind behind scripture that is guiding the writers to do certain things, to connect certain dots. And what unseen realm is, it's not a theory of everything. The book is exactly what I describe it as in the introduction. The book is a starting point. It gives you the lay of the land. If you have this stuff in your head, you honestly will never read your Bible the same way again. I can say that because that's what happened to me. This took me 15 years to put this thing together. That's what happened to me. So it's not an overclaim. It's a claim that comes out of my own experience. There's just so much there. And the dirty little secret to the book is that nothing in the book is original to life. It's all based on peer-reviewed scholarship. What my role is is not to think original thoughts. My role is to take the material of scholars through their wonderful efforts, whether intentional or not, providing the data, and then connecting those dots for people. I'm a synthesizer. I want to connect the dots for the people and then try to communicate what scholars have seen and observed in language that doesn't require a PhD. Just the normal interested person that they can read it and digest it. And I would challenge listeners, and I know in every interview I do, people are either wigged out by this or I don't know if I want to think that way. And I understand that. Trust me. I was there. But I would challenge your listeners to go to Amazon and read the reviews. I've got almost 750 reviews on this thing, which exceeds my expectations, believe me. The best ones, they're overwhelmingly just from late people. Just from pastors, you know, that like, holy cow, why did I never get this in seminary? Why did I never see this before? Again, don't worry about that. Just see it and know why it's there. Use the book to get the lay of the land and to challenge you to try to think the writer's thoughts after them. I mean, by that is the world, the mode of thinking that is really going to help people in connecting dots between the testaments. Right. And you say that. Thank you so much for ending on that phrase, because that's exactly what I want to get at. I'm thinking here of intertextuality, right? How later authors are using earlier authors work. And I'm thinking here about something I've been mulling over. Maybe this is miserable. I don't know. Because I'm thinking about biblical theology, especially these kind of whole Bible biblical theologies. One of the things, phrases I keep coming back to is reading the Bible left to right, which is incredibly ironic, given the fact that I'm about to talk about Hebrew with you. But really not importing. So even just talking about the Sons of God and the Divine Council, which is one of the main points of your book is talking about how that plays out through the biblical narrative. It seems like almost we've gone right to left. We've said, well, this is what Sons of God is kind of meaning in the New Testament. So it's probably talking about humans in the Old Testament. And when we do that, we're missing the significance of it being applied to humans in the New Testament, because it was always only ever going to be applied, except for maybe in like the Davidic dynasty, right? It's the Son of God language there. But there's this idea that God is shifting his vice region, his rule to humanity, primarily through his Messiah and the Indwelling Spirit. I think that's fascinating. And here I kind of want to shift gears a little bit on on a similar topic.   Many of our listeners, some of them are going to be, they're going to love it.  They're into Semitic languages and learning all that stuff. Others, if they have learned a biblical language, it's Greek, and that's just fine for them. Thank you very much. Why should they be learning Hebrew? They should be learning Hebrew so that they can think well about what the writers of three-quarters of their Bible are doing. And on one level, it's more than just looking up words and then going to a lexicon. Oh, here's my list. I've got six glosses here. I'm going to pick the one I like. You need to get a feel for not only a semantic range, but intertextuality is just so important. You need to get a feel for grammar as well. A lot of this is avoiding pitfalls as well. You don't want to be able to, I should say it this way, you don't want to make a claim about a text, either a word meaning or a tense, the whole idea of tense, which isn't the same in Hebrew as it is in Greek and all that. You don't want to make certain claims and just kind of blow it. A lot of people who are more familiar with Greek, they're going to transfer the terminology, the approach, even like the verb system. Hebrew doesn't really have tense like we think of it. I mean, it communicates tense in different ways, but it's not sort of rooted in a form, that kind of thing. It's more a spectral. It doesn't exclude time, but they're just different things to think about. Different ways that a writer would accomplish the same thing that Greek does, but you're not going to be able to tell that unless you know some Hebrew, and you're at risk of saying things about Hebrew that you can really only say about Greek or English for that matter. So learning the language is important just for being able to avoid pitfalls. But I would say more fundamentally, because we're not speaking to PhDs here, I would assume predominantly, but you want to be able to intelligently interact with serious commentaries and serious journal articles. You need to be able to follow their discussion intelligently, to assist you in thinking about the Hebrew text. So I think maybe, so I am in the trenches of this. I'm a little further along in Greek than in Hebrew and with a lot of seminarians finishing master studies, entering PhD studies. And I think maybe one of the biggest hangups, so I'm talking to the guy now who's in seminary, or I'm talking to the guy who's been picking up Greek for a long time. We have a lot of listeners who will be in their PhD or have been out of grad studies for a long time, considering getting back into it, and they are staying sharp in the languages. They love it. And what that normally means is they're reading the Greek New Testament a lot. Many of them are going to be into Hebrew. I feel like maybe one of the bigger hurdles I've seen in your teaching experience, I'd love for you to weigh in on this, is just the letters themselves. The alphabet just seems, as foreign as Greek is, Hebrew is like on another planet. And so what encouragement would you give to somebody who's not even started out with biblical Hebrew? Well, I mean, the characters are limited. I have found in my teaching experience that people pick up the letters, the alphabet really quickly, and the right to left thing really doesn't bother them because they are mentally assigning the values in their head left to right. So it might surprise people to hear that, but in my experience with students, it's overwhelmingly true. The alphabet and the direction are really not much of an issue.  And that is we look at a text, and we tend to sort of want it to work like English where you look at an English paragraph and you know all the letters and all the words. And we tend to feel like failures if we can't look at a verse and just sort of know things instantly. Be patient. Okay, work through it word by word. You will begin to learn with practice what goes with what. It's not like Greek where like an article could be here and then it goes with this like four words away.  It's very patterned. It's very orderly in many respects. When I'm talking here about Hebrew narrative poetry is a totally different game. Most of this narrative that you're going to be getting in class and just be patient with it. Don't try to memorize everything that's happening on the page as well. I struggled with Hebrew, my first year, because I had had two years of Greek and found Greek very easy. I could just sort of memorize why it's doing what it's doing. You know, why, why do we have this vowel change? Oh, it's before this letter. It was it was easy. I'm sitting there in first year Hebrew trying to memorize why all the dots and dashes change when you add an ending. And they don't all change the same way depending on the ending. And, you know, it just mystified me. And then it occurred to me. It actually didn't occur to me. My Hebrew teacher had to tell me, look, if we took the Hebrew Bible over to Israel today, a six year old can read it without the dots and dashes without the vowels. There's a reason for that. You don't need them. So quit trying to memorize the behavior of the language and just go with the consonants. They told me, this is what I tell my students, I will tell you when one of the dots matters. Unless I tell you, don't worry about it. Know the patterns of the consonants and you'll do just fine. It really helped. Don't try to over-memorize things. It's orderly. There are patterns. Just be patient. Patience is a big thing. But I would say to both your Greek and Hebrew listeners. My sight reading illustration is important because, yeah, you can take a Hebrew Bible over to Israel today and a six year old can read that thing. Is the six year old an exegete? No. You can take a Greek New Testament over to Greece and hand it to somebody who is fluent in Greek. Can they sight read the text? Yeah. Are they good interpreters? No. Can an English Bible to the average person on the street, can they read it? Sure. Can they do exegesis? No. My point is here, you don't want to get in the trap where you think you understand what you need to understand just because you can translate something. It is far more valuable to be able to follow an exegetical discussion in a paper, in an article, in a commentary. Because the people who produce those things will take it apart for you and talk about what you can say interpretively and what you can't say. And you need to understand that discussion. So I stress to people, look, build competence in exegesis, not translation. Look for intertextuality. It's a big deal. How Scripture writers repurpose other parts of Scripture is very significant. Situate what you're reading in the wider world view. It's just crucial. So I tend, again, to gravitate myself in the way I advise people. It's wonderful if you can sit down and cite the text. Again, my illustration applies. That doesn't mean anything. It means you can translate. Good. Good for you. What does it mean? Take it apart. What are the exegetical things you can say and things you can't say? If there's more than two or three things you can say, how would you rank them? What's the order of plausibility when it comes to interpretation? That might require you to run some searches to look for authorial patterns. It might require you to look for how the New Testament writer repurposes part of what you're thinking. Do they do that consistently? A lot of this is really about gathering data, but then being able to ask the right interpretive questions about the data. You are not an exegete if you can just read. That is not exegesis. Reading is not exegesis. Exegesis is something you have to develop over time and you have to practice, and you have to watch through, again, reading good exegetical material. You have to see it modeled. You have to become acquainted with how it's done. And then you sort of will learn to mimic it in your own thinking. You'll be able to learn what questions to ask. But again, if you don't know the basics of each language, you can't follow that discussion. And it's just not going to help you much. Yeah, so no excuses. Me and other listeners who are struggling with or haven't even yet begun Hebrew studies, you need that as a 3-4 force of your Bible that's a part of reading the Bible left to right and seeing how the New Testament authors play off of the Old Testament. I appreciate, so back to the unseen realm. I really appreciate that it is kind of closer to popular level that you've got some resources available online that are diving more deeply into this. That's more unseenrealm.com. Is that right? Yeah, there's a tab for each chapter of the book where I give either additional bibliography or additional discussion of certain points. So yeah, those who are wanting to get a little bit more into what he's getting at background, but even including some of the linguistics aspects at a popular level, even within the book, I would encourage people who are interested in this think that this could be something they want to dive in more. Go just read the book, maybe link to the articles, maybe save that for later. Go read the book, get an idea of what's being said. See how it comes out in your reading, in your exegesis. Go pick up a biblical Hebrew class and learn that, learn it well. If you've already dove in deep there, maybe you need to go pick up another Semitic language or something because that's going to play in, even in your book, even in this popular level work, you're going to play in a little bit of some other Semitic languages and how they tie in. I really hope people will pick this up. I hope they will be encouraged by this and that it will help them to better understand what God has done, what he has revealed through his word. Any other resources, Dr. Heiser, that they need to be looking for? Yeah, I would say if you're going to be a serious student, you need to learn, you need to do two things, you need to have good reference material and you need to start learning to tap into the journal literature regularly. We're all used to commentaries, but a commentary, you have to realize, a commentary has a page count. Publishers say, here are the pages you can have. And that restricts the number of words that you can use to do anything in the book. Journal articles can turn a one-page commentary discussion into 10 or 15 pages of discussion. Journals are by definition far more detailed in any given point than commentary. So learn to tap into the journal literature and have good reference material and above all, look for patterns and try to think the writer's context after him. Intertextuality is just a really big deal. That goes with this study of how the New Testament cites the old and all that sort of thing. You want to be able to understand why a writer is doing what they're doing and not just be able to read the words that they put down on the parchment, but why they're doing what they're doing. What are they tracking on? What idea are they propelling in what they're doing? Dr. Heiser, thank you so much for being with us today. You're welcome.


With the latest release of Plasma 5.9 comes an exciting new feature that will allow you to customize your desktop and Create brand new look and feel themes that you can upload to the KDE store So today we're going to take a look at how we do that So we're going to open up a terminal and we're going to install one package That's going to allow us to create and edit our theme Once that's installed we can go to the menu and type in Plasma look and feel explorer So once that's open you'll notice on the left hand side that there's a drop-down menu with all of the currently Installed look and feel themes There's a new theme button, which we'll use to create our new theme and An open theme folder, which is a shortcut to the currently selected theme On the right hand side, you'll see all the information about the theme including a screenshot There's also a layout from current Plasma setup and The defaults from current setup button that we're going to use when we're going to create our new theme So let's start creating a new theme Now the theme plug-in name is the name of the folder that the theme will reside in and then you have the theme name we're going to We're going to name these both charger because that's what I want my theme name to be and The rest of the information you can fill out the way you want to But every line has to be used in order for you to highlight the ok and actually click it It'll tell you that the plasma layout successfully duplicated But you're still seeing the information from the old theme so we have to select our theme again So now you're seeing our information But we're missing a screenshot So we're going to use one of the other new features of plasma 5.9 and that's dragging our screenshot directly from the notification window Now we have our screenshot we have our information and we have Customize our desktop by adding a desktop theme color scheme and moving the panels around adding another panel and we're ready to save our theme All right, so the layout from current plasma setup creates a JavaScript file That when you're in the look and feel themes, there's a checkbox. It says use desktop layout from theme If that is checked it'll execute the JavaScript file that I'm going to create right now If you didn't move your panels around you don't actually have to use that If you just changed an icon and the color scheme It's not necessary, but if you did change any of the panels around You need the JavaScript file The defaults from the current setup will create a config file Which will save the settings for the widget style color schemes icons and so on so I click that and hit save and now we have Created our new theme So we're going to click on open theme folder. We're going to take a look at what's inside So the contents has the layouts which has the JavaScript file The previews has the screenshot and The defaults config Now the only other file in here is the metadata desktop file Which we're going to open up and we're going to actually add some dependencies So like I said, I have changed the desktop theme to Glacified and I have also changed the color scheme to elementary luna colors So in order for me to upload this to the KD store I have to let it know what dependencies this takes so that when somebody downloads it They can get the same items All right, so here is the two dependencies that I have for this theme You have the dependencies line and then you have the protocol For the actual dependency now the protocol can be anything from color schemes Plasma themes plasmoids wallpaper mouse cursors and so on The next part of it is the actual url to the content So this part will never change This is the most important part, which is the id number so for example Glacified has the id number Any of the themes that you go to have the id number at the end of the web address on the KD store This is the particular id number for Glacified and This is the particular id number for luna colors So I have added the id for my color scheme Which is elementary luna colors and for the desktop theme itself Glacified I've added that line as well separated by comma Once I hit save those items are saved in there and We have successfully created our theme and we can go into system settings and And workspace theme and look and feel and we can see that our theme is created But I think we need to test it out first to make sure that all of the dependencies have been met in order to Upload it to the KD store so we're going to compress this here and I'm going to save this out of this folder and We're going to delete that so that's going from our system and Basically, all I'm going to do is test it to make sure that It's going to work on the KD store. So we're going to open up a terminal and we are going to Tell it what theme that we're looking for and It's now actually going to look on the KD store and make sure everything is right So it found all of the themes that we use the color scheme and the desktop theme and it successfully installed So we have created our new theme and it is ready to upload to the KD store So let's take a look at it and try it out Let's switch to this one now again this box Generates that or executes that javascript file So we want to make sure that's checked because we want to feel Exactly what the developer of the theme wanted for this theme so Here we have a panel on the left. We have our full screen launcher panel on the top and a panel on the right If we don't check this none of these panels will change It'll change to the color, but it won't change the actual location and the layouts of the panels So now let's look at our theme that we created So once that's checked we hit apply And we are back to our theme And we have successfully created and tested the new look and feel charger theme And that is one great feature of plasma 5.9


There's this theory. The Chinese are using TikTok to reprogram civilization. It might be true. That algorithm is like tweaking people's brains. I saw Jordan Peterson, a psychologist.   So it's a weird one that's, so you have to really control your brain now in the modern world. And you have to say, let me stay logical. Let me not be reprogrammed by somebody else's happy life algorithm. Let me know what I want.


Welcome to the Tick-Mill Update. I'm Kiana Daniela, founder of the Investiva Movement. And Tuesday, we found out that Chinese imports of American soybeans between September and November this year increased 13 times. From the same period last year, also Chinese banks extended 1.39 trillion yuan in the new yuan loans in November, rising sharply from October and beating analysts' expectations. In the UK, its GDP was flat in the three months ending in October, and the German economic confidence rose sharply in December. On Wednesday, we have the US consumer price index for November and the all-important FOMC rate decision. Today, I'm looking at the US dollar pair, which has been stuck at the 108.49 support level and appears to be forming a double bottom bullish reversal chart pattern on the four-hour chart. Now, the problem is that the pair is below the four-hour Ichimoku Cloud, but above the daily Ichimoku Cloud. So, we have mixed signals on the Ichimoku end. If the US data tomorrow gets the US dollar bulls excited, we may see this double bottom bullish reversal complete and create a brand new uptrend in the medium term. Of course, trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss and you should only trade the money that you can afford to lose. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the Tick Mail YouTube channel. I'll get back to you with more updates tomorrow.


Hey there, I'm Ken, I'm ClickUp's product strategist, and here are the top five mistakes new users make when building on ClickUp. Joining me today, we've got our vetted consultants, and I'm going to let them introduce themselves. Hi, I'm Siobhan Wielin, and I'm based in Napa, California, and I've been a vetted consultant since the program began in 2020. Awesome. I'm Matthew Sleising, I'm based in Poland, I'm a vetted consultant for more than three Hi, I'm Megan Beltek-Lolo, and I'm located in Pennsylvania in the U.S., and I've been a vetted consultant since the program began back in 2020. All right, Megan, go for the first one then. For number one, over-tasking. New ClickUp users often make every tiny thing a task or a subtask instead of storing that information elsewhere like in an SOP or in a ClickUp doc. Example would be making a task called login to your account when really we want the tasks to be action-oriented and to keep the additional information either in the task description or elsewhere. Really make use of the task description and use that area to put in all the important information that you may need to get the task done. Links, references, steps that you may need to take. If there's anything related to the task that needs to be done on a different day, that's when I would say move that down to a subtask. Okay, Siobhan, let's go for the second one. Okay, number two, the biggest mistake that I see is people immediately start building and ClickUp without first defining their processes. It's very important to know to lay out your processes first, to know exactly how you want your ClickUp to be set up and to build ClickUp. It's really important to get all of your workflows documented first so that way you can build up ClickUp from a more strategic standpoint. That makes sense. Any advice on how to do that? Have you found any tips that helped with mapping out your processes? Yeah, I think it's really important to meet with the people that actually do the work and to just take an hour and meet step by step. Just map out what the process is and how it all works together so that way you can make sure that ClickUp is set up in the simplest way possible and that it works for the people that are actually doing the job. Cool. All right, Matthias. Okay, so number three is using Statuses as Stages or Tags. So, Statuses as the best practice should be used as a reflection of how you're progressing on an activity on a task. They shouldn't reflect on responsibilities or steps that you need to do for a project. If you want to say this is a meeting, this shouldn't be a status. You should use custom fields or tags to be able to display it. That's good. If you want something else. No, that's good. What do you mean by don't use status as a stages? Why shouldn't a user do that? Because they usually are connected with changes of responsibilities. It's hard to track when we started and when we finished the activity when we are just changing statuses. So, ClickUp is not registering properly the flow of the work on this particular task. It's better to use custom fields for this or use the hierarchy to have the processes use automations to move the task. For each list as a stage, perhaps, for example, yes. Yeah. Okay, awesome. And for number four, it's really important to make sure that when you're adding custom fields, you're adding them in the right place. So, you don't want to add a custom field at the workspace level, but you want to add the custom field at the lowest level of the hierarchy where it's relevant. So, the reason you don't want to add a custom field to the everything view or everything level is because if you were to add a custom field here, it would add it on to every single task in your workspace. Instead, what you want to do is navigate to the exact list folder or space that you want to add the custom field to and add it in that location. And then you want to make sure that you're reusing your custom field instead of creating a new, for example, email custom field every time. So, you don't wind up with 33 email custom fields. You want to always reuse them and make sure they're at the right place. Awesome. And what's an example of the right place? Can you give us one real-world example? Yeah. So, if you have a checkbox that's like documents received, let's say, and you want to have that in one of your lists, you want to make sure that you add that custom field for that checkbox documents received at that list level, then show on every single task in your workspace. If you then need to add it in a different space or a different folder or a different list, you can go into the customs field library and reuse that custom field that you've already created. For our fifth and final mistake, we often see users build way too complex of a hierarchy. And rather than using views, which is really the power of ClickUp, they'll build more lists or folders or spaces. I think the examples you gave me was a user who was just building multiple lists down the side of their hierarchy, duplicating the same data over and over again to view it in different formats. Whereas, instead of creating five different lists, they could have just created one list and had five views to easily access all their information in one location. Yeah, definitely shows the power of views there.