your life. Hey, Francis, Dan and Stephanie Burke. You're watching Behind the Scenes, Divine Intimacy Radio. And before we jump into the show, today we're going to be talking about Devil in the Castle, Spiritual Warfare and Sermon of Spirits, Progress of the Soul. No. Devil in the Castle is that we're in trouble. No, no, we're not in trouble. I'm in trouble. Devil in the Castle, Saint Teresa of Avalon, the Progress, Spiritual Warfare and the Progress of the Soul.  But we're going to be talking about the second mansion in this show. I need to be TN, Facebook page. And then the third mansion we're going to be talking about on spiritualdirection.com. Directly following the show. Directly following the show on spiritualdirection.com's Facebook page. So like and share, like and share, like and share, comment. You're definitely not winning the battle on the YouTube side. We need more help from you guys. So we'll be talking about that, the battles of the second mansion, the battles of the third mansion in a minute. We're a lot, a lot, a lot of Catholics fall. Huge. Actually, the majority. The majority. Don't make it past mansion three. Right. So you should really kind of pay attention. I agree. So I wanted to tell you about a couple of things. One, you can get 25% off the preorder of the books not available right now from Sophia Institute Press. I mean, it's not in stock yet, I should say. And you can get that discount, Castle 25. Of course, always you can probably preorder it from EWTN. And they'll have it in stock at some point here soon. The other thing I wanted to tell you about, well, two other things and we'll jump into the show. One is a pilgrimage to Israel. Stephanie and I are leading. God willing. And COVID don't rise. What's the dates on that? It's in May and you can find all the details at spiritualdirection.com forward slash events and it's there. And I think we only have a couple more seats left. So if you want to go and you want to go with us and that's just to fill one bus, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we keep it to one bus because we don't like those massive, massive tours where, you know, everybody's fighting for bathrooms and you spend more time on bathroom breaks at gas stations than you do seeing sites. So if you like small, intimate, real pilgrimages, deep spiritual realities, a real pilgrimage, then come join us. We have only a couple more seats. It's you and I leading it along with Father Chris Clay from Kentucky. He's going to be the spiritual director and priest with us and we're so excited to have him join us again. He's something special. Is Dr. Lillis going to be with us too? I don't believe so, not on this trip. Okay. So spiritualdirection.com forward slash events or just click on events. All of our events are listed there. And then the next one is something coming up really quickly here on January 24th, which is next Monday, right? The next Monday at 7 p.m. Central. It's called Prostrate Hearts, a webinar to prepare in advance of the Grace of Lent. So most Catholics unfortunately do this for Lent. They suddenly ask Wednesdays upon them and they go chocolate, soda or some sort of really shallow, silly thing that is not going to help you spiritually gain all the graces available to you in Lent. Before the Second Vatican Council, there was this beautiful tradition, which is known as pre Lent. And it was a weeks before Lent and helping you to prepare. And so I'm going to give a webinar explaining a little bit of that, but mostly focused on how you can experience dramatic spiritual progress in Lent and then for this year of 2022. Right. So that's also out and it's free, right? Yeah, it's free. It's free. It's free. So spiritualdirection.com forward slash events. Right. I'll let this one out of the bag. It's coming in. I don't know the specific date, but keep your eye on our events page. We will have another preparatory webinar for Lent. And that'll be Simone, Raskala, Christine, Rich and myself. And we'll be talking about a resource that you can dive into for Lent that is centered around Teresa of Avila and the Interior Castle as well. And I'm going to be promoting that exact same thing too. Great. So both of us, now it's not, that's not what the shows are about, but or the webinars are about, but certainly we're going to help you make spiritual progress in Lent. There's no doubt about that. Right. Yeah. So we're, it looks like we're ready to roll. Producer man, right? And your market tech go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio, your radio haven of breath. Your hermitage of the heart. Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw upon the wisdom of the saints to help us fight the battle that is this life, spiritual warfare in particulars, the focus of our show today. And you've been involved with a lot of conversations about Teresa of Avila lately, haven't you? I have. It's kind of strange. I feel like she's chasing me down. Yeah, she did that. That's why I'm in the church for me. Now, do you want to talk about what you're doing in the other podcast with, and is it with endow? Yeah, it is with endow. And I'm going through their study on Teresa of Avila. You know, endow takes beautiful documents of the church or spiritual writings of the saints, and they bring it down on a, on a kind of consumable level, you know, in bite sized pieces for women to come together and studies and to study and, and have these conversations around it. And so I am joining Simone Rascala on the endow podcast, along with Christine Rich, and we are going through the Teresa of Avila study right now. And it's really wonderful. Where do folks find that? I'm assuming at the endow podcast site. So endow is education of the nature and dignity of women. Right. But it's an apostolate. But just look it up, endow. That's right. Yeah, look up their podcast. And I believe it's going to start in March. Oh, we're going to start airing it. Yes, it's going to start airing right now. We're recording it. I got you. And then we're also going to have a webinar through spiritualdirection.com to talk about that particular podcast, talk about that study and how they can listen to it and how they can enter in with just a really great resource on Teresa. Yeah. And we highly recommend that apostolate. It's really beautiful. Yeah. They have beautiful stuff. All right. So today we're talking about, we're going through my new book, devil in the castle, Teresa of Avila spiritual warfare in the progress of the soul, where we're looking at each of the mansions one at a time and digging into what is the unique nature of the spiritual battle in that mansion. So each mansion is a kind of summary framework for how we can understand how the progress of our soul and moving towards God.  All of the spiritual doctors recognize this progress of the soul. And Teresa describes it in her book, interior castle. And so we're going through each mansion and we're extracting her reflections on spiritual warfare. So it's unique. It's never been done in the history of the church that I'm aware of. And I'm quite aware of all the books, most books written by on Teresa, but to really gain a deeper understanding both of the interior castle, if you've read it and struggled, it'll help you. But then also her perspectives on spiritual warfare. Yeah, I think it's just really helpful. One of the things that's really beautiful about it is that she had these interior visions as it were of this progress of what this would look like. So then she would discuss it and fleshed it out and then was able to put it down in writing for us as a resource. And people can often say, well, you should just focus on Jesus. You just should focus on God and leave this talk of the devil aside. But if we don't know how the tactics of the enemy are working against it, then we can't fight it necessarily very efficiently or valiantly. And so what we're discussing through your writing here is another tool in your toolbox on being aware, being awake, understanding how the enemy of your soul is working against you at the different stages of your spiritual growth and your spiritual life, your interior journey, and how to grow quickly towards the Lord. So yeah, this second mansion is in the purgative way still, we're still in the purgative way. And it is focused on, Teresa is focused on helping us to gain a God word is self-awareness really is the emphasis which is which results in humility. How do you know if you're in the second mansion? I'll give you a few key indicators. One is that you're practicing mental prayer regularly and progressively drawing near to God in virtue. Another is that you have an increasing realization of the need to grow in holiness and keep moving towards God. And you have an improved God word self-knowledge that is you've become more aware of your own sin and how you need to reject sin and embrace God's call to holiness. So God word self-knowledge is different than, you know, psychological self-knowledge. It's purely based in a human perspective. It's an awareness of who is God? Who am I? What am I called to be? Where am I in relationship in that process? Am I making progress? That sort of thing. Go ahead. Yeah. And there's a huge temptation in this stage towards shame and self-pity. You know, because if we, so if it's, you know, when we look to God and we see ourselves in relation to God, there can be a bit of a shock there because I think, you know, we have a tendency, and I say we collectively as God's people, have a tendency to be pretty self-delusional about where we are and we give ourselves credit for, you know, that's very kind. You know, we give ourselves credit for good intentions. We see ourselves how we aspire to be not necessarily where we are, you know, those kind of things, right? And so as we start on this progress of the soul, we're intentional about our prayer life because one of the key indicators for the second mansion is that we're practicing daily mental prayer. That doesn't mean on occasion. That doesn't mean on occasion a rosary. That doesn't mean just showing up for mass on Sunday.  That's what we're talking about. So when we start on that path, all of a sudden a lot of our failings, our sins will show up.  And I remember going through this stage, I would go to my daily mental prayer and I went through this process of where I had a moment of recognition that in my sacred space, I had a statue of our Lady and then I had an icon of Jesus in the middle. The statue of our Lady was just to the right of him or to my left. And what I realized over time is that I was actually sitting crooked in my chair. And when I would do my prayer, I could only look at our Lady because of my shame. Because of my shame, I could not look at the Lord in that icon. And over time, when I realized what was happening, the deeper purgation of a general confession and confession and all those things and doing my spiritual studies, my body language started to change and shift. And I was able to look at the Lord in that icon and have my mental prayer there. Yeah. So the enemy in this stage, what's interesting about it is this mansion too actually feels more intense and troubling than in the battle than mansion one. But it actually isn't, which is interesting because in mansion one, you're not as aware and awake to what's going on and to your own sinfulness and those sorts of things. So in mansion two, you become awake because of your spiritual disciplines that you're beginning to, it's really, you're becoming an authentic disciple of Jesus is what's happening. And as you draw near to him, things reveal that are about yourself that are, as you noted, they can result in shame. They can result in self wallowing, whatever, but it can become kind of spooky and disturbing to see, wow, look at my sins. Usually, like for converts, and this happened to me and you reverted, I think it happened to you, is, you know, I did my first confession when I was received and confirmed in the church. But when I hit this stage, I did a general confession and wow, talk about hours of tears. Yeah, it was huge. And somebody can say, okay, well, what's a general confession for our listeners who do not know what that is? Because that was brand new for me as a revert. I never heard it. I would have been a Catholic my entire life. I'd never heard anything about a general confession. And so that was, that was when I made an appointment with my priest because you need to make an appointment because it's going to be much longer than you think. And I prepared for a general confession in that I went back as far as I could remember. And I just basically made a linear line from the very beginning of my, you know, ability to think and be conscious about my behavior. And I moved forward to present day.  I didn't know tears could be that big. I was a little, you know, pile of a person on the other side of that screen.  And I just walked through that and I just laid all my sins at the foot of the cross and heard those glorious words through the priest.  And it was just exquisite. And talk about stepping out of that confessional feeling like the entire world had been lifted off my shoulders. I was a different person. And it really is, if you want to begin your, you know, add a little rocket fuel, as I say, to your spiritual growth, go and make an appointment with a good holy priest. Make sure that he knows what a general confession is, don't assume, and then make that appointment and prepare and go and leave it at the foot of the cross. Yeah, it's very, very powerful. It's huge. The other aspect of this mansion. So we have this increased awareness of our own sinfulness. But we also also have increased awareness of the enemy's work in our life. And that can be pretty disconcerting. And primarily the battle ground is in the mind where the enemy is proposing to you your past patterns of sin or trying to get you to hold on to things the Lord wants you to clean up, you know, and that could be very difficult. But St. Teresa and St. Teresa revealed, I should say, but St. Teresa revealed, she calls these demons in these mansions, reptiles and, you know, vipers and things like that. But the battle of the mind begins to rage more firmly, mainly just because you don't want it to be there, you know, you, before you accepted an acquiesce to all of the temptations or many of them. Now you're realizing how many there are and you don't want them. And it can be very disconcerting. Yeah, it can be a little, there can be a almost a sense of sadness that will come over you. But, you know, we have to be careful. We have to understand that as you said, our battleground is in our mind. And so we take account to what we're thinking about, you know, are we moving into desolation, that doubt, despair, that narcissism? Are we allowing it to crush us? Or are we allowing that sadness to lead us to conviction? Conversion? Conviction and conversion rather than condemnation. And there's a profound difference, right? Conviction is of God. And so we, we make that decision to begin anew. Yeah, we get back from the break. We'll talk about some encouragement in this phase and ways that you can fight. So I'm going to go to page 30 at this point and start just going through the demonic goals and how to battle the tactics. So we can just finish with that. Okay. And you're Mark Ticko. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome back to Divine Intimacy Radio, your radio haven of rest, talking about the Devil and the Castles, St. Teresa of Avila, Progress of the Soul and Spiritual Warfare, a new book that I wrote that I hope is extreme, I think will be extremely helpful to the people of God. It's the most comprehensive book I've ever read on Spiritual Warfare in the sense that it covers the warfare that begins when you just begin to follow Jesus seriously, all the way to union with God. Yeah, it's beautiful. Such an exquisite work. And I just love that it makes it accessible to anybody. You know, it's going to really help them. If they're serious about their interior life, they're going to be able to understand this book a little bit better because most people pick it up, get to about chapter two, put it down and go, okay, I have no idea what she's talking about.  Yeah, daunting. Yeah. So if you want to buy the book, head out to EWTN Religious Catalog, where if you buy it, they'll send it to you, which is cool. And then you also help the ministry of EWTN. If you want bulk discounts, let's say you want to buy a case or something. I think Sophia Institute is providing half off 50% discount, which is huge. And you can get that through spiritualdirection.com forward slash shop and find that as well. So the summary of the battles of the Second Mansion are the enemy wants to incite you to turn back to the path of hell by fighting against every step toward becoming what we call an authentic disciple of Jesus. Um, the key tactics of the enemy are similar to the first mansions. Um, discouragement regarding your ability. So the enemy wants to discourage you regarding your ability, your ability to follow God and live out the faith. And he'll do that. Because you're more aware of your sin when you fall.  Why are you doing this? Yeah, told you you'd fail. Told you you'd fail. So he'll tempt you to fail and then kick you when you're down. Another aspect is worries or fear about the things of the world and the flesh, pleasure, money, control, prestige, ambition, work. It's interesting during this period in my own life, I was still struggling with anger a lot. And I remember a very good man, Ron Wilson, when I was working at Focus on the Family said to me, will you always allow anger to drive you? Will you always be motivated? Will you always be motivated by anger? That's right. You're right. And I was shocked because the Holy Spirit just pierced into my heart.  And so I knew that I as I was becoming aware and awake, you know, and then when I, so the question was, what will I become if I let go of this? Well, it had become a source of self-reliance, right?  This anger helps, you know, give me my edge and and it makes me different than others. And without it, I'm not going to be as effective, you know? And it is such a temptation, such an attachment, right? And you know what? I wasn't as effective without it, but I became a better man, you know? Well, and by getting rid of that, then the Lord can take, can step in, right? So it's true, you're less effective, but the Lord is more effective because we can get out of this way. So another goal is to distract you by attempting to weaken your effort of the enemy in spiritual disciplines and encourage the deep roots of faith toward Godward self-awareness and which results in humility. So the devil has no power against the humble soul. This awareness draws you to one of two places, as we've talked about, which is self-pity or shame, or it draws you to humility, which is healthy and holy. It's the enemies trying to keep you away from humility because then he'll have less and less power over you. Yeah. And so some of the ways that we can battle this successfully, you know, we have to keep in mind always that the battleground the battleground is in our mind. And so we take those thoughts captive to Christ that we seek to heal and strengthen and be drawn deeper into the Lord that we know that he provides. His love, provision, and friendship is enough to help us to heal. And so we trust in that. So we grow and trust. We need to also understand that we need to re-align our entire life towards God. That means we're going down into all the details. What am I consuming in media? What am I consuming in my body? How do I live? We take evaluation of our friendships. Boundaries start to come into play and really understanding, wait, I can't claim. I used to draw this when I would do formation for our eighth graders when I was a Catholic school principal.  And I would put school, home, church, and internet. And I would show those different quadrants. And I would tell them if you are to be an authentic Christian, all four of these quadrants, you need to be the same person in all those quadrants. You can't be one person in church, another person at home with your parents, another person, you know, out at school or in your business, and then act differently on the internet. If one of those is ungodly or if a number of those are ungodly, you are not authentically converted and you need to start getting those aligned with what God's asking of you. So that's really important to realign the entire, and that comes in this period that Godward self-awareness, we start to go, oh wait, I can't claim to do this and then get in my car and flip off the guy because he just cut me off in traffic. That's not an authentic conversion. Yeah, right. You know.  And you can actually do that as a layperson. We call it a plan of love in our community of apostolate VA. But it's basically every day, and I did it this morning, just like I've done it every morning for, I don't know how many years, I review and do an examine against my plan for how I specifically intend, tended yesterday to love God and to love my neighbor, most of my rule of life in terms of loving neighbors aimed at you. And it's, the, the elements I put in it aimed at you really benefit everyone else, which is gentleness and slow to speak and those sorts of things. And then in terms of toward God, it's, I'm going to spend this much time in mental prayer. I'm going to pray the Exilium Christianorum prayers.  So if you don't, if you never heard of this rule of life or plan of love, you can go out to apostolateva.org to learn more about it, or you can pick up my book, navigating the interior life, right? Have a way of identifying your root sin, which is very powerful and in keeping with this mansion, and then develop a rule of life that helps you to acquire virtue and fight against sin in a very specific way. Yeah. And, and it's really important during this time to develop this strong disposition of will against quitting and falling backwards because this is where a lot of people never make it past. They don't get past this stage because as they begin, they fall and then they throw up their hands in despair. And while all is lost, obviously none of this was authentic, none of this is real. I can't do this because I keep sinning or I keep confessing the same thing or whatever. So whatever, whenever you fall, you have to have this very, very strong disposition of, okay, I've fallen, I am weak, I acknowledge that I am a mess without God.  I don't want to do this again. And so we fight. This is an time when we must fight or we will get lost because the enemy is just looking to see, you know, and if he can keep us down and we need, we need to understand that these trials that God allows during this time is to help strengthen us, right? Because it can feel like, wow, why do I keep getting all this opposition? And my temptation seemed to be increasing. Everything is difficult. Well, it's because the Lord is saying, get strong, get strong, get strong. And every time he allows that trial is an opportunity for you to practice the virtue that he wants you to grow in. Yeah, not to quit. Right.  Yeah, it's like a spiritual exercise program. So one of the cool things about this book and one of the things I like about it is that I really worked hard to provide a whole series of resources in the back for everything we recommend, you know, root, identifying roots and a rule of life or learning how to practice mental prayer and all of that. So don't worry if you're listening in your car or something, you're not writing something down. All of it will be in the back of the book as well out at apostoliva.org, A-P-O-S-T-O-L-I-V-I-A-E.org, which is our community, our Catholic community. This, all the recordings of these shows will be there eventually in a little course, a free course. And we have other courses on how to fight spiritual warfare, how to practice mental prayer. They're all free. All the resources in Apostoliva are free. So we're really providing you everything you need to get through this mansion and hire. But as Stephanie said, unfortunately, most Catholics get stuck here and don't progress any further. And I would say the vast majority, which is not good because if you don't get through this, that means you're stuck in habitual sin and your salvation is very tenuous. Yeah, and you're circling the train. Yeah, so spiritual encouragement. I want to end with that today. One of the things that's encouraging about this mansion is that each mansion you leave and move into a new one, you're closer to Jesus. So this one does feel harder than the first one, even though you had all of the demons of the outer court coming against you. This one, you're more aware and awake. And so you're seeing more and you're going, oh, Lord, how do I win this? But he gives you everything you need in all of the gifts and graces of the church and community life and whatever. So be encouraged. If you find yourself in this mansion, you are closer to Jesus, and you're in a better place, even though it may not feel that way. And so as we wrap up the show, head out to spiritualdirection.com. Make sure you subscribe. The shows will be there. But also if you want free courses and community to help you to be accountable, make sure you go to apostoleva.org. Order the book, start a book club at the end of every chapter. I have a good solid list of questions for reflections that you can talk with other people about. And you'll be blessed and you'll help others to be blessed. And with that, I think we've got to end the show. Okay. So until next time, may the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire spirit, soul and body irreproachable irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So for those who want to hear right now the Battle of the Third Mansions, head out to the Facebook page of spiritualdirection.com. And as always, please don't forget to support EWTN. There is no organization in the world that is doing more, that is in more ears and eyes in terms of the news and faithful Catholic teaching than EWTN. In spite of what some of my traditional friends, traditionalist friends claim they ought to be picking on other people, other organizations. EWTN's doing a great job and make sure you support them. We're grateful that they have us on the air. Right. Okay, take care. Answer one question. Yeah, I could answer one. So most all being in the group, they're just asking. Yeah, I think it does. You know, the key is the leader, and we have a whole training program on how to lead small groups and somebody that can help you keep things on track with a specific kind of framework that's also free out of the possibly VA. So I'll offer that to you. But also, if you just stick to what you know and make sure you don't speculate and you don't allow the the group to speculate and you focus on the material itself, you'll be fine. Yeah, and I would also encourage folks that if they haven't started on the path of mental prayer, that they can start with something like into the deep. Do that. It's a shorter study. Yeah. Start there. Get everybody moving. You know, discernment of spirits is huge. Yeah, that's kind of second in line. And then this one, you know, if I had to do them in order, it would be into the deep spiritual warfare, discernment of spirits, then devil in the castle. Right. But if you've been through the other two and you have a daily practice of mental prayer, you're in the sacraments, you have a general knowledge of the teachings of the church, you're going to be fine if you just don't speculate or allow for a lot of speculation beyond the text. Yeah. So there you go. Great question.


Good morning, everyone. Thank you for connecting on this call. Let's pray and begin our study from the book of Hebrews I want to request one of us to please lead in a word of prayer, please Yes Father, we just thank you for this beautiful time. Beautiful morning, Father God. Thank you that we have come in this platform Lord Jesus that to equip ourselves, Father God Lord Jesus, we pray that Lord as we are here, Father God, learning your words, Father God, equip ourselves, Lord We ask you more of your grace, understanding and knowledge, Lord Jesus.  Thank you for her life, Father God. I see it's going to be slow. Help her to teach, Lord, Father God, so that she will be the blessed to us, Father God. We submit these glasses to your mind and in Jesus name we will pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Abinas. We have been looking through the different chapters of Hebrews and we've seen how the author is trying to establish the greatness of our God in so many different ways and particularly Jesus because these believers obviously coming from the faith of Judaism, they now feel that their traditions were a lot more intricate and profound compared to what they are doing, you know, after they've received salvation in Jesus and not only that they were also being persecuted. So now we've understood that they were in discouragement and thereby the author he tries to talk about the greatness of Jesus and at the same time what he does is that, you know, he wants them that their discouragement and disappointment can have ill effects if the people are not careful. So he goes to the example of the children of Israel and how they were disobedient, how they were rebellious, even though God did mighty things in their lives and he tells them how, you know, forgetting what God has done for us can also take us, you know, it can sidetrack us and that can be very dangerous in the Christian faith. So many things have been discussed so far and in the last class we saw that the Lord Jesus is our High Priest. He is a chosen High Priest. We saw how the author talked about the fact that Jesus did not make himself the High Priest, but he was appointed by God and that is again, you know, the beauty of his greatness, his obedience. Now the Lord Jesus, though he was an heir, that was not all. He also lived a life which was worthy of God's appreciation and God putting the titles on him, blessing him, exalting him. We saw how he learned obedience through the sufferings that he went through. And, you know, after having spoken about the greatness of the Lord Jesus as a High Priest, the author came to encouraging the believers and telling them that they need to move on towards maturity. So in the Christian walk, it's not good enough to just begin the race, but it's important to develop ourselves, nurture what God has done in us and then, you know, go on to what is known as maturity or we'll see today, you know, the term perfection, which simply refers to the character of the Lord Jesus.  So now we are at chapter six. So let's begin with verse one. We can read three verses and I'll go on and explain them. Let's see how far we can get today. We'll cover as much ground as possible. So Hebrews chapter six versus one to three, we have someone can read it. That would be really good. Shall I read, ma'am? Yes. Yes, Sapti, please go ahead. Thank you, ma'am. Hebrews chapter six verse one to three. Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. Of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on our hands, of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment and this we will do if God permits. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Avni. So the connection is his encouragement to go on to maturity and from there he's continuing. So many of these new chapters begin with the word therefore. So it is in continuation to what he has been talking about.  And so he says, you know, you need to have that discerning spirit when one matures, you know, they are able to have that discerning spirit that can tell between good and evil. And not only that, in maturity, one is able to digest the solid meat of God's word and no longer just dwell in milk. So he said all these things and he continues. He says, therefore, because maturity is so important, he says, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ. So again, you know, the basics which we have in Christ, we must no longer remain in that place forever.  So again, that word perfection is from the Greek word tiliotis, which refers to completeness or maturity. And as I have explained, completeness is to be like Jesus, that's what it is. So there is a provision or a possibility for us to move towards that perfection. Now, many would argue that, you know, it's only when we are in the, you know, out of this body that we will achieve that perfection and all those things. But here, one thing is very clear, you know, whether or not somebody is able to reach that pinnacle here on the earth, one thing we can all do is journey towards it. So that's his point.  So all believers can mature. That's the beauty of this. And we must have the end result or the goal as maturity. Then again, you know, he sort of goes back on the same concept he says, leaving behind elementary principles or the basics where a part of our lives and hopefully a good foundation has already been laid as believers.  So his point is, hopefully, we are well versed in these things by now. Not that we must not study them again or revisit them. That's not what he means. He's saying, these things have become a part of our faith. So, you know, once again, like, like a little baby to go from the basics may not be required. So as part of the foundations or foundational doctrines, he points out a couple of things. Now, it's not that the list that he makes here is complete. So the foundational doctrines, the foundational truth of our faith is way greater than the list he presents here. But a few subjects he touches, for example, he says foundation of repentance from dead works. So that simply means our salvation. The way it has come through faith and by grace and not works. Then he says, faith toward God, okay, we understand, you know, faith is very important in our Christian work. He says the doctrine of baptism. So here baptism, he is, he's kind of not necessarily referring to the baptism in the, in terms of the scripture and some, you know, commentators say that because the term which is used here is baptismal, which generally refers to ritual purifications or ceremonial rights. So we know that in the, you know, faith Judaism, they had many of these cleansing rights. So he, he for whatever reason, you know, he talks about those cleansing rights, the actual word baptism, which is used for people who are baptized into the faith. The Greek word that is used for that generally in the text is baptism.  So anyway, this is not a complete list. So then he goes on and he says laying on of hands, laying on of hands has to do with, you know, leadership, handing over leadership, commissioning people into the ministry, resurrection of the dead that we understand, eternal judgment, even that we understand. And he says, not that these things are bad, we can always go back and learn some of the things that we learned early on in our journey. But if God permits, if there's a need, then we will study these things again. But otherwise, hopefully you already have a strong foundation. So, you know, you're strong in God. So the point of chapter six, as you will see is he's saying be so strong, have such a strong foundation in God that nothing can move us. And in this context, discouragement is there biggest enemy or you may want to also point out disappointment is a biggest enemy or, you know, the lack of lack of understanding about who Jesus really is, is also an enemy. So which is why he is helping them get a good perspective. So, you know, knowing Christ really well for who he is will keep us grounded in the faith and that desire to mature in God will keep us grounded in the faith. Having our foundations of the faith strong will keep us grounded in the faith. Many things will come and go.  But when a house is built on the rock, it cannot be shaken. So that is how each believer must be built on the rock. So he goes on to talk about people who have experienced this kind of, you know, strength or stability in God, but have chosen to let it go. Okay, so now we will read about those people who have tasted God or who are believers who have experienced God and have let go. So what does the Bible have to say about them? So this is one of the most challenging passages, you know, in the New Testament where people struggle to understand it. This is Hebrews chapter 6 verses 4 through 8. Could somebody kindly read this passage for us? For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened and have tasted the heaven they give and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good work, word of God powers of the age to come. If they fall away to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open shame. Okay, so there you have it. So, you know, there are questions about once saved, always saved, that can one lose their salvation at any point in their Christian walk. So there are all these questions which we have. Now, if you look at some of the early concepts like Calvinism, you know, I think it was somewhere around the 16th century where that became prominent, that sort of a belief.  So God chooses whom he wants in the kingdom and not everyone can become a believer. And he also pointed out that once somebody is saved, it's the work of God and salvation is irresistible or what he meant is that once somebody is saved, no matter what they do, they cannot lose their salvation. Okay, so those were some early concepts. Then of course, there were others who came and disputed it.  Man also has responsibility.  They can have eternal life. So it's man's choice. Well, God has done the work, man also has a choice, man also has responsibility. So if man sins or a believer sins and decides that he does not want this heavenly gift, what is the heavenly gift? You know, we know in Romans 6.23, it says, when we sin, we receive death, wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. So eternal life is the gift that God has given us, but what if a believer chooses to reject it? Okay, well, this passage shows us that a believer who may even be strong in God, but when they choose to reject salvation, when they choose to go their own way, continue to live a sinful life, deny Christ, do all these things, there is a possibility to lose, you know, salvation and eternal life, not because God is snatching it away from them, but it's because they are willfully letting go and rejecting Christ. So how do we know that this is talking about a believer only? Maybe it's talking about, you know, somebody who has knowledge of Christ, but not a believer, but look at the passage, it's so clear. It says once enlightened, how are we enlightened? We know that the Holy Spirit brings revelation of the Word of God.  So a believer has this experience of being enlightened by the Word, by the work of the Spirit, tasted the heavenly gift. I've already talked about salvation, eternal life, which have been offered as gifts to a believer, have become partakers of the Holy Spirit. You know, what does an unbeliever have with the Holy Spirit as a partaker? It's a believer, isn't it?  We are partnering with the Holy Spirit. So he's talking about a believer also continuing into saying, having tasted the good Word of God, the powers of the age to come, meaning the supernatural powers of God, you know, we taste it right here on the earth. So having experienced God in this manner, he says, if they fall away, now let's understand. He's not saying that if somebody falls, they will lose their salvation. Why? Why are we not saying, just stating that much? Because, you know, in scripture there is provision for forgiveness. God is given as grace, right? Now we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Would we all, even though we are believers, make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly in our journey? Yes, it happens. But the most important thing as Apostle John pointed out, you know, if we confess our sins, you know, when we keep short accounts with God, when we are repentant, when we want the cleansing of the blood of Christ in our lives, God once again helps us get back on track. So there is a beautiful scripture in Proverbs 24 verse 16, you know, it says, for a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity. So can a believer fall in their walk with the Lord in their journey? Yes, there is a possibility. Nobody has a, you know, clear track record. We are maturing. That's why, you know, go on to maturity. We are moving in that direction. But we are grounded in the truth of what Jesus has done on the cross for us. He has given us grace, okay? So falling is not the same as falling away. When we talk about falling away, this is a very serious strain from God, where one has gone away to the point of rejecting Christ. And so that is why in that passage, he even says things like, if they fall away, you know, they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put him to an open shame. So the way salvation reflects in the life we live, okay? When one is saved, there is inner transformation which shows an outer transformation. Now, when somebody has fallen away, obviously, what has happened internally will show in their lives. Maybe they continue with a life that has sin in it. They continue with a life that speaks ill of the faith once they had. So what are all these things doing? They are putting God to shame. They don't glorify God. And that's what he's saying. He's saying, when one falls away, this becomes their life, okay? And another very, very important thing which he's stating is, we'll see later on that God's grace is incredible, okay? It's mind boggling, which is why even when Paul talked about it in the book of Romans, he asks the question, you know? So if grace abounds, why can't we sin? Because it's that great, the grace of God. When we understand it, we do ask that question because it's so great and incredible. But having said that, he says the seriousness of falling away from God is this, that even though God's grace is like an ocean, when one falls away, he uses very serious terms like it is impossible to bring back such people who have fallen away. He uses terms like to renew them again to repentance, meaning they no longer have a soft heart. They may be given to pride and deception and, you know, patterns of thinking that are descriptive of a hard heart. So he's saying when a believer, a strong believer at that goes away from the truth and live their own life, it's even impossible and renewing them to repentance may not even be possible. So that's pretty dangerous, okay? That's pretty dangerous. He's not trying to, you know, cover up and use pleasing words to these so-called discouraged believers because there are real dangers of letting go of the faith. So while he wants to be encouraging, he's not trying to, you know, play it down. He's telling it straight. He's saying, look, if you choose to let go of Jesus, then be warned that it is impossible and, you know, it is difficult to renew such to repentance. So that is, these are the dangers. And then he goes on verse seven and eight. He just uses a normal analogy. He says, look, when the earth drinks in the rain, when it rains, then what should be the result? There should be herbs. There should be vegetation, greenery. But if it isn't, okay, that doesn't happen. He says in verse eight, but if it bears thorns and briars, meaning there is no greenery, there's no proper output for the input that has gone in. Then he says it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. So he, in the context of what we have spoken, he says, look, God has done so much and his word is leading us, his spirit is with us. So we are blessed in every way. But having received this kind of input, if our lives are not fruitful, okay, going back to John 15 and bearing fruit and living a life that glorifies God, long lasting fruit, if all that is not an outcome of the life of a believer, he's saying something is wrong, something's wrong, okay, bearing priors and thorns or there is no, there is no no transformation. Though people are so called believers, it's not yielding the fruit and he's saying it's a very dangerous place to be. So let's be warned, let's be warned of falling away, let's be warned of not having a fruitful life. So just because we are discouraged, this appointment doesn't give us the right to venture away from God.  Anything that you may want to talk about? Okay, Kung is saying, so pastor, if a believer rejects Christ, will his name be erased from the book of life? Okay, will it be erased from the book of life?  Yeah, go ahead, you have something more to ask? From what is being stated here, it seems like they will not. Okay, all right, so Kennedy, what are the foundation of repentance from dead works kind of give direction on this? So Kennedy, this is to do with the understanding of salvation. Okay, this is to do with the understanding of Christ's finished work on the cross. That would be the foundation for our repentance. So, you know, that's that entire doctrine. Yes, thank you. Yeah, any other thoughts, questions about falling away? Yes, Divya. Thank you, pastor. For me, the question is, yes, it's been mentioned in the passage that they have, you know, tasted and they have known God, but I have heard people telling like, maybe they did not know God in the first place. So, is that a fair interpretation or is it really telling about, you know, a genuine believer because it's very hard to grasp this. Yeah, and yeah, one example, everyone comes up. I'm not sure of, you know, but at the later times of the life of Charles Templeton, yeah, people to say that there was a moving away from God in his life.  Yeah, but still this doubt remains like, yeah, so I just wanted to know whether it is a fair interpretation of that. Okay, yes, Divya. So, Divya, from on the basis of what has been written here, you know, things like enlightened, tasting the heavenly gift, which is of course salvation and being partakers of the Holy Spirit, you know, that in itself, in fact, for me, that is the biggest description of a person who is a believer. Okay, so he doesn't leave with one marker, but he talks about many things and then tasted the good word of God. So had he mentioned just one of those things, okay, fine, you know, it could be an unbeliever that he's referring to, but then because he is stating so many descriptions of a believer. Okay, that is sort of a giveaway, you know, telling us quite clearly that this is a believer and notice verse 6, if they fall away to renew them again to repentance, that again tells us, renew them again to repentance means there has been repentance in the first place, which is now no longer there. Okay, so it's quite clear again, you know, it's just crucify again for themselves, the Son of God. So in their experience, they have come to a place where they glorify and now they're going back to a place where they crucify. So according to me, the passage is quite clear that it's a believer and that's what I would say, but if anyone else has anything to add, you can. Okay, thank you. Yes, thank you. Yes, this is Rupa. Good morning, ma'am. Thank you. A small thought shared. This, the letters to the Hebrews is written to the believers who have come from Jewish background. And when we read 10 chapters of the Hebrews, we come to know that they were very fervent in their faith, that they even sold their possessions to take care of the brethren who were in prisons and all that. It was written about them. So they have, it has come during this letter when it was written to them, they were in a position where they were turning back to Jewish custom and Jewish ways so that they can just, their children will not go through the persecution or the, all that they're going through that time. So he is making sure the Hebrew writer, the author is making sure, making it very clear to them that there is no way they should not go back to that. It's like this, if you go back, it's like Israelites after being delivered from Egypt, trying to go back to that slavery again. That's the understanding I think the author is trying to convey the seriousness of what they are trying to do. Ma'am, thank you. Thank you, Sister Rupa. That's a great reminder of the context of this entire episode and puts us back on track. Divya, I hope it is helpful. Yes. Yes, Pastor. Thank you, Sister Rupa. Yes, it makes sense. Sure. Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other questions, thoughts, because this is a difficult passage. One question or maybe one doubt that I have is even at any time of their life, they still want to, they come to repentance again.  I'm just wondering like because, you know, because I know somebody personally who said that at a point of time, because of the trials and tribulations, that person just gave up. She said, I just kept my Bible inside and I said, I'm not going to follow Jesus and her life became all the more miserable. But there was a point of time after, you know, going through that being without God and seeing that her life has is going all the more, she wanted to come back. And she was sincerely pursuing God, though with a lot of difficulty.  He is God of grace. He gives everyone, you know, time to return back. So I'm just wondering, is it saying that or is it possible for someone to still return back if they genuinely repent and genuinely, you know. So the answer is yes, if at any point someone genuinely repents the provision is already there salvation, the abundance of grace that we were talking about. So it's already there. So genuine repentance can bring people back. But, you know, here we are talking about a boundary, a boundary line. And what the author is saying is don't, you know how sometimes we push, we try to test like little children, they just try to test, oh, how far is the boundary? How far can I go? You know, if mom says you can't do this, then they push and they say, okay, can I do this much? Will they allow me? Can I do this much? So basically he's saying, don't even try. It's too risky because where does that line lie? It's so hard to tell. So after which, because many people ask these questions, which sin, how much sin, how far away from God. But according to me, these questions are irrelevant because that just shows that we are trying to push the boundary maybe and just check, oh, how far can I go and still be here but not out. You know, I'm far away, but I'm still inside. So it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell when we might end up stepping out. Okay, so that's a risk. But the point is, yes, at any time if we repent, we are forgiven. But if we cross that boundary somehow that I'm talking about, okay, then it is impossible. It says, so let's not even go in that direction. Okay, so that's what the writer is also telling these people. It is a possibility to lose our salvation. Let's not even venture there because it's very, very dangerous.  Now towards the end of their life, they gave up. So maybe they're not in heaven. But who are we to judge? We can never tell what was the condition of their hearts and what happened between God and them. We don't know. So if there was genuine repentance at any point and they did not cross that boundary, yeah, they may have well have been brought back into this gift that God calls salvation. So yeah, these are all some thoughts. Thank you, ma'am. Yeah, thank you. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes, Christopher. Oh, yes. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can. We can hear you. Yeah. No, I was just thinking about it with our science, when certain individuals are, in a sense, digging double dives, and they're really good. And they also not doing things that are not conformity to what God wants them to do. And sometimes it's, it's, when you look at that, you wonder how this is possible, particularly with the extremes. I mean, I think there are people who are, who are doing things that they're not good, isn't God, but not to that extreme. So sometimes it's like, it's pretty like a breakdown. So, these people are sometimes in the public eye, and they are, maybe significant in term, ministers of God. And yet, there is this other life, which is, which is happy, which is happy. And just wanted to understand how that sort of fits in with this, this boundary line. I mean, I would think that, that would, which would understand that, where the boundary line is. So, but yet, it's happy. So just wanted to understand. Yes, Christopher. So, as you stated it yourself, these are people who are pushing the boundary and it's risky. Okay, it's very risky. We never know at what point they will be on the other side. So, unfortunately, right, even though we are believers, the Bible talks about carnal mind, carnal believer, immature believers. So that is a, that is a reality. And that's a reality that we should be warned about, that if we are not careful, then we can end up being those carnal believers, immature believers. So unfortunately, because of the carnal mind, and we let, and there are many other descriptions of a carnal believer, how they are driven by fleshly lusts, they are driven by the desires of the world. So, yeah, these things happen. And it's very, very unfortunate. And we can only pray for such people. The Bible does talk about praying for a heart of repentance. So, if we are aware that someone is in this situation, then yes, we can pray that they repent and God gives them opportunities for repentance. So it's basically, you know, carnality, Christopher, that's how people end up being this way. And how is it that people can live double lives? Well, the danger one runs is that when we move in carnality, we talked about the methods of workings of Satan in our first year course, believers authority. They're one of the ways in which he works is called deception. So what happens to a carnal believer is sooner or later, they are deceived where their conscience no longer pricks them. They no longer, you know, though the Holy Spirit is convicting, they don't, they have become insensitive to that conviction. So deception can bring us to a place where we can believe that we are not doing anything wrong, that we are righteous. You know, it's a very twisted way of understanding the truth of salvation, but at the same time living a sinful life and justifying it. So it's a very crazy and a very scary place, Christopher. So if people have ended up in those places, then most likely, this is what has happened. They are in deception. Does that give any clarity? Okay. Wow. Thank you. Thank you for that. Okay, two moments here. And there's a comment from Kennedy. How can a Christian know when the divine protection has been withdrawn from you or you are just undergoing the normal storms of life? When would you know if the divine protection has been withdrawn? So, I mean, this is my thought, Kennedy. I hope I'm correct about it. But you know, when somebody is living in sin and they, what we've been saying, pushing the boundaries, they may actually never realize at what point the divine protection was lifted off of them, because they probably don't care to know about the divine protection. So, yeah, if one is not, you know, if one is genuinely following the Lord, like I would say, all of us, I'm just saying, just normal believers trying to do the right thing before God, live a holy life, worship the Lord, serve the Lord. I don't think we have to worry about, you know, when divine protection is being lifted. We don't have to think about that question, because if we are pursuing God, then what we are experiencing is in the category of normal storms of life. I hope that makes sense. All right. Okay, sure. All right, let's go on for a break now. It's 9.50. Let's come back at 10 o'clock and then we will resume. Thank you so much.


Let's, um, yeah, automate the time. I should actually put it here, because it doesn't need to operate. Let's make it play, make it go from 18 milliseconds to, uh, crap, again, this. Fuck, I won't move one point, not two. Stupid. Oh, yeah. Nice. Now let's add a... It's weird. I have DSP loaded 23%. It's not too much, but otherwise just can't keep up with the amount of files, I think, in this session. Just... Yeah. Oh, yes. MA pitch shift. That's the... That's the whole thing. That's the key to success, man. And also it's going to give us a simple stereo image. It's going to be awesome. MA pitch shift ratio. We can use this as a build-up sound. Yeah. That's the idea. Let's go from the very low to... To... About also automating the window size, because that's going to sound very weird. And cool. Yay, this could work, I think. Alrighty, let's maybe cut this with all its automation. Ctrl-X and paste it here. Yes, this is working. Let's just use any cue. Or maybe... Oh, I think I want to change one more thing about this. Make one... Okay, let's cut off the lows. Yeah, it's very subtle. Great. It adds to the feel of the track and makes it more interesting. My goodness. Are you with me, Ardor? OBS, you're recording this? Okay, I think I want to copy this thing and use it somewhere else. But I just would like to listen first. Yeah, maybe here. I think here would be a good idea to use this. Copy, copy, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, C. Let's try to use it here, too. Why not? Maybe let's give it more velocity. V... For velocity... Oh my God, I don't know how the recording is going to look. It's going to be terrible. I think I'm going to automate the ratio to make it go higher. I want to make it super high. Alright, I think we just need a few more small sound effects and this track is done. And then some final mix down session, like paying attention to levels of different frequencies and instruments. Final look at dynamics and overall loudness. And I think I'm going to render it out and then master it and send it out. Exciting. Okay, let's call this FX4. Whatever it's going to be. This is FX3. This is FX4, actually. Okay, so this is going to be FX5. Actually, no, let's call this pre-noise or riser. That's what it's called. By Peoples. Let's give it keyboard input again. Add a monotone stereo splitter. Yay. Great. Maybe I could try save the session and reload it. Maybe it's going to, our door is going to work faster. I'm really tempted to try it because taking so long to do anything now. This is artificially slowed down. My work is artificially slowed down. Okay, I'm saving the session. Saving the session. Yeah. My goodness, it's amazingly bad. I'm going to quit.  Maybe I'm just going to minimize the spotlight. Actually using it.   Yeah, yeah. Hello, bodacious 11. I keep loading, loading, loading, loading, loading. Still, still loading. Okay, loaded.  What the heck? What's going on, Vio? Okay, let's see. It's going to be more responsive maybe? Not really.  Didn't do snot. Sounds like a flute. Let's try a different algorithm. Looks interesting. Something's really bad. The envelopes are very bad. Okay, let's try. Okay, let's go with this one. Okay. Oh, nice. Sounds like a stick. This could be useful. Maybe I can insert some small melodies with this thing. Add some reverb or something.  No, I'm going to wait. Let me wait. Come on, Nardo, you can do it. I want to make a track for this challenge. So please cooperate. Shall you? Can you? Will you? Hello, motherfucker. Oh, yeah. We're alive. Great. Actually, I'm going to save... Oh, my goodness. Clicking anything just takes forever. Because I'm going to save a new version in case something breaks the session. I want to have a snapshot. Yeah, I can just go and make myself some tea. It's going to take a while. 12 excruciating minutes later.  I turned off the screen for a while and then realized it's... I just had moved it, opened it up and... Whoa, it's done. Awesome. I can actually work on it again. Nice. I wanted to make it slow. The melody is frantic. Okay, let's try to stretch it. It doesn't work so bad, so good. Let's see. That's interesting. Very interesting. Okay, I'm going to now just try to snap every note to a reasonable place. Let's move this back. Oh, interesting. How about moving this all up one octave? Interesting, yeah. I like this rhythm. It was weird, but it's nice. Okay, how about using C-scape? Because it's doing these nice chromatic resonances and a delay. I like it. BPM. What BPM do we have? I forgot. 175. 174. Oh, it did catch that. Nice. Okay. I think it could take a mono input.   Remove the outputs.  That's what we do. That's what we do for a living.  I'm going to try to use a compressor before. No, just an amplifier. And amplifier, this one. I think I should make it pretty much my favorite. But I have too many favorite plugins, so it's not going to work. Okay, let's get 24 decibels. Oh, 20 is the max. Oh, yeah, nice. I like it. I also want to add some noise. So let's go fractal. Yeah, let's set a gate. Let's see what's got one. I like it, so it just... Yeah. I forgot about one channel. Not again. How about strict IO? Fuckers. Okay, nice. Better now. Maybe I should... Crap, but now I want stereo. Routing grid. Left, right. I want stereo. How do I do that? Okay, let's add an audio out. I can't duplicate it. Oh, my goodness. That's... So I'm going to fly. Pick your poison, man. Can't have it work. Easy. What?  Why it can't be removed? All right, let's do this like this.  Okay, maybe it can't be removed because it was used. Something was connected to it. Okay. I want some reverb. Let's use GXZeta reverb again. Yay, nice. Oh, I love this reverb. It's so smooth. And just compress it. Oh, also an equalizer. We don't want some bass frequencies to be there and mess up with the rest of the mix. Just a high pass. Also, on some more presence. I like it. I should also copy this over. Maybe use it somewhere before. I'm called this a ping lead. Support lead. And I think I also want to add a second reverb unit. Argot Lunar. Yeah, because I would like to wash it off in the first part. Yeah, I like this. Let's automate the mix. Now here, I want it to be all wet. Later, I want it to be dry. Let's do it like this. Simple. Also, I would like to add some low pass filter automation because that's going to make it even more cool. Wow. I think it is working a bit faster overall. This thing is too loud. Yep, it's just too loud. It should be... I'm going to make a... What I want to do. Oh, I think I remember. Yes, I wanted to do something with this thing. This pad make it quieter. Make it like also wash it out. I think I'm going to do it with a filter. Maybe this time of hypers filter. Very, very gentle hypers filter. How about this? Well, it sounds good. Yeah, that's good sound. Really cool. Let's go from this. Make it slowly, slowly go down. I really like this track. Wow. How about this? I think I want to make the kick have more influence on this sour bass because it is not enough. I'm going to try and make the kicks louder for this part. How about doing this? Okay, I'm going to save first.  Okay, no. This doesn't work here. Transform velocity exactly 127. See what that does.  Okay, let's try and fix it. I don't know if it is possible, but I'll try. MIDI, MIDI, MIDI, transform. Set note length to exactly 1. Okay. How about 0.5? Will that make a... Okay, 0.5 is... So I need 0.25. Okay. All right, I get it. I think I can do this. Set note velocity... No, set notes length to exactly... Okay, 0.5 is this. 0.25 is what we had. 0.125 is what we need. Yeah. I want to do something to make it feel bigger for a while. I'm going to maybe try to use a guitar X multi-band compressor. And then I'm going to try to bypass it. Let's see if I can automate the bypass for it because that's really important. I can't. Okay, I can't do that, so no. I can't use this plugin. Sorry. How multi-band is that? Or do we have any other multi-band compressors in the house? Multi-band compressor stereo. Oh yeah, we have the LLSP compressor. Let's try it. I never tried it. Oh, it looks nice. Interesting. Okay, let's maybe loop this section so I can just play over and over and can easily... Okay, so... What is this?   Wow. Pretty rad. Let's go for it.  Not multi-band, can I automate bypass for this? Yeah, I can. That's the key. Okay, can I configure the filters somehow? Can I make this bigger? Oh, nice. Sweet, I can configure every single one. Okay, I guess it's going to take some time to set up. Okay, ratio. What is the threshold? Oh, level. All right, let's un-solo it. I don't want so much makeup. Nice. Okay, un-solo. Yeah, this is the main... Now I'm going to go to split. Ratio and knee. Okay, ratio. Lovely. Now threshold. Where is the... Oh, attack decibels. Okay, yeah. I think the first one also needs a longer attack. Let's see, get it. It's pretty awesome. Wow, I didn't even know this exists. This plugin is cool. Does it really bypass? I can really tell. Okay, it doesn't truly bypass, so that's a problem. It's pretty crazy. Okay, I see. Okay, I think I would need to use some... Oh, I can use this. Awesome. Oh, nice. I can just use this to fill up the space. I don't have to be all wet. That's something I couldn't just do with Calf Multiband Compressor. I think I need makeup gain. It sounds different. It doesn't sound... I'm not sure if it sounds better. I think it sounds different. Let's try it. I'm going to save it and let's play this whole thing. I think the bass is too much. A bit too much highs. Should be loud. Will it work? Let's do it. There has to be something to differentiate the drums in the first part of this in the second one because there's not enough... I think I need to EQ the crash very carefully because there are some tones I don't like. There you go. There you are, crash. Oh, shoot. No, no, no. Gee, I'd like to make a slight little thingy here and see what happens. I'm about changing the tape stop speed and make it faster, much faster. Can I do something cool here? Nice. I think the track is pretty much done. Sweet. Cool. Awesome. I could try some mix bus compression. Just a tiny bit. Fabulous. I'm just going to render this and make sure it's okay. Where is the session start marker? Oh, there it is. Session end marker. Yeah. Thanks for watching. The rest is just boring stuff. You have basically watched me do the whole track from start to finish. You can see how it didn't look like much in the beginning. It didn't look like much for the three-quarters of the time. You see, that's how it is. You just have to push it further and finally you arrive at the place where it's cool. I hope this series was worth your time and shown you quite a lot of different tricks and ideas and how I work. Anyway, thanks for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye.


Alright, this is a review of Face to Face, The Art of Human Connection by Brian Grazer. Brian is a Hollywood producer, and he published this book because he does understand humans are not looking at each other anymore, they're lacking the social connections, being disconnected in an unconnected world. He promotes curiosity, listening, and eye contact, and not being ruined by Netflix, TV, porn, or Instagram schooling.  Brian does promote Hollywood and its culture since he is a producer. He will benefit from this book, as stating I am a connector, I will listen. He will use engagement and empathy, stories from the heart, and be careful of the posers. There are good stories in this book with big celebrities such as Eminem, Bill Gates, Prince, and networking tips. And it's easy when you are famous, the social proof is powerful. During this video I'm going to show just one quote because I'm a big fan. I really like these environmental philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking, or in its altered mood by beams of kindness. It can make the heart dance for joy. It's face to face, look people in the eye, it is a lost art, there is way too much screen time. Are we connecting or are we social animals? Here's a good Oprah quote, what we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit to spirit connection. Recognized being in the zone, flow state like in surfing is heavy game, and being in the moment of the zone, a maximum connection, a genuine one. Some youth will have problems because they're addicted to video games. Some of the weak parts of this book is that it concerns Hollywood, popularity, they're not the best people on the planet. Influence, yes, but they're not to be taken seriously.  Now it produces film for my price, my way, my prerogative. He has an agenda, and I don't like Saint Islam because he has the same name as me. And this book could be used for communication, other business deals, whether it be for business or politics. I do recommend reading this book once. It does have very good stories. You are better off reading other books and listening to the advice I have to offer that is sincere or even trolling. The organization and the concept of this book is great, especially during this time.  Look people in the eyes. And remember that Brian Grazer is a Hollywood producer. He has political friends as well. So he has an agenda. Some other books you could read are Crucial Conversations, Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence by Dino Goldman. Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I do highly recommend for tech and basic books that helped me when I was younger that I struggled with. The Fine Art of Small Talk, How to Start a Conversation, keep it going, build networking skills and leave it a positive impression by Deborah Fine and How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends by Don Gabor. As well as I say in other videos is cold approach.  You can get ad block, YouTube premium and Amazon Prime does block Twitch ads. I noticed in some of my user interfaces. Don't just look away and Derek's stories are great. At least give it a chance. Read and have less BS screen time in the digital world. Just make less comments on people who don't reply, especially on Instagram. Copy post is for the trolls. No thirst. Watch out for the marketing. Understand how they say things, what they say in the comment below. And when you leave an opinion, are they even responding or reading it? And I found out about this guy through Gary Vandercuk. I'll post a link down below.


Now, it's my honor to invite Mr. Jeevanandan Paraisamy, founder, CEO, climate smart technologies, former World Bank consultant and ex-UN FAO consultant and staff, Koyamato to address the participants. Very good morning to Professor Surupah Honorable Vice Chancellor of Anayana University. Professor Anil Sahasrabudde, Honorable Chairman of AICT. Dr. Sendil Kumar, Dean Anayana University. Dr. Raja Samwal, Principal, School of Social Work. Dr. Lakshmi Jagannathan, Chief Operating Officer of Derby Foundation. Dr. Prachikodi, HOD of Pharmaceutical Technology. Dr. Annapurani, HOD of IT and CSC departments. Mr. Dignary Trees, Professors, Staff and the participants of the hackathon. I was a UN emergency officer, was placed in FAO in Rome to work with Avian Influenza between 2007 and 2009. We were dealing with a number of pandemic scenarios across the world including China, including the Wuhan University Institute of Virology, which was supported for collecting blood samples from the bird flu. And we were given a lot of pandemic preparedness training for many hotspots worldwide. We used EPCR and CPE kits that are now new buzzwords for everybody. At the most we imagine the perimeter of 3 to 5 kilometers. And worst case scenarios were basically maybe a country, maybe a few countries together. But never in our wildest dreams we imagined the entire humanity will be locked up. And COVID has done that. And it has not only done that, but it has brought something very different. That we all were kind of hesitant to take up digital technologies. Again, you know, for a long old generation, like many of us, we are a bit hesitant to adopt digital technologies. But imagine now without digital technologies being locked up, no TV, no smartphones, no apps, no websites, nothing. How would have this entire pandemic would have been? So this COVID-19 has instilled the sense of wealth, health is wealth. And also very importantly, that we should all stay inside to stay alive. What has this done is basically it has brought a lot of multiple disciplines to work together, which is very difficult in a normal business as usual scenario in any country, any department, any institution. It was always a nightmare. However, this pandemic has made that possible. Medical professionals, community organizers, IT professionals all have to work together to find a solution. So this major COVID lockdown, I see as the start of the industry for revolution, which industry revolution pretty much happened almost pre-First World War. Now, 100 years after that, industry for digital revolution is happening through COVID-19. And we all anticipated in World Bank or UN or ADB, which I worked and I still work with some of them, that it will take about 10 years to 20 years to get the digital technologies, you know, adapted in all countries. This COVID-19 has done that in three months, with nobody asking or forcing it down there. So today, all non-ICT disciplines, which were in the periphery of the technology are now coming together to work together with ICT technologies. So coming back to my expectations from this event is very, very simple. In this 10, 11 days, if we can develop three to five immediately usable app or web applications in this open book context, we have asked the participants that they can help from anybody to complete this task and build an app, which can complement the widely used ROG CETO for other government departments who can issue passes or who can help in identifying labor or skills. How do we impart skills or how do we talk about education? All this. What we do today, being a dominant force in IT, can be useful for many other countries across the world. So what I see this is a great opportunity for Indian ICT professionals, particularly faculties and students, to take up this opportunity to learn new technologies and help in building a community health information system that encompasses disaster risk management. Just yesterday, my team, which was originally working on disaster risk management, we had done a few apps for Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala during the flux and cyclones, then we expanded to Indonesia and Mozambique. These countries I had worked in the past. I asked my team of three students to complete a DRM framework for all the countries in the world. Yesterday evening, they finished it for every single country in the world. So what I'm saying is that with limited resources, particularly with ICT, you can achieve a lot. And from an entrepreneur's perspective, and having worked globally with many governments in disaster risk management, climate change, agree business, COVID-19 has now up the expectations for each and every computer science, information technology, students, and in addition, every department or every discipline must know something about digital technologies. So they are also supposed to learn all these technologies. So now there is a word called full stacker who knows to do all the elements of an app or a web. But in five years time, the ultimate tech app, a person who can develop a web, a person who can develop an app, a person who can connect it to IOTs, will be the minimum basic requirements in digital technologies. And above that, they will have to build a lot of artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, for operating robots, drones, and other technologies. So for me, this COVID-19 hackathon is a starting point. As Professor Sakhasarapudi said, smart India hackathon, this bioinformatics hackathon is the way to go forward. And hopefully, we will come up with good results in 10 days time that we can all find it useful. And I thank for the 768 participants who got registered and got selected, and most of them got selected. And we were looking forward to work with you all alongside doing 10, 11 days to make this event a success, not only that, the success of this event relies on the usable products that this particular event will bring out. All the very best to you all. Thank you very much, Jay Hind.


Israel Propaganda vs. Palestine Propaganda Israel Propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing We Will Annihilate Everyone in Gaza. Palestine Propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives. Israel Propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. Palestine Propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble. Israel Propaganda looks like the Israeli president waving around an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf and claiming it was found in a child's room in Gaza. Palestine Propaganda looks like all the top Western and Israeli human rights institutions declaring that Israel is an apartheid state. Israel Propaganda looks like posting cutesy pictures of female IDF troops and saying, when you're mean to Israel, this is who you're being mean to. Palestine Propaganda looks like statistics showing that Israel is mostly killing women and children in Gaza. Israel Propaganda looks like Israel releasing what it claims are audio clips of intercepted Hamas communications in an effort to exonerate itself from accusations of war crimes after claiming that its intelligence services had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7th. Palestine Propaganda looks like a UN special rapporteur explaining that it is inherently illegal under international law for Israel to be bombing Gaza at all. Israel Propaganda looks like the IDF publishing a computer-generated video of a multi-level Hamas command headquarters underneath Al-Shifa Hospital. Palestine Propaganda looks like humanitarian organizations saying Israel has been bombing hospitals throughout Gaza and shooting patients through hospital windows. Israel Propaganda looks like an IDF soldier pointing to a normal calendar with the days of the week in Arabic at Al-Shifa Hospital and falsely claiming it was a shift schedule for Hamas kidnappers. Palestine Propaganda looks like social media accounts dedicating themselves to keeping a running tally of the thousands of children who are being killed by Israel. Israel Propaganda looks like the Israeli government sharing a bogus video of a woman falsely posing as an Al-Shifa Hospital nurse condemning Hamas for their presence there. Palestine Propaganda looks like Palestinian journalists working tirelessly to document Israel's mass atrocities in Gaza while being murdered one by one by the Israeli war machine. Israel Propaganda looks like the Israeli government repeatedly posting things on social media that it then has to delete after people highlight the falsehoods and or accidental confessions that they contain. Palestine Propaganda looks like Palestinians recording the suffering, displacement, death and dismemberment of their fellow Palestinians in real time. Israel Propaganda looks like screaming at people who oppose the ongoing massacres in Gaza and accusing anyone who criticizes Israel of being an anti-Semite and a terrorism supporter. Palestine Propaganda looks like saying true things and sharing factual evidence. It's not hard to see who's in the wrong here.


Everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with a Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the 2019 year-to-date advanced trader tracking 66,140 good start to the year and a slow start to the year really for January. So this is January and February. If you'd like more information, you can call me at 929-3200 GATT. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype or email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com. This was one really nice GATT that happened at the end of January's GME. If you come and learn my system, it's a rating system. You get up in the morning, you rate the GATT. You rate the GATT, if it rates 20 points or more per the system, you can do it in the direction of the GATT. So in this case, the GME was a short boom, boom, boom, boom. And there it was. So right now, it's earnings season. It's really, quite frankly, a great time to train. One of these things where you say, you know what? Now's the time to make the money. So going back, January was off spy, one loser, one winner. This was a retake, closed for these two days. LUNA was a winner, Netflix winner, SYNC, first trade failed, second and third one winners. AXP was a loser, QZ was a winner, Market closed in the 21st, SWK was a really nice GATT. Big winner. COF winner, MKC loser, QZ winner, Starbucks winner, CAT winner, GME winner, T, first trade loser, second trade winner, small one, QZ, first trade loser, second trade winner, and the spy was a winner. It was a long. The 31st, last day of the month, X was a winner, QZ was a winner, and V was a loser. It was quite an active day. No trades on the first or fourth, off in the fifth, EA was a loser, Twitter was a winner, CARB, no, the first trade was a loser, sometimes you need a retake, second trade was a winner, and that's something I'm going to review in the Golden GATT course. No trades on the 11th, UAA loser, guild winner, spy winner, TV loser, spy loser, spy winner. N-Tap was a loser on the 14th, this is Valentine's Day, it just didn't work at all. So whether you did the first trade or the second trade, that just failed as a GATT. MGM was a winner, Cisco loser, spy was a nice winner on the 15th, Market closed the 18th, WMT, really nice one there. CVS first trade failed, second trade worked, DPZ winner, that was a good one.  This is just no way to turn your day around when things just aren't working, and you have to say, I'm cutting it. Flipped right around again, nice day, WTW, and nice day, HPQ. So all in all, good solid, solid start to 2019.  You have to have a specific amount that you're risking per trade and the number of trades that you're willing to take on the day. If I do one, we're usually stopping, sometimes two, but usually one. If you've ever been thinking about trading for a living, you've come to the right place because I'm teaching people a system and a method on how to predict the move that the stock is going to make in the direction that it is gapping. So not everything gaps every day in a way that is predictable, but the gaps that do occur that we make a watch list for in the morning, I go through and I rate, and I first focus on the shorts, but I will go long. Some of those were bullish gaps in those trades so far since the beginning of the year. So I teach a class every month, it's called the Golden Gap Course. Class for March is March 9th and 10th, 9 to 5 Eastern Time. Cross to the class, it's $59.99 US dollars classes online. You could be anywhere in the world and take it. Then the Trends class is March 25th, $64.99. If you pay for both upfront, you save $500, one price for both classes. The Trends is for options or long term trends, if you want to follow those. And I also have an options annual letter. This is not the day trades, this is an option letter. If you're interested and cannot do the class or don't have the time to actively day trade in the live trading room, then you can just sign up for the letter. It's $49.99 US dollars, trades are emailed to you. Not every day, could be anywhere from five trades a month to ten trades a month to more, depends how active the months are. Some of these trades we could have done as options trades. Again, I prefer the day trades, the equity trades, but some were options trades that I also called so you could have done the equity and the option. You could have done them both is what I'm saying. So it's up to you what works for your schedule. Either way, if you're interested, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com.