Thanks for staying with us. Are leaders born or made? Are certain people born with characteristics that make them perfectly suited to guide and inspire? Or do they gain these characteristics through life experiences and delicate guidance? And most importantly, where do these noble leaders lose their way? The Quote of the Day states that a bad system will beat a good person every time. So it's high time that we begin to ask the questions of whether people are corrupting the system or the system is corrupting its people. And if this is the latter, what does it mean for us as future leaders? Now, let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>3 and follow us on all our social media platforms. So you guys heard that really cool line I said about the Quote, right? The system corrupting or so are we corrupting? I mean, it comes to the fact of nature versus nurture, you know. So are we being born with those corruptive personalities or is it the environment that we're being raised up in? Is that what's making us corruptive? You know that word? It's thrown around a lot. In this Nigeria.  The second day or you hear this person is corrupt, that person is corrupt. So we really need to find out what that word corrupt really means. I think also just seeing how used to corruption we are as a country, as you mentioned before, maybe that in itself is what makes the system so corrupt. Expecting the system to be corrupt is what makes you think that, okay, I'm going in here and maybe if I do the bare minimum and I only take a little bit of brass, then I'm doing better than the regular politician. And you know, my mom also speaks a lot about values and how you need to maintain your values and go to a position of power and influence rather than be influenced.  This thing is deep. It's really deep because whether we choose to admit it or not, all of us, like you said, is Nigeria. There is this gene inside of us that kind of just dictates that, okay, whenever we're presented with the opportunity to take advantage of a situation because of the survival mindset that we've kind of grown up in, we try to always take that opportunity to just take advantage of someone, like any little thing you can do to get by, like on the road. Oh Jesus. Actually, that's true. It may not look like it relates now, but then trust me, as you're going back home from the sets today, just watch. It doesn't even have to be watched out. That's the funny part. You could be going home until like 12 midnight and then just like you have a couple other cars on the road and then there's a red light that's about, sorry, there's a green light that's about to turn red, just because someone cannot wait 10 seconds when they realize it's going back to green, they're zooming past. And then in that wake of extreme adrenaline, that's when accidents happen. And then people try to like say that, okay, it's not my fault. I don't have to take responsibility for this because my circumstances were different. Everybody's circumstances are different. So if we do not decide now as people that whatever the situation is, however bad the country gets, however high the foreign exchange rate goes, we are not going to be corrodes. And there's no other way we can fix it. 100%. Like definitely if we circle back to if it's the environment that you're raised up in, now what affects your environment? Your influencers, models, those people that run your neighbors, the person downstairs.  So if you are raised up in a house where your dad is corrupt, your grandfather is corrupt, your uncle is corrupt, your father's father is corrupt, obviously one would now say that person will grow up to become corrupt. But if that individual is now taken away from that environment, based up in a good moral household with people who have good values, does that person now mirror the environment that they've been placed in, or they go back to their personality that they were born in their natural ways? 100%. Do you have anything to add for us? Because if you are operating a system that does not reward domestic and rewards corruption, then I see why people on the individual level on the microscale would be more likely to lean towards being corrupt, because the situation is set upon great dishonesty and corruption. Then why would anyone want to follow and work hard and lay hard? So lean based on principle, the principalism of those who pay the bills or allow any sort of upward mobility. So that's why I have a more empathetic approach. As much as I'd like to be holistic and think that we should all not be corrupt, I mean obviously that's what's, you know, I, that's what I support. I think we need to look at the more structural stuff as well, and work on making more man's I 100% agree with that. And like, since you spoke about the empathetic approach, I really resonate with that one because let's even just dive back to primary school and secondary school since this is a teen's takeover, right?  That's what I'm saying. It's different if you're getting it like, it's different if it's some kind of like meritocracy or, but then like, if it's actually like just your parents coming at being extra nice teachers or your parents just bringing like these fabrics, I mean like, oh, you know, just let's do something. People don't realize, but this is how it started. So then when you are in a society that rewards corruption, then how else are you actually going to want to do anything otherwise? That's why we have to take our educational system accountable. Like schools can definitely help younger people to learn how to be a greater person. Like there's no way that every school has a merit rulebook or anything. So you get awarded for doing good things and you get punished for doing bad things. Exactly. So why is this that if we're really implementing these rules, why are people coming out of secondary school and behaving exactly like our leaders 100 percent? What you were saying about the educational system, I actually have something that would like to add to that. When we hear education, because of the situation that all of us have grown up in, right, the Gen Z as we like to call it, first in the cluster ahead is what school, right? Because education has been associated with the formal aspect of it and we've completely neglected the informal aspect of it. The problem with this now is the fact that if you check every single teenager's phone or tablet or whatever device they use, a couple of these apps are most likely to be found on the TikTok number one, Instagram number two, Snapchat number three. And then on all of these apps, like you said before, influencers. So we have completely neglected the fact that those influencers actually have so much to add in terms of their educational value to these people. And what is so sad is the fact that these people that created these platforms, right, the owners of the TikTok of the Facebook of the Instagram or whatever, there is no direct sort of verifying mechanism that they can use to determine whether or not this thing is wholesome for a child to consume. So it's like when people, wow, every single day I'm guilty. Every single day I sit and allow for myself because I thought that I could escape it, I thought I could break the matrix. But then I'll start scrolling and before I know it, you'll hit your one hour daily limit on TikTok. Press this passcode to continue. I'm lucky because my 4u page is filled with things that are actually teaching me because like I'm trying to prepare for university. So my 4u page is telling me how to get ready for college and all of that. But then not every teenager's 4u page is like that. And then all of those things are educating them and teaching them more about what they live in. So if they are living in that virtual reality or that virtual version of reality, and then they're now supposed to be held accountable for whether or not they develop values that will prevent them from being corrupt, how does that even work in the first place?  Automatically. The moment I say my word. You just do this. Hey guys, welcome to my YouTube channel. But to take this dream and just post it and then if it gets enough likes or comments whatever, automatically I'm important for posting a dream. And it doesn't matter, you could do, I wouldn't say the stupidest things on your phone, on camera. And if it gains enough traction, everyone is doing that. Everyone is doing it. So you control the narrative from the most absurd of perspectives. None of which I even get towards trying to help a country get out of the mess that's in currently. So. Recognize your platform. Recognize the power that you hold as an influencer. Because you have such a big platform to enable children, people that are watching you, to make them grow, to make them like the best versions of themselves.  And it's something that people need to get account, like they need to get accounts. I like to read the message. It says, good evening. My name is Somi. Hi, Somi. I believe the system breads corruption. And then we may choose to be better or to have integrity, but the system doesn't give you a chance. I love that. Thank you, Somi. The system doesn't give you a chance to survive. The system has to work for the people. And that's the only way we'll be able to be held accountable. God bless you for this. But do you see the loop now? Because it's like the system is corrupting its people, but we corrupted the system. So now for the people to still be corrupted, we need to like make the system less corrupt. So it's still in our hands, no matter how much we try and like relieve the blame at the end of the day. Yes, it can't really pass the blame to anyone else. So that's why I think that's even the reason why we are the ones doing this. Because, you know, first of all, Nigeria is bottom heavy. If you check the statistics, I think it's about 20, how many percent of people that's like over 40 percent of people that are Nigerians are below the age of 25. So it's like when you have that many people in that age demographic, you have to start teaching them these things from young. So I guess that's why we are the ones doing this. Because they won't hear it from people like my mom and my friends. So I'd love for us to answer the question, once and for all, is corruption born or bred after this short break that we're about to take? See you shortly. If you are just tuned in, we are discussing the feasibility of molding moral leaders and whether corruption is born or bred. Remember, you can join the conversation by sending us an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>3. And because it's a special, the phone line is going to be open all week. So you can call us on 070-2500-7749. If you call, please remember to turn down the volume of the device so we don't get any feedback. Ziz, are you there? I'm here. Yeah, so we'd love to hear your two cents of what we're talking about before the break. So I was especially interested in what Alpha was saying in relation to Gen Z and our role in all this. My take on Gen Z in relation to corruption and how the own businesses are partly on us to correct the system that doesn't benefit us is the fact that Gen Z and Gen Z are just a lot of generations in Nigeria. From birth, we've talked about this idea of success being a table through hard work. It's able to school, see, get a degree, work hard, and then you're going to be able to achieve some sort of upward mobility or some sort of success. But the side reality is that work ethic and getting a lot of qualification and still doesn't achieve you any sort of success, especially in this country. For example, you'll be like a graduate. People have graduate degrees and are still working as cashiers or other jobs that concept on school labor. So I think if somebody goes to university, they get a degree. They're looking for jobs. Because the job market right now is really, really awful here, even for people who are about to qualify for the jobs. Why wouldn't they then go and do Yahoo! or 419 as we call it? Because they are doing everything to get to the system, but the system isn't right. So how are they meant to operate within that system? And even if they want to operate from a basis of principle, principle isn't going to pay their bills. Integrity is not going to put food on their table. And so it's all about making sure that there are ethical ways for people to be able to take care of themselves. So we can now start focusing on individual integrity. Because a lot of people would love to make money in legal, respectable ways. You know, a lot of people would end up looking to be doctors, nurses.  And in relation to Gen Z, do you use a longer example? If you're in an exam at home and for some of my vegetables exist, you're very strict. If everyone around you is discussing answers, and I mean like it's completely free for all. Everybody is just talking, exchanging answers.  Because those people who are around you, they're going to likely get higher scores. They're like, you know, discussing their answers together. And they'll probably get higher grades.  At the end of the day, you may have chosen integrity, but on your report, they're going to say, oh, she filled her exam, but at least she was on it. So just say she filled her exam. So I think that's like another example that will be more relevant to younger audiences. I sincerely, I agree with you guys like completely. And then even to add to that, my dad just sent me a message. And it says, everything begins with the seed. Even corruption was once a seed. Someone planted it and someone nurtured it. So I'm going to focus on the aspects of nurturing in the sense that I'm going to dial it back in terms of age and take it all the way to the beginning when you're young. So you guys know we're just going to race from secondary school and all of that.  And then for people like us, we're just like, see how the future is going to work out for us. We're trying to, all of us want to make money, want to find ways to make it in life and all of that. And then what is now saying about finding ethical ways to actually be able to sustain yourself and make a good living? The problem is that in Nigeria, there is this complex. I'm not sure if you have noticed it that the youth is not like maybe psychologically or mentally or academically capable of actually starting professional things on their own. Let me give you an instance. There was a time I was on the third main land bridge and then I and my dad were just driving. That's me and him. And then I dressed well because why won't I dress well?  And in my head, I was like, what is going on? They apparently, when they asked me some questions about my name, what's my school, and because they knew my school and because of my school's reputation, they like, let's me and him go. So it's open the top of the car searches and we're just just two guys in the car. And apparently what my dad thought, what my dad explained to me was that what these guys usually think is that when they see someone that looks like me in this youth category, and they are just like in a car by themselves, they thought that he was the Uber driver. And I was a Yahoo boy because maybe I dressed. And then I now went and I thought about if I had just by mistake, let's say I wanted to do work that day, I'm carrying my laptop. That's game. I would have been taking to the station. So it's like, when there is that kind of stereotype that people like us can't do anything, it's about going widespread. How do you not expect us to even try to give the ethical way, the benefits of it, the first place. That's why most of us, okay, now you're finding different influencing as number one way, but then there's still all the Yahoo, the flow and you know, so everybody is like trying to go towards those other ways because first of all, not just the fact that there are no opportunities in the professional sectors, but then because there is so much, there's so much stereotype in Nigeria, like there is like the judgment is just too much. How are you supposed to make it if you're this young and you actually have big dreams, whether you're living in a situation like this? Yeah, because especially at our age, we're looked down upon a lot. Let's say I have an idea like, oh, I want to start a business in baking or something, you know, a sector that's not really looked towards. Yes. A lot of the elders will be like, why do you want to do baking?  Go and do engineering. I want you to finish school. Which is absolutely insane. Because we as a community, we think, oh, we've passed that. Yeah, nobody is still saying that. That's what we think, but it's still there. It's still very much around us. So it's very discouraging. So once you hear one person say, oh, you can't do that, another person say, oh, you can't do that, then enough of the thing of, okay, fine, everyone assume it. I can't do this. And then the thing is that we live in such a glamorous society. When you look at Nigerians, Nigerians know how to enjoy life. I feel like that's just like generally known. If you see the weddings, you see the old Wambas. That's just making it obvious.  And then all you want to do is get money quick. Nobody really cares about how ethical you are. I feel like morality just isn't rewarded. Like, as they said before, morality just isn't rewarded in Nigeria anymore. You understand what I mean? So it's like, nobody is really looking at getting money through helping people or getting money through doing something extremely productive. And that's just really just breathing more corruption. All right. Any calls? Yeah, so I have a comment for you. Okay, so refreshing to see young people sharing very insightful perspectives. Great job. Thank you. I'm not really sure who said that. But we're really grateful. Yeah, so it's just bringing out the Gen Z and allowing us to speak on things like this. So circling back to corruption and stuff, you were saying that we'll have the people blaming the system, the system blaming the people. But you also have to understand, like, if we have a figurehead, a spokesperson that we're always blaming, oh, let's say, for example, Yasmin is leading some Yasmin's group, Yasmin's this, Yasmin's that. But then you also have to look at the people around Yasmin. They're probably the ones making the moves. They're doing the tactics. They're doing everything.  This is what I've been told to say. So it's really how we're going to educate and change the narrative around the people around us. That's why it's very important. My mom always tells me, you have to choose your friends. Like, look at your friends and you know who I am. So definitely. Yeah, I think I actually agree with that. Because, you know, there can be a situation and let's say a policeman, right, stops you on the road and then the guys ask you for that something for the boys.  But then Sinubu knows that policeman. Exactly. The system is so layered that if we actually do not deconstruct this first, before we start putting blame on someone that's at the top, we're really not doing anything. Exactly. And it starts from a very nuclear level, starting with instilling positive values within your families. And then like we also came and related it to school, everything. Everybody thinks that when we talk about the system corrupting people, we're talking about just political systems and like, oh, I'm a good man, I'm coming to be president, and then all of a sudden I'm corrupt. That's just not how it works. Because that's why you see a lot of, especially our parents' generation sending their kids out. There's no way that one wants to build their children up in Nigeria because of the education system we're well known for. Like, you're here instilling bad values in children, even though you do want to. We're aware that teacher salaries are not the best, but that does not mean that you should now make another child suffer from your losses.   It's not because you're having a bad salary that you're not going to make this child suffer to get here. Because all of it just goes to show that circumstance is a very vital factor that has played all of this. Because if we want to, there was this book I was reading here, the book is called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I think. Yeah, and then essentially in the book all it's saying is that for you to be a successful person, it's not really about how talented you are. And sometimes it's not even about how much dedication and hard work you have put into it. There is that vital factor of circumstance. If you ask Bill Gates now how he built everything that he has built, how he got the name that he has today, he will tell you that he was just the luckiest person in the world. And to be very honest, he was because all of the things, all of the situations that unfolded in his lifetime were unique to a very specific set of people. Within that Bill Gates timeline where he was born, people like Steve Jobs, Bill Joyce, Steve Wozniak were born within that same period because the American economy provided certain opportunities for them at that particular point in time. So if you try to just blame it on the fact that you're not willing to work or you're not willing to put in the effort to achieve what you want in terms of can't see now corruption, then you'll be wrong. Because the circumstance that we, like for example, three of us now, the reason why we are able to have this conversation sitting down here today is because first of all, we've been friends since, like, how old? And then it's like first we have that kind of relationship with ourselves, we have that connection and our parents also have, like they did right to morally guide us, to be able to speak in front of you guys today. So it's really just the factor of everything. So just to simplify everything, let's just answer this question. Is corruption born or bred? Like that's what the fingers are pointing. To be a great person. All right, so I have a comment from Jayden O and the comment says, I think Nigerians of this current generation have adapted to the society and learned how to make a living for themselves. However their living may be. We all know that we as Nigerians, we are hustlers and in our own way, they're making a living for themselves. And this country as a whole has become a breeding ground for corruption as the righteous path paths to wealth are faced with many difficulties and challenges. Good work guys. That's honestly just summing everything up really perfectly put. And Yasmin, I think this one is directed at you. Interesting conversation and great perspectives. You guys are vocal and exceptionally brilliant. Well done. The anchor is a natural. Thank you. From MC. Thank you, MC. Okay, so now that you've answered the, wait, is this, is corruption born or bred? Is this just A-16? Yeah, we need to hear my, okay. So to sum up, I think, I believe that corruption is definitely bred. I don't think anyone is, you know what, I'm going to say Swindler, like I don't think anybody's one of that sort of like innate personality traits. I think due to economic circumstances and may some prior biological predispositions, people may be pushed to now indulge in a system that rewards corruption, because not only is Mars seems rewarded in the area, it is barely, I think that's where the corruption is going to flow. So we have another two messages from Mr. Seydou Bosharu. I'd like to mention the social media influence on our young population. It should be used to swerve our young minds towards this positive mindset and realizing that when you add value, you're rewarded. Another one says, if you can't build it, if you can't earn it or work for it, early option is to get it, is through corrupt ways, period. Okay, period. And as Seydou as it may sound, that is the reality that we're facing. But I do have a question again. To make this conversation more solution driven, since we have come to the conclusion that corruption is bred, does that automatically mean that people that have done very questionable things can just be like, it's not my fault. Like, listen, I've had a really tough life. I'm allowed to do bad things because... When we sort of understand that our circumstances support that this question applies to every single arena exists, let me explain how. When you try to understand the circumstances around you, you then realize that you have every right to absolve yourself of all blame. That's what people have decided to do. They have decided to just say, okay, fine, this is not my fault, it's the fault of the system. And they forget that they are the system. 100%. There's no I was born in a bad home.  So we have a caller right now. Good evening. Good evening. Hi. Speaking left and right to the Gen Zs. Oh. I think that's interesting. That's really amazing. However, the word corruption is born or bred. Realize the new language for you guys who, but who have to fall in. We don't have options. As a younger foot man, some of your words I haven't had for me to digest. But you come with some new slants that we didn't grow with. Whether it's what you have to survive, because I remember at home I used to see some of the texts and the other things the kids do. And I have to add, there was the meaning of this one.  And you guys are too fast for our liking. However, let me indulge into today's topic. You see, just like the lady said that corruption is bred. I just have to believe her and I agree with her 100%. Because to most parents, they do some things and they wouldn't do it in front of the little ones just to get a peak one and make things easy for them. Even through the phone, they have phone calls. You see somebody literally sitting down in the living room and you tell me I'm on bike, I'm on my way, I'm almost there. That brings the idea that I'm easy way out. And you see most parents, they go to the school, they pay for their kids to pass things, they pay for their kids to get some position. They won't love it. And these kids hear them talk about it with more and more and discuss about this, how can make her aim, get this. Now they have that feeling that there's another way out. There was one example that just happened. That example, I told my daughter that look, you guys just got your way free because you never read. You see somebody on Tiktok on the day of exams because they believe that the parents must have done what they need to do for them. So all these things is being bred on them. And when we keep on coming up like this, these kids come up like this, they want to look for other ways to make things easy. In our days it's not like this. Seriously, in our days it's not like this. I just hope that this generation will be able to survive what is coming ahead because you have to have money, you have to know somebody to survive in this country. And I don't really know if 60% of the Gen Z's have such opportunities because it's now a general collection. You understand me now? You have to know what to do. And even those that try to be holy in the sense of holy, they will see you like a Jew guy, this one never know what's in the happen. If you don't know what to do, you have to be hard on the Tiktok. Why are you like this? And the person will just be looking like one alien because that is the order of the day. You have to do what everybody is doing to survive and exist. So I don't know, I pity this generation. No, you guys are in a tough one. But I hope God will see you guys too. But for me, it's bred and I blame mostly the parents and the society in general because there's no enabling environment. Everything is corrupt. Everything. I'm sorry to say this. Even in the churches, people love people positions. And these kids see them do it. They hear them do it. Because it's in and out here. We parents, we think these kids don't hear our discussion. Seriously, they listen. They listen seriously and they hear everything. So basically, I just hope you guys are your so much. Thank you so much.  And that's everything. Traveling. I'm telling you, that office. Listen, no. It's actually it's actually help. But then like, you know, I have like this connection. And that's like the only way life can even be remotely sensible for you. But like, again, in the sense of being solution driven and not having like a defeatist mentality. How do we prevent people from using this as an excuse? Because my mom always says we shouldn't place ourselves in a position of effect. And you know, we should be causes of positive change. So how do you guys propose that? You know, we can't prevent people from having parents that do bad things on the download. We really can't. How do we make more moral leaders? I think Aniola shares your points of view. She says, good conversation, ladies and gentlemen. This is Aniola. How do you think that we can reduce corruption in our society? So she's essentially asking more or less the same questions you're asking. And then, first of all, youngest man, youngest old man from Lagos. You know, you said that corruption is everywhere. I agree with you. Sincerely speaking. But then if we are going to be solution driven, we have to first understand that as the youth, we are the ones that are responsible for this. Right? So it's not a lost cause. Let's get it through our heads now. Because you may see it this way, because you have been born, you have been bred and you have been, you have suffered under the system. For us, we have been privileged to at least just be relatively new. So our minds are still sort of moldable. What we can do is that as we are here representing the gen Z of our society, we should try to do more things like this. Try to talk to people and try to get the message out there that this thing is really not worth it. Because if you can do it from now, eventually we're going to be grandparents and grandparents and our children and our children's children will learn from us whether you like it or not. Because they will be listening to those conversations that you said that they would, that we thought they won't be able to listen to naturally. So essentially, if we can get it right from now, from this age right now, and I think it's actually a problem that can genuinely be solved. Yeah. So we have to look back on how to change the narrative, how to hold ourselves accountable and everything like that. Like we all have to be able to sit, like put stamp of foot down and say, okay, no, we're going to stop history from repeating itself. We're going to become better people. We're going to try and say no when we are stopped by the policeman on the road or what's it called, you know, all those type of things that come up. And we just really have to say that we also have to go back to our educational system, like are teachers there to earn a salary or are they there to impact a child's life? Are they there to change that person's life? Yeah. So Yasmin, I think you have a comment for us. Yes, it says reduce corruption by forming a group that makes one another accountable no matter how small and cruel it is. I'm going to try to see if I could tell you this to what you are saying about like teaching. Yes. I recently founded a, well I started an initiative called Talent Speaks, right? And then me, I wrote a book about talent when I was 10. So I've been obsessed with this thing like for a while now. And then I've just like tried to at least bring out those hidden gifts and skills that people have and just try to help them to display to our status like this. So essentially what we are doing, if not for the fact that it was ways that organized it, I would have loved to be the one to come up with something like this. Essentially if we can put more people like us on stages like this, automatically they will become accountable because they will now be responsible for their own growth and success as a person from as young as they are. So once you begin to do that, the idea of corruption isn't if you remotely close to them with your hand because they realize that they're becoming a shot at something truly great. It's not everybody that wants to be that young boy. They're only that young boy because they really certainly know what they want to be. So if we are creating options for them through this and through platforms like Talent Speaks, like Waze and many of us, we will be able to change that narrative. Yeah, definitely. This is what you're saying. How do we stop corruption? So I definitely agree that everything with the corruption is, corruption just seems to be ever present and very important to us. But I think that primarily I think honestly needs to start with legislation because as much as us as individuals wants to try and make a change for ourselves, there are lots of people who are in less, let me say, sustainable or privileged conditions wherein being honest is not even like a viable living choice. It's either like you be corrupt or you don't eat. So I think that in terms of, I think we start from the top, I think we need to start from legislation. As you guys were talking about, you know, checks and balances. I think that's a very important first step because, for example, we'll talk about us not wanting to bribe policemen and things of that nature. But when you don't think about the way that the government handled corruption between, corruption within the SARS police force, that's kind of disheartening because we all know that corruption was going on within, you know, the SARS police of this scheme. However, we all believe that the government handled that satisfactorily. Thank you so much. So I'm so sorry that we couldn't take some calls, but before we go, do ensure you follow us on Instagram and Spotify as Way Show Africa. You can interact with us further, drop a comment and most importantly, follow all our social media engagements. 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First of all, I must admit that the presenters did a wonderful job in tackling the issues bedeviling Africa. Africa is very diversified. Just like the PEPAS are diversified and that of course creates a difficulty in generalizing. We can't generalize. Everything depends on the context and that's a very crucial setting point because Africa is a continent where there are so many hotspots in terms of development and these hotspots are associated with dependence on nature more or less in most of the context for the basic needs that they need. The other issue of bedeviling Africa is that there is no magic bullet which can solve the problem. So when we generalize that for example such as such a thing is going to solve the problem, it creates a problem in itself because we need to go in Africa context by context. I wanted to emphasize that point so that we don't say we are coming from here having solved what kinds of things can be done to minimize the problem in Africa. The other problem facing us in Africa is the issue of mindset change. Somebody of course already talked about the culture and there is difficulty in changing the mindset of individuals. Take for example the fact that the overstatement that agriculture is rainfed. We know that for crop production crops need water. Crops don't need rain right? And we have rivers flowing even if it is passing through some villages where they can tap the water to produce crops. They wait for rain despite that they can use the water to grow the crops right? So there is need for information, providing information so that we tap the potential of these rivers to turn them into productive activities so that the food can be made available and we don't rely on rain forever which is not necessary as such. Now the challenges facing Africa are also numerous and diversified. We have the issues of access to property rights to land and water. We have the problem of linking smallholder farmers to domestic and global markets because of the high transaction costs. We have the infrastructural bottlenecks, lack of data and information for action and then of course the emerging climate change issues. All these are challenges which will take a while for Africa to overcome the problems which can enable them to achieve the desired development. And if we can break this problem into sections of the problems, there are the production related challenges which includes land tenure insecurity. We have an explored irrigation opportunities, I have just said. There is underutilization of the prevailing farm resources that the last speaker said as much, poor physical infrastructure and post harvest management. And we have losses going up to 40% of the harvest. So if we can minimize some of these post harvest losses through value addition, then of course we shall be getting closer to achieving the food security. Then we have what we might call market and institutional related challenges. Africa is to be developed by what we might call institutional failure. The rules and regulations are made but they're equally abused. And that is a challenge which we have to grapple with if we have to transform the economies in Africa. We have weak research and the extension capacity and this is directly affecting the productive potential of the farmers. If for example there's no information, there's no information about technology, there's no information about post harvest management, of course things will be worse and worse. And that of course needs to be addressed. The issue about micro economic challenges also persists. Household decision making, the topic which has just been addressed is very complex. It's not as easy as may appear because decision making in the household depends even on neighbors. The neighbors have a strong influence on what can happen either in coming through the wife or coming through the husband. In the model you came up with there was no mention about the neighbors influence on the household decision making and that is important. The issue of how the macro economic challenges affect the households also differ because this also depends on the information available to them because in Africa some of the households hardly see any government presence so it's very difficult to model so to speak. And then the other worrying challenges include the rural urban migration problem because urbanization is already creating heavy farm labor deficits and this is associated with the fact that the youth are shining agriculture because of the thinking that agriculture is only on the beginning side of the value chain. There is no rethinking of the value chain because they think if you go to agriculture it's a very adverse kind of process and your livelihood is not going to be better. So there's need to push the agenda of value chain thinking so that you don't only think of agriculture as the production side but all the way up to the export side and there is of course rising land scarcity and then the declining soil fertility all these kinds of things affect the productivity of agriculture which we thought about and then the risk the issue of the risk the risk in agricultural operations right from production to international markets there are so many risks so again that brings in the problem of modeling for a diversified system so we should be thinking about ecosystem kind of approach to tackle the issue and then focus on context. Generalization in Africa is a very it will be flawed if we have to base it on policy making. So context matter and then the change of mindset within the African continent is equally important. Thank you very much.


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The Christmas stuff coming out Disney invited us out today so that we can get a look at some of the cool offerings they have for this Christmas season and let me tell you they have a lot I'm so excited let's go do this can we just talk about the big bear in the room look at this wow fantastic how fun I love it and from 9 30 till 5 they have these amazing puppets out here we have foxes birds bears little bears big bears violin players it's so cool they do go in at five o'clock don't so just to be warned if you want to see the puppets you have to come here a little bit early there is literally Christmas in almost every section of animal kingdom Discovery Island Asia Africa even Pandora and we're gonna try to do a good roundabout and just see what it's like now I'm sure it's a lot better at night and you can actually see all the pretty lights and everything like that but we're gonna see it during the day and then definitely do a night vlog eventually oh the bird show is about to start even stepped up the decor or the decorations look at all these nifty things I like those little squirrels look at little squirrels with the nuts in their hands oh and look who's coming back out to say hello hello oh hello wow oh wow my favorite oh no mile my new favorite look at a little penguin look at them oh my buddy's back again whoa another fun thing is that Doug and Russell actually have a little Christmas decor in their wilderness explorers clubhouse look at that Christmas trees and pretty lights I love it anything that's gonna have Christmas to do with it I'm gonna say I love it just gonna love it I just love it I'm gonna head over the bridge from Discovery Island to Dino Land because Dino Land is decked out decked out in Christmas look at that dinosaur it's got a beard and a Santa hat it's a Santasaurus a Santasaurus I think that is my favorite word I've ever made a Santasaurus that is awesome I love it as you can see there's red lights actually on the Santasaurus and at night it changes colors and goes along to the music that's gonna be something really awesome to check out Scrooge is actually in the Christmas spirit this year look at that now this is what I'm talking about look at launch pads actually meet and greet wow he's not out right now so I'm gonna just take a peek inside and see what he's got going on here oh look at he's got some presents one of them's to Scrooge the other ones from Scrooge look at that Scrooge has given out presents and his tree actually has a whole bunch of paper planes and regular planes made out of parks maps that's pretty cool speaking of launch pad there he is with that nice nifty scarf thank you look at Daisy's little meet up here so pretty wow oh wow look at that fantastic Chippendale a decked out too and this is their little meet-up area this is festive wow look at this it's a reindeer Osaurus maybe somebody already came up with the Santasaurus how about this rake tree that's so creative wow look at Donald's little area over here very festive I feel like I'm gonna say that a lot not sure how to describe Christmas you know you can say it's very festive very holidayish very Christmasy the tough one you can just be like it's starting to look like Christmas it's Christmas but we're gonna move on from this extinct area and head on over to Asia and see what Christmasy things they got there I also thought it was very appropriate for me to grab above light because my shirt says Mary beer mess thanks to Holland family for giving to me this shirt I don't see much actually happening over here in their expedition Everest but can you imagine if they put a gigantic Santa hat on the Yeti he would be called yeti claws yeti claws honestly though unless you go hunting for Christmas stuff in Asia nothing really popped out to me I mean I just felt like it was just regular area dino land blew me away I mean dino land went all out Christmas I love it over there but Asia just seemed like Asia just looking at these holiday offerings candy cane Mickey elf popcorn bucket must be that guy but he looks like a pirate Wow and then a Mickey jingle bell sipper very fancy what can I can I jingle I like it a lot I decided to make a little left from Asia and head into Discovery Island again because they passed up the adventures outpost and the Mickey and Minnie meet and greet that they have here has a little Christmas kind of like feel to it I'm not sure what it is but we're gonna go in there meet Mickey and Minnie and see what's happening it might not be Christmas but that's for me I'm next okay I just wanted to show off all of your nifty Christmas attire wow look at that is is that a mistletoe is it I don't even know what it is oh it is fantastic and the tie wow I like it a lot and I love your scarf and your ribbon very fancy very nifty very fancy but I liked it oh you like mine too huh oh yes I love it all this up here very festive I love the holidays I definitely well thank you guys have a great one bye that was so cute Mickey had like a mistletoe I don't even know if that was a mistletoe but then Minnie gave my kiss on the cheek awesome experience got to check it out if you come to the animal kingdom during the holidays I like it a lot now I have to say I don't know if this is a part of Asia or Africa but the area right here outside of the up bird show is fantastic and I seen it already at night and it blew my mind but the lanterns and the lights right now a show is getting out so you really can't tell much but what a great place to hang out and just take in the atmosphere now it's time for us to make our way over to Africa and like I said it feels so surreal checking out all this Christmas stuff and like the Sun is so bright it is so hot out actually it's a good experience but at the same time I kind of miss a little bit cold and snow now I don't want to blizzard and I don't want to be stuck in my car or I don't want to be waking up at 4 a.m. to dig my car out to go to work so I'll take the warm weather with the Christmas lights now that right there is a very artistic Christmas tree very fancy and I like how they have kind of little Christmas lights hanging above Zawini traders Zawini traders it's very nice that they add just a little touch to it and it actually looks authentic I like it a lot my favorite little bar area over here by the Dawabar is actually also decorated very festive and they got nifty reeds and some other cool garland I like it just look at all that pretty nice in Africa they're also selling the limited edition popcorn buckets you see it hanging there and they have plenty of stock but there is a gigantic line stretching all the way over the bridge here a lot of people like those popcorn buckets not a lot to do a Christmas but take a look at that beautiful this is why I love Animal Kingdom breathtaking I'm gonna actually leave Africa now much like Asia there's not much Christmas theming only a little bit I mean dino land so far is well beyond the most Christmas themed area then Discovery Island and then Asia and Africa but we still have Pandora to check out and you would think that Pandora would be the less Christmas theme but we'll see what they got going on over there and I just noticed that they changed out the Lion King wall for this beautiful beautiful art this is fantastic you see little fox there and the bears and the penguins these are all the puppets from the show that's in Discovery Island and I think that they're gonna tie into the Tree of Life somehow I think that's really nifty and anytime I actually go to Pandora and Animal Kingdom I always come in this way even though I was over in Africa and I want to go in the back way I always like coming this way because it's prettier it's nicer and most of the theming in Pandora would keep to itself and keep to that theming like I would expect but this guy is feeling a little bit cheery look at him wow it's like kind of like Santa Claus but not I don't know it's very strange I like it though I like it a lot so you might be wondering how the people from Pandora the Navi actually know what Christmas is and that's because the acts who actually live and work on Pandora decided to bring a little holiday chair and mix it with some earth elements and also Navi elements and that's how they came up with this rustic look and I like it but one of the worst things that could happen actually happen flight of passage is currently down so now there's just like a mob of people waiting to see if it opens back up so they can charge and get in there and skip the two hour wait but this body of people over here is actually waiting for just fast pass and the standby line is actually already queued up and the rides not even operational yet but like I said earlier most of the theming in Pandora is gonna stick to Pandora they just added that little bit of touch of Christmas to that section over there near the Santui canteen and I like it a lot it is seems nice and there is a back you know story so that it can explain how the Navi know about Christmas and overall it's good to see a little bit of Christmas in each land but as for now we made our way back out to Discovery Island just so that we can see a little bit more of the lights and a little bit more of the atmosphere with the puppets just roaming about my first time seeing this little guy wow adorable fantastic oh I think you like compliments yeah thank you so actually as he gets a little bit darker out I wanted to go out to the front of the park and start catching things as they actually start lighting up like the tree and all the decorations and stuff like that and we may be able to see one of the new tree of life shows that are going to be going on hopefully that's the plan so let's just go take a look see at the front of the park and then make our way back down first time seeing the animal kingdom tree all lit up look at that just sparkling and the perfect sunsets happening right now the lights actually at the turnkey are actually on now too did I just call it a turnkey I don't know if that's right so I basically only have walked through the entrance and I can already tell you that an animal kingdom Christmas is best enjoyed at night not during the day at night oh yeah look at all those lights starting to get very festive now I do want to head back over to Asia because I want to see if that's any different at night time maybe some lights sprung up that I didn't see so hopefully that is true because like I said Asia and Africa something like they were just kind of like Asian after the same way they wore last year but maybe it's different who knows oh boy look how beautiful it is over here but I hear the announcement that they're going to start the projections on the tree of life so we need to rush back around to the front of the park your life show is pretty amazing and it actually runs continuously not very long very short segments from seven o'clock all the way till park closed so you have plenty of time that you can actually just stop and check it out and with that I think I'm done here today I had a lot of fun thank you Disney again for inviting me out and love the life you live we'll see you next time bye


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What's up everybody? Take Down Here. Welcome back to my channel. Today I am reacting to my first ever gaming episode I did in my channel. This is back in April 2017, so over a year ago and that is crazy to even think about that. That's when I started uploading my gaming episodes back then and it is on Fallout 4. So I'm just going to react to this video. Let's just get right What's up guys? Take Down Here and I'm going to be doing my first Fallout 4 video. No enthusiasm. As you can see. It's almost like I don't even want to record the video. Not used to it. It's going to be so crazy. I'm not beginning. I'm supposed to investigate. I am glad I started the series. This used to be my most successful series I've done on my channel, but that has since changed because I don't do it in my channel. It doesn't get the views anymore. I know the game came out in 2015 I believe. So it kind of makes sense, but it's so cringy for me. I am glad I started it though. It's just this for my first episode ever that I did on my channel. That involved anything that I actually had to do an intro for. Either way I gotta go back. And the last Fallout game I have played was Fallout 2. It's cringy for me. I don't even have words to explain. Yep. Oh my god. I'm just running up and saying hi. I think this is like... Oh my god. I still don't even know how to do that. Are you getting Fallout 4? Never heard of that.  That was a take down. See I didn't even know the controls back then. I didn't know how to play the game. I mean it doesn't really make sense when you're starting a series. It's something I didn't know how to play. But in the end I guess it worked out no matter. It was my most successful channel. I should have listened to what he said. It is incredibly cringy. Just to watch this. April 2017. I've come a long way even with my gaming videos.  Everything used to scare me back then. Everything. Everything scared me back then. But even my gaming videos now, my episodes I make, lot better. They're more thought out. And everything. But back then I just... Shit. And I was uploading a lot. I was doing like two episodes a week. Hey. Whoa. Over did it. Hold up. I'm tired. Damn. By the way this video was originally... 20 minutes. I had to cut it down to five just to make a better video for you guys. Hi. I'm glad to help. Wow. Hey. My first bubble had gotten fuller before. Okay. I just honestly, I didn't know what I was doing. I've watched other gamers before on YouTube. But I didn't know really how to do it. And I was starting somewhere. I was trying to figure it out. And I eventually figured it out. But five then around this was recorded. No freaking clue. And I think I just killed myself or almost killed myself there. I didn't know how to heal myself. Eat. Eat. Eat. Some meat. I'm getting raided. I mean I know this game is very quick. Wow. I forgot that. Take down. What are you doing? The dog was the perfect thing there. Oh my God. That was funny. That was funny. How I got that... Okay. Well I am going on the video there. This is episode one.  I was going to go end the video in the middle of a flight scene. You know this is episode one. So now I'm trying to upload them weekly for you. I might film a few more of that right now. They're going to be uploaded weekly. So I hope you guys enjoy what you do. Give it a thumbs up. Let me know what you guys think. I will make more if you request it. I ended up making more anyways. Back then. When I say the most successful video series back then. Like, subscribe. I was happy just to get 10 views from my videos back then. So this was me reacting to my very first episode series I've done on my channel. Fallout 4 episode one. This was April 2017. So over a year ago. But back then in this video, in my reaction when I said this is my most viewed series back then. From when I started the channel I was getting on average 0 to 2 views per video. I'm going to start doing videos like this in an actual series. My gaming series. We was getting on average 10 views. And I know that's not enough. That's not a lot. But back then I was super proud of that just because that's the highest average I've gotten on my videos. Nowadays if I only got 10 views per video I'd be devastated because I do a lot of hard work. And my videos are a lot better than they were back then. And I'm really proud of that. But back then I was really happy to do it. And that's why I continued doing it. Because they were getting, for me, 10 views was a lot back then. So they were getting the views I wanted back then. So I'm really glad. I stuck to it. I know it's not the greatest quality. But if I hadn't went and started doing videos like this. My channel probably wouldn't be where it is today. So I'm extremely proud. I'm proud of my evolution. I'm proud of how I've evolved my channel. My videos. Everything. And I'm just really excited to see where my future is on this channel. But I don't know if I'm going to continue doing reaction videos with my old contents. I'll leave that up to you guys. If you guys want to see me react to one of my old original beats. Or some of my other beats. My greatest hits or anything like that. I might do that. That'd be a really good idea. But I don't know how much other reaction videos I'm going to do with my contents. So if you guys would like to see that. Let me know down in the comments. But I'm going to end this video here. I hope you guys did enjoy. And I will see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that Determine from graphs whether the displayed functions are even or odd and here is the first graph and this is the second graph. We know that if the function is symmetric about y axis then the function is even function. Algebraically we have f of minus x is equal to f of x that is for every point xy on the curve point minus xy is also on the curve and if the function is symmetric about origin then the function is odd and algebraically f of minus x is equal to minus of f of x that is for every point with coordinates xy line on the curve point with coordinates minus x minus y is also on the curve. With this key idea we proceed to the solution. In this question we have to determine from graphs whether the given functions are even or odd. Let us see the first graph. Here we can see that for every point xy on the curve point with coordinates minus x minus y is also on the curve. For example if point with coordinates minus 5 1 is on the curve then point with coordinates 5 minus 1 is also on the curve. So we have f of minus x is equal to minus of f of x. From the key idea we know that if the function is symmetric about origin then the function is odd and we have f of minus x is equal to minus of f of x. Here we have seen that the graph is symmetric about origin so it is an odd function. Now let us see the graph of second function. Here we can see that for every point with coordinates xy on the curve the point with coordinates minus xy is also on the curve. For example if point with coordinates 1, 6 is on the curve then point with coordinates minus 1, 6 is also on the curve. So we have f of minus x is equal to f of x and from the key idea we know that if the function is symmetric about y axis then the function is even function and we have f of minus x is equal to f of x. Thus we have seen that the graph is symmetric about y axis so it is an even function. So we have seen that graph 1 is of odd function and graph 2 is of even function. This is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


Hey, it's Bridget. Hi. Hey, welcome to above life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope today. We're gonna have a conversation with David Bowie in the afterlife. Now, you know David Bowie has a playlist. Well, maybe you don't. Do not know that. There's playlists. Check out the playlist. David Bowie has one of them because we like to talk with him because he's fascinating. He's a very transcendent star-like spirit from the afterlife.  And also if you just happen to like cool creative types, David Bowie. All right, so let's get started today. I have a topic. I would like to speak with David Bowie about our eyes. Yes, our eyes. Not the third eye, which is a chakra, which is an energy center of the body, which is the clairvoyant channel. That's how I see psychically psychic site clairvoyance and it's associated with a place called the third eye chakra. I'm not talking about bad eyes specifically.  So let's have a conversation with David Bowie regarding our eyes and what we see. All right, so can you come on in? Oh, hi. Yes. Okay, so come on in. Love. That's what I feel. All right. Hi. Yes. Nice to see you. Good to be seen. Nice to see you. Very galactic. You guys, it's fascinating. When I see the imagery of a spirit, they show up in different ways. Sometimes they show up in their human attire in clothing or costume and that is the case with Mr. Bowie today. He looks rather almost historic, kind of like the 13 original colonies, kind of a New England kind of a vibe, the birth of America kind of vibe going on. He feels like he has kind of period clothing on from history and the colors and the richness and it looks like a kind of a white fluffy collar, kind of at the neck. That could be a woman's collar almost. It kind of comes up and out. Like you'd see him like Elizabethan times, maybe like with the collar uptight by the neck and the coat. And then it kind of comes down. There's like this vest-like overlay and the vest-like overlay is kind of a pinstripe of what looks like a velvety green and a rich velvet burgundy. And then the arms are just brown, like a leathery suede brown. And then they kind of come to the cuffs here, a little bit of a poof here at the sleeve. And that is what I see. Very earth-toned, very earth-toned, grounded. He says, I thought it would be appropriate to bring in the textiles, the textures, the energy of earth to really solidify what we're going to be talking about our topic today. Thank you for that because we do need to ground the energy because he obviously recognizes, Mr. Boy obviously recognizes, that his starry energy, his vibe, for some of you who are mega fans and the human life or just loved his music and are new to whole spirituality and intuition and how channeling and psychic connection and stuff, this may be very strange to you to feel, and you won't understand, you can only articulate it by feeling, really it's hard intuition, but you feel his energy vibe and you're like kind of confused by it because he's so like starry and dreamy and just kind of like, hey, everything's good. I just meditated for five hours and I'm feeling awesome. Kind of vibrate, like blissed, like that, and so the fact that he describing these colors, these rich, thick colors and the textures of the colors and the deep green, that olivey green and the rich burgundy really grounds the energy to help you interpret for your own self because when we're channeling here, it's not just Bridget's talking to you and sharing so much valuable information, great quality content and this channeling stuff, but it's about you and the experience that you have, that is what above life channel is about you having an experience, experiential learning. If you're not into that and you want somebody to do everything for you, then this might not be your channel, my love. You might want to move along. Now let's focus on our guest at hand. I am sassy today. He says, the star energy and he responds to it as the galactic energy can do that to you. So by galactic energy, we don't mean extraterrestrials are going to come in, take you away in the middle of the night, or we don't mean that you are going to be or that there is, it's none of the sci-fi stuff that you've been bombarded with and imagery from the past or in maybe dream state or nightmare state even for you. It's not that sensationalized. It's really not that dramatic. It's quite natural, very organic and it's not spooky, creepy. You got to be more afraid of each other than you do of that. Let's just be clear. So he uses the term galactic and so I will honor that and use the same term. How about that? If you're interested in learning more about star energy or my connection to understanding, because I work with a lot of different energy types, I work in private session. I work with people who experience and are intuitive and psychic and healers at lots of different levels of vibration and galactic folks are one piece of the clients that I work with. So it's not new to me at all. So you can check out Fairy Grasshopper on YouTube if you're interested in learning a little bit more about some of that stuff. So galactic energy. I want to know about the eyes. Can you talk to us about the eyes? So our eyes are the windows to our soul and I've been told that very specifically by my healing team. I know it's like an author, a beautiful author, some kind of poetry or prose has, that has, it's not new. That's not new. The eyes are the window to the soul. But I've heard that by my healing team a couple of times. So I'm like, let's talk to somebody. And I even said in one of my other videos, I need to talk to David Bowie about that. So here we are. So can you talk to us about that? Yes, he says, yes. The stars in the eyes. This is where the galactic connection comes in, Bridget. This is where it comes in. I know that you know that. Let's share that with our viewers. So let's take a breath in, get in your physical human body. That's the best way to experience life, my friends, is not to avoid or be afraid of energy. Be in your human body. Don't process externally process in the present moment as information comes in. Don't internalize it. Don't externalize it. Have it in this in-between safe space and just breathe. You can feel the energy. I instantly, my body heats up. That's what happens when I get downloads of information and download what that means is I'm clear sentiently feeling sensing the information David Bowie is sharing with us. And I'm also getting like cognitive pieces of information. So what would maybe be considered clear cognizance? What I consider intuition? Just like a big file box worth of information. And then I will recount that or bring that out and translate it in a way that just makes sense to me. So that's how this goes. It won't unnecessarily be verbata. Yes, he says yes. So I literally see an image of David Bowie in his beautiful face with very in place of his star and place of his eyes are stars.  I could feel my throat comes about the chest level to feel clair sentience. It's called empathic energy and breathe in For you viewer feel it out here outside your body just outside your body Access the information that's most appropriate for you as you're watching listening feeling the information from David Bowie about the stars in your eyes Look at the stars in your eyes. Okay. I'm just going to close my eyes or soften rather soften my eyes Okay, my solar plexus is activated, which is my tummy your belly solar plexus is the term for a chakra It's your spirit chakra the sun chakra your intuition gut feeling It's activated. I feel that thank you. I'm gonna put my hand right there just to honor that The window to the the window to the soul two two a pair of eyes connected to the soul It's three three is sacred for those of you who are into numerology three Three for me when I see this and receive it. It is a triangle. It is the truth This is true. That's what it means when I'm in session with you I'll tell you always see a triangle means you're this is very true for you or oh my gosh. This is a big truth And three ascended mastery we're going to learn something you are going to learn something receive that information To you here again not internalize it Keep it here not external Keep it here in between in between Softening the eyes touching the belly solar plexus three energy of three The vibrational construct Of what you consider to be your soul is multi-dimensional and multifaceted much more like an emerald Or a ruby cut to sheer perfection The richness of the color is what speaks to Who you are or what you are You are beyond an entity Beyond a possession or material Forum you are much more than that you are deeper than that you are pure universe and pure star light The light of god that you consider your god or your source the creator of all things This energy of light is what is mixed in with what we consider. We he's pointing acknowledging himself pointing to His alignment or affiliation with the star energy Well, we consider the oneness the great one The great one not a person.  It's like liquid light and alchemy and it is you This is the power of what your purpose is that you speak of and you're constantly looking for your purpose This you see your eyes are taking in all of the information from the human experience And it comes down into that belly and it mixes with the purpose The life energy of the one the great oneness the great one The great whole one isn't even accurate really. It's like this oneness is the great full whole The completion Yet, it's not a finished product. It's a movement and it literally you guys I see it like kind of like a marbleized Sphere and It's it's warm, but it's not too hot to touch and it kind of flows on its own and it's moving around and it's just marbleized And it's like the size of almost like a bowling ball kind of eye But it's not heavy but it's substantial And it's this this desire that you have this this ability to create This lack of understanding from a human mind like he's like showing me the human mind The brain cannot get this a brain doesn't just just just let the brain use the imagination Tap on the colors tap on the orange the orange marbling of this light and alchemy and Just breathe it hold this just hold this You can hold it like by putting your hands under it or beside it and letting it kind of have this buffer of energy space Where it can kind of spin not fast move orbit Rotate just gently move. Okay The movement is key because it suggests the passage of time And the aliveness of your ideas your concepts the dreams goals and visions you have for yourself That do yes get fuel from the brain from the mind the human mind and the imagination do help you out Yet it's the eyes that will get you Into the deepest connection of yourself.  Okay, breathe this first. So let's just acknowledge this a lot energy work. Okay. Thank you. Mr. David Bowie a lot of energy work Let's just breathe this for a second I mean, this is not a pocket sized kind of wow. This is interesting. Okay. I can just go about my day now and answer that phone call and Reply to that email. This is not that kind of thing, right? Let's just be with this. Okay Just a minute. Let's let it kind of move Rotate Articulate Let it be alive for you. There's nothing you have to do just be with this Energy I like it. It feels really creative. Does it feel creative to you? It might it might be activating your sacral chakra, which is a creativity center in the fire element It could be especially with that catalyzing light energy that I saw I saw a lot of that I'm guessing that's part of the star energy working with the fire element. Is that accurate? Can we switch to that? Yes? Okay, so I'm going to take this And I'm going to let it kind of go into almost this invisible kind of water like state Let it be kind of come one And spread out and expand and breathe in And exhaling out. That's how you transmute energy my dears. That is how it works That's how it works Simple very simple. Don't make it hard. Don't make it complex. Don't make your brain ask so many questions Just enjoy the experience All right, so let's talk about the star energy that star alchemy. That's quite interesting to me Can you share more about the star energy? So some people some humans love the stars the night sky I have some friends that are just I have one friend in particular that I'm thinking of that Oh my gosh loves the night sky super obsessed with the stars And so what for those those those people who really just find the night so mystic and magical and That star energy piece that that beauty of that Can you talk to us about the star energy and incorporating that and and and how to work with that in our human lives and our human context? And do we have to be part of a star lineage? So like do I have to be an Arcturian or do I have to be someone from cirrus? Or do I have to be somebody from boots or do I have to be somebody from Pledon a Pledon and know my energy origins We all know that I already know the answer to that But I'm just asking him so that he can explain it so that you guys can understand without me just telling you everything that I know already So besides we're channeling so I need to share you know your expression. So go ahead I'm so I'm so funny today. I think it's like theatrical Bridget. You have you must have a theatrical flair. It cannot be boring He's like kind of like that's what I love about you.  You're so sweet, David So sweet talk to us about the energy of the stars talk to us about that alchemy Into human life talk to us about the expression of that You do not have to have a particular affiliation with the star lineage You don't have to as in your in your words. He says you don't have to have history in the stars or on other planets. You don't have to have awareness memories of past life future life whatever life You would align or consider Some kind of concrete piece like hey, I have ownership in this. It's not like purchasing stock options. It's not like that And so you don't have to have a particular affiliation or line up with a particular Color. Oh, yes. Okay. So so star energies if you have a particular history Have kind of a color or a tonal Tonal vibration or frequency about them from my experience, correct? Very much. He says very much a vibrational frequency a tonal expression. Yes. Yes And so it translates what he's showing me is it translates into color So it could be a gold a silver uh platinum Which is a different color opalescent Paralyzed or like a light pink or a hot fuchsia color or a deep magenta or a rich Violet or it can have lots of different hues and color representations And colors an easy way through the eyes, right an easy way to to Acknowledge or recognize for you your own symbol or communication connection with your star Support your star helpers. So you can have star guides without having a particular Identify cultural alignment to that civilization. So for example, I have a very strong irish connection like so Celtic in spiritual terms and contexts and past life affiliations and that Celtic shamanism and druidity and all that I have that In human life. I don't have that My lineage isn't that in my human life Ancestry don't have that but in spiritual kind I have that So for and and their color kelts when you think of ireland, what color do you think of? That's right blue. No, I mean green, of course, right green So just like that star energies Have affiliations that are translated into color More more so though, however, if you are a musician or sensitive to sounds or tones like a singing bowl or chimes or Just sound in general Sensitive to it chances are you have very strong star energy within you And your to know your affiliation or your home planet or your home place By the way, you've had multiple just like if you have multiple lifetimes or you believe in reincarnation Which you probably do if you're watching me. Yeah, probably do And you know that I like I haven't just been in ireland I've been in other countries and other parts of the world than the us and many many places in multiple lifetimes, right? So I have multiple spiritual Affinities toward different cultures and parts of the world, right That don't even make sense to me When you look at me as the whitest white person in the history of the world And I'm not saying that with pride. Let me just say I'm just saying it's hello. Obvious look at me um To know that I have other really deep affinities and love for other Specific parts of the world and countries specific countries. I look nothing like the people there and yet I love So much and so Same is for you with the star energies so The frequency or vibration of music or tones sound is the most closest To being able to identify as a similar metaphor with a star planet or a star history or lineage But color is like the second best thing because color is the way that we translate it into our human understandings That's what david bowie is saying that totally aligns with what I know of star energies But he has said it way better than what I've said in the past. So I hope that makes a little bit of sense there So you can have a starg spirit guide a spirit guide. That's a star I have one her name's aria and I work with her closely at times when I need to do High technology frequency healing work or clearing work for myself Usually when I'm up leveling or I got some new information that I Not don't consciously know but I feel it stuff's up stuff's going on stuff's moving in a shaken and I need to Work on my stuff so that I can work with you So I will have aria come in and she will um channel or translate or talk to me in my human mind about This whatever this is that the topic or the the situation etc The new energies and so you can have star guides that support you like one common one is ash tar command Some of you may know ash tar command shows up a bit masculine Um to me very androgynous though Let's just be real clear all the star energies that I see when they try to personify themselves or take a human form They look super Androgynous which I'm totally fine with that. I'm like hey easy. Yeah, okay So no, no worry about pronouns there. Um, but feels a little more masculine. I would say he ash tar command. Um, if I had to pick a little more that maybe then whatever, um and Also metatron archangel metatron news flash if you like archangels and you're super digging on metatron. Guess what? You like star energy and you don't even know it maybe So you are galactic girl or boy or them they there? That's what you are if you like metatron You know might not consciously know that but that's true I am really theatrical He's saying it's me. It's it's me. He must have smoked a lot Because he is like I can see him smoking and it's very strange. He looks like he quit though later But I can see him just he smells like smoky. It looks like he's like smoking imagery of human form And he's very theatrical instead of all spiky and sticking up all over so he's like that's why he's like bridget You are feeding off my energy. It makes sense. It should show up this way. Thank you Thanks for that mental approval that I just got Hmm So talk to us about understanding. How can we use this energy? I did mention the higher um Technology for healing is kind of what the galactic vibes are so the star energy the stars in our eyes, right? The star energy is how can we use that our human form? Can you explain that in a way that just anybody just new to intuition or new to spirituality? Of course, we've probably lost most of those folks right by now Let's be honest because those viewers are going to be like, this is weird stuff. I'm not going to watch So if you've made it this far cool, you probably don't even need this conversation How can we use this energy? Come on share it with us some give us some tips Give us some info So now I see this really purple hue this really purple vibe, which is kind of like a ascended master saint germane Which he does often show up very green to me, but lately he's been so purple But I think it's because saint germane works with what we consider the violet flame which is a really potent clearing tool which is like fire in human context our version of fire and spiritual galactic star energy universe universal consciousness so galactic star energy That's universal consciousness. That's a collective consciousness that is beyond just our limited human only expression so These two things that come together the violet flame really represents both. So that's an example All right, and so saint germane can help you translate Maybe a human experience that you're working on that is something kind of difficult Maybe it's a maybe you're feeling hard headed Maybe you're feeling a lot of resistance and you're really stubborn about something, but you know You got to let it go because it's really not helping you at this point Like it's something you just have to let go of and you just can't because you're so stubborn and that's okay because strong willed Oh those people all those are my people You are my people we are one because that's loyalty. That's devotion, but sometimes You know, what is that saying?  Let's not do that So maybe you need to let go of some of that resistance a little At least loosen it up or settle it down a bit Settle it down a bit use the violet flame ask saint germane to come in Work with this beautiful purple energy and saint germane is an ascended master that you could find in any old card deck And any old kind of teachings about ascended mastery and yet know that you and I know he has a galactic affiliation A universal connection. Okay, so when I say galactic again, I want to be really clear. It's not Just one planetary alignment one source that's home for you or one of your lifetimes as a star being It's not just that that's not what I mean I mean this universal consciousness that transcends a human experience or expression that includes all of the advanced wisdom And the technologies that are available in the universe is universe says More than one because we don't really know in our human mind or bodies What all is available to us? So let's tap that and use that violet flame to help transmute some of the energies for resistance or stubbornness or being too set in your ways or afraid of change or Krabby or a super opinionated and you just know that about yourself or even judgmental very judgmental Even if it's not just towards yourself. You're aiming that critical critical eye, but you're directing it at other people You're just kind of lashing out a little bit It's it's hey, we all get to that point. We all get there Don't be too hard on yourself.  I feel david literally bringing all of our energy right to our solar plexus To our stomach to that beautiful sun chakra energetically. I'm hearing a lot of toning in my ear If you hear a lot of buzzing or humming in your ears A lot of people are like, oh, is that an angel? No, um, not necessarily it could be a spirit guide Yes, but what it is is it's a frequency adjustment or change So something is happening at an energetic level that is either coming in or going out that you are noticing It's a vibrational shift. So I'm feeling some of that on my left side Which makes sense because I've had david kind of energetically set here For us in our conversation today. So that makes sense So I'm feeling that as I'm focusing on our bellies our solar plexus our spirit right at your belly button Just touch that spot there And let the energy kind of simmer settle in and breathing in And exhaling out So you couldn't utilize any of the spirit guides we've mentioned saint germain that tool of the violet flame Go ahead and look that up google it up and learn some stuff about it if you're interested Meditron archangel meditron. Oh, yeah, archangels have a lot of high galactic frequencies. I love that They're super similar to galactic energies and star energies And no need to be afraid of that energy. It's just a different type of guide That's all it is is a different type of spirit guide from a different Different place. That's it easy. It's not that it's not that complicated. Don't make it. Don't make it weird Okay, don't make it weird. Don't don't make it weird. Now, of course, we have ash tar command as well There are some other Archangel energies that are a bit to me affiliated with the galactic energy or the universal consciousness energy, which would be Archangel razio just a little bit More of an educational archerian type archangel razio Okay, so I have to add this into the last video I was reviewing the Different spirit guides that have a galactic vibration about them for you and then I got interrupted on my phone. So There's a lot of information here in this particular video Connection with David Bowie sharing about the eyes as the window to the soul And so much additional information about galactic and star energy that might go way over some of your head It might not be the this thing for everyone But I like to make sure that I cover a lot of ground here at above life channel and give you different experiences Or opportunities energetically to feel an experience and learn for yourself in the human body Okay, you don't just need to be spoon fed information or somebody to tell you what the future is going to be because you are way more You're here for way more than that.  Thank you so much David David Bowie for our channeling session this week You know that the purpose is always to inspire your spirit to fill you with hope And this is your life after all. This is your life So live it Just Live it Thanks for being here