So today we're going to be talking about digestion and gut health, which is a pretty popular topic. I guess you could say So I'm a practitioner She mentioned that I'm a registered dietitian, so don't hold that against me We have Diana here too. So we've got some good RDS in the house So why this presentation and why I wanted to give it here is because in my I have a private practice and in my practice I primarily see two categories of people they overlap a lot, but they are folks with gut health issues and Folks with mental health and substance abuse diagnoses. Those are my kind of areas of focus and Of course these two things overlap a lot, but specifically the people who come to me are Those who have tried lots and lots of different diets. They've already been to doctors some of them functional doctors They've already tried every elimination diet. They're already taking probiotics. They're kind of at their end of their end of the line for them and what I'm seeing over and over is That these elimination diets and kind of store about probiotics aren't really doing the trick Not that they aren't effective not that They can't be Helpful for some people, you know, if there's a gut health issue Something like SIBO, which is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth or even something like heartburn and digestion irritable bowel syndrome things like that Taking some foods out, especially if there's an allergy or specific strong reaction can be helpful But what I'm seeing over and over again is people are going on elimination diets, you know something like Paleo even and their guts not getting better sometimes worse And so that's why I wanted to give this presentation is to show what I see in my practice That actually is helping with an ancestral lens for sure and some alternative kind of Suggestions offerings that I'm using in my practice that I've seen good results with So kind of the whole idea if you get nothing else out of this presentation You're gonna get bombarded with information this weekend if you get nothing else I want you to kind of remember that what at least what I'm seeing in my practice Maybe if you're a practitioner, you're seeing something totally different. So come talk to me is that What usually is what's wrong in the diets of the people that I see is not what they need to take out It's not take this out. Take this out. You need to take out sugar or grains or whatever The big kind of glaring issue that I'm seeing is what's missing? So I really want to shift the paradigm because of what I'm seeing over and over from elimination to kind of what I will call restoration Regeneration and that's really what I'm seeing the best results with both for the healing of the gut and for There are relationship with food because a lot of people are going on elimination diet one after another and Not only is there a gut not getting any better, but now they're afraid of almost every food and they don't know what to eat So, you know kind of the base for this is that there, you know, we've talked a lot and this year in other years I'm sure about evolutionary mismatch. So the way we are living Versus how our ancestors lived even a hundred two hundred years ago But all the way back to you know thousands and thousands of years ago, if not more Are not in alignment and I think a lot of us are probably aware of that But that mismatch is Leading to disruption in the gut. So what we are experiencing now is not the robust kind of microbiome Which is that ecosystem that fills our bodies not just our guts our whole insides and outsides The beneficial bacteria and other microbes so that mismatch is The difference between how we are living and how we are I will use this term loosely meant to live designed to live And how we evolved to live and that's Causing, you know health problems all over whether it's cancer and diabetes heart disease all these things But especially in the gut because of that disruption to the microbiome So I'm coming from a practitioner point of view. I'm not a researcher I'm a nerd in a lot of ways, but I don't work in a lab So this is all kind of going to be practical advice things that you can do if you're a practitioner with your the people You're seeing or in your own life if you have some gut stuff going on Or friends and family anybody, you know So there it's a lot of practical things that you can do rather than studies. I'm not putting any Citations up here if you want them come talk to me afterwards and I can send them to you Certainly have them But I wanted to come from more of a practitioner practical point of view So I'm gonna kind of talk about the different suggestions and things I want to look at in five main areas and I will tell you much like everyone else who's probably talking this presentation usually Would or could fill 60 to 90 minutes and I'm cramming it in the Person who gave the cannabis talk referred to it as a fire hose of information and I kind of feel like this Is the same thing so in the in the presentation? I won't necessarily hit every single bullet point in depth, but you can certainly come talk to me I can get the presentation to you. I'm gonna do my best to not talk in a million miles an hour So the first kind of area I want to look at is going to be the diet. This is of course the primary Lens that I'm gonna use because I'm a dietitian But this is certainly not the only thing I'm going to talk about But this is the one that I want to focus the most attention on and I'm going to Loosely use the term rewilding the diet. So a lot of us are coming from an ancestral Perspective if we're already here, but what I want to talk about is Beyond just saying what I don't eat if you can if you can categorize your diet by a list of what you don't eat Then it maybe isn't a Gut healing diet. It may not be a restorative regenerative diet Certainly, it could be helpful to take out some of that quote-unquote bad stuff But that doesn't mean that it's going to be necessarily a gut healing diet So the the biggest one that I could talk about is going to be those animal foods Of course a lot of us know eating meat is so important for the diet But the foods that specifically are going to be gut healing are going to be the foods that contain collagen So the skin the the cartilage those weird chewy bits that we always like have been told to put on the side of our plate That my grandpa would always just take off of my plate because all right even that generation of ancestors knew that it was good for them and the organ meats so Using the lens of what's missing rather than what do I need to take out? I Think the addition of foods that contain collagen and using the organ meats Especially the liver is going to be the number one thing you can do So the the foods that contain the collagen have the amino acid glutamine which is extremely healing to the lining of the gut It also contains glycine Which is really important as the organ meats contain it as well it's really important because when we're talking about healing the gut our biggest enemy is inflammation and so a lot of us who eat a lot of meat because we're on an ancestral type diet or Whatever kind of variation of that you're on Are really high in the amino acid methionine which in itself is not necessarily bad although often vilified But the problem with that is that we're eating lots and lots of the muscle meats the steaks the burgers the all these you know The kind of things that are what we think of as meat or not getting enough of those other bits that you have the amino acid Glycine to balance out that methionine so with that imbalance we get a lot of inflammation So I really recommend lots and lots of bone broth for someone who's on a gut healing protocol So make you know if you're in here Maybe you've heard about that before but if you just followed a if you're like well I follow a paleo diet that doesn't mean you eat bone broth You know what I mean? So thinking about actually what is missing? What do I need to add in rather than what I need to take out? Is going to be really important you also the the liver and other organ meats are going to be essential for not only getting The glycine but also to get vitamin a which we really need for our immune system and inflammation zinc and copper and Thinking about these animal foods that we can get that aren't just the muscle meats from the land and the sea and those seafoods giving us There's a mega three fats for inflammation as well the other thing that animal foods are going to give us specifically the animal fats is arachidonic acid and This is a saturated fat that we've always been told are bad for us at least I have and this only comes from animal fats so you could be following you know a Mediterranean diet or something and eating lots and lots of What we think of as healthy fats avocado olive oil nuts and things like that But it doesn't mean it'll be high in arachidonic acid and why this saturated fat is so important for the gut is Because it helps lower information, but it helps prevent food intolerances So if you or someone you know if you know in your practice is Intolerant to a lot of different foods that candy anything arachidonic acid may be something to look at is something that they could be deficient in Especially if that person has other symptoms of arachidonic acid deficiency like dry skin eczema And things like that a lot of inflammation, but it's only from animal fats. So a gut healing diet is going to be rich in animal fats It's not just oh healthy fats. It's got to come from the animals lard tallow egg yolks those kinds of things And in general correcting nutritional deficiencies it kind of sounds obvious But again, it's the lens of what is missing in my diet. Maybe that's why my gut won't heal Maybe it's not that I need to take out all legumes Maybe it's that I don't get enough liver that's so rich in these of vitamins and minerals And a basic mix of plant animal foods, especially for magnesium and potassium Which are so so important for the gut and I think a lot of people in this kind of community, you know the importance of magnesium But it's gonna be really important to get that mix of animal and plant foods to get those specific nutrients and then Adequate salt. So another thing that a lot of us have probably heard that is bad for us This is just a list of things that you've been told are bad that are actually good It's important for the hydrochloric acid production. So a lot of folks I see this is probably I wish I had Kept track of this but the amount of people I see who have heartburn or GERD as a diagnosis is staggering it's almost everyone it seems like and A lot of those people don't get enough salt in their diet hydrochloric acid the the chloride Comes from the chloride and sodium chloride in our table salt. So We need to get adequate salt. So this is gonna help prevent not only GERD, but things like H-pylori and ulcers and things like that. So for the complete breakdown of our food and prevention of Digestive ailments adequate salt. We got to get that good salt I won't be able to probably do all of these In a timely manner, but the number one thing I would say from this light is a proper preparation of all seed foods If you're familiar at all with the Weston Price Foundation or nourishing traditions things like that This is a big one. They talk about and while they're not necessarily eliminating all the foods in the seed food category The how they're prepared is really important. So this is when I see a lot In people who are already doing an elimination diet or are already eating clean as some might call it so Things like nuts and seeds would be included but the issue with this is that they're not properly prepared So the preparation of seed foods, so that's grains nuts and seeds and legumes and beans Includes souring sprouting soaking fermenting in some way to make them more digestible This removes the lectins and the fight the phytates that can be irritating to the gut But as it also unlocks the zinc and magnesium and other nutrients in them that are bound and then because they're a seed and They're kind of going dormant We can unlock those nutrients that we need as antioxidants And for our digestion, but also making them less irritating to the gut so the reason I want to emphasize this is because a lot of People who aren't maybe not necessarily an elimination diet, but who feel like they're following an ancestral type diet will Sometimes include a lot of nuts and seeds, but they're not in their properly prepared form. So they can still be quite irritating to the gut I know some like Autoimmune type diets eliminate some of these not all of them but to me it's how they're prepared that is really the issue and So if you're eating lots of almond flour and you're like, but I'm following a really healthy diet Those aren't prepared in a way that are healthy for the gut and this you know None of these are these suggestions are prescriptive necessarily and some don't have to be followed 100% But if you're looking at your gut health and saying I'm not sure why it's not getting Better and these are some things to look at Looking at the fruit and vegetable intake and Seeing if if there's a lot of raw vegetables for a lot of people that's really irritating to the gut I won't be able to totally get into that But that's definitely something if you're like a ton of vegetables if you're there a lot of raw for some people That's really really irritating Lots of sulfur rich foods for proper detoxification. So you can make that Glutathione eggs and then if tolerated cruciferous veggies and alliums Lots of good water. I'm not gonna be able to get into that But I will say and I will talk about a little bit later water that does not contain chlorine So next up I'm gonna talk about herbs I know supplements are really popular in the in this kind of community because we know that a lot of times a diet Isn't adequate, you know in giving us everything we need But I really like to look at herbs, especially the bitters Maybe you've heard of digestive bitters. They're not just for cocktails So I want to think about The ancestral perspective is not just what did our ancestors not eat? But how did they also what did they use to heal and plant medicine was really important? bitters specifically are the one I'll probably dig into the most here, but This one is really bit important in the current kind of state of our health because it's been bred out of most of the plants And that we eat even on a healthy diet So wild plants or herbs would have contained a lot of bitter compounds such as alkaloids That stimulate digestion all the way down. So if you want to nerd out about how bitters affect the digestive system There's a great book called the Wild Medicine Solution by Guido Masse. I might be butchering that But he gets really into the science and it's super fascinating The main thing I will say is that the bitter taste that we kind of notice from things like black coffee or Radicchio things like that are Those receptors are on our tongue just like the salt and the sweet and all these other the other tastes But the interesting thing about bitters is that there are receptors for it all the way through the digestive tract There aren't that for other other tastes. There's not salty receptors all the way through Well, there's not sweet receptors So the the job of bitters basically the taste bitter is to make things move. It Stimulates it moves things along. So in the digestive tract it stimulates the production of stomach acid of bile movement of That the kind of natural digestive enzymes that we have so it moves things through So if we think of a modern diet cut causing us to kind of have a stagnant Digestive system bitters are really important to add in it can help with everything from just kind of like general bloating and Indigestive feeling to nausea In constipation and all these kinds of things because it stimulates all these different receptors all the way down Which I think is really cool And why I also think it's really important to add it in because the modern diet even one that is healthy Doesn't have a lot of bitter in it So you could start by just adding in more bitter foods But I also really like to use herbs as more of a in a therapeutic dose. So something like the digestive bitters I really like this brand they're they have nothing to do with me, but I just really think they're a good company and Other herbs that maybe are it would have been traditionally used to aid digestion, so There's like the really really bitter ones like gentian and Angelica birdock all that stimulate movement Especially like in the liver, but even just adding in more bitter foods Like your radicose and arugula and things like that and finding more heirloom and varieties of the fruits and vegetables We already eat if you don't necessarily want to include herbs because the the breeding and kind of Domestication of a lot of our foods have bred out the bitter because it's not what people really want even though it's good for us kind of like discipline and Other herbs too, so soothing herbs, especially for somebody who gets a lot of inflammation in the gut and they kind of feel like they're They're how will I put it their guts get like pissed off a lot a lot of inflammation a lot of irritation Some of the more musiloginous herbs that are soothing marshmallow roots slippery elm licorice root are really really good for this so Bitters are a little bit more popular. They're kind of sexy right now And a lot of people are using them, but the musiloginous herbs I think are also really really important to look at and just including other herbs peppermint ginger chamomile and these things on a regular basis Is really important and soothing for a lot of people so there's a food side, but there's also the the herbal kind of medicine side of things too and not that I don't think Betaine hydrochloride or ox bile or probiotics and all these things aren't useful and don't have their place but I really want us to start thinking of Herbs as an ally in kind of the healing bitters for sure take that away with you and And then the last section I will talk about as far as kind of the rewilding the diet and adding in more Foods and thinking about what is missing is going to be fermented foods. I'm a nut about fermented foods. This is my life passion Unless there's Really severe reaction to fermented foods So the SIBO or the on IBS or something that really just cannot tolerate them Including fermented foods in the diet is absolutely essential before refrigeration before canning This is how we preserved our foods. So there's kind of it was maybe born of necessity. It's hard to know But it's definitely the best way to get the most diverse range of probiotics in the diet So pills can be really helpful in a therapeutic dose but the the breadth and depth and different types the diversity of Bacteria and other microbes beneficial yeasts that you would get from a wide variety of Fermented foods can't be replicated by a pill you would have to take so many different kinds of pills and change over You know change what kind of pill you're taking every time to get that kind of diversity So including something fermented in every single meal is my main recommendation for folks who are looking to heal Their gut mix it up too. So sometimes sauerkraut sometimes kimchi kefir kombucha all these different kinds of things And you know if something doesn't work for you, especially if a lot of vegetables don't work because of the Irritated gut triwant ferments that are not vegetable base So like a kefir or kombucha or even just like a splash of apple cider vinegar that's unpasteurized and actually fermented I'm not gonna have too much time. I think but Including lots of soluble fiber for the prebiotic. So there's a lot of talk about probiotics and microbiome But we need those prebiotics which are soluble fibers to feed those good bacteria. So those are gonna come from things like some of these you might not like apples and oats and nuts and legumes and Alliums and all those kinds of Fibrous vegetables and fruits and legumes and things like that So including those in the diet, which everyone's work for your body is really important because those good bacteria need something to eat And then some of those being the starchy or food some of them being cooked and cooled if Appropriate because that can increase the resistant starch So something like a potato or rice if you cook it and then cool it it contains resistant starch Which isn't absorbed by the body, but is really helpful in making Beneficial beck and feeding beneficial bacteria lower down in the colon Which is kind of cool chemistry that happens right within your own body So I'm just gonna touch on this area quickly hormone balance Specifically gonna talk about the thyroid. I'm just gonna touch on it quickly If you or some you know Someone in your practice has a lot of digestive disorder kind of issues and it's Unresolvable it feels like you can't figure out why the guts not healing why the SIBO keeps coming back I would look at the thyroid Hypothyroidism which maybe it's where I live it used to be in Wisconsin It used to be referred to as the goiter belt because of how poor the diets were and iodine and selenium So I see a ton of people with hypothyroidism even just kind of low-grade I guess you could call it But Hypothyroidism inadequate thyroid hormone production decreases gastric motility, which is how fast food moves through the digestive system So when that happens food sits longer than it needs to and that's when the the overgrowth is really really Able to kind of take place So if SIBO is kind of chronic and keeps coming back or just doesn't go away with elimination and probiotics Then looking at the thyroid function is really important A lot of things can cause the thyroid to not function optimally chronic dieting is certainly one genetics environment Nutrition you know nutrition of course vitamin D deficiency, but there's a lot of reasons But that's definitely one that's kind of the the sleeper. It's one to look at I Will briefly just say getting adequate iodine and selenium even if you don't want to test the thyroid You could see if bumping up those two nutrients will help for sure getting enough sunshine and vitamin D But iodine and selenium tons of animals and plants from the sea So by that I would say two or three servings of each per week To get adequate iodine and selenium if you live on the coast here, that's probably really easy for you I'm trying to eat as much seafood as I can while I'm here But if you live somewhere that's landlocked and a lot of seafood isn't kind of in the culture Isn't ready isn't readily available then that may be something to focus on supplementation may be necessary But really thinking about the thyroid as a source of chronic small bacteria Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and if you're trying to take care of thyroid getting rid of a lot of endocrine disruptors is important too so anything made from plastic that you put in or on your body or that you use to Drink out of anything like that can interfere with the thyroid, but for sure adequate iodine and selenium have got to be addressed So stress in the HPA axis so HPA stands for The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis so this is kind of how our body is handling stress in Kind of a nutshell. This is the most basic way to say it, but what I'm seeing A lot is as I said the kind of mental health and gut health Kind of populations overlapping so much So I kind of have that in the italics there what I'm seeing a lot is what I refer to as kind of a triad between Trauma irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia and a lot of that has to do with What happens when our? Sympathetic nervous system is activated especially from a trauma so that can be an acute event or it can be kind of long-term chronic stress from a job we hate or a relationship that is Not going well or kind of a generational type trauma Poverty all of these kinds of things because either of either Acute or chronic stressors impair digestion because they cause damage to the microbiome The increased inflammation by releasing inflammatory cytokines we get some immune activation going and then After a while irritable bowel syndrome can can occur as well as the fibromyalgia Which you know is inflammation other other places in the body causing pain And I see those three diagnoses in one kind of client or patient However, you'd want to refer to them all the time So if they have a trauma history and they come in and maybe they think they're coming in for weight loss or something But I noticed that they have a trauma history or other mental health diagnosis even anxiety or depression Which would be a more chronic stressor I'll ask them about their gut and about their inflammation and pain levels and they're almost always shocked because they Like how did you know that I would have bad gut health? It's because of this because of the chronic inflammation and as I mentioned earlier. That's kind of the enemy of the of the gut So if we're always in sympathetic in our sympathetic nervous system that fight or flight We're not going to be able to you can't be in both. You're not gonna be in both at the same time The parasympathetic is what's conducive to digestion. So that's what we kind of colloquial colloquially call rest and digest so that's where Blood is flowing to the digestive system so it can work optimally And that's our goal if we're in a gut healing to me that the stress piece is in the HPA access piece the Nervous system is just as important as diet in a gut healing Because if we're eating this like beautiful nourishing Kind of diet ancestral diet, but we have chronic stress from emotional stress We're not gonna be able to heal because we're just gonna keep bombarding it with Inflammation we're gonna keep damaging that microbiome and this is you know It keeps making a feedback loop because we know that the gut is where we make so much of our Serotonin and other kind of our feel-good chemicals So if we if we have some sort of a stress or trauma Damages the gut. It's gonna keep that that feedback cycle going. So, you know to start from like the most Small action you can take I would say before you eat try to switch your body from The sympathetic to the parasympathetic even if you're not on a gut healing protocol If you just want to optimize kind of digestion and nutrient absorption a moment a deep breath of gratitude before you eat is really a beneficial because They they've shown that Gratitude kind of switches off anxiety You know to put it kind of generally so that takes us for a moment from from that sympathetic to the parasympathetic We get into rest and digest by just pausing slowing down before a meal Maybe take a little bit of time in nature take a walk after you eat to keep yourself You know out of that activation stage So if you're just Scarfing down your food in front of your computer while you work and then you get right back to work Maybe you're you feel like your gut health is fine But you're certainly not gonna have great digestion absorption of those nutrients So that's like the little thing you could do today and kind of a you know I will use the term ancestral but even like a couple generations ago They would say grace before a meal and you don't have to be religious To follow the science and go oh It's gratitude. They were they were getting into rest and digest. Maybe they didn't know it or even if you currently say grace before meal Maybe it feels like for some other reason, but it actually has a physical kind of manifestation of that gratitude Which is really really cool and I I will just say that if someone comes in with a chronic illness, especially if it's autoimmune or related to the gut Counseling is usually something I recommend. That's outside. You know talking about Trauma and stressors is kind of outside of my scope Although if you're a practitioner, you know that people who come into your office will tell you anything Which is why? Practitioners should probably have their own counselors as well if you're empathetic at all. I For sure if you're a practitioner You got off load that kind of energy somewhere for sure But so a chronic illness especially related to stress in the gut autoimmune at all mental health Practitioner counselor something so that that is that piece is addressed because you're you're not gonna Eat a perfect diet and get out of those the other piece And just avoiding physical stress as much as possible to kind of keeping that blood sugar regular making sure you're getting enough enough sleep enough food enough protein and if you're you know training a lot enough carbs I'm Kind of limiting your physical stressors and then adding in Adaptogenic herbs I'm I told you already I'm I'm a nut about herbs But adaptogenic herbs to help the body kind of come back into balance and handle stress better Ashwagandha is my favorite and you may find one that works better for you, but that's my favorite It's also great for the thyroid So also important in talking about digestion or movement and mechanics I guess I would loosely say that we think of digestion as this kind of like chemical Reaction we think of the microbiome and how the food's broken down is more of a chemistry reaction But mechanics are also involved so if we the abdomen where most of our digestive organs are is is Is a cavity that is I guess Pressure is greatly effect. It's a greatly affected by pressure. Sorry So anything that constricts blood flow in that area is going to make digestion not work as well Blood and lymph are also involved in the digestive process So I see I see esters here and I know that Alignment and posture how we breathe if we hold in our abdomen all day This may be something that just women experience Maybe not but if you're constantly thinking about sucking in your stomach all the time your digestion is going to suffer If you're wearing Spanks, I can't even talk about spanks because they're so bad for you But anything that's going to put pressure on the abdomen or make it so that blood doesn't flow as well Digestion is going to be affected. So Even just how you hold your body if you're sucking in all these kinds of things. So movements really really key So there's the the movement that we can think about with our with kind of with our core with our Abdominal cavity, but as someone else will be talking about later It also exercise and physical activity improves the microbiome. So it has a lot of different a lot of different layers there and for more on how how those pressures and how the alignment and posture Affects the digestion and you should go to Esther's talk later But also Katie Bowman is has a lot of wonderful stuff on that too Because I won't have much time to talk about it but the first step in digestion is chewing and that's all highly mechanical and so Somebody had just talked about this before with chewing more. I think a lot of us Are trying to eat this really great diet a gut healing diet, but we eat really fast and don't chew enough Ayurvedic medicine. That's kind of one of the oldest paradigms for medicine Says you should chew your food about 30 times. Does anybody in here chew their food 30 times? Apparently we're supposed to for the best digestion Because not only do you start to break it down so you can absorb it better We we kind of ask our stomachs and the rest of our digestive tract to do a lot of what our jaw is supposed to do And our teeth are supposed to do so adequate chewing can not only reduce that sensation of fullness and bloating But we absorb the nutrients better as well And I hope we all go to our next meal and think about how many times we chewed because I bet it's not 30 but there's also a chemical piece to this too because the saliva has some thank you has amylase in it which breaks down starch So if it's only in the mouth for a little bit, you're not gonna get that chemical breakdown as well I'm not gonna be able to talk about all this because I only have five minutes left But the the biggest thing I would say from this is when for elimination the posture matters, too I'm sure everybody's seen squatty-potties. They made it famous. They have a target in Walmart. So, you know, it's kind of mainstream now but you adopting a Kind of primal or ancestral posture for elimination is going to be really really important too This can relieve the symptoms of Conception hemorrhoids these things for a lot of people My husband made me one from reclaim wood for Christmas. So that's how I know I was gonna marry him I was like keeper got it and anything that's excessive sitting in that 90 degree posture But I also recommend body work if someone has a lot of inflammation adhesions kind of tightness In the abdomen kind of an abdominal massage is a really traditional technique used in like Central and South America For improving digestive health as well as reproductive health, too There's a lot of other organs in the abdomen, right? And just thinking about the the web of fascia that holds all of our digestive organs in So if there's adhesions tightness misalignment anywhere in there our digestion is going to suffer So just kind of all of this to say we want to zoom out so elimination can help but continue to zoom out and see are we really just living Kind of a modern American life. That's just kind of healthified to make us feel good Or are we really kind of adopting as many ancestral practices as possible? So the last thing I'll talk about which I'll only have a little bit would be the Zeno biome So think we think a lot about What we put in our bodies The microbiome within ourselves, but we're greatly affected that microbiome is greatly affected by the microbiome or the biome I guess I would say of the world around us And so, you know, we're putting in a lot of good food. We're maybe taking a probiotic, but we're never having contact with nature that's got That's kind of got its own Beneficial bacteria and yeast that we need to interact with on a very very regular basis. So eliminating I would say the first big step besides getting out in nature and kind of the contact with soil the contact with natural water Not chlorinated water that is anti microbial getting out actually in nature We, you know, a lot of us have probably heard of taking a soil based Organism for the gut, but if we are actually interacting with the soils what we need to do and then avoiding things that disrupt the microbiome from the outside world so getting rid of antibacterial soaps and gels and wipes and all this stuff that we're supposed told we're supposed to use That's on the school supply list for most schools now because we just want to keep damaging those kids guts and any medications Insides and things like that birth control pills all these things that disrupt the gut. We've got to get rid of them. So adopting adopting a Really kind of holistic view of the gut and saying this the microbiome is not just affected by what food I put in it But that how I interact with the world around me But definitely getting rid of anything that says antibacterial and and getting in contact with nature That's what we've got to do for sure and one of the I guess I didn't mention organic food as part of the antimicrobial because the Pesticides and herbicides that are sprayed on our our foods are really damaging the gut and causing a lot of the food intolerance as we see But nature for sure we've got to get in touch with the soil if we want to get the good microbiome again So I think that's it I talked too fast, but


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Hi, so my name is Vincent. I'm based in Montreal, Canada. I work for TutuLid as an Office 365 and Azure developer and I'm also an office servers and services MVP for three years now and yeah I've been working on SharePoint for a couple of years now. So I started working on SharePoint ten years ago I would say first as an IT pro actually and the biggest thing I liked about SharePoint is to understand properly SharePoint you have to do both IT pro and developer. So this is why I also had some developer background way back then in PHP and this is why I liked SharePoint and so I started learning .NET and SharePoint development and I got into there and well basically I'm still there ten years after so yeah this is my background. So I don't know how many hours I spent on the SharePoint framework I would say like they announced that to us some more than a year ago at the MVP summit I was looking into that here and there and then I was playing with it and trying to understand what was technology and how it was working and so I would say a couple of months at least and a few thousands hours at least but the great thing about with a SharePoint framework is it's based on modern web technologies so if you know webpack, gulp and type script and so on and so forth you already know some other stuff right and I already had experience on those things before playing with your SharePoint product. I think it's great effort from Microsoft at large to transition a very old product if you take it in IT terms and IT years right into the modern web development and so on and so forth and also into important source and it has been a tremendous change. I think it's a great promise or like the goal is noble and we still have a long way to get there though. We only have the web parts for now and last week they announced the common extensions and so on and so forth and they're adding little by little but we still have a very long way to go. I like the roadmap because it captures a lot of things we've been asking for many years into the SharePoint space. For example when you think about ALM and DevOps processes which I've been talking about quite a few times now in the past in the SharePoint space I mean I like the fact that they finally understood that we need that stuff we need APIs we need tooling we need proper documentation around it and they're working on providing it. I might be a little bit impatient I would have liked to have seen that before maybe around the add-ins adventure and so on and so forth but yeah I like the roadmap and also access to the graph and I have a bunch of things that make a lot of sense in today's environment and development patterns. I think the greatest change we made so far compared to the other development models is enabling unit tests first so whenever you create a new SharePoint framework project right a new SharePoint framework part day one you get unit test support which we never had in SharePoint and which was super costly and so we never did it to be honest right and I think it's going to be a great addition to our tooling and methodologies and so on so forth to make sure we ship quality other quantity or whatsoever we were used to do. It's a tough question I would add many things the first one would be probably stuff around the provisioning with the full trust solutions add-ins and so on and so forth. Historically we always have been able to provision stuff lists and whatever you name it right and we don't have that in SharePoint framework which is kind of a bit confusing. Of course there is the PNP provisioning initiative but so far I haven't seen any announcement or any information about it and I would like to have that also like to have stuff around the graph around ALM and so on and so forth but maybe I'm impatient. The one thing I would change is probably the way they interact with the community I get the fact that you have two things coming into play into the SharePoint framework right you have the SharePoint server bits that are part of the product and it's Microsoft code and they have to keep it on their end right but then you have the SharePoint framework bits that are supposed to be open source and they are based on open source tools so I would like to have seen way earlier the source code of a framework open source so we could help them moving forward and getting faster and I think right now they they are not like benefiting that and it's lacking in the framework itself. So from a SharePoint developer's perspective I think the biggest challenge around the SharePoint framework is to transition from server-side technologies, non-open source stack and backend development to something which is more open source something which is totally different from what we were used to so the learning curve for SharePoint developers is big but that comes also with another perk is I will be able to talk with my other open source developers friends and they will be able to be involved in what I'm doing so so I think it's kind of a trade-off right but it's hard for former SharePoint developers to transition to that so far. So my personal thoughts around that is I think and they have started that transition a couple of years ago they started saying that SharePoint was more and more a service and less and less of a platform right a couple of years ago and they kind of kept that message going on over the years right and also when you take into account Microsoft Teams as a platform to me it would make sense somehow that the work we're doing on the framework and on SharePoint and the work which is done in Teams should connect at some point and be almost the same thing right if you take a side branding and so on so forth what you want to support is you want to enable users to do stuff and everything is going to be in Teams so not only SharePoint but planner notes and so on and if you want to enable users the more services you can leverage out of the box and the more content you can provide out of the box better it's gonna be so my guess will be SharePoint is going to be the API and Teams is going to be the integration platform so that's my personal guess if I had an advice it would be probably for Microsoft to provide guidance around full trust solutions add-ins frameworks and also the future around that because a lot of people are asking a lot of questions around it and they don't know what they can leverage at what point on time now but what they will be able to leverage in the future and how they should transition for different scenarios this scenario in that scenario also having some kind of support for the backend services into the framework would be good maybe include a Docker template or norm template for Azure whatever it is right so we could provision stuff to do batch jobs to do queuing and heavy lift and shift on the backend would be awesome to have that in the framework as well


Hey everyone, I'm Gideon Massey with Pure Fixed Training Tips. Today, we're going to show you how to draft. Drafting plays an important role in track cycling. A racer can save up to 30% of their energy by drafting in the slipstream of the rider in front of them. Here's how it works. The lead rider actually breaks the air resistance and creates a slipstream directly behind him that you can use to go the same speed without doing as much work. Drafting is one of the key techniques you need to learn in order to compete in most cycling races. To draft, you want to make your body as small as possible and get as close as possible to the rear wheel of the rider in front of you. Don't align your wheels directly.  This is so if he or she slows down, you don't crash into them, but instead you come alongside.   This is so you can see the track and react quickly if you need to. Drafting is something you need to practice. In the velodrome, there are no brakes allowed.  When you're riding in a pace line, each rider takes a turn pulling from the lead position while the other riders draft behind and recover. When the lead rider has put in his effort, about one or two laps, he moves up the track and drops down into the last position in line. When riding in a pace line, the average speed is much higher since the riders are helping each other. This is a team tactic that's used in both track and road cycling. Drafting is one of the fundamental techniques you need to develop in order to compete at a higher level. Let us know if you have any questions about track racing or training in the comments below and we'll do our best to answer them. Make sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos and racing tips and techniques and give this video a like if you learned something. I'm Gideon Massey and I'll see you at the track.


reminder as we remember the truth of our being and we do that by forgiving the false which is just releasing all false beliefs, false thoughts, every false concept we've ever held in our mind we are ready to empty our mind of those things. All the mystics and saints have said you have to come to the present moment and you have to empty your mind. Empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. Empty your mind of every concept you have ever held of any one or anything. That means the whole cosmos of time and space. You empty your mind and make your altar clear for the remembrance of God's love. Why is it necessary to empty the mind? Well the mind that is filled up with concepts and beliefs of time and space has covered over its light and we are waking up to the light of truth. The I am presence. The I am presence prior to time so that's why we have to empty the mind of time to remember what is prior to time. I amness, beingness, joy, bliss, eternal bliss. This is the the experience of God. So we could say that in God I have my beginning. God is my source. In God I have my ending because in eternal love there is no ending. We can say we just want to come back to the source and the source is we could say spirit and spirit is all in all. There is no spot where God is not because there are no spots. That's the beauty of it is the all-encompassing nature of eternity cannot be shrunk down to a spot of time. A speck of time will never content our heart. So today I'd like to talk about going back to the beginning which I'm just going to say is God. God doesn't really have beginnings or endings but you could say that we'll just say that the beginning of our identity is God because God is the source. God is the Creator and everything that God creates lasts forever. I wouldn't even say lasts forever. It's eternal so it doesn't last. It just is forever. Spirit is forever. Love is forever. Joy is forever. Peace is forever. Happiness is forever. And I was listening to a YouTube video today from a Christian singer. The song was called Back to the Beginning and it was just going back bringing our faith and belief back to to God which is our source. So I thought today I would talk about coming back in the mind, back back back back back back back past the projections of the world. Back beyond before time and space. Coming back back back into our heart. Back into our mind. Back into our divine mind. Back into the heart of love. And as usual I will share some ideas from Jesus's beautiful teaching called A Course in Miracles and then in the end I will listen to a meditation from one of Slava's songs and the song that we're going to listen to today to to remember this is called Bring it Back. Bring your attention back. Go within. Bring it back.  All the mystics and saints have gone deep within. There are reminders. There are witnesses of devotion to God and they go deep deep deep within. They're just reminding us to go deep within and remember the truth of our being. I'm also going to talk about humbleness today because the most humble state of mind is the state of mind where you accept yourself as God created you. So when you identify with spirit, that is humbleness. When you identify with anything of time and space, including the body, that is what I will call pride. And there's lots of things in the Bible about pride, idols, false idols. Hold no idols before the Lord thy God. What we can see is this is a world that was made by pride because pride is a synonym for the ego. So the ego and everything about the ego involves pride. The ego made the body and so everything that is perceived in terms of bodies and the goodness of bodies is really just taking a false construct something that God did not create. God did not create the body. The body is temporary. It's here and gone. It's very transitory. It's ephemeral. It will not last forever. It's born and seemingly born and dies. Those are just projections of time onto the image and it then comes out as the belief in birth, the belief in death. Not so. Actually, God is eternal and Christ is eternal and who I am is an eternal being. And because that's what happens when God creates a being, a being is eternal. In this world we get apples from apple trees. We get cherries from cherry trees. We get peaches from peach trees. We get pears from pear trees. Spirit comes from spirit and everything that's projected in time and space is a projection of the ego. So love accepts.  Not really out there, but it made a projected world in order to distract the mind from going within and knowing its reality as a perfect spirit creation of God. So pride always involves the ego because pride always involves the body. Even when you say, I'm proud of my skills and abilities, those skills and abilities are associated with a body. Even when you say, I'm proud of my children. Well, children in this world, of course, we know their bodies. I'm proud of my parents. I'm proud of my football team or baseball team. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of my education. I'm proud of possessions. Proud about anything. Always, always, always involves the body. And the teachings of Jesus are really, I am not a body. I am free. I am as still as God created me. Nothing real can be threatened spirit. Nothing unreal exists. The body, the temporal world of time and space, herein lies the peace of God. It's a recognition of spirit. So when you open your heart and open your mind to wake up, you're really just praying to recognize the spirit. You're praying to recognize that I am presence prior to even the belief in time. Bring it back to the I am. Bring it back to the I am, meaning I am is sufficient. You don't have to put a concept or a false image or false identity after those words. I am is sufficient. If you want to put something else after I am, you say, please, let me have a few more words. I am as God created me. Okay, that's good. That single idea releases the mind from all guilt, from all shame, from all pain, from all suffering, from all pleasure. It really, it takes you back into pure presence. Pure presence. Pure I am presence. So today we're going to come back deep deep within and we're going to turn our attention inward to spirit, to the light of the world. We're going to let go of the pride. Pride is false humility. Pride is not true humbleness. True humility or true humbleness would be to accept yourself as God created you. Pride always involves the body and the associations with the body, including time and space, the environment that the body seems to live in and actually the whole thing is a construct that has nothing to do with anything. Shakespeare called this world much a do about nothing. Thank you Shakespeare. Thank you William Shakespeare for blessing us with that. Much a do about nothing. So let's start off today and I was going to start off with chapter three and in chapter three Jesus tells us your creation by God is the only foundation that cannot be shaken because the light is in it. Your starting point is truth and you must return to your beginning. Capital B, he's talking about God. Much has been seen since then but nothing has really happened.  You have not yet gone back far enough and that is why you become so fearful. As you approach the beginning Capital B, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death. There is no death but there is a belief in death. So there it is you have not yet gone back far enough. We want to bring it back. Let's go all the way back to the Christ today. Let's go all the way back to the I am presence. Let's go all the way back to God. You can think of your mind as just having layers and layers and layers of false beliefs and false concepts and false thoughts and then you just let them all be peeled away by the Holy Spirit and then what you're left with is who you really are. Okay let's jump to let's jump to lesson one of these six in the workbook. It is pride that would deny the call for God himself. All false humility we lay aside today that we may listen to God's voice reveal to us what he would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function he will offer us. We will be certain only that he knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness and if he deems us worthy so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise. And he says there is only one way and only one to be released from imprisonment. Your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you except the plan you did not make instead.  Basically what he's saying. Okay then we'll jump to lesson 61 in the workbook. I am the light of the world. Who is the light of the world except God's Son? This then is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. It is the opposite of a statement of pride of arrogance or of self-deception. It does not describe the self concept you have made. It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. It refers to you as you were created by God. It simply states the truth. Okay I am the light of the world means spirit is the light of the world. Means Christ is the light of the world. It means the I am presence is the light of the world and it doesn't involve the body. It doesn't involve pride. It doesn't involve any kind of arrogance of that's related to a self concept of time and space and bodies. I am the light of the world. That's bringing it back. Okay from chapter six the Holy Spirit who leads to God translates communication into being just as he ultimately translates perception into knowledge and to know who you truly are no God. You do not lose what you communicate. The ego uses the body for attack for pleasure and for pride. The insanity of this perception makes it a fearful one indeed. The Holy Spirit sees the body only as a means of communication and because communicating is sharing it becomes communion. So communion is communion with God. Communion in spirit. Communion is what Jesus was saying when he said the father and I are one. When Jesus says and of course the miracles I am as God created me that's the state of communion and we could say that communication leads to to communion. Basically communicating is sharing. It becomes communion as you share and share and share the love of God. You merge with that love and you see that you are that love and that actually love is all there is and that there is nothing else. The Beatles said all you need is love and and Jesus would say all I am is love. All I am is love. All I am is love. All I am is love. Love is all I am. Okay that's Jesus giving us a little retranslation of the Beatles which is wonderful actually. So let's go back now and let's let all this really sink in. Let's let this joy and happiness just be what it is because this is the I am presence.  We are going back into the heart of love. We are we are going back back into the memory of spirit the memory of spirit and the song from Spava today that will help us remember this through the day is called Bring It Back. So here we go. Go forth. Shine the light of the world. Shine the spirit today. Yeah. I am. I join you in this. I rejoice with you in this. God bless you. God loves you so.


Our next speaker is Jason Anthony. Jason is coming to us from New York City. And Jason is a religion journalist and a games designer. Jason is served as the editor of America's oldest religious magazine and has also written widely about the national faith landscape. And his experiences at the World Trade Center on 9-11 led him to explore next-generation religion through his project, The 10-Year Game. Jason. I would especially like to say thank you to Michael and Lincoln, first, for having us talk in a library, which will become relevant as to why that's interesting in a second here. But also for not using PowerPoint presentations, so I don't feel like I'm breaking the streak here. Thank you so much for the biographical introduction there. We talked a little bit earlier today about mythology and creation myths. And I can look at my own creation myths in a sense of a couple of cataclysmic sort of destructions. One, of course, was being at the World Trade Center on September 11. I was a theater reviewer at the time, working part-time sort of setting up events around town. And I was in the courtyard setting up a food tasting that was happening on September 12. And it was just just intense day. I had grown up atheist, agnostic, and not only the impact of the religious motivations behind September 11, but also the sort of religious reactions to 9-11 that I witnessed in the city, the prayer booths along Broadway, people's returning to their temples and synagogues and mosques in quests for meaning became deeply puzzling to me. I didn't understand what religion was. And so I ended up sort of going back to school to become a religion journalist. So that was the first sort of destruction. The second destruction is the destruction of the print journalism model. I've been very lucky to continue to work as a journalist, but I have been forced to move sort of beyond religion journalism in the past couple of years. A magazine that went out to people who went to casinos came up. I work at the Time Live building. And one of those magazines sort of needed an editor. And part of my past, for several generations, my family has been involved in gambling in legal and illegal ways. And so they were in luck. They found a dude who could write and knew about casinos, which got me really thinking about games in this sort of interesting way that's going to kind of fold into this project that we talked about. And then most recently in the last couple of years, business writing, there's been a lot of that that sort of just come across my place. Again, as there are fewer journalists in the building, we're all sort of acquiring new specialties. And one of the questions in covering stock markets earlier, stock markets have come up in a couple of talks today, is this experiment, the Wall Street Journal did it for about 14 years. But there was this axiom that monkeys throwing darts at a wall of stocks would outperform experts selecting stocks. And the Wall Street Journal, actually, they had computer-generated monkeys for a number of years. But there was actually a monkey dex that was started at one point. A six-year-old female chimpanzee named Raven was actually trained to throw darts. And what they found is, as a matter of fact, corrected for a number of factors, these monkeys could, in fact, outperform the experts. Now, are these exceptionally smart, gifted monkeys? Probably not. One of the theories as to why these monkeys could do it is that we are, in a sense, inhibited by our intelligence when we look at complex systems. A primary fallacy that comes into play is that we believe that an increase in information translates into an increase in knowledge. That is to say, we're looking at an incredibly complex system. We have a little bit more information. And so we think we know more. But in fact, that information may be in a completely wrong direction. That information may be a very finite amount of information in a very infinitely complex system. And so we are biased by that in a way that monkeys tossing darts are not. What this plays into is one of my favorite definitions of religion. Quite frankly, I don't know what spirituality is. I tend to think of it as a personal form of religion. My thinking is always sort of about the social institutions of religion. So you'll forgive me if I bias in that direction. One of these beautiful definitions of religion that I really like, if I'm very workable, it's from a scholar, Gilbert Murray, who was looking at this span of religions in the ancient world, is that religion is how we engage with what we do not know, not just with our brains, but with our bodies and our social institutions and with each other. Not only what we do not know, but what we cannot know. And you'll see the relevance there to a complex system like a stock market. We're talking about sort of blue sky transhumanist experience in which sort of more and more becomes possible. Well, what's happening tomorrow in your life? Is there are we ever going to be in a state where we'll know that basic piece of information? Or is the world that we inhabit so incredibly complex that there will always be swaths of our lives, very vital swaths of our lives that we cannot know? So religion is this holistic way that we engage with what we cannot know. There's another definition of religion that I just want to run into really quickly because I think it's been brought up so many times today. One of the first psychologists of religion wrote a book, 1902, I believe, and I'm going to massacre his name, Ernest Maurizier, something like that, Ernest Maurizier to the Un-Frenchified. He wrote about what he considered to be the religious impulse, and it was a very influential book and it has influenced a lot of religious thinking. And that is that what religion does in the individual and in culture is it creates a unity. Again, we live in this incredibly complex system and religion creates, as Michael pointed out, as many speakers today have pointed out, this sort of through line, this narrative, this manageable unity of meaning that we can engage with. How does religion do that? One theory also widely talked about is in two ways. There's logos and there's praxis. Now, almost everything that we've talked about today has been logos. Logos is what we believe and praxis is what we do. Logos might be there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet, or the Jews are the chosen people, or America is the site of the new Zion, or Brahman is Atman, these sort of beliefs that help us to create this unity and help us to confront the unknown. But there's this whole other side to religion, the site of praxis, what we do with our bodies. And I'll just list something, a baptism, fasting, pilgrimage, yogas, incubations, all of these ways that we practice our faiths with our bodies. And what we find when we look at the praxis side of religion, and I love the term that was brought up earlier. Let me see if I can quickly find it. Rituals as performative algorithms. That was fantastic, I love that. What we find when we look at the logos side of the equation is that logos is in fact robust. It gets shared across traditions. Something as simple as fasting, as simple as not eating. Now dieting, dieting makes sense, right? You wanna slim down and look suave so you don't eat. But fasting is this absolutely counterintuitive thing. Why would the organism not want to eat? And yet, it is this incredibly robust meditation that gets passed from faith tradition to faith tradition. And so you find it in almost every faith tradition today. And you can see how something simple like that can help in these very fundamental objectives of religion, right? Helping us to confront the unknown and helping us to integrate on a very non-mental level. The fact that through going through a simple process, you are taking into account in a meditative fashion. You are listening to everything that's going on. You are putting a stop to the normal course of events by taking on a counterintuitive course of events and sort of evaluating and finding a place for what's around you, right? So there's been a lot of interest in my work in praxis. Let me just skip over to the games side of this equation because I think that's mostly what I do. Just to get a sense, would you consider yourselves sort of by show of hands, games, players out there? Okay, good, it's robust. I thought transhumanist conference, we were gonna get some serious gamers out there. But maybe to sort of make that argument a little more robust, I'll run down some things. There's of course console gaming, sort of computer gaming, that's gaming in one sense. Engaging in these simulations like the Sims, we've talked about that today. But there's also board gaming with a family. There's casino gaming, there's playing a lottery, right? There's watching sports, there's being obsessed, having a favorite sports team to watch. There's reality television. If you're a fan of American Idol or Project Runway or Top Chef or Survivor or The Bachelorette, you know, that's all games thinking, right? If you have applications on your iPhone or your phone or your iPad, games that you pass the time with, that's games playing, right? If you're on Facebook and you check in on Foursquare, you're the mayor of the Student Union, that's games playing. As a matter of fact, we are becoming a ludos-based culture. We are slowly having games begin to integrate themselves into every part of our experience. Why is this important in the context of religions? Games are the consummate art form of uncertainty, right?  But the point of a game, the point of a well-engineered game is to not have a fixed answer. Is to have an element of uncertainty, an outcome that can go either way. Win or lose, or your team wins or lose, or your collaborative games, no one wins or loses. So if we look at religion as this way that we confront the unknown, games are the art form of the unknown, and there's a very close kinship. Well, my gosh, this sounds heretical, right? Games in religion, games are frivolous, religion's very important, what a terrible thing to say. I would posit to you that in history, games in religion have been very, very close. You can go to the exotic examples like the Tainawatu peoples of Easter Island who selected their religious leaders through games. Some of the only extant buildings in Mesoamerica, the Aztecs and the Mayans are these ball courts on which the sacred games were played. Of course, every two years we have the Olympics. There was no religious meeting, religious events beyond a certain stature in Greece that was not represented by games. In the Christian tradition, you also had this sense that God could speak through games if there were decisions that needed to be made, questions of right, jousts would take place, and God would be assumed to sort of take this hand. In the way that games are this art form of uncertainty and religion is this way that we face uncertainty, games balance skill and chance. What we have within our control and what we don't have within our control in a way that brings them very closely in to line with what religion is and what religion does. That being said, something that we have been trying to do in New York is establish what a next gen religion might look like, right? We've heard a lot of theory today. This is just a dance into absolute silly practice. We start play testing in the spring and I hope you all will check out our website at tenuregame.com. But basically, we are operating on these presuppositions of what religion is and what religion does and trying to establish what a cool religion might be. Something that sings the human experience in all of its dimensions. And it's basically taking praxis, which we talked about earlier, that ancient and robust part of religion, not belief at all. I hear a lot of people talking about I'm a believer and I'm not a believer. It's interesting how little belief actually plays into religion. There was a great study that came out this week that showed that atheists and agnostics knew far more about the beliefs of religious systems than believers did, right? You take someone in the middle, I call it the middle 80, the middle 80% of the pews in a Methodist church or an LDS church or a mosque. And what they actually know about their faith, the sort of granular level of their faith, is surprisingly little. What people tend to identify with their faith is, as I phrase it, not the why and the what, but the who and the how, the people you're with and the things that you do together. Just not to go into the labor of this praxis versus logos too much, but there's this Jewish saying that as much as the Jews have preserved Sabbath, Sabbath has preserved the Jews. This act of engaging in the Sabbath in resting every Friday has preserved the Jewish tradition more than the theology has. That praxis is more ancient, more robust. And what happens, when you look at Sabbath in particular, it can be played as a game. The female team has to get to the home base 18 minutes before the sun goes down and light candles. The Erav is drawn around a certain area. You walk in Manhattan, there's a fishing line that goes down 6th Avenue. It marks the Erav of central Manhattan. You're not allowed to carry your keys outside of that home base area. You have to observe during the 25 hours of the Sabbath the 39 melchot, the 39 things that you're not allowed to do. And there's a beginning and there's an end. There's penalties if you violate what happens during the Sabbath. So our starting point with the 10-year game is that praxis, this central part of what religion is, can be played as a game. So that's what the 10-year game sort of goes out on. The human soul is divided into 10 teams and each of those teams has a mission for a year and a special obstacle that they set to the other teams. They collaborate on a liturgical calendar that is played through over the course of the year. And then at the end of the year, those people, you change teams. So that over the course of 10 years, you've played on each one of these 10 teams. Now how on earth do we divvy up the human soul into 10 arenas? I think that's interesting and has a lot of bearing on what got talked about today. There are a lot of people who've tried to divvy up the human soul. There's the Myers-Briggs dichotomies. There's the Four Humors. There's the Enneagram. There's a five point model. A lot of attempts in history, there's the astrological chart to sort of divvy up our experience into discrete component bits, right? The one that we use is on example, as soon as you go out these doors, we use the Dewey Decimal System to decide what these 10 teams are. He came up with a system that every single pursuit, interest, ability, or field of knowledge that we could possibly write a book about, that we could possibly express, had a place in the system. And so each of these 10 teams embraces one of the 10 Dewey Decimal Divisions and sort of takes that as their sort of metaphorical focus on that one 10th part of themselves. The history section is about memory and storying. The technology team is about finding our biological way back to our progenitor, Homo habilis, this wiring in ourselves to be able to affect the world around us. Michael talked about storying and that's the fiction section of the library. This ability to absolutely stray from what is real into what can be. Philosophy, social science, you can see that each of these has a sort of a metaphorical dimension. And in fact, what we find is that each of these 10 aspects of who we are, what our interests are, have had rich manifestations in the world of religion. You look at history, for example, this idea of memory. That team, it's up to them to sort of create a secret mission and a praxis based on this idea of history and memory. Well, they look into Mexican religious history and you look at the day of the dead celebrations, right? Where we remember those who've gone before. Or you look at Confucianism, which is largely a religion of history, looking at a time that was ideal in China's history, looking at those history books, honoring the dead through certain rituals. Come up with another, social science. We've talked about some of these today earlier. We talked about story and we talked about empathy. I would say that the social science area of the library, that team, their objective is to look at the ways that we sort of care for one another and interact with one another. And of course, religion is full of these praxis, the Sikh praxis of langar, of serving food for other people. The ancient Greek praxis of Xenia, of hospitality, is rich with sort of praxis. So that's sort of what we're doing right now. We'll start play testing in the spring. Check us out at tenuregame.com if you're interested in a little bit more of how that's sort of happening. I just wanted to briefly wrap up, I think I'm already over my time here, with how this might fit into a transhumanist future. I think that there are challenges, which we brought up earlier. If we do self-perfect, if we do transcend our current abilities, what are our spiritual challenges? Obviously it is to bring in the diversity of the human experience. It is to find a new integrity with an increasingly confusing self and other. And as Max Moore pointed out, it's about finding a way to spend that next five billion years, right? I've got five billion years to fill. Am I gonna sort of work on my, he actually, you mentioned working on your tennis game, which I love, you know? Oh, golf, I think you mentioned. Games are increasingly, as we become more able, more self-sufficient, more removed from our animal selves, games are a way to engage one another, to introspect, to face that unknown, and to integrate these 10 diverse biological legacies that we have, a way to find one song for these ghosts that echo in the three and a half billion years of DNA that we carry along with us. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. Thank you.


Alright guys, what is going on? We're back in this chair down in my lounge room and I haven't been here for a while but it feels nice because I've got the day off and honestly guys lately my days off have been the only days that I can even fathom bringing the camera out and trying to make a video but I do have some cool things that have been purchased in the last few days and that is exactly what the title of this video is going to be about which is how I spent $7,000 in one week pretty fucking crazy but before I do anything I'm gonna get myself a cup of coffee and I'll be back in a minute alright so we're back one there one there that feel when your flatmate has hidden the coffee cups and you've got to make a coffee in a beer schooner but that's alright because I need it now what I was saying is that I've had a lot of cool purchases that is cost me $5,000 well what I neglected to say was that the first three and a half grand of the money that I spent was on bills so actually before I do anything I'm gonna go grab those and tell you a bit of behind the scenes you know a bit of behind the scenes stuff how much things cost to maintain a property or two properties in my case so here is my little organizer first first one is ID stuff second one is this house anything to do with this house third one is my house on the Gold Coast fourth one is other stuff and the fifth one is banking so let's have a look that one that one and that is about it so so like I said before I've got two properties I've got one here in Alice Springs that I live in which I've got a mortgage on also got my place on the Gold Coast which I'm getting paid rent for but that pretty much just covers the mortgage and a little bit of the body corporate fees so I've got the remainder of those to pay I've also got rates over there and I've got rates here as well so insurances man fuck it doesn't end I'll tell you with that said for this place here I paid two quarters of body corporate fees $788 a quarter cost me $1576 which takes me up to the start of April so that was 1600 bucks just like that what I didn't realize is that I've never paid any rates for this property I you know I paid my body corporate fees I paid my insurance my water bill but I've never paid any rates and I didn't really think too much about it and then rudely enough I got reminded that I had four installments of rates due because obviously I've lived in this place for just over a year now and they cost $326 per quarter which means a total bill of $1300 in something cents and that was due as at the 15th of November which was about two months ago so I paid it $1300 that paid all of my rates up until the 7th of April 2017 so both of these things are paid up to date which is fantastic but once again it's another $1300 so that was like nearly three grand just like that and then we go over to the Gold Coast and I got my water bill which is $393 and 66 cents which I paid and then I've got my body corporate fees if you don't know what body corporate fees are there if you live in a complex of let's say 20 or 40 units every owner of each of the units will put a certain amount into a pool which is then used to pay for not only your building insurance pays for maintenance of the property they've got clauses in there so every you know it might be 10 years the place gets repainted and you know revamped it's not for free because they've obviously paid for it but the money is in the bank so I know that that's going to happen in the future which is good and you know especially when I'm away from the property I can't be there a townhouse made sense because it has the body corporate fees the place is maintained you know the only thing I need to worry about is anything actually inside the property which luckily enough the week before I took settlement of my Gold Coast property the fucking air conditioner stopped working so that was $2,000 to replace that and thank God it happened a week before my settlement date because I didn't have to pay the previous owner paid so thanks for that mate but regardless of that so we got like 850 we've got 400 that's 1250 1500 that's 750 that's 2800 plus 1300 is 4100 so that's it $4100 $4100 hook gone just like that but obviously I can't complain and I'm not complaining because I knew from the start that this was all part of the major plan it's just just the way it is so that was the first four four and a bit grand and then from there you know I said to myself fuck this I've just been $4000 on shit that I ain't even gonna see and I never like if you know me in person you'll probably know that I don't really buy too much for myself maybe a pair of shoes here and there but usually I go to Kmart I go to Target these days for my clothes and shoes because I really don't give a shit I don't care about the logos on the front anymore I like sort of plain stuff and I like I look for more of a fit than a logo now but with that being said I'd spend all this money and I said to myself no I'm gonna treat myself I'm gonna treat myself so that is exactly what I did basically bought everything I needed for the next year I hope especially in Alice Springs weather you know I would love to be able to buy coats and to be able to buy jumpers and things like that but man and like you know jeans and boots and stuff I really want a nice pair of boots but fuck it's so hot here it's just unbelievable like you can't do it you can't wear winter clothes until it gets to May or something like that and then you know you're out of them by August so at the moment it's between probably about 36 and like 42 degrees every day and I'm inside right now it's nice and cool but honestly especially when the cloud comes over it gets humid but you just get used to it it's just the way it is in Alice Springs you you have to give up some things like the comforts of cool weather to earn a bit more money and that's what that's just the way it is but I'm gonna go to my Westpac account and just check my my credit card statement because I can't exactly remember how much I spent or what I spent it on but I'll tell you guys so I don't know if it looks like I'm naked at the moment but I'm certainly not we've got tights we got shorts we're getting ready to hit some legs as I said before it's my day off and really my day off is is the only day that I can fathom hitting a good leg workout because otherwise it's just too too rushed it's after my my day at work which is 12 hours which is a fucking long time and I just can't be bothered so we're gonna do legs today but that being said let's have a look it was all that shit there then I had to pay $300 on fines to finally like I got in this mood where I was like nah I'm just gonna clear everything so that's what I did I had this I had like $2,000 worth of fines that has taken me so long to pay off it's unbelievable I just end up just leaving the payment plan don't pay it it goes a couple of months I'll get a letter in the mail saying that my license is suspended I'll go back in I'll have to pay a bulk amount put me on another payment plan I'll leave that payment plan they'll send me out another letter saying my license is suspended and it went on and on and on and the last time I rung up I wanted to put it on another payment plan believe it or not and she said this is your seventh payment plan that we've put in place to clear these fines seven and she said I'm sorry we can't do another one you're gonna have to pay the remainder and it was 300 bucks and I was like fuck it all right take my money it's dead money I hate paying fines but at least they're gone now so then I went shopping for myself and culture kings was first I had two purchases of culture kings one for 211 and one for 239 and the first one was six t-shirts which I selected my favorite t-shirts they're actually fucking sick and the second purchase was two pairs of shoes both on special both Nike's and I love them to be honest the one thing about the culture kings purchase which has kind of put a dent in on it is the fact that the warehouse got burned down over the weekend and there's now a big red banner at the top of their website saying that each well basically saying that they're not processing any orders online anymore so until obviously they've restocked and and found a new warehouse premises and I still don't know where my my orders have actually gone through I hope they have but I haven't heard anything from them and I think I went through the website as a guest so I don't know if they can contact me what but I've got 500 bucks worth of shit that I want so anyways then I went over to my old mate freeze miss page old Jim Steeze I haven't bought a Jim Steeze Singlet or a Jim Steeze pair of shorts or anything and probably a good year and a half even two years Jim Steeze is is a brand I've always supported I'll always support my mate Freezy and yeah I said to myself well you know I need some tanks I need some singlets to train in so why not go back to Jim Steeze so that's what I did I bought four singlets 180 bucks all good so that was that and then we went to the Nike store and I bought a couple pairs of shoes and three pairs of shorts for about 500 bucks and then I went to Golden Aesthetics which is Artemis Dolgan's brand based in LA I love that stuff Golden Aesthetics the stuff that I bought in the past has kept its shape it's been fantastic got nothing bad to say about it and I bought a jumper and I bought a sleeveless hoodie and I think I bought a hat as well for another 180 so that was that then what did we do that was Nike Jim Steeze Golden Aesthetics culture Kings and then we went to the Adidas store was took that was 540 so fucking hell how much did I spend five 540 you know fuck no I'm gonna write this shit down so I was like for grand let's just say who's about 42 for the bills 540 at the Nike store 500 at culture Kings 180 at Golden Aesthetics 180 at Jim Steeze before so we'll go 4200 on the bills plus the 300 for the fines is 4500 plus 540 on Adidas 500 on culture Kings 180 Jim Steeze 180 Golden Aesthetics 500 Nike which equals about $6400 total and that's it so that's basically all that this video is about just telling you how I spent seven grand in a week because it doesn't normally happen but what it's done it's put my head in a nice place I've got all these bills that were crowding my my headspace and I've been able to put them away I've written paid the date that it's paid put them away yes my bank account has suffered but I really don't care and there was no way I was gonna spend 4500 bucks on shit like that without spending a little bit on myself so I probably went a bit overboard I think I got you know I've got all that I need going forward and I can't wait to wear it to be honest so one thing we're gonna do is go down to the post office it's been it's been six days since I ordered all this shit I ordered it all on the same day obviously not all of it's gonna be there but I'm hoping for at least something so that's what we're gonna do but actually I'll tell you what before that before that let's go and purchase my final purchase of the week which is gonna bring us above seven grand and it's probably my most exciting purchase of the week and that is a flight from Alice brings to Melbourne which I'm gonna book right now because if I don't do it now I never will I brought it up on the screen fucking every day for the last like two weeks and I still haven't booked it so here we go return Alice brings to Melbourne Wednesday the 15th March returning Monday the 20th of March but we'll make that Tuesday because I want I want more time down there so Wednesday the 15th of March 2017 come back Tuesday the 21st of March 2017 what do you think's on around that time guys that's right it's the Arnold classic so let's fucking book this shit so I actually go to the 2017 Arnold classic Australia which I've been meaning to go to for two years now haven't done it gotta fucking get down there I'm gonna see what these pros look like in the flesh man I gotta see what these these guys look like but to be fair like that the main reason I would have gone two or three years ago what would be to see these social media personnel to be honest guys I'm not fazed by them anymore I know all the tricks behind all the you know pictures and people use fake weights and people use Photoshop and you know people people just aren't who they say they are at the end of the day and so the or you know the or around around those guys and around the celebrity trainers and the personalities you see on Instagram and YouTube and that the or around them has has dissipated a lot for me over the last couple years and I'm more focused on my own journey to be honest with you whether I actually become one of those fitness celebrities is yet to be yet to be known but I'll do my best and if I do get in that position I'm certainly gonna keep my morals and keep my values and keep keep what's important to me and what's important for me to portray to you guys which is truth honesty being real being natural and representing that to the best my ability so with that said let's let's fucking get on this yep that flight looks good yep that one looks good but raining that's such weird weather here lately a honestly anyways the one thing that I hate about flying out of Alice brings is the fact that it's two hundred and ninety nine motherfucking dollars to get anywhere so that literally the cheapest flights I can get like it doesn't matter when you book it doesn't matter if it's six months in advance two months in advance two hundred ninety nine dollars each way economy with Qantas so five hundred ninety eight bucks total and but that's fine that's a wrap I don't care it's worth it so we'll go no car no don't want that fuck off mr.


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspysCaseRakes.com coming at you with a Prison Baseball Salo Pack. Pack Break number 74. 13 Select Baseball Spots being given away, and in the next video, we'll be at that break right there. But first, let's do the Pack Break before we give away those teams. Thanks everyone for the film. Appreciate it. There are the teams right there. Let's go. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Two and a three. Five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and five. All right. Two and a three. Five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and five. A different dice roll for the giveaway part as you know by now. Under the first half of the list right here. And second half of the list right over there. Alphabetized by team. That's print and rip. Golchman Green, Kerala, Alcmanoa having a really nice season. This rookie card will go to Andy in the Blue Jays. Tariq Scubble, Red, White, and Blue also having a good season. It's Michael with Detroit. There's a Cunha Junior back there as well. There you go. All right. Not too shabby. Let's gather everybody's names again. One through 30. New dice, new list. And it's going to be the top 13. Top 13 will get teams. So the name on top will get the Royals. Second name down, get the Mariners, so on and so forth. We're only randomizing your names, not the teams. Let's do it. Six and a three. Nine times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time after nine. So from 14 on down, sad times, but thank you for trying. I appreciate it, everybody. Happy times though for Kevin. Spot 13, Tanner and 12. Lonnie in spot 11. Happy times. Happy times. They're Daniel, Adam, Robert, Shea, Nester, Oliver, Rick, Lonnie, Lonnie, and Dano. So congrats to the top 13 after nine. You've got teams. You've got teams. So we'll put that little rooftop symbol next to your name. So you know you won it in this filler right here. So Daniel, you've got the Royals. Lonnie with the Red Sox and Mariners. Rick with my Dodgers. Oliver with the Mets. Nester with the Padres, Shea with the O's. Robert G with the Tigers. Adam with the Twins. Dano with the Phillies. Lonnie with the Giants. Tanner with the Cubs. And Kevin with the Brew Crew. There you go, gang. I'll see you in the next video for that select break. Jaspeyscasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.