Okay. Thanks for coming to listen to me. I'll try not to do the butterfly with my hands. The content of my talk is going to be who I am. It's going to talk about some early games, some games in school, a little bit of books, arcades in Silicon Valley games, a little bit of politics. I'm a libertarian, some 90s games, some family games, some online multiplayer games. Current games, that's the game part. There's also going to be blogs and media. So the end of history since Francis Fukuyama wrote the book in 1992, at the end of the Berlin Wall, which is partly why I'm here also. Blogger, how I've written some blogs in blogger using the Wayback Machine to get my dead mo-time blog back a little bit. The fall of the Berlin Wall I mentioned. Some of my favorite bloggers, Neo-Neocon and Askblog of Arnold Kling, other book marks I make, a little bit of Facebook where I have a lovely love-hate relationship, some Twitter and Trump where I have a love and a disagreement relationship, a tiny bit of WordPress at the very end. Who I am. I'm an American. I'm a libertarian that's mostly free market and freedom-oriented, freedom with responsibility. There's two kinds of freedom. There's adult freedom and child freedom. The child freedom is freedom from responsibility, so that if they make a mistake someone else pays for it. Adult freedom is the freedom to act. But along with the freedom to act goes the freedom of the responsibility to pay for the consequences. What almost everybody wants is that adult freedom to act with the childish freedom of responsibility. So if there's a mistake they want someone else to pay for it. I've been working in IT. I'm a finance expert, a game player and technologically very savvy, but I'm getting tired of learning new updates all the time every six months, every three months, language after language. How did I get to Slovakia? Now I should also mention that they say you should take five minutes or so. Five minutes or so per slide. Well, I've got over 100 slides. That's going to be 500 minutes. No, I have to start speeding up. And it's about 10 seconds a slide once I start moving. A little bit of economics transition. I came to Slovakia with my own EverX 386 laptop notebook, six kilo machine. It was kind of unique at the time, but I don't have a picture of it anymore. So I'm going to start with card games. I'm going to talk a little bit about Rummy, solitaire, pinnacle, spades, hearts and poker. Rummy is very much like the Slovak game Joliet. And I played Joliet with Jokers. And it's the basic game. You try to create a trick and you play it and you score the most points and wins. Solitaire, most of you have played it. It's also available on a computer. My mother loved this game and she would play it every night. In fact, the night before she died, she was at home. She was playing solitaire. She went to bed and she didn't wake up. That was 14 years ago. I went to America for her funeral. It was sad, but it was also nice to see my family. Pinnacle is a very strange game. Pinnacle refers to a queen of spades and a jack of diamonds. That's a pinnacle. It's played with the high cards and the suit goes in order ace, 10, king, queen, jack. So it's a strange game, but I liked it. And I played a lot of it when I was in junior high school. Spades, I still play spades. And spades has the advantage of you have to choose how many tricks you're going to win and then you play tricks to get those. And spades is always trump. So you can see here, south is bidding two and it's got three trumps, king, queen, jack. And it's got this king of clubs. It doesn't know if the king of clubs is gonna be a winner. Probably won't because the ace of clubs will be higher than it or it might be trumped by someone who doesn't have any clubs. So he's got two definite winners between king, queen, and jack and he could even get three. Spades punishes you minus 10 points times the number you bid if you miss it. But if you get over, so if he does get three tricks, he'll get 21 points. And you usually play up to 200 or so. My daughter likes spades. My wife doesn't like it so much. She doesn't like card games. I like card games. I like hearts. Hearts is a very different kind of card game. The idea is to not get points. And the way to avoid getting points is to avoid suits. High cards of suits and it has the disadvantage of trading, you trade three cards. You pass three cards to the left, then pass three cards to the right and pass across and then you keep according to the rounds of hands. It also has a strange scoring system where every heart that you get on your tricks is one point, which is negative and the queen of spades is 13 points. So it's very negative. And there's also another interesting thing. If you get all 13 hearts plus the queen of spades, you get 26 points, except that you don't get that. Everybody else gets it. So this is called going for it all or shooting the moon and that's what makes hearts really, really interesting because most of the time you're trying to avoid so everyone else is thinking, oh, they're doing great. They're getting no hearts, but you're taking them all. So you take them all and then they all get 26. It's great fun. Then there's poker. Here's a list of poker rankings if you don't know, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, and eye card. And the pots get big when two people think that they're both going to win. Or when one person is bluffing and the other person thinks he's going to win or one person is bluffing and the other person thinks he's bluffing but isn't sure who's gonna win. Chess, board games. I played lots of board games when I was young. I liked chess. One of the interesting things as I'm looking for these images on the internet is that many of them are advertising images. If you look at this board game, beautiful stunt and pieces, by the way, it has black in front, sort of closer to you and white on the other side. Most of them are the other way. If you try to look at the pieces, you'll see this is strange. Black has made four moves and white has only made three moves because white is supposed to go first. So this was not really a game. This is just advertising. Monopoly, it's another great game that I like. And I used to know all the rents and all the properties and how you start out with the money, five ones, five fives, five 10s, six 20s, two 50s, two 100s, and two 500s. That's 1500 bucks. And if you land with a four in income tax, you pay the 10%, which is 150, instead of the 200. But as you start getting more money, it's 200 more often. My wife doesn't like Monopoly either that well because my daughter, when we were playing it, if my daughter would get upset, she would give all her money and all her property to somebody else and that would very much disturb the game. Another two person game that I like is Stratigo. And again, this is just for advertising purposes.  So almost always you want your flag in the back either disguised or protected by bombs. Now, they do have this guy protected by a few bombs, but you don't put the bombs in front, you put the bombs in back. But Stratigo's a fun game. A really fun game is risk. Now, when I was growing up, I had a box very much like this, kind of funky. And if you look at this, these are little wooden squares and there used to be also little wooden oblong pieces for 10, each of these is one army. The newer risks like the one of my sister has and when I was visiting my sister this year, she won a risk game and she was really happy. They take about four or five hours. It's not so quick and she has kind of cool little pieces that look like armies or cannons or cavalry. And you have three dice if you're attacking and two dice if you're defending or less. It might be if you only have one guy left, you only get one die. So it's a very interesting, lots of die rolling.  And so if you have a six and a one and a one and they have a five and a two, your six beats their five but their two beats your one. So you lose one and they lose one.  It's a lot of fun. Another game that I used to play quite a bit is 3D Tic Tac Toe. I don't know how well you can see it but in this case, there were four levels of clear plastic and each level had a four by four so it was 16 squares so it was 48 possibilities and you try to get four in a row up, down, across or on sort of a Tic Tac Toe but for four. And that was very fun.  They don't even have some of the posts. So they're supposed to alternate but the thing about score four, there's two ways of playing that we used to play. One is the first one that gets four in a row wins but you can see here ice white has four in a row here so it should win but you can also see black has three in a row and only needs one more on top but also over there has three in a row and only needs one more on top. So it looks kind of nice. I'm sure somebody in marketing was looking at it and say this is a nice looking image. There's, I think there's 16 black and only 12 white so it was also nice but it's nicely balanced anyway. Score four. Another game if you like graphs and things is Go. Now Go is a 19 by 19 grid and there was talk about how Go is harder for computers to play than chess and that was true up until the massive ability of throwing first more hardware at the problem and second smarter software so they have better artificial intelligence looking at patterns. Also when you play Go the way I was taught you can see very nicely here the little black and white pieces you're supposed to pick them up with your two fingers like this and put them on the board but I think most people don't do that and you also are supposed to use chopsticks when you're eating because it's a Japanese game. Battleship, you can buy battleship and play battleship but I would always play almost always play battleship just on graph paper. You make graph paper, you play battleship you put different size ships five for an aircraft carrier of four for battleship three for a cruiser three for a submarine two for a destroyer you put them on the grid somewhere and you guess where the other guy has his and he sinks your battleship. Dots, dots can start out as just four by four dots or usually on graph paper five by five, 10 by 10 and you make the lines and then the other guy makes the lines and you keep making a line until you start making boxes and then you count up the boxes and the boxes you get wins and this game that you, which was me I'm about to lose because I made a box here I'll make another box there and then I have to put a line and as soon as I put a line here or there or anywhere he'll get all the other boxes. I hadn't played this before on the computer so it was the first time I saw this as I'm looking for this because this was something I used to play when I was in elementary school and it's fun. Another fun graph paper game is five in a row and you, as you could guess you try to get five in a row like tic-tac-toe. To get five in a row typically you need two cases of four in a row without being blocked so that you're trying to get lots of threes in a row that will intersect so that you can get some two times four in a row. You can see here you can also play it on a go board which is kind of fun and nobody is winning here this is actually looking like it could have been a real game. Pinball, you know this is a walk through my childhood and I used to love pinball I used to go to bowling alleys to play pinball. Also when I was going to bowling alleys they didn't have automatic scores so if you were playing bowling you had to score it yourself. If there were leagues and there were lots of bowling leagues they had to score themselves. Now most people who bowl when they're bowling in league one of the nice things about bowling is you can be a little bit tipsy and still bowl. In fact you can be barely walking and still bowl but you can't keep score and you're barely walking so I would keep score for these guys and because I knew how to keep score it's a little bit complicated bowling if you get a spare it's 10 plus what you get on the next roll if you get a strike it's 10 plus what you get on the next two and if that's another strike then it's 20 plus the next one but if it's a spare then it's 20 directly plus you have to add each one so you get eight in the first frame and then you get a spare in the second frame and then in the third frame you get another eight but you got it by eight in one ball so that's 18 plus eight is 26 and then another eight is 34 so you got to keep that score that was in the bowling alley pinball was much more easy and fun you put the quarter in in the slot over here and you have the flippers and you pound it and you tilt and you really get upset then finally moving towards arcade games the first one was computer space and this was a this is what the arcade machine looked like and there was a little guy I had visions of having little animations here but the animations take too long so you're not going to get animations I'm sorry but one of the things about computer space is you don't have the tie fight air moving quickly in the air because in space nothing stops your momentum except your own thrust you have to turn thrust against the way you're moving and slow down and then start going another way or you can turn but your momentum is really a big thing and these early games were very interested in getting the mathematics right so that was most of my high school junior high some important books Lord of the Rings a beautiful wonderful fantasy I read it a few times and it led to Dungeons and Dragons and adventure games Moon is a Harsh Mistress Libertarian Politics another way of getting to Libertarian Politics is Atlas Shrugged and Ein Rand and I read those too but that's not how I got to Libertarianism Ender's Game was a fun book but also had a very interesting side story where Ender's older brother and older sister were having conversations on the world wide net and this is before there was the internet and they were shaping a public opinion I read lots of science fiction and fantasy here in Slovakia you find out very little science fiction in Slovak it's in Czech and I don't I don't know I don't know Czech lots of Slovaks don't know that they grow up listening to Czech on their TV programs and reading Czech books in classes Czech people know that because they don't listen to Slovak stuff and so lots of Czech adults have difficulty understanding Slovaks and Harry Potter I read all fourteen Harry Potter books and only seven were written how did I do that I read them in English and I read them in Slovak but it helped my Slovak now I'm getting into college and finally some games one of the games was Star Trek now the games in Star Trek and college were actually I say it's here but they were actually written on paper like this which I find up in the back and the paper came out printed like this where it would say here is the Starship Enterprise here are Klingons you have some shields you can put up you have photons you can use against the Klingons and you try to kill them and you say what's happening and you get a command and there's a list of commands but it was typed out on paper in fact it was typed out on a machine kind of like this which was really kind of loud but it was kind of fun we get them up and we type on the keyboard not only Star Trek but also Lunar Lander this was an old form Lunar Lander where you have your speed and fuel and you're supposed to be giving the fuel to slow yourself down you can see he's not doing it he's not using up any fuel and he's not slowing down in fact he's getting faster so he touches down but he doesn't quite touch down he crashes he blew it appropriate condolences will be sent to your next of kin later on Lunar Lander allowed you to that was also quite fun Adventure was a game I spent a good amount of time in one Christmas when I was at Stanford Welcome to Adventure you're standing at the end of a road before a small brick building around you is a forest a small stream flows out of the building and down a gully so this is the beginning of Adventure in your mind or just north or south and you go somewhere and you find some other description and you find a great you get into Colossal Cave which was actually based on a real cave by this guy Will Crowther but most of the Adventure games in the US colleges were revised by Crowther's first pass by a guy named Don Woods who I met and will get to later oh and we're here on these are text games so there's not really graphics on the mainframes you could also play Monopoly this is kind of hard to see there's Monopoly but because it's a text game it's basic attempts at graphics of the different properties and you can quickly play it this is not a text game and you'll find out that a lot of my games are not text games or computer games this is diplomacy and it's a no luck game everything that happens in diplomacy happens because people order it or they don't order it or they miss order it so if you have a piece in Vienna and Russia and Russia has a piece in Warsaw and you order your piece to Galicia and he orders his piece to Galicia they bounce so then nothing happens so what do you have to do? well you have to take your piece that's in Budapest and support your piece in Vienna going to Galicia so that you get two against one and then you move but of course if he thinks that you're doing that maybe he's going to go somewhere else maybe come down here and so it's a very interesting simple game the mechanics are simple but what it is is you as Austria talking to Germany about how you two should go against Russia but then you talk with Russia and you say you and Russia should go against Germany or maybe you and Russia should go against Turkey or maybe you talk with Turkey and say the two of us should go against Italy and then there's Italy and France it's a fun game take over Europe but no luck involved you have to get them to order it's turn-based, everyone writes orders same time the written orders are read and the results are shown very often that's one of the results that you feel you get stabbed in the back that was a lot of fun I've never met a woman who really likes playing this much and when I was going to war game conventions in Silicon Valley not too many women were even interested in playing getting back into the arcades starting with Pong and Pong is like ping pong with a nice little boop boop boop back and forth and this is what the consoles look like and this is what it looked like when you were actually playing and I liked Pong a little bit, not so much but I preferred Atari Breakout and was more fun and more colorful but the game I really liked at the time which was the breakout game was Space Invaders a little bit like Jaws and it was fun and it was getting louder and louder and faster and faster as you're killing these aliens that are coming down and moving and shooting also at you and a little alien up there another arcade game that was fun was Defender and Joust the reason I mentioned Joust is because Ready Player One was a movie that came out recently it was a fun movie and it helped inspire this talk because I thought well the guy who wrote Ready Player One played all these games I played a lot of games so that's why I'm talking about it and Joust was more important in the book which I read of course than the movie most people who see the movie they don't need to read the book I'm not like that and another game that I played a little bit but was more important in the movie was Galaxian the huge, huge winning arcade game that caused hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to the arcade industry after Space Invaders was Pac-Man and lots of women liked to play Pac-Man and they didn't seem to have a big preference for Miss Pac-Man but they did like it then there was Donkey Kong and then there's Silicon Valley games now back to text there's covered up here but your little guy is Rogue and in these boxes there'll be some villains and you go and kill them that was Rogue, I liked that it was fun but you can see here list of your inventory then there were the early personal computers which were game playing machines like this Atari and I had a friend who had an Atari and one of the things about the Atari is hooking up four joysticks to it so this game Dandy which was not a very well known game it has one player mode you can have four players in it and then you have four guys here that are shooting the heck out of these guys and you go down levels A, B, C, D, E we got to about Q but we were having a fun time drinking too so we had a ton of fun and there's four of us with the joysticks just blazing away that was my friend who had an Atari I had a Commodore 64 which looked a bit like this and this was one of the games, Archon which is a little bit different because it's a chess type game but with different characters and when two characters meet there's a not an automatic win you go into a little battle area and you fight it out like a little arcade game but the appropriate, stronger piece, so sorry would typically win but not always and like I said I had a Commodore 64 so I did play a loadrunner I did play four apocalypse and I did play Excalibur and Excalibur was a fantasy takeover England game where you have to do different diplomacy with the other people and you have different wealth and taxes and army and you have gifts and honor and ways of getting with other people Phoenix, I'm not going to go into Phoenix it's a very complex game the rules are 94 pages long I really liked it it would be diplomacy take over the galaxy and you have factions you have alliances, you have battles it was a lot of fun it took up a huge amount of my time far more than it's worth Tetris was another game very fun taking up a good amount of time I mentioned it because the 3D Tetris was not so much fun to me but this guy he was the Russian friend of the guy who did Tetris and he was one of the key programmers of 3D Tetris so when I came to Slovakia in 1991 before I came to Slovakia I had a 3 month ureal pass in Europe so I spent a week and a half in Moscow at Andres Negov's house in an 18 story panel some of which have been falling down and they had rats in their chutes where you put the garbage in and it goes down they had beautiful subways though at the time I was kind of surprised Ultimate Frisbee I played Ultimate Frisbee in Silicon Valley I urge all of you to play Ultimate Frisbee it's a fun game it's also I think the best game for men and women to play together in terms of physically in kind of a no contact fair way and you can see a lot of mixed teams in Ultimate Frisbee we're at the point where another game of thrones well it's politics I ran as a libertarian candidate in California a couple of times because I'm very politically I was very politically oriented then I came to Slovakia as an advisor to Jan Czarnogorski because this guy Tim Evans was paid by or funded by the Adam Smith Institute in the UK to be Jan Czarnogorski's advisor when he was a vice prime minister but at that time, 1991 Mechiar you have to tell me when I have ten minutes five minutes okay so this is his wedding ten years later and most of these people I met here in Slovakia because of this issue and I focused on privatization Minesweeper, that was a game Castle Wolfenstein, another game this was a good game this was the first person shooter, I'm not big on first person shooters but this was a really good game Sid Meier Civilization that's a great game, I'm big on this kind of game in this case American Civilization destroyed by Indians next big game that I loved Age of Empires sorry it's coming Mental Discorders, here in Slovakia there's actually lots of good ultimate disc players now and when I was here I was among the people who were helping found that and so I'm glad that that's happening here's why I'm staying my beautiful wife and I love dancing and she wants to stay here secret for marriage do the things that are easy for you that your wife likes so make her happy there's ten things five of them are easy, do those five things argue about the other ones but if it's easy for you, do them it's easy for me to stay I can live anywhere, I'm pretty flexible I have four kids and here they are but this is twelve years ago when Michael and Daniel were still young and just starting to play Age of Mythology daughter Bianca this was at Dell in one of their Mikulash things and that was for those three I was the year before or the summer before I was with my son Patrick at the beach so Titan, I'm going to skip Titan because we don't have time but you can play Titan by email and you can play Titan on a computer and it's a great game Don Woods and Tom Lehmann are two people who were involved in game playing in Silicon Valley other games Settlers of Catan Labyrinth Carcassan here's Age of Mythology and we still play that and the reason we still play it it's still working we play it through Vubli so multiple people and my son who's studying in Bernal can play it with us so online games Age of Empires online this is a copy of the original and remaster but we don't play Age of Empires so much we play Age of Mythology more some of us play Warcraft or especially World of Warcraft all these games Runescape my wife likes Runescape okay so she played that a lot her name was Avenka she was an 80 level warrior and she was having guys who were like 20 say you know she can't be a woman but she can be Harry Potter well there was a Harry Potter times and there were Harry Potter games and they were kind of fun Rayman was kind of fun we had Rayman 1, 2 and 3 isn't this kind of fun we played any of these games it's Walk Down Memory Lane Civilizations 3, 4, 5 and 6 with increasingly better graphics Portal that was kind of a cute game that cake is a lie that's my second son Daniel really likes lots of games but he's especially wonderful in Dominion he likes all the expansions and he plays it Race for a Galaxy maybe some of you have played that here this was written by this guy Tom Lehmann that was the guy back at Stanford that I met who was a friend of Don Woods who did the adventure games and we would all play New Year's Eve at Don's house for for 3 days on the weekend starting Friday night until people poop out or have to go back to work on Monday we still play the expansion set because you can play up to 6 with the expansion sets of settlers the original settlers for was maximum and finally League of Legends I like to play a Mumu I'm actually all my two sons and my daughter play League of Legends and I am but I really like Dr. Mundo okay that was the fun games now we get to the content it's probably I'm just going to zip through these it's a blog that I read and they typically have a very short piece of news sometimes a little bit so you can decide whether you want to click on it and get more details some of my blogs I wrote one that was going to be for my family which I stopped writing most of these blogs but here quickly Hayek in Slovakia was going to be economics weblog ABCs was going to be about weblogs software projects was going to be about software projects World Association of International Studies was actually this long email that I was getting from this guy Ronald Hilton from Stanford very interesting stuff but once it's not on the web you know there's the talk about Google you can't find it so I was making a blog and I was copying his letter into this blog so that it could be found then I started blogging more on Motime is now dead so it's gone you can find a little bit of this stuff through the Wayback Machine where there's 300 billion web pages stored so I looked up mine and I could go through more NeonioCon AskBlog is more economics comments are what makes a really good blog so this is a comment that I wrote on AskBlog Economic Issue PJ Media you can have blogs in a PDA form low graphics but I don't like that so much even though it's better for smartphones you can have it with the RSS feed but I don't like those and you can have monetization which I also don't use yet or PJ Media that was pajamas media the PJ Facebook my love-hate relationship with Facebook here's my wife this is our Christmas picture last year this was a picture 12 years ago so family what's on my mind it says what's on my mind but I just don't like Facebook that much but it's kind of like blogging so I'm going to be doing it more there's not six of us but there's seven of us that's because Victoria Gray is my oldest son Michael's wife so when she wrote Victoria Gray I was wondering who is that person because I knew her as Vicki it's like okay one of the things is they do have an age of mythology group for our family to play they have a type they have League of Legends Trump on Twitter I was suspended from Twitter for retweeting something of Trump I hadn't made zero tweets but I was suspended for four months they've recently not suspended me but I'm not going to be using it except to watch what Trump says and this is another guy who's very pro-Trump and is kind of a jerk about it almost I'm not lying two guys are pretty fair and one guy is kind of anti-Trump but a pretty reasonable anti-Trump and finally WordPress I have a WordPress blog and comparing blacks to blacks is that it? I have other slides that could go on and on and on I won't even mention it let's get to the end future desires that's it thank you


Hey Hi, welcome to above life channel the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope This is our weekly Monday live streaming video. Nice to see you. This is the first of a month The energy on the first of a month is a fresh start a new beginning a reset However, when I'm recording this it is April 1st Which means yesterday 2024 it was Easter which has all sorts of vibes for all sorts of people and all sorts of different lands and Practices we'll say it that way and so there's a lot with that still coming in and coming through and We're in between two eclipses just started eclipse season if you follow that stuff apparently there's a lot of solar flares my good friend had to mention to me this morning when we were having our chat that There's a lot of solar flares. I'm like, oh that makes sense. Okay, now that makes sense And then also there is a major eclipse on April 8th, which is one week from today. So there's a lot energy and You and I we're empathic and we're gonna harness this 2024 year of the empath as I am a devotion to that to pass along energy Tools strategies and information to you that can help you navigate this this crazy sensitive sweet beautiful heart-based world that we you and I can coexist in and The world needs us right now to be our Heart-based selves and it is hard to be your heart-based self because you feel naked in a snowstorm. I get it So let me give you a jacket A warm fuzzy coat to wear and actually today. I have this really warm and fuzzy new Little cardigan that I put on because it just felt good So this kind of sensory energy these kind of sensory simple sensory things are Exactly what we need right now the simple things the simple sensory things. All right So today's topic is truth and lies Yes, it is that black and white and it's also everything in between and nothing Wow, I'm so mystic today. I actually am I'm coming off a bender For the last five days of a lot of spiritual downloads for me personally in my growth and development I'm so I'm so happy to be able to you have those Experiences for myself and then pass along the energy of what is uplifting and helping me to ascend Just by showing up in my presence to be fully embodied and so Here here and now You and I connecting in this beautiful empathic space safe safe and sacred space here on above-life channel on YouTube Okay, I do my best to Be in a state where you can feel like you're authentic self and you can have experiences through your sensory systems through your heart Feeling and then beginning to build some trust with your heart with what you're sensing you can practice that here practice it here Okay All right. So truth and lies. It's a bit of a soap opera, isn't it? Well, I just mentioned all the crazy stuff energetically that's going on. So yes, yes it is a bit of a soap opera and with that We got some talking to do we're gonna start fun. Okay, we're gonna start off with some fun today Since it's April Fool's Day We're gonna play with that Mystic magic actually wrote it down We're gonna play a game. Have you ever heard of the game two truths and a lie? Have you heard of that before? Let me just check here to make sure that I am We got to check the Sound quality to make sure that I'm on here. Let you all can see me Here we are. Oh good here. We are Hi Hey, I know I'm a little bit after 10. I try to get about 10 a.m. Central time On Mondays Start our week out, right? Okay, let's talk and see. Oh good. Yeah. Okay. We got it. Yeah All right, so we're gonna play a game Remember that true to two truths and a lie So I'm gonna share a couple of things with you and I want you to feel into what you think is the myth I'm gonna share some things about my life with you and I want you to feel and sense. What is true? What is actually? True and it's and it's gonna be easier because when you're practicing your intuitive spidey senses It'll be easy. These are easy because they're based on past experiences things that I've done or have potentially done or gotten close to doing so I want you to Be able to trust your gut on this one like really trust your gut. Okay? All right, my dears. Are you ready? So the theme is ride Ride, I thought that was appropriate given the energy of the day And of this time, right? Okay. Oh So the the theme is rides. These are things that I may or may not have Had rides in okay Ready All right, so there's three things so ground and center yourself Try not to cheat like don't want maybe watch me to see if I have any kind of well You can I guess you can watch me for For non-verbal cues or listen to my voice that would be a good one because that's a sensory thing That's not a physical tangible thing as far as like I see that that's evidence of but if you listen to my voice You might be able to sense and feel if it's true or not true Okay, if it actually has happened or hasn't happened. So that's the thing So has it happened or has it not happened? Okay? Hmm feel into your belly drop into your heart space trust your heart. Okay, and trust your belly To feel into what is true. Okay, so this is the question. What is true? Okay, so if it helps close your eyes Oh Nice breath in exhale out feeling to your body See you're reading me Through the energy of what I'm sharing What is true?  Yes or no? Something or nothing All right, trust your body trust your senses ready. Okay, here we go. Hmm. Gotta hear on me. Oh, okay Sorry to distract you. Okay Okay, get ready All right, I Have ridden in a helicopter. I have ridden in a helicopter Feel that next one I Have ridden in a police car. I have ridden in a police car Feel that and last one. I Have ridden in a snow plow I have ridden in a snow plow Feel that you feel that All right, so this is an exercise for you to go ahead and listen to those things again if you're watching the replay and feel into which is True Okay, and which is not true or potentially not true Okay All right, so that's just an activity or an exercise. I'm testing. I'm not testing I'm giving you an opportunity to to feel into your senses and your sensory system to see What feels true for you? So now I'm not gonna tell you about this right now You're gonna have to skip to the very end of the video and I'll tell you okay the responses for that I'll tell you the answer the answers Very rarely in psychic work are there Concrete answers Okay, there is in psychic work the ability to sense into the person and Feel what they want and what they're Their desire is for an outcome what their desire is for the results what their desire is for an answer So you can read somebody and Read what their answer is what they want you to say So it is very tricky and sticky in psychic work Because as empaths you have to be so aware of your pillar of light your Alignment within yourself your personal Sensory system so that you can tell then what's true and what's just Wanting to be true. Do you see what I'm saying? It's not that people are lying Well, you might say sometimes people really do lie to themselves. I do I Have all sorts of excuses or reasons or Rationals for things that I don't do or that I do that really might not be fully accurate or true in fact most things are Made up or wrapped up in some kind of story about something that is the human nature That is the human life experience that is our mind Wrapping around some energy that we gained from some relationship or exchange or Observation of something that we saw doesn't have to be a traumatic thing It can just be something that sticks and we might not even be conscious of it So, let me tell you this when I was doing psychic work early on I used to get really frustrated Especially when I was trying to do normal people human work because I worked in HR human resources And I would sit in an interview and I or a meeting or even just a meeting Okay meeting with the other higher ups and I could see the double head So I could see the person talking and then I could see their Double head like their higher self their spirit self also talking and I could tell when they weren't in Sync or an alignment when they were telling me something that either they did not believe to be true or Something they wanted to be true, but wasn't there was a disconnect Okay, there was a disconnect between what was and What what what they are perceiving or wanting and so it was a double head kind of thing So I literally would see their head, but it wouldn't be above Like, you know, I've talked about this before when I see the higher self of people sometimes and I feel it too Like a hoodie just feels like a hood coming over to be able to kind of see that extra halo Like, you know, you see like angels and churches and stuff and they have this beautiful golden or white halo over It's like that. It's exactly like that That's what your higher self is too because you're that spirit. You're that essence. You are that so I see that So I'm not talking that because that's an alignment if it's above the head. It's an alignment But if it's another person or another head that's outside of your head It's off to the side then that's not alignment something is out of whack here And I would get so frustrated in meetings because I would see the doubles and I'm like, uh, Something's not right here. Something's not right in alignment. It doesn't mean though Okay, this is really important, especially for those of you who are just starting to work with your intuition and your spidey senses This is where it gets confusing. It doesn't mean people are lying It doesn't mean somebody's lying to you or withholding from you It could very simply mean That the person is not aware that they're not in alignment. They've been playing Into some role for so long that they're playing it so well that they believe it and it's not true Or it's a myth or part of it isn't true or it's half true or what have you but over time the story's got So interwoven that it just seems like automatic responses It's like an auto response in the brain and so what isn't really true becomes true If for that person so if they were hooked up to a lie detector, they might pass Because it's true for them. They actually believe it Or they're just not conscious of the fact that their higher self or their inner voice wants something different Than what is So when I used to meet people in person I used to meet people in person in my office space. I had an office a couple of different times It was by my other office When I was working in in human resources so that I could leave work and then go and work a little bit in the evenings and stuff And sometimes on the weekends So I'd meet people in person But I would have this experience with people in person to lovely people heart base the sweetest wonderful people And I would meet them and I would have the same experience I would be telling them things or saying things and reading their energy field And connecting with their higher self and their higher self will be telling me all sorts of things And the person would be like, no, that doesn't make sense. No, I don't no, I don't think so No, they would just be in such um Personal disconnection from that particular topic or subject that the higher self knows and has the wisdom for But they're not ready or or able to accept that as information or wisdom right now So it might just be a timing thing. So sometimes then I would see somebody again Over time all of a sudden they'd be like, oh my gosh So remember what you said when you said this this this yeah, that was that was right That was about this or that was about this they just weren't making the connection and It's not really about being right Or being wrong although that's one of my personal themes that I have had to Come to acceptance with that i'm human and i'm not going to be perfect I'm not going to be right all the time It's not that's an ego-minded thing and that does not work in psychic work and especially right fucking now Let me tell you because the timelines are so messed up and there are so many people in so many different scenarios That are feeding into a particular person that I might be reading Or looking at in the moment But that story is changing constantly for that person and the other people that are involved That you can be so like there's a domino effect that happens that you don't recognize and you can't Because it things are moving so much right now that it is way too hard to be accurate Long term short term. Yeah, right here right now today. Yeah, no problem Probably tomorrow probably like three days ahead. Yes, maybe that no problem, but there's so much I'm going to say evolution I'm going to say an eva not eva. I'm going to say evolution happening that There's too much up for grabs to be that accurate so This is probably why profits like no stradamus And other like the oracles of delphi right? This is probably why they were broad and general in their things in their prophecies because There's so much Mind mindedness That is at play and the the thirst for and the the Desirous intoxication of the addiction to power Is very dominant right now and it feels like a big arm wrestling match and the energies are sliding back that's why we're seeing like a lot of the the christian movement getting really strong in Old Older traditional mentality. We'll just say it that way our values, right? This is why we're seeing um the rise of Kind of what looks like the the counterbalance to that which is people being less Connected to labels or identification and more fluid and open in that regards in personal perspectives And then seeking out groups that are also the same So it's It's understandable when you see what's going on in the world. So what that means is you and I as empaths We must be an integrity within our power, which is our heart Your power center is your heart center That is how it goes that is the game plan this year my friends. This is where we are strong On the we are not wrong. We are strong in our heart space And so when you see or sense Someone not in alignment. It doesn't necessarily mean they're lying to you It doesn't mean they're conscious of the lie. It means they believe it They really I could do this with public figures right now. They really believe it what they're saying they believe it And then there's a sense of power that grows from the strong confidence of the belief in that and belief systems then kind of They can grow or breed Because there is that undertone when somebody believes something that really isn't accurate or grounded in an accuracy That is needed to be a truth What it's grounded in is a sense of power And power is awesome because it's things like That can bring you a sense of stability and security and and and Value and worthiness and what everyone is seeking which is the connection to love and it's misunderstood Or misinterpreted that the grounding in the power base That is built upon the belief system that is not in act in an accurate framework of integrity or truth But of pure belief that has been accepted as The core base of what It's just accepted as true But it's not really true. It doesn't matter if it's not true Do you see it's what is believed This is why at the heart. This is why what you believe about yourself is so mission critical right here right now my empathic friends What you believe about yourself is so important right now it's so important And the energy of discernment of feeling what is true and what is not true isn't as critical as what You can sense that a person believes As their story believes as their value system believes as their personal truth. So truth right now In this chess game that we're playing here and it feels like that it does feel like that energetically You move here. You move here. You move here offense defense that kind of thing always vigilant Yeah, that's the empath this year. That's the 2024 impact. That's why we're working on this together every week We're doing this stuff. Okay to support you Okay to shore you up to ground you in the root of the earth energy because that's what's true is earth That's a fact Earth is here.  I've heard this more than once Let me just tell you and I know you might imagine That I might be a little bit stubborn just still just I know it's hard to believe Just imagine just pretend just a tiny bit stubborn And headstrong and will right I have the will so my brain is smart and it knows But I have also been told that I think you are protesting too much to this I think you're Having a very strong reaction to this when It's kind of out of place Why are you reacting so strongly to this like you're you're so resistant When there's too much resistance That is where there's wisdom. Oh, yes There's a lot of wisdom imbued and that resistance It's like the truth is in there somewhere. Where is it instead? I'm just going to get up in arms and freaking out and all sorts of upset or depressed or I'm going to just disengage and detach Yeah, that's one of my my Modus operandes is to detach. I'm like, okay. I'm doing I'm out. I'm out. In fact, I had a friend that Once told me I have a switch And you've hooked the switch and I'm done And for many the last few years, I have not been able to do that I have really been so interwoven in my heart space with I mean and physically in my heart space, right? With my personal physical body healing with my open heart surgery and all that. I mean that makes sense, right? But prior to that too, I just my heart has been so open and so open to Accepting and connecting with love and what that means for me that I've been very open and vulnerable In ways that I haven't been before For myself like by choice, right? and so That resistance piece that when it bubbles up and it's really strong and it's rubbing you really strong It's because it's creating friction to break free it's creating friction to let the energy of The wisdom be free And what is true is wisdom Wisdom is the truth You want another word for truth right now? It's wisdom wisdom Yeah, wisdom You feel that And that's where we are. Hello on the chat. I see you. Nice to see you today With that, let's connect into our roots at our feet Let's feel the energy of the earth. I'm wiggling my feet You can stop your feet. You can tap your feet. You can rub your feet Feeling that energy and that wisdom coming up through the root chakra and that friction. You feel that? Now your feet tingle Reminding you that you are like a tree You are grounded and centered in this body in this lifetime. Stay here in this one You can wiggle and move and notice things and notice people being in other timelines Which isn't actually physically. They're in that space. It's that there's part of their energetic Field that is and they are getting lessons and messages and information from another time It might be from this lifetime 10 years ago five years ago a past relationship It might be from future lifetimes when you're Going to be that star seed on andromeda. You know what i'm saying? I mean legit This is anything's possible right now which then I strongly encourage you as a guide as a wisdom keeper and bringer And encourage her for you To connect you in to the earth energies into the earth So rubbing your feet against the ground having that physical friction and movement Bringing that energy into the body accepting it Just that simple connection. So go for a walk today outside if you can That would really help really strongly help If that's not your jam or that's not your thing or you physically aren't able to do that Put your feet in some water To help your body connect with that that rejuvenation energy that That soothing held Pool of water not moving water like a bathtub water Just soft like like go get a tubby if I had one in here. I just will whip it out and show you my tubbies That's not it's so funny Fill it with some water and put your feet in it You know it can just be a container a tupperware container that you have it's not that complicated people don't make it complicated Just water put your feet in and then let your energy just breathe Breathe Breathe let the energy flow a nice little balance Moving up the body going toward it's needed Relaxing into the body is softening the body is softening the energy I'm feeling it at my root chakra in the base of my tailbone and my spine So I'm just going to wiggle myself a little bit and feel that energy on my hips There's a big meridian at your hips that really helps to balance you and that's a timeline if you think about it The hips is a timeline energy. This is fascinating actually. I've never seen this before the hips is a timeline energy So two are the shoulders, but they need to be in the same timeline So you shore that energy up you shore that energy up and then the third one that I see is usually at the feet Nice and balanced nice and balanced See that? Okay. Yeah, I can feel it. I can totally feel that energy. Yeah, I'm going to have to do some movement stuff I think after this myself and I encourage you to do that I've learned a lot From trauma informed care workshops that I've been in and the certification I have in natural lifemanship back in 2020 I got that. I think I mentioned that before sat in classes lots of classes with other therapists to learn about that but The rhythmic repetitive nature of movement really helps the nervous system And I know that there's popular Like tiktoks and instagrams and facebook and social media YouTubes and all that they talk about like somatic movement and that really is helpful Somatics, which is the movement of your body But it's based upon rhythmic repetitive movement Just like sitting in a rocking chair or a rocker glider to help your body Just ease the flow Allow it to flow in an easeful way To create a movement that lets the energy kind of break loose and break free instead of just sitting all day long Being stuck in one spot all day long. This is why it's hard to get people to meditate I think because it feels like well, I'm going to be stuck in one spot Oh, I don't need to do that. I do that all day at my desk kind of thing, you know, but Rhythmic repetitive movement or motion really does help just gentle motion doesn't have to be fabulous You don't have to hold some fancy tree pose. Although those are great if that works for you, but Just simple motion helps with emotion simple motion helps with emotion There are so many gems of wisdom in this video I I am really impressed with what has been coming through here in our conversation today on the live stream So now let's wrap up by saying What the truths are so at the beginning of this video I gave you an opportunity to feel into your intuition your spidey senses to let you Have a sensory Experience with me where you could read me And I shared three things related to the rides Because of the energy right now so much cool energy so much crazy energy, but cool energy too um, and I use the theme rides And I used that it based upon the old The old game of two truths and a lie kind of thing so to feel into what is true So I'm going to say them again, and then I'll tell you what is true Okay, out of these three things about me. So I gave you permission to feel into me As I say these things And I'm going to say them so they'll be right here in front of me energetically So you don't have to like go in and try to figure it out. Just it'll come right to you So I'm going to do that feel into your body Use your senses I'm this safe and sacred space Okay, bring your intuition forward Use your heart space since that's how we're connecting because we're we're empaths you and I are both empaths So okay, the theme is rides and it's about me and it's about past Experiences that I've had or had the opportunity to have and you have you get to decide Use your discernment your intuition to see what is true. What is real and what is not? So what is true? Oh, excuse me. What is true? What is true? I Have ridden in A helicopter I've ridden in a helicopter. Now you get to feel if that's true the second one I have ridden in a police car I have ridden in a police car I feel if that's true And the last one is I have ridden in a snow plow I have ridden in a snow plow Now feel if that's true. All right, if you want you can write your answers in the chat If you think they're true or what's true, etc. So helicopter police car and snow plow knows bad order Okay, you ready? Here is the truth based upon my human experience Yes, I have ridden in a helicopter. I may have actually shared that before on above live channel I had the chance to be part of a safety camp with police officers and firefighters and ems personnel when I worked at one of my first jobs and I dressed up as sparky the fire dog because I worked at the fire department at that time as an administrative hr analyst And so I said i'll do it. And so I dressed up as sparky and I flew in on a helicopter, uh, minnesota state trooper helicopter And actually McGruff the crime dog was sitting next to me and I did not enjoy the helicopter ride No, thank you. I would not like to do that again.  Ooh not doing that again. So yes, I've ridden on a helicopter that was probably in the late 90s Middle 90s actually mid mid 90s meant to late probably 98 something like that so Number two police car Yes, I have ridden in a police car. Some of you know that my first husband was actually a police officer And it's still a licensed peace officer in the state of minnesota But I have ridden in a police car. I have went on a ride along more than once. Um, not with him, but um with uh, two different other departments because I felt like at the time when I was working in those those places and I was working in administration And hr and I was going to be hiring for those positions. I thought it would be a good way to um, connect with the police department and earn their trust and also Show some respect for the work that they do So I did that so All right, so yes, I've been in a police car not because I got in trouble I know some of you were wondering that But hey, I'm only in my 50s.  Okay Now number three. So those two were both true. Okay. Yes, I've ridden a helicopter Yes, I've been in I've ridden in a police car. Okay Now the third one the snow plow I live in minnesota. So that's kind of likely isn't it the truth is yes I have ridden in a snow plow again when I worked at a large county agency. I had to do um work and hiring in The the transportation department and I thought that that was a good way to Earn the respect of the people that were there is to go on a ride along and see what their jobs are like So I can understand that how hard it was or I could have some kind of relatability when I'm trying to Go to job fairs and and talk about the job itself You know, I needed to have that I felt like experience is a great way to learn And it's a great way to connect with the human aspect of what just looks like a job description I still believe that this is the approach that I take in my life. This is why on above life channel and in my private intuitive life coaching and energy work I Really believe in giving experiences having experiential learning because that's how that's how you can tell that's how you know It's like it's like the ability to practice or to try things out and to apply what you're learning Practical application of intuition and energy work is essential in order to really know what works for you And the way you want to work in the world as well and navigating the world So yeah, I've been in a snow plow that was out of all three of these Um, the helicopter was really short but the snow plow was was painful because it really hurt your back Riding in a snow plow for the whole and it was a lot of there was a lot of snow and they had a lot of work to do and it was hard and it was hot in there and I mean they had the radio going and you could kind of get in a zen vibe But people people try to pass you and I mean it's a hard job. It's not an easy job So that one was probably the hardest honestly Because in the police to be fair when I did both my ride-alongs They kept it mellow for me and I didn't do it at night or anything like that I didn't go on any like lights and sirens Well, I did do lights and sirens. We pulled some people over I used the the um the the uh The speed the speed thing the speed machine thing. So oh, yeah, so I had that experience. That was fun But it was very vanilla. They kept it really chill for me I mean they weren't going to put me in any danger, especially because I had to wear a bulletproof vest though So that was interesting Luckily, luckily my husband at the time had one. So I just wore his so it was easier because I said that you have a vest I said, well, I I have one. Yeah So I wouldn't have been on any kind of horrible things, but All right, so there's that they were all true.  Yes. Yes. Yes about it. So that's a good way to practice, you know Okay So all right. Hi in the chat. I see you. Thank you for being here. All right So good luck with this interesting week of energy as we step into april 1st. I I am Hmm I am definitely going to go out for I'm trying to commit to something to do for my body for my energy I am going to go for a walk and I'm going to bring my walking stick and my staff and I'm going to Walk the land and just connect with the earth. That's what I'm going to commit to doing So Thank you so much for being here on above life channel. I appreciate you so much I look forward to being part of your journey I hope that I can inspire your spirit and fill you with hope Maybe with one of the sessions or services that I offer make sure you check it out I pride myself on having a variety of things at different price points for everyone And to being accessible just like this our monday videos. These are free my friends So thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it All right, remember this is your life That's yours and you get to live it. 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