The difference is between learning your first language versus a second one. Learning a second language can feel like stepping into a whole new world compared to the way you learn your first language. When you learn your first language, you take in that language in a very natural and organic way compared to the way you might obtain your second language. The first language you learn is what you hear from infancy as you grow up, as it's the language you hear at home. On TV, at school and etc. and your second language will mostly be something you are taught in classroom which is not the same type of experience that you get from learning in your actual living environment. Extra Knowledge When you grow up using your native tongue you are not just in taking the right way to structure a sentence or proper vocabulary, you are taking in so much more. With your native language you also are learning slang, lingo, contextual things such as humor, sarcasm, proper manners when addressing someone, culture and so much much. All these things came to you in an organic way so they tend to be things you don't think about because they are things you just know, and it may not cross your mind that all this could be different within a second language. Differences in Concepts Now let's talk about learning your second language in contrast to your native one. You'll probably find vocabulary easy to pick up on, but once you get more in depth with the learning, you may find some things within the second language to be difficult there are stuff you never thought about when learning your first tongue in a natural environment. Let's just say English is your primary language. Some languages have different sentence structures than English and you may end up saying grammatically incorrect things in your new language because while you have the vocabulary, your grammar is still being processed with a structure of English. This can make for a challenge when speaking, but that's part of the fun and journey. You are learning that with a different grammar, it makes it so the two languages can have a sentence that means the same thing, but if you were to do a direct word-to-word translation the sentence may sound odd in English. An example I can give is Tingo Hemper means I'm hungry in Spanish, but if you directly translate those words directly into English it would come out as I have hungry which we could understand, but it's not correct for our grammar. This is just the tip of the iceberg how different it is when learning a language and that it is important you understand how they speak and not always think from the way you speak. Cultural Differences Another thing you are absorbing and stepping into when picking up a language is the culture. And by culture, I mean the mannerisms and how the language should be spoken, what's considered polite or rude, how to address people and so forth. Sometimes the cultural things you pick up when taking on a second language even expand beyond the language itself, as it's just things you can't avoid. In this case, it almost feels like your new language is a conduit to a new world which is very exciting. Again you don't get this rush of excitement with your first language because that's just your natural environment as opposed to say learning Mandarin and getting that Chinese history and cultural knowledge along with it. So in simple terms when picking up a language, you are also getting more knowledge that transcends speaking, reading, and etc. Now to review the differences of first versus the second language, the initial point is that that you're the first language isn't particularly taught to you, you just learn it, while the second language is something you are sat down and taught. These two different ways of absorbing languages give two very unique experiences. Along with these differences, become aware that when learning your new tongue, that it's important to think in that tongue when speaking, and not try to do your own rough translations coming from your first language. That can make what you're saying inaccurate even if the point is still clear. This doesn't mean you shouldn't ever attempt at speaking or writing unless you know you're 100% correct, but just something to keep in mind. Lastly, your new language brings on a lot more than just words, you learn about a group, their society. Their culture, and sometimes even their history. All these points alone stress the difference is between meeting your first tongue versus your second one. Thank you for reading. Are you ready to teach English as a second language? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


front page of the Washington Post and apparently BB Netanyahu is not in control of everything that's going on in Israel. Netanyahu's power in question amid Israel's judicial push. I mean, seriously, is there any politician who's just always in power, who always just gets his way, who always dominates his coalition? Washington Post says, the chaotic events in the first seven months of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new governments have bad speculation that he doesn't control his coalition as much as it controls him. Well, guess who's the boss in Israel? It's the very same entity that is the boss in your life and in my life and in the life of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The situation is the boss, right? There's no prime minister who completely controls his coalition 95 plus percent of the time, right? Every politician has to operate in different situations. The situations are constantly changing.  You might be under, you know, undermined by the lowest person on the totem pole who might do something that triggers a whole chain of reaction that distracts you from what you should be paying attention to and leads to cataclysmic results. You might be on the way to the Fox News TV studio to be interviewed to be a star and your car breaks down and then you get an Uber and your Uber gets in a crash, right? And so the situation is the boss, right? I walk down the street and pedestrians have the right of way in California, but often drivers will just roll through stop signs. They will run you over if you don't jump out of the way. Now, I have the right of way by the law, but if I insist on the right of way, then I'll be dead right and had this young woman who's very impressed by my body of work. She's quite intrigued. And so we're carrying on some pretty intense conversations over the past week or so. And she sent me some very provocative, fully clothed, very modest photos today. As you know, if you know anything about me, I'm a very respectable man. And so we made arrangements to meet at this very posh Beverly Hills Hotel. I wanted to make sure there was an appropriate chaperone that her friend would be there so everything would be kosher and dinky dye, true blue, fair dinkum above board. But as I get there, there are all these jokes that they're going to saddle me with some $800 hotel bill, right? These children of billionaire just playing with my affections. Right? I'm a fair dinkum bloke. All right. I said I can only drink tea. I can only have, you know, ice water. I can't eat at this hotel. It's not kosher, but they play with my affections. And that's the way the world is. I remember for years and years and years, I carried this giant grudge against women that they somehow they had all the power in the relationship and they're so humiliating to ask them out or so humiliating to make a move on them and to get knocked back. It was humiliating to try to kiss them. And then they, you know, say no. But then as I grew older and I got into 12 step programs, I realized that the women have all their own unique frustrations with men and lack of power. So it's easy to think, oh, the prime minister is the boss, but the situation is the boss, the Palestinians and Joe Biden, they have a vote to BB Netanyahu's coalition members, other parts of Israel, the judiciary, the armed forces, reservists, the elites, the news media, right? A lot of different parties have a vote in what goes on.  Like I thought I had this, you know, wonderful romantic meeting at a very plush Beverly Hills hotel and did not go down as I expected.  I hadn't yet met the woman. I mean, come on, Fred Dinkum, I'm a very respectable man. Don't try that stuff on me.  Like we all have weak spots and there's like a, there's a certain look, right? There's a certain pose with women. There's just a certain way they tilt and arrange their musculature. There's, there's a certain look in their eyes, a certain alignment of their lips, right? That does make me go weak in the knees. And okay, I said, I need to, I want to meet you today.  I mean, this wasn't supposed to go down this way. I'm a, I'm a very respectable man. Gosh, right? Boss gets a headache.   So anyway, just naive Washington Post article, chaotic events, offense, speculation that BB Netanyahu doesn't control this coalition as much as it controls him. There's never been a prime minister that had 100% of his coalition all the time, right? Sometimes we control some things around us. Usually we only have a modicum of an illusion of control, all right? And so we develop this body armory and these pastures and these poses, and we take on these personas and we pretend that we can lay, you know, a tapestry of meaning over the universe to quote the Aussie psychologist, Matt Brown. And that's me. All right. I'm sure I do some fair dinkum streams where I primarily want to be useful, to be helpful, to be fun, to be funny.  I think some of the time I'm just trying to be a guru and failing at it. So probably 10% of the time I'm probably trying to be a guru and failing at it, but it very may well be 90% of the time, you know, who knows how much I am deceiving myself. I mean, I wish I was as upstanding as Dennis Prager. I mean, this guy has pretty serious morals and you can disagree with Dennis about this or that, but fair dinkum, take on these moral commitments here. No, I have the same commitment to honesty. Yes. I was tangent number 13. I was actually mentioning during my radio show that I'm so committed to always telling the truth to the best of my human ability. When I receive scripts from sponsors, which I have all of my life, basically, if there's something in there that isn't true and there almost always is, I'll give one example, I omit it. So for example, almost every script that I have to read is something. So you contact my friends at Billy and Jerry. He does do this. But they're not my friends. I don't say it. I have learned from you hugely in that regard, but I mean, in so many other ways, but with regard to advertising and omitting things that are not. I always get a kick out of that. By the way, tangent again, this is a fun one. So not only do I not say it because it's not honest, I'm not sure it's effective, right? Because if I say contact my friends, yes, it's an epitism. Well, not only that, maybe people think, oh, the only reason he's endorsing that is his friends. Oh, yeah, the nepotism. Okay, fair enough. Yes. Why is that an effective lie? You know, on this point of honesty, and again, you're so right that this is just so Dennis and Julie to go off and exit ramp and come back on. That's beautiful. I mean, that's so meaningful. I think we can all, we can all draw inspiration from this kind of moral commitment. And by the way, do you guys know about Healthy Self Private? They may welcome out while I'm broadcasting. Well, you know that and everyone knows that's something I'm trying to work on. Right. So I mean, and it's true. I will occasionally use such a word because it's so profanity. It's so merited at the moment. Yes. Yeah. But I think I've heard you curse in private. Same with grammar. Yeah. You rarely. Right. But when I do, when you do it to layer. Yes, exactly. That's the point. Yes. In 2008, the amount of concentrated time people could spend on a task without becoming distracted was 12 seconds. Five years later, it was eight seconds. The digital age is narrowing our attention span. Trouble concentrating or recalling information is frustrating, embarrassing, and kills productivity. Advanced nutrition company Healthy Self created focus and recall to boost your brain power. 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Oh wait, how right-wing news powers the gold IRA industry adds for gold coins and become a mainstay on Fox News, Newsmax and other conservative outlets even as regulators have accused companies of defrauding elderly clients while I'm sure this isn't true about Lear Capital, right? This news story was written by Jeremy B. Merrill and Hannah Koslowska. How right-wing news powers the gold IRA industry. Ads for gold coins have become a mainstay on Fox News, Newsmax and other conservative outlets even as regulators have accused some companies of defrauding elderly clients. Dedicated viewers of Fox News are likely familiar with Lear Capital, a Los Angeles company that sells gold and silver coins. In recent years, the company's ads have been a constant presence on Fox Airwaves, warning viewers to protect their retirement savings from a looming pension crisis and dollar collapse. One such ad caught the attention of Terry White, a disabled retiree, from New York. In 2018, White invested $174,000 in the coins, according to a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General, only to later learn that Lear charged a 33 percent commission. Over several transactions, White, 70, lost nearly $80,000, putting an enormous strain on his finances, said his wife, Jean, who blames Fox for their predicament, their negligent, she said. A regretful White said he thought Fox wouldn't take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate. While the legitimacy of the gold retirement investment industry is the subject of numerous lawsuits. I mean, Dennis Prager wouldn't take a commercial like this, one of his biggest sponsors, right? Unless it was legitimate. I mean, this bloke invested $174,000 in the coins, only to later learn that Lear Capital charged a 33 percent commission, right? He lost $80,000, putting an enormous strain on his finances. But Dennis Prager wouldn't back something like this, would he? Including allegations of fraud by federal and state regulators against Lear and other companies, its advertising has become a mainstay of right-wing media. The industry spends millions of dollars a year to reach viewers of Fox, Newsmax and other conservative outlets, according to a Washington Post analysis of ad beta and financial records, as well as interviews with industry insiders. Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have promoted the coins, while ads for Lear's competitors have appeared on a podcast hosted by Senator Ted Cruz, Republican, Texas, and Newsmax broadcasts a former President Donald Trump's political rallies. An analysis by the Post of Political Newsletters, Social Media, Podcasts, and a national database of television ads collected by the company Ad Impact found that pitches to invest in gold coins are a daily presence in media that caters to a right-wing audience and often echo conservative talking points about looming economic and societal collapse. The Post found no similar ads for gold retirement investments in mainstream or left-wing media sources in the databases. These so-called gold IRA companies are not publicly traded, so their revenue, profits, and ad budgets largely cannot be determined. Court documents filed by Lear say the company has about $200 million in annual revenue, Dale Whitaker, the former chief financial officer at another company, Augusta Precious Metals, said overall industry revenue likely approaches $1 billion a year. Over the past decade, more than 30 customers in 20 states. So Reasonable and Responsible asked me if I was embarrassed by my chat. Yeah, so asking Julie to get naked, that embarrasses me, and so I need to be more assertive in the chat by deleting tasteless comments like that. So yeah, thank you Reasonable and Responsible for reminding me that I let way too much tasteless commentary go by, and it embarrasses me. It makes me look really bad. It makes the show look really bad, and more important than me is that it's bad for you. It's a bad habit to get into. It's bad for the community. Dennis Prager couldn't possibly be pushing end-of-the-world theories in order to push products, could he? I mean, you want to be interesting, right? You want to be exciting. You want to get paid. So what if Lear Capital takes a 33% commission? That's not a big deal, is it? Well, yeah, it really is a big deal. I mean, it's a horrific scam being promoted by almost all right-wing media. And so why does right-wing media promote so many horrific scams? It's just kind of par for the course. I mean, conservatism is just largely underwritten by cons. It's Rick Paulstein right in 2012 that he signed up to the email list of several influential magazines on the right, and he learned of the right-wing id. He learned of the 23 cent heart miracle. Washington, the medical industry and drug companies refused to tell you about, right? Why would they? They're just leaving money on the table. Then came news of the oil field in the placenta, right? So right-wing media is underwritten by cons, right? By, you know, deceptive advertising, you know, pushing fraudulent bogus, frequently dangerous and destructive stuff. That's what pays for Fox News. That's what pays for talk radio. I mean, these are bedtime stories meant for childlike minds, right? This is why I think most of right-wing news, media right-wing commentary is moronic, and it is subsidized by con games, right? So right-wing media, generally speaking, is in the business of producing childlike minds, right? Dishonesty is basically demanded by the alarmist fundraising appeal that underwrites right-wing media. The real world doesn't work anything like right-wing media says or like the advertisements on right-wing media, right? There's a huge distance from observable reality, but it is rhetorically required to succeed in conservatism incorporated in right-wing talk radio. You're not going to see almost anything in real life that resembles the staples of Fox News and right-wing talk radio, right? You just need to see how diabolical the left has become. He's unseen, but the redeemer, the hero who tells you the tale, he can see the innermost details of the most baleful conspiracies. Trust him, send him your money, surrender your will, and the monster shall be banished for good, right? You've got this theology of fear and a snake oil operation. They're just working together, right? Two facets of the same coin, right? You've got the concealing 23 cent miracle cures for heart disease, and then the arguments about how the left is just destroying America. Joe Biden wants to wreck the economy. Lying is basically an initiation into the conservative elite. I think Rick Paulstein, he's on the left, but he's got some good points here. Right-wing media is just multi-layer marketing. You've got the ones at the top, reap the rewards, and then they preen, pleased with themselves for mastering the con game. Closing the sale is just a question of writing out the lie, showing that you have the skill and the stones to just brazen it out, the savvy to ratchet up the stakes higher and higher, sneering out or ignoring your earnest high-minded Mandarin gatekeepers, right? There is one Romney Aid put it. We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers. Back to this Washington Post article. Have sued a dozen gold IRA companies, including Lear. Federal regulators have sued four companies, two in the past year alone, claiming investors were systematically charged as much as triple the coin's value. Was Colin Liddell right about Elliot Blatt being a wild animal? I sure hope not. I sure hope not. None of the cases have gone to trial. Some are still pending. Of those that have been resolved, most have settled or been sent to arbitration, where outcomes are not made public. The companies have not admitted wrongdoing in any of the cases and say their customers have been adequately informed of the details of their purchases. Joe Rotunda, enforcement director at the Texas State Securities Board, said the industry is extraordinarily difficult to police because selling gold, even as a retirement investment, is extremely thinly regulated. Okay, so this is embarrassing. This might be even more embarrassing than using profanity, that one of your major sponsors is running just a horrible con game and much of right wing media is a horrible con game, both the content and the advertising.  Yeah, I'm following Colin Liddell's advice. I got to keep Elliot Blatt on a leash.  I just, I need to give you the lash once in a while, the spiritual lash to keep you online. This is a very, this is a very classy show. I don't know if you know, I'm a very respectable man. And these two sheilas, I lured me to a very plush Beverly Hills hotel, this Arvo, under completely false pretenses and trying to stick me with some $800 bill. And like, I'm nobody's fool, all right? I'm nobody's victim, right? They wanted me to eat non-Kosher desserts. And I said, I can't, I can't go into non-Kosher restaurant. Like someone from my religious community might see me. I can go to a hotel and I can drink ice water, but I can't partake of your fleshly delights. I'm a very respectable man. And they said, oh, no, you'll be able to sneak in, right? You'll be able to hide. Like we're meeting in the shadows, right? It's all got to be very respectable, right? We can, we can order room service. You don't have to worry about it, but I don't play those games, man. I don't want to be underwritten by Lear Capital, right? I don't want to hang out with the cruel children of billionaires.  And all I wanted was a glass of ice water. This is time. This is like, I'm coming down like, I had some expectations. Like she took advantage of me with those photos, right? With the, with the kind of the pouty look on her face and how she built up this interaction. And it just all sounded so amazing. And then it just turned cruel in a very plush Beverly Hills hotel. To just all the smaller glitches. And I want you to imagine just for a moment that all of these things, each one of these things is a piece of armor. And that's what that's what our visual tonight is going to be about. It's like we're all the things that we are willing for God to remove is our armor, the stuff that we have. Right. So we come to this show to remove our armor, but that doesn't mean we let the ed just rise up and start asking young, pretty female commentators who do shows with Dennis Prager to reveal more of themselves that is modest, right? We're not revealing that much of an armor. Right. Keep the armor on your penis, guys. Right. Let that be covered up. And, and, you know, keep, you know, keep that chastity about operating in the chat. Right. Please. I don't want to look bad to Julie and Dennis. We have, we have developed because we needed to develop. It wouldn't be there if it didn't serve a purpose. But it, but once we, you know, the whole idea here is, is, you know, we, I come out of, I come out of battle in my suit of armor and, you know, want to go have a cup of coffee with somebody. It's, it's inconvenient. Yeah. I wanted to like go out and have just a glass of ice water, man. I just wanted like a mint tea. I didn't want to be stuck with an $800 hotel bill.  They're putting on this suit of armor. Here, I'll give you an analogy.   Like if I were to do all that, I'd feel like a completely different person. Like I'd feel like I was ready to clean the streets and ready to protect the righteous and the true and the kind and the just and the good and fight for righteousness and decency and that I do my part about, you know, taking back the streets of LA, right? If I was like licensed and bonded and insured and, you know, part of a very, you know, formidable and respectable organization, all right, I would step into a different persona, right? This wouldn't be just gentle Luke, meek and mild, right? This would be the person who would lay down the law within the proper confines of the law, right? If I strapped on the suit of armor, but my therapist once said to me, maybe you'll only get well if you put down your weapons.  But you can also have body armoring with unnecessary muscular tension by putting yourself into particular alignments of your body that keep you away from vulnerability, from honesty, from kindness, right? Every emotion and every thought is only possible with a particular alignment of your body. If you're aligned differently, you can't experience that emotion, you can't progress in a certain line of thought. Convenient.  So that's, that's where we're going to go with this. I'm just going to read this to you. And I want you just to see if you can get this visual with me. The exact nature of these so-called defects of character, that's AKA characteristics, the exact nature is self-care and self-defense. They are what we learned was necessary to cope with our environment through our early days. To the degree that these characteristics now prove counterproductive to our chosen path of psychological and spiritual growth, think of these as armor. However much armor we are wearing is exactly the amount of armor that we needed. We have needed, I want to read. Right. So I developed the habit of lying as a kid because I was trying to avoid getting hit by, you know, older people who had power and authority and the ability to inflict, you know, grievous amounts of bodily harm on me. And that was probably adaptive when I was a little kid. But then I maintained that habit and then I just tried to use it to my advantage as a character default of always lying when I got into trouble. And then it became maladaptive. Read that to you again because this is a really important one. And my wife was reading this before and she said, that's, be sure and emphasize this. This is about compassion. However much armor we are wearing is exactly the amount of armor that we have needed. In parentheses I have, we always, this is about, we always make sense even when we think we don't. Right. So I took on lying as a way to stop getting hit, stop getting beaten, stop getting destroyed.  Right. These, these became my, my character defaults. They were the best tools that I had at the time to deal with life. Right. We all do the best we can with the tools we have available.  Right. We're doing the best we can with the tools we have at our disposal. We come by this, our armor honestly. Because we have gathered these coping mechanisms that is this armor unconsciously, we are not inclined. Right.  Right. These are the things we do because we have adapted to them as the most successful ways we have found in our lives to meet our needs. Client to perceive ourselves as separate from our armor. Clanking around in our heavy metal suits is our normal. In fact, at the beginning of our recovery journeys, we are identified with our armor. We are our armor. You know, I think about when I think about that, I think about just the identity issues I had alone when I quit drinking. I mean, it was like... Yeah, we know ourselves by our body tension levels, by the way we align ourselves by our defense mechanisms, by the persona that we put on, by the way that we shield away, you know, scary intimacy, by the way we try to, you know, tense up and keep the shame down. Right. I was, I was embarrassed and ashamed by this interaction at a very plush, you know, Bidley Hills Hotel. I had some high hopes. I was in a very vulnerable state and they laughed at me and they mocked me and it didn't feel good. I mean, I literally didn't feel like I knew how to clue about who I was or what mattered in my life because I was so identified with alcohol. The armor was necessary at one, at one or various points along the way, but as adults in pursuit of improving our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, wearing this heavy armor is cumbersome to say the least. It certainly interferes with the development of healthy relationships. I mean, think about it. Yeah, so a lot of traits that may have served us when we were three, five, seven, nine, they stopped serving us once we become 11, 21, 31, 41, 51.  I'm just a guy inside the armor. Imagine, imagine, imagine.  I'm just so dedicated to the truth. This is how extreme I am in my pursuit of truth and decency. And the show is in a substantial part, you know, underwritten by scams. And the show itself in substantial part is a scam, a con game, a destructive exercise in epistemic sabotage. While under the guise of, I'm just here to, to help people improve their lives and become more moral.  And I just stand there and then I just hold my arms out, I stretch my arm or arms out and say, come here, give me a hug. You know, imagine that hug with that, with that armor. You know, it's, it's not exactly the picture of intimacy. Okay. Interstep six, we'll, we'll review. We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of care. I mean, and think about all the weird interfering muscular tension patterns going on with Ron DeSantis. He has been far less impressive the more we've gotten to know him. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. He's got this weird head thing he's been doing the more he's on camera in uncomfortable settings. I don't know what it is if it's a tick, but he does this like thing where like, I haven't even announced and it's a little jarring, it's a little off-putting. It's almost like a robot that hit like a chip misfire. That's not good. That's the kind of thing that makes you, oh, I mean, Howard Dean, who was going to be the Democratic nominee a number of years ago, got booted out because he yelled, oh, we're going to Iowa, we're going to South Carolina. They booted him out for yelling. So weird robotic misfire could definitely get you thrown out. Little things like that are not good. And he hasn't been dealing very well with the press. Yeah, Ron DeSantis just makes you feel uncomfortable because he's ill at ease with himself. He's ill at ease in his body. He's got, you know, all sorts of weird interfering muscular tension patterns, which reflect weird interfering emotional patterns and soul patterns and cognitive patterns. Right. What we think, what we feel, it is radiated out through our body. Everything we think and feel it takes place within certain alignments of our body. And if our body was aligned differently, we couldn't think and feel as we do. It hasn't been impressing people on his little world tour because he went to four or five countries overseas. The reports back are very negative about how he failed to wow.  You know, there goes a future president. So we have to see, we have to see how this plays out. It's anybody's for the grabbing right now. If it's not going to be Donald Trump, anybody could get it. But the smart money, of course, is on.   But if you're ill at ease when you walk down the street, when you try to reach into the back of the refrigerator, right? You're not just ill at ease in your body. You're also ill at ease in your thinking with other people and your emotions, right? Everything we say and do and think and try to achieve, we do it with our body, right? And every alignment of the body brings with it a predilection to certain types of emotions and certain types of thoughts. While other thoughts and emotions are only possible with a particular alignment of the body, which if you are strongly armored, right? If you're strongly closed off, you can't even access often the more vulnerable, gentle, you know, sweet, loving, nurturing emotions. Eric, Bill Wilson writes that this is the step that separates the men from the boys, you know, a little misogyny here, the men from the boys. For my purposes this evening, step six is the beginning of separating the person from the armor. How vulnerable am I likely to feel after being so used to, so identified with this suit of armor when I begin to take it off? Piece by piece. Right. So when people put on armor is by using a word salad, right? Like I think about Ken Brown, Bronze Age pervert, Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro, Jean Francois, I repeat, they're constantly talking about things they don't know much about. But they just spout words that are much more of a performance. They are much more of a acting as a signaling function that they are high status and that they bestowing, you know, wisdom and profundity on you than rather actually conveying meaning. Right. And so what kind of weird off-putting alignments of the body do you have to be in to put on this phony performance? Like Dennis Prager has had back pain all his life.  Right. When your character is deformed, when what you're doing is deformed, when you are promoting damaging, you know, word salad mixes are just designed to make you sound really profound. And as the Oracle and you're the one laying a tapestry of meaning over the universe, but it's phony, it's bogus, it's destructive, it's a giant con. You don't think that that then takes an enormous toll on somebody's body, particularly in their back. Who's that famous investor out of Nebraska who when he gets back pain thinking about a stock, he sells it. Right. The back knows, right. The back is often the best indicator about what's going on with you and what's going on with your soul. And when you're crooked in your soul, when you're crooked in the messages that you're delivering, when you're crooked in the, you know, the advertisers that you're endorsing, when you're running a crooked game, right.  But there's no back surgery solution for a spiritual problem. Right. There's no chiropractor.  They all run together. When some people start lying, they start feeling back pain and the back pain goes away and they start becoming honest and forthright, start cleaning up the mess that they've created, start making amends to people. Right. The back pain starts to go away. Too profound for the average mind. Right. This is what the con game that the thought leaders and the pundits are putting out there that they've got a message that's just too profound for the average person to be understand that they're just going to, you know, dribble down, dribble down, you know, little, little drops of honey, essentially from God. Right. Dennis Prager says that his values of the Torah's values, he and the Torah just think alike. The Torah comes from God.  You don't think that's going to put, you know, some crookedness into your back with that kind of crooked thinking. Ness. But it is, that's not the characteristic. If it was, Dave Rubin would be at the tip top because he's a despicable. Right. This is Christopher Cavanaugh, Matthew Brown from Decoding the Gurus talking about Dave Rubin, who would love to be a guru, but is just not very good at it. Well, human, but he's not a, like the top tier guru. Not a particularly accomplished guru. No. Okay. That's good. So let's start with the first one. I don't like this one because it's galaxy brain, galaxy brainness. So this comes from that viral meme of the, you know, mind expanding cosmos stuff, the guy in the turtleneck sweater. So that says a lot of it. I mean, this is someone that presents ideas that they present as being too profound for the average mind. Right. Think about how Ken Brown operates or Sean Francois, Gary P operates or Bronze Age pervert. Right. This is their motor's upper under to comprehend. Right. And important. This is different from Einstein talking about quantum. And Benat says, is anyone doubt that run to Sanders actually could go in the USA. You might want someone better, but surely run to Sanders is capable completely agree. Yes. I was talking about Warren Buffett when his back hurts, when he's thinking about a stock, he knows it's time to sell. Yeah. Dave Rubin just wants a good conversation. Mechanics or general relativity, which many of us might not be able to comprehend very well. This is stuff like deep deep pack shopper, like linking quantum mechanics to, to some sort of special waves of. Yeah. I mean, this is what all gurus and thought leaders do. They take all sorts of completely disparate stories and fields and disciplines and start weaving them together. And I guess I probably do quite a bit of that. So I'm somewhere between 10% and 90% a failed guru. I hope it's not more than 10%, but my God, what if it's like 85% consciousness or something? It's superficially intellectually rarefied, but it, you know, in closer examination, it actually makes little sense. So one of the things Right.  Peace when I begin to let it go or ask God to remove it. You know, I made the point to myself thinking about that as hell, I get uncomfortable when it gets I love, I love my sport, my sport jacket so much when it gets to be summer and it's too hot to wear a jacket. I have trouble taking that off sometimes. Very last thing I want to say, one of my, this brings up to one of the therapeutic one liners, these things that we call nut shells. And this is a favorite of mine and it fits here with this arm, the armor imagery. And it is, it says this simply beneath who you are not, you will discover who you are. I'll just do that one more time beneath who you are not you will discover who you are. So yeah, when you start letting go of these unnecessary persona is unnecessary body arm rings up letting go this unnecessary muscular tension, unnecessary compression unnecessary pulling down on yourself, unnecessary restrictions on yourself, unnecessary character defaults of lying or cruelty, unnecessary mockery deceit. Right. Then then you start to discover kind of softer, gentler, more nurturing parts of yourself. To me, the self honesty is about letting go of our armor being willing to put it down. Right. So to be a guru in the mind sense, you can't be self honest.  But in the case of step six is actually the humility of becoming ready for that to for those these character defects for this armor to be removed, you know, not just about me not just not me doing it. It's well, whatever my relation to that higher power is, I'm ready for this. Right.  Are you ready to let go of character defaults of dishonesty or cruelty or exploitation or disproportionate pursuit of lust to an extent that it doesn't serve you and doesn't serve the people around you. Right.  I'm ready to enter this part phase of my life that is going to be characterized by radical, you know, and sometimes very frightening self honesty. Yeah, Leponius, people who lie all the time, figuratively or literally always looking over their shoulder to see if their lives are catching up with them causes severe body tension, emotional tension, intellectual tension. That's what I got. Fantastic. And who had studied with Wilhelm Reich and Reich in the 1920s and 30s is the man who put the body into psychotherapy. And he wrote a lot about what he called muscular armor, that this idea of how we protect our vulnerabilities, how we take care of ourselves as best we can as kids isn't just something we do in our mind, but it's very much something we do in our body. And he noticed as a young psychoanalyst that having people lay on the couch and free associate and do dream analysis had value, but it wasn't helping them change nearly as much as he was interested in helping them change. So when I give an Alexander Technique lesson, and in almost every lesson, there's a table turn where someone lies down on the table on their back fully clothed.  And I am connecting through my hands are like jumper cables, I'm connecting my central nervous system to theirs. And there's frequently a letting go of unnecessary persona, letting go of unnecessary muscular tension, letting go of many alignments of the body and of the musculature and of the mind and the soul and the spirit that are unnecessary, letting go of unnecessary tension, letting go of holding things down because you're so ashamed. And people just often start crying.   Right. If I put primary concern on my own use that then transmits through my hands. And then if I'm at ease with myself that transmits to the client that I'm working with. And it's very common for the tears just to start flowing as they let go of all these unnecessary holding patterns. So he noticed people would talk about very traumatic experiences they had had as children as adults with no feeling. Yeah. So when I'm giving a table turn or in an Alexander technique lessons, people learning to let go of unnecessary tension, right, when they start to let go of these false persona, the lies, the cramping and the crimping and the false souls and the false posturing and the unhelpful alignments that they've been using to go through life, then often comes out something beautiful and soft and vulnerable and wanting to share wanting to connect. And he was perplexed by that. He also noticed certain patterns of tension in the facial muscles of his patients and in their necks and shoulders and in their breathing and in the rest of their body. And he began to physically work with those areas of their body that were so tense or so armored. And much to his surprise and the surprise of his patients, strong outpouring of emotion began to occur for these patients. They would begin to cry when they hadn't cried for decades. They would become angry, angry, even enraged, become fearful, even terrified. Okay, so some people who as a hobby, they're hurting people such as playing tackle football or their boxes or in their particularly vicious line of work, they take up a few Alexander technique lessons. They discover they no longer want to hurt other people. They no longer want to hurt themselves. They might want to go study music or painting or poetry instead of they're engaging in, you know, vicious hobbies or vicious businesses. Depending on what he was asking them to do with the breathing and what he was doing with the musculature. So I don't want to go more into detail, but I but most people carry so much unnecessary tension in their face, particularly in their jaw. So if you want to know a proper alignment for your jaw, just say the word Boston, and notice what that does with your lower jaw. And I carry way too much tension still in my jaw, but Boston, Boston, right, where your where your lower jaw ends when you say Boston, your lower jaw should release, you know, down and away. That should be where your lower jaw is hanging out most of the time, Boston. So most people kind of crunch their teeth together. And that's almost always maladaptive. It was so fascinated by that. And I thought my body had so little to do with the emotions that I experienced and didn't experience. But I ended up studying with the guy Nathaniel introduced me to Chuck Kelly. And for about 15 years, that's the kind of work that I did with people because it's still when we talk about emotions, we talk about the feelings we have, but we also talk about the expressive movements or emotions want to make. When we're sad, we want to want we want to cry. When we find something really funny, what do we want to do? We want to laugh. When we're scared, we want to either freeze or run away, right? When we're angry, what do we want to do? We want to hit or bite or kick or hurt somebody else, right? And obviously, we learn and need to learn in the course of our development how to regulate and contain all of those feelings. But I just love that you use the metaphor of armor tonight, Tom, because it's more than a metaphor. It's very much something that we are all subconsciously almost always because we've been doing it since we were little folk, okay? And you don't think that all these right-wing gurus who are putting on a personae and preaching a false bogus message, right? You don't think that's accompanied by all sorts of unnecessary muscular tension? Things that are meant to be an indicator of it is when a figure is linking together these disparate concepts. I think all you need to know to really understand the differences between men and women is that whatever, men hunt and women gather. All you need to know is that men have two modes. They have a parasitic mode and a symbiotic mode or something, right? There's this sort of linking or concepts which we might be appealing superficially, but really have nothing much to it underneath. So Jordan Peterson famously linked the social behavior of lobsters to understand male behavior and their dominance hierarchies or whatever. Brett Weinstein, one of our favorites, we'd like to mention this. He used evolutionary theory to help understand why the Nazis chose to invade Russia in Operation Barbarossa. And there's heaps more of stuff you could draw from from the world of Wu. You know, linking secret talismans and ancient civilizations to aliens or linking electromagnetic frequencies and fields to something about balancing your chakras or your health or whatever.  It's basically you don't restrict yourself to providing some degree of information or insight on a specific topic. What you're doing is you're stepping back and you're linking together things from all over the shop to create this tapestry of meaning that the covers kind of everything, life, the universe and everything. Yeah. So if you don't like the term galaxy brain as you can do what I did in the talk I did recently on the topic and call it polymathic ability or claimed polymathic ability.  It might also be related to an overestimation of how many paradigms you can run simultaneously all at once. Right. So you don't think that that takes a toll on your body, right on your alignment on your tension levels if you're preaching a false gospel, making a very good living from it, getting a lot of fame and fortune from it, but you're essentially preaching a false gospel, which is what almost all thought leaders are doing, which is what almost all gurus are doing, which is what almost all syndicated right wing talk show hosts are doing, which is what most of the right wing media machine is doing. I want to say also, Roger, that the stuff that just come out in the last 20, 25 years about trauma and trauma memories and all this has reinforced that so much. And it's like, you know, it's like, and I'm not specializing what you're talking about at all. I'm fascinated with it.  Yeah, it'll tell you. Anyway, thanks. No, I appreciate that because that's right. And the major form now that is the most popular body oriented work is called somatic experiencing at least major from right, so I can stand up here and say all sorts of words. But what's really going on with me, you should be able to just read it in my face in the alignment of my body, right in the relationship between my head neck and back in what's going on in my shoulders, how much unnecessary tension am I carrying in my lower jaw around my eyes around my lips in my forehead. What's the cheap my my perspective, but emotions as I was saying, they want us to move and we're going to stop the experience and expression of those emotions. And you think very different thoughts when you're standing as opposed to sitting you think very different thoughts when you're walking as opposed to sitting you think very different thoughts when you're at work, right when you're at work when you're out of the house you tend to behave better. You tend to, you know, put more effort into doing the right thing. You tend to be more conscientious, right when you're working outside of the house than when you're at home. When people get home, they tend to become more slovenly, morally, aesthetically, psychologically, spiritually, religiously, right people tend to become much more slovenly at home compared to when they're out and about at work around other people. We need to tighten muscles throughout our body to what, to prevent those movements, to prevent ourselves from crying, prevent ourselves from showing excitement and so on. Now to tie this into step six, a lot of our characteristics, character defects, coping mechanisms are built in, they are part of our muscular armory, as you're saying, they are part of our self-protectiveness. And as we open up, initially just by beginning to acknowledge the holding, acknowledge the defects. And LaPenny says, what effect is constantly pushing a government-approved agenda have on one's back? I don't know because I don't really follow people who do that. So if it's a destructive agenda, then I would think it'd have a negative effect on your back. If it's a neutral agenda, I don't think it'd probably have any effect on your back. But I remember I was dating this woman, she was an economist, she got a PhD from a free market economics program, but she had to struggle to get a first job. And her first job was promoting subsidies that went completely against her free market principles. But when you take a job, you're effectively a slave. And ideally, you don't take jobs that go completely against your principles, but sometimes you need to do that. It's not a horrible thing. It's not going to really change America, it's not going to change the economy, whether or not you go to work for an organization that's completely contrary to your principles.  And sometimes that is the most judicious choice you can make. We don't often get to work for businesses that we 100% believe in. And if we 100% believe in our business, we've probably got blinders on. Right, acknowledge the issues. As we do that, we also begin to change physically. And people will comment on that. As we start to open up emotionally, we also begin to open up physically. And through acknowledging our imperfections, that's what Carl Rogers said, who I am, what I am is good enough if I would only be it openly, right? If I would only learn to be it more openly. So the first step for me is just starting with awareness and starting with acknowledgement and acceptance. That's what Pema Sheldron is all about in those quotes, be with what is not with what I'd like to have happening, be with what is. And LaPonnia says these guru busters are working 100% in the service of the COVID agenda. Everything they do ties back to that. Well, if you mean by the COVID agenda, the agenda of the ruling class with regard to COVID. My understanding of the agenda of the ruling class with regard to COVID was that it was above average. It wasn't perfect. It wasn't great. It varied in location. But overall, I would say the elites of the ruling class did an above average job with regard to COVID. I won't go further than that. But obviously, I appreciate the heck out of you starting with a imagery for all of us that we are all more or less engaged in this subconscious armor that we can shed ourselves of with time and perseverance. So thanks, Tom.


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