Avatar, considered by many to be one of the most groundbreaking movies of our generation, it stands as a testament of how far our technology has come, allowing us to create and bear witness to new worlds like we've never seen them before. Yet under the surface of the technological achievement of this film lies a very deep undercurrent of hidden spirituality. At the highest level of this movie, we see the story play out as a narrative between the dualistic nature of our human consciousness and our relationship with our planet. You can describe this duality in ways such as organic vs mechanic, the soft vs the hard, the light vs the dark, the enlightened vs the asleep, or the alien vs the native. This dualistic theme is introduced to us by a look at how the human world has evolved and a reflection of the same consciousness we have today that got us there. In this futuristic world, people are cold and the earth has been polluted and there's no sign of things improving. Those in power are using their resources to leech off of another planet to support their own dying world. Jake, the lead protagonist, lands on Pandora with the same conditioning as the rest of the military.  As the story progresses, we see the transition from one paradigm of consciousness into another, through Jake's own discovery that the story he's been told is not the highest truth. As we are introduced to the Navi, we are invited to explore a fresh take on spirituality which has been designed for this movie based on African, Native American, and other indigenous cultures of the world. They teach us of Ewa, the deity to whom the Navi prays in reverence, and we are taught that to them, God is feminine and nature is infused with her divine spirit. Scientifically, we are given explanations of this too, through the electrochemical neural network that exists between all of the plant life on the entire world, connecting life together as if one giant living organism, something the Navi are a part of, and can tap into. Around their sacred tree, we see rocks formed in the shape of an electromagnetic field, further illustrating this symbolism. What's amazing here is that this is not exclusive to Pandora, in that we see this reflected in the whole universe. Scientists today have observed that the universe itself appears to form much like a neural network, suggesting that everything in existence is a part of a giant interconnected mind. These are foundational teachings of hermetics, and James Cameron clearly has embedded these ideas deep into the foundational structure of the story. Further, it may not be coincidental that Ewa sounds similar to Yahweh, one of the names for God in the Bible. It's almost as if through this film, we are shown this connection to the religions that we have in the world today, and how life changes when we look to the feminine side of deity versus the masculine. Throughout this movie, we see Jake begin to soften to the experience of the Navi, and just as this process is happening, we see a very clear juxtaposition between the two different states of consciousness. The first is the perception that you are separate from nature, a mentality embodied by the entire human army, and Jake too when he goes on his first mission. He is curious about the environment, but it is separate from him, and this is made very clear once he finds himself alone in the wilderness, struggling to survive. This is deeply relevant to a quote by Albert Einstein, who said the following, All people must answer for themselves. For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries, and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all of that which is unfriendly. And I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process. If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially playing dice with the universe, then we are simply victims to the random toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning. But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries, and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives. God does not play dice with the universe. For Jake in the forest, we see him light a torch drowning out the light of the natural beauty around him. This is not dissimilar to how in a city it is difficult, if not sometimes impossible, to see the lights of the stars above our heads. It's only when we turn out the light can we truly learn to see. Just before Naetiri rescues him, there is a moment when she is going to kill him but a spirit of the forest comes and stops her from firing the arrow. This may very well be one of the most significant scenes in the entire movie because it shows the difference between Navi consciousness and human consciousness. She is able to listen to nature, she hears what it has to say, and she surrenders to the divine will. Instead of firing anyways, she stays her weapon and then saves his life.  She points out that it's his fault the jackals attacked him because he wasn't in tune with nature. This speaks to our own ability to take responsibility for what we are creating, even if it's unconscious to us. Over the course of the following hour or so of the movie, we watch as Jake deeply connects with the Navi and their ways and in doing so discovers his spiritual self and falls in love. For viewers watching this film, we get to experience the transformation of Jake within us because we are experiencing the movie within our own consciousness and so Jake and the other characters actually become our own avatar. As for those of us who are receptive, we too learn to soften to the more natural ways of life. The film provides a lens for us to ask ourselves, where are we being hard, rigid, or otherwise emotionless in our journey through life? And how can we connect deeper with ourselves and the natural world around us? Curiously, there is a deleted scene from this movie that almost taught us a deeper lesson here, but unfortunately it was cut from the final production. But good news, we can learn that lesson now. The scene features Jake in his avatar form participating in a sacred ceremony that is not at all dissimilar from an ayahuasca journey, although this version includes eating a worm and getting bitten by a scorpion. Oh, and as a side note, Scorpio is the zodiac sign of the invisible, mysticism, and transformation. Much like ayahuasca, Jake goes through a rather tumultuous period as his consciousness changes awareness, and then he suddenly activates into his energy body. From here, he leaves his physical form and rises as energy into a world of light, connection, and transcendent beauty, where he connects with what is probably the spirit of Ewa through the great tree of life. And honestly, once you've seen the scene, watching the full movie normally just feels like it's missing this big crescendo right in the middle. It's such a powerful and transcendent scene, just saying. While we cannot say definitively that Cameron and his team participated in ayahuasca ceremonies, the connection here is too striking to suggest that he's never heard of it either. Nevertheless, James, if you're watching this, I know you probably had some good reason for taking that scene out. Maybe you thought people wouldn't get it, that society wasn't ready, or perhaps you had some studio executive going, you can't show that to a billion people. But whatever the reason, I implore you, please bring this scene back for Avatar 2. Moving on, even though we didn't get our ayahuasca scene, we got some other ceremonies that were just as interesting. As we see on multiple occasions, the Navi also participate in a sacred ceremony where they link their consciousness together and connect with ayahuasca for a divine purpose. And in the case of this movie, that purpose is soul transference. Through their collective mind and mystic prayer, they are able to move the soul from one individual into another body. What's especially curious about this is that, thinking biologically, why would any species need to learn how to do this? Especially like the Navi, it doesn't seem like something they'd really ever need to use. They probably don't have tons of empty Navi bodies just lying around for them to switch their souls into whenever they want, right? Therefore, the significance of these scenes is to demonstrate two things. One, to give us an underlying understanding that consciousness is not limited to the brain or body, but exists beyond it and through it. And further, that with a connection to the divine, anything can be accomplished. After this movie came out, there were people who were depressed and even a few cases of suicide because the world of Pandora wasn't real or at the very least, if it's out there, it's not accessible to us. And Pandora was just so much more appealing than the world we have now. However, thanks to this movie, Pandora now lives within us. And beyond that, the film provides us with lessons on how we can restore life on earth to a natural way of being. Through the proper use of prayer, ceremony, and understanding that we are all connected through our thoughts and feelings, we can amplify our spiritual energy and accomplish things that may even seem impossible for us today. A hundred years ago, we could never even have conceived of a technology like a smartphone. Just imagine where we could be in another hundred years. Finally, the way that many people experienced this film was a narrative about nature. Humans have been incredibly destructive on the face of the planet, and we must change our behavior in order to thrive in harmony with the natural world. We understand clearly that economic imperialism is disastrally exploitive, and it's time we collectively found a better way to express that desire to create and expand in a way that is in harmony with all of life. We can see that the Navi live abundantly. They do not have money. Everything is shared. This says to us that we too can create a life like this on this planet if we are able to get to a place consciously where we see each other as connected and give ourselves freely to each other to infinite them. And most important, Avatar is a narrative on the relationship between colonists and natives, which we have seen many expressions of in different ways, from frozen two and Pocahontas to dances with wolves and fern gully. This is a very important conversation because things in real life didn't go the way they did in Avatar. Civilizations were destroyed and suppressed, and today there are entire cultures that are still living under the heel of the colonialist empires. Today, films like Avatar help to bring these conversations to light in a way that makes it easy for the collective consciousness to grasp. It's very easy to take for granted the actions of our ancestors that brought us here today, but we must acknowledge our history and learn from it if we are going to create collective healing and a better future for all of us. Now, there's one final thing I wish to speak on. While the general mentality of the humans are observed as the antagonist in the movie, there is one aspect of it that we must recognize as important, which is the human technology. You see, the Navi live in a different paradigm. They have no need to build spaceships, they do that with their version of Ayahuasca, but the humans, on the other hand, have a lot of very unique and beautiful technology. It's unfortunate that we see this technology used for such selfish and abusive purposes because the technology itself isn't evil, just the people steering it. Now Avatar itself was praised for its technological innovation and through the film we see a farther potential as to what humanity could create with our computers and even more significantly with our biotech. It's through the technology that the Avatar bodies were created and that which allowed a conscious neural link between their physical form and the avatar body. It's the idea that we are so powerful as a species, we can create literally anything we want to. If we follow in this thought, we can see that the entire world of Pandora is actually something that we could completely turn the earth into if we collectively decided we wanted that. We have the capability to learn how to terraform this entire planet into a thriving natural ecosystem just as much as we can use that same technology to completely blow up the planet. Ultimately that decision rests in our hands individually and together as a species. The only thing that will limit us from some magical future for us all is if we can learn to live from the heart and see each other the way that the Navi saw each other, one with everything. I see you and thank you so much for watching. I know that there's actually a lot more in this movie so if you notice something else that we missed share it in the comments below and while you're at it don't forget to give a like and a subscribe. With that I'll see you again next week for some more hidden spirituality.


Alright We are live. Hello Brandon. Welcome to the show. Yeah, it's good to be here. Yes This is gonna be really fun. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited talking about integrated somatic inquiry Yeah, and the simulation and the simulation exactly the holographic universe Oh Yeah, I've really enjoyed our connecting even just leading up to this it's just like you know You have a certain, you know precision in the way that you speak about like liberating contractions, which I really like a lot Why don't why don't we talk about that and it's relation to kind of the holographic universe. So yeah We apparently contract and then we apparently heal and expand so take us. That's so great Yeah, there's so many directions I could take it but just what first comes is like In a contracted State we're not Here we're not we're not present. We're in psychological time and by definition There's a like a projection you could say of the the matrix or the simulation from the now Into past and future and it's we can call it suffering, right? and we'll mistake our life for the projection of our life and Typically it's like having a painful past event That's not integrated which means it's suppressed and repressed Right, which is buried in the body and our conscious mind can say oh I don't mind that anymore and our body's saying a totally different story So we'll talk about ways to like unearth that especially it's rampant and kind of like the New Age world where it's like I had one spiritual awakening all my trauma is done and I'm a healed and I'm Whatever the claim is it's like that's to me is like the the sure sign they have a lot of work to do but the so it's like These experiences that go on integrated they get repressed that then become you could say beneath our conscious mind are like it's like driving in a car and Consistently looking in the rear view mirror trying to avoid a crash that you previously experienced And by continuing to drive and staring in the rear view mirror You're setting yourself up to crash and repeat and repeat it and an entire narrative of who you are based on your past and based on avoiding a future which is guilt and anxiety becomes the norm and People think their way out is money is sex is a relationship a Substance it's some material solution to get out of an immaterial problem and that furthers the trap and the powerlessness and so Yeah, ISI integrated somatic inquiry is it's not about acquiring anything. That's not about learning anything It's not about finding a solution to a problem. It's about dissolving the validity of the problem Nice. Yeah, and in the absence of that is everything. We're looking for in the material in the outcome in the right money. Yeah, and In the absence of looking for it you find it It's like as soon as I look for it I leave it and so I don't need to find it no one needs to get better at finding success happiness or whatever it might be but to question The spell that says this is your way to freedom which by definition means you're not free as you are right And so we go into not just what's happening in the conscious mind, but into the unconscious narratives that We say it's like in the non-dual world, for example our journey to God is this Whoa, I realized the eye that I've been referring to isn't This small self doesn't actually exist I can't find it and the absence of that is everything I'm looking for and that's I remember Rupert Spira saying this That's chapter one of the book and that's the journey to God the journey in God is the integration That is endless and can always become more precise More authentic more loving more bold whatever it needs to look like. Yeah hmm So Damn, I loved at the very beginning when there was that like the contract the contraction itself solidifies Everything including that there's an actual past. There's an actual future completely takes us out of the bliss and the peace that underlies everything already and the freedom that underlies everything already and then through that through that solidity then is the desire to be Unsolid or to dissolve that solidity to heal to do this inquiry into the Soma and And I love the the analogy too. It's like we it's just no way Is it basically the only thing that's happening is either we're True other either we're choosing to repress Or we're not mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah Other we're choosing to stay limited or we want unlimitedness So bad And what's tricky about the repression is it to be consciously aware that you're repressing isn't That's not part of the repression Experience you're not aware that you're choosing it. There's an automatic Reaction that you deem normal who you are Helpful There's some relationship to it that goes. Why would I it's the last thing you would look at to change because it's so buried That it's like we can say we're choosing it But it's it's like the way that we translate the unconscious Automatically choosing it feels like there's no choice But if we zoom out and we look at it as an unconscious choice We can still see it as a choice just to frame it and like oh, we're all sovereign while choosing on certain levels It's just our biology can literally run the show whether we want it to or not, right, right? the energetic contraction runs the body at that point and the That's this is why like You see all those like little kids that are like I don't know scared of something and then like there's like the exposure therapy or even adults that have had a trauma and then there's exposure therapy and that kind of thing but like Like a huge part of it is just like the fearlessness of going into whatever the pain is and Like and just seeing it as a sensation seeing it as a texture, right? Yeah. Yeah something to That is actually a gift it's like it's a diamond, you know, and it's actually where your wisdom is Yeah, I love that part of it, too. So then that like kind of can excite Like what happens if I you know make that call and apologize or what happens if I? You know heal within me that hatred that I have for my family member or whatever How much more free is my heart yeah, yeah, and it's like on the surface, especially in the more new agey Spirituality it's not sexy on the surface. It's like no do plant medicine or you know Some ceremony or ritual and all these things and that's great and what's your relationship like with your parents and your friends and like That's your immediate curriculum because it's it's the the first reflection outside of your body that you know You're not dealing with like it's gonna hit you emotionally where there's contraction Then it's gonna hit you in symptoms and then if you're still not and usually even quicker than this But if you're not dealing with it all of your relationships are gonna become a mirror image of that contraction And it's so it's like yes the way through was always apparent And it's it's what's arising right now that would that feels like it's keeping you From the truth or from freedom and like you said moving right through it. I had this experience where Moving through repressed anger like we mentioned where I really let myself be angry and But not doing anything with it I think sometimes it's like the only way to repress your anger is to beat something up And it's like okay that you can energy can be moved and it can be embraced that way Sure, but embracing energy doesn't it doesn't require a certain movement of the body If that was the case and people that were paralyzed couldn't move anger and they'd be actually limited It'd be because of their body. So it's not universal that you need to do something right to Allow transmutation to happen. It's like you're stepping out of the way of resistance Towards that emotion and it's transmuting itself. All right. It's like they say in Buddhism Reality is self-liberating. So it's like you're letting the liberation happen Same thing they say in Christianity.  He took my sins away from me. They're referring to the same thing Yeah, and so I remember this time. I was so angry so beautiful as you said that there was a balloon's animation that came up On the on the because you did that. Oh, that's so I just noticed that's a new update That was happening yesterday with my clients. I would do like something and like a thumbs up would happen I'm like, okay, like zoom we're vibing right now It was great timing with the reality self-liberating itself and also taking the sins away Yeah celebration celebration. Yeah. Yeah. Good news. Good news. Yeah So Yeah, I was I just I just went right into the I was like overflowing with anger and my my reaction was like I have to do something with this which is a subtle resistance to it It's as this has to move. This has to change It's like the same thing as people preaching about patience, which is your ability to wait for something better Which is slavery? Mm-hmm. It's it's enslavement Just be more patient. Just wait for something better than this. It's the same thing. Mm-hmm So versus presence, right?  I just went right into it I just all of my attention on anger with no agenda and Immediately the seas it inside of me like mother the sea of emotion opened and it was just bliss and absolute Certainty, which was an interesting thing to experience or it's like I know what's at the center of the things we fear because I Coming from an anger repressor. I don't want to go into anger. Like that's scary You know as a kid my parents my dad like there's angry people and I can't do that It's scary. It hurts people right so to go right into that was was to allow that version of me to die And that's why it feels so scary, but in that death is this oh Just this like stilling of the water and this this freedom. Yeah, and and It was such a powerful moment and you know before that I've had many times where it's like, oh, I don't have anger problems I'm liberated conscious mind and then the perfect thing happens to bring it to the surface and it's like Oh, I have no idea what's actually under the surface. This is why any phrase that implies time is false I'm Always liberated and I always will be you know, it's like you start to create time in that moment It's like you can't know What's in your body until it's there any phrase that implies time is false Yeah, it's a trap But yeah, it just it's just again, it's like it speaks to the grounded it's like what I want to call it like grounded spirituality or just telling the truth which is I can't know I Can't know what is gonna unfold and so in the absence of claiming to be anything for value for Whatever it might be. I'm just open to experience Yeah, and in that openness it there's gonna be times where I'm absolutely terrified and contracted and It's not it's like we're not here to avoid those moments It's like actually the more that I can let those moments in the more freedom there is for me Yes, and I will attract situations and circumstances to bring that up because life wants to liberate me. It's like that is the Evolutionary impulse. That's the movement towards order I have to attract the chaos necessary like a puzzle piece that fits perfectly with me to give me an opportunity to be liberated or not And that's like the inherent choice that we have or feels like a choice in that moment But it's just the translation of feeling vast like when you when you feel vast you feel like you have unlimited choice Yeah, and to bring that to those moments is Is the work nice? Yeah, it's like the the mastery the energy mastery of When things contract don't avoid don't escape don't anything just like allow and be with and like process metabolize alchemy is all those things and Because you know, it's just quote a temporary sensation you you know that You know that it's a lesson like you know that it's a learning you know that you know on the on the other side is greater mastery is greater wisdom and Getting really good at that is like any contraction can be expanded for myself and for anyone that I in interface with There's no limit on consciousness that can not be broken that cannot be Alchemized right every single one like that's so empowering. Yeah, yeah, and if that becomes it's like that's a great definition of success for people is Can I be with this? Yeah, and it's like that's my only job is to to question and to Feel or we could say to alchemy's what's in the way of me being with this There's actually nothing more that I want.  Yeah, it's like I'm not efforting to be come anything right, but it's like For that to be authentic. I actually have to acknowledge all the places. I still believe I do Need X need to become this need that and and that's Humility damn that's so powerful. Yeah. Yeah Like leaving oneself because oneself is not enough and then getting whatever is thought that will make It be okay Versus As long as the basic needs are met like that component is obviously so crucial Like as long as the basic needs are met. There's really Everything's an inner job. Yeah And up to this point everyone on the planet. That's alive have had their basic needs met enough to be alive, right, you know, and that's that's another it's like right the You can be starving and not mentally and emotionally suffering through and like a practice like inquiry where it's like I'm very hungry. That's actually that's a sensation It's like when I did I did a four-day fast in the desert and it was like there was times I was extremely hungry and that can either lead to a Story that mind puts on top of it that I believe that creates suffering or it could just be completely meeting that sensation which usually Lessons the sensation or completely changes it transforms the sensation and so it's like What I need is what is what I want is usually never what is Right, right, but I like my wants are here to actually bring me back to what I need and what I need is what I have Yeah, and that's the ultimate gratitude to land on Right because then you know you go. Oh, I have everything I need Right now the the lack of what I need only exists in a future and a past Yeah, and that's not in reality. That's just as real as saying, you know Tomorrow there might be a unicorn that shows up on my front lawn like I'm gonna hold on to that belief That's just as true as well. I'll probably wake up tomorrow. They're both just thoughts Hey, so it's like Without in the absence of that I can't have a need unmet Yeah, I really can't Even if I'm starving and I'm this close to death, right? I might say okay. My need is unmet right when I die, but death isn't an experience. It's not like I'm Okay, I'm dying now. No, I'm in this form Then I'm in another form. It's the same way. We have deep sleep, right? It's like I don't experience deep sleep I don't remember it The falling asleep and the waking up are in the same moment Experientially, you know, it's like as soon as you fall asleep. You kind of you wake up I wonder how long I slept for and You don't remember the moment you fell asleep. You remember moments previous to falling asleep. So you actually don't experience Deep sleep, which is the absence of conscious awareness. You're the dog. It's so sweet. Yeah, I think I'm so just sweetie And the point there is just that we so cute that we the same way That it's took completely valid to experience our needs not being met For the sake of questioning that which we need to be a piece in this moment Which wouldn't can't wouldn't take us away from eating From drinking water. Yeah, it's not gonna take us away from the practical things It's just gonna remove the layer of suffering we stack on top of it Which really just gives us access to be more creative and resourceful in the midst of Something that's challenging the body, right It's so good, so So So basically everything is that's being liberator just things that have been stacked on top of and If we think of like where did this stacking start? Yeah, there's no cause We can't find. Oh, it's my this ancestor. It's this moment if we want to like go into time It's the big bang, you know, it just goes all the way back So when you look for like someone to blame there's not it's just life And so it's like, okay. I'm the intended result of you know, 13 points something billion years of movement and I can't say this one thing or that one thing is the cause of my suffering or the cause of my trauma Yeah, but it doesn't take away from working with memories And this is what I do in clients because back to the holographic nature of reality and that one slice that one frame It contains the whole yeah, so so you can access all the information you need Based on one specific pattern that may and be you know the result of billions of years But the way that it played out in that moment has all of the information of what's going on in that individual psyche and That repressed emotion that if liberated would render That pattern and its repetition obsolete. Yeah Simply because you're not invested in it as a source of safety or love anymore, right? So we still use as we used to use time To dissolve time yeah, so it's like let me let's go to this memory and see why it makes sense to a young part of your psyche That needs to hold on to it. There's something some need. It's like this book called existential kink It talks about Loving our shadows and getting off on our own drama and like I love the drama and I need this because the struggle and the you know like humans and So we could still find why Why the psyche holds on and it's always for a sense of Safety protection love right that's been confused for safety and protection and love And when they find that and they make the the unconscious conscious That splitting in the mind is is no longer and it just becomes irrelevant and it's like the phrase Forgive but don't forget. It's actually forgive and do forget We we forget what we no longer need the brain goes. Why would I hold on to this? Click on to something. That's already even been healed into metabolized. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I get that reflection It's such a funny one. It's like bruh like you're done with this like what are you doing? Are you coming back? Yeah, you're doing here usually cuz it has a message. It's like you're not done with me or You know because what I what the the deeper holographic perspective is like I'm projecting that version of the past right now Be based on as a reflection of my state of being right now. I'm magnetizing Certain versions of my past and the past is a dynamically changing structure. It's not linear So as I shift my past my future shifts and that might seem like Re-emerging memories new memories different perspectives on memories, but it's all a reflection of my State of being in the now. I'm going to access Memory as a reflection of that state and I'm going to project a type of future as an extension of that state And the future I'm going to project is going to feel like Excitement and inspiration for unlimited possibility. Yeah, if I'm in an open state, yeah, and if I'm contracted It's gonna feel like avoiding anxiety. Yes. Yes nice I love With cleanup like I love going into the the holographic frames like that's such a good way to such a Poignant way to describe what it's like to go somewhere that feels like there's all a contraction of light and sort of in this timeline within the body in the cellular memory itself and and and Fearlessly go into it. Like that's like I think that that's probably like one's own like claim of safety Like imperturbable safety, you know, if that is like claimed like fully like I am that Then it's like everything's allowed. Mm-hmm.  No, no, no, let me go That is no longer because it's like excitement around the mastery for the wisdoms for For not having to repeat the patterns later To be more free. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, well said Yeah It's it's it's funny like seeing it as like an advertisement that kind of pops up it's just like like There's the I mean in you become energetically masterful enough to be able to determine like when things are quote like So much here. It's so funny I'm sure you get this you probably get this a lot you get like pop-ups, you know for like the client that might Not actually be ripe Or something like that and you know, you've went down this path before Where you invite the client in for a session even though you know, they're not ripe or whatever and then the whole hour is like Nothing changes So it's just like discernment, you know ripeness Like ripeness for transformation. Yeah for healing for this work And like a surrendering of trying to morph reality through the external acquisitions of endless sorts Yeah, it's like, okay fine like it's okay. So we're gonna morph from here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Well, yeah, you're speaking of I've used these terms before going from an outside-in approach versus an inside-out Approach and we're still like speaking in dualistic terms, but it's helpful because it's Well, if I'm not ready, I have to go outside in I have to look for something outside of myself because it's so scary to look Within and face the things that six seven eight-year-old me made a decision at one point not gonna ever do that again don't know how to process this and I'd rather wear a mask and become some persona then feel this and and die because it in a Trauma response and that the cell danger response in a what's called the DHS, which is a Dirk Hammers syndrome, which is in German New Medicine term. It talks about being caught off guard Isolated and completely overwhelmed and when that hits all at the same time There's an adaptation that happens in the brain, right because this is overwhelming We need to adapt and help the organism survive and that can be from something physical happens all the time It's like if you are driving in the car and a Cars coming at you and you have this split second thing before it even started because your subconscious is so tuned in and powerful It's already adapting to you. It might turn on more Cells in your lungs so you can breathe better. It might you know Start to people dilate people dilate it might start to reinforce your skin and like create more cells on your skin to Guard you and then the next day you might have some pimples or the next day you might have You know some mucus to then get rid of those extra cells that you no longer need and it's happening It's turning on and turning off just like that, you know, let's say in that physical context but because our body doesn't know the difference between what's happening in imagination and mind and physical reality You can be in a metaphoric car crash Just first thing waking up in the morning because of some unprocessed integrated thing that gets triggered and that adaptation can turn on That over time is what chronic disease is. It's the continuous turning on not resolving Slowly coping or repressing turning back on and you're going in and out of healing and adaptation and healing and adaptation And you're not sustaining the healed state on a biological level, right? And so I think the new paradigm of Medicine what we're gonna see is just a reflection of the understanding that it's all mine Yeah, it's another way of saying consciousness and that if we're looking for cause and effect We have to put them in their correct places Which is inside inside the mind right the consciousness of the individual both cause and effect Yeah, and when we do that there's a complete total shift in our orientation towards life Because no longer are we at the effect of life the life is not affecting us. It's it's reflecting us Yeah, right, so it's like ah I'm I'm invited to see what I'm causing Suffering resistance Whatever it might be when this thing seemingly is the cause of it It's actually revealing an internal cause. Yeah, and when I use it that way I start to play the game of the game, you know, like the game of life where sold is Work for 40 years external yeah make money, you know American dream have a family to and then you'll be at retire one day then you'll be happy and Like you said, it's external. It's about acquiring something And now if you look at the that process, there's no emphasis on the process It's all about and result game of the game Isn't what am I getting? It's who am I being now? Yeah in relationship to what's happening. Yeah, and if that becomes my number one value in life not to get not to Just that as my number one I start I enter the game of the game And am I only goal is can I be with reality as it is number one? Goal of game is frequency of one's own Frequency one's on freedom. Yeah internally at the cause right of the hologram, right? Where there's just like joy overflowing and like able to serve because of that yieldness inside.  There's there's no sense of self. Right. It's just a waterfall of Shooting Yeah, it's the the you that is experiencing the inspiration isn't there. It's just inspiration. Nice. It's just passion Yeah, and in that there it's it is self-fulfilling. Yes. It doesn't lead to fulfillment Right self-fulfilling very cool and self-perpetuating the more you're passionate About passion the more it snowballs on to of itself and it the the means is the end And so when the means is the end It's like what I'm looking for has to be here now and if I'm under the illusion. It's not that's my work. Nice beautiful Yeah, exactly. Oh, it's so good Basically, so then the work is if something doesn't feel timeless and free and ignited as self-passionate Then that's where the work is absolutely because you're gonna be under some spell of obligation Right and where there's obligation. There's guilt And where there's the guilt there's past and whereas there's a guilty past. There's an anxious future Yes, so it just takes us right back into that and so you can't be absolutely living in truth in that moment Now it doesn't mean it's like Like I'll give you an example if I Gave my word to someone say I'm gonna do this for you and then in that process I discovered Oh, this is not what I want to do. There's two paths you can take You can be honest about it and say actually this isn't true You know, I'm actually there's no part of me. That's excited about this Something has genuinely changed within me to where I'm a different version of me than the one that originally made this commitment And so you're more committed to the truth than you are to an arbitrary commitment Right and that's can be very relieving for the other person because they're gonna I don't want someone that doesn't want to Create this for me or team up with me in this way. So that's gonna create space for them, right number one number two is they're not on the same wavelength as you and There's a version like where you can speak that truth, but as a compassionate concession Do what you said you were gonna do because it might be the path of least resistance for everyone involved Yeah, and it's like then it's like can I Do this but do it in a way that does excite me, right? Can I can I change my experience of The task in a way that actually works for me And so often we can do that or that were that free and flexible, you know It's not just the inherent task that either creates excitement or passion It's really who we're being within it and a lot of times just the coming back to the truth and Then making a choice not from obligation relieves us from you know the anxiety the pressure or whatever it may be Yes, and so it's not like it's so good. A lot of people will take this teaching of excitement inspiration Moving in the direction of truth and let ego hijack it and as soon as they are committed to someone and it gets sticky Go, it's just not my truth. My truth is to leave and what they're really saying is I'm afraid, right? Right. Yeah, and it's like if there's fear truth is hidden. Yeah, you can't See you don't have vision you have sight. You don't have vision when you're in fear So you can't say I know this is not true for me if there's fear simultaneously because they're not coexisting You're either in fear or not and so it's like making all choices from that place of Neutrality and not Riding the high or low of an emotion. Nice is Yeah, you know, that's like kind of stoic Neutral sober. Yes path. Yes. Yes. Nice. Nice. I love that and that's that feels like a great way to marry the the masculine spaciousness neutrality with the kind of feminine sensuality of everything anything Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Oh I love that Cuz it's just it's so nice when it's like felt balanced inside. It's almost like neutrality is Sensuality And it's like it's the balancer You know, you're not on a extreme polarity Of anything. Yeah, it's like you've come to the third to the middle way, right? And in that it's like something will spontaneously arise Through me and that's true Whatever that is exactly and how do I know it's true because I have this sense of choice Which is always that's the opposite of feeling like a victim all a victim is is I don't believe I have a choice It's the illusion of the the choice being taken away from us And in that feeling limited and contracted in the absence of that it's like I feel so Expansive and then we translate that we go. I have so many choices and options. I could do I could be anything So like in that free space of inspiration Whatever arises on behalf of it isn't arising on behalf of ego. It's not arising on behalf of separate self It's arising on behalf of life Yeah, and going this is something that only you can bring through and the setup is you're just You just so happen are going you're going to love it Like it's built into you having absolute fulfillment to say yes to that That's just how it's set up and that's great Yeah, like yeah everything that's flowing becomes absolute fulfillment and it is Before there was ever one that was We I'm watching Yeah before there was ever a contraction that started to limit or to hijack or manipulate or control or any of those things Which has been such a beautiful process in a way of unlimited unlimited and limitizing Oh Because then the joy is the natural fountain like the the peace the sensuality all of those things are there's the natural fountain But that it's all kind of twisted up twisted up in all kinds of bodily cellular psychiatric Places and then it's like oh my gosh, you know teacher help me right. Yeah.  Oh, okay. All right, you know after some years of work or whatnot like boom Now it's like you can turn around and become the tit Yeah, yeah, yeah and help suckling on your own teeth And what I love about that too is like This happened this comes up a lot with my clients like at one point They might say something like yeah, this person you guys saw this person and they Healed that helped me heal this or healed this thing in me or there's some Attributing to the other person for their healing and it's not that we can't use language to like Give appreciation for our experience because it's yeah My experience was maybe I sat down with someone something was said it hit me like a ton of bricks and I go I couldn't have had that experience without the other person, but the moment the The ego grabs ahold of that and goes well, that's how you heal now You find the people with the things that you need get it from them as if it's like you can just reach into them Grab the healing and then put it in you where you need it right like hey if that was the case It's like you should here take just it's in this basket Here's your healing just take that and consume it drink this, you know, it's like we would all just be Drinking the same healing juice if that was the case so it's the questioning of has Have I ever Actually given my power away not the I need to take my power back from a guru But did I actually give it away in the first place or was it my believing and Thinking and then subsequent feeling that generated my entire experience and they were a stand-in They were permission exactly and so they actually can't like it's a it's a fallacy to say someone can take my power Yeah, because I'm using my power to create. Yes to create that dynamic Yes, exactly. So the whole actual demonstration was a demonstration of your power. Yes just being filtered through a more limited Yeah, yeah, yeah You needing the experience or the lesson of quote outsourcing and being reflected back hopefully purely That hey you're outsourcing Exactly yeah, it's like Eckhart Tolle said he said the what's useful about suffering is to suffer until you realize It's no longer useful. Yeah, and that's great and for me, you know I I welcome all kinds of mentorship. I welcome I have men's group that I co-lead and it's like Yeah, I realize I have an unconscious mind that I can't always see and others because they're not me can see what I can't see And so the openness to just See me. Yeah, see what maybe I don't see the defenselessness which is perfect It's like there's a freedom in that right and that's that's where this work has taken me It's not taking me to the freedom of defenseless. Yeah. Oh, that's such a good one Yeah, just like freedom of vulnerability, but I but I like defenselessness Yeah, it's like we're all one consciousness on Unlimiting itself, right? Yeah, and in the defenselessness. It's like someone might say you don't trust you because of this And if your response is yes It's not what it's like I'm gonna look at that. Yeah, yeah, like I'm I'm energetically open to that being absolutely true What are you defending? Right? Where's there's no suffering even if there's contraction Just an idea or a thought right because of the moment you go into defense you crystallize the separate self It's like now. I'm this one being attacked by you and like there's there's the fight right there, but if it's like If there's no defense, there's just then Either that's bringing unconsciousness to the surface and I'm in contraction with you in which case I want that Like I want to know where I'm contracted. Yeah, exactly, right? Or I defend it and I fight for the limitation. God, it's so good to hear it this way It's like we're all on teams to expand contractions and to stop defending. Yeah our Those contractions and if that's our conscious agreed context for relationships, that's really cool Yeah, because it's kind of like hey like where why are we in relationship? Chemistry fun joy love all these things great and it's a context for this kind of integration right that I I'm never going to be able to genuinely say again in time that I'm just done with I don't need to say that Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you know, I'm just open to it never ending exactly when I'm open to that I do feel a sense of yeah, right like that. Yeah, it's like already free and yet always Unlimiting itself, right? So and then like that's like the beauty of the school or the dojo or whatever. How are you want to call it?  Let's have fun Yeah, let's children be born into perfect harmony with nature and technology all this kind of stuff and Like that's kind of also this like it's an you can't transcend and go somewhere Right because that is this. Yeah. Yeah, the same thing. So right. So that's why it's like this active excitement about Existence about relativity about love dancing with itself about yeah. Yeah, yeah And it's also why things like war when we see us atrocity There's this an innate kind of rage response because we we see a violation of truth Yeah, and we we know it's not true Because all of us deeply know who we are what what we are we have this deep intuition of wait, I don't think I'm just this body I don't think this is random and we might be so steeped in denial that we can't admit that to ourselves yet But most of us have this intuition that I'm greater than this and that sense in our body is the Yearning to be free. Yeah, and so when then we see the opposite of that extreme oppression violation of you know Kind of human rights human rights just genocide what we're seeing right now in the Middle East like you see that and you go this affirms The opposite of what's true exactly. This is you could say Lucifer. It's like the inversion of truth It's completely upside down and so it evokes Just this is I think this is from the Bible evokes God's will within me tyrants Tyranny evokes God's will within me So it's like the will of God is to be a stand for truth Yeah, and you could say that's what it looks like in action to know it looks like peace but in action It's like I'm making a stand for it I'm demonstrating it because there's no there's nothing between my knowing of it and my doing of it because those are synonymous They're the same. Yes. So when I'm actually standing for it, I'm demonstrating and teaching. It's my ministry I'm teaching the truth. Yeah, and we all have a unique way of doing Yes, it could be art. It could be fundraisers. It could be whatever it might be that arises spontaneously in that state of truth I remember why I was going with that. Oh gosh. That's that's so perfect. Oh, right. But yeah, the war the war Again, it's it's a mass It's like a mass permission slip to remember what's true Yeah, and then to have an opportunity to stand for it or not and it's like that that's a test to pass Yeah, yeah when enough people stand for the truth in the face of what's not true We're completely accelerating this awakening process On a mass scale Yeah, and so equal and opposite reaction the greatest atrocity holds the key to Greatest fulfillment. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. There's so many good ways to play with this Wow the The stillness and the peace and the freedom The emptiness is not a ground. It's not a place to go and Transcend into or hide from relativity, right? and It's so beautiful when one fully kind of embodies this What you were saying like tyranny in a way it triggers God's will for Transforming injustice. Yeah. Yeah into freedom love unity abundance all these things and Just like one of my favorite things is like recently has been All of the quote like we've been calling it like spiritual cunt. It's kind of like this archetype of just like Transcend it and like right. Yeah. Yeah the bypass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and like And like just like taking them by the genitals and like bringing them into Gaza You know bringing them into the middle of where there's human rights violations There's no basic needs being that people are suffering limbs are cut off bombs are dropped all this kind of stuff because it can't live There yeah, that can't live there. Yeah, so it it auto integrates, right? It's forced to see What it's actually up against yeah in terms of healing separation wounds trauma multi-generational traumas of border conflicts and And so when you look and you see like two people that are literally from the same land that have Have had an imaginary border drawn between them that now hate each other, right? That happens everywhere around the world, but that's where all your work is Mm-hmm That's where all the work is like It's it's not like hmm. Oh So good. There's nothing Yeah, yeah, it's like yeah, that is this so great like yeah let's Let's alchemy is like the root like your own root chakra itself is The center of the earth where all of the knot of seeing separation and seeing and feeling pains and Protection and wounding and hoarding and all kinds of things like that's where all of the work is and if you're actually Unlimited consciousness then You would want to swan dive into Liberating all the limits right because you came here to eat those limits, right? Yeah, yeah Like that's what you were saying earlier the fearlessness Yeah, it's like the spiritual bypasser is a coward, you know by default and it's not wrong or bad It's just the I don't want to go to war or I don't want to stand for something where my personal life existence self may be Threatened so there there can't be a selflessness because there's so much concerned with the self So no, I'm not gonna do that but the reason I'm not gonna do that is because it's not spiritual Right, so that's the justification to keep the fear alive and then they keep the image of No, but it's spiritual and if I believe it hard enough I don't have to actually look at the fear where in truth the more spiritual thing to do I'll just give this as an example It's like if someone in your backyard right now if there's an old lady in her purse is getting stolen It would be to go stop that. Yeah, it could be to interrupt the conflict. It's like, oh, that's just a hologram Yeah, there's no built-in meaning. It's like this super feminine The only truth is that it's all subjective and da da da. It's like bypass fear. I'm so concerned for myself I don't want to be in danger and it's like deep identification with the body masquerading as spirituality But spirituality is what's the honest like what's most honest and I actually like that better than the word Spirituality if I if I have to teach yeah, if I have to teach what's most spiritual It's gonna be what's most honest Yeah, and and that comes back to the truth setting us free Yeah, and I teach the three levels of truth telling which is like I'm getting I'm telling the truth with me and me What's actually going on in here? What am I afraid of? What am I repressing? And then can I tell those truths to my most intimate relationships? I'm just gonna bring up.  It's like the truth of that moment is oh This old lady and her her bag being stolen is is is a person in ignorance believing that in lack and like his only way to feel powerful to feel abundant is to take and Steal and that's gonna cause him suffering for the rest of his life Yes, of course the lady as well, but he's gonna remain in suffering. So for me to End that like do what I can to end that But then demonstrate the truth to him. That's the evolutionary impulse like that's right That's the most loving thing to do. I'll tell this quick story I was in London one time and I'm in this park and I hear this woman screaming help Help he's stealing my baby And I'm with my girlfriend at the time we're having a little picnic and I can't see this woman I just there's just a hillside.   I mean it felt like there were a ten thousand angels at my back And it was like he needs the love. Yeah right now, right? So go in and stop this. Yes, and give him love Yes, and so I went up and I put my hand on his back and I said you're not a bad guy I know you're only doing this and this was like I couldn't plan this. This was just coming through me Yeah And I was like I know you're only doing this because you really care because I started to gather It was a custody battle thing, right so it was like that you because you really love your daughter If you didn't care you wouldn't care.  I'm gonna hit you. I said hit me hit me I'm not going anywhere, and I just said I'm gonna hit you. I'm gonna hit you I'm gonna hit you and I just okay I just keep my hand on it and I'm just following him. He's kind of pacing and they start to leave and he kind of calms down he looks at me and He's like looking down kind of ashamed and I said look at me and he looked up and I said If your daughter was of age and could see you right now. Is this what you want to teach her? And he goes Looks down 10 seconds made me a silence and he just looks at me goes Thank you and walks off. Yeah, it's great, and I sat there like what just happened.  They'll attune to the energy. I won't attune to them. Yeah, and it was like Can I be a stand for that? Yeah Such a good one such a good one It's like being so aligned Impenetrable aligned that Nothing can Pop up that would change that and and also the pop-up would then Be morphing if it's right be morphing to that alignment within themselves. Yeah It's a power over force Classic Hawkins. Yeah, it takes so much to not be absorbed into that field because it's so powerful and Eventually when you're in that field Either someone has to run away desperately and double down which takes so much energy. Yeah, or they completely depolarize and just Join Nice, yeah geez I Mean there's so many ways to Continue pulling and playing on on this. I want to I want to wrap because of the upcoming call that yeah Let's actually show We have a brand in sight here we have We have some of his integrated self-inquiry somatic inquiry content also you can go check out His current offerings testimonials You can see what it's like to work with him. These links are all in the bio below also in the description It's got really good content on on Instagram. Also for you to check out a lot of these Memes are just crack me up. They're so good They're just also like a lot of really good direct Pointings at things like the middle way or ways to like liberate contractions and So here's also YouTube. So yeah, all of this is in the Description to go check out Let's see Yeah, I mean any other closing closing remarks Nothing really coming Yeah, I feel like we're we're stumbling into very powerful like brotherhoods Right now hundred percent. Yeah, I do I would mention that there's this It's part of this that the journey in God in a journey to God journey in God journey in God being the process of continuous integration and whereas the truth of what I found in God Not being lived in my life and like that's it I'll use this as a metaphor It's like I go to God and I find what I'm looking for and then I bring it into my life Relationships business and that looks like in in business and art and creation. It looks like inspiration in relationships, it looks like love in Existing in nature. It looks like beauty, right? So it's like I'm continuously That's my game of the game and there's something really important right now around The battle of the sexes the men and women and coming back. It's so interesting to these very Traditional roles without the dogma. Yeah through the grounded understanding of we have biological bodies still right that have Proclivity that I don't really control, you know, I can't undo my attraction to a female I can't go okay turn off. I'm discovering that I'm discovering a The bot my body's Pull into Union or to Procreation or whatever it might be and so it's so before it might be might have been considered just not spiritual because it's so Gross, you know gross in terms of like dense and earthly. Yeah, right But I think that's like this this new form of grounded spirituality where it's like let's actually go all in on the earth Yeah, let's go all in like the body and I think that's why I've been drawn to Germany medicine as well with like actually The more I embrace the body and life that that is the most spiritual thing to do Love it and that might look like something so simple and I'll just use the gender or for example It's like you have feminism and the the masculinization of women the emasculation or the feminization of men and With the promise on both sides that there's more freedom in that way of being Right the women it's like if you're become this badass boss, babe, whatever, you know Climb the corporate ladder like you're gonna be filling the blank Just another form of seeking another form of materialism playing out And then there's a version of that for men that they're taking on and none of this is new on the archetypal level It's just another form of seeking But in the undoing of it what we're starting to see is this like renaissance of remembering. Oh there's a natural way that these bodies and the strengths that are advantageous to just living up a very ordinary existence There's strengths in either in both of us that when put together work like nature work like synergy work like the trees and the Bushes and the animals in the water and I'm loving Investigating that yeah, I'm playing in that right now like oh This is actually really important and anything in the way of My own process of self-discovery. What does this look like for me truthfully and honestly not because not a spiritual ideal Not some political like point of view that I was fed but like what is being a man? look like and feel like to me and Where before it was like That's why would I consciousness is not a man It's not a woman like and I and it's and it's like you have to go there Yes, they then come into yes the grounded reality without looking for some sort of like Salvation through it. You're just looking for what's true for you what feels yes, totally in integrity and in alignment and Yeah, it's like they've been this like redefining of masculinity for me over the last Right eight months that has been really fun, right, right? Yeah, like unwinding everything that's built up on top of this Pure consciousness and then from that being able to integrate into the body into its Partnerships unions all kinds of things and then just watching how that is way more creatively powerful yeah, and and Also that like There are certain things that I feel like have been conditioned purposely by um Quote the forgetting like the kind of that's a toxic gas of forgetting right right and And one of the most powerful ones that is showing up more and more as with father fatherly discipline of like hey Wake up is that you can't just be leaking your own sexual energy everywhere, right? It's like the most powerful force.  I really love you or whatever like Like madness. Yeah. Yeah madness and then you wonder why there's no secure attachment Then you wonder why nobody can get married and last long in marriage and have Three six twelve kids that are all awake children, right? Like like Jedi's. Yeah. Yeah, like it's just you could you talk about it But you can't manifest it because there are certain toxic gases that are still built up and Yeah, and it's this with the sexual energy piece. It's like You will wear rose colored glasses most often because you're dealing with the most powerful energy and existence and if you haven't integrated and and had a level of maturity to Handle that responsibly you're gonna feel oxytocin and call it love I'm in love and in that yearning for love which it and through the oxytocin from sex It's like it's such a powerful powerful biological bonder You will look over often not always but most people they'll look over tons of red flags They'll falter on their own values probably because they don't even know them But so much will get put under the rug. Just keep giving me this Yes, I'll do whatever it takes for this feeling and it's called being ruled by your feelings And when men enter that space, which is like what we've been encouraged to do by society It's like be more in your feelings, which they're pointing to something. That's true Yeah, we need to be willing to be vulnerable and honest and if that makes us cry then we have to be willing to fully go there But if we start following the well, this just feels good. So I'm a yes to it. We become pleasure addicts And we're not actually discerning. We're not courting. We're not yeah. Yeah, exactly. There's no discipline There's no wait. Let's have a space where we can actually determine if we're compatible without the rose colored glasses on all of these other levels because at the end of the day the sexual act is It's point one percent of the time. It really is and it's such an access point to intimacy. Yes It creates life and it's not In of itself, it's not doesn't create intimacy people can have sex and not be intimate, right? So it's like man To remove that for a period of time where there's so there is an attraction and your your That's that's why I like What the Christians point to wait till marriage for sex. It's not that that needs to be an arbitrary rule It's that they're pointing to like a sobriety of like am I in this for the right reason? Perfect.  It's so juicy. It's so juicy and it's not yeah, it's not like you said it's not there's filtering through Must get sexual intercourse. Yeah, exactly. Yeah It's so funny. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we should we should wrap so oh my gosh so good so good here Here we go. Like this is what we're feeling so much as this new frequency Like we're fully in our power fully in our sovereignty in balance fully in balance and then we come together as equal brothers and sisters from this place and Co-create this new world paradigm all the healing that needs to happen all these new light cities all of this free energy basic needs abundance all these things like Like this is it like this is the anchor point. This is the well point. This is like the root fully As a sword in the center of the earth like let's go from here Yeah, it's yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. It's so beautiful like Having you here live in Austin. It's really good. Yeah, really good and so fun. Yeah. Love this love this work Love this conversation and Yeah, it's like when two or more gather he is there, you know, and it's like I think it's exponential. It's not two and two is four. It's two and two is 16 When there's that alignment and synchronicity and Yeah, yeah exactly and If you guys want to there's all the links in the description below checking out Brandon's work in more detail and also If the content brought you value, of course like subscribe if you haven't yet comment below with what you think resonated the most and share the content also to people that you feel like it would resonate with and I'm just really looking forward to continuing to play together and yeah and create and Yeah, yeah likewise, bro. Super cool. All right much love. Thank you so much for tuning in and we will see you soon Bye-bye everyone


She's gone mask off multiple times even during her presidential campaign. She abandoned Medicare for all And now she is basically undermining one of the main reasons why people liked her Her anti-war stance and there were a lot of red flags here. So whenever she talked about how anti-war she was She would always use very Interesting and deliberate rhetoric, right? She talked about how regime change war is bad regime change war is bad regime change war is bad Okay, I get it. I agree with you technically. I do think that regime change wars are bad But you don't have to add that caveat every single time. You can just say war is bad in general And we'll know that you also mean regime change wars But there was a very specific reason why she said regime change war is bad and not all wars are bad She also conspicuously never denounced us imperialism And there's a reason for this because Tulsi Gabbard is a us imperialist And she also is pro-war and you don't have to take my word for it You can take her word for it because she's going to tell you how pro-war she is on Tucker Carlson's program Now before I show you the video clip, I do want to give you some additional context So last week the u.s. military admitted that it killed 10 innocent civilians via a drone strike in cobble And Tucker Carlson in this segment is going to criticize the biden administration for this and rightly so in my opinion But what's interesting to me is that Tucker Carlson said nothing when donald trump Increased drone strikes overall by more than 400 percent So he is correct like I don't have an issue with him condemning drone strikes In fact, I wish that more news pundits would do this, but the hypocrisy is what I have an issue with So basically he's only talking about this He's only pretending to care because he's using this as an excuse to attack biden That's fine But he's going to bring in Tulsi Gabbard assuming that she's going to attack joe biden because this is the anti-war person supposedly right Well, no, she's actually going to take this in a different direction And she's going to defend drone strikes Literally and she says a lot of other stuff that should make any actual leftist feel Very very uncomfortable for weeks the biden administration told us that a drone strike had killed a group of isis k terrorists whatever that is In cobble and there were secondary explosions that proved they were suicide bombers But they were lying Forced by the new york times to admit it. They've now conceded they killed a number of innocent people including children Here's the interesting part mistakes happen But in this case, no one in the pentagon has been punished for this mistake or for lying about it We thought it'd be interesting to see what tulsi gabbard thinks about this She's a former member of congress from hawaii. She served in iraq as a member of the hawaii army national guard She's still serving the country the military. She joins us tonight congressman. Thanks so much for coming on So you get to lie.  What kind of system is that? I mean this kind of accountability is critical. I want to point out first that Anytime there are civilian casualties in war. It is tragic and terrible War is a terrible thing and and I think it's important for the american people to understand that Islamist jihadists are continuing to wage war against us And the islamist ideology not the same as the religion of islam, but this islamist Ideology, which is a political ideology that inspired the terrorist attacks on our country on 9 11 Is is The greatest threat that we're facing right now in this country in the world It is the foundation of governance of so-called islamic countries like turkey and iran and Saudi arabia and and pakistan And it's what's behind the discriminatory policies that they have in these countries against christians hindus buddhists atheists and others So as long as these islamist jihadists are waging war against us We have to work to defeat them militarily and ideologically and militarily We have two choices in how we do that number one We can continue to invade And occupy a nation building countries around the world just as we did in afghanistan at great cost number two We can take a targeted approach using airstrikes using our special forces to go in and go after these terrorist cells The reality is that the cost the cost of the american people the cost to our troops the cost to civilians Will be far less if we take this very targeted approach to go after these jihadist terrorist cells Then if we continue making the very same mistakes that we saw in afghanistan and other parts of the world of invasion occupation and nation building Yeah, so make no mistake about it when she said on the campaign trail that she was against regime change wars It's because she literally just had a tactical disagreement. She thought that regime change wars Weren't a good way to facilitate her ultimate goal And what she just did there was endorse drone strikes Just a couple of weeks ago air wars released a report Showing that the u.s. Government killed between 22,000 and 48,000 innocent civilians And yet she is just weeks later advocating for drone strikes on national television This is your anti-war candidate. Well any of the leftists who boosted her Ever admit that they were wrong about her Now she says uh islamist jihadists are continuing to wage wars Against us. That's why she believes we should continue to do our illegal drone policy in pakistan yemen samalia and um She says that uh the greatest threat that we're facing right now in the country and in the world is uh jihadism She said that with a straight face She said it is the greatest threat we're facing right now in the country and the world First of all, I would argue that the u.s. Government That is the biggest terrorist threat in the world But when it comes to threats that the world is facing How can you say that with a straight face knowing that climate change could literally eradicate our entire Species not just a human species But all types of species tree species are going extinct animal species plants I mean, I don't think that she's actually dumb. I think that she's just extremely disingenuous And by saying this to tucker crawlsons right wing audience, they don't believe in climate change. So they think oh, wow She must be correct. So she knows who she's speaking to But it's just to say something like that.  Also, um, she says that when it comes to the islamist jihadists We have to work to defeat them militarily And ideologically so she's already telling you Here's what we can do. We have no choice. We have to go after them So we can either wage regime change wars, which we all know she hates or Quote we can take a targeted approach using airstrikes. She is quite literally endorsing the use of drones Which have single-handedly killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians How does she sleep at night? This is the anti-war politician that everyone was waiting for She's endorsing drones and the drone strike that she was brought on to discuss specifically The fact that she had absolutely no remorse whatsoever and didn't even address it Side-stepped it to talk about how bad Muslims were. It's just it's beyond the pale for me These are the victims some of the victims killed by that drone strike on the top left Those two little boys were nine and ten years old now on the bottom in the middle those two children in the orange sweaters They were three and four years old the little girl on the bottom right She was just two years old Tulsi said in that clip that we have to use drones Because this islamist jihadist threat So, you know, we use drones because they reduce the costs Tell the families of those victims Tell the family of that little girl who was two years old tulsi That these drone strikes reduced costs Say it to their faces.  You wouldn't do that because you know, it's not true.    They're more like that had died due to co vid Due to a lack of health insurance or climate change So, I mean tulsi gabbert at this point is a joke, but you know, if you didn't know this by now then There's there's no plausible deniability left.


Dear participants, we are ready to start. David is on you. Thank you so much. Welcome, everyone. My name is David Kirkpatrick. I am very eager to welcome you to the Connect to Include, Include to Connect session, which, as you probably know, is the second stop on the Road to Addis series of events, which will lead up to the World Telecommunication Development Conference WTDC 2021 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this coming November. This session is very much about the people of the world and how they will participate and need to participate and can participate in the globally connected society. And it really is a way of really helping us better understand the human side of the ITU, which we often think of as very much about speeds and speeds and different kinds of phones and networks, et cetera. But here we're talking about people and how they can be included. So as I said, my name is David Kirkpatrick. I'm a journalist based in New York. I run a company called Techonomy, which puts on conferences. And I'm very proud to be working very closely with the ITU, which I'm a very strong supporter of on this series of events. So I'd like to tell you a few things about the technical details of today's session, because it will take just a little bit of understanding. It's entirely remote, as we all know. We're living remote. It's webcasted, live streamed, and recorded. As a participant, you are free to use the chat during the session at any time for any comments you have. Questions that are addressed to speakers should be inserted in the Q&A function. And if time allows, we will address some of these questions. You can upvote a question by clicking the thumbs up icon next to a question. And Zoom will automatically sort them by the number of upvotes. During the session, we also will prove writing captioning services so that you can activate by clicking on closed caption in the bottom bar of the Zoom interface. So you should see closed caption as an option there, and you can read that if you'd like to. We also will be providing interpretation in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. And as you can see, international sign language. The sign language interpreters will be on screen throughout the session. To listen to the available interpretation channels, please click on Interpretation at the bottom right on the Zoom interface bar at the bottom and select the language you'd like to hear. If you want to hear the original audio, you can select Off in the Interpretation menu. Off simply means floor, as if you were sitting in the room with the speakers. Participants in a language channel will hear the translated audio and also the original audio at a lower volume. To hear only the interpreted language, click Mute Original Audio. So there are the housekeeping points. Now, I'm very eager to introduce our incredible group of speakers today, especially our featured keynote speaker, her Excellency Ms. Saleh Wurzudeh, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. We're very pleased to have her joining us. In addition, our speakers will be Atman Al Moavar, the Research Lead at the MISC Foundation, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, Monica Duham, CEO of Hear Colors, Professor Anthony Giannumis, who's Associate Professor of Universal Design of Information and Communication Technology at Oslo Metropolitan University, Lizette Gonzalez Romero, from the Telecommunications Indigenous Communities of Mexico, Claudia Gordon, Director of Government and Compliance with T-Mobile Accessibility, Michael Hoden, who is CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging, Fumzile Mlambo Nkuka, the United Nations Undersecretary General and Executive Director of UN Women. Very pleased to have her with us. Joanne O'Reardon, Activist and Sports Journalist, Emile Se Portillo from Conitel in Paraguay, Emma Randall, who's a Youth Engagement Representative at the ITU, Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, Roland White, Director for Global Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft, Judith Williams, whose head of People Sustainability and a Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at SAP. And finally, Jim Rogers, our graphic designer and illustrator for the Road to Addis events. Jim will be composing a graphic illustration of the discussion today, and we will rejoin him at the end and he will show us the image that he has done throughout this session, which will illustrate as much as possible of all the wonderful things you are about to hear. So now let me pass the floor to my co-moderator, Sango. Thank you, David. Hi, everyone, I'm Sango and I'm the Child Online Protection mascot. I keep children safe online. Now I would like you to meet Danola, our Youth Community Leader. Hi, Danola, what are you up to? Hello, Sango, hello, everyone. I'm Danola and I work with the Generation Connect community, which is basically the ITE's work with young people. So if you have any questions or any comments during the session, please use hashtag Road to Addis and hashtag ITWTDC on your tweets. And also you can feel free to add the generation hashtag. Thank you over to you, David and Sango. Thank you, Sango and Danola. And now it's my pleasure to give the floor to Doreen Bogdan-Martin for her opening remarks. Take it away, Doreen. Thank you, David. So good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone, and welcome to Connect to Include, Include to Connect. Our next stop on the Road to Addis and really happy that our discussion today is part of the Commission on the Status of Women. It's also part of the WISIS Forum 2021. Today's theme is digital inclusion and I think it could hardly be more timely. Our post-COVID world, in our post-COVID world, digital exclusion increasingly means economic exclusion. It means social exclusion. It means educational exclusion and exclusion from a whole raft of new opportunities that those of us that are already connected take for granted. Digital exclusion particularly affects rural and remote dwellers and also impacts certain demographics more than others. In our session today, we're gonna look at strategies to drive the digital inclusion, not only of women and girls and young people, but also of other marginalized groups like the elderly, persons with disabilities, children, Indigenous groups and people living in remote areas. So what concrete actions are needed to ensure inclusive equal access and use of ICTs for all? Which countries, private sector companies and international organizations are leading the way? What types of partnerships and global cooperation efforts are proving most effective? We have an exceptional panel of experts as you've just heard from David and I'm really looking forward to hearing your views. We also have this great representation of youth groups following the discussion. And today we're launching our Generation Connect Visionaries Board, which is our new youth consultation committee. This new board comprises eight competitively recruited youth experts and eight high level appointees that are gonna help us to provide strategic guidance to ITU and to ensure that we champion the voice of youth to advance digital development. Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, WTDC will be hosted in Addis Ababa as David just mentioned. And it is therefore my great pleasure and my honor to invite the Honorable President of Ethiopia, Her Excellency, Madam Sahele Workswede to address us today. Madam President, I give you the floor. Over to you. Thank you so very much. It's a pleasure to see many friends in this call and I would like to greet you.


So if you've been involved at all with node projects, then you've probably come across Thor Financial, although they've only been around for a few months. They've definitely shot up as one of the more sustainable and trustable projects in the node space, especially after reducing rewards last month for a more long-term sustainable future. They have also been very, very consistently active and working on new things for the project, including a metaverse battle royale type of game, which they just announced yesterday. So in today's video, we will dive into what exactly Thor is, how it works, and how to get started if you decide to risk it for the biscuit. Let's jump right in. So we will be going over Thor's own PDF that they created with a breakdown of exactly how the project works. If you guys want to read through this PDF for yourself, you can find it in their Discord server. So how does Thor work? If you're familiar with Stromblock and their model, Thor is basically modeled after the same idea. If you want to create a node, first you must purchase the Thor tokens in order to create that node. Once you create the node, then it pays you daily rewards. Then you can use those rewards to either cash out or to continue to compound them and create more and more nodes. One thing that Thor introduced that Stromblock doesn't yet have is fractional nodes. So instead of having only one entry level, like Stromblock, they have four different entry levels with different prices to get in and, of course, different daily rewards depending which one you decide to buy. You have the Heimdall, which is 1.25 Thor in order to create. You have the Freya, which costs 6.25 Thor in order to create. Then you have Thor, which costs 12.5 Thor to create. And then Odin, which is their biggest node, which is 78.125 Thor tokens in order to create. So you can see that the Heimdall pays the least because it is the cheapest entry. You get a reward of 0.008 per day. The Freya pays 0.05 per day. The Thor pays 0.144 per day. And Odin pays 1.02 per day. Now, another thing that you have to consider is that these nodes, just like Stromblock, have monthly maintenance fees that you must pay in order to keep your nodes running. So the current fee structure is for Heimdall, $5 per month, Freya $10 per month, Thor $20 per month and Odin $80 per month. Another thing to keep in mind is that once you purchase your node, once you create your node, the Thor that you spent in order to create your node, you can no longer get back.  So once you've created your node, it will look something like this. You will start to gain daily rewards and you decide whether you want to claim your rewards or you can compound your rewards to create additional nodes. So if you decide to compound your rewards, there is zero tax on what you use to compound, but what is claimed is taxed before it's sent to the MetaMask. Now you can only compound within your same category of the node that you created. So if you created a Thor node, you can only compound in Thor nodes if created Odin. You can only compound into more Odin. However, if you purchase one of each of the different nodes, you get what's called God mode. And with God mode, then you can compound your nodes and your rewards into any of the different tiers of your choosing. Now instead of compounding, you decide that you want to claim your rewards in cash out. You want to send it to MetaMask, then you do have to pay a tax on those rewards. So the different tiers are taxed differently as follows. For Heimdall, you get taxed 1% on your rewards. For Freya, you're taxed 5% on your rewards. For Thor, you're taxed 8% on your rewards. And for Odin, you're taxed 10% on your rewards. So 60% of the claim tax is used for buybacks and then the rest is sent to the Avax and Thor liquidity pool. The liquidity pool is used to invest in the projects that are voted on by the community to create alternative revenue streams to attempt to stabilize Thor's long-term sustainability. And you can see their treasury wallet right here. So your next question is probably what makes Thor sustainable? And this is probably the most popular question that every single node project is receiving, right? And it's probably also the hardest question to answer. Now before I show you guys what makes Thor sustainable, make sure to smash that subscribe button. If you guys are looking to make money either trading or through crypto passive incomes like Thor, or maybe you just want to stay up to date with the new trends in crypto, I upload a video almost every single day about these topics. So please smash that subscribe button so that you never miss another opportunity to make money in crypto. In addition to that, I answer every single DM that I get on Instagram, and I also answer every single comment that I get on my YouTube channel. So leave a comment below if you have any questions. So Thor says that their destiny is to interact with high yield protocols across a number of chains, specifically Ethereum, Binance, Smart Chain, Phantom and Polygon. This will enable Thor to deliver its holders truly the best yield across a number of DeFi ecosystems.  So if we pull up their discord and go to their investments, you can see exactly what they have been investing in here. So of course, the next question is what makes Thor sustainable? So they go on to say that primarily when a node is made, 80% of those tokens are sent immediately to the rewards pool to replenish it. Keep in mind that this includes people who are compounding nodes and not just people who are new to the protocol. In addition to that, you have to also pay the maintenance fee every month and you have to pay taxes if you're claiming your rewards. That is all sent to the treasury where they may be used to replenish the rewards pool at any time. They also bolster the treasury with DeFi investments. The yield that they make from these investments is used to refuel the treasury, which once again can be used to replenish reward pools. They go on to say that they're looking at some new mechanisms, which will be announced at some point in the future. As we know now, some of those new streams of revenue are going to be coming from the Metaverse Project and Play to Earn game and also the marketplace that they will be introducing at some point this year. They plan on making nodes into NFTs where you can basically sell and buy NFTs. You can basically trade the nodes and of course they make a fee every time the nodes are traded. They go on to say that they keep track of the emissions of rewards from the rewards pool and actively monitor it. If changes are necessary to the reward structure, we will employ this giving you ample notice and we saw that at the end of January when they gave us notice that the reward structure would be changed and they basically cut the rewards in half. I believe that in the long term that is definitely bullish and more sustainable. So some new stuff that Thor has been implementing is the Thor liquidity pool staking. Users are able to earn around 750% APR by staking their Thor rewards. Similar to Stromblock, they're going to introduce special NFTs with special features and properties that will enable you to basically boost your Thor rewards. They have a section called why should one consider investing in Thor nodes. I'll let you guys read this on your own because this is super long and this video is already getting long enough. So let's actually just skip through that. You guys can do that on your own. So after hearing all of this, if you decide that you want to risk it for the biscuit, let's talk about how to buy Thor and how to create your first node. So to buy Thor token is pretty simple. You can just go right here where it says creator joe xyz.com. This is where I bought all my Thor tokens. The first thing you need is Avax. So what I like to do, I buy Avax on Q coin. I send my Avax from Q coin over to my Metamask wallet, which is what you need in order to buy Thor. Then I just leave Avax here. I switch this here to Thor. I insert the amount of Thor that I would like to buy and then you simply just hit swap. It's that simple.  It'll bring you to this page right here. You just have to connect your wallet and you should see the amount of Thor that you have right up here. So you scroll down and you choose which node you would like to create. You simply name your node here and after naming your node, then you simply hit right here where it says create node. If it's your first time creating a node first, you must approve the contract. You just have to pay a little bit in gas fees and then you can create your first node. That's basically it guys. I will do a breakdown on Thor versus strong block in the future and maybe do a breakdown of Thor node versus Odin node, compounding which one you could compound faster to make more money faster in the long term. So depending when you're watching this video, that one might be ready. If not, it will be coming soon. All that being said, if you guys want to know about these new projects as soon as I get into them when they're still cheap, you must get into my mentorship program. In my mentorship program, I post the new projects that I get into as soon as I get into them. No rug pulls, no Hail Marys. I do all the legwork. 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