Past Lives and The Power of Now - Meditation - Michael Goddart - TruthSeekah Podcast
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now moment there's people who have
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right now
we got ideas about the future
we've got ideas about the past and many
of us live in the past
and we beat ourselves up and regret and
what might have been and what could have
been and what i should have done
and we also have
futuristic ideas about
things that we want to create and
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and and and projecting our ideas and our
personas outside of ourselves and we got
some great ideas like you kind of got to
go there to get ideas but you got to be
able to bring all of that back to the
now moment to create it other than that
it's just a cool idea it's just a dream
but
a vision without action
is merely a dream we're going to talk
about that today we're also going to
talk about past lives uh someone in my
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all right ladies and gentlemen without
further ado all the cool stuff that i
mentioned at the beginning of the now
moment the past lives we're about to get
into it my guest today is michael
goddard michael
welcome to the true secret podcast
brother how are you
i'm just fine thank you derek it's
really good to be join you and be with
you
good to have you like i said i'm excited
to uh to dive into these topics and more
that you bring to the table and i think
i think all of it is important i think
inquiring minds want to know and they
want to know for a reason because they
know that
maybe there's something that they're
missing out on
with
not being present in conversation not
being present in mindfulness and
meditation there's some things that
there's some keys and some tools that
we've been given that a lot of people
haven't even tapped into yet so i just
want to
pick your brain about your story your
books and your journey how you got the
information
all of that but
first let's start off for people who are
brand new to your work who uh haven't
heard heard of you or any of your books
and things like that just kind of give a
quick overview
who you are what you bring to the table
and we can start there
okay
well
as you mentioned my name is michael
goddard and i've been
writing rally since i was a teenager
and um meditating since i was a teenager
i really started my spiritual quest
right after i turned 11. uh
right after we moved to california to
marin county when i was 10
out of the blue i started trying to
contact the spirit world and uh do
automatic writing and get messages from
them i started self-hypnosis
uh after i turned 11. i had been raising
tropical fish since i was five so i was
well acquainted uh with death every so
often the fish would go belly up and i'd
have to fish it out and flush it down
the toilet so uh i knew eventually i
would go belly up and uh somebody would
fish me up and either
send me into a fire of flames or
probably that rather than get buried
so i really confronted the idea that i
was gonna die
and what came out of that is i wanted to
make messages of my life and i felt just
this conviction within me
that
immortality was a true possibility if
you found the right path
so
i didn't want to i didn't want to die i
wanted to have basically an eternal
consciousness and absolute bliss
so this began my my search uh when i was
11 years old and i was lucky because my
mother was a well-regarded artist
showing all over the bay area and we
would go into the city san francisco to
art galleries and after 20 minutes or a
half hour i'd ask her if i could slip
away and there was a metaphysical
bookshop on center street and there i
pulled down book after book
thinking feeling that there was one book
that was going to show me my path
well lo and behold
fast forward
when i came back from my year abroad in
england i've been searching with a
friend since high school
we were after the exact same thing
and to tide me over while i was in
england i began a very well-known form
of meditation uh 20 minutes a day twice
a day but
that wasn't enough for me i was
meditating four to five times a day
so
uh he came over just as he was going
overseas as soon as he walked in the
room he didn't have to say anything i
knew he had found
what we were looking for
so i was initiated several months later
when i was 21 onto a very rigorous path
requiring at least two and a half hours
of meditation a day
but this is the path that promised me
what i was after it was basically
raising your consciousness
spiritualizing yourself so you wouldn't
have to reincarnate more than three more
times
on the planet and of course it came with
a fully realized master
but along with that derek uh and
everyone i've been
since i was in high school i was
exercising my intuition my powers of
knowing through all kinds of means tarot
dowsing
uh intuiting
and that became very active um
in
uh when my intestine died and i had it
go into the hospital to have much of it
removed
and uh basically i started having bowel
obstructions uh constantly i was living
in the hour in the hospital
so i had to have finally another major
surgery
and uh so actually
intuiting moment to moment became a
paramount importance in my life because
i had such a short intestine if i ate a
little bit too much or the wrong thing
that would trigger a ball obstruction
which is
indescribably painful you can't even
have a sip of water you just keep
vomiting so basically
from 2012 on i've been like intuiting
all day long
so um
a few months after that surgery
um
my past lives started to come through i
had kind of a burning curiosity since i
was initiated what my prior past lives
were
i'd had many indications
and um
many impressions from past lives which
are called samskaras
that is sanskrit basically for past
impressions that's the way
i use it and um
on the anniversary of my initiation in
2013 i literally began to recover my my
last four lives
and i
had all kinds of triggers
there's so much that we are given
that if we unravel it if we pierce it we
can know
all kinds of experiences of deja vu of
intimations of who i was where i lived
they were confirmed uh
actually everything that psychics had
told me i ultimately found out none of
it really was true
i i was basically i kept going at first
i didn't think i'd have more than 20
double space pages i could share with a
few friends i trusted
but um
after i um after i've written
it actually was growing and growing
all of a sudden one evening i discovered
i could know whatever i wanted to know
about my past lives and that i had
prepared for this between lives so i
could also know what i couldn't know so
somebody comes up to me and asked me
well who was i in my last life well
unless i knew the person at this point i
wouldn't know it well i kept writing and
writing it eventually i recovered 88
past lives and that's 71 human lives and
17 animal lives and i discovered how
i've been on a spiritual journey across
thousands of lives with key evolutionary
spiritual experiences
that were spiritualizing me preparing me
for this very rigorous fabulous path uh
i'm on now
so um
what began is just um burning curiosity
turned into a 420 page book
that that really gives you the journey
of a soul and mind
there's a lot of i think lack of
clarification about who we are
basically our true identity is the soul
which is a pure drop or emanation of the
supreme being the all-knowing
uh and to operate on this plane we have
to take association with the mind so we
are a soul and mind in my spiritual
memoir in search of lost lives
the subtitle is desire sanskaras and the
evolution of a mind and soul
and mind and soul are joined with an
ampersand that's an enzyme and there's
no space between them because i wanted
to show how knotted together we are
a lot of people think of themselves
simply as the mind and that's what their
identity is their identity is
simply their thoughts and
basically their minds are running amok
all the time they're not in control as
derek was explaining so beautifully
you're living you're dredging up the
past and you're planning and fearing and
apprehending as well as you can the
future you have very little
uh consciousness of being in the now
and so
i have been writing 15 articles and q
and a's for search of us live through
the media tour
and uh we only covered a few bases on
that tour for various reasons
and so uh january of um 2019 i really
wanted to reach out and see who wanted
an interview but i've been really
missing writing something new so i
literally just asked my higher
consciousness whether there was a new
book i could write and i got an
affirmative yes
and so basically i intuited the working
title word by word and the first word to
come through was wisdom so the working
title of my new book knew now is
mastering wisdom daily and the subtitle
was 10 keys
for achieving equilibrium
and i was taking notes
and i just felt a pull to go to florida
and to see if there was really a book
there i've been taking notes in between
interviews and and other promotional
activities and i just started looking at
my notes and i started revising it and
the book took off and shortly after i
started the first chapter a new now came
through i thought ah this is what i'm
going to write about
and so i finished the book
uh in march of uh 2020.
justice kovud was sitting and i was
thinking well people really need this
because
actually i was not a bit surprised by
the pandemic uh it had been on my radar
for quite some time i didn't know when
it would happen but i was certainly
thinking one what happened in my
lifetime so
we went through a lot of crazy times
there was a lot of fear a lot of
disinformation which is continuing a
very toxic political atmosphere
and what people really needed i felt
were tools to empower them
to navigate all the tough choices they
had and just how to get through the day
i mean
i didn't want to order my food and have
it dropped off in front of my house i
i'm the kind of person who wants to go
in the produce section and just know
what my body wants to pull into it
so i went shopping and it was quite an
obstacle course to figure out but i was
able to do that and i felt really at
peace and at home going out exposing
myself to god only knows what
so the time of covet was really kind of
a golden period for me uh what was hard
at first was that all my local friends
but one fell away i only had contact
very very occasionally with one friend
and all the medical people i had to see
for continuing medical challenges but i
was like living in my own bubble
uh writing a new now
so uh this has just come out has been
published it's already won two awards
the uh independent uh publisher book
award and the living now book award so
this is really your guidebook to living
as your most aware of self defining and
following the path to your authentic
self
the thing i want to stress
there's so much outer phenomena out
there i'm writing a new q a called
become paranormal
so the point is so many people are
uh focused and obsessed with all kinds
of really fascinating stuff which is
good
because it's good to expand your
awareness
but the point i want to make is that
each of us has the capacity to become
paranormal and what i mean by that is we
have an unlimited capacity for growth
for love
and for expanded awareness we we have
that power within us
and anew now is really your guidebook
that you can have as a companion for the
rest of your life to learn how to
really
discover and empower your 33 wisdoms as
a mystical
number of wisdoms i i write about the 11
loving wisdoms the 11
guiding wisdoms and the 11 evolutionary
wisdoms and there's a lot of mysticism
that
is shared and illuminates the texts
so um
this is what you each of you have uh i
stress again and again is the most
precious gift your life so many of us
had people we thought would be with us
for 20 more years 30 more years they
were taken i mean somebody can get in a
car
and um
they won't come back their next trip is
to the morgue
so
uh unless you're meant to know you're
not going to know when your time is up
here and you're going to continue
um so the point is how are you going to
make the best of your life are you going
to spend all your waking hours playing
games which have its place or you know
watching soaps watching sports
everything has its place but you can
lead a really balanced life for you in
an authentic life i mean i one of my
great loves is reading novels um i do
that every evening i read fine novels so
it's really a question of knowing who
you are
and really figuring out what you how you
want to spend your life
now and you know as you continue
and really to have access to your higher
powers of knowing you have to learn how
to be in the present we most of us are
human doings uh
the human being part of us is maybe five
percent to 11
one of my keys to achieving equilibrium
that i explain is balance being having
and doing and i take readers kind of
through a process in which they can
become aware to what extent there are
being
so i've been talking for quite a while
uh derek feel free to jump in and ask me
whatever you'd like i've covered a lot
of general ground here oh yeah got so
many questions so many questions so yeah
you uh
you gave me a lot to work with a lot of
questions and uh
details so i've been um
i've been
contemplating death
been surrounded by death
because of the pandemic um but it's
something that i do for a living i
interview people about death about past
lives about near-death experiences
psilocybin in
plant medicine journeys that are like
facilitated near-death experiences you
know um
and
you know and i find in even with my
affiliation with religion you know of
this we have to pick a path you have to
get over the fear of death and i say all
of that deals with
dealing with your own mortality and um
when when you go back to the beginning
of your story when you begin to to get
into spirituality and and actually look
into a lot of practices that you did
early on at age 11
was it
the mindfulness of death that came first
again with with your fish and stuff like
that did that stuff
propel you to to find an answer or did
you get into spirituality first and then
you
noticed the death and things like that
because i feel like a lot of us are
i see a lot of us all of us all of
humanity we have to come come to grips
with our mortality and everyone has a
different narrative of what happens
when you pass you know so
was that kind of your pursuit to find an
answer about what happened that was that
was the main thing um you know i've been
aware of that since i was five it was my
fish type and right after we moved to
marina county i really started oh i felt
there was this whole world within me i
started to open up to
but i went really we had a home
religious experience
uh because we couldn't afford to
join our religious place at the time
they charged a lot of money
and uh by the way true spirituality
nobody should charge for it uh
and i just knew that religion this
lifetime did not hold the answers for me
i mean seven lives ago i was a very well
established priest in prague uh and then
a monk carthusian monk so i really
really was compelled to face the fact of
death and i used to go in the bathroom
and lock the door and stare at myself
and try to
live through that experience what will
it be like and i would just break into a
cold sweat my knees would buckle i'd
feel nauseous i'd feel sick and i
thought
hold on
you've got to figure this out and it was
sort of like i kept thinking derek this
is like this dirty secret nobody's
talking about it's like they're afraid
to mention it it's like you're gonna die
and nobody was mentioning it it's like
what is the world crazy yeah and so so
many people spend their lives
covering up that fact they they are
constantly escaping and your mind often
needs rest it needs to be rebalanced all
the time but if you spend your whole
life let's say you retire now's your
chance to really discover your
spirituality and you spend all day long
in bridge for instance just to occupy
yourself well you're escaping really the
truth and who knows what you're good
what's going to happen the next time so
i just felt compelled within me i had
this conviction that i could and would
find the answer to life and death i
would find the key to immortality i had
a back-up plan it was like if i couldn't
achieve literal immortality i wanted
figurative and uh i had been acting in
writing plays since i was seven which
was a major sanskara which is discussed
in my book i had been a well-known
playwright and actor four lives ago in
denmark so i knew that was you know that
was like figurative immortality if i
ended up making movies but no it was a
very conscious search uh and as i grew
older there were triggers
like um when i was 12 i was fetching
around with my aquariums and there was a
local news broadcast and a feature story
about a man walking from san francisco
to salt lake city on his own and he was
a vegetarian and boy a light bulb went
off in my head and i just automatically
knew i would become a vegetarian and i
asked myself well when would that be
and i got the answer when you become
legal when you're 21.
which happened i became a vegetarian
when i was 21.
so i'm not advocating any particular
path any meditation any practice
what i want to do is to empower people
to empower their know their selves we we
have a higher mind and a lower mind
which i explain in the new now
and most people i have
found out i can tune into them mentally
their lower mind is predominant majority
of the time
in my spiritual memoir in search of lost
lives i pinpoint when my higher mind
became predominant because when i was a
tibetan
12 lives back living in tibet
i was a very very high up government
official
kind of like in the diplomatic
department
and i at that in that lifetime i came
across two months but i realized
wow wow these are humans that are truly
evolved so that really lit a spark
within me
but um you know we're all on a path and
everybody is so unique it's so
individual
um
it's just you know even it's not that
you know not everyone can recover their
past lives i've never had past life
progression a few times i've tried to be
hypnotized they haven't just gave up
they couldn't do it i guess my willpower
was too strong to kind of give over my
consciousness
but the thing is
whether or not you believe in
reincarnation it's going to happen
even if you've
done all these wonderful selfless acts
of giving and giving and giving and
you're rewarded with a stay in your
bespoke heaven and you're there for
seeming eternity you don't know what you
did in past lives now in the west for
some reason
well a lot of people feel that you know
karma is ridiculous um or they just sort
of play with the idea
but i mean the fundamental law of
existence is action and reaction from
the mental planes on down so everything
you do is going to create a reaction so
if you murder 15 people
that's going to cause a reaction and
it's not going to be paid off in your
current lifetime you're going to have to
come back to reap what you sow which of
course jesus spoke about
wow
uh michael i got so many questions for
you uh i want to get clear on some more
stuff because i'm a seeker your true
secret podcast seek a podcast like i
really wanna i really wanna know i
really wanna seek just like yourself and
i have so many more questions for you uh
we're gonna go to a quick break on the
other side of the break i'm gonna talk
to you about immortality and you you
said some things that made it seem like
everyone's not guaranteed or maybe uh
you stop reincarnating and that's
immortality don't answer yet we got a
three minute break on the other side
we'll be back with michael goddard here
in a minute ladies and gentlemen one
moment
wow so the throne room meditation man uh
this was just like a new level for me of
creating encounter
really the process behind it is going in
for myself
having an encounter with the lord
tapping into the spirit and getting in
his presence and really just petitioning
the father's heart and saying god
what would you say to them if i'm
bringing these people with me here if
they're doing this guided meditation and
we're going through this journey we're
having fun we're seeing things we're
experiencing new feelings and emotions
and sensations
what would you say to him
so it's channeling the father's heart
and relating it back to the people so
man it's just a beautiful encounter and
i remember when i wrote the first one
i was so excited about it and it was
just
god speaking to my heart i was able to
channel the father's heart and i would
read the script to people because i was
just so excited while i was working on
it and every time that i would just read
the script the presence of god would
just invade me and i just burst into
tears and i couldn't even read it i'm
just like let me copy and paste it and
send it to you but every time i listen
to it i'm immediately translated back
into the throne room of god and uh
everything's good there
that's the place where everything is
okay where in the scriptures it says
that we are to hide under the shadow of
the almighty this is the throne room of
god this is the place that we can
encounter for ourselves but this is also
a place in which we dwell so a part of
us is always there and we have access to
that now there's people who have never
encountered this before in their life
and it's a totally new experience for
them and almost every time i get a
testimony back from someone they just
say how god
wrecked their lives that they didn't
know what they were getting into the
next thing they know they're in the
presence of god
wrapped up in his glory he's
communicating his love to them and it
just totally wrecks their lives so make
sure you check out the throne room
guided meditation visualization that i
brought to the table
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all right ladies and gentlemen we're
back with michael goddard we're talking
about his books i knew now and we're
talking about
his book about reincarnation and
remembering past lives in the search
thereof
um that question before we went into
break
mentioning
attaining
immortality
in order for you to attain it i feel
like it gives the notion that not
everybody gets it whether people are
stuck in the loop of reincarnating or
getting to
spend eternity doing something else can
you can you clarify that uh just just a
little bit like what's
the uh definition of attaining
um immortality
on the other in in the heavens in in
those realms or here on earth where you
just get to keep coming back and
or
not existing or
what what does that mean to you
sure
well earlier in the in the prior segment
of course i was differentiating between
soul and mind and basically our true
self is the soul
and uh there are many uh higher regions
that exist out of the physical on finer
and more subtle vibratory rates
that you uh traverse
in like your astral body your console
body but when you get to universal mind
and you're able to pass beyond the
causal region you are no longer
with your mind you're just advancing in
consciousness with your soul
so basically our true home is with the
supreme being
that ocean of bliss uh divinity that has
no name that was always there in the
beginning
that issued forth through the holy ghost
the logos the name
shabbat all cultures have given that
inner creative force a different name
so we were
sent out here as part of the creation
you know everything has a soul and and
that a creative essence even it's
present in rocks in a very inert form
so when i talk about immortality literal
immortality it means rejoining your
creator rejoining your source of being
and to get there you really need a
master a guide a guru a saint who has
gone there herself for himself because
you can get completely lost in the inner
regions i mean without a guide and
guides can only take you as far as
they've progressed and guides a true
guide
will not seek
disciples or initiatives
they are basically empowered to come for
a set number of souls whether it's i've
come for twelve sheep or twelve thousand
or one million two hundred thousand they
come for their own allotted
souls and they recognized them so when i
came under my path i felt this presence
joined me but i'd also felt it at key
moments in my life a few times i almost
got run over by a car for instance
i was in north beach san francisco not
stoned but i was just on a busy corner
and i went to step out on the street
getting ready to cross
and i felt literally my body pulled back
and at that moment a car was by which
would have run me over
so
i felt the presence of this guide and
when i ultimately went to to meet the
living guide
i first saw him through a window
i felt my head turn
his head turned i met him that instant i
knew that that presence that had joined
me was sitting there across from me
so
but uh
not everyone is meant to
uh come on a path of immortality this
lifetime the main thing is to seek truth
and that's so what i so so love about
your podcast i love the name
truth seeker i i feel with great
emphasis the highest calling is to be in
seeker
seeker after truth
because the real
unchangeable truth is is the ultimate
highest consciousness
so
you ask
the very
intriguing and key question are we all
meant to go back
well to really know the answer you have
to go back
but the stories that have kind of come
down through various saints that i feel
are fully realizing
is that when
you know the highest power has souls to
come into the creation so that power
would project itself
not all of them wanted to go down and
experience the creation so the story
goes and one night said no
we're good we're fine we want to stay
here
so those uh
the stories go and this is from from
different saints who lived centuries
apart who had no internet uh that one
ninth of the souls are marked but the
thing is
you know
the only real ultimate law of creation
is to love love
so i feel and i'd have to
have god consciousness which i obviously
don't to notice but even if you're not
marked if you create this ardent desire
to go back to your true home
you know who am i to say that won't
happen
so when people experience
feelings of loneliness
alienation kind of a longing for your
home that's really the soul
the soul's feeling coming through
and
uh i encourage people to honor those
feelings because that's that's really
the soul coming through it is so covered
covered over covering or recovering by
the mind that the soul isn't free i mean
it has to go wherever the mind's karma's
taken those karmas you know are a weight
on the soul
so it's sort of like you know we're a
pure needle and we have 5 000 tons of
rest over us and that rest has to be
cleaned off and raised that rest is all
the karma's we've accumulated and
there's really only one way for all that
rest to be
vaporized and that's her contact with
the sound current the logos the word and
and so that's why people seek masters
who can initiate them into that practice
but you may not be there yet the thing
is to discover what your path is um i
know people
spouses whose um
spouse is initiated and they love
everything about a spiritual path but
it's not their time they know that
they're it's not their time so what i do
now is to help you develop that higher
awareness
in the book i ask the essential question
how can i live as my aware self
this lifetime may be all about
music i mean developing himself as a
musician
that's fine but but also it may be
beginning to develop the spiritual side
whatever that is whatever you're told to
the thing is to develop and trust your
inner knowing because you have it i mean
i'm thinking of changing my locations i
want to know where i can live for the
rest of my life and i recently talked to
a few friends now years ago i stopped
asking people for advice because i knew
the best answers were within me and i
could obtain them but it's just so funny
how
their own subjectivity completely
colored their answer you know one said
honolulu one said ashland oregon another
asheville north carolina now i'm going
somewhere else that i'm told to explore
that i had wanted to store in the past
but i put it off because i got no this
is not the time
so
we are in the present don't let yourself
be imprisoned by the future
or the past
um
but it's in the present where we can
make the most progress i mean just
remembering god every day whatever you
want to call at that thing in my book a
new now
i use the term love source with the lns
capitalized
so call it love source because that's
what it is
yeah does that help uh yeah for sure for
sure it's um
you know i think it's one thing we could
definitely agree on is
that
god is love and that there's this peace
and joy and bliss that that we are all
connected to now to go back there to
travel back there i think it's it it is
as
simple as being in the now moment and
that's where that presence and bliss
exists but if you're living outside of
that and anxiety fear all of these are
or things that that aren't real they
just exist in your head and it's causing
you to live outside of the now moment
but once you can kind of
get past that away through it to be in
the now focus on the breath the
heartbeat
meditation reading does it for a lot of
us music does there's little pieces in
everything you know we put it here and
there and something for some people it's
video games it's a way of escape where
they were not they don't have to focus
on the fear and anxiety and i'm not
worrying about dying and when i play a
video video game or watch a movie you
know so to escape those fears um
to tap into the now there's many
different ways and i think that
you know that's where
bliss is in the moment bliss isn't
coming next week
bliss is here now let's tap in let's
let's uh allow it to flow through our
bodies through our breath and experience
and so when you're talking about
you know having the answers within you
there's a place that like uh like
there's even just that notion yeah all
the answers are within okay well you got
to go get them or you have to at least
wait and ask the question and then wait
for the response and so there's a
process again with with uh tapping into
the now moment and things like that so
for you was it just through mindfulness
and meditation is it a particular one is
it clearing your mind how would someone
do that to uh to tap into that infinite
source of love and to seek those answers
within
and obviously sometimes you started
there i believe
in that meditation and mindfulness in it
you get the answer the next day
while you're walking down the street and
you look at a billboard that is exactly
that the answer in response to the
question you asked and you're like okay
wow now the everything's working
together
and i'm not a stranger in this land i am
connected and it just it's more it pulls
you into synchronicities and the beauty
of spirituality of being mindful because
if you weren't if you wasn't mindful for
this billboard oh it's just another
billboard trying to sell me something no
no no it's god the universe trying to
tell me something and get my attention
uh
to get those answers and if you don't
ask the the questions you'll never get
the answers but what does that process
look like for like a meditation of you
was to start something like that
well yeah you covered so many great
things you did too
how much i love but uh
when you were first speaking in this
part it brought to mind my second book
list which is about the uh it's 33 ways
to awaken your spiritual self it it
writes about the 33 essential spiritual
strengths and virtues and these are just
simple things you can do during the day
processes exercises to uh awaken your
spiritual self and experience bliss now
in terms of
having bliss
we we can't make it happen it's not
something it's not a drug really you can
you can take troubles and there are of
course levels and levels and levels of
bliss i mean ultimately it's pure blood
but we can have a wonderful taste of it
now it also brought to mind you can have
well
when i meditate i you know i focus on
holy names of rulers of regions really
to override my downfilling mind so it's
always a struggle with the mind and i
can have maybe the most scattered
meditation where i'm really struggling
and struggling and not feel anything and
then
an hour and a half later all of a sudden
i think of god or something and i'm just
it just wells up within me that bliss so
it's always a gift we should never be
demanding or expecting
expectation
uh is another name for the devil
or which is a very loaded word
but it's something that brings you you
back down
so
you want to be humble and you can't
really make yourself humble but you can
do things to induce humility so for me
very much uh it is meditation it's being
of service i feel my writing is the best
way i can be of service to people
because i i feel connected and i love to
write so
um to find that bless you you have to
learn to know yourself and there's a
whole chapter of well there the whole
book i knew now is about learning to
really know yourself your better self
and developing that part of you and
through that you'll have a higher and
higher experience of life
that's good
being present and in in in that bliss i
mean you would think of it again you
know not demanding but you know that
there's a
formula
like there's different fountains that
you can drink from you can drink from a
wellspring of life or pure water or you
can drink from a stagnant mud puddle and
the results that you get after
uh said experience is gonna alter and
change the way that you feel you know
yeah you have to find and discover what
works for you and what may be the
absolute best focus for 13 months may
stop being that focus but i also very
much write about um
discovering your spiritual center that's
when you're most present
positive grounded uh in control of your
down pulling
passions and i describe all different
kinds of ways which might work for you
for learning and experiencing your
spiritual center but even more important
learning how to return to it for
somebody who often feels like they're in
a state of bliss or are just feeling
good and maybe washing your car well
because of my back problems energy i
don't wash my car now but it's all about
you know really finding what works for
you and going on a path i mean
we're trading really on our own you know
we're walking over hills you know
through chaperone through rocky plains
through rain forest and we can't really
see what's in ahead of us what we have
to deal with is what we have right now
but also developing all the tools of
knowing to make best use of it i mean if
you had if you had to start a fire in
the middle of nowhere but you didn't
have any idea how to do it you you would
be lost if you had to put together a
shelter so this life is really also
about developing the tools
for mastering life i i would like i mean
we all have the potential to become
masters to become god
no matter where you are and this is and
you begin right where you are just look
down at your feet and there are golden
bricks right in front of you you just
have to find and follow your own yellow
brick road and it may not be what your
best friend is doing and telling you
you've got to try this this is the
answer you've got to try things for
yourself and develop the power of
knowing within
in the present to know what's right and
true for you
and would you say that meditation helps
for that i mean if it seems like some of
those principles or some of those tools
are universal like meditation and
becoming mindful like that's
totally i feel like that's going to help
everybody if they would do it kind of
thing right so so like universally there
are things that yeah you probably should
try this you know
yeah i mean meditation to me is you know
the kind of the paramount
but also you know being with the highest
teacher if you can find that teacher i
mean the issue for a lot of people well
there are i don't know you know
many many thousands of kinds of
meditations and techniques it's really
finding what what is best for you and to
do that you really have to define your
objectives which you're looking for and
i do have a section that i do now that
helps you do that i mean what are your
priorities i mean is it just present
mindfulness
is it
uh
evolving into a state of pure love and
pure bliss or uh what whatever it is i
give all kinds of options and to help
people who don't meditate or may not be
happy with their meditation define what
works for them that's why i said a
little bit earlier in this segment you
know if you spend your whole life
seeking it is time well spent now my
last life i i was the co-owner of the i
was english and co-owner of a office
supply and stationary company but i call
that my english seeker life because um
two lives ago i was a british banker and
i had a sojourn in india and there i met
a perfect saint which was to me the
signal event of my existence so i had
met the saint which has made kind of an
infinite impression of my soul
and so that last life i was seeking and
by the way a lot of people say well why
did you start seeking at such a young
age well i've been seeking consciously
for three lives before that three lives
ago
i was all into the comp to saint germain
some of your listeners and viewers may
be aware of who he was
and i lived at the same time he was
around in europe but i knew nothing
about him but my next life when i was in
baltimore right after the american
revolution i found out about him and i
thought wow there is a master who
theoretically they say live for
centuries so
it's all about seeking and
until you become the truth you're a
seeker and you i mean the ultimate truth
is the the source of being and until you
rejoin that ocean of this you're a
secret seeker so people are all
different i have friends who have been
initiated by many teachers and gurus
uh they felt a need to uh or they've
gone away and come back
uh it may not be uh on your
your destiny to follow a teacher this
lifetime
i didn't my last time was all about
reading books and trying out things so
it's all individual and you know you
have the greatest gift to unwrap
well said well said
um
can i ask you what
was
and and this is for everything for me
obviously you're sharing your story
about being pulled back from almost
being hit by a car and then that
facilitates into
uh
a you know meeting your your teacher and
and when when you said that you meant
in in i guess in in the spirit
correct it wasn't a physical person that
pulled you back it was a
some type of master you would say
oh oh yeah it was it was a power within
me
sometimes actually there's sort of like
um
there are times when i need to know
something and there are signs i
literally like feel my head
moved in a different direction to look
at something you know but that's uh you
know i have this presence within me um
that's what happens during our
initiation it's sort of like the uh the
shabbat the word kind of manifests a
particular power because i'm i'm i'm
part of you know i'm a disciple
so um
well repeat your question again i may
have gotten off track well i just wanted
to i want to get clear on that before
moving forward oh oh right yeah it was
not a physical person i've definitely
um you know felt this presence intervene
in my life in key moments like
uh i was visiting palm springs years ago
i was in holiday
and
i it was a green light
i started to go through and all of a
sudden bam my foot slammed on the brake
if i continued going i would have been
in a terrible car crash this car came
through 60 70 miles an hour running a
red light
it wasn't your time you still had
something to fulfill on the earth no
yeah and and listen when i had uh all
these operations and bulb obstructions i
could have easily easily died and in
fact my surgeon gave up on me and i
hadn't uh had any water or food for
nearly two weeks and i said well
this is during a total bob obstruction i
said what other options can we try
because i'm very much into alternative
healing and medicine and all that and he
looked at me as if i was stupid and he
said hospice you know you either pull
out of this or forget it uh and i
thought no i'm not gonna die so i mean i
knew all those times i wasn't going to
die and i recovered
so
um
we just have to do you know the best we
can
now what about for uh the uh
the uh past lives and and the 88 past
lives like what is the the biggest proof
that that you have obviously
it's hard i'm sure there's a bunch of
little little things like you said
because these things just start
connecting and reaching out to you and
you feel drawn to things and then
there's downloads and there's memories
so i'm sure it's a lot of stuff like to
unpack but for you what was the thing
that the first thing that made you say
hey there's something more to this to
you know find my first past life or now
we're on to 88 like how like what what
was the thing that made made you know
that there was some validity to this and
i need to keep exploring this
well
i
before i started to recover my best
lives i've really developed my intuition
my sense of knowing and initially it was
like all the things i was curious about
like you know had i met a master in a
past life
i mean when i go out to lunch with a
group of friends they'd call me the
englishman because i was so english i
quickly recovered my last two lives i
was english
but
in the my spiritual memoir in search of
lost lives i described all these
uh particular individual talents and
abilities and traits that were really
unusual and they all linked up to
specific experiences in particular past
slides so that was sort of a
verification
for what i
felt was true where i knew it came from
somewhere i mean explain more than
anything
why i am who i am today
but eventually i
i was just able to devel all of a sudden
i discovered as i mentioned earlier
i could i could i had the power to know
what i whatever i could know and the
pardon of what i couldn't know
but i also
through my work with higher
consciousness recovered that i had done
work
between lives before lives and the
ability to to traverse time while in the
physical it's an unusual ability
that you know most people wouldn't have
so in terms of verification
um there were a lot of things i wrote
about that i didn't know were true
like um you know had railroads been
built at this time i you know write
about a trip i took from bombay to agra
and i thought and i just wrote about it
because i remembered the journey and
what what was so important that happened
on the journey and i didn't know maybe
railroads were built 30 years later so i
did research after i wrote the book and
every single thing was verified every
kind of detail like i
knew i'd been a member of the
metaphysical society but i thought was i
here at the right time
so i i verified that the other thing
that i found really interesting is that
other people verified my experience one
thing i write about in the book uh in
search of lost lives is the cohort of
seven
and this is the group of mind and soul
entities i was together with between
lives much of the time
and as it happened i knew all of them in
this lifetime
and these are people i'd had the most
incarnations with
and i contacted a number of them and a
number of them have read my book and we
acknowledged that when we met it was
like so powerful we were like dizzy from
the impressions from past lives and so
they basically kind of confirmed that we
had this amazing powerful connection
but you know really until you
go within to a certain point with him
at a certain point all your lives are an
open book you can look at everything and
that's when you're beyond the mind
because the soul is all knowing
so it's a very high state once you i
mean a a person really isn't a true
saint uh until they go beyond the mind
but that we all have that capacity we
all have that power within us even if it
doesn't happen this lifetime could
happen three lives from now
you know you mentioned
different meditations thousands of
meditations hundreds of thousands even
and different experiences probably that
will come about through those
meditations get key on what it is you're
looking for and you want to achieve or
what you want to do uh call in your
spirit guides meet your ancestors travel
to the future i mean there's so so many
leave your body and fly around a remote
view
take your choice but for you
in your meditation and and getting
information you talked about getting
uh i found it it's a beautiful way to
get inspired to find out what your
purpose is like in meditation there's
impressions that come to you and and you
getting these visions of past lives and
stuff does that realm become more
familiar to you or is it weird and
strange every time do you kind of get to
a familiar place okay now we're entering
the state where my body's falling asleep
for me like now there's a light that
approaches me and i'm gonna follow that
light and the more you visit the more
you spend time there you get familiar
and maybe you take a different path
while you're in that type of vision for
you
does it become more familiar is it still
squirrely i would say it's hard to cut
catch things
fleeting it's just an impression here
to be able to hold that image okay there
it is i'm focusing on it because another
image wants to present itself like
there's so much that goes on sometimes
it's like it's almost like downloads of
a thousand books hitting you at once and
you're like oh my god you just gotta
grab something how is it for you
and and how how familiar have you gotten
with going within that mindfulness and
and and uh communicating and
experiencing that realm
well there there's meditation when when
i'm sitting and and there's mindfulness
when i'm going about my day and the
mindfulness and being in the now becomes
more and more familiar you know i'm
somebody i guess you know maybe one of
my predominant mental patterns is
anxiety which is you know part of you
know an outgrowth of one of the basic uh
down building passions which is fear you
know i want to know what's going to
happen well um
writing the book has actually been great
practice for me and so it's become more
and more familiar to uh being the now
and because i have this intuitive
ability i can always ask you know what
what is the most optimal way to do this
and that and put myself in the future
but more and more i'm just i'm just
living automatically and that's becoming
more familiar now as to meditation
things will come through
automatically i mean uh you know my mind
tends to what my mind likes to do is
compose sentences so you know if i'm
working on a project things will come
through during meditation and i know i
shouldn't stop and write them down
although i'd love to but also as part of
meditation the whole point of my
meditation
is to withdraw my soul and mind currents
from the body it's to experience death
while living i mean i think it was paul
said i die daily well that is you know
the process of this kind of meditation
it's the whole idea of collecting your
attention at the
eye center and withdrawing your soul and
mind current so you can pierce the eye
center and you know through your own um
rather than
being kind of pulled within and not
knowing what's happening having like a
near-death experience generally is not
under a person's control
so when we're talking about
dying daily that is you consciously
withdrawing your your your spiritual
currents and entering the inner realms
which if without a guide you'll be
completely lost and somebody could come
up to you who's you know who could be
hitler or a chill of a hun
and
you don't know if that person's you know
so
with a guide and with you know a
powerful mantra you can test all these
entities because people could come up to
you as your long lost twin brother who
died before you and you don't you may
not know i mean
there are all these amazing powers
within different entities can you know
be benevolent or malevolent yeah that's
that's the thing
so
yeah we uh
you know we discussed that a lot
especially coming from a christian
background you have a lot of people who
are scared of it because
you hear more talk of the demonic than
you do of the angelic in western
christianity of casting out demons and
exorcisms and there's a demon behind
that book there's a demon behind that
television program be careful you'll
never hear them say hey there's an angel
that is imparted when you watch this
movie you're not going to hear him say
that so when it comes to
dealing with things of the spirit world
and things that they don't understand
from western christianity which is what
i you know i come come out of um they're
really scared of a lot of that stuff
because it's like how do you believe
that that was your uncle it could have
been a demon masquerading as your uncle
but you said there's tests and things
right
well that's very true and that's why you
you know the best thing is to have a
very advanced master will be with you
and you can you can you can test that
now the whole creation is set up
to
keep you here i mean and not let you
progress beyond the mind until you're
absolutely pure and you paid off your
karma so the mind has a built-in
bias of negativity so it's much easier
to believe in the in the demonic rather
the in the angelic to believe that you
know people are out to get you you know
rather than the opposite yeah so i mean
the mind is really our greatest enemy
but the thing is if we become masters of
the mind it can become our greatest
friend because it will make you
sit in meditation and make you
help you follow the right path because
the true bliss available to us is
absolutely beyond language
totally indescribable beyond what any of
us could ever imagine the beauties with
him but it's all a question of of
gaining control over the mind so you can
withdraw from the physical
but you know even if it doesn't happen
in this lifetime you can set yourself up
on the path of truth of discovery
and you know learn to trust your knowing
there are there's so many wild things
out there on the internet today that
people buy into
and this is just another way of
distracting us from the fact that we're
gonna die and this is your chance to
make spiritual progress and to evolve
further
i mean my real spiritual evolution
started thousands of lives ago when i
was a woman on another planet and i
could be happy to come back and talk
about my other two planets uh and i have
six children my husband was akin to a
lawyer and i had this fabulous uh
beginning of my spiritual evolution
so this has been going on a long time
but i don't think i'm coming back that's
what i'm
i i very much feel this is my last time
on the physical i could be mistaken
there may be a lot more stuff i have to
come back to pay off but it's really a
question of attachment if your main
attachment is to god whatever you want
to call a love source that's the main
thing
i i do feel that love source
what the love source is keenest is for
us to love that you know rather than get
hung up on all these theories and
increasing means
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us here so
another question i have this is
something that we've been exploring
as a truth seeker like i feel like
you got to be a skeptic like you got to
make sure that you you know that you
know like that
we hear stories i mean you even said
earlier that
just like the psychics you went to see
weren't telling you the truth either
they were making it up or they were
great storytellers
right they thought they were telling me
the truth but everything every life i
went through no not even close yeah
um so i find
great pleasure in being a skeptic
because i feel like it
it it lets me encounter the real deal
like a meme something that just keeps
repeating over and over to you in your
life whether synchronicities or
a spirit or god or the angels or jesus
trying to get your attention
it's not with every wind or every voice
or every imagination it's something that
sticks with you it's persistent and i
feel like truth is is persistent and it
holds up and it it stands the test of
time so
to it's good to approach it as a skeptic
but in that
um we talk about
what if and maybe maybe these are two
separate phenomenas that that people are
experiencing but i wonder if they could
be similar instead of and this is
hypothetical i'm no expert that's why
i'm asking you instead of
saying that that you personally were
this woman who lived so many thousands
of years ago
and there was 88 lives that you actually
lived what about the theory or the
possibility that
it could be
people in your family
lineage that is memories that are locked
inside of your dna
not necessarily that it was you and you
were cognitive but essentially it was
you because you have the same dna and
those memories
come back has there been any study on
that or is that a possibility of how
this these memories come to us through
our dna
yeah but that's a very good question
there no i i i know that's totally not
the case that has nothing to do with my
dna it
all confirmed from my higher
consciousness and i have no doubt that
when i rise above the mind uh this will
all be confirmed you know i was this is
sort of my service i was meant to write
about these lives so
you know one thing i talk about in my
interviews is
some people are fascinated by their
genealogy and their bloodlines and and
they think that's the key to finding out
who they they are well it may influence
you you know you get certain biological
predispositions
you know maybe a tendency for breast
cancer whatever you know i'm not a
medical doctor but
what i mean the most one of the most
gratifying things of
recovering those 88 lives is that it
completely clarified and explained why i
am who i am today i mean
each member of my nuclear family we
couldn't have been more more different
we were completely different and what i
recovered is that what we were what i
call first-timers it was for me it was
my first life of each of them but i
recovered 88 past lives 17 of which were
animal past lives which is a whole
interesting aspect in itself but i've
had
thousands i've i've had literally i mean
i was able to know human lives i've had
4
137
and millions of lives and lower life
forms i mean from plant to to fish
lizard to bird to animal
we're we're really the only uh creation
has the power of discrimination it's
called akash we can worship god so we're
at a very high level
people a lot of people believe in angels
they may have seen them our higher
powers but
angels cannot they're they're not in in
a form in which they can basically go
back to god i mean they have a very high
function in the creation but the human
form is the form uh for returning to our
true home they they long for human birth
i mean you i imagine you could become an
angel and be an angel for seeming
eternity but you're going to be stuck in
that wonderful role i mean uh personally
if i had a chance to go to my own
perfect heaven whatever that would be i
wouldn't want it because i i want to
rejoin i rather than being a dirty drop
of the ocean i want to rejoin the ocean
i came from that ocean of this
yeah
um
so many uh
so many possibilities of what heaven
would look like and i just i like i like
to
play the devil's advocate just to like
what about this what about that and not
to take a hard left or a hard right but
it's just like let's
let's look at the ideas and i've raised
the question like of what we call heaven
and and and uh or whatever it is that
that we go like
what if it's not as
cool as this place like whatever isn't
as cool as earth earth is pretty cool
like if you make it like it is what you
make it but like family and chocolate
and dogs and all that you know what i'm
saying yeah that's all in the physical
and believe me there are worse places
than on earth uh i i share you know this
most of the animal lives i write about
resulted from a preponderance of bad
actions i committed that tip to balance
where i lost the opportunity of human
birth but a couple lives i committed
actions that were so egregiously bad and
evil that i went to what i call a state
of reformation the emotional laden word
is a hell it was at the spoke hell but i
i want to clarify and make a distinction
about heaven
any of the higher regions
will
you know if you if you your
consciousness can
be there it will seem like a heaven
there are you know
highly evolved souls who have reached
the astor region or the council region
and that's as far as they've gone and
they felt it's heaven so but there's
many more brand
uh heavens beyond that i mean the seven
heavens is not a loose term i mean
basically there isn't seven heavens and
then there's the ultimate but i also
talk about what i call like bespoke or
custom made heavens where you're being
rewarded for all the love and good work
you did on earth and that's going to be
a heaven really just design for yourself
so i mean
it's so beyond our imagination derek
everything exists i mean
in my book i say another name for god is
diversity if it's possible it's going to
be there i mean look at all the species
we've had on earth that are extinct and
that are dying off now and that will
come with whatever form the earth is in
so
do be
uh a devil's advocate i mean question
things but the point is you have you are
your essence is truth so we have to
develop our built-in detector
and a lot of people haven't worked on
that i i feel i have to a good degree
i mean
when some politicians talk i'm thinking
how can somebody buy into that it
boggles the mind we've been talking
about that a lot lately oh have you well
they haven't really i mean people want
to be true believers they want to give
up their power i want people to be
self-empowered and develop their
built-in detector because that's
what's going to help you until you find
somebody who is the embodiment of truth
a fully realized saint you you're you
don't really you know you're going to
have to rely on yourself you can
get input from people but that doesn't
mean you need to take it and accept it
you can test it
somebody told me i should move to
ashland well
the time i would really want to live
there would be often the smoky season
when people leave so that probably
wouldn't work for me so do we have any
questions that people are dying yeah we
got we got a hey dying to ask hey come
on now
no pun agenda yeah uh yeah we do we do
have a question here i believe and let's
uh bring richie in
um because there's a bunch of questions
coming through richie do you got a uh a
question for mike from somebody in the
audience or
hello yes many thanks for the sharing in
the broadcast today michael appreciate
your sharing your wisdom
namaste namaskar uh question about um
the
teacher that you received your
initiation under or what um type or
branch of lineage that you have received
initiation into thank you
yeah um you mean uh actually who it is
or who it was
sure yes yeah i i don't really share
that publicly because i
um
first of all the teacher has departed
but you know i encourage people to read
my books and to pursue their search
however it is but if somebody who
initiated me into
uh
bhakti insert shabbat yoga so bhakti is
devotion insert shattered
is the
soul current so it's somebody who
attuned me to the the inner sound which
all of us have within us all of us can
hear uh we may hear only a very very
distant echo but as you become your mind
becomes pure and cure i mean the sounds
of the inner regions are absolutely
ecstatic and blissful i mean
people who have listened to a level
where they can hear some of the initial
sounds all they want to do is be
absorbed in that blissful music all the
time
so
there's a truth i feel is true that
there's always a perfect living master
on earth you just have to search for him
but he will find you if you're meant to
be his sheep as an issue
so you know i just wish everybody the
best in furthering your own search and
seeking the
truth gratitude thank you
oh you're most welcome anything else
do you have anything richie
any any questions i know you're a seeker
richie i know your your gears are
turning anything that you want some
clarity on and things as well
um
or or that you think the audience would
enjoy a question i know you got some in
your head and you can't say you don't
because we talk too much
fair for sure i guess i'm just
permeating in the
perspective because this is the first
time that you mentioned the term bhakti
in all the sharing and i kind of had an
inkling talking about the subtle bodies
and talking about the um
the different vocabulary you used seem
to be informed by that tradition and i
think it's really interesting that
you're not leading with your tradition
you're sharing the concepts instead
rather than adhering so much to the
lingua franca of using the sanskrit
terms oh and and what tradition are you
speaking about like bhakta yoga
uh
some of it sounds that way yes oh well
well there's bhakta yoga and there's
bhakta yoga i mean my dog who you may
have noticed coming in for
some love earlier his name is bhakti as
a matter of fact which uh people love i
mean boxing is devotion uh so it's
really devotion to your teacher to your
guide
but it's it's shabbat yoga as well
which is really meditating on the word
the logos to shove it and shabbat is
spelled s h a
b for boy d for dog
so but the the thing is i mean there's
so much literature out there saints
throughout time
in in very different expressions and
completely different cultures have have
taught this path and the point is you
you really need to if you if you want to
find this kind of path you need a living
teacher
and uh it's not that hard to find i mean
if you read my memoir
it'd be very easy to do a google search
and go from there to find out you know a
particular branch but there are options
i mean the thing we haven't talked about
which is probably might be good for
another session is ego there are
initiatives who
set themselves up as gurus and get
people to pay them money and make a
fortune you know maybe they've had inner
experiences they get spiritual powers
and they wow people and they convince
them
you need to be my initiative so
that's where you really need to be you
know skeptic and and have your
your built-in detector really
ticking and alive
uh because the ego is really uh
the greatest challenge to overcome the
ego
and you can't always do i mean you can
manage your ego i read a lot about
managing getting to know and management
though i write a lot about that in a new
now but we can't really rise above the
ego which is part of having the mind
until we become really pure
instead of rising above do you think
that it would serve us more
to some degree to work with it and to
identify when it's kicking in just so we
know like okay you're holding me back
from a
uh
a uh
a job i'm scared to take because i don't
i don't know if i'm worth that much
money and the ego says no you're not
worth it you remember mom telling you
you'll never be nothing and that kicks
in like the ego kind of
like facilitates a lot of that so i'm so
glad you brought that up because you're
talking about what we would call
negative ego or inverted ego like
feeling you're not worthy enough we have
all these mental patterns conscious and
really subconscious that need to be
released
so there are therapies out there i talk
about in general terms uh for
really accessing these self-sabotaging
subconscious beliefs i mean why do
people keep repeating the same patterns
you know like marrying the wrong person
time after time why do they keep failing
well they you know they're programming i
mean we're a massive bad programming the
mind is like a computer so obviously you
want to get to know your ego uh the
positive and the negative but the ego
just wants to inflate itself most of the
time so
we can't we can't really squelch the ego
we can manage it you can be aware you
know if i'm about to say something i've
got the point like oh wow that's the
mind being on a ziggo trip and i i'm
quiet i mean before you speak you can
always ask is it true
is it necessary it's a kind that comes
from the buddha
so ego is a very important topic i'm
glad we brought it up
that's awesome
yeah um the bible would call it the
fleshly nature or like
the e it's the egoic nature it's uh
learning the voice of the inner critic
you know yeah and i you know i'm not a
student at all the bible but i believe a
lot of people believe that we're born in
sin
and sin comes and trying to remember by
latin from the latin i think sinister
which means to go
to mr mark exactly so that's basically
going away from god i mean goddess to
mark so we're all born with sin
uh because of the actions we've created
in past lives as humans it you know i
don't
if i find to you know because of
something someone else did or you know
leading leaving the garden of eden it's
because of what we've done ourselves
everything we're going through
you know it may be new maybe somebody
acting out but our destiny is formed
from all the actions uh and debts we've
created from past lives so we are born
into sin but it's us it's not somebody
else
because we're
we are puppets of the mind which is part
of the mind is this huge ego either
positive or negative or you know
completely commanding
both usually right everybody has the
ability and potential to do both and
that's the beauty of
like choice and you get to wake up and
choose what you're going to eat and
choose
like you mentioned kill 19 people or not
kill i'm gonna heal 19 people i'm gonna
inspire 19 people today when the other
person
doesn't get the ego in check and ends up
doing the opposite and so with this life
and and what people will call free will
like the yin and the yang both exist and
we have the potential to do both and so
that's why we do
and and one practice i feel everybody
can do and be aware of and that is to be
a good human being
i mean
don't lash out at people uh be aware
that
uh
of negative criticism you know
backbiting
that can stay with somebody for the rest
of their lives material i mean speak
your truth with love
uh rather than let somebody down
show up and tell them you know i can't
do this or this doesn't work for me
share the truth rather than create all
these lies about what you're doing so
really
focus on being a good human being and
being kind and speaking the truth
uh and not speaking harshly
i dig it i dig it before enlightenment
chop wood
after enlightenment
chop wood
continue to chop be a good person do you
your human duties
and uh and we'll make the world a better
place one good deed one
inspired soul at a time
uh michael man thank you for for coming
on hanging out with me really enjoyed
picking your brain and hearing about
your journey and your books and all the
beautiful stuff that you're creating
congratulations on all the the awards
that that you're winning with with your
books and uh let people know where they
can go to uh to tap in with you to to
check out your books and your website
and all that cool stuff sure
the best place to start is my website
which is cotter.com that's god for god
d-a-r-t
for dart if you're driving or moving and
doing anything to write with just a good
way to remember something is think of a
loved art from god and on the website
goddard.com you'll find a lot of
excerpts from my books a lot of
interviews particularly about my
spiritual memoir and if you buy your
books at amazon you can click right over
from the book page to amazon and i've
got interviews all over the internet or
wherever you get your podcasts
and i'm on facebook uh my book page is
more bliss
and if you have a real burning question
you can even ask it on the book
page
michael
enjoyed it brother i know the audience
did too i'm sitting here uh looking at
our live stream chat and i know once
this goes live on the podcasting apps
that people are going to be
blessed by this conversation and and a
lot of um
um seeds were sown and questions were
answered even for me so thank you so
much for coming on hanging out with me i
really enjoyed it brother we'll have to
do it again sometime thank you
i so enjoyed it thank you with all my
heart eric all the best many blessings
thank you brother shalom
shalom
michael goddard ladies and gentlemen
make sure you check out his website
check out his work uh beautiful brother
beautiful story remembering past lives
in search of lost lives uh a new now
uh spiritual revolution a seeker's guide
and i'm interested in what he said the
other one that's coming out becoming
paranormal
becoming paranormal now i've heard the
terms such as becoming supernatural
becoming god becoming this becoming that
but becoming paranormal very interesting
uh title indeed so i'm i'm interested in
what that book
has to offer and and what he's going to
bring to the table with that so make
sure y'all check out his his work and
let him know that you heard him on
the true secret podcast as well
um
death man
stories that we make up religions that
we
join
um or just becoming okay listen i'm
i know what happens that when i die i
don't exist and that is the scariest
thing for me
and maybe it's scary for you but there's
people who come to grips and they you
know science-based people because they
really want proof of the afterlife and
as far as they're concerned there is no
proof there's i've been seeing little
interviews or
not interviews but they're snippets from
a
um
interview or something where
bill nye visited ken ham who is the
creationalist uh who has the big noah's
ark uh
exhibit that you can go to and you know
very much uh a
biblical theologian and
um bill nye and essentially an atheist
goes there and they're kind of walking
through the exhibit looking at it and
they're kind of having this little
conversation um
bill nye has nothing to prove
and he just talks about his uh
unbelief in the afterlife and unbelief
in god and
and uh and there is no proof and how can
you say that and and and it was a very
interesting conversation
and when you pay attention to to auras
and just the way that people act their
personas and like
the the guy the christian guy ken ham he
just he had a lot to prove he was very
defensive because if
you know
bill and i didn't have to defend
anything he's like yeah i don't think
anything happens there's really no proof
and the guy said yeah
there's total proof the bible is proof
and the bible is the only proof we need
and he's like well that's what you
believe but you know i've never died i
don't i don't know what happens i i
would hope i would be awesome i see why
people believe in afterlife but to see
even his skepticism of the afterlife
it's very scary to hear neil tyson
degrassi talk about
and make it sound as beautiful as he can
about your body that is going to go into
the the um
the earth and
and you're going to become fertilizer
and and worms are going to eat you and
they're going to
your body is gonna give life to other
life and plants are gonna grow out of
you and above you and
he tried to explain it as beautiful and
eloquently as he could but it was still
like scary that fact that you might not
exist when you die like that's the end
and none of us wants that even the
people i would say like bill nye who has
come to the final agreement yeah we just
don't exist there's nothing that happens
it's it so be be mindful be happy do
good deeds
and ken ham the christian
he kept going to this thing which a lot
of christians do
they say that
when it comes to morality
if there is no
penance if there is no judgment if there
is no
uh you have to answer for the wrong that
you did on the other side
then what prevents you from being a
serial killer being a thief or a rapist
or just taking what you want because
once you die it's over there is no
afterlife and and bill and i would look
at him and say so you're only
like you want to do those things but you
don't because you'll be punished you say
yeah well human nature is just kind of
taken
very very interesting conversation but
how scrambled and how panicky the guy
was to uh prove his points and bill and
i was like hey just what it is um
everybody has to come to their own
conclusion about what happens
i don't think any of us know for certain
i i feel i say i've never died
and my reincarnation friends are like
hey you have you just don't know it you
haven't done the regression yet do the
regression and you'll figure out what
you were try to remember you were
something before you were this um
i don't think it was a person maybe it's
my first incarnation here you know maybe
that's why there's this the skepticism
that comes from it but i want to know
like i would hate to be a parrot
of a doctrine of a theology of a
philosophy that someone created because
of their fear of death
and i'm parroting their belief because
it helps people not feel so scared or
alone like i understand that part but
let's dig in the truth and let's find
something else that we can that we can
have substance over that's where
religion
serves us
is the fear of death the fear of the
afterlife the fear that you don't exist
anymore religion like immediately
nullified nullifies that uh psychedelics
for many people you overcome the fear of
death by five grams of psilocybin for
other people it's having a near-death
experience and seeing their family
members and seeing jesus or this being
of light that approaches them and says
hey it's okay but it's not your time go
back and so boom after they have that oh
yeah i died and so it's not so bad it's
not as bad as you think and so that
helps us because we're scared to death
give us some answers yeah it's not bad i
died and i came back and it wasn't so
bad
but me to skeptical i want proof like
did you really die though how long were
you dead how long were you without
oxygen like you know you wanted you want
to pry versus like that guy died and
came back i mean that's why you have the
skeptics over jesus
hold on did that did he really die i
identify when it comes to
archetypes
in the bible with doubting thomas
again i talk about this all the time but
his doubt his skepticism
birthed in an experience for him it
birthed
a birth an encounter
that he was able to put his fingers in
the holes in the messiah's hand
when the messiah died on the cross and
was crucified before he left he said
listen
many will come in my name and say i am
he don't believe them
when i come you're gonna know it's me
and he gave like these
these uh things to identify
and so he gets crucified three days
later there's a guy on the scene that
doesn't look like jesus right they don't
recognize him he doesn't something's
different about him he comes back
his disciples see him they find him they
don't know it's him at first and then
eventually they're like there
whatever it was it took them
to say okay it's him they were convinced
thomas comes up to say thomas jesus is
back like he said he would be he's like
hold on i don't even look like him like
i'm not going to believe because he
warned us that people were going to come
and try to pretend to be him
jesus warned us of that you know that's
what that's what the scripture says and
uh so he said i'm not gonna believe
until i stick my fingers in the holds of
his hand because i seen them crucify our
lord i seen him give up the ghost as the
bible says his spirit left his body so
that skepticism birthed and opened up a
portal for him to do something that
maybe the other disciples didn't do and
that was
be embraced by his master to be able to
place his fingers in the holes of his
hands where they crucified him so
not to just take somebody's word for it
the guy michael talked about going to
many psychics and them telling him
stories of this is what you were in the
past life and then he says he starts to
explore it he's like hold on these
people were lying to me and took my
money like you got to pay psychics
usually and they took my money and
the truth that i'm coming to in the end
is that these people were lying a lot of
people come to similar conclusions
you find people that just tell you what
you want to hear
we got to be careful that's the ego
that's knowing your mind which he said
can be your biggest enemy because that
many churches
many mosques
many temples around the world many
podcasts
the guests and the preachers
and the priests tell you what you want
to hear
why
the scripture says hope deferred makes
the heart sick
you gotta have hope
even if it's sold to us even if it's a
narrative that isn't true
it helps me to cope with it
to know that my loved one is still
watching me he's actually standing
beside me right now whatever it is we
make up stories and scenarios is that to
say that the paranormal and supernatural
isn't real no not by any means but it's
like
maybe there's repeatability
maybe there's
evp
electronically
recorded
voice phenomena that uh
ghosts are speaking from the afterlife
and it's picking up on mp3 players and
recordings like hold on
paranormal investigations ufology ce5
angelic contact demonic possessions
listen when stuff starts happening over
and over again we document it there's
some kind of repeatability that happens
and for me that gives me hope i'll be
honest with you it gives me hope of the
afterlife and that something exists
beyond the physical mundane that when we
cross over some essence of ourself
continues even if it's just a record
that is burnt into the atmosphere
of the place where you you were you
lived or the place where you died and
it's etched in there and if people come
and feel they can feel a temperature
shift they feel something different
someone said in chat here that maybe
they're they can feel the energy of
their loved ones listen
my wife when when she she sees um
hummingbirds at certain times it reminds
her of her gran her grandmother her mama
when she sees that that hummingbird is
immediate
reminder or or smelling grand grandpa's
cologne
whether you're walking through macy's in
a mall and you smell it or you're
sitting in your room by yourself
and the smell just comes across the air
like there is a reminder there is a hope
there is something more that exists on
the other side and we all have to come
to that realization
whether it's just being okay with
nothing exists there's some people who
do that
i guess i refuse
to be honest with you i kind of refuse
that or i'm scared of it um so i'm gonna
i'm gonna believe other other theories
i'm gonna search for something that has
substance
and jesus talks about the afterlife
jesus talks about
having uh
taken the keys of death in hell and uh
his defeated death and you will now be
with me in paradise hold on somewhere
else outside of this earth isn't
paradise not for a lot of people so
there's somewhere going that is better
it's a vacation
it is it is a place of rest and you're
going to be with me in this place and
we'll see each other on the other side
so you got to get clear on what it takes
for you
for many people this interview was
enough you were looking for proof of uh
reincarnation that you get to come back
and you're good you're sold the story
was good you've watched a lot of
documentaries and you're good
like
i'm not against it and i'm not against
you but i i want
i don't know what i want i don't know if
i want to download myself i don't know
if i want a ghost to appear to me and
have a conversation like i've had a lot
of weird stuff that makes me a believer
but i don't know about
you know being reincarnated or even if
anything is is real we are truth seekers
we don't take anybody's word for it
maybe if you you know maybe it's the
100th interview that i do with with a
person who comes back from the other
side and that's the one that sticks and
i can tell that they were
telling me the truth and
it wasn't just
downloads that was coming in their head
or something i don't know
again michael has to get clear
on what happens when you die even at an
early age of seeing his fish die
you had to get clear
it was an uneasy uncomfortable feeling
that was inevitable
and that's scary
thinking about that i remember
my first
time i understood death
that it was a concept that
not that just people die but that
everyone will die i remember that day
all so well
i was very young i was with my sister
and we were being uh
we had a babysitter
and shout out to my sister
pamela today is her
birthday
today's her birthday happy birthday
tamila love you
um
but we were
um
at the babysitter well the babysitter
was at our house
it was just some guy we were just
watching the kids my mom was going to
work and uh we had a huge tv one of
those big tvs back in the 80s
and uh they're really big
and uh we were watching
i love lucy
with lucille ball
and we're watching it we're just playing
in the uh
uh
living room and one of us said and i had
to i couldn't have been more than
then five or something five or six i was
really young um seven at the oldest
but i remember saying i think it was a
lot younger than that but i was very
young um
watching lucille ball and we were like
we're going to meet her one day we want
to we want to go and meet the people in
the tv and we're watching black and
white reruns of lucille ball
and he said no you're not going to meet
lucille ball
and it's like why
she's dead she died how'd she she died
how she died she got hit by a car no i
think she died of old age
and when that registered
died of old age what do you mean
yeah everybody dies
at some point
everyone's going to die
you're going to die one day
i'm gonna die your mom's gonna die and
when we're little kids in that
registered in our head
for the first time that you're gonna die
everyone's gonna die because like
now in the now moment nobody dies and
when you're a kid you're an expert of
the now moment you're always playing and
and happy and
because that's what's in the now moment
but when that registered
we went into sheer terror
and panic as
a
four and five-year-old five and
six-year-old whatever we were
of the first time like we're gonna die
we're gonna die
and just crying and screaming he
couldn't like calm us down we were in
terror
with the notion that one day you're
gonna die
and you're gonna just see what's it like
when you die you just see black
ah or you go to heaven ah
it's scary
the trauma that came from that
at an early age
and i wonder where you were the first
time
you came in touch with your own
mortality
the fact that you don't get to live
forever at least in this body
maybe your spirit your soul your essence
of who you are
goes and gets into another body as
people would say reincarnation um or you
get to go to heaven and uh
whatever it is that you believe like
where like where were you
when you first got scared of death maybe
you didn't maybe like okay whatever
another thing
that move on to something else because
many of us deal with death that way
who don't go to religion or don't pick
an afterlife or don't pick reincarnation
you don't pick or whatever
but you deal with it by
changing the subject
i know people they change the subject we
start talking about death i want to
think about that let's talk about uh how
about those cowboys you seen the
football game this weekend
what are you shouldn't you like listen
let's talk about it because it's going
to make you be mindful
like every it's weird maybe it's
a form of psychosis to really do what i
do and
explore and ponder but i treat every
i treat every conversation like it's my
last
and i think
i feel like it's healthy maybe it's not
but especially concerning the times
right now
of what we're dealing with as a people
like
you should cherish every moment
you should cherish every breath again
you don't know how thankful you you are
or how much
something means to you until it's gone
until you don't
have breath anymore
we're getting covet
i do breath work i'm mindful of the
breath and all that but listen when it's
taken away from you
and i leave breath work on sunday
mornings
hey guys
we never be doing much breath work today
we're going to take little baby breaths
we're going to connect we're going to
pray like i can't lead you in some deep
we can't do that today we got to um
do some
small breaths so you with me sure let's
do it you know and having those people
with you but you you don't know how much
you miss something until it's gone
whether that's a family member whether
that's a job that you got fired from the
job that i used to loathe
at a certain point there are good
qualities about it that i miss
i had certain customers that i looked
forward to when i was driving my
delivery truck and i may see them once
or twice a week but i knew when i saw
them we're gonna cut up
they're gonna tell jokes they really
they liked me i liked them and so i had
these friends that i saw once a week
driving and when i got fired
um
i didn't get to tell them goodbye
in my mind man i wish i could go ride
one more time and tell them
goodbye because like i i've seen those
people like once a week twice a week
three times a week
every week for 10 years like some of
those people there the whole time and i
travel to a place and and see them
and then when you got fired when my time
at that job expired when my services
were no longer needed
i didn't get to say goodbye
and for me that's a fear even in death
that you
weren't ready
if anybody is ever ready is that the
fact that you don't get to say goodbye
people think
especially the ones who try not to think
about it oh yeah we're gonna we got time
we're gonna get to say goodbye
we're gonna get to say goodbye you don't
know that hey i'm gonna get a pizza i'll
be right back what do you guys want boom
boom all right be right back 18 wheeler
wow where is he at
they just want to get a pizza he's gonna
be right back he's not coming back
i didn't get to say goodbye
you're not promised tomorrow
every hang up of the telephone every
can disconnect from a zoom call
is your goodbye
every moment
every thought be present it's all you
got
tomorrow and yesterday don't even exist
it is about the now
listen hug people
whatever bs you're going through with
your enemies and your family try your
best to get over it
it ain't worth it
like you know how many family members
like fight and hate each other and they
they end up passing
and they weren't on good terms
the last conversation they had was
telling you how i really feel about you
and then that person dies and
i wish i could have told them
life is precious
you don't know what you have until it's
gone you we see that about jobs we see
that about relationships mindfulness
again in earth in this reality as truth
seeker even like
the things i like
i don't know where the next place is
going like michael talked about going to
other planets and incarnating on other
planets i'm sure that if that's true i
don't know but if that's true there's
planets where there is no chocolate
there is there's planets where beings
that don't know how to show love
you know anything that you can fathom
that you'll meet man i miss chocolate i
miss breath work with my with my people
well we don't breathe oxygen here sir
there is no such thing well i remember a
past life on earth where i did breath
work every sunday no we don't do that
it's not possible we don't do breath
work we we're underwater beings here and
i'm just trying to show you
different scenarios
to be mindful of the little things the
breath
the heartbeat
bring it back to the now moment
to focus
friendships listen i i don't know
you know it is i think it is healthy
it's setting your it's setting yourself
up to to not be let down
you know someone so died oh man
there is no i wish i could tell him
goodbye
it's like yeah last time i talked with
him like i made the best of that moment
and that was my goodbye
that was my peace that i left with you
and every person i meet and my friends
my family my enemies that is my desire i
don't know that it always comes across
as i would like to but it is the desire
it is the notion that i want you to
remember me as someone who was a friend
remembering me as somebody who cared or
somebody who challenged you or remember
this life as that
and we talk about remembering
remembering so we get a picture we get a
tattoo of the of the of our grandfather
we get their name tattooed i got my
daughter's name tattooed you know what
i'm saying like
we're gonna remember them so we write it
down
okay i'm gonna remember them i got their
pictures hanging up like
that's why i really identify with like i
don't do it i would like to practice i
just don't know anybody with the mexican
culture in the day of the dead like for
halloween we're going to remember all of
our friends and family that passed and
they're on the other side and we're
going to have all their pictures
like i would i just think about that i
want to do it i don't know if it's an
altar i don't know if it's that day i
don't know if it's once a week but have
everybody man who
who meant something to me that that is
no longer here
and just remember the beautiful times of
telling stories and
you know sleepovers when you were a kid
in
video games and being competitive and
shooting back you don't get to do that
no more that's only for earth
where you're going you're it's it's
different
it's not like this place
and that's in the it's in the minutia
it's in the the small details don't let
it slip away
don't let it slip away listen there was
things that
that i did that were uncomfortable you
know and just
things you do as a parent meetings with
teachers and stuff and
and counselors or whatever it's like
hold on like
and i don't really want to
talk to the damn counselor whatever and
then get there hold up hold on
i signed up for this
this is part of having a kid
training them how to drive and then let
them take the vehicle out for the first
time by themselves oh guys scary
i had to go fix a flat tire and a car
jacked up yesterday with my daughter
you signed up for this man
you signed up for this not only did you
sign up for it
but sitting here in the counselor's
office registering my daughter from
school i don't want to be there i'd
rather be doing something up be mindful
be present that stuff helps me to be
present hold on
in five years this is done
in 10 years
you're going to look back on this and
and miss it take a picture
screenshots okay
so i'm immediately moved from like hold
on this is gratitude thank you
thank you for letting me experience this
i signed up for this i want to make the
best if so went from being
concerned to like holding a smile
okay
you signed up for this
or when the enemy shows you their flaws
when you hear about somebody gossiping
and running your name through the dirt
it hurts but you're like okay
okay
i know you're done
you're done i can't give you any more
i'm tired of going above and beyond for
you um you know what i'm saying so these
experience that you're like okay there's
a revelation there
because it's fleeting
every moment is fleeting every moment is
passing and that's why i'm a proponent
of the now moment through meditation
through mindfulness
every day is eternally
every days you die every day like he
said the apostle paul talks about i died
daily i am already dead i've already
experienced what the ego death was i've
already experienced with five grams of
psilocybin and i went to the place where
i believe you go when you die like i
believe it i can't prove it but it felt
like it it was definitely communicated
is it proof i don't know could be brain
synapses dealing with the chemicals of
psilocybin
don't know
a lot of things could come to explain it
but i think the more that we explain it
and the more that we play the skeptic
the more
sure
that we become
do we convince the world no
but
we convince ourselves
that's the narrative
to convince yourself
and richie i know you're still with me
um
i don't know if you listened to the uh
the podcast last night i don't think you
did i know you messaged me but i
mentioned uh
i mentioned you in it
and um
dealing with that scenario that i had
forgot about with the alien grace in the
trauma
in the trauma response and so we make up
something listen i was traumatized at
five about death i gotta figure
something out
gotta figure something out watching
movies with death and all that and so
becomes a lifelong pursuit
of how to deal
how to be okay with it
you know we make up stories
is that to say that all of them made up
i i the thing is i don't know
are some of them made up you damn right
you damn right life is stories the
entire life is stories
the way you perceive the way you
interact
your narrative of your enemy because
your enemy is somebody else's father was
the best person that ever lived
that's your story and you're sticking to
it
and your spirits cultivated by the
people that you keep around you and the
stories that they reinforce the stories
that you reinforce and the new stories
that come from the relationships with
those people and the trust that's
cultivated absolutely
do you think there's one main narrative
though i think that's what i feel
deep down there's one main
storyline in the rpg
but there's many other hey you're going
to leave your body in this this
storyline and become that you're going
to the next act you become a cheetah or
whatever but like they're still amazing
i agree there's anamorph side quests for
sure
there's other random dimensional pockets
where we could jump into and experience
all that is through any of the filters
that all that is
uh who's to say that the
the prime materia the master overriding
reality structure is any different than
the one we're experiencing right now
yeah we don't know
true true blessed bless
but but i'm trying to figure it out
and it is my pursuit you know we talked
and i've joked probably with you and
other people as of recent when we talk
about past life just because i'm a
skeptic um i'm not sold i'm open to the
idea i'm not against it um
but
the idea of
you know who i was or what i was in a
past life and for me it's like
you know a lot of people are those
things that they want to be now
you know um
a mystic a shaman a ruler it's usually
grandiose things that they say and now
i'm the conglomeration of what it what
even michael said today was like i'm a
conglomeration of all of those
people
in my mind i went to archetypes
all of those archetypes like you know
what i'm saying so you identify them
with with a person a persona versus
that's what a piece of you because
it's just who you are
um
flirting with the idea and toying with
it as i identify with the archetype for
sure of the devil's advocate
didn't know that that i didn't know what
that was all i knew that was is
presenting two sides of a story and just
playing the middle ground and saying
okay what if this what if nothing
happens when you die let's talk about it
or what if you go to heaven or what if
heaven's not as good as earth and you
want to come back to earth like you know
i don't i'm not so even if i was sold
like i can still toy with the idea for
dialogue and getting clear on how the
brain works how we cope with trauma or
in scenarios or even when your
your your scenario and your narrative
gets challenged you know what does that
cause like
does that cause truth
for sure like you have to challenge your
narrative you have to be okay with
people
who don't believe you i'm not talking to
true seeker no more he doesn't believe
in reincarnation and he talked to me for
an hour and a half listen i'm i'm trying
to learn
i'm a skeptic healthy skepticism like i
know you believe it
and it makes and i know that it makes it
real for you in in this life but for me
so i toyed with the idea of
devil's advocate and people have been
making memes about me lately with
devil's advocate don't play the devil's
advocate people there are no middle
ground it's either right or left and i
was like
you just listened to my podcast where i
said i was a devil's advocate and then
you're commenting on my your
post and stuff about
covid and stuff like you want me to
there's no left or right there is no
devil's advocate people stop playing it
you false light worker oh
oh god
tag me say my name uh you know um but
identify with that role with that with
that um archetype as we're becoming the
archetype so i'm like
i didn't know that
the devil's advocate was a role
in the early church there was literally
is a position
that that somebody held
and that that they had no like stake in
the matter and they were like okay well
what about this almost like a judge
tell your side
i don't know either of you guys tell
your side okay
plausible possible tell your side
um
interesting now what about this what do
you say sir well i seen them here on the
seventh day oh that changes everything
so the devil's advocate is essentially
that judge that sits back and judges the
the narrative judges the doctrines of
the of the early catholic church so
let me toy with the idea let me flirt
with it
maybe i was
a devil's advocate back in the
1500s in the catholic church
i can easily run with it
i can write you a book on it
i do it for a living
the reason i do it for a living is
because i was recall reincarnated
i was i sat under the fifth pope of rome
i was a friend of julius caesar
he executed a lot of people and i seen
it it was part of my trauma
when i was five years old
me and my sister learned about death and
the reason for me it was very traumatic
is because it immediately brought back
visions of seeing people get beheaded of
seeing people getting tortured and so my
response to it was was because i
remembered my past life
and i grew up and grew into
the same role that i played
as a devil's advocate you see how like
you can believe your own story you can
write it you can sell it and i can teach
it
but what if
that idea richie come in here
it's like the brother wayne that you're
channeling
you're channeling that version of you
or a devil's advocate that lived
in the 1500s
and just by the toying in the free flow
of energy and imagination and dialogue
you're channeling
something that existed
back then and you're back then and
you're bringing it into your now moment
it's okay with us to i entertain these
ideas right
i i think it would be dishonest to not
acknowledge that the name that we were
given as a channel it's a frequency that
we were told this is your channel this
is your name when someone says your name
this is what you respond to somebody
knows me as the neighbor
so when they say hey oh yeah the
neighbor i saw the neighbor today he got
the mail
that channel of neighbor is being used
to point to me rather than my name
richie
okay there's also the channel name of
the neighborhood of all the people
around and we're talking about is an
exquisitely focused form of community
member that has to do with a contrarian
there has to be somebody who pushes back
so in this advocating for the opposing
side or advocating for a different
perspective that means that there's an
equal and healthy balance
if you're surrounded by yes men well
that's not going to serve your community
a tribe if somebody says yes should be
going to the start cave yes yes yes and
you all go in the dark cave and there's
a saber-toothed tiger not so hot
but if somebody's like i don't know
there's some bones out here maybe we
shouldn't go in this maybe there's some
context clues and information that we
could observe and make newly informed
decisions
so yeah definitely in this time where
we're getting our personalities echoed
back to us in customized advertisements
and we're choosing our selection you
used to be had to suffer a commercial
you had to suffer that cheerios
commercial if you were going to watch
the rest of the tv show so you got a
little bit of the programming from the
little honey honey nut cheerios and then
that was in your program but now we're
choosing our own programs
and really unless you're making art
unless you're making program unless
you're living as the channel you're
probably not experiencing as authentic
of a reality as you potentially could
and we're all channels right for
whatever information
or you're a channel you're even a parrot
you know the parent of you heard this
this narrative and then you just repeat
it and so you're a channel for
i'm a channel for ancient
christianity that existed a long time
ago that i continued to parrot and
continue now it lives forever through me
at least while i'm here you know we talk
about
tapping into immortality through your
art like he said as well he kind of
touched on it but didn't but he said he
didn't choose that path but for me i did
i did choose that path of podcast
and music my hope and my prayer is that
uh
that my my legacy through this stuff um
many things come from it is that you
remember me and what i stood for what i
brought to the table through my music
through my podcast through my books
through relationships and friendships
but these are
artistic ways that i articulated my
beliefs and and my creativity and that
that would
far
um
you know last a lot longer than this
this body will
and i believe that it will
i do i believe that it will um
and even with that being said in the
times that we live in with uncertainty
and me getting covet i have to tell you
i'm on the brink of releasing this new
album there's a fear that i would of
death that you die and that album
doesn't get released
how does does my family know how to put
it out what if i died of covert what if
i got an accident not just kobe people
stop saying that accident doesn't matter
like however you check out like the fear
of
this dies with me
that's a fear
your dreams die with you
i didn't get a i didn't become the
channel for my dream
i didn't try it
i always made excuses
i was good at finding out reasons why i
don't deserve it or why others
deserve it ahead of me
i always made excuses no i'm not i'm
sorry that's why i'm doing what i love
i got 24 hours today
i get to choose what i want to do i'm
going to try to fill it up with things
that i love obviously that comes back to
bite me on the butt when life kicks in
and stuff you don't want to do in the in
a in a world that you live where you get
to pick and choose okay today we're
mixing and mastering music tomorrow
we're
writing another book you know and all of
these things that we get to pick
like beauty beautiful things but the
mundane comes into play when it's like
okay now you got to go get the tire
fixed because i hold on
now i get
to go get the tire fix now i get to
go meet with the person and do the
things that you don't want to do
knowing that you get to return back to
it
at least today
you know and being getting to choose
what you create and not having that
thing die with you
for me stepping out and doing what i
love part of my story podcasting and
music and writing like
um it came from the place of
what if the dream dies with you
and not even dies with you
but more
it ages with you
what if you're 70
and you want to finish that rap album
what if you're 75 and you wish you
could've
podcasted for a living full time
no i was too scared no come on
don't let it die with you we're talking
about death don't let your dreams die
with you
like do it
step out
take a chance
roll the dice because nobody's going to
do it for you
and i just want to encourage you i want
that to be
i believe in karma i believe in reaping
what you sow i believe in um
the law of um
compensation if you will
what you put out you get back
so my music will continue to live you
know and bless and inspire people that's
not even a fact
you know two years after i'm gone
music could be pulled from all all
you know music
streaming platforms music streaming
platforms could change and it takes
somebody to re-up upload your catalog
who
who don't know how
you know i'm i have a a guy that that we
talk about these leaders of people that
mean a lot to you patrick cook with
bible ufo.com hundreds of thousands of
pages
in research about the paranormal in the
bible about the supernatural in the
bible the occult in the bible about
dragons in the bible uh seances in the
bible ufos and i mean he's given you
scriptures he's giving you books he's
giving you historical references of ufos
dating back to
bc times that were inscribed in other
foreign books like this conglomeration
of a website that i found early in my
awakening i was like wow this is amazing
i need to hear his interviews i need to
talk to this guy i need to and i started
listening to all of his interviews like
wow he's talking ufology but he's a
christian and he's not saying that
they're demonic like this guy is dope
he's his website's amazing he dies
2014 i think it is 2015.
he dies
his wife doesn't
pay to have the domain in this in the
hosting
um
uh renewed
but she sells the domain because it was
getting a lot of traffic
she sells it to a hotel company it might
have gave her a thousand dollars
he sells it to her um she sells it to
them
and now patrick cook's website with
thousands and thousands of paper pages
no longer exists
and for me as a
somewhat of a devotee of this man's work
i owe it
to him
and i owe it to others who are seekers
to pay to have this man's website
restored to figure out how we can get on
the back web and the dark web and find
out are there screenshots of those pages
somewhere on the internet you can't
google them
but there's ways to to scrape them and
find it and i did i end up paying out of
my own pocket to to have the website and
this man's website restored in honor
of this guy
there's the fear of you dying your work
is no longer remembered your book is out
of print you know whatever it is that
that is a piece of you that echoes in
this side of eternity
that doesn't exist anymore that's a fear
too the fear of not existing even if we
don't
we're not cognitive of
ourselves or we're not conscious of what
we we shift into
as truth seeker or richie or whoever you
are listening you don't know you could
the fact that you don't exist anymore
you go into
oblivion
you know whatever it is the fact that
well i got something on earth well i'm
still there
i'm still there like that enemy that
person that still lives in in your brain
it still lives in your psyche
like rent free
or that picture or poster or whatever
like something is still
after you're gone something lingers this
person's persona this person's signature
at the bottom of the artwork like that
person still lives
through memories
through art through something that's
there and the fear of that not existing
of the fear of
my art being taken down or
white magic not getting published
because my wife doesn't know where it's
at on the computer
you know these things richie i need to
show you where this stuff is you know
and you would hate the data because hey
you're talking about death man you're
going to speak it into existence there's
all of that that kind of stuff too and
you don't want to but that's the person
who we talked about who who didn't say
goodbye
like my art has to continue making money
these podcasts have to continue running
years after
the book has to continue selling to
support my family
you got to take care of that oh man he
didn't have his affairs in order man he
didn't his family didn't even have money
to bury him because he refused to think
about it no don't talk to me about death
i'm living forever hey man
you got life insurance
do you have a savings where you know how
much it is to bury somebody like even a
cheap funeral are you taking care of i
don't want to talk about it man don't
i'mma live forever
man you need to get your affairs in
order man
every you know every conversation could
be your last
remember that that that for me that
brings the awareness back to the now
moment to the breath always i'm
immediately back
every time i
you know and it's not personal with
anybody richie every time we get done
talking
richie was a good ass dude man enjoyed
his friendship oh i get to see him
tomorrow too
heck yeah richie what up man
we're not done yet bro
we still gonna do our thing
my mom my sister my wife me i'm still
here
you know what i'm saying what do you
think is that a weird way to live is
that too much going on in the brain is
that too much weight and stress to carry
for one individual what do you think
about that
i think it has a lot to do with the
stories that people tell themselves
if your story is one where your story is
going forward independent of the
interdependence then you're good
if your story has to have oh i gotta
make sure that i'm working with bobby
even if i hate my job bobby's the person
who makes everything worth it just
because they make me laugh and then i
escape from my problems into their
laughter you can be friends with bobby
sure don't turn bobby into an addiction
you know what i mean
yeah
exactly you gotta find the people that
fill you up and then fill up others from
your overflow
yeah
just being appreciative of bobby though
and bobby was a good dude man
that's too bobby for granted man
you know maybe that's the thing you got
to find the bobbies in your life and say
hey i really appreciate you hey friends
that i only talk to every once in a
while i want to go out of my way because
we all been under this root stress
survival means
not much rest and digest until you find
a good community and then everybody can
slow up for a minute
celebrate
that's it man
that's it
celebrate
remember
every
day um
i had a dream even
last night that a good friend of mine
died it wasn't prophetic
in jesus name but
we were uh
getting his affairs in order and getting
ready to tell stories and i just began
to remember those stories that i told at
his funeral in my dream last night
and
tell you know telling those stories and
thinking about that i'm reminded of the
friend and i want to even do something
right when when the sea thing hit us at
the beginning he died it wasn't from
that it was from other other things but
we it made it to where we couldn't have
a funeral we couldn't even get together
for beers and and tell funny stories
about the joker you know what i'm saying
like a friend of mine mad juggalo
juggalos about family you know we don't
even get to meet up one last time and
and and not say our goodbyes to him or
pay your last respects that or
i got a lot of stories i want to tell
you know what i'm saying and so it's
like
it makes you think
you know
so guess what i'm gonna tell them
stories while you're alive
i'm gonna give you your roses while
you're here that's a big thing
if something very beautiful a rapper
joyner lucas
put out a
what would seem like a fanboy song
for a rapper to do paying homage to
will smith from the fresh prince of bel
air
and he went through his career and what
it meant to join her he wrote the rap
song about
um man when i didn't have a family
growing up and i escaped into your
family on the fresh prince
of how a a dad should should treat his
kids and and uh and and to have food in
the refrigerator i lived vicariously
through the television
because of you will thank you man
for that thank you for your rap album
thank you for that that movie thank you
for doing this thank you for doing that
and the dude did a rap song on it which
would seem corny in the hip hop but it
was a beautiful song and it was just
echoing the the the sentiment of give
people roses while they're here because
we all bring our roses to the funeral so
your rose on the casket order roses to
be next to the casket so hold on save
them damn roses and give it to the
person while they're here man listen you
inspired me
you know you mean a lot to me and uh
keep it real with the individual and um
while they can appreciate it right
i think we should
that's community common unity
co-unity yeah
common unity um
we're gonna go ahead and end this
episode
but
i want to um
end it with a new song i want to play a
new song for those of you who hung out
and stuck to the end of this episode for
those of you who like my music and uh
and want to hear something new
this is a a new song that is going to be
on white magic which is available for
pre-order right now at truth seeker.com
um i want to play this song and i think
it's fitting for the conversation
especially when richie comes in and we
start talking about being channels
channels for
whatever it is that you're parroting
channels for
whatever
ideas that you open up yourself to
through meditation to very
uh literally trying to channel beings
just and let them speak through you
there's many different ways as you can
become a channel for ideas and empathy
and love i'm gonna be a channel for love
i'm gonna be a channel for for god for
jesus is gonna speak to me it's not i
that speaks but it's the lord speaking
through me to you i speak as an oracle
of god right we're channels
of this collective beautiful energy and
we get to pick and choose and we can cut
off channels we can say that's a bad
channel i'm not i'm not letting those
emotions come through me and and and
project them on you through my heart
space i'm not gonna be the channel for
negativity i'm not going to be a channel
for despair i want to be a channel for
hope
of creativity
and exploration at the very least this
is a new song on the new album entitled
channels
featuring illuminati congo
and richie
zxy who's in chat with me right now
y'all check it out hope y'all like it
we're going to vote
the human body is a consciousness
receiver connecting to different
channels
there are disciplines practices and
techniques found throughout the world
specifically designed to adjust the
perception and allow access to these
advanced and exciting states of
consciousness please allow yourself in
this boat
to tune into your body system physically
and energetically
the entire body system is beginning to
do migration around you
maintain your resonance with the creator
breathe
and the wind blows a distant voice in my
inner ear and echo it beckons for me to
shut the blinds and sit in silence a
message that's received through
clairvoyance a sacred science
communicate spiritually to mortal man an
antenna from fifth dimension foreign
sighting automatic writing i train to be
a medium practice the art of scribe
excellent work
you're doing great
what kind of communications are you
feeling coming through
45 degree beam of sound light came down
to ground on that mycelium that's like
it medium i'm a large processing
trillions of data received from stars in
my reptilians brain frontal cortex in my
heart solar plexus navel every marker
that's
successes and messages divested the
messages of the wretched and desolate
through our connection with endlessness
not cable on demand but i channel my
list lighting real tablets
we commonly are observing around us in
different channeling states every day
the artist of channels the art sculpture
channeling and creation
the athlete channels the sport
a performer channeling
you're bringing forward an energy that
is larger than measurability
this is channeling
your name is the channel
the area you live has a name that hits
its channel
every one of us lives in a different
channel of reality reality
reality
reality remember
yes and amen
as it is
so it was
myself true seeker featuring illuminati
congo in richie
z
x
y hope you guys enjoyed that it was
awesome to connect with you on a song
for the first time richie and we may do
some more
collaborations and experiments
in the future man with some music so
that was fun
gratitude yes yes super down yes and
amen
awesome awesome so uh yeah guys that
album is available for pre-order for
autographed copies and a sticker pack
and getting the
um audio
um pretty much as soon as it's done
you'll get it before the the street date
but um i finished the last song
yesterday i believe got to drag
everything in just kind of double check
but other than that it's going to be
sent out to
all of the
pre-orders people who do the pre-order
there and all the patrons as well if
you're a patron like most of those songs
are already there maybe not mastered
maybe not mix maybe some changes in it
so it may not be the final audio maybe
it was waiting on a feature or whatever
but patreon you've you've had some of
those songs a year i've got to be honest
with you you've had some of these songs
i've been working on for like a year
a year and a half
like they've been out a long time but
they've just been for
the people who helped create it
their patrons
supporters thank you guys
go there to check it out get your
autographed copy truth seeker.com
and uh it's going to be out very soon
i've been saying it for a while we got a
street date listen the last song was
just finished i'm gonna make sure today
and i'll share it with you guys
thank you for believing in my work thank
you for
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goddard talked about like
you can't sell spirituality
i could sell a song
i could sell a song right
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um
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what has helped you articulate it get it
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i just happened to interview those
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going to talk about we talked about
aliens and scenarios and what they could
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peace
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