In this episode of The TruthSeekah Podcast TruthSeekah is joined by Roy Petersen as the discuss Charismatic Chaos: Surviving Christian Revival Cults. Roy has interviewed many people of celebrity status in charismatic Christianity ranging from Todd Bentley, Ian Clayton, Rick Joyner, Jason Upton, John Crowder, Bill Johnson of Bethel Church, Shawn Bolz, Patricia King, Bobby Conner, and Bob Jones to name a few. Roy follows the rise of christian evangelist Todd Bentley In his film Lakeland: The Movie (Documentary film on Todd Bentley & the Florida Outpouring) which now has over 262,000 views on YouTube. Roy admitted that he found himself traveling from revival to revival, church service to church service and from conference to conference chasing the presence of God which he encountered while following leaders within these fringe charismatic circles. With all of the different far-out teachings and different ways to reach God Roy admitted that he found himself in the midst of mild confusion and psychosis. Each of these leaders branded their own form of theology and intrinsic views of the Bible that set them apart from the rest. Roy said that his former wife would only listen to ministers like Ian Clayton 24-hours a day and as these movements grew they began to get a bit more cult like by the day. The Simplicity of the Gospel was soon lost with outrageous teachings that made people jump through hoops to attain sonship in Christ, this quickly became a problem for Roy and his wife. Roy sought counseling outside the church and met a Buddhist therapist who he was able to open up to about his religious beliefs and dogmas. This relationship allowed Roy to explore and begin to look outside of Christian theology an into zen Buddhism which he found to be a beautiful practice where he encountered the love of God in a new way. Still open to explore Roy continues to hold a deep love for God and the person of Jesus Christ. Roy has since opened his interviews up to mystics worldwide regardless of religion or creed to capture the beauty of God which speaks through all people.
Lakeland: The Movie (Documentary film on Todd Bentley & the Florida Outpouring)
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Charismatic Chaos: Surviving Christian Revival Cults | Roy Petersen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wqVJXnghWc Transcript source: YouTube captions Oh what you see speed to stand but I don't be locked into the truth seeker podcast me live @ viki.com your source for spiritual and his rational music teachings and medians the show is designed to help you grow in your walk with Christ and advance the kingdom of heaven and now your truth seeker yo sup ladies gentlemen this is the truth seeker podcast excited and delighted to be with you guys again today another amazing episode really looking forward to this episode I'm gonna try to hurry up and breeze through the announcements right quick and I may talk about them again at the end just for a little bit more detail because I only have my guests here for right at an hour so I just want to let everybody know I'm thankful for all of the support via patreon everybody who believes in my work if you'd like to support but at patreon.com 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song gateway to the seer realm I've got a and Clayton at the beginning we recently did the video and I got the clip from this video and it's been out at for a couple years now and then so my someone commented on on my video I believe it was the Kundalini video I'm not sure what video it was but the name looked familiar and so I clicked the link to see who it was and it was the page that I got the interview from and I said oh this is familiar so I looked at it and say oh wow I'm using some of his footage so I was like hey man check out this this this clip and he checked it out uh wow that's awesome like what you're doing and he's interviewed so many people and it was really cool just the synchronicities that kind of lined up for me to transpire but I mean and I've watched a lot of your interviews I wanted to talk to you because you've interviewed so many people from so many different walks of life and I think that at the end of the day there's a wisdom that comes with that like you get to kind of spread everything out of all these belief systems of all these doctrines of spirituality of the or the lack of and kind of see what these people believe test the fruit and see what makes sense and then pick from the good and apply it to your life and that's kind of like something that organically happens well that's what you're that's what you're doing with your podcast in a lot of ways exactly you're you're open to talking about any kind of beliefs from what I've seen you've talked about everything from real carnation to just a classic charismatic faith healing kind of thing and and you're you're open to discussion with with all these people is great I know man and from that from that you kind of find you're able to kind of discern what's what's going on yeah yeah yeah no it's from it from experience man I listen to a lot of coast to coast am over the years when I was driving and there's a lot of far-out right said people would call in and say hey man I feel like the moon is moving or the moon opened up and people came out of it you just get this far-out stuff and he's act ok tell me more and he's yeah yeah he's genuinely an intrigue that doesn't mean he believes he believes these people but he's open to the conversation it's it's without judgment and cure and was a lot of curiosity as to what their what they're thinking what they're talking about yeah and how they experienced what they would feel god to be or the universe or however you want to look at it the paranormal spiritual exactly I want I want to name off just a list of some of these people that stood out to me now there's other people but as far as like some of the people that you've interviewed over the years and with many of these charismatic leaders you were kind of with them at the forefront of their breakout you know Lakeland revival todd Bentley and in his conception of being what he is now we'll say that or or has come to be but I'm gonna give just a quick list just to go over this right quick so just so people get a context of what you do so you interview people or you have interview people over the years ranging from todd Bentley Jason Upton John Crowder Bill Johnson Sean Bowles Patricia King Bobby Connor Bob Jones Ian Clayton Jonathan David Hessler and so many more but these are something like the big names and and they've all gone on to do yeah they've got even greater things yeah exactly yeah they're at the forefront Roy Peterson welcome to the true seeker podcast my friend thanks for having me I'm excited it's been a it's been a while since I've interviewed somebody on in the charismatic world simply because I kind of left that world for a while once you kind of leave that world it's like oh we didn't want to interview with you right you know you got some crazy videos up there but yeah those are I just you know a lot of interviews came from like the 2005 to the 2010 or 12 kind of era that's so much early as 2007 I think I think was producer King 2007 there was frizzy and Bobby Connor Bobby Connor was like 2005-2006 I remember seeing a Bobby Connor 2001 like that's hot that's how far I go back to the prophetic movement and and yeah the prophets and things like that but the film is a Bobby Connor seasons my esophagus that's the film like titled the film and we basically kind of it's not well shot at all and that's what kind of the sound isn't that great but it's Bobby going out on the street and baths in the UK and witnessing giving prophetic words to these kids and it's really touching so and in the video he kind of sees into my stomach in the soft kiss and that makes sense now because I had a gallbladder problem and he was kinda he was seeing that yeah I wanna yeah I wanna I wanna like zoom in on some of these not leaders but but the movements that they were involved with and what it with discontent you've been involved you've been there I'm gonna zoom in on each of these a little bit but right now I just kind of want to get where your head is if we just kind of gave this background of all of the stuff you've been a part of for me I was in in that and then I came out of the charismatic stuff because it was too crazy they just let anything fly there were so many different things especially when I got deeper into the scriptures I'm like what the what the hell are we entertained what are we doing you know what I'm saying I got it I got into the Messianic Judaism and so it was more of a peaceful I described it as the the power of a charismatic revival just in the stillness and in a piece of of let's light some candles let's pray let's say a prayer let's do devotion unto God so it was the power the spirit was that strong but just in a small devoted way and it changed everything for me and opened up a lot I got into that and that spread into other things eventually Hebrew Israelites basically to kind of come full circle about 10-15 years later to where I am now I feel like more balanced and well-rounded that's where I went in my circle where did you go from Cheverus mania and starting there where you are now yeah I was there you know Lakeland's when the Lakeland revival broke out in 2008 I was so on fire and it was literally I'm gonna pick up a camera I'm gonna try to get a documentary of what's happening here because I saw in Todd and the people on the stage I saw real people I saw part Rockstar part evangelists but they were real and I had to do that so I was speak so on fire that taken going through that movie and filming for six months and then filming another time when Todd came back into ministry because my first trip was going to be a two-week trip to get some interviews talked to Roy fields who's a worship leader at the time and Roy gave me some interviews and then in trying to find Todd we realized Todd was kind of not there he kind of checked out in that first three months I got some incredible stuff so I went from a two-week trip to like a two-month trip where I was in the state's I went to more in start a film interview Rick Joyner and really great my heroes of the faith these guys have always been that but underneath all of it when when it seemed that Todd was just gone there didn't seem to be the fire that there was in like went like me was dead like after his fall or the lie is one man who started July is when he had a difficulty I think with his marriage and that kind of glue broke apart and then he made some appearances when I was there in July and into August and and it was gone and it was gone in August so it kind of left this tent that was this massive you know ten thousand member audience that was filled every night and then when it got into the and that was like May April May June of 2008 and then August hits and it's it's it's just not that and and I started a question like what there was such a power of God in such a presence of God in the early days of that movement who was extraordinary the stories of people kind of coming together and helping each other out and it became more of a of a church that it was a movement and when it all fell apart just because of one guy's difficulties I I just like where's the foundation in that where's if you can just if underneath this movement is just one guy's charismatic personality then where where's the real power of God and where's the truth and that's what set me off into into going into deeper stuff and and from there at once I kind of Ian Clayton really following Ian Clayton who was good enough to give me a bunch of interviews and and we went to New Zealand to interview him it was it was great it just became all these different teachings and all these different ways to get to God and I got lost you know I was like do I take ten steps to get into the cross every time I pray and do I visualize because one of the ins teaching was to kind of step through into the cross and into the courtrooms and they're like 99 courtrooms and you have to go through each and then you have to go through these various like you know steps to get to God and I'm like complex big sounding as well right it was very Old Testament and very accurate to the Old Testament they think they study this stuff whether it be the concepts of like the bench of three where you have to have three people in agreement on any decision that you make that's that's got to do with the church yeah or family and I mean it is in its doubts that detail as to how much to study it definitely is in the Bible on the argue is not at all it's just in the practice of it where do you go with that I think don't think like how many courtrooms do you have to go through before you become a son of God how many there were things about that movement that was just I just didn't I couldn't get it and the whole thing with there was a thing about essential oils that they were doing and people snore numb and stuff like I guess that's the logical progression of where you go but people would start with the frankincense at the conference and I'm not talking about en doing this I'm talking about the followers of en yeah you put the frankincense here as I need you you open yourself up to get that and it was like okay yeah this is interesting but it didn't so much resonate it's like how do you live this yeah and you can live it in conferences you can go from Hogwarts to conference you can but it's it's like weird where do you go to the to get if even is opening the door so these things for for us then how do you live that day to day and there was really no answer it was just goes to the next conference yeah it was just like listen to IANS oh yeah that was that was us for like the prophetic movement back in the day cuz we like every weekend we had to school of the prophets or and it was some really big profit people and then they would let these Bobby Connors and all these other people come in and teach and for the weekend and in it that's what we lived for for like church service for meeting the meeting and people would be like why are you like always seeking a word like how many prophet and like now I've done shows like how many words do you need how many prophetic utterance in the scriptures they took one in ran with it they were changed forever like well yeah you know just one word would be these conferences you want a lot of words you want one word at the begin and one word at the end and you want another word next week and then you want another word and you want someone to prophesize somebody's probably always that and it became like my favorite to this day I have really good there was good fruit from Morningstar I enjoyed were you star a lot and they would have prophecy booths you know you go after the you'd line up and you go into the prophecy booth and three or four people would prophesy over you and they were always encouraging you know I I had the you know I still moving the prophetic gift but I was once known as prophecy ROI you know I would give for Fredi words and some of them were like incredibly accurate uh like beyond my understanding of how I could say if someone come up to me I'd say in six months you will be doing this and going into great detail and that person six months later saying how did you you know that was God so I understand there's power in the prophetic there really is and it's it can be exciting but also could be very addicting and you can lose touch with reality really easy well the there was one a Christian international out of Destin which is close to us I never went but that was the next thing for our movement because a lot of people started going there because they started doing the prophecy booth staying come in and we let people like people prophesy over you you can get a room in a recording you know you recorded over to them but like I started getting a little iffy because I knew that there are new people who were smoking crack all throughout the week and selling their belongings and pawning their cars to drug dealers for a week to smoke crack and then they would be like yeah I'm going I'm going I'm gonna prophesy this weekend they're letting me I'm like you've been smoking crack all weekend you're gonna practice on Friday and Saturday really nice people even know who they letting on one that shows the power of the gift that the gift is without you know you don't need to return to have the gift you have the gift God's giving you the gift button when it when you're mixing in that kind of life it's like oh just that's a little bit messed up because you don't know where people are trying to appeal or they trying to appeal to your ego when they prophesied I guilty of that hey if I can prophesy to somebody famous you know hey I can move my ministry up the level that that's kind of the mentality it's almost like I'm an opportunist the opportunist and and you know I can understand that no let me let me ask let me ask you this did you ever see anything weird I know you interviewed and it's not to throw anybody off the bus cuz I think that these people represent a movement and represent a mentality they're just kind of like the notable people Sean Bowles even like what he does it's like getting these addresses and these names and stuff like that and I will say just as a skeptic I think you need to approach all of this stuff with a healthy skepticism peter Popoff you know how to earbud in and they people will fill out cards and say yeah I need prayer for my lower back my name is this this is my address my phone number I need a miracle and peter Popoff wife was you know sending him messages reading the prayer cards and it would need the addresses seven six one nine yeah the six one nine Peterson Lane who is it oh gee you're bad you're back and so it would do that so Sean Bowles was doing some stuff that's similar and I've been in two conferences where it's like come on now this peoples getting all the names of their whole family and they're just running up one at a time who is so-and-so who is this who is that and it's like it was a show and it's like being in a prosthetic you want it to be real you want it to be real and and people fake miracles and fake the prophetic because it builds the faith of the people you know what I'm saying have you seen anything like that where you knew it was I hold on man these people are I've experienced things where the foreleg lands todd Bentley I was at an unregistered conference it was a free night nobody knew my namor why I was there a sec 600 people he called Petersen Roy Peter and I got privacy I'd say it was awesome it was very very powerful I've seen the prophetic only a positive things I have never seen I understand that there are like darker sides to that movement in terms of like peter Popoff and I'm never like no no I've never I've never seen that to be honest I've only seen really powerful stuff like my beef with it is that it becomes just a rock show it becomes just a concert a conference just becomes a place where you go to see Sean belts or you go to see Todd and there there's not a sense of that hey we can prophesy like this too we can we can make this real in our lives show both I interviewed him several times and he's always been the kindest you know I have interviewed a lot of people in the charismatic world and very few will even on second or third interviews would acknowledge hey thanks for doing this this is awesome Sean Bowles was always had the greatest character and and it was an interest Church before it's really good and so I have a high respect for the guy and but it's not it's not particular speaking even Todd I mean I still admire the guy because he goes out there he heals the sick and he has the faith and takes the steps to do that kind of stuff where very few people do but it's it's the whole system of how you go from conference to conference how you kind of lift these people up as rock stars and is greater larger than my figures when they're really not they're really just normal people with issues that we all have now who do you see that is working on to make that known I feel like a lot of Todd white stuff now he's like I'm not gonna lay hands on you we got a team here you know people that just want Todd white to pray for that that kind of thing and if the pastor of his brother prays for you it's not as good it's not the same thing like Todd white and a lot of stuff out here he's Shona like even though he's from that I feel like he's trying to work a little bit to undo some of that yeah and there's something of his ministry that he just goes out into the street and talks to people and just lets them know make sure Rob loves them and makes it yeah that's that's great I still think though for me I'm still I am NOT doing another conference I'm not going to another conference that's kind of like I don't want to felling up going through another conference about a retreat retreat it's just I cannot participate in that system I'm being maybe I'm protesting it yeah I'm just I maybe I got so burned out you know I've got the t-shirt from lots of conferences and lots of retreats and the eye of God advanced prophetic that super advanced prophetic the the you know I've got the certificate to all these things and I don't I still don't see where it translates to a deli a deli practical how to make this stuff real and the question and a question then how real is the stuff yeah when when prophets and prophecies if you look back there you know Bob Jones I love bond Jones but I interviewed him in 2009 and he was like 2012 is gonna be the year the harvest it's on my website starts on the u2 now just watch and the fish cleaners or the harvest in the physical you know his prophecy just came to pass though that the Chiefs would know yeah that's interesting stuff it's and also John Paul Jackson had prophecies in the 80s about like he's more about you I think they've kind of like really left his stuff behind with some of the let's go into the heavens and fight demons and he's like hey don't do that you know it's not yeah yeah yeah that's where you get into that's where it gets tricky like when you're starting to do that and go into realms and the the other point of this is that once I once I came to the end of Lakeland in the middle of trying to finish this film that isn't question enough for Christians because Todd was so controversial back then even for God TV so god TV wasn't interested in it the people that I was filming worth wasn't interested in him because I kind of filmed people that were not kind of were not acceptable to them and didn't reflect their ministries as much as they would have liked and it was the film itself was not as controversial because I didn't want to throw anybody under the bus I didn't want to expose Todd or Roy or anybody so I left things that you know could have made money you know quotes and things that we caught on camera could have been a more mainstream secular underground film and I took them out and so it was play trying to just be right on the line of this is what happens this is what these people claim this is what people claim wasn't happening so I tried to walk this way and in the end neither can't really wanted to see the film or sponsors film or bless the film now it was just this is this the likely one or something now this is Lakeland this is so this was after working with movie star fresh fire and which you know without which you ended up putting out on YouTube which right now it seems they are just video like two hundred and sixty thousand views that this it's huge in terms lot of dislikes as a lot of heresy hunters more drugs now view they are I'm not a hunter I used like in the early 90s I was a hair salon owner I like the Bible answer man for about a year but I'm not a hair salon but it seems like heresy hunters love Todd attracts them film attracts them I'm glad that that's not a documentary bro Thank You Man thank you and I'm happy that that's the three year process and the 20,000 pounds of cost to make is actually people are actually seeing it I like that the the average view time is over 20 minutes so it's like a 90-minute dock and people are starting to sit there and watch it know whether whatever they feel about it that's that's their thing I just think that in that process of making the film and getting to see Todd's restoration and and seeing still the issues of my own that I was left with this empty oh my heroes are not my heroes my my idols have been well it's kind of like it's kind of like films in The Wizard of Oz like when you finally get in a good way yeah that's why I think he still goes today and he still attracts conference controversy but more power to him because I think almost that's part of his calling in a way it's itself it's sold the controversy yeah you know but it's just like finding the right strain door where you can get the Christian majority with you you know versus and also not cause harm to people yeah not car not cause damage to people's lives in that it's a fine line the weird thing for me about the todd Bentley thing because of a few years before Lakeland I had found random videos I had no idea who he was but seeing a video of him in Africa praying for children and there's all the African children and they're shaken under the power of God and here's this little overweight older up in age middle aged man no tattoos no piercings he's wearing a suit and he's you know he's praying and he's speaking the word and I was like wow this is powerful and then you know five years six years later you see covered from head to toe and tattoo right uh tattoos weren't affliction shirts jeans and you know ears and everything it's like wow it's like trying to appeal to the youth almost like Damon Thompson when he went to the ramp I don't know if you kind of followed that deal he got tatted up and dreadlocks and you know all that stuff when there was in the youth movement or whatever some like conservative guy who just like dives in and tries to look the part and yeah that kind of thing but that was interesting to see and I was kind of a heresy hunter when todd Bentley first came on the scene with lakeland like Mamadou who led me to the Lord they're super into the supernatural and Isaac you got to watch this guy he's kicking people and they received all the spirit and he's kicking them and they get healed and I was like man I don't want to see that bro show me that inscription you know that's the kind of person I was at the time I've come around to like just be able to appreciate someone I guess there was a palpable feeling you would walk into Lakeland or start to administer and the presence of God was so strong and the legends that happen which I missed in the in the film the legends of those first few few weeks where literally the doors would open to the church and people would it would knock people down those kind of things were very real and and how to maintain that and how to walk in that I don't know but it didn't happen past a certain point but it is possible and maybe it has to do with your life and how you live your life and your simplicity of faith with God but there is that possibility that there can be um there can be that way to move in that kind of power and and maintain it that's that's it has no I've not seen it happen but it's possible yeah I know do you think he's maintained it pretty good I don't and like I sell not bar that I'm not part of the system although I new friends who really love the guy's ministry and are all about that I just don't know um I still lean on like well why does it have to be one person why can't it be a group of people why can't there be there's not enough money there's not enough promo I mean that's the whole thing with like with the fringe I've talked about this many times the people who I think on on the fringe on the outskirts of some of the weird mystical Christianity I feel like and I think I'm out there with that for for a lot of most a huge part do you think that these people would come together like reaching out to Brandon Barth Rob reaching out to John crowd or todd Bentley or whoever so almost there everybody's in their own camps you're so proud yet Crowder's against Clinton even though they were together for a while and then the whole thing I can I mean yeah whenever you bring up another Minister stuff they're they're gonna shoot it down to stay away from them this is the only everybody in their own camp even even lately with the whole another table entry and the controversy yeah there was this a pasta holistic hostel apostolic council review and that generated enough controversy I'm like there's gotta be a way to do this differently that doesn't cause this kind of craziness and weirdness and just honors the gospel a little bit better a little bit more and and doesn't yeah I'll just leave it at that and and that's the part of my search is that leaving like all the lake landing the results and the fruit of Lakeland and having a film that nobody was watching at that time I turned I found uh I needed some counseling to work through the stuff and I found a counselor who four weeks in was a Buddhist she is she practiced Buddhism and when I explained we just did a session where I talked about my faith and she was like that's interesting and one of the problems that I was having was I was hung up on a prophetic dream that I had a prophetic dream that was so clear that was a career dream and with a vocation dream and it was like God was going to do this and it didn't happen and would explain that to her she's like we Buddhists have this hava staying to you to do you have the dream or did does the dream have you and and it was just that moment that brought me out of all that stuff and and I explored them and I still do I love like God that with the simplicity of Zen Buddhism I love like Thomas Merton and the Catholic mystics those are things that for me saved my life in in many ways it brought back a balance and a tranquility into my walk with God and so I walk with other people where other people did not went from I've got a prophesy over that person I've got to get that person saved that person's on their way to hell too I'm I'm in the same place as this person it brought equilibrium it brought equality to me and other people where I was not above them or below them they were just they just are and that's why I love about the Zen what I love about the Catholic mystics it brought sanity to to my walk and to my life when a lot of insanity was going on let me ask you this because we look at what Christianity is today and then we look at like the Bible and it's solely different right it's this is a new religion it's whether it's Pauline Christianity or something totally different we we long at least how long for the what they had do you and so you're looking at the Catholic mystics and I'm getting into some some interesting stuff that I'm finding about different ways to pray and things like that and the Mystics with the Catholic mystics was it it was it different back then with some of the mystics to where like going to Mass now and stuff because like it just I don't see and that's why I would ask you like is this know is translated to is it missus is it mythical is it like is it is it a mystical experience with with the Creator versus like a religious duty come I found it personally I found it to be a mystical experience taking communion the Eucharist had a Catholic Church I found the presence of God very strong in in the actual original but I'm not I can't say that for everybody yeah not everybody has that experience and it is a personal thing it becomes a personal thing and less of a collective let's go up and experience the presence God through the Eucharist it's a different kind of organization at different web hooking at it so yes I experienced I'm no longer Catholic per se because I have problems with the institution of the church not so much the people but I loved that it was um the Catholic Church I went to was a african-american Catholic Church and to see hundreds of people just go up who were not deemed as like these hyper spiritual people and go off and receive Communion and wash each other's feet that there's something very grounding and powerful about that so it helped me get through the kind of flight more flighty charismatic stuff it brought it down to reality like this reality is happening now it's not out there it's in the cross it's in the blood I feed from that I I learn from that yeah I think um as far as like a similarity for me again going back to like the you know I'm saying the Messianic Christians a mess it was like I experienced something very similar to that in keeping the Sabbath or Shabbat you know I'm feeling like we're doing something that the LORD commanded us to do much like communion you know as often as you meet do this in remembrance of me right this is something sacred set apart as Holy just like the Sabbath's you don't remember the Sabbath it'll be a everlasting covenant forever you know it's always gonna be be there so like doing something like that worth more personal versus like an outward you know we don't get moved unless the pastor jumps on the the Pew and runs down and screams a shot like that's really what would turn turn a sermon for us was when the pastor jumped on the air bus article man I was like this guy's a good he's a showman you know it comes down to that personality it's great that some creatures will have that personality it stirs people up but it's just the personality that's the thing it's not necessarily God behind that personality regard within that personality that's doing those things yeah I think that with along with the Judaism the Messianic Judaism which I really appreciate I found there was an author who translated the Gospels into the into Aramaic the original language of of Christ and he's more of a Sufi Lutheran pastor who's almost like a folk singer he'll wear a fez it's not the coolest thing but I went to a day seminar where he just all that was spoken were the seven / the the prayers of Jesus from the Gospel of John in Aramaic and he's he he he played them we chanted them we got in a circle and and speaking these these prayers out these aramaic prayer pen I felt God I was like and and it was so out of character to feel God in a situation that was not a charismatic experience but the words of Jesus were really honored the guy's name is on Neil Douglas cloths and he's written two or three books just translating the the four Gospels plus the Gospel of Thomas when you translate all five Gospels well you know the four the synoptic the synoptic in the Gospel of John and the Gospel Thomas when you when you translate them from the Greek and they don't match they they don't seem to match at all but when you put them in Aramaic like 92% of of the heart of the message comes through each gospel including Thomas so that for me he that system it opened my mind up to God in a in a new way and caused me to still feel the presence of God and to seek after God but not in a traditional charismatic way you're still feeling that at that like at the same stuff too though right like in the meditations and the like minds and stuff when I was living in the UK and there was a Brighton Buddhist centre and this is stuff I know that the the taboo of going into a Buddhist temple or even a room where there are Buddha statues you know you've told these are demons and you're worshipping the demons to rebuke and when we go to the Chinese restaurant right Jesus name I like very much that's that's a demon I'm like okay but I was in a situation in my life where there was chaos and sit in a room and not be told anything with other people and just focus on the breath focus on be mindful that that was a lifesaver because there's no requirement there's no you don't have to not be a Christian there's always going there's no knowledge exactly it's not like you have the Angels you don't have certain keys that you guys go you don't have to sit on all fours and and roar into a wall or the ground but that way there's no reducing doing that birth of no wasn't Toronto I love Toronto it's very simple but and I've always loved the Toronto blessing I had great there's great fruit from that but I'm talking about like the later charismatic stuff that I attend you you know it might be chasing Westerfield it might be somebody else yeah yeah you got to do these things it's almost like yoga but it was like these are the keys thing to break through into God and I'm like I don't do this broke through the guy for me say was I had a dream about Jesus and it really changed my life I encounter with them but but to go through all these steps versus the Zen which is zazen which is just sitting and listening just get past your mind not so much shutting down your mind but just go into the breath giving your mind a break and and you know most zan teachers are like you don't have to be Buddhist to do this you don't have to be anything you could be an atheist you commute whatever you want to be it just makes you a more mindful person a cabra person and I find that that helps and I know I know you said you've you've been kind of out of the loop for a while but I know you could probably see traces of it you know in in the past movements and stuff but a lot of what we're doing is looking to the east especially in the Christian movements now and we're taking you know breath work we're taking deep medic meditation we're taking chanting we're taking I mean so crystal chakra it's like we're taking this stuff and you know all this stuff in there applying it now so like but that's really just found that through your through a through your podcast yeah and people on Facebook that that we had connected with mutually I loved the thing about the Kundalini and the Holy Spirit and and what's the difference and what makes them different are they different because everyone who watches the you know all the heresy owners that are here the thing that leaned our Bentley's Kundalini mad so I went to a coke kundalini yoga practitioner a guru and I said hey what is Kundalini because all these people who watch my film sales couldn't leave and he was just kind of confused by it because it's not necessarily no experience not necessarily flopping around that's one aspect of it but but even he the Kundalini instructor had a experience with Christ he somebody came up to him and prayed Jesus felt president Jesus I'm like that's cool I for me I met a really great mentor and friend called Steve Benitez and you could see some interviews with Steve on my youtube channel he was a on fire Pentecostal rising star in in in London in Kensington temple but the the next star preacher that was gonna be and he had a really bad experience with the church in which I will go into as to why but he left the church and went back kept our relationship with Jesus but went back into esoteric and Buddhist teachings and for me working with Steve was like working with somebody who was so much like Jesus so the kindness and the power and and the authenticity really taught me that my world my box of Christianity is too small Jesus is in the church but he's also way outside the church yeah there are people with experiences with Jesus that have nothing to do with the church and their lives are healed or changed just because if they had an encounter with Jesus that's brilliant because it opens up it opens up your world when you find that Jesus and you don't own Jesus it's bigger than you yeah he's barely and I'd love to be able to incorporate all the energy stuff but Steve taught me that and I remember the conversation I had with him I was like Steve you know I've had the baptism the Holy Spirit and he's like was that the Kundalini experience I'm like no that's so demonic how would you how could you think that but there is something to the similarity between the Kundalini experience and the Holy Spirit experience and I always take it to be Holy Spirit descends and Kundalini Rises I don't know how to you know whether that I will believe that five years from now or not I still hold to that because I've had experiences that in prayerful times and worst of all times I've experienced the stuff and it's powerful and it gives you the sense that nothing necessarily that you are God but you are in God so close and your your mission almost is to become like God not in a arrogant way work new-age way but to be divinized to be something where it's you know the old Greek Orthodox Roman or Greek Orthodox preachers that are still to this day they're buried but they're their bodies are still fresh the legends of the Greek Orthodox priests that they walk into a hospital room and just go like this and people would just be healed and able to go home but they believed something much more mystic and Eastern than than we do and we almost put it on other people to transmit that power at odd or strong belts or Ian when really it's not about that it's about what you carry and what you can you can grow in executing going through all of this for you to understand that though yeah yeah go and see all the big people going to every revival and go and see Benny Hinn and getting Benny Hinn to pray for you and getting all main people to pray for you and you go back in like nothing's changed you name it I've gotten prayer from them and again it just becomes they are just people too and when you realize that then you realize what you what they carry you can carry it and with like I had an experience with some tea no no drugs no loosener genex nothing where that that literally brought me into a place where I saw the glory of God I saw literally missed the mists of God I was drunk for for hours but it was not it was just somebody praying over a cup of tea restoration and I didn't know that the person did that those kind of experience really you realize cuts within you God's the chemo heavens so years from Westerfeld well maybe the best I'm trying to hear some of the manifestations and then they come back to the person no it wasn't Jason it was a great person I'm just saying that at that point having that teachers it could have easily gone out hey I've got this anointing let's do some tea together I mean like I could take the tea thing on the road and it would be kind of be cynical about it but there are others who are cynical about doing that kind of stuff you don't need those other people to to get the anointing from ya you know they'd like Todd's importation stuff I want too I mean countless times verses like one tea experience you know like how much do you need to go and how much do you does that there's a system that's kind of unhealthy which I going to current day stuff it's it's a very unhealthy system to just prop up rock stars who want to have a healing ministry and they may have healing mystery they may do that that's great but it's just it's the system itself that for me has to just collapse because I'm with you man and maybe with corona virus and things that are happening now people will start to realize they can't travel as much to these places well I mean I mean the whole Bethel thing with you know the child or whatever you know yeah that was big and people were like you know some close friends right let's pray for the baby to be raised from the dead like I've got some friends that I met and they did that like they lost a child and and kept and winning got the baby back from the morgue and kept the baby in the house and believed for a miracle and a week later they had to come to terms like we got to do something man I don't think it I think God ray I think God brought life in a different way you know what I'm gonna have to change the way that we look at this this thing you know and there's a lot of people when it when it becomes this like this around it's a form what you talk about like the form of psychosis like you know and it's in so many people from the deep mystical charismatic to the backwoods Baptists like everybody has a form of it through their religion man and it can become dangerous as you you've experienced or it can you have something that benefits your life you know in a brochure Pereira Lee yeah it could be good bad but but when it experiences become mostly bad when it damages people's relationship with God when when there has to be a way people can see and through this I guess is and and others I've seen too is like there are people who are able to kind of discern and grow out of a limited experience into a greater experience of God yeah but along that way you are called you recall deceived you're called this a Satanist you're called the Kundalini deceiver all these things and it's not always a nicest to be on the receiving end of those things yeah there you go whoa hey man I know we're at the top of the hour bro I know you gotta go thanks for making time to make this happen and dude I can do another two or three hours with you we gotta we got to reschedule this and do it again man let's do these stories and because I know you get it you were there we can do one just on stories from that time period let's do it yes I want to do it let's let's make it happen again brother go ahead and plug your arm your YouTube and your Facebook and stuff like that people just Google that's that's my kind of moniker my name online so it's for YouTube calm boys owner my Instagram muscle my doodles and drawings we didn't even get into that yeah that's a whole nother thing but that actually started through an Ian Clayton conference so there's so much good that happen from that just downloading images and be able to draw them and that's a big thing now though there's people are like drawing prophetic images hey what this exact to you it's when they start charging oh no but yeah so right he's just Google Roy's owner Roy server calm youtube.com/ Roy's owner you'll see my stuff and it's it's a variety of stuff interviews with charismatic mystics and also Zen people people like Buddhists who are practicing Christians and Christians that are practicing Buddhism a variety of kind of their knowledge you got to listen all over man they didn't be able to make I think after then you can make and as a educated guess and you know just because you've looked at it all and this is what I'm sticking with this is what yeah hey you know I want to say hey man thank you for not getting mad for using your your footage and not asking for promotion oh right - me - yeah and got mad me just say that Ian wanted money all right for using your interview yeah he wanted money for me hey bro for real let's say hey let's book this soon man okay I want to go in deep deeper with you man that'd be good thanks for hanging out Roy I think soon I have many blessings peace peace you too Roy Peterson ladies and gentlemen go check out his workout on YouTube Roy's owner he's big into doodling and I bringing people together to draw - to create together he's got a thing called doodle fest which is pretty cool I think his Instagram is devoted to that there's even some stuff on his YouTube but again this guy you know people who we call like greats in the charismatic movement he's interviewed them all before they were big maybe maybe if we get real mystical maybe they got big because he has an anointing on him that if he interviews you you blow up hey what if come on now if we're just pulling stuff out of all out of the Hat you know we created as we speak it interview me Roy I want you to interview me man blow up row I'm telling he's I mean Todd Bentley Jason Upton which you talk about I think Jason Upton is really uh rounded I think he's really uh well-rounded and balanced when it comes to face doctrine theology and yet and that brother got it got it hard he's a beautiful prophetic worship leader and uh he you know all these depths of God fly me to the heavens with you you're my desire all these really deep beautiful songs and he ended up Jason Upton ended up putting out some song some fun songs with their son talking about their dog they made songs about their dog and things like that having fun playing with the dog and he sung them and in the church blew up they got mad they got irate that he would do songs like that and he caught you know the brunt of it that's how how far out in how out there are forms of psychosis or disillusion that some people can be in because I owe it's not spiritual then its demonic your dog and you're using your talents to you know to not edify the body and to entertain and he's like you're you know what I'm saying this is how far out some people get so Jason Upton went through - so Roy's interviewed him John Crowder you know with the token the ghost and falling out and all that kind of stuff Bill Johnson from Bethel who is the head pastor of Bethel Assembly interviewed him Sean Bowles and his prophetic ministry Patricia King Bobby Connor Bob Jones Ian Clayton Jonathan David hustler so many people but check out his documentary it's the Lakeland documentary and he was there with a camera during the whole Todd Bentley thing and reported on it for everybody so uh he's uh he's really good man I really like what he brought to the table and I wanted to again like have him on because I feel like someone who's talked to some so many people is more well-rounded so I have I have friends who people accuse me of this I'm we're in the South right there's a certain group of people we're in the Bible Belt there's certain things that are taboo and if you don't talk to anybody else if you don't if you haven't been around or anything like that you just in your box and it's us four and no more and I've got friends down here who I mean they're they're racists they're they're bigoted they're they don't like gay people like all of this kind of stuff and when you talk to them it cut it shows it comes out you know what I'm saying but when you have gay friends when you have friends of different faiths friends who are Muslims Buddhists or atheists or lack of spiritual new-age friends you start having a sense of compassion and just like not not that they're even dying or lost and going to hell but the hold on these are regular people man these are people and we have similar traits like the pursuit of the human heart is it's all the same we all bleed the same and so when you talk to someone who you know that's the whole thing about you know the West Coast there's some of everybody that people are just more open and more accepting of all types of beliefs and practices and stuff versus being in the south and in the Bible Belt like they're more accepting and open because they've dealt with that kind of stuff and it's so weird to talk to people who are so bigoted and people accuse me of that and maybe there is you know areas in my life that I'm not as open or still stuck in my old upbringing or whatever the case is I don't know you know the fact that it matters you don't know until you meet new people until you get outside of your box and - that's when you know when you're able I knew when I was able to finally hang around a Catholic and and not try to win them over to Jesus you know if you know what I'm saying of just being sung or you know having being able to hang around people who were attracted to the same sex or whatever like and not think that it was a sin or not think that I have to convert them if I don't then they're gonna die and go to hell like even if I did believe that - not like you know make that not be able to see them as a person man you know what I'm saying and so that's huge and one thing about having a lot of friends or talking to a lot of people is you come to this this understanding they hate the world is bigger than me again Roy says God is bigger than me I think I thought I had to figure it out but God is way beyond what I thought and that's the thing I found that out to be like what God does just like once you put him in a box he likes to destroy your box you know when you say God can't or God won't he's like you want to bet he speak through anything he wants and uh and that's the thing you find out people who are more inclusive and you find out that God is inclusive that's the beauty of it that's what I wanted to talk to Rohr because I know he's talked to so many people the thing again I liken that to someone like George Noory from coast-to-coast am who I've listened to hours and hours and hours of his his interviews and you know he's just open he lets people tell their stories speak their truth and glean from it but and for me I want to know what what George Noory believes so I like to listen to people interview George Noory so I can finally hear what he believes versus hearing about what all his guests believe kind of thing because he's kind of made these you know what works for you what you know I actually listened to an interview he did with Duncan Trussell which was pretty interesting George Noory and Duncan Trussell if you guys get a chance to listen to that but that one was really good what the spotlight was on George Noory but man being more inclusive and talking to people who believe differently than you I talked and I have friends or acquaintances who are across the spectrum all across the spectrum and so that's the thing about it like studying I've been in studied all these different sects of Christianity New Age even in occultism and Satanism and Wicca and all of this stuff so I feel like at this point in my life I'm able to kind of glean from it all and see what works and what doesn't and pick what does trust me if Wicca worked I would be a Wiccan you know what I'm saying if Satanism work I would be a Satanist there's things about that stuff that didn't work and is actually dangerous there's stuff about different sects of Christianity that doesn't work in this dangerous we didn't really get a lot of a chance to go into it a lot but uh Roy he's big on speaking about psychosis and in him and his his wife at the time we're dealing with psychosis and and and essentially in in these Christian cults where you could only listen to these people and the things that it changes the way that your mind works in the way that you think and I really want to have him back on to really go a little bit deeper man it was cool just kind of touch on a lot of different things but to get them to go on here I can go a lot deeper so that's one thing I'm looking forward to with him people who are more open man lately I've been getting a lot of messages because I've been open about my faith I've been open about my experiences and being a little bit more vocal about Jesus and and my truth and what I believed and it's been for you know a couple different things I've been in the word a lot more lately for myself I've talked about this and you know hearing things of maybe people in my community say stuff that's like hold on that's not you know so if I if I like put off a vibe or something that is something that I'm against and you think it's okay I want to make sure that you you know that it comes out of my mouth like hey I don't even though we talked about it even though we may be Explorer people interview people who believe differently I don't think that's okay so I just want to make sure that a lot of that is known so that right there we'll check you and just to kind of make sure that you know you what you're bringing to the table and what you're known for is its truth at the end of the day so you know I I try to find common ground again with a lot of the people that I interview but it doesn't necessarily mean that I agree with them and so I just had to be open about that man and I think that our people are learning from that I think that that's what you know draws people to listen to a show like this and you know it's helping people I'm definitely getting those in boxes and and and know and I can see the numbers going up for a particular reason but it's something different when I'm just like okay let's just be let's just get to the point let's get to it so I mean I try to always do that but just you know that's the particular guest or whatever we're talking about it really I'm here to kind of go into their world but at the same time try to bring them into mine a little bit kind of I give and take a little bit during the conversation and you guys are on that trip with me you know you're you're making that data voyage so I'm gonna jump here to the chat to see if we have any questions I'm gonna say thank you the spirit girl for the donation thank you so much for believing in the work and helping fund the vision you are awesome thanks so much if anybody has any questions let me know in the chat and I'll try to answer them right quick um let's see here I don't have every answer but Jesus has many that's what Gavin says and he says it's not his dumb but answers you have in your life about stuff you don't know but it's about asking questions yep if you don't ask the questions you'll never get the answers so being in a in a place that allows and encourages you to ask questions see what you'll find that on many of these churches and many of these small movements discourage you from asking questions or if you ask a questions a question they shoot everything down or they label everything is demonic especially in the Christian groups everything's demonic to stay away from you know that was a and I've been open about this like even like you're doing a couple interviews with Brandon boss drop over the years and trying to build with him a little bit you know when people would would share stuff in his community that I did or other interviews that up there that he would shoot it down and you know it's say all kind of stuff to stay away and all that kind of stuff and uh there's only you know there's no room for it for any other leaders for sure you know just like I'm the leader listen to me this is what we do and and you know that there's definitely some truth to that right you have an idea you have a belief you have a truth that you're trying to communicate even through your community so if somebody who comes in and teaches otherwise like the right thing to do is to get them out I mean you know what happened to me in the church and happens to all of you who get into the church and start talking about things that it's not agreed upon doctrine or questioning the stur questioning the doctrine hey Ida the pastor said this but the Bible says this and you know you get a target on your back once you start questioning the leadership even just just by default so you see a lot of that in the fringe movements and so that's kind of what I've experienced with with some of these leaders man that's why it's so cool to be a part of a community and have Christian leaders in my life and have Christian leaders who are my friends who who appreciate what I bring to the table and how open I am to have conversations and they they bless me and they encourage me and they're there they're proud to call me friend and brother and so those people right there kind of take away the excuse that you had that you're all alone and everyone's against you because that's not the case you know to find people that that are in your corner rooting for you and they're Christians and they're believers and all that kind of stuff you know what I'm saying it changes your paradigm because you get into a form of psychosis because psychosis is thinking that you you were the only one who's doing what you're doing nobody believes in you everybody's falling or nobody gets it or whatever the case is and people people people are having very similar experiences to you and you just need to find the others find the tribe man that's what you got to do it could be hard takes years find them and hold them close man it's good stuff Fredrik says judge the tree by its fruit and not simply by looking at the tree for sure and that's what you got to do Kirk says you heard jelly's new song creature yeah man it's a pretty good song talking about the monster under the bed and and that kind of thing I heard that song yeah my boy just an influence he's he's diehard jelly roll he made sure I heard it but yeah it's pretty good the video is pretty dope too Chris calico in that song but again I want to talk about these um retreats that we have coming up again I've got my men's retreat it is uh let's see here April eighteenth for those of you who want to be a part of that April the 18th in Mobile Alabama that's a men's retreat and then there is the other one that were I'm a part of Gil's retreat that he has going on that's in Orlando and so that's gonna be coming up on April the 9th through the 12th if those of you who were in the area I know I got some people listening in Orlando and in the Kissimmee area or Kissimmee I don't know they always say I pronounced that wrong but if you 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I thought it was gonna be something that just sits on the back burner for months and maybe somebody would give but people are like yep let's make it happen let's do it and people coming out the woodwork donating so if you want to see that video come to fruition sooner than later make sure you give to that go check it out it's gonna be going for a good cause I'm not keeping any of that money that's all going towards paying for that in the camera man and treating both of those guys out to all that kind of stuff so make sure you check it out gonna go glance at these comments again let me know if there's anything you want me to talk about anything you want me to read I'll try to read it right quick if you want to add to the conversation let's see Shelley says we need to stop putting ministers and pastors up on pedestals knowing the word and having discernment is so important in our faith walk I mean the thing about that is I you you put them on a pedestal because they do it for you I they you don't have to do it like the pastor does it like you know you just believe what they tell you you don't have to like get in the word for yourself and know the know the word or know God for yourself because the pastor knows God you ain't gotta pray for yourself you get him to pray for you you know cuz he's anointed he's closer to God and these weird pedestals that we have and it gets into man worship and I've been talking a lot about that and definitely not supposed to be be that way so kudos said that comment Shelly Danny says I'm glad I found your brother if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have been able to share my story for people to be inspired yeah man I'm glad I found you man you're awesome it's good seeing you grow and I still get a lot of feedback from our interview that we did talking about shadow beings man and I'm excited to see you every step you take man in the right direction even in the wrong direction I'm here for you but I'm just as I see you man I see you good things are coming so you got it just you got that creativity most of you do we just got to execute finish that book you know get it out there and get you back on for another interview I know people would love to read it man birthed it get it out there into the world excited for you man thank you guys for hanging out with me it's been a whiie i only had a the guest on for like right at an hour look again i we could have went uh two more hours for sure you're just sitting talking about these manifestations and and kooky experiences and the interesting thing was he wasn't really big on people faking experiences he's never experienced that there's a lot of that going on you know he said he'd never seen it maybe he didn't get close enough but he did say he had some maybe some character stuff that he saw right with some of these ministers behind the scenes but then when it was town lights camera action boom they're just they do that thing they get in the character they bring the presents they they do what they do people are good at it you get good at doing stuff when you do it a lot you get better and better and better at leading a crowd leading the people speaking putting on a show especially when you get to travel like a lot of these ministers get to travel to different churches and so you just kind of bring that same message with you because you know what moves people and you get to something and it doesn't work you don't do it to the next crowd the next audience and you see that going on a lot man if you guys want to be a part of the school of the Mystics we're doing that tonight 7:00 p.m. central make sure you check out my patreon patreon.com backslash true seeker you get access into that for one dollar so we'll be getting into some some prayer some meditation if I open up the scriptures a little bit and some questions and answers and hanging out with like-minded people find your tribe and this is where we hang out school of the Mystics every Thursday night 7 p.m. central also if you're not a part of our discord community make sure you click the link in the description that's where we just hang out we do life we post memes and pray and listen to music together with voice chat there's text chat get involved man you have a do you have a place here there's something for you to do you have something to bring to the table you have something to offer find out what that is man and see where you can be used with that I'm say peace and Shalom we'll do it again love you guys peace peace well that does it for this episode folks here more episodes of the truth seeker podcast head over to juicy Kazakh and if you wanted to support the show and get rewards go to our patreon page at patreon.com forward slash truth seeker


