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In the last episode of this podcast, I described some of the significant ways that AI will usher in a new period of human development that I call The Great Acceleration. I focused on the acceleration of cognitive capacity of the human brain as described by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, as well as the way we experience time, energy, and, of course, knowledge. I also introduced the acceleration of technology development, not just for AI but for completely new technologies, including and enabled by quantum computing, which will work synergistically with AI. The larger truth is that AI will catalyze a great acceleration in virtually any aspect of human life and development. I’m Joe Kornowski.Now, one of the most interesting accelerations to me will be in spiritual growth and development. And today, I’m excited to announce the official launch of my new book, “Accelerating Spiritual Growth with AI Chatbots.”

This is the first part of a special two-part episode about what I call the great acceleration of our time. What exactly is accelerating? And why is that important? Several things are accelerating: one is knowledge, another is time, a third is energy, and a fourth is our cognitive brain capacity. So, let me break this down.Recently, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, sat down for an interview with Fareed Zakaria. Jensen is being called the Godfather of AI because his company pivoted several years ago from making GPUs for gaming to developing GPUs for AI. A GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, replaces what are known as CPUs, or Central Processing Units, semiconductor chips. CPUs powered the internet. GPUs are powering AI because they are faster and optimized for performing many simple tasks simultaneously, making them ideal for both image processing and machine learning, the heart of AI.That is as technical as I will get here. The point is that Jensen is a true visionary—some say he is the Da Vinci of our time. He saw what he had and how to utilize it to transform technology in our time. And the so-called hyperscaler companies in technology—Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—are investing many billions of dollars in developing their AI capabilities, as this is a race. Okay, so that’s another acceleration. The time between the release of the first AI chatbot and the “winner-take-all” race to create the best AI capability will be a fraction of the time it took for the early search engines of the web, the internet, to consolidate down to just one dominant provider, Google.The initial consumer-facing availability of AI for everyday purposes takes the form of these various so-called chatbots. As the name implies, they are conversational machine learning tools that generate and share knowledge. And the way they work leverages everyone’s skill with legacy search, like Google.The critical thing to know here is that this change from search to artificial intelligence knowledge generation and reasoning is happening right now, and you can tap into it with any of the major consumer-facing chatbots like xAI’s Grok, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claud, or Google’s own AI chatbot, Gemini. And I’m going to pound the table here. If you want to have any mastery of skills necessary to navigate what comes next, in technology, in our culture, in your professional life, you MUST begin NOW to learn how to optimize AI in your everyday life.

This is a special episode of the More Wave Less Particle podcast. This morning, I awoke to a text letting me know that my last remaining aunt, my mother’s younger sister, passed away overnight. As I poured my first coffee, I turned on CNN to watch the latest reports on the war between Israel and Iran now on the precipice of catastrophic escalation. I felt more powerless than I’ve felt in a long time. Then I realized that I’m not helpless.Recently, I’ve been finding new and interesting ways to use AI chatbots in my life to help me solve real problems for me, as well as family and friends. As I clutched my coffee mug and gathered myself a short while ago, I realized that I could use this moment to enlist the help of an AI chatbot to see if I could make things better, safer, calmer from a spiritual perspective. In a prior podcast episode, I explained how AI chatbots could be used as a spiritual advisor in times of need. I felt today was such a time. Also, I wanted to do something to honor my late aunt and all she had done to support me growing up.I’ve been working most with x.AI’s Grok 3 chatbot recently, so I quickly created a prompt to see if Grok could show me how I could provide spiritual support for world peace today.

In 2015, researchers at John Hopkins University and NYU specifically wanted to invite religious leaders with an interest in further exploring and developing their spiritual lives to ingest mushrooms. The result was that many of the participants became evangelists for psychedelics for spiritual purposes. Ironically, one of the participants was an Episcopal Church minister named Hunt Priest.So, Priest joined about 30 other religious leaders from Christian churches, including a Catholic priest, as well as an Islamic leader, a few rabbis, a biblical scholar and a Buddhist roshi. While the study lacked some of the usual scientific rigor, like certain controls and a sample size typical of scientific studies, it nevertheless provided some interesting insights that can help shine new light on the current movement to make possession and use of psychedelics legal in various states.The insight I found most intriguing was the confirmation by these traditionally-oriented religious leaders of mystical spiritual visions and revelations associated with their psychedelic experience. There’s something else going on at the same time that makes all this even stranger. New discoveries and ideas about human consciousness and the brain  are appearing everywhere, along with news of a startup that is working on how to design a new class of psychedelics that could induce epiphanies, mystical experiences and revelations.Could this signal a return to spiritual mysticism through science, technology and innovation—another turn in a never-ending spiral, bringing us to a very different level, perhaps opening to a higher consciousness? Observers of the vibrant fractals in higher states of consciousness through the door of psychedelics can recognize them as self-same patterns that repeat…and scale to infinity—the essential characteristics of a fractal. Some call them portals to different realities or dimensions. It remains to be seen whether we will have the courage, the faith, and the spiritual guidance to step through them and see for ourselves what lies beyond.

Many people do not yet realize the power of AI to support their spiritual growth or how to integrate it into their spiritual practice. If you follow a particular set of religious teachings or spiritual principles, you now can use an AI Chatbot like Perplexity, or Anthropic’s newest Claude Opus 4, or xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, or Open AI’s Chat GPT among others to find just the right personal guidance for your situation from whatever source you prefer. So, today I’m going to demonstrate for you how you can correctly and safely use any of the currently available AI chatbots as a spiritual advisor on the fly anytime you need some quick help.Three very different situations illustrate how you can call upon whatever source of spiritual wisdom and comfort appeals to you in that moment — whether to comfort or counsel, advise or inspire. AI makes your preferred belief system, brand or flavor of spiritual counsel as close as your smartphone. The sources of great divine wisdom currently available to us are boundless. Remember, the source you choose to ask is your true spiritual advisor. To stay in spiritual light, in Truth, just use AI not as your source but as an intelligent tool for accessing trusted sources of spiritual wisdom when and where you need them, just as you would the phone or the internet. 

Let me begin by stating that I am not a cultural warrior — a spiritual warrior, perhaps. But I have no interest in the so-called “culture wars.”And so I’m not interested in weighing in on the latest skirmish in the ongoing culture clash. Instead, I want to bring some truth and clarity to the legal fight over posting copies of the Ten Commandments in public schools. I read a recent Rolling Stone article about Louisiana becoming the first state to sign into law a requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom in a poster-sized display in a “large, easily readable font.”While I’m not particularly interested in this battle of the culture war or the specific legal arguments involved, I AM VERY interested in the underlying spiritual truth related to this particular law. The driver for this particular legal requirement of posting the Ten Commandments in public schools seems to be organized Christian groups. What most baffles me, confuses me and motivates me to do a podcast episode about this is the fact that I find it spiritually misguided and in error. And here’s why… The core, the foundation of spiritual truth, for a Christian is the New Testament of the Bible, which contains all of Jesus’ teachings, St. Paul’s various letters to Gentile groups, and the Book of Revelations, among other things. The New Testament sets forth what is called the New Covenant, which is the new profound spiritual agreement between God and His people established through Jesus Christ. Now, the focus of the New Covenant involves internal spiritual transformation rather than an external set of rules. This is what distinguishes it from the Old Covenant, given through Moses, which was primarily a set of laws and regulations that governed the behavior of the Israelites. So, while the Old Covenant specifically was intended for the Israelites, the New Covenant extends to all people, including Gentiles, non-Jews. I mean, can this law mandating posting the old superseded commandments in schools really be just a simple mistake? Wouldn’t the good Christians behind requiring the posting of commandments in our public schools want our children to know the spiritual truth from the newest version of the commandments given by Jesus, himself?

Today I want to talk about Trump and The Greenland Prophecies. As we know, President-Elect Trump has a strong propensity to make unexpected and unconventional statements that many people find outrageous. Recent examples include his offensive statements to the U.S.’ closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico, including his expressed desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Now, whether such statements are meant to bully, taunt, intimidate or provoke our friendly and non-threatening neighbors into making concessions or seeking appeasement, or simply getting their attention, no one really knows.However, I believe his statements about wanting to acquire Greenland may come from a slightly different and more strategic agenda.Few people born in this century know the name Edgar Cayce. He was a verified prophet, psychic, and healer in the early 20th Century, known as the “sleeping prophet” and “the father of holistic medicine.” He spent a great deal of his time receiving and responding to requests from people all over the country who sought his psychic readings.While most of those readings were mainly personal, many also contained revelations about future events and world changes. Even people who may be somewhat aware of Cayce and his legacy may not know about some of his more obscure predictions and prophecies. Well, it turns out that a few concerned Greenland. And they’re very interesting in light of Donald Trump’s recent comments.

Most of us have heard of what’s called the Overview Effect. It’s a unique perceptual awareness for those who have traveled to space, and it produces a profound cognitive shift in an astronaut gazing down upon the Earth.What I find so intriguing—actually, I would say “miraculous”—about the Overview Effect as people experience it is that even a single perceptual experience of Earth from space changes people, their consciousness, and sometimes even the course of their lives.Two "over viewers," Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and the original Star Trek Captain Kirk, William Shatner, help us understand how seeing the world differently can fill us with wonder and compassion and lead us to the transformational gift of forgiveness this holiday season.

I've just completed a book, which I launched a few days ago. It’s called Finding the Fractal Christ: An Integrative Spiritual Quest. And for another 3 days, you can access it free on Amazon as a Kindle ebook. So, I’m going to disclose a few things here that I learned in the course of writing this book. And I’m hoping that you’ll find them useful. The context for the book is that I experienced a very unexpected vision, a revelation, in an altered state of consciousness late last year. That vision consisted of a segmented spiral like a cross-section of certain sea shells, with the spiral getting ever smaller as it disappeared into infinity. Each segment all along the disappearing spiral bore the face of a bearded man. Along with that visual, I “heard” the message, “Christ is a fractal.”The further I sought to understand this message, the deeper I got. All along the path of what became a 10-month spiritual quest to understand the meaning of the revelation, new unexpected revelations would appear. That’s the story that I chronicle in the book.The result, over time, was the unfolding of a deep personal spirituality that didn’t exactly align with any particular religion. I accumulated spiritual knowledge and depth outside of the cultural structure and institution of religion. At the same time, I discovered that various demographic and sociological studies were revealing a significant decline in the number of people who identified as religious. Interestingly, while those who claimed a religious affiliation were declining in number, an increasing number of people were identified as SBNR — that is, “spiritual but not religious.” While comforting and validating on one level, identifying as SBNR actually was identifying as NOT something. That made me feel even more marginalized in a way, though studies like these are, by definition, cultural.Now, Christian mysticism is almost completely unknown let alone discussed and taught in Western Christianity. See, Christian mysticism teaches that God and the Kingdom of God are within each of us, and not only was Jesus the “Light of the World,” but that we ALL have it within us also to be the Light of the World. Jesus said those things. He even told his disciples they would do even greater works than he did. But modern Christianity doesn’t talk about that or teach about that, and its implications. As my quest unfolded, I discovered that new theories and models of consciousness based on principles of quantum physics, and fractal patterns, offer a compelling replacement for what used to be called mysticism. I’ll talk more about that in future episodes.

In this episode, I want to share my recent experience with Vibravision, which teaches and trains people how to unlock their superpowers within a larger system called Merpati Putih (MP) from Indonesia. It’s unlikely that you’ve heard about Vibravision as compared to various other martial arts or energy healing and health systems like qi gung, tai chi, gung fu, reiki, karate, and yoga — to name some practices familiar to westerners.This practice originally was developed in the mid-1500’s by the Royal Family of the Mataram Kingdom of Java as a secret system. And since its creation, it was only taught by the King to his heirs for over 400 years.I just completed a Vibravision Level 1 5-day Immersive — with training starting at 10 am and going until usually 9 or 9:30 pm every day. There were 14 of us students who ranged in age from pre-teen to over 70.I encourage you to watch a few of the many Vibravision videos posted on YouTube to get a flavor of what this training is all about.It became almost comical everytime we would “level up,” as the instructor, "Mas Mike," would say when he introduced a new challenge. As we began, our skepticism would quickly turn to disbelief. More than once, I just had to rip off my blindfold and look at the correct physical beanbag or plastic pole in my hand — and then look at my partner and exclaim, “How did I DO THAT???!!!”Part of Mas Mike’s genius was to push us so fast and hard that our logical brain couldn’t keep up and get in the way. All of us in that Immersive training got a taste for not only the existence but the availability of our hidden superpowers that we all come into the world with. Only a few masters of these superpowers can be found in the world at any given time who can help us find and develop these superpowers. Of course, it’s not about grabbing beanbags or walking between plastic poles blindfolded.It’s about developing the ability to elevate, help and heal ourselves and others, and live our life on a completely new level.

The current culture seems to have hijacked quite a few words and given them very different meanings. What bothers me about it is, having been an English major, I became steeped in the richness of vocabulary, whether it was the common vernacular or a specialized one, sometimes called an argot — medicine, law and science have their own argots, as do many other disciplines.Actually, the word that disturbs me most in this regard might surprise you. It’s “needs.” A phrase that somehow popped up in the culture in the last decade or so is this idea that it’s important to “get our needs met.”Of course, in modern American culture, these so-called “needs” have nothing to do with Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs.” Maslow’s hierarchy is actually a psychological theory that outlines 5 levels of real human needs arranged in a pyramid format. So, what about these “needs” we’re trying to get met in modern parlance. Well, these recently-redefined needs are actually what one young associate of mine called “preferences.” He used the word preferences after having surrendered his life to a higher power as he understood it as part of his addiction recovery. He told me about his daily struggles to meet life on life’s terms, even though that often meant not receiving his “preferred” outcome. These preferences were not needs at all but wants, wishes, hopes, desired outcomes. They’re actually what we think we want.

Too often, people think of their lives as a series of random but interesting events or encounters. We’ve developed phrases to describe certain of these incidents that seem to happen out of the blue. We’re standing in line at the grocery store, and we overhear the person in front of us on the phone talking about how they just lost one of their best pet-sitting clients. Meanwhile, I’ve been wondering all morning where I’m going to find a good pet sitter on short-notice for an upcoming business trip.When such things happen, we might say, “amazing coincidence, right?” Or “right place, right time.” Or, “what are the odds?” Or, maybe even, “Am I being punked?”But others of us respond differently. We might say, with a knowing grin to no one in particular, “God works in mysterious ways,” or “that’s just how it works,” or “thank you,” addressed to the Universe or some other higher power that we’ve learned to trust and depend on.These people are referred to in the book, A Course in Miracles, as being “miracle-minded” or in “miracle-readiness.” Living a miracle-minded life could also be described as living by what is more commonly called the “burnt toast” theory. Under the burnt toast framework, we choose to experience everything in our lives as working ultimately for our benefit one way or another. The way it works goes something like this: had I not burned the toast and thereby been delayed leaving the house this morning because of the extra time I spent cleaning up the mess, I would or would not have had this happen to me. And the “this” can be something we judge as either “good” or “bad” for us. Ususally, we don’t know whether a burnt toast consequence was beneficial or not until later.When we get attached to what we want, plan, expect or hope for, we fail to understand how the Universe or God really works. If we stay in miracle-mind, with no judgment but instead open to curiosity about the next opportunity or challenge life has for us, we live in acceptance that we control nothing outside of ourselves (on a good day). When we can surrender to a divine will or life force, then we can live in the peace of what A Course in Miracles calls the Holy Instant, the eternal now, where anything can — and does — happen, ultimately for our benefit. Both the past and the future are not reality. The only life we get to live is the tiniest slice we call now. Everything happens in the here/now. In fact, the moment that follows may depend entirely on what we do, say or think now.

Now is a great time to walk outside at night and look up at a dark sky. Here’s what I mean.We humans are remarkable beings — with infinite spiritual potential, yet physically infinitesimal in our immense Universe. So, how do we balance both aspects of ourselves, especially when the culture feeds our gluttonous egos 24 by 7.Well, I want to share a secret with you about how you can simultaneously experience your own expansiveness while at the same time feeling your insignificance and fragility to help you stay humble and grounded in your life. All we need to is shift the focus off ourselves for even a few minutes every night between now and September and look up to the Corona Boreales constellation. Corona Borealis is home to a binary star that is doing something right now that seems mind-bending. 

George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, is often quoted as having said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill put his own spin on this concept when he said, “Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.”While a memorable cultural catchphrase, the premise that history repeats itself is false. What makes it false is the word history. History does not repeat. History only exists as collected fragments of memory and records of all occurrences leading up to now, but which do not presently exist. The correct phenomena to identify, learn and remember are patterns. To know and understand the truth of anything, before we can hope to change it, we must first find its pattern. 

April 8th marks a rare astronomical event, a total solar eclipse.  The path of totality will first make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico at 18:07 UTC (1:07 PM local time) near Sinaloa.The path of totality will leave the Earth's surface at 20:16 UTC (4:16 PM Atlantic Daylight Time) in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 500 miles (800 kilometers) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.The total duration of the path of totality from beginning to end will be about 2 hours and 9 minutes. And, at any given location along the path, the total solar eclipse will last for a maximum of 4 minutes and 28 seconds, with the duration decreasing as you move away from the center of the path.The path of totality will have traversed a distance across the Earth’s surface of approximately 3,200 miles. Today, we know that the eclipse, while it substantially blocks the sun’s light, does no harm to the Earth or its inhabitants. That was not always the case. Throughout history, many civilizations have associated solar eclipses with bad omens, often interpreting them as signs of impending doom, divine displeasure, or significant changes in the world. So, you can look up without any worry — but only if you are wearing protective eclipse glasses — and appreciate the wonder of the moon passing in front of the sun and how it changes the natural light surrounding you. But this might also be a good opportunity to reflect on the more sinister shadows falling across the Earth at the same time.You see, each of us carries an inner divine light, the spark of creation, basic goodness, or whatever you wish to call it.And each of us is responsible to protect that light within us, not to allow anyone or anything to block or dim our own divine light. There are forces, dark forces, that want to do just that — to snuff out our light or block it or weaken it — because the truth is that our collective divine light as human beings is our best protection against all the darkness that can really do massive harm to each of us and to our Earth 

We live in a challenging time for knowing and keeping reality and truth. Today, we have a very different set up than any other time in our history that makes discovering and holding truth infinitely more difficult. I’m referring of course to the mad rush of investors, entrepreneurs, companies — and our enemies — racing headlong into developing a completely new technology based on Artificial Intelligence. The solution to winning the war of reality against delusion, truth against lies and deception is, first, to understand that our ability to know truth is at the core of the spiritual war against evil. As we know, evil works almost entirely by deception, illusion, confusion and chaos — that makes us question what we think we know and even who we think we are, and whether our friends and family might really be our enemies, or one of “them” who is out to get “us.”Our next step in the war in defense of truth and reality is to stay out of fear, as we talked about in the last episode of this podcast. Today, we understand how this works. Fear changes our brain neurobiologically in very dramatic ways. Fear distorts our discernment. When gripped by fear, our brain instantly shifts into prioritizing survival over thoughtful reflection or nuanced analysis. Our reactivity kicks in, short-circuiting our capacity for deliberate thinking.If you are watching news or a video or find yourself in a group situation where what you’re hearing is making you feel afraid, stop! Either remove yourself from the situation or shift your attention completely away from what is being said to who is saying things that promote fear. This is like the mantra, “Follow the money” to find the source of fraud or wrongdoing. “Follow the fear-monger.” Look for who is speaking fear and then ask yourself, what do they have to gain by instilling fear in others right now? This is a form of spiritual and emotional situational awareness. Ignore the message. Focus on the messenger and the likely motives for calling forth fear in the audience.If you already are in a fear state, then you must “break state.”  That means to act in a way that jolts you out of the neurobiological hijacking that caused your reactive state to regain your rational, reasoning and reflecting mind.One quick and easy technique if you are in your home is called “ice-diving.” This is a skill taught in Dialectical Behavioral Training, DBT, where you literally fill a large mixing bowl with ice — or even very cold water. Then take a deep breath and submerge your full face in the ice or cold water for 10 – 20 seconds. To find and know the truth, we must look within ourselves to our inner guidance and our connection with the Universe. In Luke 17:20-21, we read: Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, [Jesus] answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs that can be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!,’ for the kingdom of God is within you.”Once you reset and return to the calm and caring and open person that you are, you are ready to strengthen your internal alignment by playing your favorite music, walking in nature, talking with friends, or just getting quiet and alone to meditate or pray to connect with your inner guidance, the Divine Truth within you.

Fear not! That two-word phrase appears as a divine command more times in the Bible than any other directive from God’s angels or Jesus. According to one source, the divine command to “Fear not!” or “Fear ye not!” — sometimes translated as “Do not be afraid!” — appears as many as 92 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A few examples:The Gospel of Luke, chapter 1, verses 28-30, tells the story of the Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary to tell her that she would conceive and bear the Son of the Lord God, Jesus. The angel said to Mary, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” Naturally, Mary appeared startled and perplexed, and so the angel continued, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.”And again in Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-10, when Jesus was born, an angel appeared radiantly to shepherds living in their fields, and the shepherds were terrified. This angel used the same divine command, “Do not be afraid, for see — I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people … to you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is the Messiah.” And the angel directed them where to find the infant Jesus.In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 14, verses 22-27, we read that in the evening after a day of preaching to crowds, Jesus told his disciples to go on ahead of Him to cross the sea by boat while he went up the mountain to pray alone. And in the early morning, He came walking toward them in the boat across the sea. They thought it was a ghost and cried out in fear. Jesus said to them, “Take heart. It is I. Do not be afraid.”Now many interpretations logically suggest that this divine command to “Fear not!” simply is a reassurance in response to the startle or confusion of a sudden supernatural vision or spiritual visitation. But a command that appears 92 times is not to highlight the divine need to calm the reactions of mere mortals in the face of a spiritual experience. That actually would not make sense, right? Like many scriptural passages — across many different religions — this phrase actually provides us with a spiritual code that can open us to a higher consciousness. To understand that code and how to apply it anytime yourself is to find the key that unlocks the cosmic realms. 

Today is the Ides of January. And it’s already clear that this new year will challenge us in new ways. So, today, we’ll look at the single greatest weapon we must develop and continuously train with so that we can be effective in the intensifying spiritual war. Our very survival may well depend on it.But we need to begin now to develop and hone this skill in new ways we never imagined to survive and thrive against the existential threats of AI, nuclear war, more pandemics, perhaps even extraterrestrial encounters — and most importantly the spiritual war against evil.  This powerful weapon that can protect and defend you, as well as help you evolve in ways you never imagined is: discernment. From the practical and physical to the sublime and the divine, we can think of discernment as a heightened sense of awareness and perception that we can activate consciously, subconsciously, or even unconsciously. And it’s extremely powerful! We all have either personally experienced or know someone who saw or heard or otherwise knew of, a particular threat against which they reacted instantly — sometimes in fractions of a second — to narrowly avoid death or serious injury.Discernment serves as an early warning system in your daily life. Sometimes, it’s warning is subtle — you have a vague but sudden sense that “something isn’t quite right.” Maybe when you turn down a street, or walk into a building, maybe even your own house. Or you strongly don’t want to take a particular flight on the scheduled date of departure.Your discernment often operates on levels you are not consciously aware of. We  call that form of discernment intuition. And once your subconscious early-warning discernment alerts you, you can then bring your discerning power into full consciousness to focus and direct it intentionally as you seek to identify and eliminate the threat.

I wish you all a very Happy New Year!  As we enter 2024, I want to talk about the MOST DANGEROUS QUIET CANCEL facing us right now … and what we need to do about it.  It’s not what you might think. References to a real phenomenon that poses the greatest existential threat to humans and even the entire world ALREADY HAS BEEN ERASED FROM MAINSTREAM CULTURE. This one-word for the ultimate negative energy known to ancient and modern cultures until very recent times is: EVIL.

It’s winter solstice — the astronomical event celebrated by many indigenous cultures since ancient times and also the natural event most aligned with modern cultural holidays. Traditions this time of year include family gatherings, fellowship, prayer, song, gift exchanges and celebration. But the hard truth is year-end holidays are a challenging time for so many of us. So, is it possible to take our fears and insecurities, our grief over recent losses, and our weariness of wars and rumors of war, and transform that energy into something more uplifting that can support our hopes and visions for the New Year? The answer is definitely yes!One of ways we can do that, as we’ve talked about previously, is by going to Earth School and learning Byron Katie’s excellent practice, The Work, to truly see and understand how things that on the surface seem to “just happen TO us” actually can be understood as happening FOR us. They teach us, guide us, point the way forward. What feels like disappointment or bad luck can be a cosmic gift that saved us from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.We recognize an illness or injury or major life change as a time to stop, reflect, heal, integrate the changes, hit reset, and then “listen” to our inner wisdom for guidance. This process reboots our internal energy system.One of the most amazing tools that can help you achieve this energetic reboot and actually transform your suffering to well-being and loving-kindness is called Tonglen. 

In this episode, we discuss how to discern reality. We’re referring here to the inner reality  that provides us with access to our inner guidance — the capacity to open ourselves to limitless creativity and possibilities as human beings living in true happiness.So, how do we increase our ability to discern actual and potential realities? Full perception of absolute reality is impossible for humans, but we can start to become aware of it by raising our consciousness. And we do that by eliminating our inner conflicts. That requires engaging in a process of self-searching work. Becoming aware of our emotions and their significance helps us find our long-held unconscious erroneous beliefs and ideas. At that point, we become increasingly aware of the emotional unreality in which we have been living — our illusions, delusions and false beliefs and assumptions — and we move closer to actual reality.Resolving our inner conflicts is the only path to true happiness. And one of the cosmic laws, or divine truth, is that the only way to live a spiritual life and find the sacred source of inner guidance within ourselves is to become truly happy — NOT as a temporary feeling or emotion, but as an unconflicted state of being.

Our topic in this episode is cosmic laws. They are not positive laws at all. They are not made up by human minds. They are not rules. And they are not written down in words.I will share with you now the cosmic law prime, the cosmic law first principle, which all other cosmic laws serve. And I warn you ahead of time that your left brain will quickly seek to dismiss it as some platitude or nice idea rather than the golden front gate to cosmic laws. This is normal and natural. In fact, the enlightened Jesuit Priest Anthony de Mello captured very well just how this kind of revelation works to show us reality as it is without our concepts and judgments. In his book, The Song of the Bird, de Mello retells an old story by a Chinese Zen master. De Mello writes: “Before one studies zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters. After a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters. After enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters are once again waters.”

To gain any kind of knowledge and skills, we must learn them. In fact, we must initially figure out where we can go to learn the type of knowledge and skills we need to acquire in order to achieve our desired goal or purpose. In this episode, we’ll discuss how you can gain that knowledge and those skills that can help you develop an ability to work with vital energy in Earth School. The path to achieve happiness lies in gathering both outside, or acquired knowledge, and inner knowledge. We look for acquired knowledge outside of us — in retreats, workshops or seminars, as well as consulting mentors or helpers, and also reading material that can provide helpful insight and information. We seek to widen our knowledge about the true nature of reality and creation, and about the cosmic laws.But, it’s not enough just to engage with such outside sources. For them truly to further our progress along our path, that acquired knowledge must be applied on a personal level, and digested, and evaluated internally. And then, we must put that knowledge into practice so it takes root in our personal daily lives.Where can we learn how to conduct the ongoing self-examination necessary in order to get clarity about the sole reality and spiritual laws?The very good news is that you actually can attend what many of its teachers call, Earth School. In Earth School, you will gain amazing knowledge and awareness that opens you to see through our own version of The Matrix, the illusory life that shrouds our awareness, obfuscates our clarity and blocks our access to cosmic laws.

The purpose of this podcast is to reveal how we can recognize, gather, harness and transform what we’ll call vital energy, and then direct, apply, release and express that energy intentionally to achieve specific goals and purposes. That goal or purpose can be almost anything within the range of human imagination or desire. But here, in this podcast, we will focus on using vital energy as a creative, productive and transcendent force for growth, joy, balance, harmony and peace in human life.