1:59

Let's just focus for a second because certainly

2:02

whether it's number one or number two or number

2:04

seven, it doesn't matter. Authenticity

2:07

is still important, isn't it? Now

2:09

I don't bring astrology over here too

2:11

much. We have a whole podcast dedicated

2:13

to that. But I do

2:16

have in my own chart something that

2:18

is a signature of authenticity, one

2:20

side of the coin or the other. The

2:23

sun on the evening that I was born

2:25

is in an exact line in the sky

2:28

with Neptune and with

2:30

Mars. And for any of you who

2:33

crack open anything related to astrology

2:35

know that you usually do it to try to figure

2:38

your own self out, right? And

2:40

that's why I did. It's been a 15-year

2:42

journey to understand that right

2:44

there, that the sun and Neptune and

2:46

Mars were all in alignment when

2:49

I was born. And what does that mean? Well,

2:52

as you know, at least if you don't know

2:54

anything about astrology, you know that these planets

2:56

and their placements and everything represent

2:59

various areas of our lives. And

3:01

for each symbolism, there's a positive side

3:04

and a negative side. Steve Forrest said

3:06

it best. You hold up a coin. And

3:09

if you're going to talk about this, you have to cover

3:11

both sides. Don't just camp out in one.

3:14

But with Neptune, one of the shadow

3:17

sides of that representation

3:19

is lies, deception,

3:22

illusion, delusion, misty

3:26

fog, vagary. The illusion

3:28

of magic would be a good thing. Watch

3:31

over here while over here I'm switching

3:33

something out. Trickery

3:35

or paint the full picture. Bold

3:37

faced lies. So I started

3:40

to understand this symbolism of

3:42

the day that I was born. And

3:44

I started to analyze and realized

3:47

that this was an issue in my life. And

3:50

this was part of my year in the RV

3:52

that was represented in episode number 21 way

3:55

back in 2009. Part

3:58

of that analysis was... was that

4:01

I would do anything, especially

4:03

growing up, to keep the peace and

4:06

to avoid conflict with my mother. And

4:08

I mean, this is my little story, but

4:10

you will find something in here that you will find, oh gosh,

4:13

yes. And see, back to the sky,

4:15

this is why I love this stuff. My moon

4:17

represents my emotions and

4:20

it is in the sign of Libra, which

4:22

means I do not want conflict, I want

4:24

balance. Conflict upsets me. So,

4:27

from the very motivation of how I am

4:29

wired, I would look at a situation

4:32

and I would see, especially related to my

4:34

mom, and that is where it originated, and then it just

4:36

got applied out. What I would look at

4:39

is, what is going to upset

4:41

her? And I knew what her punch points

4:43

were. Versus, what

4:45

happened? What would I have to tell

4:48

her if I were telling her the truth? Is that going

4:50

to punch the button? If that

4:52

was going to punch the button, then what I would

4:54

do is analyze the value of

4:56

the situation that I would be misrepresenting

4:59

in order to keep the peace. So in

5:01

other words, if it was like, did you

5:03

put the lawnmower away? Well, how

5:06

big of a deal really is that? I

5:08

mean, I could say yes, and then I could run out

5:11

there and push the lawnmower back in the, you know, it's like

5:13

you could rather than face the,

5:16

I told you to do that 30 minutes, that, that,

5:18

that, that, that, right? It's like in the moment you deflect

5:20

and then you can fix it, right? And it's, okay, let me get

5:22

that square. But you

5:25

don't tell the truth in that moment to avoid

5:27

that moment of conflict. So the avoidance

5:30

of conflict is bigger than whatever

5:32

the situation is that certainly

5:35

is probably not a life or death situation

5:37

that, you know, is like, okay, that doesn't make

5:39

that much difference. So I would minimize

5:42

the situation and the truth within

5:44

it in order to save face.

5:47

Well, growing up, then I realized if

5:49

that worked for mom, it would work in other places.

5:52

So make it look the way it needs to look in

5:54

order to walk away peacefully.

5:57

Well, some years ago, somebody He

6:00

pointed that out, how it showed

6:02

up for them. Just called me out

6:04

on it, and by then I was more

6:07

interested in my spiritual life. So

6:09

finally, through that person being

6:12

bold enough and caring enough

6:15

to let me know how it showed up for

6:17

them, I finally started staring

6:19

right at it. That was also the time

6:21

that I started ramping up my study

6:23

of astrology and understanding that

6:26

dynamic of the sun and Neptune.

6:29

Well fast forward even now and working

6:31

with Robert Glascock over the last year and

6:33

about a half who has the same

6:35

position. His sun and Neptune

6:38

are not right on top of each other, but they are close

6:40

enough. Because

6:43

we have side conversations, I really

6:45

understand the full on dynamic

6:48

that is represented by the propensity

6:51

of just tipping into illusion

6:54

for the sake of peace is not

6:56

a bad trade. In my wiring

6:58

diagram, I just shifted to find the

7:01

opposite. Well

7:03

what is the opposite? Blurt out the truth about

7:05

anything, whatever it is, and let the chips

7:07

fall. And fortunately I

7:09

do not have that much conflict in my

7:11

life now. Those years are

7:14

hopefully behind me. But then

7:16

continuing to study and learn

7:18

about this and just observing, you just

7:21

see it everywhere in our culture.

7:24

Lies are blatant and they are worse

7:26

than ever now. I see it a lot in

7:28

the service industry, let's say retail,

7:31

food, etc. where people will just

7:33

tell you anything. And then probably they

7:35

laugh about the fact that they just told

7:38

you something that was so far outlandish,

7:40

it's like, oh well, but you see it,

7:42

you know it. Governments lie.

7:45

And the thing about that is, this is such a paradox

7:47

to me. These people lie and

7:49

we applaud them. You know what I have in

7:51

my mind is you work for a

7:54

company, right? And they had an HR department,

7:56

or you had a manager in the HR department,

7:58

and you know that if you... If you didn't

8:01

do what they expected you to do,

8:03

then you would be called in to one of

8:05

those two or both offices. And

8:07

the buzzwords now in corporate America

8:10

are counseling. You know, you'll get counseling,

8:13

and you'll get reprimands, and then

8:15

final warnings. And then if you

8:17

keep going, you get evicted. Well,

8:20

we applaud these people. We cheer them

8:23

on, and they're lying, and they are corrupt as

8:25

they can be. And what that says to me

8:27

is that we are willing to tolerate

8:29

this lying and be lied to because

8:33

we get what we put out. So the

8:35

bottom line of that is, culturally, lies

8:37

are okay. But after

8:40

that friend pointed this out, I

8:42

just thought, okay, the buck

8:45

stops here now with me,

8:47

even if I have to take a pause, or

8:49

even if I have to set it up with, well,

8:52

look, this might upset you, but...don't

8:56

get mad at me, but here's what happened,

8:58

you know, and then just put it out there. Last

9:01

week we talked about being faithful

9:03

on our spiritual path, about

9:06

operating from pure motives. This

9:09

is the business of looking squarely

9:11

at authenticity across all

9:14

areas of our lives. I love

9:16

what Landmark did when I went to the Landmark

9:18

classes, and I guess they don't do them

9:21

anymore in person. Now it's all online,

9:23

which to me would be incredibly watered

9:25

down. And

9:27

here's the reason why, because one

9:29

of the things that you would agree to

9:31

when you were taking the class is

9:34

to follow what they set

9:37

out as the prototype for how they want the

9:39

course to work. You agree to, yes, I

9:41

will follow and agree to the, you know, do

9:43

they call it rules, I guess.

9:46

And one of those was that when a session,

9:48

when you take a break, whether it's just a quick

9:50

little coffee bathroom break or it's a lunch

9:52

break, that you will be back

9:55

in your place ready to go at

9:57

the appointed time of the

9:59

next session. session, so if you dismissed

10:01

at noon and were to be back at 1.30

10:04

after lunch, you were to be back at 1.30, not 1.32.

10:09

I don't know that I ever did a course

10:11

that there weren't people that came back, especially

10:14

from those meal breaks, late. What

10:17

they were trying to get across is that

10:19

we don't honor what we say we

10:21

will do. So what they were setting

10:23

up was that you had to work things around

10:26

so that you could be back in time. And

10:28

the deal was, if you weren't back in time, or

10:30

let's say you're caught in traffic, you just

10:32

had to call and reset the deal.

10:35

Hey, we're caught in traffic 20 minutes,

10:37

extra. Okay, great, thank you. Well,

10:40

see that reset the expectation

10:42

or at least the delivery of your word. Something

10:45

happened, life happened. But think about this,

10:47

think about it this way, related

10:49

to when we try to bend things around

10:52

a little bit. You guys know that I've learned

10:54

so much from observing and following

10:56

Fred Dodson and narrating the audio books

10:58

and everything. But one of the greater

11:01

non-Fred lessons that I learned

11:03

came from Steve Forrest narrating those

11:05

audio books for him about

11:07

astrology, where he said that here

11:10

is your path reflected on that chart.

11:13

And then as you take off into life,

11:16

life itself, the plan itself

11:18

will create synchronicities

11:21

to guide us along our path for our

11:23

highest good, for our highest timeline.

11:26

So these are built in areas

11:29

of opportunity, conflict,

11:31

synchronicity to guide us on our

11:33

way. Well, if

11:35

we stretch the truth or if we

11:38

lie to get around it to avoid the

11:40

conflict or being found out or

11:42

whatever, then we just manipulated

11:45

our way right out of a good lesson, out

11:47

of a good synchronicity. Wow! So

11:49

the intention was let the chips fall

11:52

and then the lesson is in the reaction or

11:54

the fallout or whatever happens. But it's like,

11:56

wait a minute, I'm standing in the truth.

11:59

I'm standing in my truth. truth, the truth

12:01

of this situation, I'm sorry

12:03

that you don't like that, or I'm sorry that that

12:05

offends you, or that that makes you angry. And

12:07

then there is the opportunity to grow. And

12:10

maybe that person wasn't the person you

12:12

thought they were, and you don't want to be involved

12:15

with them anymore, and this just flushed it out.

12:17

Oh, thank you, universe! But if you

12:20

tiptoed around it, you're going to get more of

12:22

the same and drag the lesson out and

12:24

perhaps get hurt in the process. That's

12:26

a really cool thought, that in the

12:28

truth are these embedded lessons

12:31

that we're supposed to learn from the fallout

12:34

of just speak the truth and

12:36

let it happen. Now, the one point that I

12:38

did make was, nobody likes

12:41

somebody who just goes around firing off

12:43

truth bombs, right, all the time. Sometimes

12:45

the truth does hurt, and sometimes

12:47

it is sensitive, and we have to be

12:50

graceful and elegant and

12:52

sympathetic in how we communicate

12:55

it. The person who contacted me

12:57

was by email, and it was not a scathing

13:00

email. It was firm, but

13:02

not scathing. I thanked this

13:04

person and told them that I would

13:06

take a look at it, and I did. I changed

13:09

a lot, and it was a major pivot point.

13:11

But now I feel free to say

13:13

the way that I feel in a given situation,

13:16

or to state needs if you're in a relationship.

13:19

What do you need out of that relationship? And

13:21

I get it. If you are, let's say,

13:23

dependent on that person, as many people

13:26

are, often that one is dependent

13:28

on another for basic necessities,

13:31

if you will, and yet needs are not

13:33

being met, what do you do about that?

13:35

Do you voice it, or do you stuff it? This

13:38

is absolutely where

13:40

connecting with the voice that we talk

13:42

about so much on here, that's a situation

13:45

where it would be so important to have that

13:47

portal open, because there

13:49

is no blanket answer for such a situation.

13:52

You're reliant on a job, and yet you

13:54

know the company is dishonest. What do

13:56

you do? These are things that have to

13:58

be worked out with you and your soul. In

14:01

fact, looking outside of that construct,

14:03

you and your soul, your highest self,

14:05

is probably walking on some dangerous ground,

14:08

because what somebody's opinion is about

14:10

your situation in that kind of a deal

14:13

which we all have faced, we've all

14:15

been there, that's difficult.

14:17

You can apply general principles of

14:20

wisdom, but the ultimate answer needs

14:22

to come from within. This is

14:24

like, go to the book of Psalms we talk about

14:26

here on Sunday morning, that's David pouring

14:29

his heart out when he was being chased all over

14:31

the country there, being pursued,

14:34

fleeing for his life, and

14:36

crying out to God for help, and

14:39

he got it. Now

14:41

remember the TED Talk, let's come back to the

14:43

TED Talk. So this was something that was posted,

14:46

like I said, online, I found it dated July 2022,

14:49

no telling when it was given, but

14:52

Gary Brekke, I did just

14:54

look enough to see that he works in the health

14:56

arena and he's a big public speaker.

14:58

I found a couple of undergraduate degrees

15:01

in biology and that he is a biohack,

15:04

or works in biohack, whatever that is. Then

15:06

I was curious to know more about this study

15:09

because it sounded to me like levels of

15:11

energy. So here is somebody

15:13

who was on a big national stage

15:16

saying that authenticity is

15:19

a higher emotion than love. And

15:22

that kind of goes against something. So right

15:24

there I was like, hmm, interesting, even

15:26

in the Bible, the greatest of these is love.

15:30

So I did some digging on this. I found the TED

15:32

Talk and he says that this

15:34

study, the SPAN, S-P-A-N-E,

15:38

which stands for Scale of Positive

15:41

and Negative Experience, he

15:43

said that they got 25,000 people together in

15:46

a room and did this test on them.

15:51

Now, I

15:54

looked up the top basketball

15:56

arena seating capacities in the United

15:58

States because I'm thinking of it. thinking, where do you

16:00

put 25,000 people in a room? Now

16:04

he didn't say at the same time. Okay,

16:06

granted. Because the top four

16:08

basketball arenas that hold 20,000 people,

16:12

Chicago, Philly, Washington, D.C. and

16:14

Detroit, would not be big enough. At

16:16

least not for at one time. And

16:19

then it was measured that these emotions

16:21

that were coming out of the body,

16:23

and this is where reading

16:27

the comments got a little silly on this one

16:29

because they read what comes out of the body. And

16:31

they were like, well, gas. I

16:35

mean, be careful what you put out there. This

16:37

is the point. Be careful what you say because

16:39

this guy comes on there and says, yeah, we stuffed 25,000 people

16:43

into a room and we measured what comes

16:45

out of their body. Well, I mean, that's not

16:47

the best setup by any means. But

16:50

then you go look at the Spain

16:52

study and what you can find

16:55

about it is that it is a 12-question

16:58

questionnaire and it is highly scientific.

17:01

So it's not something that they're going to just be measuring

17:03

levels of energy kind of thing. Science

17:06

can't quantify love or authenticity.

17:09

And emotions like that are really,

17:11

I think, generated from our chakra

17:14

points in our body, from those areas,

17:16

from our heart, from our head, from our sacral

17:19

region, et cetera. So the point is

17:21

here is a guy who appears to be a public

17:24

speaker who is giving information

17:26

that cannot be at least easily

17:29

substantiated. I mean, the Spain

17:31

study is international. I found it in

17:33

the United States, Germany, and

17:35

China. You don't have to get 25,000 people

17:39

together in a basketball arena to

17:41

ask them 12 questions. And it was a

17:43

very scientifically reported out

17:46

study, nothing about measuring

17:48

the output of the body's energy. So

17:50

look, I have no idea what

17:52

Gary Breka's agenda was

17:55

or where he was getting his information. But

17:57

the point is to be completely authentic.

18:00

in this situation where you are

18:02

talking about authenticity, if

18:04

you're citing a study, there should have

18:06

been more substantiation of how

18:08

we all could have found it and learned

18:11

more about it. But instead, you

18:13

start digging under the covers and you find

18:15

out that it really doesn't look authentic

18:17

at all. But again, I don't know his

18:19

motivation or who he is. He

18:21

could be a huckster or he could be a saint. I

18:24

hope that he's doing good work in the world. And

18:27

the thing too is watch what you read online

18:29

because every, I would say about 90 something

18:33

percent of the comments were just

18:35

hook, line and sinker as though it was true.

18:37

And that's the other thing that we could do a whole other episode

18:40

on is how we filter

18:42

inbound information through

18:45

a true filter. We should take

18:47

that up. Note to self for future

18:49

episode, right? How can we use

18:51

our intuition and use our senses to

18:54

prevent getting hoodwinked? And then

18:56

what do you do about it? So in other words, you're

18:58

back now we're back full circle. Now you're in

19:00

the store and the clerk lies to

19:03

you about the product you're asking questions about

19:05

just boldly like all you would have to do

19:07

is check an Amazon review

19:09

and you'd find out that what they were telling you was wrong.

19:11

What do you do about that? Do you call them out

19:13

right there? Probably not.

19:16

But by not saying anything, the cycle will

19:18

surely repeat probably the next customer.

19:21

But there's our open pipeline to intuition

19:24

again, because a lot of times you'll just get

19:26

an intuitive bump. This is wrong.

19:28

Something's not right here. Something's not adding

19:31

up or they just they'll contradict

19:33

themselves like this, like this story

19:35

that sounds good and it's interesting.

19:37

It's compelling. It draws you in. But

19:39

then when you start looking at it, at least how

19:42

it was told doesn't add up or

19:44

you ask the clerk the question and the answer that

19:46

comes back, you just get this reaction. You

19:49

like, no. So

19:51

you say thank you. You walk

19:53

around the corner. You check the reviews from

19:55

other websites and you learn maybe

19:58

you better go home and do a little more research. before

20:00

you buy this, then you might save yourself

20:02

from making an expensive mistake. And

20:05

boy, I'm just seeing that for those of us

20:07

who want to play the A game and be on our highest

20:10

timeline, this whole thing

20:12

about just being completely open

20:15

and authentic, all the way through, including

20:17

our spiritual practice and the motivations

20:20

behind it, like we talked about last week, is

20:22

big stuff. I have a lot

20:25

going on in my personal life this

20:27

week and next, so I'm going to

20:29

go ahead and close this out. And

20:31

if you could find some nice soft

20:34

music that you enjoy, even

20:36

Ram Dass, I am loving awareness, that

20:38

would be great because that's a truth

20:41

kind of song, isn't it? I am loving awareness.

20:43

Wow, if I'm lovingly aware of everything

20:46

in love, then I'm going to be truthful

20:49

in love. And that's a good one, but you could

20:51

find your own music and take a few minutes

20:54

to spend some time thinking about this for yourself.

20:57

Take a look at it. Where are you? Maybe

21:00

even go into the bathroom or wherever you have

21:02

a mirror and look right in your

21:04

own eyes and see what you see

21:06

coming back. And I wish you the very best

21:09

on this part of the journey. You know, this is

21:11

so great that a team is

21:13

building of people that

21:15

are just knocking the cover

21:18

off the ball. And this is one

21:20

of those areas. Why have it in your way?

21:22

So easy to just make a decision. I'm

21:24

going to speak the truth in love. And

21:27

then I'm going to ride the synchronicities

21:29

into my next lesson. And speaking

21:31

of love, I love you and I'm

21:34

feeling really connected to you right now.

21:37

So I hope this message helps, whether

21:39

the main application is in your life or

21:41

the life of a family member, perhaps

21:44

a spouse, children, coworkers,

21:46

family, etc. It's there

21:48

somewhere. Thank you so much for listening

21:50

today and I'll see you next time on

21:52

the Subconscious Mind Mastering Podcast.

21:56

Enjoy the journey.

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22:10

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22:13

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