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Speaker 1: Let's kind of discuss some of the mind viruses, you know,
Speaker 1: and the spiritual warfare that's kind of like thrown at
Speaker 1: us on a daily basis in societal maya, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's quite a few mind viruses out there, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'll say, I'll say the victim mentality and
Speaker 1: cancel culture is one. So if you don't mind, just
Speaker 1: kind of give us a little bit of a highlight
Speaker 1: of what you were talking about in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, for one, I think it's we're
Speaker 2: kind of in a place where everyone is constantly attacking
Speaker 2: everybody else all the time.
Speaker 1: And what I was.
Speaker 2: Talking about in my video is that we have this
Speaker 2: collective shame that we just have not dealt with. And
Speaker 2: for a lot of people, it's religious shame. But then
Speaker 2: there's also shame where if you say, you grow up
Speaker 2: and you have parents that are are very woke or something,
Speaker 2: and they're telling you that it's bad that you have
Speaker 2: white skin, and then you're internalizing this and so it's
Speaker 2: I think that on either side, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 2: if it's left or right, there are going to be
Speaker 2: some manifestations of shame that are coming up in people.
Speaker 2: And so what is happening is we've learned that shame
Speaker 2: is unsafe within society. We've learned that it's if something
Speaker 2: is shameful, it means we're going to be cast out
Speaker 2: from the tribe. And this is kind of an evolutionary
Speaker 2: instinct that we have within us to know that, you know,
Speaker 2: if this if we were cave people and the tribe
Speaker 2: cast us out, then we we're not going to have
Speaker 2: access to shelter, We're not going to have access to food,
Speaker 2: maybe not to water, to community or safety. And so
Speaker 2: this instinct still exists within our nervous systems. And what
Speaker 2: ends up happening is that we have learned that this
Speaker 2: is kind of like this game of hot potato, where
Speaker 2: if I have this thing about me that society considers shameful,
Speaker 2: I can either leverage it to be a victim permanently
Speaker 2: so that I can kind of manipulate the situation around
Speaker 2: me in my favor. So this would be like if
Speaker 2: I were to walk around all the time saying that
Speaker 2: I deserve special treatment because I'm a lesbian and then
Speaker 2: I'm refusing to heal from the conversion therapy and things
Speaker 2: that I went through because I actually want to use
Speaker 2: that to emotionally weaponize against other people to kind of
Speaker 2: get what I want. Or the other side of that
Speaker 2: is I'm not going to hold the shame and have
Speaker 2: this victim mentality manifest that way. I'm actually going to
Speaker 2: manifest it by throwing it like a hot potato onto
Speaker 2: someone else and forcing them to receive it as this
Speaker 2: kind of collective scapegoat. And so then they are collectively
Speaker 2: receiving the shame in this kind of really sick Orwellian
Speaker 2: mass ritual where it ends up really being like the
Speaker 2: two minute Hate in nineteen eighty four, where everybody is
Speaker 2: projecting so much hatred and energy at a specific person
Speaker 2: and then we feel relieved. Right collectively, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: we have publicly shamed this person, We've put them to shame,
Speaker 2: we have said that they are unworthy for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: and we're not actually creating the change that we think
Speaker 2: that we're changing. We're just kind of putting the spotlight
Speaker 2: on one individual because it makes us feel like we're
Speaker 2: getting something done. And so we're either a victim in
Speaker 2: the sense of I'm going to leverage this into identity
Speaker 2: politics to try and get whatever I want that way,
Speaker 2: or I'm going to be a victim of you, this
Speaker 2: random individual who has said an opinion that I disagree
Speaker 2: with or tweeted something in twenty fourteen that was offensive
Speaker 2: to me. And now I'm going to hot potato this
Speaker 2: shame onto you, and everybody's going to do it collective
Speaker 2: so that we don't have to face it within ourselves
Speaker 2: and actually look at where we are at a deficit
Speaker 2: within society.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love what you just said, and I have
Speaker 1: something I want to say that but real quick, a
Speaker 1: couple of things from the audience, So we have Phil
Speaker 1: came in cosmic voice said, in referring to the addiction
Speaker 1: aspect of our evolution, I believe this also we forgot
Speaker 1: that we are a fragment of Creator God. Definitely agree
Speaker 1: with you there, Phil. And then Don Rogers from our
Speaker 1: Sword Productions wanted to ask what would you suggest to
Speaker 1: help people with phantom guilt and shame the residual emotions
Speaker 1: feel trauma guilt that no longer exists, but the situational
Speaker 1: somatic response still occurs.
Speaker 2: That's a really good question and a lot of it
Speaker 2: has to do with rewiring our neurotransmitters to to feel
Speaker 2: a sense of felt safety within the body, because it's
Speaker 2: kind of like this programming that, as you know, exists
Speaker 2: when we're exposed to something again and again and again,
Speaker 2: and then the body starts to brace forward and say
Speaker 2: this is actually unsafe or there's something wrong here, even
Speaker 2: if that doesn't resonate with our values or how we
Speaker 2: actually feel about something. And so my personal practice with this,
Speaker 2: because I've had this come up with a lot of
Speaker 2: different things in my life, is to try and build
Speaker 2: a relationship with my body where I feel safe in
Speaker 2: the circumstances by exposing myself to them in a way
Speaker 2: where I'm present with myself and I'm kind of telling
Speaker 2: myself beforehand, I'm going to go and expose myself to
Speaker 2: this thing. But what I do is I talk to
Speaker 2: myself the way that I would speak to a little
Speaker 2: child that's scared. Because when we want to engage with
Speaker 2: the nervous system, the unconscious elements within the nervous system,
Speaker 2: that's really what we're engaging with. We're engaging with the
Speaker 2: part of ourselves that stayed frozen in time at this
Speaker 2: specific age where the shame was kind of built up
Speaker 2: as this eggregor within us. And so we want to
Speaker 2: go back in time and minister to this little child
Speaker 2: within us and let them know that they're safe in
Speaker 2: this experience, and then expose ourselves to it in very
Speaker 2: small ways, because if we put ourselves into it too
Speaker 2: quickly or in a way that's too broad, we're going
Speaker 2: to completely re traumatize ourselves most of the time. And
Speaker 2: also just in general, I think that creating an atmosphere
Speaker 2: of safety within our own bodies means that we speak
Speaker 2: up about the things that matter to us. We're not
Speaker 2: suppressing that voice because the inner child is going to
Speaker 2: have felt I couldn't speak up back then when I
Speaker 2: was shamed. I didn't have a voice. I couldn't share
Speaker 2: these parts of myself but are really important and really valuable.
Speaker 2: And so giving those aspects of us a voice when
Speaker 2: they didn't have one before, honoring our boundaries when we
Speaker 2: don't want to speak to a certain person, not out
Speaker 2: of shame, but because the body knows it's not beneficial,
Speaker 2: it's not going to actually help us, it won't be
Speaker 2: edifying to anybody involved. And kind of learning how to navigate.
Speaker 2: I'm going to create an environment of self trust within
Speaker 2: my body so that even if something feels threatening, my
Speaker 2: body is not responding that way because it trusts me
Speaker 2: to listen to its initial cues and to walk away
Speaker 2: from something if it's not going to be healthy or beneficial.
Speaker 2: But it's also it's also kind of building the resilience
Speaker 2: and capacity to sometimes be in uncomfortable situations that will
Speaker 2: trigger certain things. But we're doing it intentionally, we're doing
Speaker 2: it consciously.
Speaker 1: I really like that. And I want to continue to
Speaker 1: talk about Shane, but I want to ask you this
Speaker 1: as a personal question too, because this is a huge
Speaker 1: reason why I am a such I'm a Cundalini yoga practitioner,
Speaker 1: and this is a huge reason why I do Cudalini
Speaker 1: yoga because it actually Don Don was saying, great answer,
Speaker 1: thank you, good peer gold advice. And but that's what
Speaker 1: it does. It actually, what Kundalini kreas do is it
Speaker 1: puts you through a controlled trauma response. It does, and
Speaker 1: it puts you in a controlled setting where you're almost
Speaker 1: pushing the body through a trauma response. And also what
Speaker 1: it's doing is it's opening up that fascia it's it's
Speaker 1: starting to open the fascia. It's starting to release that
Speaker 1: stored energy from that trauma. And it's actually what it's
Speaker 1: doing is it's almost in some ways it's alchemizing it.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's alchemizing it to be used for a
Speaker 1: higher purpose. So, like, I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: had any experiences with any kind of internal alchemy and
Speaker 1: if this has potentially like you know, helped you overcome anything,
Speaker 1: or you've recommended it to people, because I know in
Speaker 1: mystic with when it comes to mystic Christian, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge believer that Jesus was a creed yogi.
Speaker 1: I mean you you you look you look at uh
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, Mahamara Bob as you talked about him
Speaker 1: in the texts. Man, he's even at the Yoga Nanda
Speaker 1: Institute as as to create yoga master, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So, like I do, I'm just wondering maybe
Speaker 1: if in your your life, have you ever come across
Speaker 1: something like this that has helped you or helped others?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all the time. And I mean I I
Speaker 2: feel that I often have very somatic meditation experiences where
Speaker 2: it's and I also practice medical intuition too, and so
Speaker 2: that this kind of ties into my experiences where I
Speaker 2: can compare it to to missus, Miss Frizzle from the school, Yes,
Speaker 2: magical school school. Like I, I go inside of I'm
Speaker 2: inside of myself in this way that I don't know
Speaker 2: how to explain. And if I'm doing a medical intuition
Speaker 2: reading on another person, that I'm doing this hands on
Speaker 2: with them