WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:28.679 Weird things happened. Weird, weird. Welcome to Bletsoe said, So, guys, 2 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.760 it's a pleasure to be here. I'm having fun. I 3 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.799 hope you're having fun. And if you're not, just asking yourself. 4 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.119 Far am I not having fun? And on a serious note, 5 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.880 I wanted to Alex is having a hard time recovering 6 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:49.359 from our pre show conversation. Pleasure to be here, you know, 7 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.320 I I am really enjoying getting back into the groove. 8 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:56.880 I want to give a special mention to everyone who 9 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.079 supports the show and shows us love and support and 10 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.840 kindness and helps us along the way and boosts us 11 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.040 up with likes and follows and subscribes and donations and 12 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.239 all of that stuff that keeps the wheel turning. That 13 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.560 I want to give a special mention to our supporters. 14 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:16.000 At the Light being Tier, we have the two who 15 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.040 shall not be named because they wish to be anonymous. 16 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.280 We have the Eperson's Chris and Danielle. Wonderful people. 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I wanted to say I had a thought 23 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:47.239 today and I was like, I want to bring this up. 24 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.239 At the beginning of the episode, I see that we're 25 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:53.439 getting a lot of comments that people are really enjoying 26 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:58.760 this Gnosticism series, and I want to stress that this 27 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:03.719 is not like, this is not like the Gnostics show, Like, yes, 28 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:10.280 I do consider myself. I don't like necessarily think we should. 29 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.639 It's one thing like if you're a part of something 30 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.599 like you know, I'm a Southern Baptist, Like, okay, you 31 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:19.800 know it's okay to say that, you know, you go 32 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.120 to a church and your Southern Baptist. That's totally fine. 33 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.280 But I'm I don't necessarily like to restrict myself with 34 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.400 labels like I am a More generally speaking, I am 35 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.840 a Christian, I am a Democrat, I'm a Republican, I 36 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:35.240 am an atheist, I am a blank, I am a blank. 37 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.960 I try I try to remind myself, because it's natural 38 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.400 for the human mind to compartmentalize things. I try to 39 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:47.240 remind myself not to hold myself under labels so as 40 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.840 my friend and mentor Jeff told me, you know, we're 41 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:56.080 not capital g gnostics, were little g gnostics. So I'm like, 42 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.599 I like that. You know, it did kind of look 43 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:59.120 like a G, didn't it. Is it backwards? That was 44 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.599 a good job. No, that's perfect. Yeah, I'm pretty sure 45 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:04.360 the G goes that way. Well, I'm confused because I'm 46 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:05.639 doing it with my right hand, but I'm looking at 47 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.560 the monitor in it's backwards. I think it's right, that's right. 48 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.199 My brain's twisted. I'm not a capital Gennostic. I'm a 49 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:16.560 little genostic, which essentially means, you know, you have the 50 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.639 the the understanding that your connection with God is personal. 51 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:28.400 It's not dogmatic, it is not it's not strictly adhering 52 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:35.560 to a certain religious brand or sect or rigid restrictive 53 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:42.039 structure that you. To be a Gnostic means not necessarily, Oh, 54 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.960 I'm a Valentinian Gnostic, or I'm a Sethian gnostic, or 55 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.199 I'm a you know, whatever the other ones are. I'm 56 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:48.599 not sure at the moment. That's the only two I 57 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:53.560 know off top of I had Sethians and Valentinians. To me, 58 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.879 being a Gnostic means things I've talked about before. You're 59 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.599 somewhat of a spiritual scientist that you are. You are 60 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.360 using what is real, what is practical. You're only interested 61 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:08.639 in what's real. So what's real and not real? Okay? 62 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.960 You know lighte language? People are like, I love my 63 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.279 light language, and I'm like, you know, I don't. I 64 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:22.000 don't know about that one. You know what I'm talking about. 65 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.879 You know exactly what I'm talking about. Going, don't cut it, man, 66 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.800 come on, he's over there taking notes. I stand by 67 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.040 this that people are like, come up to you at conferences, 68 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.040 you know there, I say, I've never been to burning man. 69 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.720 Yeah, but I've met some of these people and they're great. 70 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.279 They may be, but that doesn't mean that it's real. 71 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.639 That does not mean that it's real. Well, okay, real. 72 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.399 I go into a channeling at night and I speak 73 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:52.879 to the mantids like, okay, well, I don't have any 74 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.360 evidence of this or any but what I do have 75 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.000 evidence of is speaking from the heart, speaking with love, 76 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.879 you know, the way of the heart. The christ like mindset, 77 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:06.759 and orbs of light visibly appear for a thousand people 78 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.399 or more. If there were more people, I'm willing to 79 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.879 believe I bet. I bet if there were ten thousand people, 80 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:14.160 or if there were twenty, or if there were one 81 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.040 hundred thousand people, they would still show because they're real 82 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.319 and you know, with the residents of the group. And 83 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.639 it's like when Jesus said, when two or three are 84 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:26.360 gathered in my name, I will be among them. But 85 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.399 I'm digressing. I'm interested in what's real. I'm not interested 86 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.839 in what's not real. I'm not interested in trends. I'm 87 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:40.879 not interested in being a pop century. You know, I 88 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.319 don't want to throw too many shots. But everyone's into 89 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:48.680 like you know, I'm an astrology witch who does this 90 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.959 with crystals and the human design. And they will do 91 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.160 all of these spiritual things except talk about like you know, 92 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:02.439 Christ or you know something that. Okay, let me, let 93 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:04.800 me back this up. There is a push in the 94 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:10.680 spiritual world that is be in no way seeking to 95 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:14.399 better yourself or to evolve, that you use your spiritual 96 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:18.399 abilities or powers to manifest whatever you desire. It could 97 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.759 be money, it could be sex, it could be a 98 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.240 love potion spell on somebody. It could be you know, 99 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:28.160 YadA YadA YadA thing for personal gain. That's what I 100 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.519 am not for. I'm not I'm not for I'm for truth. 101 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.600 A gnostic believes in truth. A gnostic believes that, you know, 102 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.199 our connection to God is personal, but it is based 103 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.680 on what is real. If it's like spiritual science, we 104 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.639 know that certain things are real and certain things or not. 105 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:49.279 You know, so the again, what does it mean? Am 106 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:51.879 I agnostic? Maybe? Yeah, maybe the little G but not 107 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.160 big G. I have the basic belief, but I don't 108 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:59.160 necessarily adhere to a section. So not believing in Jesus 109 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:05.399 Christ necessarily literally as a dogmatic god that you know, 110 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.160 there's a thumb on your soul that says you're going 111 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.040 to burn in hell if you don't see the magic phrase. 112 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.800 But it's more so like you seek to hold the 113 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:20.519 or you seek to embody the dare I say New 114 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:25.240 Age word the frequency of Christ within you? You know, 115 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:29.480 So it's just connection to God is God Krishna maybe 116 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.480 so I don't care if that's his name or not. 117 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.800 You know, what I care is that it's God. Do 118 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:40.800 I care if it's Yahweh? Do I care if it's Apollo. 119 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:42.920 I don't care about the name. I don't care about 120 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.399 the label. I care about what's real. I care about 121 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.360 not necessarily what's on a piece of paper. I care 122 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.639 about what I feel, what I interact with with my 123 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.759 five senses, and beyond. That's the point I'm trying to make. 124 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.439 I kind of floundered through that a little bit. But 125 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.639 so this is not the Gnostic show. I'm very hot 126 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.439 on this subject right now. It is something that I 127 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.920 see myself being very you know, connected to, and it 128 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.800 fascinates me. And I'm just moving through it, and I'm 129 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:11.360 looking through these texts and I'm finding a lot of 130 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.279 wisdom in them. And I've always thought of Bloodsoe said, 131 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:20.519 so as somewhat of a like I would say, like thematically, 132 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:25.000 like a mystery school. Before I started this podcast, before 133 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:27.240 Alex and I agreed we were going to do this, 134 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.399 before it became like a big thing, and I was 135 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:34.000 on my own, I thought to myself, I want to 136 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.759 write a book and I want to call it Demystifying 137 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.720 the Occult, and I want to do very deep dives 138 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:46.200 into esoteric symbolism and you know, dispelling them very simply 139 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.320 and easy for people to understand. And then of course 140 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.240 I google it and it's already a book called Demons 141 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.759 Finding a Cult, and I'm like crap, and then the 142 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:55.840 podcast fill into place. So I've always had this thing 143 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.519 in my brain that's like, take these high level concepts 144 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.519 and distill them down into very simple and easy to 145 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:07.759 understand concepts, you know. And it used to be when 146 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:13.440 we first started this show that there was this notion 147 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:15.399 that like, once we hit a topic, we had to 148 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.240 move on and we couldn't come back to that. And 149 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.879 it's not that this was spoken out loud, it just happened. 150 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.320 So like, let's say I did an episode on gnosticism, 151 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.559 we want to do another episode on gnosticism, maybe even 152 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:32.039 that year, right, or it would be like, uh, let's 153 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:38.240 do one on I don't know, angels. We we would 154 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.519 way move on from that and just speed through topics 155 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.000 and hit them at a very surface level. Do you remember. 156 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.720 We would not really hover on things, and it was 157 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:48.639 very surface level. And I always thought, some day I'm 158 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:50.240 going to go deeper. Some day I'm going to go deeper. 159 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.720 And in the last year the show has gone through 160 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.360 a great evolution. I've gone through some great trials and 161 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.679 some things that have you know, really rocked my world, 162 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.279 and I just thought to myself, you know, oh, namely 163 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.200 of course, it was you know, the birth of my 164 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.000 son and how traumatic that was, and I just had 165 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.080 this snap in my brain. I said, you know what, 166 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.440 if I'm going to keep doing this, if I'm going 167 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:16.200 to keep consistently putting this out there to the world 168 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.679 and like continuing to do this thing, it has turned 169 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.720 into this thing we're now. It's like so far, we're 170 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:25.960 so far deep in this. It's like, you know, five 171 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.080 years ago, we're like, Wow, what a dream it would 172 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.679 be if you know, we could do this full time someday. 173 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.440 And now it's like five years to the week that 174 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:38.159 we started the show, and of sense, we're relying on 175 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.559 this thing because Alex's last day at his job is 176 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:46.600 the same day, five years to the week. And the 177 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:49.519 reason it's his last day at his job is because 178 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:53.440 we decided, you know what this thing is, it's full time. 179 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.720 It's worth it. So it's like, now we're so far 180 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.039 in this. It's like conferences are calling and they're like, 181 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:00.519 we want to fly you out and do speeches, and 182 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.679 it's like, oh my god, Like this is a this 183 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.360 is a wheel that just keeps turning. Now it's it's 184 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.679 bigger than just a fun project. It's real. It was 185 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.759 always real because we hit record, and we hit publish, 186 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.600 and you know, once you do that, it's real. But 187 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.320 but now it's real real, and it's like I had 188 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.240 this honest conversation with myself and I was like, if 189 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:20.840 I'm going to continue to do this, it has to 190 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.399 be fun for me. It has to be something that 191 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.279 I enjoy. It has to be something that excites me, 192 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:32.000 because I had a lot of anxiety for many years 193 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:37.240 forcing myself to study so many different and somewhat unconnected 194 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:43.240 topics at a very surface level, whereas I'm very much 195 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:50.519 enjoying taking a broad subject like gnosticism and spending weeks, 196 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.440 if not months, finally dissecting it with a fine tooth 197 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.840 comb and going through all of these different texts that 198 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.000 you know, comprise this system. So I say all this 199 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.799 to say, you know, leave a comment, or if you're 200 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.840 enjoying the gnosticism thing, do you want me to keep 201 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:11.240 going in this direction? Or I'm not going to necessarily 202 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.519 even say you can say I can take a break 203 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.120 because I'm still going to do what I want to do. 204 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.720 But it's like, are you getting tired of it? 205 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:17.759 You know? 206 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.120 But I'm enjoying it. 207 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.080 I am learning a lot good and I really appreciate 208 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.399 going deeper because I didn't think about it until you 209 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.840 kind of brought it up there. How we would pick 210 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:34.559 umbrella topics, go over it at a very surface level, 211 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:38.159 skim the top, and move on. And while those episodes 212 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.039 are fun and they're probably still worth listening to, it 213 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:45.080 wasn't fulfilling for me, right, but also getting into the weeds, 214 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:50.919 I'm actually learning, whereas I wasn't learning as much in 215 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:51.720 those last ones. 216 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.840 So cool, good job, thank you. So for the first 217 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.080 four years, it was like every week I had to 218 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:00.279 come up with some new idea and we would have 219 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.559 to have a vote on what we talk about. And 220 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.519 it was like I would necessarily sometimes and this isn't 221 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:07.799 like a bad thing, this isn't a complaint. It worked, 222 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.440 but for me, it didn't fully work, and I'm grateful 223 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.039 now that it can be, you know, more so what 224 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:14.639 I wanted to be. But it would be like I 225 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.799 would bring up something and it's like, yeah, but we 226 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.759 just talked about that three months ago, and it's like, oh, 227 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.799 all right, you know what I mean. So I've been 228 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.960 doing the gnostic thing for a while. It's not forever, 229 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.519 but there's more to go. There's more where I want 230 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.919 to go. I already know like the next four or 231 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:36.519 five books that I want to talk about, not counting Tonight's. 232 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.799 Well what I find really fascinating. And I don't think 233 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.919 we've come out and pretty much explain this, but you, 234 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:47.360 the viewer and the listener are in real time just 235 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:51.960 keeping up with the research that Ryan's doing currently, and like, 236 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.840 this isn't for a research paper, this isn't for anything 237 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:59.480 other than he purely loves to get into this material. 238 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.840 So whatever material or whatever is on his mind at 239 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.399 the moment is now what's coming to the show, and 240 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.480 it just happens to be all these incredible texts. 241 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.080 So yeah, so I say all that to say, it's 242 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:13.480 kind of like a book club, but you're the only 243 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.440 one reading the book. Yeah that's true. Well, really it's 244 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.279 a lot of books. It's a lot of it's they're 245 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.559 more like gospels, you know. But I know I know 246 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.759 the pathways where I intend to go next after Gnostssism, 247 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.639 And I was like, do I take a break from Nasism? 248 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.039 And I really don't want to fall off this train 249 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:33.080 right now unless if people were really hating it that bad, 250 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.159 you know, then I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't want 251 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.919 to torture Anyboddy, but I want to branch more into 252 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.919 things like and I would want to do both. I'm 253 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.720 not necessarily sure of the order, but I'm thinking, you know, 254 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:49.200 some sort of like Korea Tibetan. I know they're not 255 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.320 the same thing, but they're like Eastern lineages of mysticism, 256 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.440 Yoga Buddhism, like Tibetan Buddhism, Korea, or I would go 257 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.080 another direction and then hit that other one after of 258 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:03.399 like her Metic and Egyptian tradition. 259 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.240 Someone left you a comment about getting into autobiography of Yogi. 260 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.039 I know I thought that was that's that's the Krea thing. 261 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.519 That's that's where that angle would be. I know I've 262 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.960 said recently I want to do that. In the epersence 263 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.840 who I shouted out in the in the beginning of 264 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.080 the episode, his Chris's dad is a Krea, a monk. 265 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.639 I don't know if you had the chance to meet 266 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.039 a wonderful guy, so such a very lovely soul. And 267 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:34.200 I I've met enough people that have been involved with 268 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.480 like the SRF and CREA, and I know that it's real. 269 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.000 I know I know that I know that it's real. 270 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.039 I know that it's significant and it's something that's like 271 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.240 calling me to get deeper into it. But like by 272 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.720 the nature of my podcast and like how this is 273 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.200 somewhat demanding mentally, and you know, all my time and 274 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.200 we travel a lot, and it has to be like 275 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.120 on my desk at the moment, so to speak, like 276 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.120 it has to be you know, kind of like topically 277 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.080 related to what I'm doing at the moment for me 278 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:58.639 to really like dive deep and pay attention. 279 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.600 But hey, everybody, this is Alex of Bledsoe said. So 280 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.519 if you've been following the show for a little while, 281 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.919 you'd know that I just had a child and this 282 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.799 has been one of the most life changing experiences that 283 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.480 I've ever been through. However, it has made me way busier. 284 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.480 And I'm sure many of you out there are parents, 285 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.879 and many of you out there are busy. But just 286 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:19.840 because you're busy, it doesn't mean that your spiritual exploration 287 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.039 and your meditative practice has to suffer. That's why I'm 288 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.480 so excited to tell you about the brand new offering 289 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.759 from the Monroe Institute. 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So 297 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.519 if you go to the Monroe Institute dot org again, 298 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:59.759 that's Monroe Institute dot org and use code BSS at checkout, 299 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.519 you get an additional discount Monroe Institute dot org use 300 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:06.440 code b SS at checkout. 301 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.039 Yeah. Yeah, So those are the pathways I'm looking forward 302 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:10.640 to getting into next. I just wanted to do a 303 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.160 little aside because I know it's been a month or 304 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:15.759 two that we've been talking about gnossism again. It's like 305 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.119 the comments are like loving it, this is great. But 306 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:19.359 I just have a thought today, I'm like, let me 307 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.160 check in with the listeners and see if they're really 308 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:25.039 enjoying this. This is kind of like what I've always 309 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.319 intended for the show to be. But I want to 310 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:31.680 stress one more time, not just gnosticism, but the idea 311 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.039 that I can take my time on whatever topic it 312 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.720 is that I'm really enjoying and sort of hover there. 313 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:41.759 And instead of saying, here's gnosticism and then talk about 314 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.119 it very surface level and then move on and I 315 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.839 hit it for another year, I can say here's gnostissism, 316 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:48.559 and they do like a whole series, you know, hitting 317 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:50.640 every little book like I have been doing. Okay, next 318 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:52.559 it's for medicism and I can do an episode on 319 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.119 the Emerald tablets and I can do you know, the 320 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:57.640 Divine Pimander, I can do the corpus or medicom. I 321 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:01.160 could do you know xyz talk about the Phlosopher's Stone, 322 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:04.680 alchemy and you know, all that stuff, and spend more 323 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.880 time because an hour is not enough. I always felt 324 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.640 like this was somewhat surface level like and that might 325 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:13.759 be a shock to some people, but you know, it's 326 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.599 just one hour is never enough for any good topic 327 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.440 in my opinion. So and I want to stress again, 328 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:26.599 if you are someone who let me say this, we 329 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.680 create reality with our thoughts. If it takes for you 330 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:35.240 to be an astrology which or whatever you know, joke 331 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.319 or whatever I will say, admittedly lighthearted joke. I have 332 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.559 many friends who are into very many things. I'm into 333 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.160 weird things, everybody's into weird things. I don't think there's 334 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.319 anything wrong with people being into the I don't think 335 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.359 there's anything wrong with going to the Renaissance fair and 336 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:51.480 dressing as an elf or or or a night or 337 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.079 a wizard. I don't think there's anything wrong with if 338 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.319 you believe that having a crystal crown and you know, 339 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.319 like a staff at a UFO conference helps you feel 340 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.799 connected to God, there's nothing wrong with that. I am 341 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.359 very lightly joking about things that I see, and I'm like, 342 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.559 you know, come on, guys, get real here, and I 343 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.400 shouldn't do that. I shouldn't. I shouldn't, you know, make 344 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:17.279 jobs like that. But when I say what's real, I 345 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.119 think we can all agree that there are things in 346 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.039 this world that get results and things that do not. 347 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.640 And there is objective good morality and objective bad morality, 348 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:34.720 spiritual law, and then you know the opposite of spiritual 349 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.559 law being in harmony with the laws of creation and 350 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:41.160 the Creator. So that's what gnostics are. That's that's what 351 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:42.960 I would say I am. But being a Gnostic doesn't 352 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:45.119 mean you can't be a Christian being a gnostic, it's 353 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.000 not a religion. If you are a gnostic. You can 354 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.759 be a Muslim. If you are a gnostic, you can 355 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:55.559 be you know, a Hindu or whatever. It's not exclusive. 356 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.599 That's that's the whole point that I was trying to make. 357 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.960 That you know, it just means that you are somewhat 358 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.240 of a spiritual scientist, that you believe that your connection 359 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.799 to God is not controlled by anything outside of you. 360 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:14.799 But let's get real. Let's talk about the truth that 361 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:20.160 does include Christ. And if you are someone this was 362 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.720 my whole point, if you are willing to do all 363 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:27.119 of these other things like the crystals, or you know, 364 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:32.000 stuff like Ouiji boards or seances or automatic writing or 365 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:41.039 you know, psionics to do an ORB the government's neurolinguistic 366 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:46.000 programming version, or i mean anything remote viewing, et cetera, 367 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.240 et cetera, et cetera. If you are somebody who is 368 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:53.880 willing to do all these things, but you reject or 369 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:02.920 mock the notion that Christ brought truth to the world 370 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.359 and is a real force and a real power and 371 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:09.119 has you know, there are people that like when you 372 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:12.559 say the name Christ or the name Jesus, they hate 373 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:15.920 it because they have a memory of, Oh, that person 374 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:17.640 that was in front of me in line at Walmart 375 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.319 was a Christian and they gave me a weird look, 376 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.839 and now I hate all Christians. Or they said a 377 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.519 comment you know that hurt their feelings, and now they 378 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:26.839 hate all Christians. So there are people in this world 379 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:33.559 who mock or reject the notion of Christ just because 380 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:35.680 of some really stupid belief. So if you're willing to 381 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.720 look into all these other things, but then you reject 382 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:45.079 the truth of Christ, then I think that you sure 383 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.799 you know you're spiritual, but you don't have it all 384 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.519 figured out. I surely don't have it all figured out, 385 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.920 but I have that figured out, which is that all 386 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.759 of these ancient societies, the big ones, the cord it ones. 387 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.880 Of course, there are bad ones. There are Satanic ones 388 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:07.680 like you know, Temple Upset and stuff like that. But 389 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:17.440 the good ones like the Knights, Templar, the Rosicrucians. I mean, 390 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:19.960 there's like a bunch of them that I'm sitting here 391 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.119 thinking like should I say that they they have it? 392 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:26.960 They know, they all universally know the same thing that 393 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:32.039 the the the the way to enlightenment. You can read 394 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:33.960 the writings of Manly P. Hall. You can read the 395 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:38.279 writings of freaking all of the ancients, all of the 396 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:44.640 alchemical philosophers, the gnostics, the Hermetic texts, the Bible, you know, 397 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.920 the Bagavad Gita you can read. I don't know what 398 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.599 the text for Buddhism are necessarily called, because I'm admittedly 399 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:55.480 not that first in Buddhism, but the Buddha speaks of this. Uh. 400 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:58.160 You know, all of these ancient teachers had this same 401 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:03.359