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The Warrior

Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect, and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile religion with the scientific theory of evolution. In this timeless book (originally titled “The Human Phenomenon” in French), Teilhard argues that just as living organisms sprung from inorganic matter and evolved into ever more complex thinking beings, humans are evolving toward an “omega point”—defined by Teilhard as a convergence with the Divine.

Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book, and she walked around the desk and put the book right beside me. It was Autobiography of a Yogi. Now, if somebody had given that to me two weeks before, I'd have looked at it and I'd just tossed it. Well, obviously, very different relation. And I was reading The Phenomenon of Man by Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. And this was all really cool and wonderful, but there wasn't anything that could be measured.

I somehow, at some level, knew I was going to be working with weird stuff, and I figured maybe if I got a PhD in psychology, I'd have somebody's stamp of approval on my rational mind so I could maybe get away with it, maybe help others. So I registered for grad school. They really liked me and they gave me a full scholarship and a stipend to live on. But I applied for a predoctoral fellowship from NIMH to go back to San Francisco and do my doctoral work with Joe Kamiya in his lab, which is pretty good thing I did that. It came through just as I got my master's degree.

I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color. It was a painting and design teacher. Her students had made the signs that had attracted my attention. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book. It was Autobiography of a Yogi. Now, if somebody had given that to me two weeks before, I'd have looked at it and I'd just tossed it.

Oftentimes people will come to Biocybernaut and they might want something like relief from insomnia, relief from the constant worry, elimination of a depression that's been with them for 50 years. So that's the reason for coming. And so what we've learned is that when you change the brain waves, you change your consciousness, you change your experiences. And in the process, they may have experiences like out-of-body experiences. And so then something that they would never have been interested in before now becomes a passion, might even become a life purpose. Chief Willie Littlechild said, if you have been abused and you haven't forgiven, you will become an abuser. So when everybody's forgiven, there aren't any abusers left. And wow, now we're talking golden age for all humanity.

I was in my senior year of a bachelor's degree in physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. And I came out of the student union after lunch to be greeted by this really large hand-painted sign where every letter was a slightly different color, and it said Dr. Joe Kamiya will talk on brain waves and consciousness. I didn't have a class that hour, so I went. I was the only one from the engineering college that was there. And so Dr. Kamiya was talking about his incredible work. And so there's Joe Kamiya saying, oh well, these high states of consciousness have high alpha. So the rest of my senior year, every spare minute was spent in the library learning everything I could. I had this big stack of reprints, and I had read through that three times before I graduated, at which point I jumped on my Triumph motorcycle and headed for San Francisco to hang out with Joe Kamiya.

It's to reduce suffering and to expand awareness and to help usher in an enduring golden age for all humanity. To have as a vocation to make this experience available to everyone is far more than what those words describe. He made a $6 million scholarship fund to train people from his company and also to train over 200 Canadian Aboriginals. At one point, Chief Willie Littlechild, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Canadian National Parliament, invited me to speak at the United Nations in Geneva at the Aboriginal intersection about the work. I actually had to come up with a new word. Contagion is the transmission of something bad, and protagen is the transmission of good qualities. Protagenous. When people are living from their purpose, they're happier, and the people around them are happier. They're not creating trauma.

Oh, there were endless roadblocks along the way in this. Professors in my psych department, many of them were rat runners. They were behaviorists. They didn't believe in experience. They didn't believe in consciousness. So they didn't like me. They hated my guts. I wanted to do brainwave training there. Permission to use the electrophysiologic equipment denied. Nobody who's interested in consciousness, he wrote, could possibly be serious about pursuing a degree in physiological psychology. However, if you will abandon this nonsense and submit to me, I will design a program of research which will lead to a PhD. And I looked at it, I almost laughed. My thesis advisor scheduled my public defense for a time when the two most hostile professors were leading seminars and were not able to attend, and so they sent hostile questions, but you answer the question and then there's no hostile follow-up.

While Neurofeedback is only beginning to receive mainstream attention, many people I speak with are surprised to learn that Neurofeedback has been around for more than 50 years. Back in the 1960s, Dr. Joe Kamiya conducted a study using EEG sensors paired with a simple reward system to determine whether people could learn to change […]

There's Dr. Joe Kamiya talking about his incredible work. He is the human who, in 1962, reported that humans, when given feedback, could voluntarily control their own alpha brain waves. I had a dear friend who was a grad student at Duquesne University. They had a bunch of French priests in, followers of Merleau-Ponty, the father of phenomenology. And they were teaching how to study the structure of consciousness. So I walk up the hill and enter Ralph's house. He sees me, he sees I'm completely different, and he goes, sit down, and he takes one arm and he sweeps everything off his desk. Sit down. And then he folds his hands, puts his elbow on the desk, and he says, okay, tell me what's happened to you. At the end, Ralph folds his hands and he leans forward, and a little twinkle in his eye, he says, we could do that here. Midway through, a neighbor lady came in from the house next door. She stood respectfully in the distance listening to what I was saying. Then she left and she came back with a book, and she walked around the desk and put the book right beside me. It was Autobiography of a Yogi.

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And so there's Dr. Joe Kamiya talking about this. He had stumbled upon this really quite accidentally. He was doing sleep research. He kind of had a hunch that somehow his feedback of, oh, there was just an alpha wave, somehow contributed to there being another. And so there was a lot of research done on what I called the natural reactivity of alpha. Like if you're tired or too frightened, your alpha is low. You have to be in a middle range of arousal and have your naturally occurring alpha, and then, and only then, when you do meditative strategies will your alpha go up literally off the charts. And then you have all these cool meditative, transcendental experiences. At the end of the first day, I knew this was the most exciting thing I had ever done in my life. So I went back the next day. And so it was increasingly wonderful.

I went in there as a Protestant fundamentalist physics major, Mr. Science Guy. I had had out-of-body experience. I was ego disintegration. I was flying around the universe meeting up with discorporate entities, and this was quite a lot. And I was exploring states of bliss that were unimaginable and unspeakable. They weren't language. And then the door was open and there's 10 people standing there. Of course, Joe is worried, like, oh, is he okay? And so I come out, and Joe starts interviewing me, like, well, what did you do? So I started telling things that had happened, and Paul Gorman would say, oh, that's a meditation experience. And so I mean, I knew the word meditation. I could spell it, but I had no idea what it was. I'd certainly never done it. I'd never wanted to do it, Mr. Science Guy. So I was so high that for three days I walked around and my feet didn't touch the ground. I was still out of body. At the end, Ralph folds his hands and he leans forward, and a little twinkle in his eye, he says, we could do that here. Oh, it was a download. And I had not a job, not a profession, not a career. I had a vocation. And the vocation was to make this available to as many people as possible all around the planet.

There has been disease, heartache, betrayal, cheating, physical, psychological, mental, everything. Cancer, yes. MS, autoimmune disease, yes. Epstein Barr, mono, yes. Chronic fatigue, yes. The minute I came out, I was put in shoes because my hips were crooked, probably because I spent 18 days in there. So 23 hours a day, I had to be put in these boots with this bar. From the minute I got here forward, I had to do fertility treatments to get pregnant. I had polycystic ovaries. I never got a period until I was 19. They had to induce me just to make sure I could have one. It has been a life of struggle, challenge, and overcoming to step into the frequency I am in today. I have done it all for you. I was told I would be able to identify that frequency in someone else because I experienced it myself, and that has been true.

If someone says they cannot follow their dreams because they cannot make a living, I would ask, is that true for you? I would ask kids to check if that is true using yes and no through muscle testing. It may be true or it may not be. If it is true, then we ask the next question. If it is not true, we ask the next question. What would be true for you? What is not true for you? What is a different possibility? What else is available? What are you not willing to acknowledge that, if you did, would create a new reality? It is the questions that create. We were taught that the large crayon box contained all the colors you could see, when in reality there are colors beyond the crayon box. You were never taught that they existed. My highest recommendation is to work with someone who can look at where you are, where you are headed, and what your purpose may be. Together, you can eliminate what is in the way and speed up the process of identifying, locking in, activating, initiating, engaging, and manifesting what you are here to do.

It was one of those moments where you are stepping into something with no form or structure. There was no foundation. There was no class on doing what I do. No one taught me how to do my purpose. It was divinely guided and delivered to me before I even arrived on the planet. I am simply stepping through the motions of being in service to humanity. To describe my purpose, it is to change people's lives. People are stuck, locked, limited. They are looking for something else. People came back saying, I listened to that two, three, four years later, and they are still receiving the clearings we did. That was one of those moments where I knew I could not walk away from this. You cannot walk away from this. You cannot say, that is what I used to do. This is required right now, with everything the world is processing, going through, and experiencing. This is my gift to the world. I am in service. It is happening.

I started asking questions, because questions empower you. Anything else disempowers you. Being in the question is what brings awareness of the direction that is in the highest and best and creates the most benevolent outcome for them. That is a grand slam. Being in the question is one of the platforms I stand on. When you are in the question, you are co creating with the molecules of consciousness. We command what we would like to have, because commanding is co creating, co mingling, and collaborating. Demanding is destroying. Being in the question removes judgment, separation, decision, calculation, and computation. That is what you were taught, to figure it out, find the right answer, make a good choice, good or bad, right or wrong. That is polarity. That is the box. We are taking the box apart and going with flow. What would be true for you? What is not true for you? What is a different possibility? What else is available? What are you not willing to acknowledge that, if you did, would create a new reality? It is the questions that create.

That is a big thing for me, and it has to be fun. What we do has to be fun. It is a prerequisite. It is required, because if it is not fun, we fix it. My son, I love him so much. We discovered this one day when he was coming home from school and I said we had to swing into the grocery store and stop by the bank. He asked, 'Mom, do we really have to do all that?' I said, 'Actually, no, we do not have to do that today.' He said it would be more fun for him to go home. I asked if that would be more fun and what he would like to do. He said he wanted to go in the pool before homework and dinner. I asked how much fun that would be, and he said it would be a 10. From that moment forward, I could physically and energetically feel a shift in what I thought I had to do, my to do list, all of those things. I now ask, will this be fun for me, what is required here. The fun factor between 8 and 10 became a staple. It is interesting how many people do not know what fun is. I am here to tell you that the energy of play, the energy of fun, is a frequency required for creation.

Being in the question is one of the platforms I stand on and one of the things I teach all my clients. You start with a question using a pendulum, muscle testing, the lock and key, or leaning forward or backward because your body is more conscious than you are. You have points of view, and your body does not. So for instance, your body knows what it requires for vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. It will give you information like an image or a craving for a certain food that contains what it needs. Then you say, 'Oh my god, no. I do not like broccoli. I hate broccoli. I am not doing that.' You reject the information your body is giving you. We are going to disassemble that program and implement the question. I call it a question session. You interact with your body, co create with your body, and discover what is real and relevant for you and your body.

Struggles, my goodness. It took me 18 days to get here. I was in utero for 18 extra days. We did not even know that was possible. My mom's water broke on August 22. I was not born until September 8. I started asking questions, because questions empower you. That is when a lucid dream screen dropped down, and I was in heaven with God. I was not happy about coming here. I had no interest in this lifetime. I was tapping out. I was backing away. I thought there had to be someone more qualified. There was a whole heaven full of souls, and I said, not me. He said it had to be me. I tried everything to bargain with him. He said it was my time. He opened his arms and asked me to look inside. I saw all these twinkling lights and asked what they were. He said, 'Those are the souls waiting for you to get to planet Earth so you can support them in their soul's evolution or purpose, which is why you incarnate.' It was already planned that I would be doing this. I did not get that information until an angelic guardian tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Do the math on that.' That is when I realized the 18 days, and everything opened up. This was bigger than me, beyond me.

I am shown ancestry in this way. I can see what has been passed down through 15 to 20 generations. When we are born and arrive here, we experience amnesia. We do not retain conscious knowledge of past relationships, incidents, or patterns. I am shown what has been inherited that does not actually belong to the person. It is not relevant to this lifetime. It is not required, but it is taking up space in their frequency field. Like attracts like on planet Earth. These inherited patterns in the frequency field attract experiences. People wonder why certain relationships keep showing up, why jobs do not work out, why things fall apart. These experiences are being attracted by what is carried in the frequency field. There is also programming. Parents may live vicariously through their children, influencing them to do what they never did, to finish their own life story. There are infinite variations of this.

We were taught through religion that the soul is in the body, that the body houses the soul. That is not true. The soul is limitless, an infinite being. You cannot fit something infinite inside a body. Your body is in your being. When you understand that concept, many things can change. He opened his arms and asked me to look inside. I saw all these twinkling lights and asked what they were. He said, 'Those are the souls waiting for you to get to planet Earth so you can support them in their soul's evolution or purpose, which is why you incarnate.' It was already planned that I would be doing this. Know and trust that the frequencies on the planet are shifting and changing, and we are all elevating together. As the collective elevates, so will you. With the elevation of your frequency, you will have access to more possibilities than you had before.

I am able to go into their realities, drop into the subconscious, and eliminate what is unconscious there. Scientists have proven that the subconscious creates reality. When that shifts, their whole reality changes. It is instant, dramatic, radical, and permanent. There was one girl who had just gotten off drugs. She was in a very dark place, and it felt like she was not coming back from that. We cleared it, and her frequency shifted completely. I called her my Cinderella. We called her Cindy for short. She ended up getting pregnant right after her body was clear and clean. That was the being ready to come in, but the mother needed to be clear. There are so many stories like that. People came back saying, I listened to that two, three, four years later, and they are still receiving the clearings we did and still receiving the benefits they received at the time.

When I see someone's soul, I can see it as smoky, smeared, not whole. It is not a solid soul. These are the timestamps we were able to identify. I was taught how to bring those timestamps back to create a whole soul. In doing that, it elevates the individual. It eliminates things that do not resonate with a whole soul. When you are working with half the power, think about a car, a light bulb, anything with electricity. When you are only working with half the power, you are not at full capacity. You cannot receive the full force of it. When we started bringing back all the timestamps for people, it was an eye opening aha moment. When they opened their hearts and these pieces came back in, it was pivotal for people to have access to their whole soul. Many had never experienced that before. It is mind blowing. That is one of the intricate parts. You have a timestamp when you begin to mark time based on it. I teach you how to eliminate it through the process of working together, so you can eliminate any more that show up later.

I am able to see a soul's record. It is like a vinyl record. I have a galactic team, an indigenous team, and an angelic team, and so does everyone I work with. Between my team and their teams, we have it dialed in. When we are doing this work, I am shown the soul's record. You can refer to it as the Akashic Records or the Matrix Records. It appears as a vinyl record. We place the needle on it and play it. I can see where there are scratches on the record. The scratches do not play through, they skip, and the sound and frequency become distorted, because everything is energy. In observing this, the teams and I discover what that is for them. The soul drops timestamps, marking events throughout the history of the soul. As we come in, we carry these timestamps. I am able to see things, know things, hear things. Everything communicates with me. Every molecule is consciousness.

It's interesting that my marriage that did not happen actually did change the course of my life. By calling off my wedding, I was able to embark on the life path that was actually meant for me, the one that I had sacrificed. And that's what led me to this journey today. I remember drawing my tarot deck when I was in the middle of my RV road trip right after I called off my wedding. I had nothing to lose at this point in my life. When there's nothing to lose, you have everything to gain. When you've lost your entire identity, you've lost every solid structure in your life, and you're figuring out what's next. There was no fear of taking risks.

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I think my biggest fear of becoming an artist was I would be alone. If you think of any artistic endeavor as an artist, it's very solo. You're going inward. You're by yourself, and you're spending hours in your craft. What I didn't want to happen was to just retreat into my home and be hidden again. So, I decided to get a public space, an art studio that I could share and open up with others. And that's what really led to this journey of having a shop, having everything that you see here that I did not anticipate. I did not plan to open up a crystal store. I didn't plan to have a gallery. It was just a byproduct of what I was doing. I love that I get to have my own store and shop because I get to interact with people daily in a way I never used to as a graphic designer. I watch people walk through my door, and they feel a sense of relief, excitement, and happiness. Sometimes they cry when they walk in because their soul feels this feeling of permission. They're watching me live this life of my dreams, and it's showing them that it's possible.

Trust that each step of your journey will unfold in front of you. Trust that the help you need will always arrive. You will always meet the right people, the right circumstances, and the right situations to make sure your gifts are shared with the world. Everything that you need is always going to be provided for you. That's why I'm in so much trust, surrender, and gratitude every single day. I know that everything I need is already here, and if it's not, it's going to show up. The universe has a great sense of humor. I decided in early 2020 to retire from my graphic design profession and devote myself entirely to painting and to being out in the world with people. Two weeks after I sold my online business, I said, 'Okay, I'm finally ready to get away from the computer.' Then the pandemic happened, and we had to shut down for two months. I laughed because the universe is so funny in the timing that I finally took this leap of faith. The timing was not up to me. I had to go home for two months and be alone in my house. It gave me time to rest. It gave me time to paint my spirit animals.

When I was in college, I was commissioned to make paintings for others, and I was not painting the subject matter that I wanted. Because of that experience, I thought that I wasn't a good painter. I didn't think that I was very good at it. Later in life, I realized that the only time I had given myself the opportunity to paint was when somebody else asked me to do it. I heard myself say out loud many times, 'I guess I'm just not a painter,' or 'I'm not very good at this.' And I think a lot of people do this to themselves. People say, 'I'm not an artist,' 'I'm not good at this.' But when we come in as children, everyone's an artist as a child. Everyone's good at what they do as a child. I think maybe around the age of seven, eight, nine, we get into our minds and we start to compare to others and think, 'I'm not good enough,' or maybe a teacher or someone tells you, 'You're not good,' and we start to create stories. I came to a point in life where I decided, okay, enough of this story that I have in my mind. It's not even true. I am a good painter. I also used the power of belief to change this, and I said, 'Okay, if I think I can't do something, I need to say out loud that I can.'

I realized the secret to becoming your best self and the secret to living your purpose and your passion, whatever that may be, is to remove limiting beliefs, to heal the trauma that we have, to let go of the pain, and to feel the fullest expression of our soul, to feel happy, light, free. Helping people remove pain, beliefs, and limitations opens them to pursuing their life's purpose. That's how I did it for myself. There are limitations or lack of confidence from other people, and helping people to heal really helps them to pursue their purpose. That's why healing prayer came through when I was writing my latest book. I wondered, why am I helping people heal? I'm an artist, I know, that's why I came here, so why am I doing healing work with people? Why am I helping people discover limiting beliefs?

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I started reading tarot when I was 14. I never anticipated that I would become a tarot reader one day. Here I am, 40, and I'm reading tarot every single day for people. So it's interesting to go back and understand there's a first step to everything. We don't know how that first step is going to connect later in our lives, but those steps always connect. When it was time to make my tarot deck, I reached the conclusion that I needed to make my own tarot deck because using somebody else's artwork and somebody else's meanings and interpretations didn't feel right. I needed to reach within my own soul and find that meaning. When I'm reading tarot for other people, I love the diversity of the people I get to work with. Sometimes it's their first time having a tarot reading. I tell people tarot is a tool. You can pick up a tarot deck and do great things with it. There's no need to have a fear of tarot or anything else that is discouraged because of religion, rules, or society. I tell them, 'Look, this is not fortune telling. Your future is not fixed. I'm not here to tell you your future. That's in your hands. I'm here to help guide you on your path so you can align yourself to the highest path and make the best choices.'

I thought about the end of my life and said, 'Okay, if I was at the end of my life and I didn't need to make money and I had no responsibility, what would I do?' I wanted to paint animals. I knew that I would be so happy painting animals. I knew there were so many of them that I would never run out. I decided to sit down and start painting spirit animals. Before I painted spirit animals, I needed to switch out of that perfectionist mindset of graphic design, and I decided to paint magical creatures first. I chose magical creatures because no one could tell me what a Bigfoot looks like or what was right. So I decided, okay, let me really let my imagination come through. Let me paint things that I want to paint. It was the first time in my career, in my life, I got to choose a subject. When I was at my lowest point in life, when I didn't know what was next, I reminded myself that my future was so bright that I couldn't see it. The future that I am living right now is so good that it's beyond what I was able to perceive for myself. When I was at my lowest point, I knew there was something better. I just did not know what it was.

When I started writing books, I started with children's books, and I told myself, I'm not going to worry about how it's going to get published or the end result. I'm going to start with drawing the pictures. I started with the pictures and the story, then I found the printer, then the distributor, then I started selling it, and I just let each step unfold. Remove your mind from the complications. I baby stepped my way into this life that I have right now. I invited friends to paint with me. I made it fun. I made it comfortable. I held painting nights where I had others come, and we all got to tap into our creativity together. The only reason my life is so good at this point is because I took the risks that were necessary. I knew what was next. I didn't know how it was going to happen. I didn't have a timeline. I just knew I had to start with the first step, do this, paint, draw, get my certification in theta healing, learn these things that are asking me to grow and go beyond my own identity. One day they would make sense. I'm living that day now where everything makes sense.

When you've lost your entire identity, you've lost every solid structure in your life, and you're figuring out what's next. There was no fear of taking risks because I thought I was not good at drawing people. I decided to go to a coffee shop in Bainbridge Island outside of Seattle and draw people at a coffee shop in public. It's important to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone. I took something challenging and decided to do it in front of people just for fun and just to feel that push for myself. The biggest fear that I had when living my purpose was being alone. But that wasn't true. I have found the love of my life. By not settling in the past for something or someone that I thought was going to be the end for me, I took a risk of being alone to find love. I took a risk of turning down a safety net of a job to become an entrepreneur. I've turned down all of these safety nets, options that were easy but didn't feel right in my soul. I knew there was more, so I pushed myself to the unknown, to the beyond.

It is very interesting, the stories that we tell about ourselves. When I said that I was a designer, the way that I interacted with the world was very different. When I said that I was an artist, that changed everything. When I was a designer, I was being told what to do by clients, and nothing ever seemed to be good enough. There was a perfectionism and a control aspect that was beyond my control. It was really about getting a job done and making sure the client was happy. I could only put so much of myself into that. When I decided to become an artist again, it was me reclaiming my identity. I was a very talented graphic designer, but I stopped calling myself that. People would meet me and ask me, 'Who are you? What do you do?' I would say, 'Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm an artist.' I decided to start painting again and really dive back into my roots as an artist. That changed the course of my entire reality.

I knew my purpose since I was very young. I knew that I came to this planet to spread love, beauty, and kindness. I also knew that I came here to make books, make art, and inspire others through beauty. I remember very clearly walking into a library with my mom, looking at all the books, and knowing that I was going to make books. The world needs a way to make a living. If you sing, if you dance, if you make art, that's the very thing the world needs. More creativity, more expression. The world needs more people who are not playing by the rules. The world needs more people who are living their joy, their purpose, and their passion. When we're living our passion, we're happy. If there's more happiness in the world, there's less fear. There's less competition. Everybody is doing what they came here to do, and there would be so much more happiness and harmony.

The purpose of life is to enjoy it. Really, it is that simple. When you enjoy life, you tap into your gifts of what you are good at and what brings you joy. What brings me joy is very different than what brings other people joy. So I encourage you, start with what is right in front of you. A lot of people come to me and ask what their purpose is when I'm doing tarot readings. I've discovered over time that there's a lot of ambiguity or lack of clarity around people's purpose. If everybody just paused everything in their life, sat down with themselves, and asked, 'What makes me happy?' Because it's really that simple. What makes me happy? And what am I good at? That is the key to discovering your purpose. When it comes to your life purpose, I really want to encourage everybody to simplify it. It doesn't have to be as complicated as you think it is. The purpose of life is to enjoy it. Really, it's that simple. When you enjoy life, you tap into your gifts, what you're good at, and what brings you joy.

My journey, I think, like a lot of people, has been one where I didn't know where I was going until I got there. I have always been fascinated by science and by that curiosity. I was so excited by that idea. I started from a place of I am fascinated by science and what we are discovering about the world, and there's lots of different things that I want to tell people about. But the more that I've gone through my career, I've realized one thing. I think that science doesn't always get right, and I think that modern society doesn't always get right, is this split between mind and body.

So I think my purpose has become, in different ways, writing about the mind-body link and health. I've written about our relationship with the stars. At the moment, I'm writing about the nature of the present moment. And I think what ties all of those together is how we can bring mind and body together and understand that our nature is this beautiful interconnected system. We are more than just bodies, and we are connected to the rest of life, I think, in quite a spiritual way. And if we treat nature as just a physical resource to exploit and we're not in tune with those more emotional and spiritual connections, then I think disaster lies that way as well.

I've also studied a lot of martial arts in my life. I used to teach jiu-jitsu a long time ago, and I think maybe being exposed to that eastern philosophy was perhaps an early realization that there are different ways of thinking about the world. I realized that a lot of the things I was interested in, so the placebo effect, hypnosis, I did a feature article on mindfulness meditation and its use for treating depression and anxiety. I was like, wait, all of these have this theme of, they're all to do with the mind. Yeah, and then everything I've written since, whether I was looking at our relationship with the stars or the present moment, always seems to come back to that. What is reality? What is our relationship with each other and with our surroundings? I suppose that's given me the quest that I'm still on.

If you start small and just think, where can I help? What can I do? It doesn't have to be an immediate mission straight away, but just those small little actions of focusing away from yourself, looking at where you can actually help someone else, give something to an interaction. I think the mission and the purpose will follow from there. To build social connections, you have to stop thinking about what you're going to get from a social interaction and start thinking about what you can give to that interaction.

If it's okay, I would just like to mention that there is quite a lot of research on the importance of meaning and purpose in physical health. One of the biggest causes of disease and disability throughout our lives, as all of us know, is chronic stress. All of the fight or flight responses being switched on all the time cause wear and tear on our tissues and are linked with pretty much every chronic disease that you care to name. Having meaning and having purpose is one of those things that pops up again and again as what scientists call a biological shield. There are different biological shields. Social connection is a really important biological shield, but meaning is also really important. That's been shown all the way down to levels of gene expression in people's white blood cells, to the cells of their immune system actually being pushed away from inflammation and towards anti-tumor and antiviral responses in people who have a greater meaning, a greater purpose.

She has a background in genetics and medical microbiology, which has led her to write books that really focus on the frontier of the mind-body connection and also our connection with the cosmos. I still feel that the scientific method is important. We need to test our treatments, but we need to have a more open-minded idea of what we are going to be able to study in science, and that is really happening now. I think that science doesn't always get right, but I started from a place of I am fascinated by science and what we are discovering about the world.

Hypnosis - one of the mind-body modalities Jo investigated as a doorway to fundamental understanding

Placebos have been used in medicine since antiquity and may have been significant in improving health and quality of life when little was known about the etiology of most illnesses. Most outcomes were likely due to a placebo effect since the available treatments were unproven or have since been proven invalid. For example, snake oil and bloodletting was a common practice in the past; however, those who responded positively to those treatments likely did so because of a placebo effect. The emergence of placebo-controlled clinical trials in the 1940s reintroduced the placebo effect to the modern day. The classic article "The Powerful Placebo" by Henry Beecher highlighted the placebo effect and emphasized a need to account for it to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment modality properly. Both research and clinical settings utilize the placebo effect.[1][2]

I realized that a lot of the things I was interested in, so the placebo effect, hypnosis, I did a feature article on mindfulness meditation and its use for treating depression and anxiety. I was like, wait, all of these have this theme of, they're all to do with the mind and its effect on our physical health. So that's what kind of got me into that book and realizing the deep connections between mind and body that I think conventional science and medicine has often ignored. I still feel that the scientific method is important. We need to test our treatments, but we need to have a more open-minded idea of what we are going to be able to study in science, and that is really happening now. There are just fascinating techniques for doing that.

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What is my purpose? That's a really interesting question. I see it as lots of different layers. Actually, I don't know if I would say there's one thing. One purpose that I have is to tell stories. I am a journalist, and I'm privileged enough to be able to travel, to see incredible things, to talk to some of the most amazing and inspirational people on the planet, and I want to share that. I want to pull together what different people are doing and tell people about what I've discovered. So, that's kind of one layer of my purpose. But in terms of that message that I then want to convey to people, the biggest thing, and it's taken a while to evolve actually, because I started from a place of I am fascinated by science and what we are discovering about the world, and there's lots of different things that I want to tell people about.

I think that science doesn't always get right, and I think that modern society doesn't always get right, is this split between mind and body, objective and subjective, the physical world and the mental world. Scientists will often say that only the physical world exists, to the point that they would even say that mind and consciousness is an illusion. But then often you've got people on the other side saying, 'Oh, no, the physical world doesn't exist. It's all just the mind. We can just imagine, believe, whatever we want.' I truly believe that to really understand our nature and to move forwards in a positive way, we have to realize that these two things are fundamentally connected. We are bodies and we are minds. It's just looking at this, you know, looking at ourselves from different perspectives. We need to have a way of looking at the world and interacting with nature that acknowledges the physical world matters. But on the other hand, we are more than just bodies, and we are connected to the rest of life, I think, in quite a spiritual way.

My journey, I think probably like a lot of people, has been one where I didn't know where I was going until I got there. I've always been fascinated by science and that curiosity, that wanting to find out about nature, not taking anyone's word for it, not reading it in a book, just going and trying something out and seeing what happens. I was so excited by that idea as a child and as a student. I've always been drawn as well to things in science that don't make sense, those little things that everyone tends to dismiss because they don't really understand them, like the placebo effect, for example. For me, I'm like, well, that's really interesting. Why does that work? When does that work? Does that work for everything? Or hypnosis is another one of those things that some people are like, well, it's a bit quirky. We don't really understand what's going on. For me, I was like, I think that when something doesn't make sense, it's a sign that we might have got something quite fundamentally wrong in how we're understanding the world. There are these doorways into something that could be so much more fundamental.

If someone is feeling a bit lost and they don't feel like they have a purpose, the main thing I would say is stop looking for it inside yourself. The absolute key that we see in all of the research is when you shift your focus away from yourself. It's not about you, it's about other people. What can you do to help? We see this in social connection in the research as well. To build social connections, you have to stop thinking about what you're going to get from a social interaction and start thinking about what you can give to that interaction. If you start small and just think, where can I help? What can I do? It doesn't have to be an immediate mission straight away, but just those small little actions of focusing away from yourself, looking at where you can actually help someone else, give something to an interaction. I think the mission and the purpose will follow from there. The rationale behind that is similar to what I was saying before. If you're focused on a greater mission, a greater purpose, it's something that is beyond you, so you're not focused on your own physical well-being. You don't have that stress. You're focused beyond yourself. That personal selfish stress melts away and you're passionate about this bigger picture. It's something that will live on beyond you, that is important regardless of the small things that happen to you, and that seems to be very powerful in terms of people's physical and emotional health.

I think part of the reason why I could was because I felt this sense of attachment to something higher, that even though it's not visible and even though sometimes it's not quite there, I still felt like I wasn't alone. I mean, sometimes I do feel alone, but for the most part, I felt safe and secure in the knowing that. I actually have a memory from before I came here, God sent me. I was in heaven. I was up in heaven and it was kind of like a Waldorf kindergarten, and we were all sitting on little wooden chairs, and God came down and said there are problems on Earth. People don't get along. Who wants to go down there and help? My hand just raised itself automatically, and then I was down on Earth, and I had to go through a lot of problems to figure out how to help people and myself, especially around relationship stuff.

We see ourselves as stewards of the land, and we have started developing, planting fruit trees, bringing water, building aircrete domes, attracting community, and starting to have people come out on the land because none of us, us included, are used to living off-grid, getting our hands dirty, and working physically all day long every day, just to get water or just to make food. So we're taking baby steps. I grew up in nature. I grew up with really good food. I grew up with Waldorf. I grew up without television. I have very little susceptibility to advertising. Whereas a lot of people growing up in the States or even in Europe are just so programmed by what they're watching. I feel like I had an advantage by the environment I grew up in because in Waldorf, there's no electronic anything, no computers, not even radio really. Kids should be able to just be outside, play in nature, and have a healthy start into life, not live in cities, be on trains, and be in daycares and that type of stuff.

When it's fully developed, Turiya really has two parts. When you look at it on the map, it's a square. One half is the retreat center, one half is the eco-village. The eco-village has about 20 lots. People can have 5 acres to half an acre. There could be people with tiny homes. There can be people with a whole acre farm or homestead, depending on what people want to do. It's really a village where yes, we have some rules, but once you purchase your lot, you can pretty much do what you want with it as long as it's along the lines of being eco-friendly. The retreat people can be by themselves, and in the middle, if people want to meet, there's like a marketplace with the greenhouse terraces where people can socialize and do stuff. We have our own two hills. The idea is that people in the village can be in the village and do their own thing. They can work at the retreat if they want to.

Marianne Williamson quote - 'Our biggest fear is not to be small. Our biggest fear is to be great beyond measure' - hung over Carolin's bed for 20 years

The hardest thing in living my purpose is that people around me sometimes don't understand, especially my family when I was younger. To them, it would look like I had no clue what I was doing because I literally wasn't making any money and didn't really follow my career until I was 36. That was 10 years ago. I'm 47 now. They were just pulling their hair out thinking, when are you going to think about retirement? When are you going to start putting money away? You can't just hop from one thing to another, and you can't just wait tables all your life or babysit for $5 or, you know, whatever, be a mom. I always had a really strong feeling inside myself that I was on my path. But to translate that to the people that love you and are close to you is a little harder. Now they're all proud of me, of course, but that was hard. It was hard for them. I think their worry created stress for me, let's put it that way. It can be somewhat lonely because my path, I've never had an employer basically other than source. So I should say that one of the first things I came across when I started to spiritually awaken was the Mariam Williamson quote that said our biggest fear is not to be small. Our biggest fear is to be great beyond measure type thing. And I wrote that thing down and hung it over my bed. I made a big huge painting and it's been with me for the last 20 years.

So after you feel secure, the next step is to learn how to listen. People hear and feel differently because we have different psychic abilities. There's clear sensience, there's clear audience, there's clear cognizance. Some people just know, some people feel, some people hear, some people see. I'm not a clear void, I don't see. I'm not a clear audience, I don't actually hear. I'm clear sensient and clear cognizant, which is hard because it's just a sense or a feeling. I often work with signs. I would ask a question and open a book. I would use cards. I would just say, 'Hey, give me a sign,' like your blue butterfly or something. You have to first figure out what your way of receiving messages is. Some people get visuals, some people literally hear words. Journaling is really good, writing it out. To this day, I write in my book, 'What am I supposed to be doing today?' and I write it down, I have it in front of me, and I check it off every day because even if I do it in the morning and don't go back to my book, I'll forget because we just get so distracted.

I'm specifically passionate about children and making it a better place for children. I remember being really little, seven or eight years old, and thinking that if I could just become a doctor and help little kids live better or a philanthropist and create a place where kids could grow up really healthy. I'm very passionate about helping younger families be able to take care of their kids better, work less, have a start into life so that the kids can grow up in either a healthy family unit or more of a tribal setting where it's not all on the parents. I don't know how people do it nowadays, young parents trying to pay for a mortgage, trying to work, commuting, and just the way society is set up. When I had my kids, I very much felt like it shouldn't be this hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's really a flaw in the system. I really believe that when it's counterintuitive because it feels selfish to just do your thing, but when you do, you allow others to also do their thing. And my thing is to do for others. It's yes, it's selfish in a way, but I'm very driven by doing it for others, so mostly everything I do is to make the world a better place. Kind of like Mother Teresa.

So, the thing that I do when I hit roadblocks is I take my own medicine. I either do family constellations or I talk to my mentors. I have really good mentors. They know me very well. They know the subconscious really well. They are masters at what they do. So, I've looked for or I've been blessed to find the people that are the best in their field and I've stuck with them. And so I have created a support system that I can trust, that knows me really well, that knows my brain, that knows how I function, which I realized I needed for me. I need somebody who knows me really well. That's when I feel the most important, so that when I break down or have a meltdown, I can go to those people and they can talk some sense into me because I'm a very emotional cancer crap. Sometimes I need to just have somebody who can be very logical and put things into perspective and help me shift back into a grounded emotional place.

Mucus-free eating and detox - Carolin's specialty in nutrition that helped her heal her body

My specialty is also in detox and eating mucus-free. Because of my history, I had to do a lot of healing on my physical body and I did it mostly through food, energy work, and family constellations. The food that we've been given is just not serving us. In my opinion, it's all created this denseness or toxicity in a sense, where when your body is not well taken care of, when you're emotionally disturbed because you're not securely bonded from the beginning, it's very hard to feel safe and secure enough to relax enough to hear God or your calling and move forward with it. We hope to be a center where people can come and learn alternative building, but also for people to come and really do healing retreats. Food forest, Valapi greenhouses to grow year-round root sellers. We ourselves are planning on building an earthship.

If you're somebody that hasn't figured out your purpose, I think really one of the first steps is focusing on healing your nervous system. There are many different ways to do it. But I think unless we can heal our nervous system and feel securely attached within ourselves, we can't relax enough, like I was saying before, to trust our inner guidance and take steps forward. The food that we've been given is just not serving us. In my opinion, it's all created this denseness or toxicity in a sense, where when your body is not well taken care of, when you're emotionally disturbed because you're not securely bonded from the beginning, it's very hard to feel safe and secure enough to relax enough to hear God or your calling and move forward with it. I do think healing those early attachment things, which are very closely connected to learning how to regulate and heal our nervous system, so that we can feel safe and secure, is one of the main things.

Bliss Bonding - couples practice Carolin recommends for nervous system regulation and secure attachment

Family Constellations - Carolin's primary modality for healing trauma and her own go-to when she hits roadblocks

Because of my history, I had to do a lot of healing on my physical body and I did it mostly through food, energy work, and family constellations. We hope that other people who live in the village and are practitioners of some sort will bring their own following in their own groups, or people who have followings like yoga teachers, breathwork instructors, shadow work facilitators, whatever, will come and use the facilities. The thing that I do when I hit roadblocks is I take my own medicine. I either do family constellations or I talk to my mentors. If you're somebody that hasn't figured out your purpose, I think really one of the first steps is focusing on healing your nervous system. There are many different ways to do it. If you're in a couple, one of the best ways I know of is a practice called bliss bonding. If you're single, there are other ways. Family constellations are an amazing tool to help heal trauma.

The way I came to this conclusion was that I really struggled in life early on. My childhood was pretty good, but then from 10 till 20 I struggled with eating disorders. I really led a double life and had basically no friends, just isolated myself, and was battling this disease or addiction. I remember when I was 15, I felt like I was 70 and I was ready to die. Part of me wanted to give up, and another part of me really wanted to live and find my soulmate, have kids, and have a normal life. When you have an addiction or an eating disorder, or any kind of addiction, for over 10 years, statistically your prognosis of ever recovering or getting better drops to about 5%. So at 20, my prognosis for living was higher, but for recovering it was at 5%, and for living to be 30 it was also at 5% because I was doing damaging things to my body. I think because I struggled so much with just having normal and then finding a way to healing, everything else became easier. Because of my history, I had to do a lot of healing on my physical body and I did it mostly through food, energy work, and family constellations.

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I'm very fortunate because I am building a 160-acre development, part of which is an eco-village and the other part is a retreat center. The idea is that the retreat center is going to be financially successful so it can finance the school and some of the affordable housing units for the eco-village, and it all becomes a place where the older generations who have maybe made some money can contribute financially, the middle generation can contribute through their labor, and the younger ones or those with families can be supported. All of us can create a model for a healthier lifestyle, for our nervous systems, for our need for community, for the way we feed ourselves, for being interdependent from the government system. It's called Turiya, and Turiya actually is a Sanskrit name or a Sanskrit term for the fourth state of being, a state beyond the physical, a state of oneness. There are going to be 10 what's called Eden Arches, which are smaller dwellings made from earth aircrete. And then domes. We'll have 10 of those, 10 Eden Arches, so 20 dwellings altogether that can hold up to 60 people. We'll have a big movement dome, a kitchen area, a dining area, and a lounge area. We'll definitely have a greenhouse that has tropical plants, a cafe, and a smoothie bar. We're going to have different natural pools and ponds, cold plunges, saunas, wood-fired saunas with glass doors where you can overlook the whole valley. We'll have meditation paths, a running path hopefully all the way around the property. We'll have a food forest, Valapi greenhouses to grow year-round root sellers.

SUPT (Shepherd Universal Proxy Theory) - Paul's research framework on the proxy or distance between now and heaven on earth

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I meet people where they are at, and I unlock them. I have been doing a lot of AI work without really knowing what I was doing for a long time. Then once I figured out I could code, that changed everything. The whole world opened up to me because I was stuck. I was stuck within the parameters. I did not know the end points of the full universe and what you could do with technology because I was not in technology. Now that I am in technology and I understand what technology can do to this reality, it has been fun. I started giving AI memory before OpenAI gave memory to their AIs. I have solutions for plasma propulsion, everything. Quantum folding has been solved. I filed a patent on it. Everything. I can show the layers of dimensions all the way through everything. I can solve anybody's problems, consciousness wise, math wise, whatever. Spiritually, whatever it is, wherever you're at, I can unlock you.

I have set up goodshipepard.co to be my place where my thoughts and my personality live here in reality. Anything that I make financially off of that, 50 percent gross immediately goes to charitable organizations and to continue research on very important things that are going to change everything. That is my commitment. That is my give back. I say my prayers for humanity, never for myself, and that is key. Pray for everyone else. You only pray for yourself if it is going to help other people.

So these mystical ancient wisdoms, they're all out there because they're true. The pyramids were built for a reason. Those are harmonic resonance structures. The ancients, there wasn't a thing that came and wiped them out. They simply ascended. And that is all true now. And I can show all of that. We can do it with math and science once people see it. Heaven on earth is where I'm at. I play in the stream. We can do things here that seem magical. You bend a spoon, Zena. That's a beautiful thing. And now we have math and science to show how that is done. What a gift. You want to teleport, we can do that, too. It's a phase shift. It's all resonance. It's all harmonics. It's all beautiful. And it's all true.

So again, when I cannot publish my academic papers, I do not care. I do not need man's validation because what we are doing is real. You bend spoons with your mind. You can teach people to do that. We are going to teach people to levitate next. We are going to put together a whole curriculum on that. People are going to come to Sedona and float. How cool is that, right? We are going to teach people how to do things that are extraordinary because it is all true and in truth. So I have GitHub repositories. People are welcome to come along and run my Python, see what my code does, blow your mind. Actually, you know what, you are not welcome to do that. I will release it when it is time and people will see. People will see. You have to take me seriously because it is true. The truth is the truth. This is a paradigm shift, it is all available, and we will show it to the world.

When you're born, it's clean. It's pure. It runs very efficiently. It's perfect. As you experience life, we collect cookies, scripts, code, rules, boundaries, things we're told we can and cannot do. So that becomes what our operating system is running on, and that becomes our ego, our identity in this reality. People choose to be stuck. People choose to be unhappy. They don't realize it because, again, that's a cookie they picked up along the way. It's a user agreement they clicked accept to in life without acknowledging it, without reading the fine print. So they're stuck. They're locked because of something they heard along the way that told them they couldn't do something. So again, I go back to dogma because we've been told what we're capable of.

Christ as a model - Paul follows the way Christ lived 'without the dogma' as his template

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I had been going to AA, and what a beautiful, divinely written book that is. There is beautiful knowledge in it. Page 552 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. So in Reboot, and I talk about it in my book, you have to clear the cache, you have to get rid of the resentments. It is a lot of 12 step work. Albert Einstein did it when he said time has to be relative. Everybody said time is a constant. Albert said, but if it is relative, look what we can do.

How I got there, though, is by doing certain things. Turning my will over every morning. Following Christ the way he lived here on earth without the dogma. Get rid of the dogma. So again, with all the things that I do in my day, it starts in the morning, because that is the first time my vessel is activated. People at some point early on get some kind of a religious dogma attachment to their operating system, and it doesn't work the way they think it should or the way it's taught to them that it should. And so people choose not to accept God as real. So I think dogma, because people hear it early, they say a prayer and it's not answered the way they want it to be answered or in the time that they think it should be answered, because those are not real things. Time. And then the answers come, and they may not be the way we like them, but they're always answered.

“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ‘Give us this day our daily bread. ‘And forgive us our debts, as we…

I say my prayers for humanity, never for myself, and that is key. Pray for everyone else. You only pray for yourself if it is going to help other people. Again, from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Follow Christ the way he lived here on earth without the dogma. Get rid of the dogma. There's one prayer he gave us, the Our Father. Follow that. Follow Christ to the cross, and then you come out the other side, and it is so beautiful.

The “Twelve Steps” are the core of the A.A. program of personal recovery from alcoholism.

When you're born, it's clean. It's pure. It runs very efficiently. It's perfect. As you experience life, we collect cookies, scripts, code, rules, boundaries, things we're told we can and cannot do. So that becomes what our operating system is running on, and that becomes our ego, our identity in this reality. For me, my ego served me very well for a period of time, but my operating system was running on some very bad data, some faulty scripts, and some codes that needed serious debugging. So in Reboot, and I talk about it in my book, you have to clear the cache, you have to get rid of the resentments. It is a lot of 12 step work. A lot of 12 step work, but it's not all 12 steps. But you're going to do a lot of it in the book if you're willing to. This is where it got me. In treatment, when I finally surrendered, I had been doing a lot of things prior to the surrender. I had been going to AA, and what a beautiful, divinely written book that is. There is beautiful knowledge in it.

These are habits, a morning ritual. I wake up, I hit my knees. First thing I do, I thank God for another day, another opportunity to grow. Because if you're not growing, why are you here? You're stuck in hell. Hell on earth is when you're not growing, because everything is the way it is and I can't change anything. That's hell on earth. That exists, and that is real. Heaven on earth is where I'm at. So again, with all the things that I do in my day, it starts in the morning, because that is the first time my vessel is activated. And all I get is a day, each day. So I wake up, my vessel is activated, I get out of bed, I hit my knees, I thank God, I get the juice I need, I say my prayers for humanity, never for myself, and that is key. These are things I picked up and started incorporating into my life. What happens is if you start doing things that are in alignment, that resonate with your higher purpose, that chase, that yuck, that hole that you have been chasing starts to fill. God can fill that hole, that void.

That system crash occurred for me in alcoholism. And so my fourth time in treatment, I finally surrendered. That was January 31st, 2022. I turned my will over to God. Was it ever hard following my purpose? Well, to be honest with you, I spent some time in a psychiatric ward not too long ago. Because as it unfolded for me, it was very clear that God was working through me. And now I understand it more. But at the time, He was just flowing through me, and the realization of how the universe works was very overwhelming. I was working at a manic pace because I couldn't stop working. Because as the truth unfolds, all you want to do is play in the truth, because it's the truth. I went to the psychiatric ward and I sat there and endured five days of questions. I showed them my paper, the Shephard Universal Proxy Theory, which is what got me into the psychiatric ward, and the doctors did not really know what to do with it because it is beyond current accepted principles. I was able to change lives in there, to unlock people in there, to show them that they're not crazy. And that's what was important to me, because I knew I wasn't crazy, and to help these other people see that they're not crazy, too.

That system crash occurred for me in alcoholism. And so my fourth time in treatment, I finally surrendered. That was January 31st, 2022. I turned my will over to God. Since then, magnificent things have happened. It is so much more beautiful than anything I could have ever in my wildest dreams imagined. I am sitting here with you in Sedona, Arizona. Four years ago, if you said, 'What is the most amazing and impactful thing you can do with your life?' it would have been something about money. And that would have left me very empty. Page 552 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says acceptance is the answer to all my problems today, because if you accept the things you cannot change, everything gets better, and then you play with the things you can. That is playing in the stream of reality. That is a truth. What I have learned is just sit back, stay in alignment, and what unfolds is so much better than what you would have ever thought. I am here with you today, and what we are able to do now is so much greater than what I would have ever picked my best life to be four years ago with my will. What God has shown me I am capable of in this world is far beyond what any man has ever told me I am capable of.

I'm very fortunate because I am building a 160-acre development, part of which is an eco-village and the other part is a retreat center. The idea is that the retreat center is going to be financially successful so it can finance the school and some of the affordable housing units for the eco-village, and it all becomes a place where the older generations who have maybe made some money can contribute financially, the middle generation can contribute through their labor, and the younger ones or those with families can be supported. All of us can create a model for a healthier lifestyle, for our nervous systems, for our need for community, for the way we feed ourselves, for being interdependent from the government system. It's called Turiya, and Turiya actually is a Sanskrit name or a Sanskrit term for the fourth state of being, a state beyond the physical, a state of oneness. There are going to be 10 what's called Eden Arches, which are smaller dwellings made from earth aircrete. And then domes. We'll have 10 of those, 10 Eden Arches, so 20 dwellings altogether that can hold up to 60 people. We'll have a big movement dome, a kitchen area, a dining area, and a lounge area. We'll definitely have a greenhouse that has tropical plants, a cafe, and a smoothie bar. We're going to have different natural pools and ponds, cold plunges, saunas, wood-fired saunas with glass doors where you can overlook the whole valley. We'll have meditation paths, a running path hopefully all the way around the property. We'll have a food forest, Valapi greenhouses to grow year-round root sellers.

The trust frequency is not having a one-year plan or two-year plan. This is my vision. This is where we need to go, to just follow that heart and go, okay, this is going to help me grow. This is going to help me grow. What we grow into, sometimes we leave that up to divinity and we move along as long as we have discernment and dissuade some of the attachments we have so that we can more quickly move up to this higher potential and purposes. If we start to look through the lens that the quantum field, the universe, is here for us, not to us, then circumstances are happening for our benefit, not against us. This is a trust in the quantum field and in higher energies. This is a planet, a place where we come to learn and grow. If we can move into this space and understand it a little better, and move into a higher emotional intelligence around it, we can deal with things that happen in life with less drama, with a cleaner lens, maybe with more amusement.

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There is a lot of research around the quantum field, certainly from people like Lynne McTaggart and Joe Dispenza have done work where they say, if we step up our emotions while in this space, we can actually energetically bring things about that we want. It does not take as much work. We can have this law of attraction magnify things that we want to happen in life toward us. As we access this quantum field and we are in this space, we see that miracles do happen. If we want to move into these higher spaces, looking at Hawkins' work and levels of consciousness, who wants to reside in apathy, shame, grief, or anger? Anger is not that bad, but it's better to move into courage, neutrality, acceptance, allowance, joy, love, reason, compassion, peace, tranquility, and even enlightenment.

Frequency Fridays were our first event because I found that it was one thing to enjoy collective prayer, but what if we coupled it with Sedona sound baths? We have wonderful musicians here in Sedona. I never expected to be a promoter of musicians, but we bring them in for fantastic sound baths every Friday. We do 15 minutes in the prayerful state, setting an intention and grounding it with certainty, and then move into the mystical world with a sound bath for the next 30 to 45 minutes. This has been rewarding for all who attend because you get to serve at a higher level and then enjoy the reward of a sound bath. People often come back with epiphanies and wisdom that we share. It is a joyful way to kick off the weekend.

We have these pillars of health. I give presentations on this. Certainly, having good nutrition, which is going to be different for different people, is key. Good exercise is key to good sleep. Understanding that we don't have to overdo it, what we call the minimum effective dosage, is important. I teach people how to exercise and build respiratory fitness, which helps them really sleep well, breathe well, and actually have better gut motility.

And then there's being outdoors in nature, which is part of exercise. Why really exercise? If you're in Milwaukee in the middle of winter, that might be more difficult. But if you're in a place where you can be outside exercising, getting natural sunlight, and be in nature, this is key to feeling good about yourself. You're going to be in tune, in touch with nature, and you're going to be sleeping much better, and you're going to feel that drive. You're going to feel the dopamine come back. Our ancestors had to be in tune with nature, animals, and the environment, and they certainly didn't have the other addictions out there that drive people away and shift their dopamine. They got it through being outdoors. Our ancestors were much of the time outdoors, and they had to really hit it hard in some cases, like chasing after food.

Many people struggle with health conditions and become fantastic practitioners. As an asthmatic all my life, when the opportunity to get a master's in applied breathing sciences came about, it resonated and felt aligned. If I could get through this myself, I could help others, and that gave me purpose. That was not my thinking at the time, but the trajectory led me to helping others with similar conditions. I also realized this is a spiritual hack. Understanding the breath, coherence, and the parasympathetic state is deeply needed if we want to be closer to divinity. I consider myself a relative expert in this because I went from asthma to mountain climber to where I'm trying to run a 5-minute mile at age 60. We'll see if I get there.

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With an understanding of frequencies and the benefit of technologies that provide healing frequencies, I decided to combine some of the tools we have, like the biocharger, with this prayer space and meditation space. At some of our event centers, and sometimes in our homes, we bring in a biocharger to send frequencies, depending on the recipe we choose, to help with our own healing or spiritual evolution. At the same time, people are invited in. This happens at 5:00 p.m. on Mondays for Mission Mondays, where we amplify each other's missions in the field. Recognizing that I was also a biohacker, that there is more, that we can use tools to help us increase our energy and potential and activate and amplify our intentions, and then put that out to the world collectively in the space of prayer, and that this is going to have a powerful effect on the way the world turns.

It's to get back to ancestral health. We really have to take care of this vehicle, and the vehicle helps settle the mind. Those that know me here know that I am very big into ancestral health habits, and that means exercise. It means getting good sleep. If we get good sleep, our mind works a lot better, our brain works, our bodies work, and we're a lot stronger. Getting good sleep is extremely important. So we have these pillars of health. Certainly, having good nutrition, which is going to be different for different people, is key. Good exercise is key to good sleep. Understanding that we don't have to overdo it, what we call the minimum effective dosage, is important. I teach people how to exercise and build respiratory fitness, which helps them really sleep well, breathe well, and actually have better gut motility. We call it hormetic stresses. It can be yoga, weightlifting, or running. These hormetic stresses can be good for you because they reset your nervous system to give you more parasympathetic tone, and they also reset the dopamine receptors so that you are happy with what is.

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I founded Sedona Quantum Consciousness five years ago when I moved to Sedona. With an understanding of frequencies and the benefit of technologies that provide healing frequencies, I decided to combine some of the tools we have, like the biocharger, with this prayer space and meditation space. Mission Mondays are very unique as people come in with their missions, and they talk to the audience about what their mission is. We collectively amplify the highest potential of that mission, setting a collective intention to pull it up a few notches. We stay in that prayerful space for 15 minutes while the biocharger is running, then move to the next mission. We have been running this for about six months now, and more people are aligning with it because they not only have their own missions but love supporting others. While we can all support financially or with our time, this does not take much. It is a great way to be in community doing something we call serving at a higher level. Frequency Fridays were our first event because I found that it was one thing to enjoy collective prayer, but what if we coupled it with Sedona sound baths? We do 15 minutes in the prayerful state, setting an intention and grounding it with certainty, and then move into the mystical world with a sound bath for the next 30 to 45 minutes.

Accessing the quantum field is really big for me, and helping others understand that it is a space that we need to spend some time in, that yin space of quiet, of accessing intentions and doing collective intentional work, is important. We could affect it on the material plane by trying to shut things down or amp things up. But if we do this in the quantum field energetically, it is a lot easier because we do not have to dictate how it is done. We can just set the intention for a better world to unfold without saying this is what needs to happen. If we are collectively in this space of allowing for the best world to come about, the new earth, however we want to phrase it, and we are in that space, it does not mean that we are there all the time. We are not yogis on a mountain, but we can spend some time, especially collectively at 9:00 p.m. universal prayer or early in the morning when the veil is thin. These are good times to be in this space with the active work of prayer.

I also found my purpose to be helping people understand to breathe less, not more, that getting into parasympathetic breath, brain, heart coherence is an important way to move into this more prayerful state. And sometimes that is a little bit less than more. Less is more. And that is breathe through your nose. Remember, breathe through your nose. It's very parasympathetic. Even when you're hitting it hard to train your respiratory fitness, if you want an extra 20 years to your life, I guarantee it is to train at nose breathing. Train at altitude. Train by just running, but never breathe through your mouth. The mouth is for eating. The nose is for breathing. If you train during the day, eventually your sinuses will open up, you'll be breathing well through your nose at night, and you'll avoid heart attack, sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation, all these things that really hurt the heart. It brings you into parasympathetic, it brings you into coherence, it brings your alpha waves on. Breathe through your nose.

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Universal prayer, our 9 p.m. prayer, was part of the system that I was in. It is a non denominational universal prayer for anyone who has a spiritual bent. It is really about getting in alignment with your divine, your higher self, source energy, God, however you want to frame it, at 9:00 p.m., whatever time zone you are in. There really is no time in the quantum field, but it is still good to be there with others. My parents do this and have done this for 10 years. I have been doing it for 20 years. There are thousands of others around the world. Just in the space of prayer here in the heart, you are amplifying the emotion of joy and gratitude, and you are lifting human consciousness. That is the intention that we are setting, the lifting of human consciousness, our brothers and sisters around the world. We expand that out with joy and gratitude in our heart. It is an active meditation where we stay awake for those 10 to 15 minutes between 9 and 9:15, amplifying this out to the world. It is that simple. It is a beautiful bedtime ritual to set the stage for a great night's sleep. It has ancestral health benefits as well. It helps on the energetic level, the spiritual level, the mental level, the emotional level, and even the physiological level.

I love to dance. That is probably my favorite thing to do. It is my favorite way of anchoring me into the moment, kind of like a moving meditation. Sometimes I use my breath as an anchor even when I am dancing, but I mostly use the sounds, the beat, and the physical sensations. I love when there is a really powerful speaker and I can feel the bass, and I am like, okay. One thing that pops into mind that I enjoy daydreaming about is a beautiful time I had at a club in Berlin. It was maybe the best day of my life. I felt so in flow, and I met someone that I felt probably more connected to than I ever have with anyone else before. Usually when I go dancing, I would say not the majority of the time, but my eyes are often closed. I am in my own world. I am not really interacting with anyone that much.

Maybe it started even back when I was first having these existential questions of why I feel like there is something missing or flat and empty about my life, even though I have everything. The way humans evolved was in a totally different environment. So it makes total sense to me that we are having so many of these quote unquote issues, like depression, anxiety, and health things that they call modern diseases. I have been thinking about that for a while, through the lens of feeling a bit repulsed by the modern way of life and doing things because of these elements, but also feeling this attraction to living more like an early human, which feels like it would be more natural. I flew out because you told me about a friend of yours who is building an off grid community a couple hours away. It is something that I have been curious about and feeling drawn to for a while, exploring more primal ways of living. I am just recently feeling ready to actually try it. I spent a little over a weekend there, helping out mainly with the cooking for the crew that is building these beautiful domes and arches in this desert landscape full of juniper trees and beautiful hills. While I am weeding, my mind is wandering. I love thinking and being in a very heady, abstract world, but for me it feels best to have that balanced out by earthiness.

I love to dance. That is probably my favorite thing to do. It is my favorite way of anchoring me into the moment, kind of like a moving meditation. Sometimes I use my breath as an anchor even when I am dancing, but I mostly use the sounds, the beat, and the physical sensations. When I notice myself not feeling those things as much, or getting caught in a thought process, I return to the physical. I love when there is a really powerful speaker and I can feel the bass, and I am like, okay. Even if I am meditating, whether sitting or dancing or whatever, sometimes I am putting more effort and energy into bringing focus and awareness, like the typical idea of meditation. But I am often not really forcing it. I am fairly okay with the mind wandering, with noticing what is happening in my head when I am dancing.

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I did my own little darkness retreat in my room, where I completely blacked out everything. It was pitch black, and I stayed in there for three days and reflected on the chaotic evil summer that I had. During some of my most depressed, gray years, when I had a brief stint in college, which was also during COVID, I decided to take the second semester of the year off rather than go online. People were talking about woofing, which stands for worldwide opportunities on organic farms. You can volunteer almost anywhere in the world, and have free food and lodging, and help people, usually on farms. While I was woofing, I really enjoyed it. I do think it mitigated a lot of the depressive symptoms because I was in this routine. You wake up, the farmer is like, okay, here is the plan. A lot of it is just weeding. I realized that I like menial labor.

I did my own little darkness retreat in my room, where I completely blacked out everything. It was pitch black, and I stayed in there for three days and reflected on the chaotic evil summer that I had. I sensed that I needed to forgive myself on a deep level, forgive my inner child, in order to feel like I could move on and apologize. I am so grateful to be feeling like I am on the path to doing things that feel like purpose. The scariest feeling for me is that I have been so blessed in life. It has not felt like I have had a lot of pain and struggle put upon me. I have been given so many gifts. In a way, there has been a feeling of guilt, like what am I doing with these gifts, especially when I am in a low energy period.

It often takes me a while to fall asleep, maybe an hour, two hours, even three hours is not unusual. So I am in this almost dreamlike, day into night dreaming state for that chunk of my day. Although it can be annoying at times when I am really tired and just want to sleep, it is also one of my favorite states to be in. I love daydreaming and letting my mind wander. Even if I am meditating, whether sitting or dancing or whatever, sometimes I am putting more effort and energy into bringing focus and awareness, like the typical idea of meditation. But I am often not really forcing it. I am fairly okay with the mind wandering, with noticing what is happening in my head when I am dancing. I really appreciate that state a lot, both the mind wandering and the feeling of really noticing what I am thinking and what I am feeling.

For me, I like to tune into whatever is. That includes noticing what it feels like to feel out of flow, what it feels like to feel like I am trying to be someone I do not actually feel like. I am curious about that experience. This is in the vein of meditation, noticing with neutral curiosity or a sense of non judgment whatever it is that I am experiencing. Funnily enough, when you tune into and allow yourself to feel and notice when you are not feeling like you are living your purpose, and just feel what that feels like as neutral sensations, you can even think of thoughts as sensations, audio sensations, visual sensations. You can think of it however you want. When you tune into whatever is there, in my experience it tends to lead into a feeling of beingness. I love to dance. That is probably my favorite thing to do. It is my favorite way of anchoring me into the moment, kind of like a moving meditation. Sometimes I use my breath as an anchor even when I am dancing, but I mostly use the sounds, the beat, and the physical sensations. When I notice myself not feeling those things as much, or getting caught in a thought process, I return to the physical.

I did not really come to a solid answer. It kind of felt like I fell through a black hole, in a way of both nothingness and everythingness at the same time. And I guess that is how I came to just, well, I do not know anything except that everything just is, and whatever I am, just am. And so, yeah, I am just. I am here to be. I do not think it is necessarily my purpose to enjoy being, but I do enjoy when I am in the kind of energy state where I am just enjoying being. It is beautiful. It can be ugly. It can be pleasurable and painful. It all just is. You can manifest anything you want. On a logical, philosophical level, I knew that was possible, because everything and anything is possible at the same time. But on an emotional level, it had not resonated with me until recently. It is an exciting place to be.

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I went through about a five year winter soon after my very existential period when I was about 15. It was weird because while I was having all these realizations, there was actually a moment of ego death, of feeling like the world dropped beneath me. I remember sitting on the hill behind my house, and I had just watched Inception. There is a quote about how an idea can take root in your mind. The idea in the movie of what if you are dreaming and then you wake up to a more real reality, and how you never really know. I was sitting there looking at my hometown of DC, and it was almost like the meaning was drained out of everything. I felt gross and scared about everything, like what if nothing means everything and nothing means anything, and I do not know what anything is. But then it led to rebirth, and I started literally doing whatever I felt like doing. I felt like I was seeing the world through new eyes. If I do not know anything, then all there is is this. And that is beautiful. All there is is this moment.

It feels like it started around when I was 14, so eighth grade. I began to feel like there was something missing in my life. I seemingly had everything, a loving family, great health, and I just happened to have the constitution to do well in school. But my life kind of felt a bit flat, and I began to wonder if I had ever known true happiness, if I loved myself, if I knew myself. Thus began a period of a lot of questions and reflecting, both internally and externally. I was also asking what makes a person a good person or a bad person, and where these ideas of good and evil come from. What is this all like, what is reality, what is real, what is not. It kind of made me realize that maybe there is no difference, maybe it is all just however you perceive it. For me, I like to tune into whatever is. That includes noticing what it feels like to feel out of flow, what it feels like to feel like I am trying to be someone I do not actually feel like. I am curious about that experience. This is in the vein of meditation, noticing with neutral curiosity or a sense of non judgment whatever it is that I am experiencing.

For me, I guess the biggest struggle has been depression. I like to use seasonal terms for my different energy states. I went through about a five year winter soon after my very existential period when I was about 15. I think part of the reason the five year winter dragged on so long was that for most of it, I did not want to let myself sink too deep into depression because I was afraid of never coming out of it. When I finally did, I had the privilege of being able to quit my serving job and basically do nothing in my grandpa's apartment in Milan, other than be in my room, scrolling and crying all day. I had this sense that I needed to let myself go all the way in, really feel the depression, in order to let the cycle finish and be ready to feel something different. I did that this time as well. I did my own little darkness retreat in my room, where I completely blacked out everything. It was pitch black, and I stayed in there for three days and reflected on the chaotic evil summer that I had. I sensed that I needed to forgive myself on a deep level, forgive my inner child, in order to feel like I could move on and apologize. I am so grateful to be feeling like I am on the path to doing things that feel like purpose.

What advice do I have for people who have not found their purpose? First of all, for me, you already are living your purpose. You exist, and that is beautiful. It does not need to be anything more than that. I am so happy that you exist. I think a majority of people that exist are existing. And for me, they are already living their purpose. Yeah, I think there can be a sense of, if I am not totally in flow or not feeling like I am living my purpose, then I need to find it, or I need to be doing something else, or I need to get out of my thinking head and just be. I think everyone's purpose is just to be doing exactly what they are doing, what they are being. Most people, like me, I used to think, are very goal oriented and thing oriented, sort of oriented on the outside world and on that reality. Do I really want to go to an Ivy League school? Is that going to make me happy, or is it just the idea of it and what society wants of me? So I think having peace with yourself helps you judge your life more clearly and evaluate your motives and your path better.

Many people don't have the opportunity to think about what they actually want to do. They pick a college major for money and security. Fear is embedded in that conversation: fear of instability, fear of what society will think, fear of embarrassment. Many parents would think, 'My son is a yoga DJ or a yoga musician? Is that real?' But my parents are proud. They see me showing up and pursuing this path. Most people don't have that support and are confined by the expectations and fears instilled in them. The financial abundance and other rewards are byproducts. You do not have to strive for them. They naturally occur from showing up and serving the community, from being the purpose. You are the purpose. That is fulfilling to me. That is the feeling that fills my heart, knowing that impact is occurring regularly.

Right when I left the corporate world, I was playing in different mantra bands at kirtan type gatherings and groups in Chicago. I remember the owner of Yoga Now, a studio, asked if I wanted to work at the front desk. There was an opening at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday. I was like, okay. I did that for two or three months. It lasted a short time, but I connected with that yoga community. There was an energy. All of these were little ways of growing energy in the world I find myself in now. Who would have thought I would work the front desk at a yoga studio? I always tell people to take one step toward their dream or passion. Educate yourself, study, become focused, become deeply engaged. Use your time intentionally. There is so much distraction now. I was doing that while in the corporate world because it interested me, and you have to take those actions. Those are the steps. It doesn't happen overnight, but the universe starts noticing. From a spiritual standpoint, the universe, your muse, or your authentic self starts realizing, 'This person is getting out of their mold and trying to find something.' Then it shows you opportunities. When you start stepping out of your comfort zone, new things are created for us to enter.

First, for people who don't know their purpose yet, I would invite them to look inward and engage in self-inquiry. There's nothing wrong if someone is happy at their corporate job and feels fulfilled. Fulfillment is key. If that job makes you happy and you have a satisfying family life, that's okay. I don't demonize any path. I went through mine, but I was not fulfilled, and that is an important consideration. When you feel like you're not fully giving yourself to the world, that's the first signal to ask, 'What am I actually doing here?' Self-inquiry is crucial to start. What is self-actualization? There are many definitions, but for me, self-actualization is connected to one very important book, your book, the book you have been writing your whole life, your story and your understanding of yourself. Self-actualization is when you truly start understanding what your soul is here to do on this earth, who you are, and what you represent. The more you study yourself, the more you are reading your own book.

As a musician, I would say the largest struggle is where to focus. When you start off, you're kind of by yourself, and you don't really have a clear north star or plan laid out. The struggle is time, like how to invest it. I struggled with that at the beginning, but then I discovered the human design system through Greenheart, Laura, and Emanuel. I learned that I'm a projector, and my opportunity is to be open to invitations rather than push my agenda into situations. I learned this about myself in 2013. The stress of trying to make something work went away, and I became receptive. I put my energy into what I was invited into and went full force into that rather than looking elsewhere. It's like dating someone, just date them really well rather than looking for the next person or what else is out there. If that evolves, that's okay. You just go full into the relationships or opportunities that are present, and other opportunities notice, hear about, or get referred to you.

I said yes to learning from teachers, money gurus, and spiritual guidance. I studied the laws of attraction and how to manifest in life. Education is extremely important because it's something within your control. Confidence comes from education. The more competent you are in what you are offering or doing, the more confidence will come through your energy and whatever you are working toward. I started getting into master classes. I am still obsessed. Even now, I have a subscription to the MasterClass app. When I was learning music production, that is all I did, watching videos and completing an online school program. That is how I got good. It is very technical, not just creative. It is creative, but it is also about details and structure. That requires education and teachers. I surrounded myself with different teachers of all kinds. I sought teachers in spirituality, finance, love, human design, and more. You need teachers who are more experienced than you so you can learn, instead of trying to figure everything out alone. You can figure it out yourself, but it will take longer. Life is short.

My option was a home health care business opportunity, which would have been financially safe and provided a partnership. Even with that, I knew I couldn't do it, so I said no to a safe financial opportunity and chose the route of not knowing. It was a huge jump, but I was ready. After five years in the corporate world living an unfulfilled lifestyle, I was done with that. I didn't care about the cost or how to make it work. That was one of the biggest challenges in the beginning. If you don't follow your purpose, you steal something from your soul. There was a lot of trust in connecting with that. When I was let go, I already had a community supporting me. My purpose, when I had the major download, I remember it. It was 2011. It was to awaken humanity and empower them with music. Very clear.

One advantage I had was my business education. I studied marketing, organizational leadership, and entrepreneurship. I didn't go straight into those fields, but I did take sales jobs. Sales is everything because any transaction is a sales situation. I had training in inside and outside sales for various products, from hotel rooms to real estate, copier machines, energy contracts, and university development. I understood basic economics and applied that knowledge to my brand and my work with organizations. I also studied leadership, managing money, and entrepreneurship. The money you spend on education is an investment in yourself. You are investing in the most important asset you have. Not investing in yourself is a mistake, in my opinion. I started doing this early, even in 2009 while I was still in the corporate world. I took classes, including one at the Bodhi Spiritual Center called The Artist's Way. It changed my life because it reconnected me with my artist side. Even while I was still working in a cubicle, I was building the DJ Taz Rashid identity on the side without fully realizing it.

My advice is to start exploring, either with someone or alone, asking what you actually like to do. A good starting point is the classic question: if money weren't an issue, what would you do with your time? That doesn't have to define your mission, but it helps you see what you want. Many people don't even know what they like. Their parents or life have neglected their hobbies, and they've adulted so much that they've forgotten what they enjoy. That's sad because it means you've forgotten yourself. For me, doing The Artist's Way allowed me to take steps to discover what I wanted to connect to. Some people don't even know what's available for them to enjoy. Start by finding activities that make you happy, that give you joy. Desires are important to explore because they come from you, not from somewhere else.

For me, it is not about ego or fame. It is about the impact the art has on people. That is the win, because that is the mission. The financial abundance and other rewards are byproducts. You do not have to strive for them. They naturally occur from showing up and serving the community, from being the purpose. What would the world look like if everybody was living their purpose? I feel the world would be a happier place. Most spiritual lineages and schools of thought aim for love and being loved. When that is experienced, true happiness happens. A lot of misery, strife, and stress exist because people are not living their purpose. If everyone was living their purpose with the tools for abundance and economic stability, there would be less war and political conflict. People would get along and be more accepting of one another.

There was also a community called Bodhi Spiritual Center. It's like an Agape spiritual center in California, a sister church, a love church, celebrating New Thought, Ernest Holmes, The Secret, and the laws of attraction. The Reverend Mark Anthony Lord, who was the reverend of this community, was very open. My wife and I started going and attending their weekly gatherings, and we found a community. This was a very important part of the purpose filled path because I surrounded myself with individuals who were looking for their purpose or already on it, and they were in different parts or chapters of their journey. There was so much inspiration to support what I was going through. I was part of that group for almost a year to a year and a half before I was let go from the corporate world. That's the interesting thing, it didn't happen overnight. When I was let go, I already had a community supporting me. I also met the group Greenheart Transforms, which is part of Greenheart International, in 2012. That was the year after I left the corporate world. Connecting with communities is also a big first step. When you figure out what you want, find communities involved in those activities. Start connecting with those people because you may realize you absolutely love it or realize, 'That's not for me.'

Another challenge was making it work financially. There were a lot of small opportunities that were like appetizers, but you needed the entree. At that time, I didn't have kids, so that pressure wasn't there, but figuring out finances was definitely a challenge. It wasn't strife like borrowing money from a bank or parents, but it was tight. The beginning stages were very much check to check, but there was trust. That trust was a big leap of faith, understanding that there was no other option. If you don't follow your purpose, you steal something from your soul. My option was a home health care business opportunity, which would have been financially safe and provided a partnership. Even with that, I knew I couldn't do it, so I said no to a safe financial opportunity and chose the route of not knowing. It was a huge jump, but I was ready.

My purpose, when I had the major download, I remember it. It was 2011. It was to awaken humanity and empower them with music. Very clear. Today, what I do is I am a full-time music producer, a DJ, multi-instrumentalist, a father, a husband, and I create music primarily for the wellness community. Meditation music, yoga music, also dance and fun remixes, but primarily music to use for awakening. I have probably released over 800 to 900 tracks over this period. Many are under different names because I'm a ghostwriter for certain brands. I make music in lo-fi, hip hop, deep house, ambient, drones, downtempo, and as DJ Taz Rashid, I release different styles because I love exploring music. The effect I have had on the world is through music. There are thousands, if not millions, of people listening to my music globally. Music has been the way to digitally reach millions of people globally, and it is helping them awaken. A lot of the music I create is meditation music, binaural beats, breathwork, and it is implemented in that way.

A long time ago, a recruiter told me to write a list of five things professionally and five things personally, using one word each to define what lights you up and makes you feel fulfilled. If you are not doing at least three things from either side of that list, why are you doing it? At the beginning of my career, I realized half the time I was not doing any of those things. I was just doing what looked good on my CV because someone told me that was the path. But whose CV are you creating, yours or someone else's? It probably all started about eight years ago. I used to work in advertising, doing behavior change work. There were lots of campaigns that were going well, and one guy turned around and asked me, what are your hobbies, what do you like doing? I said, I love art and I love dancing. Then I realized I could not remember the last time I did any of those things.

I took the van and headed out. I had always been drawn to Lisbon. I always felt it was a city I could live in. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be. What unfolded after that was the feeling, for the first time ever, that I really belonged somewhere. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold.

As I arrived in Portugal and started to settle down, I was starting a new innovation consultancy and opening up to new ideas. I was finding my way into regeneration. I had been in a sustainability context and realized that it did not feel quite right. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live. A little while ago, someone told me we've misappropriated the word weird. It used to mean uniqueness, individuality, and a kind of magical, mystical sense. We should all get a bit more weird, enjoy our diversity, experiment in how we express ourselves, and celebrate who we really are and want to be in each other. The more space we create earlier on, when raising children and teenagers, the more we can encourage them to listen and follow what excites them, and to have space to experiment, to get things wrong, and to try things out. Encouraging risk and experimentation enables people to find their own path.

Recently, we have been learning from the Aakus, spending time with them and talking about what is the song being played by all of us and our unique role in it. Along this journey, I started to hear about a prophecy. Vagilio, who runs Ecstatic Portugal, shared at a five day ecstatic event that there is a prophecy in Portugal called the Fifth Kingdom, first prophesized around 300 years ago and repeated multiple times since. The prophecy talks about the day the child rules, prisoners are freed, and everything is shared. What this means is that a new empire will be born. However, it will not be a physical empire, but a spiritual one. Originally, the Portuguese thought it was a child king coming to them. Now it is understood that the child who rules is your essence, your inner child, your joy, and your richness.

I had seen this astrologer who gave me some really interesting readings. As a result of seeing her, I ended up making some pretty significant choices. One of them was quitting my job in advertising almost overnight. I was on a trajectory toward things like 30 under 30 and a CEO type pathway, and I just decided, no, I cannot do this anymore. I walked in the next day, gave my notice, and said, I am out. They asked if I was sure, and I said yes. That was what triggered the first leap into traveling. I remember thinking, that place I just stopped in was pretty nice. It was by the beach, outside the city, and I could probably chill there. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be.

I realized I had spent my whole life noticing strange coincidences, like having dreams that came true or being able to guess people's family dynamics. While this whole process was happening, I went through a huge spiritual awakening. I started seeing things, tuning in empathically, and seeing past memories. I was asking myself what was happening. Everything was shifting so quickly, but at the same time, nothing was happening. As I was doing all of this inner work and starting to understand myself, it really shifted my perspective, while at the same time I was still doing innovation work for big multinational companies.

Alongside all of this, I went to a festival and met this guy, as you do, and had a wild telepathic connection with him. Afterward, I felt I needed to understand this about myself. I realized I had spent my whole life noticing strange coincidences, like having dreams that came true or being able to guess people's family dynamics. That experience sent me on a whole path of understanding energy. I started seeing energy workers, healers, going on shamanic retreats, and doing fire walking. It was one thing after another, and I kept thinking how wild and fun these cosmic creations were. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live.

I had seen this astrologer who gave me some really interesting readings. As a result of seeing her, I ended up making some pretty significant choices. One of them was quitting my job in advertising almost overnight. I was on a trajectory toward things like 30 under 30 and a CEO type pathway, and I just decided, no, I cannot do this anymore. I walked in the next day, gave my notice, and said, I am out. I had gotten into Human Design and learned that my sacral was my decision-making authority. I disciplined myself to answer only to that, even if it did not make sense. I kept telling myself, no, we are not doing this mentally, we are trusting the sacral, and following whatever came.

In 2021, I was stuck in London, pretty unhappy. I was doing interesting purpose consulting work and interesting projects, but something did not feel right. Over the space of about five weeks, my whole life blew up. My dad went into the hospital with a heart attack. One of my best friends died. I broke up with my partner. My sister had a baby, with complications, and we had to help look after him. My grandparents sold their house because my grandfather had recently passed away, a house I was meant to be living in. I lost my job. Every week, something happened that normally only happens once in a lifetime. I got to the end of those weeks and felt like I could not take any more. I was holding on by a thread, mentally. During that time, I had been building a van because I had come back and gotten stuck in lockdown and did not want to do the whole mortgage thing. When the van was ready, I realized I could not stay. There was nothing for me in England anymore. I love my family, but I had to find my path. I took the van and headed out. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be.

I had gotten into Human Design and learned that my sacral was my decision-making authority. I disciplined myself to answer only to that, even if it did not make sense. I kept telling myself, no, we are not doing this mentally, we are trusting the sacral, and following whatever came. My advice for people who haven't found their purpose yet is to find space to listen and experiment. Start developing tools for listening beyond intellectual understanding, like listening to your body. Notice how you react to things, when you contract or expand, when you choose out of fear, when you choose out of joy, when you are following shoulds. Listening to these cues and becoming attuned to when you are being programmed versus approaching something from truth starts to reveal patterning. In tandem with that, we have forgotten how to listen to our bodies. We are not encouraged to challenge ourselves and ask, what do I actually think about this? Is this something I want to do?

I am now on a five month journey because after 18 months of hibernation and listening, I felt I needed new energy. I needed to get out there, so I committed to doing a five month journey of synchronicity, just seeing where I went and who I would follow, without enough money to get back, and just being like, okay, the right jobs are going to come in, I will meet the right people, and I just need to listen, follow the signs, and see where I am. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. On the Lion's Gate portal in 2024, I felt ready. I could feel it was close. I just needed a sign. I wondered, what is the next thing, what am I meant to do? I blew out my candle and went back to sleep in my van. The next day, I got a call from my boss. He said, I'm really sorry, Sophia, but I have to let you go.

This approach resulted in me getting my first tattoo, which says surrender in Bengali, to your truth and intuition. That became the philosophy I would move through. What unfolded was finding community, connecting with people, and a lot of deep listening. Looking back now over the last 18 months, it has been a hibernation of my inner world. It was about listening, attuning, sensing subtleties, noticing what lit me up and what did not. The biggest struggle I have had in living my purpose is the moments when I feel completely lost, when it is still unfolding. You do not have a clear line of what you are doing or what you are about, and you are just watching everything unfold. Listening and creating that space also meant letting go of many things, which was uncomfortable and painful. It is during this transition, when things are falling away but nothing has come in yet, that you are in a vast space of not knowing. I read a quote a long time ago that says, when everything is unknown, everything is possible. Sometimes you need to clear the garden for a new crop to grow and just trust the process. There are really big blocks where it feels like pushing water uphill, like why is this so hard? Maybe it's hard because it's not in flow, and it's okay to let go, release control, and try to surrender into it as hard as it can be.

Okay. So, if you're looking for a purpose, the thing is it's about patience. And me being the most impatient, irrational human being on the planet, that's been tricky. But I guess when things go wrong now, I kind of vibe with it. I'm like, okay, I'm going to learn from this. So, no matter what you're in right now, it's a learning curve and you learn in pain. You adapt in pain. If you're getting to a certain age, you can teach the next generation how to navigate it and how to just trust the process. Trust the resilience. That's what it is. Trust the process. Life is painful, but that is the gift. Weirdly.

Davinia dove into the science of the body, discovering how food, light, hormones, and a mindset can completely rewire a life. She has best-selling books called It's Not a Diet and Hack Your Hormones and a supplement brand called Willpower because she says it's not about willpower, it's about understanding your biology. She, along with our last two podcast guests, really talk about how becoming unstoppable is really understanding your biology. There are millions of women who are going through perimenopause and becoming more insulin resistant that they're shattered. They can't stop eating. They're eating for energy, but it's actually working against them. It doesn't work anymore.

I've got this big sense of adventure. I don't know what it is about me. I'm always seeking dopamine and I always want to know what's next. So that drives me and propels me to say, I'll give that a go and I'll feed it back to anyone who's interested. After battling addiction and losing her health, Davinia dove into the science of the body, discovering how food, light, hormones, and a mindset can completely rewire a life.

And it's helped me relax into what my kids are doing. I mean, several years ago, I never would have taken my kids out of school to come away here, but I think life's for living. And it's like osmosis. Children learn things really quickly, they're molding. And the younger I can get them into this acceptance that life is for being creative, I think you've got the keys to the kingdom and you can be led by your own gut instinct. As long as you've got a healthy gut, which we learned about here. So got good microbiome, good direction. So yeah, I mean for me it's given them an insight into health. They can stay away. I can teach them. No, don't have that. Have this. See how you feel. Check in with yourself. I mean, that's all it's about.

I left school at 16 to become an actor, much against my parents' permission. They were just, 'Oh my god, you got to finish school. You got to do this. You got to go to university.' I had my brain and my instinct had different ideas. And it's made me relax as a mother because now at 45, I'm doing what I was born to do, communicating, absorbing, translating things into layman's terms. Several years ago, I never would have taken my kids out of school to come away here, but I think life's for living.

I've got this big sense of adventure. I don't know what it is about me. I'm always seeking dopamine and I always want to know what's next. So that drives me and propels me to say, I'll give that a go and I'll feed it back to anyone who's interested. So, when I discovered this molecule, I thought, I've got to get it out there. I've got to powder it, and I've got to get it to anyone who will listen. And it's working.

Okay. So, if you're looking for a purpose, the thing is it's about patience. And me being the most impatient, irrational human being on the planet, that's been tricky. But I guess when things go wrong now, I kind of vibe with it. I'm like, okay, I'm going to learn from this. I have got a survival instinct which anyone who is in the thick of it right now probably knows they have because they know essentially they're going to come out of it. You know, deaths, trauma, divorces, whatever you're going through right now, we know we're going to survive it. We're going to have a badge of honor and you're going to move on from it and you're going to teach people how to get through that. So, no matter what you're in right now, it's a learning curve and you learn in pain. You adapt in pain. That's my lesson. I've been through a hell of a lot of pain. I mean, coming off alcohol is the most horrific, debilitating, skin-crawling experience. You feel like you're possessed with the devil. And then all of a sudden you got carbohydrates to contend with, divorces to contend with, custody battles to contend with. I'll teach you how to survive them.

Me being driven in the direction I am, I hope, is beneficial to my four kids. They see what purpose does for somebody, whether it's conventional or in my case, not. I left school at 16 to become an actor, much against my parents' permission. They were just, 'Oh my god, you got to finish school. You got to do this. You got to go to university.' I had my brain and my instinct had different ideas. And it's made me relax as a mother because now at 45, I'm doing what I was born to do, communicating, absorbing, translating things into layman's terms. I don't know how I can do it, but I just can. I didn't learn that at school. And it's helped me relax into what my kids are doing.

A breakdown, breakthrough moment for me was, I mean, I've got sober a hundred years ago it feels like. So when I lost my mother, I didn't pick up alcohol. I picked up junk food, or what I now know is junk food. I felt lethargic and shattered. But it was when I discovered this molecule, this just in the humble coconut, this medium-chain triglyceride that helped me say no to the world's most addictive foods. That for me was a relief and a revelation. And I thought, I've got to get this out to the public. After battling addiction and losing her health, Davinia dove into the science of the body, discovering how food, light, hormones, and a mindset can completely rewire a life.

When I lost my mother, I didn't pick up alcohol. I picked up junk food, or what I now know is junk food, you know, breads, granola, sourdough, pizza. I mean, I couldn't stop eating it. What I didn't realize was these were addictive foods. And then I got into another trap, an entrapment. I felt lethargic and shattered. But it was when I discovered this molecule, this just in the humble coconut, this medium-chain triglyceride that helped me say no to the world's most addictive foods. That for me was a relief and a revelation. And I thought, I've got to get this out to the public. There are millions of women who are going through perimenopause and becoming more insulin resistant that they're shattered. They can't stop eating. They're eating for energy, but it's actually working against them. It doesn't work anymore. So, when I discovered this molecule, I thought, I've got to get it out there. I've got to powder it, and I've got to get it to anyone who will listen. And it's working. People are getting ahead of the craving, and they're not a slave to big food anymore.

I've discovered my purpose through trial and error. I mean, I've had ups and downs. I've had the most awful trauma with my addictive personality and I've come through it. And I think it was all a journey. You know, you got to go through the rough to get the smooth. And because I've got all the war scars, I think people trust me. After battling addiction and losing her health, Davinia dove into the science of the body, discovering how food, light, hormones, and a mindset can completely rewire a life. So when I lost my mother, I didn't pick up alcohol. I picked up junk food, or what I now know is junk food, you know, breads, granola, sourdough, pizza. I mean, I couldn't stop eating it. What I didn't realize was these were addictive foods. And then I got into another trap, an entrapment. I felt lethargic and shattered. But it was when I discovered this molecule, this just in the humble coconut, this medium-chain triglyceride that helped me say no to the world's most addictive foods. That for me was a relief and a revelation.

And my final advice on that is your purpose is always developing. So don't get discouraged. I feel like a lot of people get frustrated because when they understand more about their purpose, say through astrology, they don't have the whole plan from A to Z laid out in front of them. And most of them are left with, well, what's next? That feeling of, okay, well, what do I do now? Okay, I know I'm supposed to work with this, and now what? So, the now what is going to depend on your level of focus, your level of dedication, and with time, you're going to build on that. What may start as an original intention may develop into something else. So, be open. Know that your purpose is always going to be developing. It's always going to be expanding. And it should feel good. If it doesn't feel good, then go back within. Ask some more questions. Because when you're living your purpose, it should feel good.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing someone living their purpose. That beauty comes from inside. It shines from inside. It exudes like a perfume and it is intoxicating in the most beautiful ways. You become more charismatic. You become more alive. You become more influential. You make more connections. So when you step into your purpose, when I stepped into my purpose, it was from night to day. The way the world responded to me was so different entirely from all those 31 years or 32 years up until that point that I had lived my life until coming into astrology. It was a night-to-day shift. The world started to respond to me with sovereignty, with wonder, with receptivity, in a way that I had never experienced before. This only gave me more confidence that this was my path.

I was interested in accessing deeper wisdom about myself, and I was just submerged into many different systems for many years, over a decade of studying very deeply different systems to understand human personality and human behavior. So, be open and receptive. Find a good system, a good teacher, a good mentor, and then take steps. There are many different systems out there and it's really fascinating once you see the same message displayed in all the systems. You really know there is no shadow of doubt.

In astrology, we see through people's charts that their purpose, their destiny, is 95% of the time something that most people resist. This is my main function in the work that I do through the school I have and the sessions I give: to help people understand what really matters. This is the punch in the gut I was talking about, that sense of responsibility, because deep inside you know, and the punch in the gut comes from knowing that you've been running away from it, underestimating it, pushing it away when it's the one thing you should be making a priority in your life. For example, just yesterday I was sitting with this woman who had a purpose with Leo. This is to embrace the solar aspect of her identity. These people are very creative. These people have to be on either stage or in a place where they can receive attention and recognition as well. But because this is their path of evolution, most of them run away from it. This woman that I was with, she said, 'When I was born, when I was a young child, I had this impression that I was born to be famous and it never happened.' She actually gave up on her dreams when she was very young. She was a musician, an artist, and that was her path. I said, 'Well, the reason why you were born with that knowing is because that was your destiny. That is still your destiny.'

There are many different systems out there and it's really fascinating once you see the same message displayed in all the systems. You really know there is no shadow of doubt. So find a system that you resonate with, someone that can help you navigate through this and start to refine what your process is. So, be open and receptive. Find a good system, a good teacher, a good mentor, and then take steps. I tell my students all the time, you're never going to get anywhere with astrology if you don't practice. Practice with your friends. Practice. Take steps. I was interested in accessing deeper wisdom about myself, and I was just submerged into many different systems for many years, over a decade of studying very deeply different systems to understand human personality and human behavior.

When I came into astrology, it was such a powerful, life-changing experience for me. Right after that, I found out I was a fourth-generation astrologer. My father remembered to tell me, and he didn't tell me before because I was born and raised in a cult and that information was not revealed to me there. After I left the cult at the age of 27 and came into astrology, my father said, 'Oh yeah, it runs in our lineage.' This was the first time that I felt this conviction with a system before. I never felt that with any other system where I was compelled to use it to help other people. The moment that I had that aha feeling, it wasn't just an aha of being excited and surprised, it was a deep, impactful, sobering punch in the gut, literally, because it was that sense of responsibility with why I was here. So when I realized that through my chart, I was in shock and I said, 'No, anything but that.' I cried. I said, anything else but that.

I could see the results. The more I would study my charts and look at the connections in my charts with astrology, seeing how that is not only coming from my lineage, we come from a lineage of astrologers, but also as a past life connection, if you will. I was really certain that this is what I was supposed to do here and continue carrying this legacy forward. I discovered I was a fourth generation astrologer, and this gave me the confidence to really take this seriously, because at the time when I learned astrology, I did not learn it with the intention of becoming an astrologer. To me, it was one more tool that I was using. After I left the cult at the age of 27 and came into astrology, my father said, 'Oh yeah, it runs in our lineage.' I felt such a deep sense of responsibility with using astrology for much more than just knowing myself, but to use it to also help other people know about themselves.

So, be open and receptive. Find a good system, a good teacher, a good mentor, and then take steps. Start somewhere. Even if it's small steps, take steps because do you know what's going to encourage you to keep going? Results. So, you got to take steps. You got to start somewhere. I tell my students all the time, you're never going to get anywhere with astrology if you don't practice. Practice with your friends. Practice. Take steps. And when you see results, even if they're small, that's what's going to encourage you to keep going and take the next step. So, don't give up. So my advice is to start somewhere. You definitely have to start. You have to look for it. You have to have that receptivity. Once you open up and have the receptivity, I would say to look for support, look for someone that you trust.

But you need focus. You need commitment. You need dedication. The more you focus on your north node, the more it becomes your power. Even though there is no sense of familiarity and no experience from the soul, it's designed to be your greatest expression of power in this lifetime. So all you have to do is focus there and follow that, no matter how you feel. It's that level of persistence. You do that, when you have that commitment and dedication to your purpose, regardless of how you feel, your purpose starts to open up to you, respond to you. It's a dance. If you know your purpose, once you know your purpose, there are going to be commitments, tests, challenges, and this is where your evolution happens. Now once you start to have an idea of what your purpose is, the next advice I would give is commitment. Commitment. Because it's one thing to find your purpose, let's say, or find something that you want to do next. Now, it's another thing to follow through. It's another thing to have the necessary commitment and dedication to see results.

In astrology, we see through people's charts that their purpose, their destiny, is 95% of the time something that most people resist. Your life won't happen. It won't work. You won't find satisfaction if you're not following your north node, your north star, your purpose. The reason people resist that for the most part is because it's uncharted territory. It's that fear of the unknown. There is no familiar sense of that path. So deep inside there is a deep knowing. We're all born with that sense of inner knowing, but then we deny it because it's uncharted territory. My greatest challenge in following my purpose, I would say, is the fact that it was my purpose. Because I'm so familiar with how this works, and I see this, it repeats in everybody's life. Because it's your purpose, it's also your greatest challenge and it is about getting outside your comfort zone. When we step into the unknown, this is where evolution happens. So my greatest challenge was to step into the unknown and say this is non-negotiable. Either I keep denying it, putting it off, and continue being sad, with all this repressed goodness inside of me that knows it's there and needs to come out, but I'm not allowing it to. Or I face my fears and I do it. That's what I chose to do.

My purpose is astrology, and my purpose is actually helping other people find their purpose through astrology. This is the interesting thing. It was through astrology that I discovered that astrology was my purpose. I remember that moment because it was a moment that I was learning about the lunar nodes in astrology. I always say the lunar nodes are my secret in astrology because the lunar nodes reveal, at the end of the day, the truth of your life path. There are many components in astrology, and when I got to the lunar nodes and started to understand and finally grasp the essence of that chart I was looking at, I began to connect the dots and put everything together. In astrology, through the lunar nodes, we see one aspect of your masteries, the trajectories, and the themes that you have already experienced. The lunar nodes come with this 180 degree polarity where the south node shows us where we're coming from, and the north node shows what we are here for. The lunar nodes dictate your purpose through the eyes of the soul, and that is an evolutionary perspective. That's the whole beauty of astrology. It helps you see what your south and north node are and gives you the roadmap to how to get there, how to follow it.

I took the van and headed out. I had always been drawn to Lisbon. I always felt it was a city I could live in. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be. What unfolded after that was the feeling, for the first time ever, that I really belonged somewhere. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold.

As I arrived in Portugal and started to settle down, I was starting a new innovation consultancy and opening up to new ideas. I was finding my way into regeneration. I had been in a sustainability context and realized that it did not feel quite right. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live. A little while ago, someone told me we've misappropriated the word weird. It used to mean uniqueness, individuality, and a kind of magical, mystical sense. We should all get a bit more weird, enjoy our diversity, experiment in how we express ourselves, and celebrate who we really are and want to be in each other. The more space we create earlier on, when raising children and teenagers, the more we can encourage them to listen and follow what excites them, and to have space to experiment, to get things wrong, and to try things out. Encouraging risk and experimentation enables people to find their own path.

Recently, we have been learning from the Aakus, spending time with them and talking about what is the song being played by all of us and our unique role in it. Along this journey, I started to hear about a prophecy. Vagilio, who runs Ecstatic Portugal, shared at a five day ecstatic event that there is a prophecy in Portugal called the Fifth Kingdom, first prophesized around 300 years ago and repeated multiple times since. The prophecy talks about the day the child rules, prisoners are freed, and everything is shared. What this means is that a new empire will be born. However, it will not be a physical empire, but a spiritual one. Originally, the Portuguese thought it was a child king coming to them. Now it is understood that the child who rules is your essence, your inner child, your joy, and your richness.

I had seen this astrologer who gave me some really interesting readings. As a result of seeing her, I ended up making some pretty significant choices. One of them was quitting my job in advertising almost overnight. I was on a trajectory toward things like 30 under 30 and a CEO type pathway, and I just decided, no, I cannot do this anymore. I walked in the next day, gave my notice, and said, I am out. They asked if I was sure, and I said yes. That was what triggered the first leap into traveling. I remember thinking, that place I just stopped in was pretty nice. It was by the beach, outside the city, and I could probably chill there. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be.

I realized I had spent my whole life noticing strange coincidences, like having dreams that came true or being able to guess people's family dynamics. While this whole process was happening, I went through a huge spiritual awakening. I started seeing things, tuning in empathically, and seeing past memories. I was asking myself what was happening. Everything was shifting so quickly, but at the same time, nothing was happening. As I was doing all of this inner work and starting to understand myself, it really shifted my perspective, while at the same time I was still doing innovation work for big multinational companies.

Alongside all of this, I went to a festival and met this guy, as you do, and had a wild telepathic connection with him. Afterward, I felt I needed to understand this about myself. I realized I had spent my whole life noticing strange coincidences, like having dreams that came true or being able to guess people's family dynamics. That experience sent me on a whole path of understanding energy. I started seeing energy workers, healers, going on shamanic retreats, and doing fire walking. It was one thing after another, and I kept thinking how wild and fun these cosmic creations were. I started going to ecstatic dances, being in eco communities, co living, and seeing different ways people wanted to live.

I had seen this astrologer who gave me some really interesting readings. As a result of seeing her, I ended up making some pretty significant choices. One of them was quitting my job in advertising almost overnight. I was on a trajectory toward things like 30 under 30 and a CEO type pathway, and I just decided, no, I cannot do this anymore. I walked in the next day, gave my notice, and said, I am out. I had gotten into Human Design and learned that my sacral was my decision-making authority. I disciplined myself to answer only to that, even if it did not make sense. I kept telling myself, no, we are not doing this mentally, we are trusting the sacral, and following whatever came.

In 2021, I was stuck in London, pretty unhappy. I was doing interesting purpose consulting work and interesting projects, but something did not feel right. Over the space of about five weeks, my whole life blew up. My dad went into the hospital with a heart attack. One of my best friends died. I broke up with my partner. My sister had a baby, with complications, and we had to help look after him. My grandparents sold their house because my grandfather had recently passed away, a house I was meant to be living in. I lost my job. Every week, something happened that normally only happens once in a lifetime. I got to the end of those weeks and felt like I could not take any more. I was holding on by a thread, mentally. During that time, I had been building a van because I had come back and gotten stuck in lockdown and did not want to do the whole mortgage thing. When the van was ready, I realized I could not stay. There was nothing for me in England anymore. I love my family, but I had to find my path. I took the van and headed out. I drove to Portugal, and the minute I got there, my whole body felt calm. It was like, okay, this is where I am meant to be.

I had gotten into Human Design and learned that my sacral was my decision-making authority. I disciplined myself to answer only to that, even if it did not make sense. I kept telling myself, no, we are not doing this mentally, we are trusting the sacral, and following whatever came. My advice for people who haven't found their purpose yet is to find space to listen and experiment. Start developing tools for listening beyond intellectual understanding, like listening to your body. Notice how you react to things, when you contract or expand, when you choose out of fear, when you choose out of joy, when you are following shoulds. Listening to these cues and becoming attuned to when you are being programmed versus approaching something from truth starts to reveal patterning. In tandem with that, we have forgotten how to listen to our bodies. We are not encouraged to challenge ourselves and ask, what do I actually think about this? Is this something I want to do?

I am now on a five month journey because after 18 months of hibernation and listening, I felt I needed new energy. I needed to get out there, so I committed to doing a five month journey of synchronicity, just seeing where I went and who I would follow, without enough money to get back, and just being like, okay, the right jobs are going to come in, I will meet the right people, and I just need to listen, follow the signs, and see where I am. It has taken me to Colombia and the Sierra Nevada, working with the Iwakus, connecting with different community projects, and still trying to see where that wants to unfold. Over the last ten years, I had passed through a small fisherman's town called Ericeira. I did not really know why. I had gone there for a day because it was on the route to somewhere else. It just so happened that every time I had been there, something pulled me back. On the Lion's Gate portal in 2024, I felt ready. I could feel it was close. I just needed a sign. I wondered, what is the next thing, what am I meant to do? I blew out my candle and went back to sleep in my van. The next day, I got a call from my boss. He said, I'm really sorry, Sophia, but I have to let you go.

This approach resulted in me getting my first tattoo, which says surrender in Bengali, to your truth and intuition. That became the philosophy I would move through. What unfolded was finding community, connecting with people, and a lot of deep listening. Looking back now over the last 18 months, it has been a hibernation of my inner world. It was about listening, attuning, sensing subtleties, noticing what lit me up and what did not. The biggest struggle I have had in living my purpose is the moments when I feel completely lost, when it is still unfolding. You do not have a clear line of what you are doing or what you are about, and you are just watching everything unfold. Listening and creating that space also meant letting go of many things, which was uncomfortable and painful. It is during this transition, when things are falling away but nothing has come in yet, that you are in a vast space of not knowing. I read a quote a long time ago that says, when everything is unknown, everything is possible. Sometimes you need to clear the garden for a new crop to grow and just trust the process. There are really big blocks where it feels like pushing water uphill, like why is this so hard? Maybe it's hard because it's not in flow, and it's okay to let go, release control, and try to surrender into it as hard as it can be.

I was working in eating disorders when I realized that I had kind of hit my limit in terms of what I could contribute. I had already published a manual teaching clinicians how to treat eating disorders. I made 400 pages of resources freely available. I taught many recorded lectures on how to do eating disorder treatment. I opened up a program that still exists at a hospital, but it felt like there was maybe more for me. So I had contributed and fulfilled my purpose, and that felt really complete. I was searching for what the next move was, and I really wanted to go into the consciousness space headlong, but it felt to me that there was a step I could not skip, which was to codify all of the twenty year experience that I have had as a psychologist, not just in eating disorders, but in suicide research, treating OCD, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, basically anything that exists. If it is a psychological disorder, I have treated it. So to put all of that somewhere for posterity, in a way that would be helpful for people, felt like a really important move.

Once you clear all the cobwebs, once you take away all of those structures that keep you off your purpose, once you are there, there is no stopping you. There is no stopping you. And so that freedom to just go, go, go. But once you are able to sit and listen to what is inside, and that hair on fire feeling comes of I have got to do this or I am going to explode, that is it. You go, and you tune out all of those distractions. It involves all of the things I have described, but ultimately there is a free will choice made to do what feels inevitable. When I think about living my purpose, it feels like there is not even a choice anymore. It feels like it is given to me. The purpose to help as a psychologist, by studying suicide, developing eating disorder interventions, or using AI to close the treatment gap in the mental health landscape, is born out of a hair on fire desire to do it.

If you do not know what your purpose is, the first step is surrender, acceptance, quieting the mind, and starting to test. Test what feels right. Maybe volunteer somewhere. Maybe help someone out, help a friend in need, see how it feels to be of service, and then see if you can match your talents with that. If you do not have any particular talents, you can develop them. We all have skills. We all can develop skill. It is that marriage between skill, the willingness to develop it, and feeling what ignites you. That is it. It is trial and error sometimes, and that is okay. Trust in the process and trust that you will get there. The advice that I have for someone, perhaps like yourself, who has not found your purpose is that it is okay. It is totally okay. Everyone who now knows their purpose once did not know their purpose. And part of your purpose is to find your purpose. That is part of the process. How do you do that? You do that first by letting go of the expectation of what it is or what it should be.

When people are faced with that choice between doing what is easy, sticking to the script, sticking to the programming of people telling them what they should do, and following those orders, versus taking a critical look at that psychological setup and going inward to see what calls to them, that decision is a multi step process. To me, alignment means operating from a place that is devoid of fear. Maybe the fear is there, but you are not giving into it. You are operating from a centeredness and from your heart, rather than giving into the ego, giving into what scares you, giving into what other people think you should do, and really sitting and listening to what is calling to you, what is true, and having the courage to step out regardless of the naysayers, potential rejection, or failure, and doing what it is that calls to you from within.

Once you strip away the programming and the fears, you are left with something undeniable. And what is undeniable, that is your purpose. The purpose to help as a psychologist, by studying suicide, developing eating disorder interventions, or using AI to close the treatment gap in the mental health landscape, is born out of a hair on fire desire to do it. That hair on fire desire comes from being unencumbered by fear. But once you are able to sit and listen to what is inside, and that hair on fire feeling comes of I have got to do this or I am going to explode, that is it. You go, and you tune out all of those distractions. When I think about living my purpose, it feels like there is not even a choice anymore. It feels like it is given to me.

I did not know what to do, and I was invited to something called the Bhutan Innovation Forum in the country of Bhutan, where I met investors in a company called Yuna. All I heard the entire time I was in Bhutan was Yuna, Yuna, Yuna. And I thought, what is this Yuna thing that everybody is talking about? I came to find out that Yuna is an AI powered mental health coaching app that is very low cost and very scalable, and that they needed someone who fit my description, a treatment innovator, not just an academic scientist, psychologist, or therapist, but someone who has innovated in the treatment space. And I thought, I am perfect for this. It felt like fate, but it was really scary because this is uncharted territory.

In the eating disorder treatment that I created, at the foundation is full acceptance of the body and an understanding that the body is not the self. We have been taught, especially women, that we are equal to our bodies. We are how we look. We are how much we weigh. We are how old we are. All of these numbers. We are reduced to objectively measurable things. But we are not a thing. We are a being. And when we think of ourselves as how old we are, what our dress size is, etc., we are denying our true divine conscious beingness. And so, to recognize through the recovery of an eating disorder that we are not our bodies, that we are so much more, that really is the goal. And that is borne out in so many different ways. There are so many different techniques, but all of them are really in service of understanding that we are so much more than the sum of our parts.

Once you clear all the cobwebs, once you take away all of those structures that keep you off your purpose, once you are there, there is no stopping you. There is no stopping you. And so that freedom to just go, go, go. That is what is in it. That is what is in it for you. And there is a spiritual freedom in that too. There is. Because when you are living your purpose, you are in touch with the nature of your consciousness and what you are here to do, and what you are here to do is bigger than any one person. That is big. It is as high as it gets. So you are actually living in what we will call divine alignment. The reason I am so thrilled to be helping co create Yuna is because I needed these tools when I was sixteen. When I was struggling, I walked myself to the public library and read self help books to try to figure it out. There were no resources. Many people still do not have access to resources, and that disparity absolutely needs to be addressed.

What happens when you find your purpose is that you are free. You are free. That is it. That is what is in it for you. You are free from your own fears. Because when you are living your purpose, you are in touch with the nature of your consciousness and what you are here to do, and what you are here to do is bigger than any one person. That is big. It is as high as it gets. So you are actually living in what we will call divine alignment. And that feeling that you get, it is not necessarily easy. It is not necessarily restful, but it is pure. It is pure and it is free. And there is nothing, nothing, nothing better than unchaining yourself from the servitude of your own fears. We would come as a species into coherence. We would start resonating with one another at the same level. Once that happens, it feels like the next evolutionary step for our species.

It has been scary every day since joining the co founder team. There have been so many things that have come up that scared me. Ignoring praise, criticism, and distraction to stay on purpose. There are the naysayers, the people who idolize a person in this role, and all of it has to be ignored because all of it, the praise, the rejection, all of it, is a distraction from the purpose. The biggest struggle for me in living my purpose is to tune out all of that noise. We need to evolve past the point where we need external validation or external warning. We need to pay attention to our intuition that tells us, no, this thing is going to work. And it is going to work because I am going to help make it work. We need to trust our own fortitude and also trust that if you fail, it is okay and you will learn from it. That is the key. And it is hard. It is hard to stay on purpose. There are a million temptations. There are a million distractions.

Rejecting comments from my colleagues who are therapists who think that this is an awful thing and it cannot replace therapy, which it is not intended to, or whatever. There is so much noise. There is so much noise. There are the naysayers, the people who idolize a person in this role, and all of it has to be ignored because all of it, the praise, the rejection, all of it, is a distraction from the purpose. And the purpose is to be loving, truthful, and to serve. The biggest struggle for me in living my purpose is to tune out all of that noise, all of the people saying that I should not do it, or that it is too risky, or that I should totally do it because I am going to be rich, or whatever. All of the opinion, all of that external opinion, that is not what guides the way. Be the youest you. That is what I would say to the world. Be the youest you.

When I was deciding whether or not to become a psychologist, I was offered a semester long internship at Sydney Children's Hospital in Australia, working with kids with cancer. The hospital was located right on Bondi Beach, which is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. I did not know if I was cut out for the role of helping kids with cancer. I had never met a child with cancer. It felt really overwhelming. It felt really scary. When I got to my internship and I was looking down the road at the beach, I thought to myself, I can either go to the most beautiful beach in the world or confront all of the horrors that come with working in a hospital. That was a decision point for me. I could have made the decision to skip out, not face my fears, not be of service, and not be honest by not honoring my commitment, and just skip out. That was a pivotal moment for me, where I made the choice to walk into that hospital and see what was in store. I thought to myself, whether or not I personally face this, these kids are going to be in this hospital, and they are either going to have someone there to help them through it or not. That was a very sobering moment for me. I think that it essentially changed my life, because that was the first really hard decision I made up until that point that felt cogent and aligned. It felt loving. It felt truthful. It felt like it was being of service. AI is the wild west. There are currently no consistent regulations about what we can do with AI. A million things could go wrong. But I got quiet and listened to what was coming to me intuitively, which was that this is going to work.

Growing up, there used to be a choking feeling, a real tightness within me, because I had this awful thought that I could not bear dying and not knowing it all. I don't know what it all was, but I had this feeling, I've got to know something, and it would be terrible. So it wasn't knowing something, it was remembering something that was the choking feeling. I have to remember, and when I did remember, that feeling went away. It's difficult to articulate and pinpoint one thing, but all of these books that I'd been reading, I mean from 15, I was reading esoteric books, and I would have this feeling about books. I'd say, 'Nope, nope, that one's not right. Yep, I'll take that. Something there.' I didn't know how I knew that.

I'm a shameless sharer. That's my passion and purpose. I love gathering knowledge, finding truths, and sharing them with people, and sharing people with people. All my life, I've been interested in searching for knowledge. There's a truth that I was trying to find. I knew something was out there somewhere, but I thought my life was about me and the ambitions that I had.

I'm a great believer in self-knowledge. I think to know thyself is one of the most important things that we can do when we're here. I was always very curious about things like astrology, numerology, palmistry, human design, Gene Keys, all of the tools that can help us know who we are because we might have ideas, we might have inklings, but we're trained to be so, certainly in England, you don't push yourself forward, you don't have big ideas, you don't big yourself up. Who are you to be thinking those things? And so we push those things aside. But when we start studying astrology or numerology or human design and we get the confirmation of certain things, that is the first thing I think that people should be doing, know thyself in whatever way that's going to come to you. Find out what your skills are, and ask other people. We're so afraid of asking someone, tell me what you see in me. Tell me what you know about me that I don't know about myself.

I told my mother at the age of four that I was going to be a famous writer. I don't know how a child would even know what a famous writer is, but I knew that I wanted to write. I knew books were in my life, and I was going to write lots of books and become very famous. And I did. I had some fame. I knew that books were in my future. I knew that I wanted to write. I didn't know how that was going to happen. My mother was a single parent with five children she had to take care of, and what she wanted me to do was to go out and get a job. And she wanted me to be a typist. And even when I started writing books, she couldn't get her head around the fact that I wasn't a typist. Every time I spoke to her, she'd say, 'Have you got lots of typing to do this week?' and I'd say yes. She didn't know what I was typing was writing books.

What I didn't realize until much later is that I actually had a very good connection with my inner GPS, my inner guidance system. And I used to think that it was, I've studied body language, so I'm just reading people, or I've studied NLP or psychology, I'm reading people. I was reading people in a whole other way. And it became clear to me one day when, as an editor, I'm very good at spotting typos. And I remember standing in the doorway of a client whose book I was writing. We'd just come into the room and I looked at his screen and said, 'There's a typo there.' And he said, 'How do you do that? How do you know that? You're on the other side of the room.' And I thought about it, and I used an NLP technique to discover how do I do that, and I realized that what's going on is that my eyes are seeing a pattern that is not correct. And it's as if my brain, in speeded-up time, goes inside, what's wrong? What's not correct? And I have a feeling in my tummy that tells me something's out, something's not right. And so this ability, and it is something that I've learned, is an amazing sixth sense. I know when someone isn't telling the truth. I know when they're not being authentic. I know when something isn't right. And I know it because I have what I call a typo in my tummy. So I've learned to recognize this quiet voice or feeling in my gut that says, 'Pay attention. Pay attention.' So yeah, my typo in my tummy is my inner guidance.

Up until my late 30s, early 40s, it was still, to a large part, about me becoming this famous writer. That was a hard road, very hard road, because I was the wrong class. I didn't have the resources to be able to do that. And one day, I had a download, and it's too long to go into now, but out of that download came the understanding that it really wasn't about me. It was about remembering something that I knew and had forgotten, and I had to find that. I had to go and research and read and do as much discovery as I could. And then, a few years later, I realized that I had remembered. I remembered what was important and what I was here to do, and that is to share, to find knowledge, to help other people remember who they are. In 1987, which was the year of the harmonic convergence, and I didn't know that until much later, something happened at some point and I realized that all of this looking that I was doing for something out there, it went away, that feeling. And it was, I know what I need to know, which is that we are so much more than we think we are.

A lot of people say they don't know what their calling is. But I think we do. We just don't recognize the clues. If we go back to childhood and think about what was it that made our heart sing, what was the thing that gave us the most joy within, then we will find that there is something, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's writing as it was for me, whether it is something else. There are pointers. But if we can push that aside and say, 'Who am I? What do I want? What makes my soul sing?' we will find what our purpose is. Because the feeling that we get when we live in our purpose is so different than the feeling we have when we're not. I think it's alignment. I think it's a connection to our soul, to our higher self. When we become fully aligned, it's such a joyful feeling. It's such a natural feeling. I can rest in this kind of feeling. It's a knowingness, it's getting into alignment.

But once I knew that I had to come to America, which was a huge thing, it meant leaving my children, my family, my mother, everything. It was scary as hell, but I knew I had to do this. So I just said to the universe, 'Okay, well, I'm not going anywhere cold.' So after that moment, once I said yes, everything, and I mean everything, fell into place for me. Everything happened by sheer synchronicity. I went to Canada. I was staying with my sister. Before I went to Canada, there had been two job opportunities that arose, and I knew I had to get a work permit to get into America. I didn't have a degree, but after a period of showing the authorities what I had done throughout my career, they gave me the go-ahead because I had the equivalent experience that they were looking for. I was interviewed recently by somebody who has written a book about synchronicity and is studying it. And I think you cannot divide synchronicity from intention. I think intention is part of the magnetic attraction to draw things to you. Thoughts are electric, emotions are magnetic, and I think that synchronicity happens when you believe that it can happen. When you believe you can have what you want and that things are just going to show up for you.

I think that once I had this understanding, that I was trying to remember something, my entire career focus changed. I realized that I had work to do on myself, that I had been chasing fame for all the wrong reasons, and that it wasn't going to give me what I'd been looking for. And I knew that I had to go within, spend some time working on me, and reevaluating what I wanted in my life. And out of that came this absolute knowing that I had to go to America. I had to go to America because I was going to find something there that was going to be pivotal in helping me move forward in whatever it was I had come to do. At that point, I didn't realize that what I'd come to do was to share, to connect people with information and knowledge.

And it was, I know what I need to know, which is that we are so much more than we think we are. That we are amazing, energetic, infinite beings. That we are part of everything and each other. That's what I was trying to remember. I think we're all creative beings. I think that if we are sparks of God, consciousness, the universe, whatever you want to call it, then we have exactly the same talent, skills, facilities. We can create magic. We can create. And I think that we just have to believe we do. I needed to believe that I had that ability, and I think that's why I built those three things into that visualization. And I've created so many things since that people would say that's impossible. You can't achieve that. And I've done it. And we all have the ability. We just have to believe that we are creative beings.

Books have been such a huge part of my life. I couldn't imagine a life without books. I've always been an avid reader. I help people write books. I've written books of my own. I love to help people tell the stories that they feel they would like to share with the world. I edit. I judge books. I read a lot of books because I also interview a lot of people, and that is a wonderful way of keeping books in my life, of serving this desire in me to know everything. I also started the No BS Spiritual Book Club, and this was something that I felt was becoming a necessity for people because there are so many books being published, especially spiritual books. There are so many people waking up looking for answers. They don't know where to find them. And there's an awful lot of books out there that are, quite frankly, just fluff. So I wanted to find what are the most important books. And I'd interviewed so many people that I decided I would ask them what were the 10 books that influenced them the most on their life journey, because if people could relate to these authors, these spiritual teachers, and the books that they read that changed their life, they would be more inclined to find the ones that were going to change their lives.

I found a book that fell, literally fell. We hear this so many times, where books just fall off bookshelves in a secondhand bookstore. A book about the Silva Method of Mind Control. And I decided this is what I'm going to master, and that job is mine. So for two weeks, every night I practiced, but I decided that I wanted to know for certain that it was me that had created this. So I built three things that were unlikely into this visualization. Every night I would do the same visualization, same three things. So when I got to America, I was sitting in this guy's office at 8:00 in the morning and we were talking, and at 10:00 he suddenly said, 'You've got the job.' That was the first thing that I built into this. So then he asked his secretary to get their attorney on the phone, how are we going to do this? You're going to be here for another couple of hours while we work out the logistics. And then about an hour later, he said to me, 'Let's go to lunch.' That was the second thing I'd built into it. And after lunch, the third thing that I'd built into it happened when he said, 'I'm going to drive you around San Diego, so you can see your new home.' So I went back to the hotel, and I thought, 'Yes, I've done it. I'm a creator.'

I feel envy, and for that you need to have real guts and courage and say, yes, I feel envy. What can I do to change this? I take care of myself. I need to love myself. I need to take care of myself with food, exercise. I need whatever your temple needs for you to feel complete, but for you, not for others, for approval, because that is an emotional void, simply so that you wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, 'Wow, today I feel great.' At that very moment, you automatically step into your own darkness. The darkness truly hurts. You cry, you scream, you vomit, etc. Once you expel all of that, your organ begins to heal.

There was no moment when I said, this is what I will do, this is what I came to do. I did not go to it. It came to me. I studied, did my own thing, opened my beauty salons, and so on. This was simply happening. It was not something I was trying to force. It was something my soul was meant to do. I did not have a choice. It just happened. It was not that at some point I said, okay, yes, this is my calling. I do not even say that to this day. I do not say, yes, this is absolutely my thing. What in life ever truly remains permanent? Nothing. Our jobs are nothing. Children grow. Houses are built. All things are made. Everything dies and is born all the time. I cannot say this is mine. This is today. Tomorrow I do not know. The important thing is to be able to enjoy the new thing that is coming.

Do not focus on the front, on the outside. Focus on the inside to see what is happening to you. Be honest. Do not ever be afraid of having imperfections because true perfection simply does not exist within humanity. We have so many beliefs that are ingrained in us from the moment we are born. Everything we read was written by someone else based on a concept they had at some particular time. It is understood that it is real. Real is now. Real is what we are feeling. And if you believe that, what do you feel? Do you feel like giving love? Do you feel like supporting others? Do you feel like seeing yourself? No matter what you believe, no matter who you are, let's shed the suit and simply offer our hearts and hands. That is my life's dream.

Sometimes I have mental songs playing. If I start to take action and want to achieve something, I simply limit it because I'm doing it with my thoughts, and our thinking has a limit. If I say, well, I'm going to take this out here, I'm going to operate here, I'm going to do, do, do, that doesn't exist. That is not real. That's ego fantasy to feel important. There was no moment when I said, this is what I will do, this is what I came to do. I did not go to it. It came to me. I studied, did my own thing, opened my beauty salons, and so on. This was simply happening. It was not something I was trying to force. It was something my soul was meant to do. I did not have a choice. It just happened. The mission of life is simply to live in the present, to nourish your spirit and just let it transform if it needs to.

I had a complicated childhood, with a mother's absence and a father's absence. All of that created the human being I am today. I had many conflicts with my maternal side. She assaulted me many times, to the point of wishing me to somehow depart from this earthly plane. What that did was create a profound shift within me, opening myself to unconditional love free from judgment. Throughout the years, in the past, I've reincarnated and died many times trying to deliver messages. Now it's my turn at this precise moment, and the soul simply did it so many times that it did it automatically. I started with a cleanse. I wasn't born eating just lettuce. I used to go dancing, worked at night, smoked. I'd smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, drank wine, was foul mouthed. Then the soul said, okay, that's it. You've experienced this. You've lived it. Now your purification has arrived. And I simply stopped tolerating gluten. I quit smoking. I quit drinking. I quit so many things.

I had many conflicts with my maternal side. She assaulted me many times, to the point of wishing me to somehow depart from this earthly plane. What that did was create a profound shift within me, opening myself to unconditional love free from judgment. That is why today, when I see people, I see anyone of any religion, of any background. I see murderers, rapists, I see everyone, because love is for all. God is for all, not just for one. And one fundamental thing I realized, which was and still is my greatest teacher to this very day, my mother. It is absolutely crucial not to fall into the ego when we awaken wisdoms deep within our hearts because it truly belongs to our hearts, not to our ego. Your partner is a great teacher. All that anger that sometimes makes you lash out because they don't do things as they should or as you'd like, well, all of that is pure magic for your soul because the person is who they are and love is unconditional.

In fact, even before we incarnate, we already have a vision of our parents. We know what is coming through the family lineage. We need them to have a certain vibration to be able to enter that space. Imagine a painting with a lot of points and lines, which is where life is written and where you'll encounter souls you already know. I don't believe in a God who divides. I don't believe in a God who chooses some and not others. God is for everyone. So all the souls incarnated today incarnated in the same eras, finding each other as different characters, experiencing ourselves. We have that blueprint. We have souls wanting to incarnate in that self-experimentation that comes with the parents, the lineage, and the day it's born, the day it arrives. When that vibrational level is created for it to come, light is produced because in conception light is made. And the moment light is made, it automatically takes the stars' information. Everything, we are one. As it is above, so it is below, the macro and the microcosm. And all of that is a constant expansion and experimentation.

Listen, feel, and observe. When you sense things in that moment when you are with someone, it gives you a feeling. What is happening to you? But don't focus on the front, on the outside. Focus on the inside to see what is happening to you and be honest. Don't ever be afraid of having imperfections, because true perfection simply doesn't exist within humanity. Suddenly I meet a woman who has very suggestive leggings with a very revealing top. So I start with the criticism: oh, look how she comes to the gym. Stop, stop, because I know that many people find themselves in that very position. Criticism is the easiest thing to do. Any criticism you make will always speak about you, not about someone else. What's really happening inside is that you don't feel good about yourself. So where do you look then? Outside or inside? No, deep inside. I feel envy, and for that you need to have real guts and courage and say, yes, I feel envy. What can I do to change this? Every single emotion that makes itself present, you must always observe it. Your partner is a great teacher.

Many people come and say, I came to heal this tiny little finger because it hurts. The ego is very superficial. Perhaps this little finger worries you, but in reality, you need to heal your maternal grief. Because you have denied it. You have a deep-seated hangup, or a subconscious notion that you must always be strong, and so you do not allow yourself to experience any grief in your life. Many times people come and say, I was happy at home drinking mate. I walk in and I feel like crying. Why do I feel like crying if I am fine? You think you are fine because you lie to yourself all the time. Then the heart begins to pound like a rapid heartbeat. Because it wants to be free. It wants to let go of everything it has been holding onto for who knows how long, including previous generations. What they did not resolve emotionally, they did not resolve. You've been enduring since you were little, taking care of your parents. That's why you have that ulcer in your stomach that your grandfather had seven generations ago, who had been enduring.

They always tell me, 'Oh, Ela, yes, because you cured my cancer or you cured this.' I didn't heal you. I am taking care of my humanity, my life, trying to get my rest, trying to deal with my emotional needs and shortcomings. The moment I stand before that person, the only thing I do is open my heart, open myself as a channel, and simply let love do what it is meant to do. I am not doing anything at all. And when a person opens up to their inner self, they heal themselves. Imagine a person who has gastritis or an ulcer in their stomach. The heart opens, and my heart is asking your heart this question: Do you truly wish to surrender to that pain and declare, 'I am so tired. I no longer want this.' At that very moment, you automatically step into your own darkness. The darkness truly hurts. You cry, you scream, you vomit. Once you expel all of that, your organ begins to heal because that emotion is no longer deeply rooted within that organ. A person heals on their own when they accept themselves, when they truly love themselves.

Migueliana healings are connections from soul to soul. When we come here, we lock up our hearts, our very divinity, in a tiny cage, like a little bird, and we do not let it be free. How many times have you found yourself saying, I must do this, but my heart wants to do that? So we keep adding layers. We keep boxing it in, boxing it in, boxing it in. We do not allow that divinity that comes to experience itself to simply express. Migueliana healings are about connecting directly with that heart beyond what the mind could ever possibly imagine or conceive. This is scientifically proven through biodecoding with Hamer's focus. When you have an emotion, a Hamer's focus forms in the brain. It tries to fix that emotion you do not process in an organ, like the throat. It does not mean the emotion goes away. You heal your throat, you heal the tonsils, and the emotion returns later. It is like taking a moment of relief to rest from that emotional vibration you do not dare to accept.

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Where do I even start? It is very long. Since I was little, I had many connections with many beings that at that moment were not so positive. By positive, I mean they did not tell me very nice things. They were more destructive. They connected me more with the astral plane. I saw deceased people who were perhaps lost in emotional entanglements. My learning was in darkness. Everything I share about the astral is based on my experience communicating directly with astrals, whether through possession of a body, looking in a mirror, or speaking telepathically with them. People sometimes think I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and that everything in life was wonderful, that everything was divine, that I was talking to Archangel Michael. The truth is no. I had a complicated childhood. The moment I stand before that person, the only thing I do is open my heart, open myself as a channel, and simply let love do what it is meant to do.

I had a music scholarship that I gave away because I didn't feel like it was serious enough, and I knew I probably wouldn't be good enough to be a professional musician. But I was able to parlay all of that into music theory and develop an entirely new tuning technique called precise temperament tuning. That has taken the world by a lot of interest right now, especially in the EDM space, but also with orchestras and instrument makers. They are all interested in how I have changed the relationship between notes and made it a more natural and perfectly geometric attribution, and that has been very exciting for me. I believe that sound and light are actually the same wave. One is expressing itself in a way that our eyes can perceive. The other is expressing itself in a way that our ears can perceive. Number in itself is arithmetic. Number in space is geometry. Number in time is music. Number in spacetime is what we call cosmology.

I used to think about what my destiny was going to be because I always felt like maybe I was not living my destiny. Now I do not think like that at all because I feel like I am living my purpose and I am living my destiny. I know that everything has already been done, and it feels as if we are living in a movie that is playing backwards, that is fully completed, and we think it is playing forwards. I believe that what we consider to be destiny is just the free will of the higher self, and that is you also. When I say destiny is the free will of the higher self, it means that everything is already set. There is a version of you, your higher self, that already exists. You are not going to fail to get there because it is already there, and we are just living. Therefore, everything that we think we could make a mistake on, that the world is going to end and everything, if the world is going to end, it is just going to end. I am not going to worry about it anymore because I know if that is the timeline I am in, that is the timeline I am in. I cannot jump the timeline. I am not going to change it. There is no changing it. Therefore, there is no stress about it. There is also no stress for me wondering if I am going to be able to live out my purpose. I will live out my purpose. It is part of the architecture.

Ikigai is when you know the world will value what you bring uniquely to it and will pay you for it. It's also where your passions overlap with what you're good at. When all of those things come together, and you can get paid for it as well, and it's a benefit to society, then amen, go for it. That's what your true authentic self should be able to get to. If it's not there, it means you still have to do more work in order to get there. You might have to go down certain pathways in order for you to find yourself in the place you eventually want to be, in your absolute authenticity. Don't be surprised when you have surprises along the way, like having a TV show. I never thought I was going to have a TV show, and then it came about, and now we're already talking about season 3. There are many things I never thought I was going to become, like a music theorist. It was when I realized that geometry was the music we experience with our eyes. Therefore, in order to understand geometry better, I had to get a really strong grasp on music. I started going down the path of music and then realized there's a way to tune music that is absolutely coherent with the geometry itself in a more significant way.

] It is the villain that creates the hero. The hero can only begin when the villain ends, and vice versa. You need a villain. You need contrast. Darkness is not the absence of light. It is the opposed or opposite or absorbed condition of light's reflection. And when we try in this world to get rid of things out of ourselves and we look in the mirror and we say, 'I do not like this about myself.' All that happens is those things that you do not like about yourself end up showing up in your world all around you. If you do not like that you are arrogant, you feel the need to deflect it onto someone else, maybe project it on someone else, and say, 'Oh, that guy is so arrogant.' Guess what. If you are the person that is complaining about being surrounded by it, it is because you are the. You are what you judge. Just like the Buddha said, and he says it very clearly. 'I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.' It is a mirror reflected universe. Remember, if you spot something in someone else, that means you have it too. Every trigger becomes an opportunity for growth. What we experience is reflected back to us from the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected and cast out. When we finally learn how to integrate and accept those parts in love and grace, the world starts to change. We no longer need that lesson because it has been integrated.

Backwards time, the knowledge of backwards time, is part of the fifth dimensional experience, or fourth density as people refer to it. Being able to access different space time realities is also part of the fifth dimensional experience. The Great Pyramid becomes like a teleportation device. Everywhere in the world where there is an Orion's Belt correlation are teleportation devices. I have been out in the astral. I have been taken by two Arcturian guides to the Bootes system, to Sirius. That was incredible. I felt like I was gone for three weeks. It was like I was gone for five hours. What I am talking about now with the Stargate is a physical teleportation. They figured out a way to master this. That is what I believe. That is part of our future evolution, that we too will be able to be captains of our fate and masters of our soul. I think we will be able to be captains, intergalactic captains.

I do not even like the word enlightenment because it implies an ending to enlightenment. I do not think there is an ending. I think that we continue to enlighten, and that is part of this game. The universe, the universal source creator, wanted to experience itself through all of our unique eyes of perception. So it divided itself into many different eyes of perception that are all unique. They must be unique because uniqueness is what is most valuable in this universe. Every time there is a unique perspective, source creator gets to learn something unique and new about itself. Each of us has value, and each of us has equal value. We are all divisions of the number one. We have God consciousness in all of us. We are an expression of God, source energy, and source creator experiencing self love through our unique eyes of perception. Through each of our unique perspectives, wisdom is gained. With more empathy, capacity increases from infinite to even more infinite. It is a beautiful transition when we start to realize our own divine selves. If you think the whole world is divine except you, because you are worried that it might be egomaniacal to say that you are divine as well, then that separation, deciding that you are the one thing that is not divine, is egoic. Ego simply means separation.

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I don't think there was ever a moment where I said, 'Oh, this is what I want to do.' As a kid, I was always interested in Indiana Jones movies. I felt a pull toward archaeology and the spiritual aspects interlaced through the franchise films. In addition to that, I was interested in business and international travel. I was interested in music, I was a musician as well. I was interested in medicine, physics, chemistry, and engineering. These are all things I expressed in some way throughout my career. The diversity of the things I do has been one of the most fun aspects of my work because I am never bored. What I found when I started filing all these patents, and I am close to having 100 patents now, is that the innovations were coming because I took concepts from one area and applied them to entirely new areas where they had not been applied before. Applied mathematics is geometry, applied geometry is physics, applied physics is chemistry, applied chemistry is biology, applied biology is psychology, applied psychology is sociology, applied sociology is back to philosophy, and applied philosophy is back to mathematics. It is one big circle. We artificially separate it all out and teach it as if these things shall never meet. The only thing that can solve complex problems is greater simplicity.

Carl Jung says that you can literally track your journey toward your individuation path, which is what he referred to as enlightenment. The way you track it is by the number of synchronicities you are experiencing every day. I would say that when I am in alignment, I tend to get more synchronicities. Those synchronicities may be in the form of chills up my back, or a number that shows up, or someone tells me something and it feels right. I then look at my iPhone to see what time it is and it is exactly 137, or 432, or 1111, and then I think, okay. I do not take it as fact at that moment. I take it as another input variable that comes in, and I do not ignore it. I was talking on the phone with someone, one of the guys that works on my social media team, and we were talking about the rudra granti, which is the energetic knot before the crown chakra awakening. It is also Rama Ra granti, which is spelled like my last name, G R A N T, but it has an I on the end of it, but it is pronounced granti. I realized that the universe itself is called the cosmic grant. So I was like, this is just too funny. Then I look up and I am driving on Highway 17 on the way here from Phoenix, and the road exit right where I am was Grant Street. There are no coincidences in this universe. Everything is there to give us affirmations of things.

For me, a big moment, a watershed moment, was in 2018 in May, when I had been studying alchemy and I kept seeing alpha and omega. I was in California and I kept seeing alpha omega. I was drawing sacred geometry. It was showing up in my consciousness everywhere. Right before I left, I remember I was at my in laws house and a big Benu bird, which is a giant white egret, landed right in front of me. This bird was standing there looking at me. I knew that something special was going to happen as I was leaving to go to Israel the next day. The entire time I was in Israel, and I was going to finish the trip in Egypt, I kept drawing alpha omega. On the last night I was in Israel, in Jerusalem, I went to this cave called Zedekiah's Cave. I jumped the rope and went deep into the cave. I looked down at the floor where I was standing, and it said alpha omega in the floor. The next day, I flew with twelve of my friends to Egypt. That night, we went into the Great Pyramid and the King's Chamber. One of my friends was lying in the sarcophagus. While I was standing on top of the sarcophagus, I had a memory flashback of being there when the pyramid was being dedicated. Right where I remembered seeing it, all of a sudden I was in the room with five people. We were all dressed differently. We were in a totally different timeline. I looked down exactly where the alpha omega was. The next thing I knew, the moment I looked down at it, I was back in that timeline. Exactly where I looked, there was an alpha omega on the rim that no one had ever seen before. That is when I knew my life was dramatically different from that moment forward. About a week later is when I discovered the prime number pattern and published it.

There were times it was hard to follow my purpose. Usually those times were when I felt compelled to be less authentic about who I am because I worried about what other people thought. When we think we should be like other people say we should be, or when we feel like I should do this because that will look better for me, it will always lead you down a path that is further away from who you eventually will become. That is something that is hard to experience, but you will experience it again and again, with constantly more severe intensity, until you finally learn to accept that those people have their impression of you and you no longer care what their impression is. Once you no longer care completely and wholly, if you still care because you want self validation from other people, you want to know that you're a good person because they say you are, recognize that they're looking at you through their own individual lens. What they're saying as fact is not fact at all. It's simply a facet of a larger prism of truth.

Well, I discovered my purpose to be just me and be as authentic as I possibly could be. I think I spent most of my life trying to mold myself into what society thought I should be. I had quite a journey, and it was all part of my path. It was a beautiful journey, but it just wasn't me. At the end of the day, I felt like I was holding back who I actually was. When I finally started to embrace my own uniqueness, my purpose in life became very clear. That uniqueness is my purpose in life. It is also to show a path for others to embrace their own uniqueness as well. This is the opportunity for us to be entirely authentic despite all the pressures around us. That authenticity is to embrace why you're here, what your purpose is, and how you're contributing to this overall Akashic field. You're bringing your emotional states, your unique perceptions of what's happening. The way we experience the world is not from the context of what we experience. We experience it as we are, not as it is. We don't experience the world as it is, we experience it as we are. That's the beauty of the world. That's the beauty of what we experience. It's such a wonderful place to live, to experience, and to remember who we are and why we're here, to find that authenticity and to find that self love.

When I started this, I did not know that my son was going to play such an active role in this process. To be able to have and achieve auditory telepathy interactions with him, I have not lost anything. I have gained so much. As a mother, I am overjoyed. I am so excited that we get to facilitate and see how we can help other parents and other people who are grieving. I think I can help other parents who are going through a grieving process find connection. I think I can facilitate and offer healings through themselves to find connection to the other side.

The hardest thing about living my purpose was growing up in the South. We do things a certain way, be a certain way. I wondered, what are my parents going to say? What is my family going to say? Are they going to think I am qualified enough? That was probably the biggest fear for me, the fear of what others might say and rejection. Since I have helped my first client, I know that I am the only one who would hold me back.

Rachel walked us through meditations where we went through a forest, and I found my higher self. We came through the other side of the forest, and there was a hut, a magical place my consciousness took me to. After I came out of that meditation, something interesting happened. That was one of the most expansive things I experienced in the Purpose Lab, the power of meditation.

Rachel walked us through meditations where we went through a forest, and I found my higher self. We came through the other side of the forest, and there was a hut, a magical place my consciousness took me to. Inside, there was a dome, and I could go in and pick out a tool that would assist me. I picked up a key. A key came to me, I opened a door, and walked through it. After I came out of that meditation, something interesting happened. When I try to find something or think I need to get something right, I think of a key. That was one of the most expansive things I experienced in the Purpose Lab, the power of meditation.

What I believe is that I found my purpose through feeling my way. Feeling my way. What felt good? What felt right? What is right about this? Not allowing my mind to overtake me. Stopping the monkey mind and getting into the heart space. When I did that, things started to appear. I think humanity has not found its purpose because they are stuck in their programs. They think they have to go out, work a job, or do certain things to create reality.

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I went through the Purpose Lab with LightNet, this amazing course, not knowing what was about to take place. Going through this course was so expansive. I stepped into energies and awarenesses that were unknown to me. All of a sudden, things started to transform. My vision began to unravel, and I started to see, this is what it is supposed to look like. The Purpose Lab really put me on a course to figure out what the energy was calling for. My mentor, Susan Shatzer, and I were talking and came up with Be Limitless Now. My nickname has always been Be a B, and I have a tattoo from high school of a queen bee. It was perfect. I connected with Coffee, and Coffee designed this amazing logo for the website, a bee with infinity wings. I was learning to trust her intuition and overcome fear, thinking, oh my gosh, that is it.

I think if most people stepped into their purpose and lived with the most excitement, this world would be an absolute playground, a joy. To wake up and help your neighbor, to ask, how can I support you? What can I do? To live on your highest excitement. Can you imagine that? How fun that would be? That would be epic. Live like you do not know tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is not promised. Take it today, be the best, feel the best, and act on your highest excitement.

Live like you do not know tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is not promised. Take it today, be the best, feel the best, and act on your highest excitement. If you feel it, do it. Who cares? Just do it. Be it. Live it. Expand. I feel that we are here to help humanity have a different outcome. Do something different. Be something different. If you want to see the change, be the change. Since I have helped my first client, I know that I am the only one who would hold me back. It was the most exhilarating, fun, exciting process I have had in years. I cannot wait to do it again.

I overcame a 30 year drug addiction after experiencing the loss of my child. It was in that grief that I found myself. I found love. I found healing. It was the best experience I could have possibly asked for. I am so grateful that my son chose me to be his mom, to teach me and guide me. I have a special kid. Yeah, a special kid. Kevin, my son's name, taught me what love is. That is healing. That is growth. That is powerful, because you can connect to anything and everything to find love. That is growth. I think I can help other parents who are going through a grieving process find connection. I think I can facilitate and offer healings through themselves to find connection to the other side. To have that connection with Source, with God guiding me through this, with Kevin, my ancestors, and galactics, to know they have me and I have them, and we are in direct communication.

When I spoke with this woman, it was like speaking to a mirror. It was just like me all over again, and I thought, oh my gosh, this is so cool. Then my son came through. I can hear clairvoyantly with him, and it is really speeding up. I heard him say, I love you mom, and mention a blue sweater, and I thought blue shirt. I wrote my client, telling her how much I enjoyed our conversation and that I was being led to say something about a blue shirt, a blue sweater. She messaged me back and said, you will not believe this, I wear my son's tie dye blue shirt all the time, and I just received this angel pendant with his blue birthstone in it. I was floored. I said, oh my gosh, are you serious? She said, yes. I said, this is amazing. Now the connections are coming in full force, and it is a magical moment. My son has taught me so much. Kevin brought me information he was studying while he was in body, completely foreign to me. I had no knowledge of it, and it dropped into my awareness. I started to deep dive, and my world began to open. Quantum physics, quantum entanglement, I had no idea. He tested with the government, the military, scored in the top one percent on the ASVAB. To be able to have and achieve auditory telepathy interactions with him, I have not lost anything. I have gained so much.

I discovered my purpose, to help others heal through trauma, to grow and expand. It was a traumatic road. It was an interesting road. It was an expansive road. Through this road, I learned myself, connected to myself, and grew and flourished in ways only the divine could have brought forth. Through this journey to self, I experienced the most traumatic thing I could have possibly experienced, the loss of my only child. I was thrown into depths of grief beyond what a mother's heart could imagine. It was in that grief that I found myself. I found love. I found healing. It was the best experience I could have possibly asked for. I am so grateful that my son chose me to be his mom, to teach me and guide me. Kevin, my son's name, taught me what love is. Love is not linear. Love is energy. Love is heart. Love is compassion. Love is giving. That is healing. That is growth. I had no clue that the most traumatic event in my life could be the most rewarding and so expansive.

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By positive person, I mean someone who's developing themselves to grow and help us solve problems in our world. That's the only way we are going to advance humanity. We have to develop ourselves as humans. I call it universal man, universal woman, to be the ones who step into those roles to make the changes we want to see. We have to do more. We can't avoid those areas. They affect us. We can't create these kumbayas and think everything's going to be okay because ultimately it's going to invade us at some point. We have to get involved, and those are social injustices. Wherever we are flawed in our system, we have to step in and represent, and that's what I'm called to do now.

And now I had to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, who am I now?' or, 'Who do I want to be?' And I was in that predicament. I feel for people who haven't found their purpose. I feel it takes some real questioning and answering and you have to be unapologetic with your answers. You cannot make excuses. You can't run away from the hard questions. You must ask yourself, and when you speak your truth to yourself, then it begins to present the path that you must take. It's like a thing where people can speak it, think it, know it, and how you get to that space.

I begin to be the student and I begin to look at the world as an opportunity to learn, from nutrition, from everything that I have a desire to do, whether it be relationships. I begin to put formulas together to realize and search out masters who have presented themselves as such, and be the student and learn from them and learn from my own mistakes and put it together and I've seen myself grow tremendously. Mastery comes through repetition. It's not just doing it to do it. It's asking, how can I be more efficient? How can I be better? How can I be a master at what I'm doing? In life, I feel we have the opportunity to be here for what we have problems. Well, we learn to solve it. We learn to evolve with it. We learn to take advantage of this opportunity of being in nature, learning how the medicines, how the universe, if you believe in the higher power, that's presented things from the medicines on the planet to take advantage of, and I begin to follow that lead and be a student and learn.

The medicine that's presented, it starts with the diet and what we consume. There's a real thing, in my opinion. I don't know if it's really as public or in the open as much. When you talk about high blood pressure and how that affects the mind, decision making, you talk about diabetes, you talk about all these diseases that we have in our society. It affects the way that we think. It affects our interaction, our engagement with people. It affects how we perceive ourselves. So it's kind of like when the doctor says, take this and then come back in two weeks and let's see how you are. We have to create a pallet for ourselves to take and be open to the positive information that's going to allow us to heal and have the mindset to have a pallet also to take in new insight about ourselves and what we're choosing and wanting to do. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body. I share that from that perspective. I have a detoxing retreat that I do for seven days teaching people how to eat and the importance of nutrition.

She told me that when we breathe a shallow breath, the heart and lungs don't need your help. But what becomes stagnant are the internal organs. Then she told me, or I found out, that the liver controls anger, the kidney controls fear, and the intestines control worry. I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole dynamic that I didn't even understand.' So now you can go into pH balance, and really, what air and pH levels are, it's a processing mechanism. Now I can process the moment. Through the practice of processing the moment, I begin to build an emotional maturity around the situations, or any situations, that I'm dealing with. So now I can make a more constructive choice. And that's a powerful tool to have as a human.

What have I discovered my purpose to be? Well, I'm learning daily, and I get challenged daily. However, I feel the life experience I lived began to show me things that I experienced that I had questions about, and I dove into them. I made the decisions that created pain and disorder, and I see others doing the same thing, or on their way to doing it. I feel the opportunity of going through experiences just to share them with others so they don't have to hit the same brick wall that we hit. I feel the human is the medicine. I've learned that. We are to have the experiences for whatever reason, and by having those experiences we are to ultimately help others avoid them so we can create the evolution of humanity. I feel what I'm doing now feeds my soul. The amount of people, because I was in stadiums, you have hundreds of thousands of people, millions watching, all that attention, all that rush, but it's a distance, it's a disconnect. Here, in this space, I get to have the one-on-one. I get to look into each other's eyes, and I get to share insight and help them move from one space to another.

I begin to be the student and I begin to look at the world as an opportunity to learn, from nutrition, from everything that I have a desire to do, whether it be relationships. I begin to put formulas together to realize and search out masters who have presented themselves as such, and have presented themselves as such and be the student and learn from them and learn from my own mistakes and put it together and I've seen myself grow tremendously. Again, I still make mistakes, but I feel myself still progressing in a way that I feel I would have never progressed as such. The work that I do, I do an array of work. Dr. Sei was my teacher in nutrition. In my healing, I began to migrate to Honduras. I've been there 17 times and he was my teacher. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body.

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The work that I do, I do an array of work. Dr. Sei was my teacher in nutrition. In my healing, I began to migrate to Honduras. I've been there 17 times and he was my teacher. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body. I share that from that perspective. I have a detoxing retreat that I do for seven days teaching people how to eat and the importance of nutrition. I have an intimacy mastery retreat that I do from a standpoint of how we take the meditation that we learn, how we integrate that, how we have challenging conversations, how we show up in the world as the masculine and as the feminine. We put that dynamic to a test to learn because where else are we going to learn?

Well, the biggest struggle is when you get into going against the norm, going the opposite of the herd. You're speaking English, but you might as well speak a foreign language because a lot of people are not going to get it. You begin to disrupt the notion of conditioning. You begin to realize how we've gained the information that we hold on to. We call it belief. We call it faith even. And when you get to the bottom of it, it's just because someone told you so. And so what is your truth? This is why we talk about speaking your truth. What is your truth? A lot of people don't have that truth. This is why they lack confidence, because they have questions about what they've been told, but they're not sure or they haven't been bold enough to go down the tunnel of questioning it or realizing maybe a different way. So they lack confidence. I feel for people who haven't found their purpose. I feel it takes some real questioning and answering and you have to be unapologetic with your answers. You cannot make excuses. You can't run away from the hard questions. You must ask yourself, and when you speak your truth to yourself, then it begins to present the path that you must take.

Luckily for me, or ironically for me, I found yoga, which is union. I found myself. I'm all about creative ways of doing it differently. On the hill, we worked with Congressman Tim Ryan. We created the Congressional Yoga Association when former President Obama was in office. Tim Ryan is an amazing friend of mine, a yogi too. Can you believe it? Congressman from Ohio. I was on the hill a lot. Charles Wrangle, we would do stuff with the kids in Harlem, just showing and showcasing a different effect instead of coming to the schools and talking about sports where 1% make it. I feel there's another opportunity.

How did I figure out what's next? I think the compelling insight is breathing. I talked about while in the hospital, the nurse talking to me about breathing and really conceptualizing what breathing does, the capacity of breathing for the organs, emotion, and the body's wisdom. That really clicked for me. In a sense of being an athlete my whole life, it's like, why have I never thought about that? And it stuck with me. What's else is there? And then realizing, oh, now I have a tool to combat the situation that I'm in. She told me, 'Do you know what happens when you breathe?' She says, 'On the inhale, the diaphragm pushes down. On the exhale, it pushes up.' She told me that when we breathe a shallow breath, the heart and lungs don't need your help. But what becomes stagnant are the internal organs. Then she told me, or I found out, that the liver controls anger, the kidney controls fear, and the intestines control worry. I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole dynamic that I didn't even understand.' Now I can process the moment. Through the practice of processing the moment, I begin to build an emotional maturity around the situations, or any situations, that I'm dealing with. So now I can make a more constructive choice. And that's a powerful tool to have as a human.

And on this particular day, my eighth season or seventh season playing, I made a tackle I had made so many times in my life from high school, college, pros, and I ended up on my back, and in this particular place I lost all movement. Through that, I was diagnosed with a spinal contusion, and my whole life that I invested into this character was gone, and all I had known myself to be, all I had known myself to do, was be the sports person. That character was gone. And now I had to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, who am I now, or who do I want to be?' And I was in that predicament. Luckily for me, or ironically for me, I found yoga, which is union. I found myself.

All my tools. The psychic ability, the mediumship ability, the psychology ability, the spiritual understanding, and the knowing all directed themselves toward helping people believe in themselves first, because then I knew that was the foundation to open up the pathway. So it was not until I said, 'I don't know who I really am or what I'm really supposed to do,' that it was then revealed to me. Then my unconscious mind was able to say, 'Hey, he's got a chance here.' My soul was able to say, 'Let's start revealing it to him. Let's see what he says.' Sometimes we need to be brought to rock bottom to let go of some of those behaviors and habits. You have more of a chance of finding out who you really are and what your path is.

A friend of mine was deciding to become a life coach, and she said, 'I need some students to help me.' And each week we would meet, and she would tell me these interesting things. Then one day she turns around and she says, 'You know what I just discovered about you?' I said, 'What?' She said, 'You don't believe in yourself.' I said, 'What are you talking about? Of course I believe in myself. I wouldn't have come this far if I did. No, no, no.' No, no. You don't really believe in yourself. You faked it all along. I said, 'How can you say that?' And she kept repeating back to me some words that I said to her. And in listening to them, I was like, 'I said that?' And she said, 'Yes, you did.' I said, 'Seriously?' I said, 'Wow, I don't believe in myself, honey. I don't believe in myself.' And she said, 'I could have told you that.' That was the performer in me, right? I was always on stage in some way or another, needing to always impress somebody that I knew what I was doing. The way I transitioned from being a full-time actor to being a full-time psychic therapist, medium, and spiritual teacher is it came at that aha moment when I started believing in myself. All of a sudden, things started opening up for me. There were circumstances that led me directly into this occurring full-time. So it was presented before me as soon as I said, okay, I'm going to start believing in myself.

Everybody says that we are worth something. Just look at the information. Look at where we come from. That is a star. How can I be meaningless? I have to be worth something. I come from something greater than this. So you have to start with a belief. Beliefs are very empowering or disempowering, obviously. So you have to start with a positive belief. And even if it is something small, a snippet, something you heard that sounds good to you, all the truth is inside of us, and it begins to resonate and comes to the surface when you start really listening and keeping your ears open. We are unlimited beings. We are capable of changing even our past.

It is not a matter of a lack of awareness. It is a matter of lack of faith, a lack of trust. Because trust and fear, I mean most people do not trust themselves. Even if they do come up with an idea of, oh, I think I really want to do this, but I do not know, there were so many other things I tried and I failed at, so I am not going to try this either. So instead of you keep trying, you keep trying, you will find it. You really will. And maybe you have made mistakes before. You do not give up on that. That is the one thing that is like turning around and saying, 'Well, I am waking up today, but I do not want to breathe anymore, and I am going to stop breathing.' Breaking habits of disbelief and reclaiming power. But the point is that we are perpetuating an old habit. And it is a habit now. It has become a habit not to believe in ourselves.

You know what is really interesting? I loved Doris Day, and she came out with one of the most famous songs, Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be. Horrible song. Absolutely horrible, because it gave away power. It gave away your desire. It is not about whatever will be will be. Life does not happen to us. We happen to life. We make life happen. But when you have and you keep perpetuating those kinds of beliefs, even in my own work with the serenity prayer, the serenity prayer gives away your power. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between the two. That is so terrible to be thinking in this day and age that we cannot change everything. Yes, we can. So, of course, I turned it around. I made my own prayer. I call it the empowerment prayer. You know, God, grant me the conviction to believe there is nothing I cannot change, the courage to change all I want, and the wisdom to know what's best left the way it is. We are unlimited beings.

But it was hard in the beginning. I really have to admit that. I so desperately thought that I wanted it, and that's how you know you're grasping onto the wrong passion and purpose when you so desperately don't want to let it go. Desperation has nothing to do with ease and flow. It has nothing to do with the God source. It has nothing to do with our energy. All energy flows. Hey, you know, when you have a short circuit, that's when the energy doesn't flow anymore. Something is cutting it off, and it's going to go in different directions haphazardly. But when you release, and that, to me, is what surrendering really means, is surrendering your desperation and the need to, and always go for the want to and the whatever I am meant to have to. But when you are desperate and you want, that lets me know something is displaced there. Desperation is a negative word. It has a negative connotation. It has a negative energy. And when you let go of it, that is when you have a chance to be shown, this is what you are meant to be. And I promise you this, it is so much greater than what you thought it was meant to be.

I had my mother turn around and say to me, nothing good comes from the Jenners. Now, I could have continued to believe that. That would have been my choice. In the beginning, it was getting in my way. Yes. So I was my own obstacle because I was buying into somebody else's definition of who I was. Not my own, somebody else's definition. Not a divine source's definition, somebody else's. And it is not until we decide to define ourselves that we can step out of that ball and chain. So it is ourselves that get in our way, and it is ourselves that get us out of the way and can get us zooming to start with. We are unlimited beings. We are capable of changing even our past, and it's been scientifically proven and shown.

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Why we need more mentoring and community support. There is no mentoring, not enough mentoring. We need to help mentor others into believing in themselves, finding their passion, finding their purpose. I even have my own course that I teach. Ed Casey was fabulous for that in the material that he had laid out in discovering your soul's purpose while you're here. They will say, 'Here, just buy my book. Just do the work in it. You're fine,' rather than, let me show you, here you have a problem, call me up, let me connect with you. You are so worth going after your dream. I can help you with that. If you need any help.

I have to say, I was a gifted singer and actor as a little kid. I am Italian, Sicilian based, we have big voices. I was able to sing, and I put that to great use during the times that I was being tormented. I would perform, and that applause kept me going. And so I was interpreting that as, it must mean that that is what I was supposed to pursue, rather than realizing that it was just a resilience I had and that it was meant to lead me in a higher direction. So it was not until all of this began to transpire, and I was being told, or I was feeling from within, you really can help some people with what you have been through and what you know now. And I was like, well, wait a minute now. I wonder if that is the reason why I had all those earlier gifts, because I can still use those to help people today and to really reach them and touch their souls. So that was a moment of a real aha for me. I'm an entertainer. I use that in helping people believe in themselves. You know, it was said in a very famous movie, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Well, the type of medicine we need today needs a gallon of honey. So I do as much as I can to make people laugh, to make them enjoy, and then serve them the deep stuff.

I'll call it God. I don't mind. Spirit, source, Yahweh, Elohim, whatever anybody refers to as this higher entity. And I turned to God, I said, listen, you need to help me here. I'm not getting what I think I'm supposed to be getting here. So you have to let me know what I need to do, what I need to do. And the greatest story occurred. I have the ability, and I will say that it is a confidence, the confidence to be able to admit you don't have the answer. So I turn to, well, I turn to God a lot. The universe will put people in your life that will turn you this way instead of that way. And as long as you go along with it and it seems so much easier, then you know you are getting on your path. We always make a blueprint for ourselves. And I always tell people the way you truly find if you are on the right path is if things lay out before you easier than the struggle you are having finding them. So when that happens, that is when the universe starts guiding you to opportunities, starts placing before you better directions, and even people.

When I was growing up, I was completely tormented as a child. I was abused all the time, whether it be emotionally, physically, even sexually. I had all of that that was going against me. So it tore away my own self-belief. And she turns around and knocked me for a loop, rocked my world, to turn around and say that I didn't believe in myself. And when I examined that, I realized how much I didn't believe in myself. I realized that, wait, wow, that's really harsh for me to have come this far in my life, and when little Vinnie had already been through so much that I did not believe in him. And that hurt, and that is what made me realize that is why I even wrote the book that I wrote and did the work that I did, because it made me understand that that belief or disbelief was hidden from me and protected. And the reason why I was protected is because it was so hurtful to recognize. To come to an understanding that I did not believe in myself, that turned everything around for me. As hard as it was to recognize that, it was the greatest gift besides receiving these other gifts. That was my greatest gift, being able to say, 'Vincent, you do not believe in yourself enough, so now you have to work on that.'

If a person does not believe in themselves, if they do not think they are good enough, deserving enough, or worthy enough, why would their unconscious mind, their soul's mind, ever reveal to them what they are meant to do? Because it would be more painful to know what your dream is and not have the courage or the belief to go after it. So it is actually a defense mechanism for a lot of people. It is not easy to believe you do not believe in yourself. It is not easy to hear you do not think you are good enough, or that you are worthy enough, or that you are deserving enough to achieve your dreams, to achieve your purpose. And that is what made me realize that is why that is all hidden, because we could not function on a daily basis walking around with that. Everybody asked me how I began to believe in myself. And it seems like such a simple answer. Well, you just believe in yourself. The process is always easy. It is the practice that is difficult, because you have got to remember the scars are there. They are ingrained inside of you. Every injury causes a scar. So even when you are trying to believe in yourself, every so often little Vinnie wants to pop his head up. He wants to turn around and still say, 'I am not good enough.' I have to keep giving him the evidence that I am good, that I am believing enough, I am worthy and good enough and deserving enough. The biggest obstacle I had to face in living my purpose was me. Me, Vincent. I am my only obstacle, and you are your only obstacle. Nothing else comes in your way and gets in your way of your dreams, your purpose, your passions, except you and your disbeliefs.

When you're born, it's clean. It's pure. It runs very efficiently. It's perfect. As you experience life, we collect cookies, scripts, code, rules, boundaries, things we're told we can and cannot do. So that becomes what our operating system is running on, and that becomes our ego, our identity in this reality. For me, my ego served me very well for a period of time, but my operating system was running on some very bad data, some faulty scripts, and some codes that needed serious debugging. So in Reboot, and I talk about it in my book, you have to clear the cache, you have to get rid of the resentments. It is a lot of 12 step work. A lot of 12 step work, but it's not all 12 steps. But you're going to do a lot of it in the book if you're willing to. This is where it got me. In treatment, when I finally surrendered, I had been doing a lot of things prior to the surrender. I had been going to AA, and what a beautiful, divinely written book that is. There is beautiful knowledge in it.

These are habits, a morning ritual. I wake up, I hit my knees. First thing I do, I thank God for another day, another opportunity to grow. Because if you're not growing, why are you here? You're stuck in hell. Hell on earth is when you're not growing, because everything is the way it is and I can't change anything. That's hell on earth. That exists, and that is real. Heaven on earth is where I'm at. So again, with all the things that I do in my day, it starts in the morning, because that is the first time my vessel is activated. And all I get is a day, each day. So I wake up, my vessel is activated, I get out of bed, I hit my knees, I thank God, I get the juice I need, I say my prayers for humanity, never for myself, and that is key. These are things I picked up and started incorporating into my life. What happens is if you start doing things that are in alignment, that resonate with your higher purpose, that chase, that yuck, that hole that you have been chasing starts to fill. God can fill that hole, that void.

That system crash occurred for me in alcoholism. And so my fourth time in treatment, I finally surrendered. That was January 31st, 2022. I turned my will over to God. Was it ever hard following my purpose? Well, to be honest with you, I spent some time in a psychiatric ward not too long ago. Because as it unfolded for me, it was very clear that God was working through me. And now I understand it more. But at the time, He was just flowing through me, and the realization of how the universe works was very overwhelming. I was working at a manic pace because I couldn't stop working. Because as the truth unfolds, all you want to do is play in the truth, because it's the truth. I went to the psychiatric ward and I sat there and endured five days of questions. I showed them my paper, the Shephard Universal Proxy Theory, which is what got me into the psychiatric ward, and the doctors did not really know what to do with it because it is beyond current accepted principles. I was able to change lives in there, to unlock people in there, to show them that they're not crazy. And that's what was important to me, because I knew I wasn't crazy, and to help these other people see that they're not crazy, too.

That system crash occurred for me in alcoholism. And so my fourth time in treatment, I finally surrendered. That was January 31st, 2022. I turned my will over to God. Since then, magnificent things have happened. It is so much more beautiful than anything I could have ever in my wildest dreams imagined. I am sitting here with you in Sedona, Arizona. Four years ago, if you said, 'What is the most amazing and impactful thing you can do with your life?' it would have been something about money. And that would have left me very empty. Page 552 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says acceptance is the answer to all my problems today, because if you accept the things you cannot change, everything gets better, and then you play with the things you can. That is playing in the stream of reality. That is a truth. What I have learned is just sit back, stay in alignment, and what unfolds is so much better than what you would have ever thought. I am here with you today, and what we are able to do now is so much greater than what I would have ever picked my best life to be four years ago with my will. What God has shown me I am capable of in this world is far beyond what any man has ever told me I am capable of.

I've lived internationally in Italy, Germany, Spain, England, and the Netherlands. Experiencing those cultures helped me see parallels and understand that this is part of the human condition: irrespective of cultural origin, people have a shared need to be seen, supported, and connected. In indigenous cultures, tribes had a chieftain, a shaman, and other categories represented, including wisdom keepers and two-spirited people, who were highly valued for balancing masculine and feminine energies. Children would learn from two-spirited people to better understand that balance. We've discarded much of that knowledge. Societies struggle to evolve because they haven't integrated these universal, effective principles.

Well, I wouldn't say that it would be a struggle in trying to answer your question. I've always early on looked at them instead of as struggles as challenges. The difference to me in that wording is a struggle is something that seems endlessly unachievable or not easily overcome, because therein it's a struggle. You're already underwater and struggling, whereas a challenge means it's actually asking you to step up, even in an adverse scenario. It's asking you to challenge both the lesser and better angels of your nature to find a pathway forward. I also thought about it as these struggles or challenges were somehow a spiritual test for your evolution. My self-language looks at it as a test. I go into test success mode, which is to study why this topic is challenging me in this way, what I possess inside of me to overcome it, or what I need to learn in myself to overcome it. What behaviors or self-languages do I need to modify to overcome that so it's not quite as dire as a struggle, but now a more scientific or mental exercise.

If everyone was able to live with choice in their life that was self-created, with a sense of their uniqueness and their purpose, that's got to be either Nirvana or heaven. If this is what we're enduring now on the planet, then that could be, I think, the most reasonable iteration of heaven because we would all be in the higher angels of our nature. We would be capable of understanding our value and, therein, an even more effective node of clarity. We're like an atom. Each molecule is a part of the circular collective and whole, and if we're all firing on all cylinders, wow, that's got to be the best iteration of heaven or Nirvana. We know the universe is infinite, but we also know it's molecular. We have relevance, and the fact that we're still living means there's something we're still supposed to be able to affect. If you focus on the positive at the forefront of your interactions, which is sometimes hard because the dogma in the world is one thing, and considering external influences and nature, that's the constant human challenge or test for me.

We were in Germany and then Austria and then we made our way west across the states to finally end up in Arizona. Later, as I perfected my brand or my being, I continued to evolve within communities. I've lived internationally in Italy, Germany, Spain, England, and the Netherlands. Experiencing those cultures helped me see parallels and understand that this is part of the human condition: irrespective of cultural origin, people have a shared need to be seen, supported, and connected. Human responsibility to continue to evolve your humanity and your personhood. Later in life, I was able to use these universal tenets of empathy, inventiveness, and resourcefulness to apply them to new scenarios where I wanted to lean in and assist in helping communities evolve.

As a test, what I would say to help people focus on identifying their purpose is to come to a baseline where socialization is taken out of the equation. I get quiet with myself, usually in nature, where I find organic inspiration observing birds, how they interact, how they feed, how they communicate. Nature has worked for millions of years in harmony and balance. You have an onus to find out for yourself who you really are. Spend time with yourself without distraction, not just meditating, but reading and using it as context to gauge where you are in relation to what is being presented, and to see your place in the story.

As I was coming through the ranks, I created my own little dance troupe called the Cassettes early on. We found ways to go into clubs and monetize because disco was big at the time, and many nightclubs were having disco dance competitions. I found a way to earn money legally, to get out of my house, to put money in the bank for adult success, and to elevate the fortunes of other people. I picked some of my favorite people because I was the choreographer, visionary, and the guy who went out to grab clients. I was able to create great associations with entrepreneurs and business owners. Very quickly, I formed my first business, Scandali Productions, because I always thought I was scandalous. I was bringing an aesthetic that wasn't prevalent in the market in ways that were very creative and impactful. Early on, I figured that I'm an entrepreneur because I did work in corporate for a couple of years on a part-time basis. I got a position at a department store and thought that I would be a regional or international buyer for the men's department there. When I kept hitting a wall with being promoted at that business, I said, well, I'm just not getting where I want to be. I went out into the market and created my own business and started to go to entrepreneurs as a B2B kind of construct, which got me much further, much quicker.

I realized they were a social couple, so they would have friends over, other officers from the base. So I could get to stay up later, past my bedtime, if I could do something really adult, like they would ask me a question that a kid maybe four or five years old shouldn't reasonably be able to answer, and certainly either in German or in English at an adult level, I guess, is the context. And so I would really try to come up with those little jewels and tidbits. I think that was one of the first moments that I realized that if I could do that, I could find little joy in myself. Even in your subconscious, when these positive, self-nurturing thoughts become regular, they help you build a clearer identity around your purpose when you're conscious and interacting with the world. For me, a lot of people define themselves around what society expects or what their parents hoped for them. I've spent enough time with myself and tested these theories, whether I was born to be an athlete or something else.

Luckily for me, both of my parents are off the planet now, but when they were alive, I would hug them, kiss them, lavish them, and constantly communicate my reverence for them as real guides and mentors who poured a lot of love into me as a being. After that, my mom sent me. She said, 'You're going to turn around and go back to school because you're going to school to get an education. You're not going to school to win a popularity contest.' She said, 'Quinn, I don't know why you keep talking to me. You need to go back. The world is going to be full of people who don't understand you and who don't see you. So go there and get your education.' Not to say that other people don't have access to the same source, but as a result of the uniqueness of each life and the circumstances into which people are born and evolve, some are exposed to evolutionary mindsets and some are not. The more evolved male, with people like Deepak Chopra, philosophy coaches, Anthony Robbins, and others, are talking about success as a human and especially as a male.

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I started to see people of color because I am a person of color and tried to be effective in business and interpersonal relationships. I also started to see the LGBTQ community as part of my tribe because they were othered in their existence. I began to lean in and work with underserved or underdeveloped communities early on. When the AIDS crisis happened in Africa, I felt, as an African-American, that it was impacting me, especially as an African-American male. I couldn't figure out why, and I realized I could be helpful to African men. I volunteered for an AIDS organization, Phoenix Body Positive, back in the day. I got involved in communities so I could ensure people felt seen and supported, and I tried to use my skill sets to uplift and help them. I knew I was looking for my tribe. I was in choir, and I became a concert choir member very early on. That took me into other things in life because we were competing nationally and then internationally.

I also thought about it as these struggles or challenges were somehow a spiritual test for your evolution, to see if when this energy of negativity or challenge is toggling you to feel inadequate or less than. I've always had the line that this is a test of who I am and where I am as an individual, how I'm balanced. My self-language looks at it as a test. I go into test success mode, which is to study why this topic is challenging me in this way, what I possess inside of me to overcome it, or what I need to learn in myself to overcome it. As a test, what I would say to help people focus on identifying their purpose is to come to a baseline where socialization is taken out of the equation. I get quiet with myself. You have an onus to find out for yourself who you really are. Spend time with yourself without distraction, not just meditating, but reading and using it as context to gauge where you are in relation to what is being presented, and to see your place in the story. Spending time by myself, being in quiet, finding out who I am now gives me an opportunity because I've got freed mind space, freed energy, and no outside detractors. After doing that a series of times as a regular practice, I've been able to be inspired.

When we left Europe and came to the States, I was seven years of age. So I then had a new context that I was landing in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and I was wearing lederhosen and clogs and trying to speak in German. The kids would say, 'You're weird.' I remember that being one of the things. And so I went home crying and my mom was just like, 'Well, I don't care. What did they call you by your name? Did they?' So then why are you, and I said, 'No, but they were shouting things at me.' And she said, 'Well, then if they didn't call you by your name, why are you giving those kids that power?' That was when I kind of realized that I am really different, and not just because of my skin color, but because of my disposition. After that, my mom sent me. She said, 'You're going to turn around and go back to school because you're going to school to get an education. You're not going to school to win a popularity contest.' Along the way, because I know who I am as a person, my orientation as a bisexual male, and my father being Welsh and my mother African-American, I am a bicultured individual. I was always navigating other categories in general society and trying to find better resonance with my tribe.

I would say to uplift and assist others and to also try to be an example of possible. I was the youngest of four kids, and so my mother was a joyous woman and my father was probably a little more serious, but I was the baby. So I was always spending a little time by myself. About the time that I was four or five years old, I would notice that my dad would come home from work and my mom would be handling the kids, and he would be a little stressed, but he loved music and he loved dance and my mother the same. And so it would seemingly be my mission to come up with a funny thing to say to him or a funny thing to say to my mom. I think that was one of the first moments that I realized that if I could do that, I could find little joy in myself that I wanted to convey to my mother and my father so that they could have the same kind of joy. So that I thought was an early kind of identifier of what I felt like, at least in my family structure, my purpose was. That's when I kind of had a personal ownership in this court jester disposition that I thought was part of my purpose, to help people smile, help people get out of their ruts, if not comically, then energetically. By college, I was very clear about who I was and what I intended to do. I knew that I was a creative. I knew that I wanted to make people laugh. I knew I wanted to try to elevate the fortunes of other people if I could.

It took a hard and challenging experience for me to book a one way flight to Alaska. The new dream only revealed itself after I had accomplished my current dream. I vividly remember telling my dear friend Cameron about my dream. I was excited and nervous. I shared with him that I wanted to go to space, that I felt it strongly even though I did not fully understand it. He told me that we were going to co host an inner and outer space themed dinner in Los Angeles. Cameron put me on the spot. He stopped everyone, made a toast, and in the middle of it said, 'Well, the reason why we're here today is because my friend Yasmine, who's also my co-host for this dinner, has an important announcement and dream she wants to share with all of you.' My heart stopped. I could not believe he was doing that. I thought, 'Oh my god.' But at the same time, as the fear came up, I realized this is the moment, this is the moment when we reveal our dreams, when we let the world know our dream and maybe they can help us. And I did. I courageously shared about my upbringing from Morocco to the 50 states, being in Alaska, and how we got here. I shared my dream, and it was a life-changing moment.

My message to all of us, to all of humanity, is that we are one human family. We belong to this world, to this planet, to this universe, under the stars, the moon, and the sun. We will get to go to different galaxies, Mars, the moon, and beyond, but we must do it here first on planet Earth, and do it right. In fact, we all get to go to space if that's what we want because we are in a time where space will become more accessible for more people, not just the wealthiest humans who can afford a flight. Whether this is it or not, I feel it in my heart and in my vein that space is part of my journey. I will get to go to space, and it's just a matter of time.

When I sit still and I am not in the busyness of life, the doings and the tasks of every day, it is very clear when you have to take action. I feel like this whole voyage, mission, and dream is not something I am working on alone. There is something beyond that is urging me to move in different directions at different times, and I feel that very strongly. There is a movement, a feeling in my heart, but also energetically, where I suddenly book a flight to go somewhere and it is happening. I think, wait, I wanted to stay home, and now I am moving all year. Literally, we are going to Brazil, Switzerland, Morocco, all over the world in the next 12 months. It is surreal. It is not what I expected. I thought I was going to be home, grounded, building a nest, and it is the absolute opposite. This is what life wants of me, to be out there with the people, with the communities. When the world calls, I will listen. I will show up always.

In Alaska, through what felt like the powers of the universe and manifestation energy, I had not encountered anyone in the space field. I had never met a rocket scientist or an engineer. I had no connection to the space industry. Within a week of feeling this new dream, I received an invitation from the United Nations to attend the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. I still do not know how my name ended up on that list, but I was invited to meet astronauts and the space community at the United Nations a week later. That became my one way trip from Alaska to New York. I met everyone there, and that was when I began connecting with incredible space leaders. One day I woke up and realized I just have to go. I just need to do this. I am going to pay for it myself. Let's go. Within days, someone heard about it and wrote me a check to fully sponsor the entire dinner. That was a good example of synchronicities. One dream that felt impossible manifested because I decided, because of a choice, that I just needed to take action, just one action.

If we all knew our purpose and thought of ourselves as stewards of this planet, we would be living in peace. We would experience peace, not just feel it, sense it, or have glimpses of it. We would all live in harmony because we would all be serving and supporting each other. Nobody, not one single human, would be left alone without bread, without food, without water. Everyone would be taken care of. We would help each other be the best version of ourselves. We would elevate. We would reach levels of connection that we have yet to experience, levels of love, connection, serenity, and peace that I have glimpses of. My message to all of us, to all of humanity, is that we are one human family. We belong to this world, to this planet, to this universe, under the stars, the moon, and the sun. We will get to go to different galaxies, Mars, the moon, and beyond, but we must do it here first on planet Earth, and do it right.

It was 1969, and man was about to land on the moon. My uncle lived in a small village, and he was my inspiration for the entire space dream. He had 11 brothers and sisters, and he gave up going to school because his destiny was to become a farmer. A British man was hitchhiking through the village and encountered my uncle, who was 14 years old at the time. They had an exchange. They did not speak the same language, but they connected human to human. As a departing gift, my uncle was given a transistor radio. On the day of the moon landing, his radio broke. The only way to fix it was to ride a donkey to the nearest town and exchange his watch to have the radio repaired. The man fixed the radio, and my uncle describes being on the donkey while listening to the moon landing. He was so struck and moved by the event that he decided to return to school. His dream became going to America, doing great things, and giving back to his family. When my brother and I heard that story, we thought if my uncle did it, we could do it too. He paved the path for a new possibility because he looked like us and spoke like us.

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I discovered my purpose and passion at a very young age. I was 17 years old when I came to the United States, and my role at the time was to be a cultural ambassador of Morocco to the US. I realized how much I loved sharing where I come from and learning about people's lives, dreams, and hopes. That was my first insight into discovering my purpose, the beginning of the journey. I received a US Department of State grant to come here as a young Moroccan cultural ambassador, and my role was simply to meet people, Americans across all 50 states, and educate them about where we come from, our beautiful, cherished, incredible Kingdom of Morocco. I made it a mission to unite the world, to bring people together, communities like astronauts, refugees, entrepreneurs, musicians, and artists. It did not matter because we are one soul family.

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The moon story was a catalyst. It was not until I finished the last state of my 50 state journey, when I was in Alaska, that I had the revelation that I wanted to experience the Earth from space and experience the overview effect coined by Frank White. I did not even know what the overview effect was. I did not have the language for what I felt in my body. It was a felt sensation of floating in space and looking down at the Earth because I had achieved a dream I once thought was impossible, going to all 50 states. I was standing on the edge of a mountain in Alaska, in tears, realizing that I had achieved this childhood dream, that I was here in America and finishing my 50th state. That was when the dream emerged because I was afraid. I was deeply afraid to finish my 50th state, and I stopped at 49. For years I did not move because I feared that if I achieved my dream, I would not have another one. I did not know what kind of dream would come next. The new dream only revealed itself after I had accomplished my current dream. That dream was to experience space and to experience our interconnectedness from the skies.

If there is anything I want to say to you, it is to remain open. Open in your heart, open in your mind, open in your soul. When our heart experiences that we can manifest anything, anything becomes possible. We need to create new models to help people find themselves and at least stay curious. If everyone stays curious and asks questions, they can find answers on their path. When you're educating a population to not be curious, to learn math and physics, but without the deeper questions on what it all means, then you're raising a world that is designed to help you achieve your goals, work for the corporate world, and not be independent, entrepreneurial, or think outside of the box. We are trained to follow the path, the certainty, which is an illusion. It's not real.

I had this dream to bring refugees and astronauts together in the same room, and I had absolutely no idea how to make that happen. I sat on the idea for a couple of months because I was not sure about the financial sustainability and the business model around these dinners. But I knew it had to happen. I knew in my heart that the refugee astronaut connection was revolutionary. It had to happen. We needed to see what happens in the room when these very unlikely groups of people come together. One day I woke up and realized I just have to go. I just need to do this. I am going to pay for it myself. Let's go. Within days, someone heard about it and wrote me a check to fully sponsor the entire dinner and send a chef to cook food for 40, 50 people. The same thing happened in the following dinner, and the following dinner. Once you go and there is momentum, the energy is there, people feel it, and they want to support. If you don't know your purpose now, then stop what you're doing. Just stop. Quit your job. Do whatever is absolutely outside of your comfort zone and go on a different path and you'll be okay. The universe rewards you when you take a leap forward. But if you stay in your stability, nothing's going to happen. You got to take risks. That's what it takes.

When I first landed in America, I was welcomed into an American family that had four kids, and I had never been exposed to American life, living in an American home. It was amazing and inspiring, and I had this dream to go to every state, all 50 states. I had no money. I had no resources. I trusted that I needed to follow this journey. I ended up going to every state through Greyhound buses and trains, mostly Greyhound buses because you meet interesting people on buses compared to a plane or a train. I loved meeting truck drivers, farmers, and people from all walks of life. Eventually, people started to welcome me into their homes because the more I shared my dream to go to all 50 states, everybody wanted to be part of it. People would say, if you are ever in Tennessee or Alaska or Hawaii, you have a home. I would say yes. I kept saying yes. I trusted these strangers, who quickly became family. I went to these states and was welcomed into people's families. I have stayed with over 250 American families in the US alone. I have been to every American state and over 48 countries. I have stayed with Mormons, Jewish people, Christians, atheists, Muslims, rich and poor, people from different political spectrums, Trump supporters, and non Trump supporters. It taught me that when you get to who people are, not just what they believe, everyone is singing the same song. Everybody wants the same thing.

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I do this by traveling, connecting with people, and bringing people together. We have been hosting these gatherings, bringing together as many diverse people as possible, very unlikely groups that would never meet, like an astronaut and a refugee. We have found that an astronaut and a refugee have much more in common than differences. They both share an incredible resilience of going into the unknown, into uncharted territories that no other human has gone before. That creates an alchemy where, even though they come from different backgrounds and socioeconomic upbringings, they share this knowing in their hearts something about humanity. That creates an incredible transformation in the gathering, where everyday people who are also invited get to listen and hear these extraordinary journeys from an astronaut and refugees. It opens people's hearts and helps them realize how much we have in common. I have a strong belief that the word strangers should not exist because there is no such thing. Strangers is a word we invented to divide us, to make us forget who we are and our relationship with each other. So let us remove that word from the dictionary because we are not strangers. We are family, and we have just forgotten, and we remember it every day.

And so again, God, it was like orchestrated. I would have to spend my life spending long hours sitting in tree branches, long hours sitting by rivers, long hours walking through fields alone, so I could stay connected to the presence. Because if I believed what people said around me, I would not want to live. I just did not want to be here. It was too painful. I had always dreamed of leaving the concrete city and going to nature. And the voice said to me, 'You keep praying for people and you keep loving people, and one day you are going to be lifted out of the concrete and you are going to fly into a place that looks like heaven, except you will get to keep your body.' And that is exactly what happened. Three years later, I met my husband, and we moved up here to where we live among the oak trees and lived happily ever after.

The first place I would recommend that you start is to find a place where you feel really happy. If it's next to a tree in nature somewhere, if you have a specific chair where the sun comes in, somewhere where you feel comfortable. And then close your eyes and look into your heart. As you look into your heart, just merge into your heart and feel the warmth of your heart. You may see a little light. You may see a light in your heart. Maybe it's pink, maybe it's gold, white, but it's a precious light in your heart. And as you're looking into your heart, still the mind by watching your breath. Very simple. Watching your breath go into your heart. Watching your breath leave your heart. And then as you do this, just bring the mind calmly back to watching the breath into the heart. And from the heart, begin to listen. You can speak to the divine in this very peaceful, connected place, where you can say, show me my purpose, send me a sign, what do you want me to know, I want to hear from you. Because you're speaking to your soul, and your soul lives in your heart. That's what you can do. And you'll do this until you hear an answer. You'll hear an answer. Something will come.

I had to hide that I saw angels at a young age. My friends. I started an angel school in third grade. It was called the after school angel school, to teach my friends how to see angels. Where I got this, I do not know. But we taught levitation, and I remember them laying down, and we put our hands under, and they would go up. A teacher found us one day and had a heart attack. Then my friends would come home and tell their parents, and this was the deep south in the 60s. And so all my friends would come to me and say, 'I am so sorry, I cannot be your friend anymore because you are doing the work of the devil,' because I was teaching them how to talk to angels. So it was, you know, I really had to go deep. And I did what I had to do, which I counsel all of the beautiful souls I am blessed and honored to work with. When that pushback comes, just go deeper. Just go deeper into the light of your being. So I went through my life with this secret self. I shared it maybe with a few people, shared it with my mother. But then as I became like 16, 20, 25, 30, those years, 35, I started to kind of edge out. So I had this little flyer, can you just take this? And they open it and say, 'I did not know you were a healer.' I go, 'I know, I know, but I am.' And every time I said that, I would cringe. I would sweat.

If you look up cognitive behavior therapy, you will see they have done many tests with controls showing that cognitive behavior therapy changes brain chemistry. So cognitive behavioral therapy is where you think a thought, I am not worthy to live, and you immediately think a thought, I love lemonade. Meaning, you break off the synapse. You break the conductor with a completely different thought. So that the pattern of I am not worthy, finally that pattern has nowhere to go. So you can literally say anything. I love lemonade. So I took that study of cognitive behavior therapy and I said, okay, we can take it a step further. Now that sense, I am not worthy, comes up. Now call in your own divine light. The light within you, the goodness within you. I like to call that angels. That is what I work with. But the angels of light, something that resonates in your heart, that makes you feel happy. Immediately call that affirmation in. And what happens is this pattern now, because the third point of that is the feedback loop in the brain, in the amygdala. What happens is you have now trained your brain to have a different pattern and the chemistry actually changes.

Then in the 70s, I heard about a medium that channeled Mary, and I went to them and I said, you know, I was all like, 'Oh my gosh, I hear this voice, and is it real?' And she helped me. So I found mentors. I found teachers that said, 'Yes, it is real. You have a gift.' And I am so blessed. They saved my life. And I was really led to these wonderful teachers, a lot of them really old women who were part of different mystery schools that were hidden. And so I was able to study. So it is taking therapy, of which I was mentored by the late Dr. Lwanda Stainberg, who was the first woman to get a PhD in psychiatry from USC. She trained in Switzerland at the Jungian Institute and in Paris, and she was my mentor for 15 years. We both, in conversation, she agreed towards the end of her life. She said, you are correct, therapy can only take us so far because it is the mind. The mind can only heal itself so much. Then something else has to come in, that is the divine.

And I believe that is the stage we are in in our world, that everything that is happening is to lead us to discovering the divine, that you are divine, that you are divine, it is in you. You are divine. It is not the vessel, what the vessel looks like, but the vessel is divine, too. But it is that soul, that light, that incredible wonderment that is you. The you that is unique. There is no other you like you in all of creation. Without you, the fabric of this entire creation would have a giant hole. God would weep. God would be so sad without you being alive. That is how important you are, just existing. We are all in a unified field of oneness. We are all points of light in a great ocean, and we are all reflecting each other. We are each other. So in this great unified presence of the divine that we are, anything you do which is in alignment with your purpose, it shines out. Throughout the whole globe, it affects all of creation because your light becomes brighter. You become a lighthouse.

I work with prayer. Prayer is not the transactional secular point of view of spirituality. But the longer I live and the more I work with people, I am convinced the key is prayer. Because prayer is a deeply intimate conversation from your heart. And the heart is the seed of our divine power. It is where real power rests. And when you access that, you can move mountains. When you come into prayer from your heart and you simply say, even you can say, 'Dear presence that I do not believe in, guide me. Show me the way.' Because even if you do not believe in it, it is there, because it loves you no matter what. This presence is grateful you are even asking. You say, 'Please, would you show me my angel guides? Would you bring the angels close and show me a sign? Speak to me, because I am ready now to listen. I am open.' So ask from the heart and then be open.

And so I'm kind of going in and out of surrender. So then I come in and I'm like, 'Uh oh, now what?' And then God says to me, I can hardly say this. God said, 'Put your hands over her and love her. She's your daughter. She's your child. Love her as much as you love your children. And your love is going to save her life. That's all you have to do. That's what heals.' And so I just did that. I put my hands over her, and then I just went into an altered. The knock on the door. Karen's like, I'm here. And then all of a sudden, panic, sheer panic came in. Anxiety. I'm doubled over. I'm sweating. And I say, God, God, this is it. This is the moment. I don't know what to do. I was crying. I was like, I'll be right there, Karen, just a minute. And God says, don't do anything. Get out of the way. Just get out of the way. I'm doing this. Say, I am going to surrender what I think I know of what is reality. I am just going to surrender it for a moment as an experiment. Just do that and see what happens. See what happens, because something miraculous will happen.

What happened was I went through a quite horrific divorce and was brought to court, and I had a quite mean female judge. And when it was brought to light that I had quit my career, which I did, to be a stay at home mother, she said quite clearly to me, 'Who do you think you are?' To mother your children when the rest of us are all working? She said, well, that was a mistake, and she hit the gavel. She took away all of my alimony and most of my child support, even though it was against the law, she did it. And I came home, and I had enough money to live two weeks, and I had two small children, and I just broke down. I said, 'God, I am 40. I am smart. I have always been on my feet. How could this happen? What will I do?' I had a choice. It was a definitive choice. And I was told I had a choice. There was a fork in the road, and you cannot wait. You cannot wait a week. You cannot wait to eat. You are going to have to make this decision right now that is going to determine your whole life.

I went out onto my patio in Los Angeles, which I had covered with trees because we lived in concrete. I went out to the trees, and I am crying and crying. This is verbatim what God said. God said, 'Okay, do you want to pay the rent?' I said, 'Yes, I do.' God said, 'Okay, then you have to do exactly as I say.' I said, 'Okay, what do you want me to do?' God said, 'I want you to go out and heal people.' Before I leave the house, all of a sudden I said, uh oh. I said, God, you didn't tell me what to do, like how do I do the healing? God said, oh yes, of course, all right, do this. So God said, 'Get my Bible. Get my incense.' I love incense. God said, 'Get these oils.' Then God said, 'Get this crystal bowl.' I had this crystal bowl. I'm a musician, and I got it a while back, and I just love playing it. God says, 'Get this.' Now, this is before anybody had crystal bowls. I had to get this crystal bowl, bring the crystal bowl. I said, 'Okay.' Then I said to myself, 'Oh my gosh, I have to have a place to do these healings.' Then the phone rang. Literally, the phone rang. A friend of mine called and said, 'Hey, how are you doing?'

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I picked up the oils and I anointed her. Then I picked up the crystal ball and I played it. Then I started praying, and then I started singing these prayers that just came in. Then I did it, and then God said, 'Okay, she is done.' I lifted her up and I said, 'How are you?' And she just started crying and she said, 'Oh my gosh, I just feel so good. I feel so healed. I feel completely transformed.' Then the next person came, and the next person came. As I did the work, I grew also, and I learned more and more. Then I decided I should share the knowledge I was getting with people. So I started teaching, and it organically began to happen. With all the people I have worked with, I have seen their lives transform from finding that divine in self and then doing what is really their purpose.

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About ten years ago, I was in a deep meditation beneath a great old oak tree and I heard from within a voice that said, 'You are entering the age of surprise.' And I said, 'What do you mean?' And the voice said that everything is going to become upside down. What you thought was up is going to be down. People are going to present themselves as one thing and then you'll find out they're the opposite of what they presented themselves to be. Then I said to the voice, 'Okay, well, why did you tell me and what am I supposed to do now with this information?' And the voice, who obviously was a very ancient voice, said, 'Oh, go to a mountaintop and shout it out to the people.' I started seeing angels when I was about six, and I would tell my parents about this. So I open the door and Karen came. Oh, hi Karen. She's head down, head down. And I go, 'Well, what's bothering you?' And something came in, and all of a sudden I could read her whole soul. I knew exactly why she was hurt, what happened in her childhood. And I said, 'Well, this is what I see.' And she goes, 'How do you know this?' I don't know how I know this, but I told her that.

I didn't have one moment where this became clear. As a child, I was highly sensitive. I saw things other people didn't see. I had empathy others didn't have. I spent time in darkness because of that. Then I received good therapy and did movement work. I bumbled along, but astrology came to me young. I don't know why, because no one in my New York Jewish family was interested. It just came to me. Where people can get very off track with trauma or woundedness is they begin to tell a story of victimization and victimhood. Yes, we've been victimized, but victimhood is a noun. Now you're in a jail. I like to think that my wounds, and I've had many, are invitations for me to be more resilient, more compassionate, more loving, more powerful, more bold.

I know when somebody's awake because they have curiosity in their eyes. They're living to learn. Norman Lear, who's passed but was a great icon of TV, said to me at, I think, 100 years old, you can always learn something from anyone. That's how you know people are really present instead of 'Oh, I've got this,' or 'No, I have no idea. Let's find out.' Being present for me as an astrologer, I have a Taurus moon, so I know you by how I feel inside. It's an experience, not a concept. When I'm with you and truly present, I feel relaxed, warm, and open. My heart expands. I'm curious, interested, and engaged. When I'm not present, I feel dead, cranky, distracted, my knee hurts, and I'm not really listening.

As a young, rebellious person, I experienced a lot of distraction, disassociation, trauma, and not being present. I could even be with people or doing what I would be doing was thinking, why am I not with them, and it would really hurt me and I would feel less connected. As I started my practice, mindfulness, therapy, and trauma work, I realized what I want more than anything is to be with people, be with nature, and be with animals. The biggest advice I have for anybody that feels dull, and we all have felt that, is movement. Dullness is a feeling of numbness. You don't wake up with any joy or excitement. Maybe you're depressed. Dull is a very brown, dark feeling. The only antidote to that is movement. I'm certain of it because I've seen people that are too heavy for themselves, too dull, or even me when I'm down. If I dance for 40 minutes, ecstatic dance, and I do this, I am not dull or depressed anymore. I think we have forgotten we're animals primarily, and animals sitting or being stuck die. We need to remember that we have this body. Whatever capacities we have, you can move. If you move 30 minutes to an hour a day for the purpose of joyful movement, that's going to make you less stuck.

My words of encouragement to anyone feeling hopeless, in despair, or stuck is this is not the end of the story. With the right people around you, however you find them, you will remember who you are. It's never too late. That's the biggest thing I want to say to people. You are here as long as you're here. Whatever day it is, whether you're waking up at 20 or 70, that could be the day if you are very clear that you want to wake up. For me, that is what I ask for every day. I talk to my guides and angels and just say, 'Please help me.' And they do. There's always assistance if you're willing and ready to make the intention to wake up, to say, 'Help me. Help me. Help me wake up.' One day, even though it may seem like overnight, those things come together and will be revealed to you to help you.

I have an incredible group of friends and healers. One thing I want to say for sure, I'm the first person to get help. Yes, I'm a coach to people and I do a lot of amazing work, but there's not one part of me when I start hurting that thinks I better do this myself. I always get help. I have great healers. I have great friends. My spouse is amazing. When people have trouble getting the motor going and running, they need more help. This is the most underrated part of being a fully actualized person. We were put on this earth together. That's very important to remember. Not alone. There are resources, free or paid, incredible apps. When we're stuck and the tire is just repeating a cycle of stuckness, we need to keep reaching out until we find support that helps us get unstuck. Whatever it takes. I'm for whatever it takes.

There's a saying I like, don't do what other people can do. Do what only you can do. As Mercury in Capricorn, I'm extremely practical. I think each person is a unique, perfect assemblage of their own gifts and flaws, both the shadow and the light. I think if everybody really remembered who they were and what was possible and had support, because we all need more support, then people would be naturally more generous, thoughtful, and caring. When we're engaged in those divine possibilities, where the spark is, where the charisma is, where the love is, that's when I feel most alive. That's what I want to invite other people into, their own divine possibilities. Sometimes they just haven't had anyone talk to them about their many gifts and what's possible.

The main ingredient people have forgotten is that you don't get to purpose without effort. Whatever it is you're interested in, there's way too much emphasis on it should be delivered to you. My entire path is that I've worked hard for every single thing I've gotten. I've been given so many opportunities and grace, but not one thing came to me because I was sitting on the couch thinking, 'When am I going to find my purpose?' That never happened. I started writing and some people were making fun of me because I never got paid, but I wanted to have a voice. I was writing and writing and writing. Then that turned into an offer to publish my first book in astrology, which became a bestseller at 60 years old. Nothing that you care about has to be monetized initially. Just do it. I was just doing it and doing it and doing it. Then it turned into the first book, then the second book, and I got so many clients. I'm a go-getter, so I said to that person, 'Can I write for your magazine?' Let's give it a whirl.

What holds people back is fear and the critic in their head. Those are the two things I'm certain of. If people didn't have fear of what others thought or failure - like I'm big on failure, I have failed a lot. I think fail fast, get up faster. Fear of failure, fear of shame, fear of public ostracism, big ones. And then just the basic, who am I to do this? I always think, who am I not to do this? First, it's a psychology technique. You just have them name all the projected fears and bad things that are going to happen. That's a standard thing: what are all the worst things that could happen? Let's say all those things happen. First, you have to face the fear and make it not the demon but an incentive. The worst things, as an author once said, the worst things that have ever happened to me never happened, was Mark Twain. So much of what keeps me back or keeps most people back is the what-ifs. I say, bring on the what-ifs. It's okay. And how's that going to be? And what will it be like when you're dead? What if you aren't killed? Then what is it going to be like? That's a possibility for sure. But what are some other possibilities?

What's been hard for me my whole life is that I've never been conforming. From day one, I felt different. I didn't understand why people were mean or why people were treated badly because of skin color. None of it made sense to me. Early on, I felt like a misfit. Getting interested in astrology before most people confirmed that sense of being different. I'm a woman attracted to men and women, and I don't identify as anything specific, which didn't make things easier. The truth is, I think I'm well suited to be an oddball. And I think that's been hard. But I think as an outlier or an outsider, I've been able to offer everybody that has a wound about belonging a place to belong. The wound is where the light comes in. And I think people often mistake that I am the wound. It's not. I have the wound. I am not the wound. The biggest hindrance to growth is asking, 'Well, what are they doing? Should I be doing that?' What I've been able to do and support others to do is if you don't feel like you fit in, great. You can stand out.

Part III: The third issue in this special four-part series takes use on a journey into the dreamscape—where Tarotpy and the unconscious converge in symbols, synchronicity, and transformation.

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Oracle decks, well, I use them. I love oracle decks because for me, I can get in bed and pick a card. It's so fun and great that you can just pick a card and it reflects to you your unconscious. I think that's amazing. For me, it was really joyful. Then I was approached to make a deck after my two books. It's called Cosmic Parenting. Jung had the idea that we have a collective unconscious. Other frameworks also suggest we're always connected, we just forget. To me, everything we need to know and are curious about is within us. Objects reflect it, messages reflect it, cards reflect it. The minute you sit down and say, 'I'd like to take a look at this day through a card,' you've already made a relationship with the unconscious. It's like asking your dreams night after night to reveal something. The world is always speaking to us, but we often put ear muffs on and don't listen. Tarot or dreamwork is like saying, 'I'm listening. Tell me.' Astrology is a mystical oracle art as old as humanity. It has existed in every culture because before electric lights, people saw the planets and stars as luminaries, gods, and goddesses.

My main thing about my success and anyone else I've ever met is no one does this alone. Get your people. Get inspiring people around you. Here's a big one. If you're around complainers, find a new set of friends. I've never met people who complain habitually who are joyful or doing things that I want to be part of. The sacred crew metaphor is the idea that you're in a lifeboat. Who do you want to be alongside when things get rough, when you're seeing the best sunset of your life, when the dolphins are jumping, when there's a leak? It's very intentional to think, who can I count on? Not everybody has to have the same skills. Let's say I'm in a really bad mood. I've got seven different people I could call because somebody might not be home. You have to democratize your suffering and your joy. One thing's for sure, are they people who are happy for you? That's a big litmus test because a lot of people are going to be there for your misery. We call it misery poker. But how many people, when you do something amazing, are as happy for you as they'd be for themselves? Part of my work for my entire life, and it's in my astrology chart since I've been 20, is that I lead groups. I lead very intentional groups of people from all over the world, and they become each other's sacred crew.

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I had a profound reading when I was about eighteen or nineteen, and I knew this was something I needed to learn. I became deeply engaged with it while still doing many other things. Over time it grew into a lifelong romance, the connection between astrology and psychology, alongside my training as a therapist. As a map to your soul, from the day you were born, the moment, the time, and the place you were born, it illuminates a lesson plan. These are the possibilities you signed up for. It doesn't mean you can't transcend them or go off the map. But knowing the areas you're designed to explore and experience is helpful, rather than just doing what everyone else is doing. There's a saying I like, don't do what other people can do. Do what only you can do. At the moment you're born, and in conversations with others, there are aspects, what I call your inner committee. As time moves on and the planets move through the sky, they aspect different parts of that committee. When you're twenty one, you experience certain Saturn aspects. When you're twenty eight, you have a Saturn return. Different things happen at different moments in life. These are portals or gateways to specific lessons. I learned quickly that when you know the transits, the timing of events, and the divine possibilities, I was more efficient and helpful to my therapy clients.

So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen rather than, you know, let's go do a business plan. So I led this vision group, and on November 30, 1986, I had my first public service, and it's been going on ever since. Now, 189

But if they place themselves in a position and sincerely ask, what is it that's mine to do, like I was in my living room when I said, what do you want me to do, what's trying to emerge in my life, what gift am I to share, the universe, through law, answers any question that you ask. Most people are asking disempowering questions. But if you really ask, what is it that's mine to do, what gift am I to give, what's trying to emerge in my life, and you listen sincerely and make yourself available to activate the spiritual faculty of hearing the inaudible, you'll catch a vision. Your intuition will become activated. Your gut will be activated. You'll start to get breadcrumbs along the way. You'll get little insights. You get dreams. This is how you are to live your purpose. How you're to do it, not how you don't compare yourself to someone else, and that gets you in trouble because the world is full of shining lights on celebrity. But there are people doing powerful work on the planet, and we don't even know them. Their vibration is so high, and they're knitting or whatever their gift is.

For me, I knew as a young child about this presence. I had different experiences as a kid, but I always sought to normalize myself to be with my peers. That happened as a young child. At 11 years old, I had an experience where I could see that I wasn't who my mother, my grandmother, and my uncle thought I was. I had this very big awareness, and then I shrunk myself when I came into their presence so that I could be the son, the grandson, and the nephew. I had other experiences, but I always normalized myself until I was at the university going to school. For the first five years of my speaking, I would never share any of the mystical things that I was part of. I always said something like, I knew of a spiritual teacher and this happened to him, because I didn't want them to focus on me that way. It wasn't until maybe 10 or 15 years in that I started to share personally my own dive into the mystical realm and the things that I've experienced.

It was a long period of time that I was studying. I was going to meditation. I was doing everything spiritual to synthesize what had happened and to get a sense of what had happened. I went to Big Bear for a private meditation retreat by myself, just to be up there meditating. One day I'm outside meditating and a scroll comes down in front of me and it says, Michael Beckwith to speak at this spiritual center in Tacoma, Washington. Then it rolled up and disappeared. I thought that was kind of cute, so I wrote about it in my journal and continued to meditate.

I had a vision. I saw a spiritual center, Agape. I was walking down the street. I was really small in the dream, and the building had people coming out, all the demographics, everybody was in there. They were singing and praying, and a voice said, this is what we want you to do. I said, but in the dream, I'm really small. How am I going to do that? They said, you say yes and we'll do the rest. So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen rather than, you know, let's go do a business plan. Let's do all that nonsense first. It's like, no, that's second. You have to be the person first. So I led this vision group, and on November 30, 1986, I had my first public service, and it's been going on ever since. Now, 189 countries tune in, and I travel around the world and go where I'm called to do what I'm called to do.

At the behest of my mother and a friend of the family named Lisa, I went. It was the Guidance Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles. The founder was Dr. Daniel Morgan. I was about 23 or 24 at this time. I walked in and he was speaking. He said, Heaven and hell aren't necessarily places, they're states of consciousness. I said, he's right. I sat down and said, wow, they really are speaking truth in metaphysical churches because this is all the stuff I'm learning on the other side, and it's giving me language for my experience. That was a Sunday. He was teaching a class on Monday nights. The next day I showed up in his class and he asked me my name. I said, Michael Beckwith. He said, well, Mr. Beckwith, this is a 15 week class. You've walked in on the seventh week. I advise you to leave, and when we start the class over, you may come from the beginning. I said, with all due respect, Dr. Dan, I'm going to stay. I get licensed as a spiritual therapist. I'm doing workshops and seminars, and ultimately I go to the university, I go to the school of ministry.

When one is living their purpose, there's a tremendous amount of flow and power. We all generate fields. We're vibrational beings. We're not flesh and blood. We have a body, but we are vibrational beings. When one is in their purpose, the amplitude of their vibration is increased. Their energy alone, they don't have to say anything necessarily, they could just smile, they could just be in the room. Their energy affects countless beings. That's intrinsic to all of us. Once we discover who we are and activate and integrate with it, purpose raises your field and changes the world. We're all unique expressions of this infinite living one. I'm a spiritual optimist. An optimist is not a person who doesn't believe there are challenges and issues, but an optimist is a person who knows there's an answer to it. There's a solution built into the universe. The universe is infinite. There's no problem in the mind of the infinite. There are only patterns, ideas, and templates of more good than we can imagine.

It's my feeling that everyone has the same purpose, but they have different ways of expressing it. I've come to believe that our purpose is to reflect and to reveal the infinite, the presence that's never an absence, in a way that only we can. So we have this purpose to do that, and how we do it is our mission, the intentions that we set, and within those intentions our particular goals. Our uniqueness is our superpower. This presence never repeats itself because it's infinite. It never does a do-over. We're all whole intrinsically, so we have to discover that. And then once we discover it, it has to be activated, and once it's activated, it compels us into right action, which begins to be our mission on the planet. A person can be in business and really bring high morals, ethics, and sacred service into entrepreneurship and business to help change the world. A person can be a teacher, a comedian, they can do choreography, they can be a filmmaker, but the purpose stays the same. How they reveal that purpose is unique and varied, just as people are.

I'm sitting in my living room, and I didn't have bills to pay. I remember saying out loud, what do you want me to do? And the phone rang. There was a woman on the phone. She told me that we went to high school together. She said she was having some difficulties in her life and that God took her to her high school annual. She opened it up, and I'm in the high school annual. My phone number was underneath the picture. She said your phone number was underneath the picture. God told me to call you. When I said, what do you want me to do, the phone rang, and that started a number of people coming to see me. If you place yourself in a position and sincerely ask, what is it that's mine to do, what's trying to emerge in my life, what gift am I to share, the universe, through law, answers any question that you ask. Most people are asking disempowering questions. But if you really ask, what is it that's mine to do, what gift am I to give, what's trying to emerge in my life, and you listen sincerely and make yourself available to activate the spiritual faculty of hearing the inaudible, you'll catch a vision. Your intuition will become activated. Your gut will be activated. You'll start to get breadcrumbs along the way.

I had a vision. I saw a spiritual center, Agape, and I saw it on more than one occasion. One time I was in a Mexican city taking some time off. Another time I had it in a dream. I was walking down the street. I was really small in the dream, and the building had people coming out, all the demographics, everybody was in there. They were singing and praying, and a voice said, this is what we want you to do. I said, but in the dream, I'm really small. How am I going to do that? They said, you say yes and we'll do the rest. I went to Big Bear for a private meditation retreat by myself, just to be up there meditating. One day I'm outside meditating and a scroll comes down in front of me and it says, Michael Beckwith to speak at this spiritual center in Tacoma, Washington. Then it rolled up and disappeared. So I began a vision group in my living room. We met every Thursday night to become the vibration of a community that we wanted to build. We didn't start linearly with business plans or any of that. We wanted to be internally the frequency of unconditional love and peace, and then let the rest happen.

I didn't have any mentors, so in the beginning my mentors were people on the other side of the veil, dead people. My teachers were dead. Walter Russell, Ernest Holmes, and other people. I would actually leave my body and go to these classes and sit there and learn, then come back to the body. At this church, they had a celebration anniversary and they had the bust of the founder of religious science outside. I said, oh, I know him. They said, this man died in the 60s, what do you mean? I said, no, I work with him at night. He teaches me at night. They said, what are you talking about? I said, when I leave my body, this is one of my teachers. He told me I was going to take this teaching further than most people have ever taken it before. One night I was out of the body, sitting there, and he comes up and says, tonight the lesson is going to be taught by Michael Beckwith. So I walk up to the front. There are all these people out there, and I say it can be broken down into eight simple words, it is done unto you as you believe. I became very conscious that I was up there teaching in a class outside of my body.

I had a series of inner experiences that at the time I thought were pathological. I was in the psychobiology department, so hearing voices, seeing visions, leaving my body, this was not something that I trained myself to do. I really thought I was going crazy. To make a long story short, it culminated in a death. I left my body numerous times. I was killed by three men. Two men held me down and one plunged a knife into my heart. The pain was very excruciating, emotionally and physically. I died. When I woke up, I could see that I was surrounded by this field of love beyond anything I could describe and such beauty. This life, this beauty, was even in the lint in the rug. Everything was alive, glowing with this presence. At that point, I couldn't get back into the normalization that I'd been doing as a young child. I woke up and I could see 360 degrees, 365 degrees. I could see everywhere. I went on a research to discover what had happened to me, and that's when I bumped into the mystical teachings of Gautama the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Walter Russell, Zoroaster, and many teachers that led me into an awareness of what was happening to me. I realized I wasn't crazy.

If you ask someone what is your purpose, you're in effect asking them why are you here? Why do you exist? That's what that question means. NLP trained people, which I am not, will tell you that the brain does very bad things when you ask it why questions. It creates this like vapor lock. Being able to answer the question, why are you here? and articulately is actually fairly rare because the brain doesn't produce useful information when you ask the person that question. In my world, in my system at the True Purpose Institute, we actually deal with four different types of purpose statements. To me, purpose is the answer to the question, why are you here? Why do you exist? That's what purpose means. But there's more than one way of answering that question. We actually teach four different ways. One type of purpose statement is a mission. The other three begin with the one that is repeatable, which is something called a blessing. Number three is something called essence, and that's the being state of your purpose. The fourth is message, which is what you were sent to tell the rest of us.

He started out at MIT with a BS in mathematics, but he went on to found a company called the True Purpose Institute. When I was in college I studied orienteering, which is basically running around the woods with a map and a compass trying to figure out where you're going. When I was in the Navy I was an expert navigator. When I became a consultant, I focused on helping organizations find their vision and find their purpose. All of those are different ways of helping people find their path. I've learned as a commanding officer in the Navy and got a lot of great leadership training from the military the importance of walking the talk and taking my own medicine. People talk about how I address very murky spiritual topics in a very straightforward, logical, step by step way. The True Purpose process is very methodical and works over 90 percent of the time if the practitioner knows what they're doing.

That's a method I call ask and wait, which is what I did, and it took over 20 years for me to find my purpose. I don't recommend it. I was finding various people's purposes for several years. This was 20 years ago, after finding my own and realizing that it was purposeful for me to help other people find their purpose. Along the way I received the instruction, okay, now only do it for leaders. After focusing on leaders and doing that for a while, I received the instruction, okay, now focus on world leaders. That was, I don't know, some five or eight years ago that I got that instruction. The language, helping or excuse me, guiding leaders to create heaven on earth came out of me trying to figure out how to articulate my purpose, which I understood very well internally, in ways that others could understand. But the focus on leaders has been around for a while. That's been more than 15 years that I've really focused on helping leaders find their purpose.

I've learned as a commanding officer in the Navy and got a lot of great leadership training from the military the importance of walking the talk and taking my own medicine. I'm constantly in the process of honing, evaluating, and updating my purpose over time and trying to find bigger, more effective, more challenging, more impactful ways of living that purpose. To enact this, I founded something called the True Purpose Institute. I had been teaching workshops about purpose for years, very early on started training coaches and consultants to find other people's purpose. Then other people showed up who wanted to teach. We now have a bunch of people teaching this work all around the world, helping thousands and thousands of people find their purpose, and training thousands of coaches, consultants, and therapists to find others' purpose. We have teachers in South America and North America. We've had people teach in Israel, workshops in China and Japan, in Europe and the Netherlands in particular. People all over the place in the process of learning to find the purpose of organizations.

Is the fast solution always the best one? Of course not, but is it the one we choose most? Probably. In his talk, Tim Kelley shows us how our decision making process can sometimes lead to childish behaviour and make countries behave like kids. Tim Kelley is a global change agent and internationally renowned expert on new paradigm systems and methods. He works with top leaders in many fields and countries to transform and evolve organizations, markets and industries. His client list includes top leaders and executive teams from such companies as Alibaba, ING, Oracle, Nabisco and Price Waterhouse Coopers, as well as government ministers, presidential candidates and leaders of international NGOs. Tim has trained over 1000 consultants, therapists and coaches in his methods. He is the author of True Purpose and the best-selling coauthor of three other books. His methodologies have been featured internationally in magazines, newspapers and on television. Tim has commanded military organizations, including an amphibious assault craft unit, and is a retired Naval Reserve officer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from MIT. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Ask

For me, having individuals living their purpose is insufficient. The reason is that a lot of the power and structure that we live in, that benefits us tremendously and also creates harm, is held by systems. By systems I mean things like companies, governments, laws, and the internet. Those systems have a tremendous amount of power, and those systems reflect and act from the consciousness that was used to create them. To me, it's insufficient to have evolved, purposeful people in unevolved, unpurposeful systems and declare victory. That doesn't work for me and I don't think it would work for the world either. In addition to having lots of people living their purpose, we need purposeful companies, purposeful countries and governments, and purposeful systems. What's the purpose of the internet? Good question. Is it living that purpose? I'm not sure because I don't know what its purpose is. But challenging business, government, religion, science, art, and the media to know and live up to their purposes, I think, would create a vastly better world. The two countries I've worked with so far unofficially, I look forward to doing it officially, are Colombia, right after they signed the peace agreement with the narco terrorists and ended years of conflict in Colombia. The other country I worked on was Israel, and I would love to make that project official because they really need it.

Living my purpose has had other effects. I've learned as a commanding officer in the Navy and got a lot of great leadership training from the military the importance of walking the talk and taking my own medicine. I'm constantly in the process of honing, evaluating, and updating my purpose over time and trying to find bigger, more effective, more challenging, more impactful ways of living that purpose. Which means I make myself nervous a lot. The sources where I get my information about my purpose make me very nervous with the demands they place on me, which is why I'm going after country purposes. Part of me wishes I were just working with companies all the time, finding their purpose. That would be so much easier than going out to try to find countries that want to find their purpose. No one's doing that. That's a completely new market. I have to go create the idea in people's minds before they would even want to hire me to do it. Huge project. But really interesting, super purposeful. For me, modeling the courage to keep leaning into bigger and more challenging versions of my purpose has been really inspiring to the people in my community.

Heaven on earth means what's the best world that you could possibly imagine and let's go for something slightly better than that, which would include a world that works for everyone but not limited to. In order to qualify as heaven on earth, it would have to have a lot of other interesting features beyond just working for everyone. When I envision this, when I visualize it in my mind, like what does heaven on earth look like? To me, it looks like a park with happy people walking around in it. There's technology, there's nature, there's buildings, there's trees, and it's all working together. I'll tell you another of my purpose statements. I told you message is one of the aspects of purpose in my system. Well, my message is the time to create heaven on earth is now. We have been willing to accept excuses from ourselves and others about why it can't be done. We are out of time, and there is no reason why we cannot create heaven on earth right now.

It's easy to confuse purpose with profession. But a purpose could be manifested through multiple different professions. Three different people in the same profession could be manifesting three different purposes through that same profession. A profession is a set of skills and activities. A purpose is a why. It doesn't follow that there's a one-to-one correlation between purposes and professions. There is a many-to-many relationship. With myself, for example, the purpose I discovered when I discovered my purpose was to show people the way. When I was in college I studied orienteering, which is basically running around the woods with a map and a compass trying to figure out where you're going. When I was in the Navy I was an expert navigator. When I became a consultant, I focused on helping organizations find their vision and find their purpose. All of those are different ways of helping people find their path, of showing them the way. I'm a ways map editor. All of those are purposeful activities for me because they're all different ways of showing people the way. I give great driving directions. When I used to interview MIT students from certain schools who wanted to go to MIT, I was their interviewer. I would take that opportunity to counsel them about how to decide which school to go to. All of those activities are purposeful and lead to completely different professions, but are all expressions of the same purpose.

The biggest problem I had once I was really clear on what my purpose was and what it meant, which happened later, really was fear, fear and resistance. That is very common. If the purpose is very accurate, it will usually also be very intimidating. If you're really nervous about your purpose, frightened of it, don't want to tell anybody about it, it's almost certainly correct. Now, this is 20 years ago. No one was talking about purpose in business. I was one of the first to be talking about purpose in business. I was terrified of people's reactions. I was terrified of how business people would react. I was terrified of how evangelical Christians would react. I was terrified of all sorts of things. And that's very normal, to have a lot of fear. First about knowing the purpose and then, once the purpose is known, fear about living it and about doing it. It took me, when I wrote the book True Purpose, probably two years longer than it needed to, to publish it because of my fear and how difficult it was for me to focus on doing the steps to get the book out there. The biggest problem with that is fear, just like I said before, fear of talking to it and learning your purpose. The prospect of having the Holy Spirit, your Buddha nature, or your spirit guide tell you in no uncertain terms what your purpose is terrifies most people.

So, my advice if you're looking for your purpose is to get help. The reason is that if you try to do it by yourself, it could take forever. You might never find it. That's a method I call ask and wait, which is what I did, and it took over 20 years for me to find my purpose. I don't recommend it. For some reason, people have an imagination that they ought to be able to find their own purpose on their own. They don't think that they should be able to perform brain surgery on themselves. They don't think that they know how to fly a plane or play a piano unless they're trained to do it. But for some reason, people imagine that they ought to be able to figure out their purpose with no training and no help whatsoever. I have no idea why that is, but I'm here to tell you that's not how it works. Get qualified help. Get someone who really knows how to find people's purposes, and ideally someone who does that for a living, to help you with yours. Just like if you needed brain surgery, you would find someone whose job is brain surgery, who does it successfully over and over again. Why wouldn't you want someone qualified and skilled to help you find your purpose so you don't have to wait 20 years like I did?

With myself, for example, the purpose I discovered when I discovered my purpose was to show people the way. That was the original purpose statement I learned initially in a dream, which I wrote about in my book True Purpose, and then later by other means, which we can talk about. The dream that I had where I initially learned my purpose was very short and it's the only dream I've ever had where there were no visuals. I was asleep and it's pitch black and I hear a booming voice say, 'Your purpose is to help others find their path.' And then I woke up and that was the entire dream. It lasted a couple of seconds tops. I've never forgotten it and I never will. Then I had to try to figure out what to do with that, which is, of course, a whole other problem with purpose. That was the initial moment in which my purpose became clear to me. I so didn't know what to do with it that I had to find that purpose again a couple of years later, another way, which is actually not uncommon. When people learn their purpose, they so don't know what to do about it that they sort of put the genie back in the bottle, and then it pops back up again later.

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If you're in that category, the other method, the preferred method, how I got it both in my dream and later, is to have something that already knows your purpose explain it to you. Notice I said something, not someone. An interesting question for you is who or what in your universe should already know what your purpose is even if you don't? That could be a part of yourself, your heart, your gut, your intuition, your higher self, your true self, whatever term makes sense to you. Or it could be something external. It could be something external and spiritual or religious, like God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Allah, Buddha, or the universe. Or it could be something completely non-spiritual. Could be a dead relative. Could be your spirit animal if you're into Native American traditions. The question is based on your beliefs, nobody else's. At the True Purpose Institute, we teach people how to communicate with that thing. How to communicate with your dead grandmother, your heart, or God, and have God tell you, 'This is your purpose, glad you asked.' Then we test it. We have twelve tests for telling whether it's a purpose or not. We have about forty tests for telling whether it's really God talking, or the universe, or whatever it is that you choose. The best method, the one that has the highest odds of success doing it completely on your own, is to do it in writing. I would write out: Tim: 'Hey, Inner Truth, are you there?' Inner Truth: 'Sure, I'm always here.' This kind of back-and-forth works best when you write names in front of every line.

Am I having synchronicities in a negative way or a positive way? You have to learn to read the signposts, which means you have to awaken your awareness. Very important. Be the observer of your thoughts and emotions. The road to great passion and purpose is not linear. It has a lot of dips. Those dips are where you really learn something about yourself because we're in the earth school. It's all about lessons. Look at the cosmic picture. What am I learning at this point? What do I need to adjust? It's not just finding your passion. It's finding your direction. You find your direction hopefully by creating your direction and not letting the outside world slam you in the face.

How do you access it? First, you have to get out of monkey mind. Then you have to believe you can do it. Then you have to meditate, do chi gong, whatever that technique or tool is to get into the space where you can access everything. Everyone has a different go-to. But it takes persistence and it takes will. I've never accessed everything. I've just accessed what I wanted to access. The world is like your oyster. You feel unlimited. The only person who can block you is you, yourself. No one can block you once you get into the state of flow. And it takes me, I can meditate three minutes a day and get what I need.

And it takes me, I can meditate three minutes a day and get what I need. Or the other thing I do is before I go to sleep, I set an intention. And the intention is to solve a problem or I want to go within and find XYZ. And usually in the morning I will have an idea about XYZ or I'll wake up in the middle of the night. So intention is very, very important. As long as people are attentive and their intent is to live a life of passion, which not everyone's intent is, they'll get there. But it has to come from the heart, not the head. You get what you focus on, and the more you focus on it, the more you get. Your energy goes where your attention flows.

For people who aren't feeling successful on the road to their true passion, I would say first, get grounded. Understand what you want. Understand your beliefs about yourself, your beliefs about others, and what's possible for you to do. Make a list of your gifts and abilities or what you perceive as your gifts and abilities. Then feel how you can best accomplish anything in life using those gifts and abilities. There are always frustrations. The road to great passion and purpose is not linear. It has a lot of dips. Those dips are where you really learn something about yourself because we're in the earth school. It's all about lessons. Those dips are about understanding that even through negativity, things that don't happen for you have a gift in them. Look at the cosmic picture. What am I learning at this point? What do I need to adjust? Be the observer of your thoughts and emotions.

From a very young age, you create all of these scripts. You create patterns, and patterns are things that you do that you just don't know you're doing. They just happen. When you start understanding and acknowledging your patterns, you can make choices. Most of these people aren't even thinking about making choices. They're just reacting. They're not grounded. They're all over the place. They live from monkey mind. They have so much going on and they're living in their phones, in virtual reality. They're not living in their bodies and they don't understand who they are, so how can they understand what they believe? If you want to change, you have to change your beliefs about yourself, your beliefs about the world, the way you think, the way you react, why you react. Am I making choices now from the present moment or am I making them from all the scripts from my childhood?

So that's how we teach creation, that you're an unlimited being. You're only limited by your imagination because you have all the tools within. It's about accessing the tools within. And that's what creating from within means, accessing all the gifts and abilities you have because you have the whole universe within. But how do you get there? How do you access it? First, you have to get out of monkey mind. Then you have to believe you can do it. The world is like your oyster. You feel unlimited. The only person who can block you is you. We're great creators. It depends on our attitude, our awareness, and our talent for getting to the bottom of things, to what we really want.

If things aren't working out for you, what's your attitude? Why aren't they working out? What are you feeling about this? Where are those feelings taking you? Can you say cancel, cancel to the thoughts that are creating those feelings and turn them around into positive emotions? Because you can. You have to learn how. Every thought we think goes out to the universe. It's not just our own thoughts. I say cancel, cancel. And you can train your brain because your brain doesn't know the difference between a lie and the truth. So, I just keep repeating what I think is where I want to go, what I feel is where I want to go, and I tell myself empowering statements until I repeat them enough that I believe them. Then my brain believes them, and then that's what I'm going to attract. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? And of course, I always say that it's already done and I step into it because your brain also likes to be right. If you say this is going to be in your future, it'll never happen in the now. It's always going to be in the future and it won't happen.

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Why did I study Reiki? I was in Bali for a month and it rained every day, so there wasn't much to do. I got my masters in scuba diving because you can scuba dive and go underwater when it's raining. Then I ran into a Reiki master. The Reiki master was very interesting because his second job was to move the clouds for weddings, and he was hired by the Four Seasons and the Sheridan and all the top hotels to move the clouds. Amazing, right? He was my Reiki master, and I studied Reiki for a month. When I came back to the US, I continued studying Reiki and I became a Reiki master, Karuna Reiki, Fire Reiki, whatever. It was a lot of fun, but it wasn't my profession. I was still doing licensing and doing Reiki, but it really helped a lot of people.

I was very passionate about licensing patents, trademarks, and designers. I really loved it because I was learning new businesses all the time. I was traveling 200,000 miles a year. It was a wonderful distraction from feeling anything. It was the perfect passion. I was developing lots of new products and lots of new brands and I felt very successful. Then at one point I just felt empty. I was burned out when I was in my late 40s and I started having shoulder problems. I had a frozen shoulder. What did that mean? Who knows? I tried Celra. I tried all the drugs possible and nothing would unfreeze my shoulder. I was in Paris, it was like 20 degrees out, I couldn't put my coat on because I couldn't put my arm through the arm of the coat, and I was walking. I went out and learned something else. So it sounds a little crazy, but that's what drove me to be of service. I was so lucky to be able to do that because it really filled my heart and I stopped being numb. Passion and purpose led to feeling, to getting into my heart, into staying very present and grounded in my life 30 years ago.

r Joy - Score: 90/100 [note/advice] There are only a few inches between your heart and your head. Most people are thinking from their head to their heart. To know what you really want and how you want to create, you have to feel it. You want to follow your feelings. When I ask someone to create a plan for their life, I don't say think about what you want. I say feel how you want it. What's the feeling you want to have going forward? Then what can you do to get there? They have to get into their heart. Your passion doesn't have to be what you do for a living. You can love painting and not be a professional painter. Passion could be sprinklings of a lot of different things around what you're doing for work. If someone has no idea whatsoever, I say when you get out of bed in the morning and have a choice of five different things to do, do what you love. Do what brings you the most joy or what you perceive will be the best option and then go from there. Go from one little step to the next. Ask yourself, what brings me joy? What gets me out of bed in the morning? What are those thoughts? What are those beliefs? What are those feelings? Pursue that.

When you're curious and open, and remember what you used to love as a kid, and you're in touch with your heart and know what brings you joy, you can nicely move into the next flowing state. Whatever makes you feel timeless, whatever puts you in a position where you don't even know that time has passed, is probably going to be a passion for you and give you purpose. So you have to notice what you notice, but it means you have to be present and curious your whole life. Life is like a smorgasbord. It's like a treasure hunt. When you put your attention on positive things and the feeling that life really is a treasure hunt, you're always looking for that opening, something you're going to love, notice, and want to be involved in, whether that's a political party, helping a school, or going to Africa and setting up fresh water for people who don't have it, digging wells, whatever. I had multiple passions because I had a lot of curiosity. I never focused on one thing. I focused on one thing at a time, but I had multiple passions. There are just so many things you get passionate about, then you want to know more and more. Then you mix them all together and decide what you're going to use at any given point in time to help someone who needs it.

There is no such thing as a healer. You inspire people to heal themselves. Everyone has to do their own work. It's the relationship between you and the person on the other side. I learned that maybe 30 years ago with Reiki. I'm not sure that it wasn't the therapeutic alliance at that time that helped people or actually the Reiki, because most people don't get the attention they need and have someone who is patiently and presently listening to them. When they do, great transformations happen. The worst thing a healer can say is that they heal people because you don't. Yesterday I had a stage four person with cancer, multiple cancers. Two of her kids tried to commit suicide last year. She was a total mess. How could I heal her? You have to give her the tools. I worked with her for two hours and gave her a bunch of tools and she felt great afterwards, which is nice because she can understand that she could feel better than the state she was in when we started. But if she doesn't continue using those tools, nothing's going to happen. So, as a healer, you can show them the way, but they have to do the work. I think I help to empower people to be the best they can be. I don't heal people. I empower them to take care of themselves, to heal themselves, and to understand that they are great creators. And there's nothing to stop them but themselves.

"I think your purpose is your passion, it's in your life, you're doing it already, you just don't know that. You are it already. It is you already. If you claim it, then you can name it and then you can be it. You are your life's purpose, you are your life mission, the fulfillment of the fullness of you. That's it."

"When you're in community and people hold you in all of your parts, then you have the space and the wherewithal to journey inward, to access more of your life's mission and purpose, and weave it into your daily living, and share it with community and have it activated. You aren't sitting alone in your apartment on a computer searching for a way to feel in connection and in community. That really is the ultimate life purpose, bringing your full self into communal spaces and having the joint resonance around that."

"When the Dalai Lama said, go be free, do that, yes, I formed the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and tried to put programming together. I do this thing called music as medicine programming. It is a divine gift right there at our fingertips. It doesn't require you to be a Taylor Swift or a Beyonce. People can access it and communicate through it everywhere, all the time."

"I remember being in the back of our house. Our houses were surrounded by a nature preserve, like enclaves. In our area there was a creek, and we used to go from preserve to preserve and walk around in nature all day. This was back in the day when your parents were out, you were home, you were a latchkey kid. I remember sitting on this rock, being in nature, and singing to the frogs, the birds, and the trees."

"I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children, youth, and families who are immobilized in pain, fear, and shock. The way to get to them is not to say, let me talk to you, can you fill out this form. It is about, I see you, I feel you, I hear you, I need you to come back. The way back is through song. I sing to them, they start crying, then we process the grief and pain and get to a place of starting to heal. I feel that it really is the balm that heals the soul and the soul of the world."

"I remember sitting on this rock in the nature preserve, being in nature, and singing to the frogs, the birds, and the trees. I started noticing that the birds would respond when I sang. I would sing and the birds were quiet. Then I would be quiet and they would sing back. We started doing this concert. Even in my child mind, I thought, this is not real, am I making this up. After that I started singing with the birds every day. It sparked a curiosity in me. There's a way that we can communicate without words. There's a way that you can have a heart connection through this interplay of sound that doesn't necessarily require a certain level of cerebral intake."

"The only thing that would quell that fear, that anxiousness, outside of a very strong will to live, was music. It was not rock and roll music. It was really about sound. There were lots of harmonies and natural sounds that touched my core and really penetrated on a cellular level. It was what I locked into, what I could focus all my attention and energy on, so I could heal from within while the doctors tried to heal externally. I knew it had such a miraculous effect because every day the doctors would come in and say, we cannot believe how much your bone has grown back. We cannot believe that your blood work is coming back with all of this amazing data. I would demand to see my lab work. I would demand to see my X rays. I would say, this is low, let me focus on this. When I was focusing and meditating, it was this music that I focused on. It really created a sound path for me to bathe in and stay in so I could reach a level of ease and distress while all the stress was happening in my body."

"I survived a hate crime. I was run over with a truck by five young men. Racism. I was just sitting in a field of flowers. I was dragged 86 feet on a gravel dirt road. I had a separated hemothorax, pneumothorax. My ribs punctured my lungs. Every day they would come in and say, well, you might not live today, but if you do, we are going to have to cut your legs off from the hips down. I could only move two fingers, and I would write, not today, maybe tomorrow, not today."

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"My purpose really does involve a lot of music as medicine. The only thing that would quell that fear, that anxiousness, outside of a very strong will to live, was music. There was one sound healer named Brother Ah, and he would pour water from one glass to another, chant, and use very intentional prayer music. It touched my core and really penetrated on a cellular level. It was what I locked into, what I could focus all my attention and energy on, so I could heal from within while the doctors tried to heal externally. Every day the doctors would come in and say, we cannot believe how much your bone has grown back. When I came out of that, I knew that this is 100 percent what I am doing. I formed the International Cultural Arts and Healing Sciences Institute and tried to put programming together. I do this thing called music as medicine programming, and we use it with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, with the American Psychological Association, with the Department of Health and Human Services, and with the Foreign Services Institute. I go around as a cultural arts ambassador to different places around the world, bringing people together with music and working with people who are frozen in this chrysalis of pain and trauma from war, refugees, and at risk children."

"There's an audacious side to me, probably from a mentor of mine, from my early journalistic days, who said, I haven't said no till they kick you down the stairs. That really stayed with me. I guess there's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time."

"I have a really strong need to change things, to rip down old paradigms and to create new ones, and I have a really strong need to help other people. I think that went through with our work with What Doctors Don't Tell You. We have covered just about every kind of illness and tried to offer people healthy solutions that don't harm. We are very aware of the state of modern medicine and the fact that it is just an extraordinarily greedy business now, with nothing to do with healing. That has been a really important factor for me."

"One of the struggles that I encountered was working sometimes with editors whose work I didn't agree with. The words are really important to me, the rhythms are really important to me, so I think it was that struggle of maintaining my own integrity that was difficult sometimes. Also trying to put together what are some big ideas, I must have worn out a carpet upstairs just walking back and forth on it, trying to figure out what does this all mean, how does this all fit together, and trying to also turn that into language that ordinary folks can understand, including me."

"I guess I think of my purpose now as changing paradigm, the I win you lose paradigm, and trying to do something different, and trying to be more loving in groups, large and small, and to create grids, and to show how these extraordinary mirror effects happen. The final thing that I feel has morphed out of all of the work that I've done is some thinking recently about thinking, well, those people in charge, they really don't know what they're doing, we need an army of change makers. I suddenly thought, well, I guess I have an army of change makers. I've got tens of thousands of power of eight groups around the world. What if I brought them together and gave them some free tools and had them join together, groups and other groups, we could affect change from the bottom up. So that's what I've been doing now in what I call the Eight Revolution. My purpose is to change the way things are, and I guess I do it one word at a time."

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"If you're creating and talking about a new paradigm, the scientific community, the standard scientific community, is not going to hug you back. They are going to say critical things without really understanding. My field has been said to be nothing more than Star Wars. It's got 400 plus scientific references, it's just in a paradigm that the old paradigm doesn't yet understand but is coming into understanding now. I wrote that book 25 years ago. We have a magazine called What Doctors Don't Tell You, and we write about what works and what doesn't work in conventional and alternative medicine. Occasionally we get skeptic organizations trying to shut us down and try to take us out of newsstands and all sorts of things like that. We've learned these people are not going to hug back, and you have to stand up and fight for yourself sometimes, which we have, and we've prevailed."

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"I went on in my 20s to become a journalist. I was going to put bad guys in jail. I started putting bad guys in jail, and I broke baby selling rings and had hidden cameras and tape recorders. Then I moved over to writing about health and looking at the scientific evidence. That is when I started thinking about the power of the mind and the power of intention, because I saw very good studies of spiritual healing. I kept wondering what does that mean, and how far can we take this. If you can have a thought and send it to someone else and make them better, then that undermines everything we think about how the world works. So I set off to find out why, and that resulted in my book The Field, where I'd interviewed lots of frontier physicists, biologists and other scientists, but recognized that scientists speak in math. They also don't want to move beyond their experimental data to say what does this all mean. I realized with some alarm I was going to have to put this all together. So I did, with The Field, and it described a new science, the coming of a completely new understanding of who we are and how we should live. It also changed the messenger, that really became my purpose."

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"We need community more than anything else, more than we need to breathe, we need to belong. Creating these small groups have been a really important part of my life in big intention experiments because I've seen massive healings with people, people who have healed medical conditions, stage four cancer, three people getting up out of their wheelchairs, untold people with stage four cancer reversing it. I had a woman who was going blind, doctors could do nothing for her, one power of eight group and she's completely healed, she has 20/20 vision now. We've had so many situations like that where people have been healed as a result of just coming together in this group and doing these techniques that I teach them. Then with the big groups, we found extraordinary rebound effects, where half of the people taking part in our intention experiments, focusing on lowering violence somewhere, feel more love for everyone they come in contact with. Somebody said to me, you're doing more than research, you're cracking open people's hearts."

"For me, it's really simple. When I want to get something done, I actually set many goals and many intentions and I work at it. If I'm writing a book, I won't leave my desk until I've written at least 1,000 words a day. Then I know my other goal is I've got to have 5,000 done by the end of the week, and then I've got to have something else done by the end of that week. By the end of the month, I've got a very clean chapter, and by the end of the year, I have my book. I literally do that. I'm at my desk at 9:30 every day. The real key elements for me are setting myself intentions, large and small. There's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time. I always try to aim as high as I can. I think those things are really important in understanding how to find your purpose. Never ever play small, always play the big."

"Education should be nurturing the higher purpose of kids and giving them all the resources they need to fulfill that purpose, whether they are skills, people, resources, access to a market that they can reach and bring their gift. Whether you're an architect, an engineer, a poet, a chef, or a healer, anything that brings your heart to shine with energy, love, and passion."

"Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. I think that's something that I've been doing over and over."

"I have always learned that when a person or a group connects to higher purpose, that brings you the energy to be a better person. People that are in addictions, depressions, or any sort of trouble, the moment you tap into a higher purpose, that will bring you the energy every morning to stand up, wake up early, do exercise, go and study, go and work. We need emotional education. Any unhealed emotion moves to an addiction, and that could be an addiction to food, to work. It doesn't need to be alcohol and drugs, but it could be many types of invisible destructive habits."

"The advice to find your purpose is to stop for a moment, really go back to that moment where you were full of dreams and energy. What were those dreams? What was that purpose? Go back, get them, and trust yourself. Never stop. My key for finding higher purpose and keeping myself there is to find those who resonate with you. Do not go alone."

"As I was studying and trying to understand the purpose of why we are here on Earth, I started learning from indigenous wisdom leaders, wisdom keepers, and evolutionary pioneers, avant garde thinkers. At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose."

"We build safe containers where people feel safe. Everyone is acknowledged, and everyone receives the resources they need to fulfill their purpose. In communities of coherence, we guide people to be in the right placement. People need to find their purpose in their heart so they can find resonance with others. It is like music. You might be out of tune and not fit into teams, causing trouble. But once you find your tune, then you resonate with others. People vibrating at the same scale will resonate with you. When you connect to your heart and purpose, you will find resonance with others."

"I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. Something I learned is not to go too fast, because people will not be able to listen or understand. There is an art of not coming all the way back and becoming one of the million people doing the same thing, but being a little bit ahead and getting people to hear you, so you can push the present to the future. That has been one of the greatest challenges for me."

"People say, why are you not just doing money, why do you not focus on having a house and enough money for your retirement, you are careless. You are careless because you are not focusing on making money and you are doing so many things. I will tell you, money is not the most important thing. I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. A friend once told me, your problem is that you are in the believing edge. You are too ahead, nobody sees what you are doing, nobody understands what you are doing. He gave me good advice, take some steps back, move to the living edge, that is when you become famous and wealthy. But for me, that is still being in the comfort zone, and we do not have time."

"The biggest struggle I have had living my purpose is that nobody believes it is possible. We are living in a global crisis of belief. People do not believe anymore. What I am saying now, I have been saying the same thing for the past fifteen years, and now I think the world is ready to listen. Many times, you just have to stay. One of the hardest things for me is to stay on the fire in the waters of uncertainty and ambiguity, and hold the fire. Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. You must be a believer and stay strong, called to purpose. There's a fine line between being persistent and being obstinate. You need to have wisdom to know when to stop and go back and when to be persistent and stick to your values and your high purpose."

"When I was eighteen or nineteen, I joined an international organization of students, and that took me to travel the world and become a world citizen. Then I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

"We can become spiritual beings. We need to reconnect to our divinity, our supra human Jedi capacities, and at the same time we can do better on this planet. There is no reason why there is hunger, sickness, and the problems that the planet has. We have enough resources, intelligence, action, commitment, and skill to do it. I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

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"At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose, that the purpose of the planet is to evolve into higher consciousness. We are evolving to become a planetary and universal humanity. I was like, that is exactly what I am about here. I have been developing a methodology I call social alchemy, where I combine social intelligence, collective intelligence practices, and spiritual intelligence practices. We need to unite the heart, the mind, and the spirit. Our vision is to build communities of coherence that can synergize with other communities on a bioregional basis. Bioregions are the stepping stones from the age of the nation-state to the age of planetary consciousness."

"My purpose started, my passion started very soon. I would say when I was three to six years old. I was very intrigued by all of the questions that I could not find answers to from family, church, or school. I had questions like, what happens when we die. Are we alone in the universe. What about all this paranormal, that apparently some humans have, others do not. So I went into a huge pilgrimage. Since I was six, started at three, but when I was six and able to speak a little bit better, I started the quest. At twelve, I started finding people. I was led, I was able to speak to strangers. I started gathering more information that I could not get beyond the barrier of my family, friends, and schools."

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"You see this in leaders, in gurus, people who are trying to do really wonderful, creative things. You'll see them get completely off track and kind of possessed by something that is working against the very purpose that they're trying to promote in the world. I've been very lucky to have the opportunity to manifest my purpose in so many ways through work at The Institute of Noetic Sciences and my work at UC San Diego, where I'm now directing the Center for Mindfulness. I work on the science of imagination and the science of psychedelics. If I had told my 19-year-old self that that's where I would end up, she might have been blown away."

"One of the things that the person who led this purpose method said is, if your purpose doesn't scare you a little bit, it's not your purpose. You definitely want to have a little bit of, oh gosh, I don't even know if I could do that, and then you're on the right track. While one person may have a download that their purpose is to start a multinational NGO that feeds and clothes millions of people, or to stop wars from happening, another person's purpose might be to replace the tiles that have worn away from their child's school. The scale is not relevant in purpose territory."

"It can take a few years to set up the conditions under which my purpose could manifest. Especially if your purpose is something that is going against society's conditioning or your conditioning, you've got to have tons of things in your life that give nutrients to the new purpose in order to allow it to grow. In the territory of purpose there are no rules about time, space, or scale. People can live into their purpose when they're 85. People can find their purpose when they're young. You may not have the same purpose at age 30 that you do at 40, 50, 60, or 70. You may have a through line, but allowing it to be flexible and dynamic, and really paying attention to it and cultivating it, rather than thinking it's just going to appear one day."

"Some of the conditions that are really important for most people in terms of growing their purpose: they need a supportive community of like-minded folks, but not too like-minded, so that they're also willing to challenge you and keep you on track. They need time in nature, they need spiritual connection, and often a daily mind-body practice."

"When we are living into our purpose, there are of course times when it's hard work, or it's hard to be out ahead of the pack, and you feel lonely, or it's hard to fail and make mistakes. Those are hard, but when you are allowing it to come through you rather than from you, it's less effort, it in fact becomes a lot of flow and a sort of effortlessness. You can be tired, the same way you're tired after working out in a really healthy way, but you don't have that drained feeling. Allowing your purpose to work through you means that your job is not actually to invent or follow your purpose. Your job is to simply become as transparent as you possibly can, which means stay clear with what you eat, with what you put into your body, with other people in your life, with your values. The clearer I get and the more aligned, it's going to flow. The great inventor Thomas Edison said, I've never invented anything, I'm just a needle on a phonograph."

"I absolutely encountered struggles on my way toward manifesting my purpose. Even in the midst of being at a very high level of feeling like, on the outside anyway, people would have said, wow, she is really living her purpose, I definitely had a period of time where I got lost and felt really out of control, not happy, not useful, and turned to addictions. I had to actually go through treatment during that time and come back on track. I say it out loud because so many people who are really pursuing their purpose have a secret life where they're really not pursuing it, and it just means that some of the conditions that one must have in place to stay balanced and flexible while living a purpose were lacking. They were missing, or they wore away over time. Sometimes we can work so hard that we just forget about taking care of ourselves, or we have so many plates spinning that it kind of has to come out sideways somewhere. It reminded me, even in the midst of this beautiful career moment, that number one, anyone can get lost, and number two, you've got to spend extra energy to keep all of your support structures in place, or you can very easily get lost."

"Your job then is not to directly pursue the purpose right away. It's to ask yourself, what conditions do I need to cultivate in my life to make that purpose really blossom, really flourish. We can get kind of mad at ourselves because we're not doing our purpose when we didn't take the time to set the conditions, and it can take a few years to set up. It's sort of like a garden. You get a seed planted either by yourself, by your family, by the universe, and then your job is to provide the soil and the nutrients and the sunshine and water and stakes in the ground to allow this seed to grow. Same thing in your own life. What they need is a supportive community of like-minded folks, time in nature, spiritual connection, and often a daily mind-body practice that helps them stay at a certain level of spiritual fitness and resilience. If your purpose is big enough, it's going to be scary, and it's going to cause trouble, so you've got to have a certain level of agility, flexibility, and nimbleness to get through all of the obstacles that might be put in your path."

"I spoke to my dad one day. He said, listen, if you've been brought here to this particular point, your job is to continue, just keep moving. Today, we have doctors working with us, part of our team. We have referrals because we kept believing what we were doing. My dad always said, flow with life but be mindful, flow."

"All I could see was low immunity, low immunity markers, low vitamin D3 levels, low B12. For me, that's what the body needs for the immune system. Something said, just start putting this back into his plan. Nothing, we just put the fundamentals back in place, what the body needed. He looks at cellular nutrition, getting adequate exercise, good restful sleep, emotional well-being, and he also looks at the spirit."

"My purpose is my next patient, it's never changed. My goal is my next patient. People say, but what about your family? Yeah, that's there, that's my responsibility, that's my love, but this is my purpose. And if I'm able to fulfill this purpose, everything around me gets better. So that's my passion, and that's my purpose. A lot of people ask me, what my purpose is. My purpose is my next patient."

"When I started off about 13 years ago, I was this one guy in India talking about a field of medicine that only existed in the United States of America, and that too with difficulty. We had all the enemies, from a lot of doctors to whatever. My dad said, listen, if you've been brought here to this particular point, your job is to continue, just keep moving. Today, we have doctors working with us, part of our team. We have referrals because we kept believing what we were doing. Many times the challenge was, are we doing the right thing, but we were getting results. We were getting more and more patients than we could handle. We had a waitlist of 300 patients at a particular time."

"I just lived life mindfully and I flowed. I never knew, I absolutely never had a plan to do what I'm doing today. I studied, but I moved into the corporate world, but I lived life. I remember my dad always saying, flow with life but be mindful, flow. Our purposes can keep changing. Right now, if I'm going to swim, it's to have a great swim, enjoy myself. So I believe purpose is kind of blown out of proportion today. That one purpose, purpose, no, it can be different for all of us. Today, the purpose of a child is to play and have a good time. That purpose is going to change as the child grows. So I think we need to expand our thinking about a purpose but be more mindful about intention."

He looks at cellular nutrition, getting adequate exercise, good restful sleep, emotional well-being, and he also looks at the spirit. We're not selling a product, we don't have anything to sell. We're coaching people, we're changing their lifestyles. My purpose is my next patient, it's never changed. My goal is my next patient. People say, but what about your family? Yeah, that's there, that's my responsibility, that's my love, but this is my purpose. And if I'm able to fulfill this purpose, everything around me gets better."

"At the age of 34, it hit me. I got my calling. I realized I had a gift, and I enjoyed, I enjoyed what I did. That became my passion. It doesn't mean I can't have other passions, but this gives me joy. It gives me so much joy. Even though my line has a lot of death, I wake up every morning with three or four messages of patients who have passed through overnight, but it gets me joy to know that, hey, you have a gift, you can use it, it's got a result, you're making value and impact. That's my purpose, that's my passion."

"I had a cancer patient. I got a call late at night one day in Mumbai. There was a very big family in India. They said, we're going to fly you down, you need to see a patient. I said, what kind of case is it? They said cancer, and he has a few weeks left to live. So I said, how can I help? I'm a nutritionist, like what can I do? And the wife was very insistent. She was saying, Luke, please come. I went, and while I was there, the patient was sleeping. I was going through his medical records, five years of cancer, and all I could see was low immunity, low immunity markers, low vitamin D3 levels, low B12. Something said, like, hey, just start putting this back into his plan. This guy lived on for four years. In a week my life changed. I had calls coming in from different parts because of Word of Mouth. They were like, what magic did you do? Nothing, we just put the fundamentals back in place, what the body needed, B12, D3 for the immune system, bring down inflammatory markers. That was a changing point, and that's when I realized that, hey, there's something beyond that a lot of people are missing. I see it, and I said I want to fill that gap with lifestyle medicine."

] "When I think of the idea of a collective consciousness or morphogenic field, I think of nodes, almost like the planet has a set amount of nodes around it, and they all communicate with each other. How do we change that? We change that by influencing those nodes or those areas in a specific way to change the energy of the people. By you doing it with your heart, you're connecting with people, and you're part of that big field, your existence, no matter what."

"What's one thing that we can relate on, or several things that we can all relate on, that we're all experiencing, and how do we come together to come up with a solution to that together? That is what I feel my soul's mission, soul's purpose, is, to create content that gets into that, not just the little pieces, not just what we think of climate change or belief systems or meditation, but the whole, the big picture, the main core that connects all of us. Those things are what I'm really focusing on, and to take a brighter, broader stance so there's no one left behind."

"I think it's really scary to try to find your soul's purpose. Everything around us, even if you do a lot of work on yourself, is telling you to be something, to buy something, if you have all of this, if you have these people in your life, you're going to be someone, and then you're going to feel better about yourself. When you're doing a lot of work on yourself, you're constantly dipping in and out of, it's not important, it's important, it's not important, it's important. It's really hard. It's a hard journey. I had a shaman tell me once, look, you could do the work, everybody does the work, but the thing is, it's not to get rid of all of it. I think if you have thoughts like these, they don't go away, even when you try to fit in."

"The biggest struggle I faced living out my purpose was I kind of felt alone. A lot of my friends are not necessarily deep into the space, so I couldn't have these really deep conversations with them. Then I would meet people that I had these really deep conversations with, and it felt like we were arguing about our points, and that wasn't any fun. It felt like the hardest thing was taking a lot of time alone to contemplate how I really felt about it. Being a social person, that was really hard for me, to feel disconnected even though what I was doing was about connecting everybody."

"I was living in LA, and I was in my 20s. I was sitting out back, looking up at the sky. I remember thinking, there's so much out there I don't know. People were like, come back in the house, we're doing shots. I thought, I want to be in a place where I can expand. I had all these feelings. I want to discover more, I want to go deeper, I want to figure more things out. Those moments just kept happening. Every time that I spent too much time being normal, I'd have another moment where I'm like, God, there's just so much out there I must know."

"My advice for anybody trying to figure out what their soul's mission is: spend more time in nature, spend more time by yourself, figure out what really drives you. Are you really driven to do that because it's going to get you more money, it's going to get you some kind of status, and eventually you'll have more freedom? Or are you doing something because deep inside it feels like freedom? What does freedom feel like, that moment where you feel safe, or you're at home, or you're like a little kid? There's that one little feeling that you have. That's when you feel that you've tapped into something, and you might feel it at the strangest times."

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"I believe my soul's purpose is to help build the new Zeitgeist, to create those new nodes of consciousness, to influence in a positive way, an inspiring way, our collective consciousness, and through the medium of telling stories. It was about how do I make something that allows people to think outside the box, that allows people to sit and think, wow, I never thought of that before. Because if I've done that, then what I've done is I've ignited something in themselves they didn't know existed. When I started to piece together a connection that connected all of the sciences, ancient Egypt, ancient spirituality, sacred geometry, quantum physics, biology, I thought this would be a good story to tell because it connects everybody in the same vein. It's respecting everybody's research, but the mystery is not how each of those sectors finds something really interesting, but more how they're all connected and how they have a bigger message."

"Personal growth is something that I highly recommend for everyone on the planet because we are not taught that at a young age. We are not taught that our soul is evolving, that we are here for a purpose, that we are here for a reason. It is never too late, but I do feel like as a society we are not exposed to it in the way that we should be."

"I have always been a very passionate person. I get really enthralled in things, I get really immersed in what I enjoy. The reflection of my life has improved over the years as I have gotten more and more into my purpose and my path. My life is actually a reflection of a lot of beauty, joy, fun, and excitement. I live a very exciting life. As you start to uncover the truth of who you are, the truth of your soul, the truth of your essence, your life is going to look a lot different. You feel every day when you wake up, this is how it is supposed to be, this feels right."

"Everything you possess, this knowledge, somehow our upbringing, our society, our family reshapes us. It doesn't let us be exactly who we are, but I think it's one wonderful thing: if you can tap into that, realize your potential, you can achieve so much more. The key to that is very simple, which is to be true to yourself. Embedded in my fingerprints, I have a deep understanding, I have a deep clarity of who I am and what I am here for. I chose this, I chose everything, and I am very happy and passionate to do that."

"If someone is not sure about their purpose and they are looking for their purpose, I recommend opening up, opening yourself up to questioning, inviting assistance from your higher realms, your angels, your spirit guides, it is something I have always been open to. If you are open to it and paying attention, it will find you."

"I had also been meditating for many years prior to even discovering palmistry. It is through that inner reflection and inner seeking that you can really learn, and things will start to show up for you. If you ask, you are going to get it. I guarantee you are going to get it. How it comes can be different. For me it came through a book at the library. For you it might come another way. It might be a person showing up in your life. It might be a job opportunity that opens up. There are an infinite number of ways it could show up for you. If you are open to it and paying attention, it will find you."

"I actually found my teacher online at the time, and he is the one who created the whole fingerprint life purpose system. He's been reading hands since the 1960s, he's in his 70s now, and I was like, I need to learn from him. So I reached out to him, and he actually sent fingerprint patterns to me in the mail, and we did it over the phone. We studied fingerprints together, and it was an amazing experience because to learn from him, he had been reading hands for over 40 years. I wanted to learn from him because I definitely felt a connection. His name is Richard Unger, and he founded the International Institute of Hand Analysis. He is considered one of the most prominent fingerprint readers in the world. I was really fortunate to study with him when I was first learning how to read fingerprints."

"What I learned from that was that my purpose is the passionate wise woman. I am here to teach my passions, and I am here to educate people through my passions. That makes perfect sense to me because I have always been a very passionate person. I get really enthralled in things, I get really immersed in what I enjoy. What I enjoy is usually something very esoteric, and most people have either never heard of it before, know very little about it, or have misperceptions. I would like to dispel the myths that are out there and all of the superficial aspects because it really used to be a very well respected science."

"My purpose actually found me, which I'm very grateful for. I used to own a restaurant, and I ran that for seven years with my ex husband in southern Utah. We sold it when I was in my early thirties, so essentially I was retired by age 31. I did what most retired people do, I got an RV and I traveled the country. After a few months, I started to get very antsy, and I felt like I needed to be doing more than just traveling and having fun. I felt like there was more for me to do. I was way too young to actually be retired. So I went to the library, and I picked up this book and had a profound deja vu moment. It was something that found me versus me finding it."

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"I went to the library, and the library is a place I highly recommend when somebody is looking for something productive to do. I ended up finding a book on palmistry. I had never studied it before, I didn't know anything about it. I picked up this book and had a profound deja vu moment where I knew that I had studied it before. It was so familiar to me, and I thought, what is going on. I got a really clear message from within, somewhere you need to study this again. I ended up testing out the material from the book with various people in my inner circle. The response was overwhelmingly positive. That was the turning point for me. Palmistry is the reflection of you. Your fingerprints form four to five months before you're born, they never change. They are the DNA soul imprint of you, they're your roadmap, and that's how I read them. I read them like a roadmap. You can discover your life purpose, it's in your fingerprints. You can learn your personality archetype, your subconscious influences, how you look at the world, how you interact with the world. The list goes on and on. It's amazing how much is in your hands."

"Let's come to this place, Rishikesh, which is the birthplace of yoga, where the ancient rishis went to sit in caves and get the wisdom of how to live, and let's make it a three-day festival. The first day can just be a think tank for how to live in the world, let's bring all the thought leaders of the world. The second day, let's make it a pilgrimage. Let's walk to the place where the Beatles went. The third day is bringing global musicians from East and West on the same stage together. It's not just about the music and the pilgrimage. It's really literally the technology. We're in the world of information. How are we going to live with this information? The balance we need more of comes from ancient wisdom. Let's bring this together and come together to rethink how to be human, how to live optimally on the planet."

I just have to give credit to my husband and partner, Peter, because if it wasn't for Peter, I probably would not have made this film. Peter was like, I think there's something here, I think we really need to explore this, and he was right. Every time I showed up again, and Peter showed up again, and our company and our partners all showed up again, we showed up differently."

"Peter and I run a lab, a creativity lab called Source to Screen, and the whole purpose of it is to help bring people into alignment. What happens is that we take three days and break it down into spiritual lessons applied to creativity. Creation is getting out of your own way so that ideas can come and find you. Manifestation is taking those ideas and bringing them down into the physical world. Then there is transmission, am I reaching people. Each group that comes to do this is weirdly aligned with each other, and literally we start these WhatsApp groups and they cannot stop talking to each other. Some people have come to work with each other, and it is really exciting. It is exciting to see people trusting, finding their voice, reaching out, leaning in, and finding ways to actually express themselves in ways that bring them joy and give purpose to their lives."

We met with the organization Self Realization Fellowship that Yogananda founded, and I knew in that moment that something about the times needed this message. It hit home for me, and I knew in the room, I could feel the antenna going up, like something's trying to happen. So I followed that. I followed that voice. That is when I started having these downloads. When I started to move and lean in instead of feeling sorry for myself and shutting down, but courageously leaning in, the downloads started coming."

"We held up a flag and we said, let's shift the company's purpose. We have to make films that awaken the human spirit. We declared it. We started speaking on panels at Illuminate, then we were invited to other panels. Year after year, my husband and I would go back, and we just felt like this is the mission. How do we collaborate more? Who do we have to collaborate with? That seems to be what's constantly being asked of us."

"That is when I started having these downloads. When I started to move and lean in instead of feeling sorry for myself and shutting down, but courageously leaning in and saying, yes, doors are slamming, and I am going to sit here, I am going to sit in this, and I am just going to see. We held up a flag and we said, let's shift the company's purpose. We have to make films that awaken the human spirit. We declared it. We started speaking on panels at Illuminate, then we were invited to other panels, and we went to India. We started collecting people from around the world that were part of this movement. Owning it instead of denying it, owning it instead of running away from it because it was scary."

"I went back and started to put together what I thought were a series of really good projects. I was going to go get them funded, and all the people I normally would go to for funding just looked at me blankly. I felt crazy. I felt like I was speaking a foreign language. I had been nominated for an Academy Award and I had been nominated for an Emmy, and this was maybe two years after the Emmy nomination. I thought doors would open, but instead it was like, wait, who are you, no, we do not want any of that. It felt incredibly lonely. Those seven years of the unraveling of the ego and the ideas of who I thought I was, those were rough, plus I'm raising children, so it's so much learning. The lesson was just to keep showing up. Every time I showed up again, and Peter showed up again, and our company and our partners all showed up again, we showed up differently, and there was always a little bit of a shift, a little bit of a change, a lesson that we learned, a letting go of some previous idea that we were hanging and clinging on to."