Michael Beckwith: Spiritual Awakening and Life Transformation

This week we're in conversation with Michael Beckwith, a visionary and spiritual teacher who shares an inspiring account of his transformative journey. Beckwith opens up about his tumultuous early years, his spiritual revelations, near-miraculous occurrences, and the founding of the Agape International Spiritual Center. The conversation delves deeply into personal experiences, spiritual practices, the importance of forgiveness, the benefits of community and service, and practical ways to elevate one's consciousness.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if today this is the best day of life life.
Just asking that question, you start to produce conic chemicals
in the body. Feeling provides the healing of the revealing
of your underlying wholeness. So you'll end up stabilizing that feeling.
Your thoughts will begin to change, your conversation will begin
to change, your actions will begin to change, and certain
things will show up in your life based on that

(00:22):
feeling that you are normalized.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome to the Sino Show. Oh my gosh, I'm your host,
Cena mcfriane. Today we have an incredible inspiring guest with us.
He's a visionary, he's a best selling author. He's a
spiritual teacher who has touched the lives of millions around
the world. You might know him as a founder or
spiritual director of the Goppi International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles.

(00:52):
Is an incredible honor and blessing to have you on
the SINO Show.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Michael, Welcome, Hey, thank you so much for the invitation.
It's good to be in your powerful energy. Yeah, powerful energy.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Also, I want to say he's a host of a podcast,
take Back your Mind.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
That's right, take Back your Mind. And I was blessed
to be on your show a couple of weeks ago,
and that was powerful. Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So, Michael, I have so many things, the wonderful things
I want to ask you and talk to you about.
When I learned a little bit when we talked a
little bit on your show, I learned a little bit
of background on you, about your moment, kind of your
north star and when you were you.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Know, a little bit of trouble back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Would you mind telling our guests a little bit about
you know, those days and kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
How you found out. I was a young guy in
my early twenties. I was attending a USC and I
just left Atlanta, Georgia. I was matriculating through Morehouse College
at the time, and I came back to Los Angeles
because my girlfriend, which became my wife, became gay birth

(01:54):
to my baby boy. So I came back to LA
and you know, I was sitting in a meeting, and
a revolutionary meeting to basically change the world by any
means necessary. And I heard a voice behind me say,
if you were to take over the world tomorrow, with
the world be any different. So I looked around the
room and I could see the pathology and all the

(02:15):
beings in the room, and I realized that the world
wasn't going to be any different, So I left. I
enrolled in USC psychobiology major. I began to have a
series of these inner experiences that I could not I
didn't know what it was. I thought I was going crazy.
So the first thing I did was I stopped smoking weed.
I figured the cannabis SITIV was adding to this experience

(02:38):
I was having At the time going through school, I
was selling weed to pay for tuition, have my own
stuff free. And there was a convergence in which one
I had a spiritual awakening. I was killed in a
lucid dream. I was stabbed in the heart. The pain

(03:00):
was excruciating physically as well as emotionally. When I woke
up from it, I could see differently. I could see
who were surrounded by this presence. I didn't use the
word God back then. I called this presence love beauty.
The love was so intense and the beauty was just
beyond description. Everything from the lend in a rug, everything

(03:25):
shone with this presence and I could never get back
in the box. So I got busted on my last
dope deal. I remember this guy name was Kenny, that
I was getting my keys from. He'd flying from Indio
with one hundred and two hundred kilos and you know,

(03:46):
oh you were in wresting around. I always miss round.
I had people working for me in Nashville, in the
Land of Chicago, LA. It started off really small, just
for me to pay what I needed to pay. Then
it just got bigger and bigger and bigger. People just
love working with me. And it was it was a
very it was It was a very brief period of

(04:08):
time in my life, but it was very intense and
a lot of darkness was there, you know. And so anyway,
I'm telling this guy, yeah, I'm not doing this anymore.
I said, this is my last I didn't. I wasn't
trying to do this for the rest of my life.
This was just a And he said, man, you're so honest,
You're so pure. You got to keep doing I said, no,
I'm not. So I'm sitting there in the room and

(04:30):
my solar plexus goes crazy, and I said, we got
to get out of here right now. He said why So,
I can't explain it, but we better leave. So I
leave my spot and driving down the street, and the
police run me off the road up onto the sidewalk.
They checked my car. I didn't have any Paraphernalita didn't
have any weed, nothing in my car. They asked me

(04:52):
where I lived. I always had my mother and father's
address on my license. I never had where I really
lived on my license. I saived down the street there.
They looked at the looked at my license. They looked
at the address, and they said, you don't live over
here somewhere. I said nope. So they proceeded to knock
on every single door on this other block until my

(05:14):
wife at the at My wife opened the door and
they rushed in. Wow, and they found the marijuana. They
brought me and they put me in there and they
said this yours. I said, I don't live here. I
don't know what you're talking about. And they eventually took
me down to the Rimpaul police station, handcuffed me, went

(05:34):
and got a search warrant, then came back, took me
back to where the drugs were and arrested me. So
that the time staff on the search ward and their
arrest matched. Now. I won't go through all the things,
but eventually we ended up going to court we're still
in the probably the arraignment process. And my attorney I

(05:56):
hired an attorney is the best in the business at
that time I could have. And his name was Harry Weese,
and he had an assistant attorney. And the assistant attorney
is quizzing this police officer who wasn't even there. He
was a motorcycle cop. And he says, so, he said,
why did you go to mister Backle's house. He said, well,

(06:17):
we got a we got a a tip from an
informant that a big drop is going to happen. So
we got a search warrant. We waited, and we saw
the drop. We went in and arrested him. And so
this assistant to my attorney got up and said, that's
hearsay evidence. We demand that the informants show up and
identify the accused, or this case must be thrown out

(06:40):
of court. So the judge brings everybody to the bench
and says, listen, we need to inform it here. It
was in three days. So I go home. I keep
in mind I'm in court. I have no I don't
care about the court, and I've already been told that
I'm walking free by the inner voice by the presence
of God within me told me I'm free. Now. All

(07:00):
my friends thought I was crazy. They said, man, you're
going to jail. You're going to go to jail for
the marijuana. The federal governing went you because you had
all those guns in your house. And you know, I said, nope,
I'm walking free without a record. So they just thought
I had lost my mind. On Jesus. So I'm sitting
in the courtroom reading meditation books and anyway. The judge

(07:21):
pulls everybody and says, we need the informant here in
three days. We come back three days later, and the
prosecutor says, your Honor, the informant will not come. He's
afraid for his life. And the judge said, mister Beckweth,
I have no of the recourse but to set you free.
I hope I'll never see you in my courtroom again.
And I said, your Honor, you never will. And I left.

(07:42):
I went home and there was a weather vane on
my neighbour's roof, and it was obviously pointing in the
direction of the wind. And I said, God presence, if
this means what I think means for my destiny, I
went that weather van to point in my direction against

(08:04):
the wind. Before I could get all the words out,
the weather vane point right at me. I fell to
my knees and cried like a baby and just surrendered
my life to God. Never looked back, never got high again,
just plunged into the spiritual life, meditation, meditation retreats, metaphysical churches.

(08:28):
And I was being followed by the police at this time,
so they went to more psychics. They were more meditation retreats,
because you know, I was just trying to get They
couldn't believe it, right, No, there's no way, there's no
way this guy had a real turnaround like this, you know,
And they were wrong. They were wrong. And then another

(08:49):
miracle happened. I mean a bunch of them, but one
was my wife and I were we had a little
Hello boy and a fire broke out in our kitchen
at night. We were sleep and we grabbed him and
we could see the flames coming out of the kitchen,
so we ducked it under. We got out to the house.

(09:10):
Fire department came put out the flames, and I had
to stay with my parents for a while until you know,
insurance adjusters came and fixed the place. Up. So when
it was finally time to meet with the insurance adjusters,
they go into the house. They'd look at the damage,
but there was no evidence of any fire. There was

(09:34):
smoke on the kitchen wall, nothing burned. The only damage
was from the fire department coming in and dousing everything,
the rugs, the kitchen, the stove, the curtains, and they said,
you share, there's a fire. Yeah, we know there's a
fire here. You can see the smoke, they said, but
there's no fire, there's nothing burned. So insurance company paid

(09:57):
for a complete redo, new rugs, new curtains, new paint,
new furniture that the fire department had ruined. But at
that particular time, there was a yellow ribbon around the house.
So everybody thought I'd moved. So people that the hang
around rs and people that would combine and see if
they could, you know score. You know, even though I

(10:18):
never had a lot of stuff at my house, I
had a stash house, they just thought I'd moved. So
all of that energy and all of that traffic was gone.
I had a brand new apartment, it was a duplex,
and I went on with my life. Wow, And so
it was like, I think about that sometimes even to
this day, it's like powerful stuff. Yeah, I mean there

(10:40):
was a real it was a blaze. Okay, nothing burned.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, like walk the listeners from that time, your studies,
your education, to the beginning of the of a GOPI.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, it took a couple of years to integrate this
vast consciousness. At that particular time in my life, the
invisible realm was more real to me than this couch.
I was. I was way expanded, and I was very
perplexed as to why human beings were chasing money and

(11:16):
you know, and I'd been a money chas her, you
know what I mean. It was it was all I was.
I couldn't quite I didn't quite fit here, you know,
I was. I was pretty much by myself. I'd lost
all my friends. I thought I'd freaked out. So I'm
integrating this experience that I'm having. And I can remember

(11:37):
sitting in my living room and I said, okay, what
do you want me to do with my life? You know,
God is more real to me? Did anything? And the
phone rang and I says woman on the phone, and
she said, Michael, this is Michael Bethweth. I said yes,
and she said, we went to high school together. And
I'm looking through the high school annual and I see

(11:57):
your picture and your phone, remember it was under there.
And God told me to call you. God said you
could help me. I said, really. So I started counseling her.
I prayed for her, and she told me all the
mistakes she had made in life. You know, she just
confessed we and she started sending people to me. You know,

(12:17):
people were coming around on either on the phone we
didn't have Facebook, and on whom with the phone, or
they'd meet me in person and they'd get healings and
I'd prayed for them. And one day I saw this
woman at a restaurant. I had never seen this person
in person since high school. I saw her in line
at a restaurant and I called out her name, and
she looked at me, and she was stunned, and she

(12:38):
ran away and never called me again. Because I think
in her mind she was so embarrassed by the thing
she had shared with me that she had done in
her life that it was okay to speak to somebody
anonymously over the phone, even though she knew me in
high school. But when she actually saw me, it startled her.
But anyway, It brought me to an awareness that what

(13:00):
my destiny would be. So my mother is my mother
was an individual that I was born in Bethesda, Maryland,
grew up in DC for a few years. My father
moved us to Los Angeles when I was a little boy.
So my mother was the person in the family that
when someone died in our family, she went with them.

(13:22):
She would escort them to the other side and they
would say to her, Alice, it's not your time, and
they would send her back. Then she would wake us up,
me and my brother's and say, you know, Aunt so
and so just passed out Marie's past or, a grandmother
or a cousin because she had taken them. She had
taken them. So she was very sensitive to this kind
of thing. So I had my spiritual awakening. She was

(13:44):
very happy, and she was attending metaphysical churches. So she
says to me, you should go to this church. And
I said, Mom, I'm not going to anybody's church. I said,
they're not really truth sayers there. They have all these scriptures.
There don't be no God. They don't even know Jesus,
you know. And she just convinced me to go. Her

(14:08):
and a lady by the name Melissa Sprinkles. So finally
I go. I said, okay, I'll go. I'll go to
your church. It was the Guidance Church of Religious Science.
So I'm a little bit late and I walk in,
walking down the aisle, and doctor Daniel lil Morgan is speaking,
and he said heaven and Hell are not really placed

(14:28):
as there's states of consciousness. And I said he's right
like that. I shouted out, I'm by twenty two years old.
I said he's right like that. Everybody turns around and
looked at this guy walking down the aisle and I
sat down and I said, oh, they actually tell truth
in church. So I listened to him. Yeah. Next day,
I'm in his class and he says, mister, who's your name? Said,

(14:50):
mister Michael Beckworth. He said, mister Beckworth, this is a
fifteen week class. You walked in on the seventh week.
I advise you to leave and come back when we
start over. And I said, nope, I am not leaving.
With all due respect, I'm going to finish the class
and then start over and do it all over again.
And he said, okay, if you insist. So that began
like formal study of metaphysical principles of which I was

(15:16):
getting information from teachers that had died teachers on the
other side they were teaching me. And now I'm getting
also taught by a great metaphysician, doctor Daniel L. Morgan.
And so what the experience showed me with a woman
calling me was when I went to this metaphysical church,

(15:36):
they had a track called a spiritual therapist track, a
track to be a spiritual practitioner. I said, Oh, that's
what I'm supposed to do. So I went through the
classes and eventually graduated as a practitioner. And for six
or seven years, I saw six to eight people every

(16:00):
day Monday through Saturday, working with people. Because I knew
about redemption. I knew not judge, not to judge anybody
about whatever they were going through, you know, because I
had my own experiences and the the the the power
of prayer, spoken word, mike forays into the other side

(16:26):
allowed me to actually know that miracles can happen, that
this was real stuff, you know. And then I began
doing seminars before they were popular, all kinds of things
I used to I started something called the Silent Sadna's
where on Saturdays, we would meet and have an all
day meditation with music and programs. It was years ago

(16:48):
before a lot of this stuff was even popular, you know.
So So anyway, so I integrated more and more and
more so I became more. Before I was just so
heaven bound that I wasn't any earthly good. And so
then when it combined, it was like I could be
in the earth plane, honor my incarnation and try to
serve God as best as I could. Then a number

(17:11):
of years later, I actually went through another school. I
went through a school of ministry and graduated. And then
with the resistance to starting a community was so heavy,
but they were on me, the ancestors and the inner beings.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Michael, talk to people. Because you're big messaging and about
never giving up. You didn't say. Most people go, oh,
you're reverend. I'm sorry. You're right, I'll start in the beginning.
But you said, no, no, I'll double down.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh no, I wasn't leaving the class. No. He was
very he was a very stern guy, you know, mister
beckw with I suggest you leave and come back and
we start again in seven week class. You can't just
jump in here in the seventh week, I said, I
am not leaving. With all due respect, I'm not leaving
this class.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
So you have a vision to start this church, but
not everyone's agreeing with your fision.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Well, a couple of things. One just to segue into
I've become a practitioner. I was working for the federal government.
I was running a census burial office and come my god,
I was running this whole wow joint and it was

(18:23):
the first time that Compton had accurate senses on time.
Because I turned the whole place into what I called
an affirmatorium. When people came to work, they had to
go in this room and do the affirmations. I had
to keep religion away from government, so I didn't say
anything about God. Nothing. So you go in, you establish
your intention. So I talked to them all these principles

(18:46):
and they went out. These guys, these people went out,
who were many of them were unemployed, gathered the senses.
Their lives started turning around being around me, me teaching them.
Many of them went back to school. I mean, it
was a big deal. So the federal government comes in
and they see what I'm doing and they can't believe it,

(19:06):
and they say, well, we want to offer you a job.
We want you to go to other government agencies and
kind of bring this into it. You're going to get
your car, You're going to be a civil servant, blah blah.
It's a nice salary. Then I'm taking my oral exam
to be a spiritual practitioner. In the middle of the
org exam, the man went of the man who is examining.

(19:26):
He says, I want you to come work for me.
And I said, I didn't know who he was. I said,
come work for you. Who are you? He said, and
bah blahave I run the Worldwide Prayer Ministry. I need
somebody like you on staff. So I found out what
the salary was. It wasn't matching the government, but I
knew my destiny was to go to the Prayer Ministry.

(19:50):
So I ended up working there for about seven years,
and I turned that organization from a subsidized department to
making over a million dollars a year year net because
I would train the practitioners to go into the zone
in prayer, go into alpha range, and the healings that
were happening were monumental. And so at a certain point there,

(20:13):
the world started closing in on me. And I was
told I had to start my own community. How was
it closing in on you? I was getting these messages.
Brief story. I was teaching a class and as I
walked into this class, the top of my head cracked open.

(20:33):
It felt like it cracked open. This light went through
my entire being. And I said to the students, did
you guys hear that? I said no, So I knew
I was having an inner experience full of light. I
was talking to my friend listen, and I said, listen,
this thing happened to me. She said, I have a
friend that does readings. She's a great oracle. Just go

(20:55):
see her. I said, okay, So I go see this.
Women my name is June. I walk in, I hand
her some flowers, and we're walking to the place where
she's going to do this spiritual reading on me. And
she turns around and she says, we have opened you
up at the top of your head. The Christ's presence
is moving through you right now. You'll never have to

(21:16):
prepare to speak again. Hi, my name is revd June.
Those were opening remarks. Wow, So I say that to say.
When she did this reading, she read book a chapter
out of my life and she read Agape she described
this center I had come to the planet to build.
Keep in mind I hadn't gone through the school yet.

(21:39):
She's reading it, and I'm saying, what, I'm not starting
any spiritual community. I'm not starting any church. What are
you talking about? No? You know? And i'd had a
reading when I first woke up years ago by this
other man named Reverend Howard, and he said, you're going
to have a worldwide healing ministry. The spirit of doctor
Martin Luther King Junior is all in your aura. And
so I reframed it. Since I was a psychobiology major

(22:01):
in USC, I said, always talking about a healing ministry,
I'm a doctor. So I didn't take on ministry. So
now here's Reverend June talking to me about this spiritual center. Anyway,
I didn't do it obviously at that time, I hadn't graduated.
So now I've graduated, I'm working at the Prayer Ministry.

(22:23):
And after I'll just tell you this, I'll try to
keep this brief. I was after we made a million dollars.
The CEO of the organization calls me into his office,
mean to other people, gradulates us on this and he
said I'm going to help you double that money. And
I said, what do you mean, you're going to come
in and pray with us? And he said, no, no, no,

(22:45):
I'm a businessman. I know how to make this double.
And I said, okay, I'm listening. And he says, we're
going to put computers on the desk. You're going to
have your practitioners not pray for everybody. Just put the
name in the basket. At the end of the day,
somebody just holds the basket and just prays over it.
You'll double the amount of people you can handle, and

(23:06):
you'll double your money. I said, no, if you stop
praying and there's no personal relationship with these people that
are calling, it's not going to be any results. They're
going to stop calling. Your money it's going to go down.
He says, this is a this particular department is not
a for profit department. You know this million knowledge is good,

(23:29):
but that's not why we're here. So he says to me,
you know, I can turn this operation from a twenty
four hour operation to a sixteen hour operation. Fire somebody.
He's looking at me. I said, you can do whatever
you want, but it's not going to be any computer's
on my desk while I'm here. So he walks out
of the office, slams the door, him and his staff

(23:49):
slam and I just wait. It comes back in and apologizes.
But I knew my upward mobility was gone. I was
through politically, it was done. And so I went to
see revd June again and the Channel's ancestors and stuff,
and they're mad at me because I haven't started the
community yet. And they say, if you don't start this community,

(24:13):
we have no other reason for you to be on
the planet. That's that's what the that's what the reading said.
I take a vacation, I go to Porto Baioarta. I'm
sitting there and I have a vision of Agape. I
see it. M So I come back and I tell
this woman who was the I was the director of training,

(24:35):
and there was a woman that was the director of
the World Ministry of Prayer. And I said, I'm leaving.
I'm going to train Larry. I'm not going to leave
a day before everybody's train that I'm going I'm going
to start my own spiritual community. And she says, where
are you going to start it? And I said, I've
been guided to start it in Santa Monica and she says,

(24:55):
why wh why don't you start one for your own people?
And I said short people. She turned red and she said, oh,
I didn't mean anything by it. And I said, it's okay.
I've had this melanin for a long time. It's all good,
you know. And so eventually I left. I told I

(25:15):
think it was Larry. I told Larry before. I said, Larry,
when I leave, they're going to come after you, and
they try to convince you to stop praying for the people.
The computers on the desk, do not give in. You
have all the power. He came within three months. I
started Agape on November the thirtieth, nineteen eighty six. Five

(25:41):
years later, Agape netted a million dollars. Five years later,
that organization, that department went back to being a subsidized department. Wow,
it did a reversal, of course it did. Yeah, it
had to. Yeah, So I had to give up resistance
because I wasn't trying to start a community. I liked
my life. I was seeing clients, had my weekends off,

(26:04):
you know, I didn't have to deal with staffs or
any of that kind of thing. And I was helping
a lot of people, but my calling was to do
something deeper and do something more wide. And I'm so
glad I did. I mean I'm in ecstasy. I mean
bliss in the community, traveling around the world, speaking, teaching,

(26:24):
working with people. It's great. A Gopy thirty eight years,
you've been a teacher forty Is that right? Yeah, I've been.
I was teaching more than forty years because I was
teaching those years prior to starting a GOPE, running the
prayer ministry, having my own clients, doing seminars and things
like that. So I've been teaching a long time.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I shared on your show, A Gopy was, you know,
for the twelve Step community that was our church. Yeah,
and that's why I first heard the term frequency. Ah,
I heard it from you, and so that's you know,
eighty nine. Yeah, let's talk about frequency.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah. It's interesting because it's now pretty much everybody's talking
about vibrational frequency. But I can remember years ago telling
people that we are vibrational beings, that we're not flesh
and blood, that we're actually a vibration of energy and information,
that you that's our uniqueness, and that our frequency is

(27:22):
our currency. Our frequency is how we communicate with the
Great Presence. It doesn't know English, it knows our frequency,
you know. And so when we pray, we surrender, when
we meditate, we're actually changing our frequency, which then the
Universal Presence, by law, can match that frequency. We begin

(27:44):
to become more in alignment with the Great God of
the universe, and then healings happen in our life, Miracles
take place, doors open, opportunities happen because we're the right people. Now,
you know, it's not that God's coming down, We're actually
going upright, man, That's how I see it. So, yeah,

(28:06):
that way back in those days, it was it was
a bit weird. Now it's everybody's talking about you have
you know, quantum physicists and you know scientists talk.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
You had such a belief in yourself. How did you
go through those early times? You just had You knew
what you wanted to say, you knew what you wanted
to do.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, you can't unsee what you've seen. Amen. So once
I saw it and it changed me. Even though I
was alone a lot in the beginning days, I couldn't
unsee it. I mean, I walked, I was facing the
big time in jail, and I was told I was
going to walk free, and it happened, you know, and

(28:46):
and the other things occurred. That is like I can't
deny it. And and so it's not that I have
confidence in Michael, but I do have confidence in this
great presence that I seek to be in alignment with
through my practice, through my prayer, through my meditation. I
want to be in alignment with this presence. So I

(29:09):
have confidence, just like an electrician has confidence that electricity
is real. You know what I'm saying, And a plumber
knows about you know, water and the pipes. You know.
I know there's a presence. It's real. It's real to me.
I know there's I know there are laws. You come
into alignment with it, it'll lift you. How does somebody

(29:32):
that's new get confidence in the presence. There are baby
steps and baby practices that will open things up for you. Now,
a baby step is just think about a moment in
your life where you felt that all of your needs

(29:54):
were men. Doesn't matter whether you're a little child or
an adult. And if you can't find in a moment
like that, imagine it. Because the brain doesn't know the
difference between your imagination what's real. Imagine now what does
that feel like? Okay, your role every hour on the
hour is to breathe and feel that the feeling provides

(30:21):
the healing or the revealing of your underlying wholeness. So
you'll end up stabilizing that feeling. Your thoughts will begin
to change, your conversation will begin to change, your actions
will begin to change, and certain things will show up
in your life based on that feeling that you are normalizing.
That's one baby step. If you want to add kinesthetic

(30:45):
to it, you take a pen and pencil and you
write it down. I'm Michael, poised, confident, and articulate. All
of my needs are always met. I feel it. Just
write it down over and over and over and over,
and then you write it down three ways. I Then
you talk about yourself, he Michael is. Then you talk

(31:09):
to yourself from somebody else. You Michael, are you keno
R You're magnificent. You write all of this down, so
you're and you say it. So you're here, you're saying it,
You're hearing what you say. You're writing it, so you're
getting the physical aspect of it. I was just looking
at an interview with Gabby Thomas, who won the two
hundred meters. She says she wrote down five hundred times

(31:32):
a day. I'm am an Olympic champion. Boom, five hundred
times a day, said it, wrote it, heard it all
the way up to the Olympics, it's all she oh,
the way to the podium, all the way to the
standing up there with the gold medal. Right, you know
those are baby steps, right, baby steps. You gotta actually
do it. You gotta do it.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Break down for us, Michael. Empowering questions and disempowering.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
This this is really good. This is another way that
you grow. You know, we live in a participatory universe,
meaning you know, you have to participate in the flow
of it. He's not just going to be handed to you.
You actually actually have to do work on yourself. So
many people ask what I call disempowering questions, what's wrong?
Who's to blame? The ego always wants to blame somebody

(32:19):
if something goes wrong. Who did this? You know, why
me is a big one. Why God, why is this
happening to me? So if you by law, the universal
law will answer any question you ask, doesn't matter. So
if you ask why me, it'll go through the database

(32:42):
of your life experience and give you all these reasons
why you should face Your parents left you, they got
a divorce, you got kicked out of school, you know,
blah blah blah, blah blah. It'll get you know. But
if you ask a different question, what is within me
that's trying to emerge right now? What gift do I

(33:02):
have to give to the world? What good is present
that I in this moment can't see? The universal presence
by law will answer those questions as well. You begin
to catch through intuition, through feeling, through serendipity, through coincidences,
the answer to those questions. You'll be guided different just

(33:26):
by answering asking a higher order question, and you'll be
pulling yourself out of being a victim into developing a
spiritual faculty to hear the inaudible. It's different, but most
people are unconscious, man, I mean, why why don't they
like me? Why don't Why isn't anything ever worked for me?

(33:48):
You know he's lucky, you know, yeah, yeah, right, talk
about Michael. The what if? What if is another good one.
You know, if I had all the money I needed,
you can you can same thing. You can you can
put it negative or positive. You know, what if life
is for me? What if the universal presence is working

(34:12):
together for my good? What if today it's the best
day of my life. You know, just asking that question,
you start to produce tonic chemicals. You have but inner pharmacy.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
That pharmacy matches your thoughtcy that's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
This pharmacy can create any drug that you can buy
legally or illegally. You know, it can create CBD, it
can create anything. So when you put yourself in a
higher order of questioning, what if life really is good?
What if imagine it? Immediately, chemicals are going to be

(34:50):
produced to match that question, and then your body is
going to change. You're going to stop the aging process.
You're not gonna age as fast. You know, chemispheres going
to start to communicate with each other. You start to
catch guidance, and you start to re enchant your imagination.
Many people's imagination have been hijacked by worry and doubt

(35:14):
and fear anxiousness and anxiety follows that. So by asking
an empowering question and asking a high what if question,
you're re enchanting the imaginable realm again. You're starting to imagine,
oh my God, oh good things, are happening. You start
to imagine it. You know, when you break down the
word you imagine it says I am a genie. You

(35:39):
start to imagine it, and then you start to come
into another awareness of being gifted from that which is
beyond your imagination, outside of your present para. That's the
next level. That's what unknown, real good stuff is. Yeah,
break down your like a little acronym for help. Ah.

(36:01):
I love that. That came. Hello, eternal loving Present one
more time, Michael, Hello eternal loving presence h E LP. Yeah.
So that came about when I was felt like I
was drowning in a riptide in Costa Rica and it

(36:22):
was so difficult to get back. I was so tired, exhausted.
The only other person on the beach was my daughter,
and she was like a little aunt on this sam
and she knew something was wrong. She was looking at me,
and I drifted I'm a good swimmer, but I drifted
out so far. I didn't know I had drifted out
that far. And so I know a couple of times

(36:43):
I went under swallowed a lot of water, and I
thought to myself, have I had any prophetic dreams that
this is the last day I'm going to be on
this earth. And I checked. I said, no, I haven't
had any precognition that this is my last day. So
I popped up and I said, and I didn't do

(37:03):
this consciously. This came out of my mouth. I said,
I need a little help here like that, I need
some help. And then I programmed my mind. I said,
regardless of how tired the body gets, do not give up.
This programmed and then a wave came and I started

(37:23):
swimming in. Then another wave came. I had more momentum.
The third wave came, I had more momentum. Finally got in.
Took a long time. I was tired. My chest was
my stomach laying on the sands, breathing, breathing, breathing. I'm
so glad to be back. I mean, when I touched
that earth. So when I get back to Los Angeles.

(37:46):
It's a friend of mine. She's a medium. That's what
she does for a little She's a medium. And I
was telling her about my experience and she got all
like a little girl giddy. She said, can I look?
Can I look? I said sure. She closed her eyes
and she said, oh, you asked for help. I said yeah.
She said you know, the angels can't help you unless

(38:07):
you ask for help. They can't intervene in your life
until you ask for help. She said, you asked for help.
She said, an arch angel gave you three ways, and
that's how you got in. So help. Hello, eternal loving
presence part of my practice. And I wake up in gratitude.
I'll surrender to God. I'll ask for the energy to

(38:31):
handle my assignments for day. And I said the little help,
need a little help here like that.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, that's beautiful. And for our brothers and sisters in recovery,
the most important thing is to learn how to ask
for help and say I don't know. Well, that's powerful.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Okay, there's so many great stories.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
You're in Senegal, you're sending the Senegal, and you're seeing
these women, these bright outfits. You pay them a compliment,
and what does their respond Michael, huh.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
It's true, thank you? What did they say? It's true,
thank you, it's true, thank you. Yeah, there was none
of that shy oh oh, no, this is not my
this is this is just an old something I just
threw on today. But yours looks good, you know, And
the women like the right clothes that's a beautiful dress.
It's true. Thank you. That's powerful. That Yeah, you took
it on. I took it on. And somebody page you

(39:16):
a compliment. Receive it, right, you receive it. Somebody says
you helped change their life. Thank you very much. That's right.
God bless you. Don't say, well, there's nothing you know.
It was God. It wasn't me. Yeah, God asked me.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's right I talk about And forgive me if I'm
pronouncing his name wrong.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Meladoma, Oh, Meladoma's sorrowful story. Meladoma, so may, very powerful
shaman mystic out of West Africa. And uh, he was
a good friend of mine, just passed a couple of
years ago. And I remember one time we were doing
a conference about to put on a conference in Palm Springs.

(39:57):
We wanted him to be a speaker. I hadn't heard
from in a while, and I said, Okay, by the
time I get to my office, I'm a drive from
Palm Springs to my office in Santa Monica, i'll hear
from him. So I'm pulling into the driveway and the
receptist comes out. Maldona's on the phone for you. So
I get to the phone, I said, Maladoni. He says, yes,

(40:18):
you want to speak to me. I said yes. He says,
I'm in La you know. So he said, I'm staying
at such and such a hotel. Come visit me. So
I go stay with the go stay. And we talked
to five o'clock in the morning. And one of the
things he shares with me is his adult initiation. Now
he'd had an initiation when he was a teenager. If

(40:40):
people don't know the story of Maladonma so May, his
book is called of Water and the Spirit, Powerful book,
very powerful. He was kidnapped as a young kid, and
that oftentimes the Catholics would would kidnap the young boys
from Africa and indoctrinate them into this Western understanding of Christianity.

(41:01):
And he escaped when he was a teenager, got back
to his village and there was something missing in the communication.
He still knew his language perfectly, but there was a gap.
He didn't understand what the gap was, and so they
told him you'd missed your initiation. Generally, the boys are
initiated around twelve years old. He's now a teenager and

(41:23):
they say, he said, I want the initiation. They say
it's very dangerous because you've been in the Western world
and the way they see the world is different. They
see everything as solid. This is real, this is reality,
where in our tradition everything's waves of energy, and you know,
this is not really real. It's not forever. So you

(41:45):
can get really hurt because you haven't but if you
want to go through it, but you might not survive. Wow.
So he went through it now in this particular village,
this is important to the story. When a mother is
seven months pregnant, she brings herself to the center of

(42:06):
the village and the resident of shaman, healer, whatever you
want to call him, channels the baby goes into a trance,
and the baby, the soul that's growing in the lady's stomach,
speaks and says his or her name and why they
are taking a human incarnation. So Maladoma goes through all

(42:30):
these parts of initiation, very dangerous for him. He ends
up back in his mother's stomach and he says his name.
I am Maladoma, some I am the bridger of two worlds.
It was his destiny to be kidnapped, to learn the
ways of the Western world, to come back to be
initiated so he could take the teachings into the western world. Subsequently,

(42:53):
he got his BA, he got a couple of masters,
he got his PhD. And he taught in the universities
and then he taught people through workshops. But he was
able to understand how Western people think because he had
been kidnapped. But he also had the indigenous culture all
in him. So when he did the adult initiation, he

(43:17):
had to put the mud on his body. So what
he told me that night, he had to put mud
on his body from his village. He couldn't bathe for
about thirty days that the MUD's baking. He said. After
a period of time, he could hear the earth speak
to him. Oough, Oh, she spoke Mother, she's mother Gaya,
and she told him that the earth had gone through

(43:39):
another cycle. She had gone through another cycle of consciousness.
Her vibration was very high, and she was waiting for
humanity to catch up, and that we were going through
a period in which the old would be dying and
the new would be being born. But it's going to
be volatile, it's going to be nasty, it's going to
be violent, it's going to be polarization. But for people

(44:01):
who are able to keep their vibration high, they'll pass
through this period with relative ease, whereas those that get
into logger heads of hate and being right and ego,
it's going to be a difficult time, you know, and
peers as though that's what we're going through now. Right, Oh,
that's so powerful. Thank you for telling that story. Beca.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
How do you I mean, I've listened to you and
you you rise above all that stuff. Yeah, you say
things like difficult times, difficult things, you do not identify
with it?

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Right?

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Can you talk to our listeners how you learn that
skill and why that's so important.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
What's happening is I'm actually I'm I'm in a zone
of what I call the real world, not the world
of appearances. This is the world of appearances. It is
a simulation of separation where people actually have a belief
that they're separated from God, they're separated from their higher self,

(44:57):
and they create a world out of that. Because the
world is the condensation of beliefs, opinions, points of view, perceptions,
positionalities that you know, it creates a world. Two people
can be standing in the same spot on the planet,
but be in two different worlds just based on their worldview.
So I'm actually in tune with the possibility for humanity.

(45:22):
So even though I'm not blind to the stuff happening
on the planet, I'm not blind to the hate, the bigotry,
the anti semitism, is lomophobia, oh, the greed, the stealing.
I'm not blind to any of that, you know. However,
it is my job to actually bring the good news,

(45:42):
to actually bring the frequency of the most high to
the planet. I can't do that if I get caught
up in the unintel. I know it's there, I see it,
experience it sometimes, you know what I mean. But the
presence of God is more real than all that you see.
So it's part of my job to wake people up

(46:03):
to that. Sometimes I can I can see like a
thought form jump into a person and they actually believe
they're thinking those thoughts. They're not. The thought form is
just taking them over. They've watched the news once too
many times, and they actually believe that, and they get it.
It's all in them. They don't even they're not even

(46:23):
aware that they're under a hypnotic spell of self loathing.
They're not good enough. Whatever it is, it's a hypnotic expell.
I am here to help wake people up from the
hypnotic spell, for them to fall deeply in love with
the God presence within them, you know, and and let
the God times roll. But it's real to me. It's

(46:46):
not like a lecture, you know what I mean, or
you live it. You know, It's just like, this is real,
you live it.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
I want to talk to me about this, the stages
of spiritual growth that.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Began a number of years ago when I was teaching
at the university and a woman asked a question. She said,
in the book, there is a book called The Science
of Mind, signed to Mind and Spirit by Ernest Holmes.
She was referring to this book. You know, he knew
Bill w They wrote together, nice reference, Thank you, and uh,

(47:21):
she said, listen the book. There seems to be a contradiction.
One part of the book it talks about name it
and claim it. If you can conceive it, you can
have it, you can have it. All The other parts
of the book talks about deep surrender, surrender your life
to the present. I can't I can't miss those two together.

(47:45):
So I started walking up to the blackboard and I said, no, no, no,
this isn't the contradiction. These are stages. And I went
up to the blackboard and I said, the first stage,
it's the stage of a victim. We actually think our
destiny is determined by external circumstance. What never happened to
and you were born? What'sever going on in the society,

(48:07):
how you were imprinted? What somebody said about you? You know,
you're a victim. Guess what happened to me? And I'll
never be able to make it because of all these things,
all the mistakes I've made, all the things that were
done to me, I'll never be able to make it.
That's a victim consciousness. Something is happening to us, I said.
The next stage is something happening by us. And now

(48:31):
we learn that there are spiritual laws in the universe.
And as you begin to practice these laws, your life
can change. That's stage two. That's the stage of the
manifestor you re enchant your imagination. You begin to change
what comes out of your mouth, you change your conversation,
change the kind of people you hang around. You know,
you begin to manifest a different world. And that's a

(48:54):
good world. But it's not finished. That's the next stage
is through us where the spirit of God, spirit of love,
the spirit of intelligence is operating through us. So of
our own self we can do nothing. There's something coming
through us now, you see. And so because of the
work we did as a manifestor, we now have a

(49:17):
fundamental belief that there is a law in the universe. Things.
Things don't just happen. They happen just according to our thoughts,
our beliefs, our opinions or points of view, our emotional content.
We a'll picture all of that stuff into the world.
And then the next stage is it operates as us
that the lines of separation dissolve and we realize, oh

(49:40):
my god, I'm it. My life is the life of love,
intelligence and beauty. There can be no other life. So
each stage you have to give up something to go
from stage one the victim to learning how to manifest.
You have to give up blame and shame. You have
to give it up. You can't blame anybody anymore, you

(50:01):
can't eve believe your son. You have to have to
make amends, you have to forgive. Every path has forgiveness
in it. So in stage two you're learning how to manifest.
But now what happens is little by little by little,
you're giving up control. You can't control anything you think
you can. But eventually there there is a there's an

(50:23):
order we all depend on. We don't we didn't create
the order, but we can surrender to it, and then
our life is ordered. Your steps are ordered by the Lord.
Your steps are ordered by the law of life if
you surrender to it. So that's stage three. You've given
up control. Now you don't just wake up one day
and just want to give up control. It's work. You

(50:44):
have to know every day, persistence, every day, every day,
we day every day, and you realize, oh, you've given
up more egos, less and less in control, and your
soul is more and more in control. And then it
operates as you when you look at you look at
the life of the great Master teacher. You look at
the life of Jesus as an example. He says, you know, one,

(51:06):
it's not me, presence of God within me. Stage three,
Stage four. When you see me, you see He who
sent me, and God or one you, So you see that,
you see the dance between these two stages. Buddha did this,
said the same thing in his own his own ways.
So there's a dance there so we learned the dance

(51:26):
of you know, it's not me, it's it's presence. Oh,
I feel so at one with the presence. It's not me.
And then when you need to go back to stage two,
use your imagination properly, you use your speech properly, you
visualize properly. You see so that that's Those are the
three stages. And it came into being and it became
a central part of my teaching years ago, and now

(51:47):
it's it's again. It's one of those things that's pretty
much in the culture. I see young kids coming on
the on the website saying things like, oh, there's these
four stages, so spiritual goal element, here's these four domains,
you know they it makes me feel good, I hope.
So yeah, yeah, I laugh.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
So that's beautiful, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. WHI is
forgiveness so important?

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Michael, I call unforgiveness one of the highest levels of
self abuse, because you are keeping the toxicity, the toxic chemicals,
the resentment, the animosity, the blame that you're trying to
project onto somebody else. Maybe they did something wrong, maybe
they did maybe they stole from me, they lied about you.

(52:30):
But if you don't forgive all that's in you. So
I teach that all forgiveness is self forgiveness. Even if
you're forgiving another for what they did or didn't do,
you're still releasing from yourself the toxicity. And if you
made a mistake, you did something you weren't supposed to do,

(52:52):
you hurt somebody, you harm somebody, you have to forgive
yourself so you're not caring that shame and blame as
a cadaver on your back to your life. So every
path with heart has forgiveness in it. Yeah, and that
sets you free. You become free. Without that, you're abusing
yourself over and over again. You know, over the years, you.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Know somebody struggling a bad relationship, struggling in a bad
business relationship, and their their frequency isn't so fine tuned. Yeah,
what's your counsel then to help them wake up and
move on?

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Well, you begin the first one, right. There is forgiveness
that has it has to be a part of persistence.
You go to bed at night, you scan your day.
You see where somebody annoyed, You see where you annoyed somebody,
and you forgetness so you get you get clean. And
then what you do is a good practice is when

(53:47):
you're going to sleep, when you're waking up, you know,
you're laying in bed, you scan your body, you relax,
you relax the body temple, and with the awareness that
we live in a field of infinite not only infinite potential,
but we live in a field of infinite possibilities, you
actually go in and you choose a possibility for your life.

(54:12):
You choose it. You make a choice, but not from worry,
not from fear, but you actually relax and you choose it.
Go to sleep, you wake up, before you totally wake up,
you choose it again, but you feel that it's already happening.
And then again your nervous system starts to recalibrate itself

(54:37):
around that thought and around that feeling. So now your
body becomes an ally. What happens is the nervous system
has been so coded and calibrated with worried out fear.
I hate all kinds of stuff that even if you pray,
your body's saying no, you ain't going nowhere. Man. I'm

(54:57):
coded with anxious anxiety, addicted to fear. I got to
get my daily dose right, you know, So when you
start to recalibrate the nervous system through basic spiritual practices.
Now your body starts to come into alignment with your thought.
Now your body and your mind is coming in alignment

(55:21):
with your soul factory. You know, this isn't magic, This
is practice, practice, practice. Michael, Why is community and service
so important? You have mentioned very too strong modalities service.
You know, there's something called karma yoga. You know, like

(55:42):
when you are in an act of service, whether it's volunteering,
assessing somebody in any way, what happens is you're coming
out of yourself, your little self, and you're serving. And
when the moment you begin to serve again in your
whole biology changes on the inside. But the barrier between

(56:04):
you and who you're serving breaks down and you actually
see you're serving yourself. You're actually serving to grow into
an expanded vision of yourself. So service is a quick
pathway to spiritual awakening if people, If people want to
come out of depression, go serve somebody. You know, the
energy will change. People want to come out of grieving,

(56:26):
I tell them there's a tradition in the Islamic faith
that you grieve for forty days forty first day, you
do a project in that person's name, doesn't have to
be big. You just be cleaning. It could be cleaning
up litter, whatever, but you do it in their honor
so that the energy changes from grief to you actually,

(56:49):
because you know, energy is never created or destroyed, just
transpeats itself. So when you go into an act of service,
you're taking that anxiety or worry or grieving and it's
being come verted into a higher frequency. Service is powerful, right, power,
And then community is really powerful. I have said over
the years that true spiritual community grants you immunity from

(57:13):
the lower frequencies of life. So when you come in
and you're with open hearted, open minded people, that doesn't matter.
The political affiliation, doesn't matter, the color of their skin,
where they were born, nationality, but if they're all having
an intention to really become the next great vision and
version of themself, that creates a field. It's a living

(57:33):
field that can be measured. You come into a community
with that kind of field. It helps you when you're down,
it helps you go further when you're soaring and flow.
So community is extremely important, which is why I was
cajoled and to start a spiritual community Listen, you've been
doing this for so long.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
I know you've counseled so many addicts I have, Right,
tell me about your experience with that.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
You've noticed what works, what doesn't, what do you Basically,
what we eventually get to is that they are addicted
to that moment of flow, that moment of connection that
they attributed to sex or they attributed to heroinic cocaine
or alcohol or whatever it is, and they're trying to
get back to that state. So I seek to help

(58:22):
them to get to the state without the external stuff
that they're attributing to their high. You know. So it
has to go in mentally first, and then through some
of the exercises we've talked about, we begin to get
they begin to see, you know that it depends on

(58:43):
what they're addicted to and how they're how they're viewing themselves.
You have to go through self love and appreciation exercises.
But eventually there's a moment where they attain the state
without the drug.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Right, let's talk about gratitude. Let's talk about graciousness to
receive it.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Yeah, that God is not on and off. Start and
stop having a good day one day, bad day the
next day. God is the same yesterday, Tam forever. So
our graciousness and our gratitude is basically becoming receptive to
what's already happening. We're plugging in. So we have this

(59:21):
light here, this light bulb is creating luminosity from electricity.
Because it's plugged in. You unplug it, there's no luminosity.
You can have the perfect light bulb, you can have
all the stuff, you can have a perfect body temple.
But if you're not plugged in through gratitude, self love,

(59:44):
and appreciation service that's how you plug in, then all
the electricity can flow, and then all of this presence
can start to flow through you. You start I call
it glowing for God. You start your glow your brib brother.
You're right, you're glowing. You're glowing. But it's not just this,

(01:00:07):
it's actually the invisible presence that I'm trying to give
visibility to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
I know you are, you know, I know you are
as you Yes, sir, thank you brother.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Yeah, you're so enthused all the time I've seen anyway,
you're like on fire. Yeah I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Michael, that's that's quite a conmic me talk about your
show take Back your Mind.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
The podcast. It's powerful stuff. Yeah, to take back your mind,
trying to interview people and have conversations around how people
basically take back their mind. What's their backstory? How do
they come out of the hypnotic spell of the media
and the fear and the contagion of worry and fear
that sweeps the nation and sweeps the world. How do

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we come back to ourselves? And everyone is different, Everyone
has a way of languaging that you came on. You
kicked cosmic keister with your story. You know how people
just come back and and I always teach that we
are not special people. We just learned to specialize in something.
Oh God, I love that. You know. It's like when

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you hear a great pianist. He specialized for years learning
the learning the scales, practicing, practicing, practice, taxing, and now
we can do music. It's not special, but he's specialized. Beautiful.
So I try to bring people on that are specialized
in some area of their life, and we look, we
look at them, we love them, we applaud them, we
celebrate them. But then they give us their hacks, they

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give us their How how do you specialize? Yeah, So
that's what the whole thing is about taking back our mind,
opening up our heart.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
So in our closing minutes, final thoughts, whatever, and then
I would, if you're open, to lead us in prayer
because I love the absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Any final thoughts is that sometimes people suffer from two things.
An intention deficit disorder. You know, we know about attention
deficit disorder a D D H D all that, but
many people don't establish any intention for their life, you know.
So intention is a rudder wake up. You don't have

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to know how to do everything, but establish an intention
to be enjoy, an intention to be prosperous, an intention
to be healthy. Just establish the intention and then the
rest will begin to follow you. And then the other
thing is people also suffer from this, and you know
about this, that they're not worthy, they're not worthy of

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the good life. They're not worthy to be happy, they're
not worthy to be safe, you know. And I want
people to know that the spirit of the Living God
has never made a mistake. The spirit of the Living
God has never repeated itself, and it got us right
the first time that who we are in the eyes
of God, God's eyes are too pure to behold in equity.

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Who we are in the eyes of God. The teacher said,
who by taking thought can add win Cuba to their stature.
You can't improve upon what God has done. Worthy. You're
developing a worthiness to absolutely go of the debris and
lit your light, so shine to the best of your ability,
that when they see you, they see the presence. But

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everyone has worth, and no one has more worth than
anyone else. Doesn't matter how much money someone has, or
how fast they ran in the Olympics or whatever. Everyone
has the same value. Years ago, I used to do
this one thing I used to take. It is old now,
but back in the day it was new. I would
take one hundred dollar bill, just ball it up and

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throw it out in the audience whoever caught it, and
I would say, is that one hundred dollar bill still
worth one hundred dollars? They say yeah. I say you
can have it. I said. You may have been kicked,
scrumpled up, you may have made all the mistakes in
your life, you may be as crumpled as that hundred
dollar bill, but you have the same value to God,
you know, same value. So self love and appreciation is extremely,

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extremely important on our journey to grow into that well,
that's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
I'm very grateful you took the time out of your
business schedule to come down and drop such.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Truth for everybody. It's my joy man. Okay, you want
to take us out something into a prayer, a prayer zone. Yeah, ah,
So I invite everybody that's watching or listening to take
your attention away from the world for a moment. The

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world of affects, the world of circumstances and situations and conditions, opinions,
points of view. Come within. Feel your body breathing, Your
body's breathing in the present. That inhalation and that exhalation
is not in the future, and it's not in the past.

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It's right presently happening. So we come right here and
right now, and I invite you to step with me
into the feeling tone of gratitude and thanksgiving for anything
at all. Be absolutely grateful, thankful for your existence, for
your life, be thankful for life itself. As I move

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into this prayer, I'm so grateful and thankful for my
life that I can recognize, I can recognize the presence
that is everywhere I read, know the presence of God
anew now right now, and I feel so at one
with this presence that I can say, I am what
thou art, and thou art what I am, and there's
no distance between me and the power and the presence

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and the love of God. Because the presence of God
is omnipresent, it is everywhere, means that it must be
where we are right now. And because of this absolute truth,
I have the privilege and the honor to speak the
word for each and every one of us that whenever
anyone here's this word, I can say unequivocably that right

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where they are, right now, God is, and that this
divine presence is coursing through their spiritual veins in such
a way that one, every organ action function of their
body temple has made every whit whole. There is a
blessing upon the body temple that's allowing divine wholeness and
wellness and well being to reign supreme. There's a mental
body now being cleared. Our mental bodies are becoming clear.

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The word is spoken, Our emotional body is becoming pure.
The body of our affairs are reflecting and revealing the
order of the universe. All of our needs are met.
This is the word that's being spoken right now in
anything whatsoever that would hinder, delay, obstruct or deny this.
It has no power here because there is only one power,

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and that's God. God is infinite, and there is nothing
that truly exists outside of the incident. So it is
in this consciousness of thanksgiving, of knowing that that word
that has been spoken is already done in the mind
of God, and yet it is unfolding, it is manifesting.

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I say thank you, I give thanks, and I allow
it to be so, and so it is now and forever. Amen.
And so we say to ourselves, now, so be it,
be it, be it, be it. Amen, A man, that's right,

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Thank you brother.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
The Sinal Show is the production of iHeart Podcasts, hosted
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