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How do you experience God’s guidance in your life? When I was younger this must be this definitely before I came to Japan so 2030 years ago at minimum, I 20 or 30 years ago at minimum. I had this idea for a movie concept that the movie camera would like be panning around the room from the perspective of the protagonist and things that could help the protagonist what very subtly like flicker or light up or there’d be a little hint of light pointing some direction and this would be a representation of God guiding the protagonist in the right direction. And as I’m describing this now, I might add some guidance in the wrong direction with a different color light, like yours also, this has been portrayed as like a little angel on each side shoulder the consciousness of an angel or a devil guiding one or attempting one, one way or another. And I just want to take this as to a very kind of literal sense I once had the experience of moving without really thinking doesn’t sound good enough. I’m not sure if I told the story yet here. about seeing a woman basically, B rating her lApi rating, seeing a woman who was yelling at her son, a couple few years old. She was he was crying and she was telling him not to cry. And that there was no one to help I my sense it was all in her she was speaking Japanese to him. My sense what she was saying in my memories mentally Been a while that there’s no one here to help and stop crying. I just got the idea that she had been recently divorced or left with a young child and there’s no one here to help her and just stop crying. And I was like that that eight right, the way she’s treating him and I I didn’t do it because it’s Japan and it’s an her her business and blah blah blah. Oh gosh, but when at one point I just found myself, like watching them but then I found myself moving toward her. And I can’t explain it. Well, I can explain saying in my mind as I Okay, I guess we’re doing this kind of thing. As I had just set my bag down, I walked over, gently walked over to her. And I put my arm in between her and the child. And I basically focused on her I ignored the baby the child for a bit and I said it’s I don’t My Japanese is not that good. I said something like no, I’ve said it in English but in simple English. I said he is so small. And I hope I didn’t say it that way. Gosh, no, I wish I have maybe find my journal entry. I’m sure I wrote a journal entry about this and I think it went rather well. This retelling is like not as good. But the point is, I believe God guided me to support her and I ended up like giving my my card as I call me anytime. At the same time thinking why the heck would she call someone who can’t speak Japanese but just the offer was there. She never ended up calling me but I hope that it helped her recognize the need to find a different way to express her anger and her sadness. I’m sure she was devastated. And yeah, it was it was really a powerful moment in my life to have the sense that I was being guided to do something that I truly believe was an overall positive effect. Even though I was breaking the Japanese mores of it’s not just Japan like the speaking to a stranger randomly, but I think it’s even more so in Japan to not get into other people’s business. But to the question I’m posing to you now. How do you hear God’s guidance? And do you even believe it’s possible to hear guidance from higher power God as you understand God? Do you believe there even is a god? I know I addressed this a couple chapters back, you’re trying to prove that there’s something and is there as something that you would like to tap into? Is there something that you can imagine tapping into so

allowing God’s guidance to flow in my life I tend to slow down. I tend to speak more gently, thoughtfully. If you were to listen to this recording, Even now my voice is slower. As if in a meditative state, facilitating a meditation

simply dropping into a quiet state. I believe I can hear insights, guidance. encouragement

and I imagine the same is true for anyone who chooses to allow God’s guidance into their life this is a simple point of like gonna go a little bit faster now. I tend to think that religions are inoculations against true spiritual connection by going to going by going to another human or a human, you know, an organization and looking at looking to another human or a book to get insights from God. It’s a reasonable starting point. It could be a good mentor. It could be a good book and say, Okay, fine. That is fine. Totally fine. However, once one has grown into an adult, and it’s like, put away the book for a moment. Sit down and meditate. For a moment, allow God to speak directly to you. And in this moment, I’m not speaking to those who would declare that blasphemy or what have you. I’m not sure if that’s actually last me in any religion. I hope not. But it’s it’s amazing to me to think that many religions saying Your God is infinite. And then to think Oh, but he can’t speak to me directly. He or she? It’s like, Huh, that’s interesting. So, being infinite, whatever for whatever version of infinity one chooses or omniscient or what have you. How the heck you saying God can’t speak to you directly. My friend Marty said that he leaves or how does he say it like God fiercely loves each of us uniquely and individually, something like that. I have to ask him to the exact quote and I yeah, I like that, you know, as infinity. You know, people talking about the infinite multiverse is of whatever and describing all kinds of different possible like every world exists. Including one where the, you know, all all the words are the same except for the word. You know. Yes and no are reversed. You know, just describing these different possibilities. And then, not necessarily the same people, but then to say that, Oh, God can’t talk to me directly. It’s like, yeah, that seems strange. So yeah, heck, I don’t know. I’m just blabbering at this point. But how could how might God speak to you in your life? Do you want that as a possibility? My sense is that meditation helps open the space so that I can hear more clearly more subtle energies more fine or divine or more. Not trying to rhyme, but guidance coming from a higher source. For more subtle energies. We’re here in this 3d world. And kind of limited to whatever videos probably seven or eight senses we can definitely add balance and proprioception to the list of the five so that seven right there and

emotion I feel my emotions. That’s gotta be a sense. And my sense is that emotions are this kind of interface between spirit and me. And tapping into the emotions. processing them, not just ignoring them who are suddenly have this whole giant conspiracy theory that by being taught to not feel or process our emotions, we’re being taught to not experience higher power taught to throw away the insights received from higher power. Emotions are literally just guidance for our lives and I know I’ve talked about that before. Anger is the emotion that comes up when it’s time to set a boundary or maintain a boundary or you know, protect, protect oneself. Sadness is an emotion that comes up when it’s time to grieve a loss or acknowledge a loss. Fear is an emotion that comes up when it’s time to get more information. Or to keep on alert, tread carefully. Joy is an emotion that comes up when I’m I’m on the right path, so to speak. I have what I want and I want when I have gratitude is an emotion that comes up when I’m recognize the receipt of something that I need or want or love that didn’t come from my direct control. Now this one I just know freestyled this sense of gratitude, I’ve been wondering for a long time, what is gratitude? And so I’ll try to define it here. It’s an acknowledgement of receiving something of benefit without having to do anything for it. So to speak. That last part, I’m not sure. But receipt of something positive receipt of something acknowledging receipt of something that I appreciate or supports me. And gratitude can arise slightly different than Joy. Joy, simply being here now. And enjoying the ride and gratitude the subtle difference being here now and acknowledging the greater world around me making this joy possible, perhaps In

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at my first TED X speech in what was it October 2021, I guess? September October. I included 30 seconds of silence in a TEDx speech. And it was recommended that I describe it as maybe a little bit unusual for TEDx, but I included it. Just as an encouragement for people to get present in the moment.

I believe, though, you might claim the inability to meditate or what have you. The mind is not easily going to give up its role of spitting out all kinds of stuff. So don’t think that quietening the mind will, is the goal of meditation. When you first start to meditate, that is kind of our here, here we go. So erase all those previous paragraphs, just here it is, when you sit down to meditate. The practice of sitting down to meditate is what’s most important. It’s not quietening the mind. That’s most important. That will happen over time and I’m talking like decades lifetimes of practice.

But it’s the practice that’s the part that I can control. That I take five minutes even 30 seconds is better than zero. Just take a moment to breathe. Just take a moment to be the mind Oh, keep on jumping around. That’s fine. Imagine that that’s not in your control. And when? What is in control of just sitting down and taking 30 seconds, eventually the mind will follow suit you’ll find moments of no thought you’ll find moments of quiet

then they’ll be gone and your brain will start thinking again and that’s natural and just sit just be there

and if you forget to meditate for a day or a week or a month or 15 years It’s cool man Just start again.

Just take 30 seconds.

Welcome to do it now. If you choose.

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I’m not sure if I can prove God exists but I have seen many signs that allow for me to believe it’s useful to believe in God and to be grateful to God for literally everything I have. Let me start by saying that I don’t mean the God who is the grumpy old god and the Old Testament. I think that was actually basically extraterrestrials who came down and pretend to be gone in order to like get power or whatever. But I’m talking about the basically consciousness that pervades the universe.

This will completely fly in the face of anyone who believes that the brain is producing consciousness. This concept starts with consciousness exists first, regardless of physicality, and that the brain is basically a receiver of consciousness and a processor of sorts. So that’s the one of the starting points of this little thing. So we’ve got this concept of the universe for example, and consciousness pervading the universe. And I’ve got this concept that about emotions.

Emotions seem to be like an interface from like, spirit down into physicality, a way to guide us. Now this is described as well by Esther Hicks via her entity Abraham and I’ve heard Teal Swan talking about this as well. I’m sure I’ve already written about the time that I determined as a teenager that emotions are important and that is the story about my granddad’s jacket that he had died a couple years previous and my brother and I were all stoic and didn’t cry. (*)

(*) Until they had to bust out amazing grace on the bagpipes. Yep, I was doing fine until they busted out Amazing Grace. So both my brother and I both cried at the funeral when they played amazing grace but apparently, I didn’t cry enough, because a couple of years later, I was basically in my dad’s closet, probably looking for pornography or something.

I came across granddad’s old army jacket, and I was like, Oh, that’s interesting. And for whatever reason, I smelled the jacket or maybe I just, I could smell it. And suddenly, the tears were like wow, your granddad is gone. He’s, he’s, he’s fucking he’s dead as a doornail. he’s gone. never see him again. And all of that, you know, impactful.

emotion of sadness just hit me and after I cried and cried and got it all out. I was like, Now, where was that sadness for the past two years? That I wasn’t aware of it. I couldn’t feel it. You know, not consciously. And I was like, That’s so interesting because you I could I could meet or talk to the cutest girl in the whole world. And two years later, I wouldn’t remember nothing about that interaction.

But the emotion stayed somewhere in full Technicolor feeling. perfectly preserved for the two some odd years. It’s like it’s as if the time component this simply didn’t exist. And the motion we’re just here from our my perspective, patiently waiting and was simply there when I accessed it. Then when I did access it, I cried. It went away. And it’s like, Huh, okay, that’s interesting. And I just like in that moment did determined that emotions are important. I didn’t know why. But that was proof to me. Now, let me describe another story that happened some time ago. I’ve often played with lucid dreaming and as even as I write this book,

Today is June 25 2023. As I write this book, I’m, I’m playing around with the idea of doing astral projection. And that’s thanks to a book called Beyond dreaming by Jean someone I don’t have the book in front of me. And more 20 years ago, I had this experience of being in a dream doing gymnastics, and in a, like a perfect Pike, you know, like my, my legs were straight. My My body was just kind of folded over so that my nose was touching my knees and in a dream, you know, weird things can be normal. But then I realized I was like, hang on. My body doesn’t fold this way. I am not this flexible. I must be dreaming. And yet, I could feel through the sense called proprioception that my nose was touching my knees. And it was like, Huh, that’s interesting. And I tried to like, guide me to move myself out of my body the rest of the way my legs were obviously out. And, or my top was, was out and my legs were in. But I was like, Okay, let’s fly up to the ceiling. And I did like a like a reverse handstand or a headstand. And my legs were up in the air. My body was up in the air, but my head was still stuck in my head. And I thought, hmm, maybe I’m clenching. My teeth. So I slightly like I moved my jaw to unclench my teeth, when I don’t know if it was actually clenched or not at that point, but that motion like ended the the experience of floating in the air and like, my, my body slowly, like, came down into my physical body. And I could feel the waves of I don’t know what the word might be, but like pulsation or waves happening that are very commonly reported by people who are out of body. You can check on Reddit like astral travel, the rational projection, I’ll put the subreddit in this thing. And yeah, so I had that experience. This is well before Reddit existed. And you know, I was like, Whoa, that was weird. You know, I was a very smooth transition of, you know, from that. Body, my me being my with my legs. pointing up at the ceiling and then transition smoothly down to being in my body and feeling those pulsations. And I was like, just kept my eyes closed. I memorized I memorized the situation in the sensation. And I have a little parenthetical phrase here. I’m just realizing that I have remembered this story for many, many years. And earlier in this thread, I was just saying, you know, how did the motion get memorized for two years? But this was a very conscious, intentional memorization. When I my body was out of my body whereas the emotional thing was completely automatic. I closed parenthesis, so anyway, I lay in bed for a bit and memorize the the experience. And it works express gratitude and was like your excitement. I’m not sure if I was doing gratitude in those days because I was really happy and I maybe wrote it down in my journal. And yeah, so it was a really cool little experience. That also some from that experience, I recognize that my consciousness is not inexorably tied to my physical body. There thereby I can I can surmise that they’re, they’re different. You know, my body isn’t producing my consciousness my consciousness exists independently of my physical body. So, you know, why not extrapolate that, you know consciousness exists? And the physical bodies are just like faux SCI for consciousness to roam around and hang out in this physical space.

And so then, I’ll just jump over to space time. Not that I can do any justice to explain in space time. All the recently I was watching a video of a guy with a tie, talking about how to visualize things in five dimensions, and I haven’t gotten to the whole video yet. I might put that link in here as well. So yeah, I my rough, rough understanding is that, like, gravity doesn’t exist as a force. And the dimensions of space and time can can be swapped in Maxwell’s equations about the speed of light or the speed of causality. And oh, that, depending if we have to non what’s the terminology, two events that are not causally related? There exists? A vantage point from which those two events occur at the same time. I think this is the right way to say it. This was this came up in Sabine hossenfelder talked about this recently, and what’s also a wasn’t Sabine, anyway, that so basically, it comes back to the block universe that the universe just exists, and time is a static dimension because everything happens, all things are at the same time. And so this points to we don’t know what the hell is going on. You know, it sure seems to me like time goes tick, tick, tick, through its thing. So I, I’m experiencing myself traveling through the dimension of time, but apparently, each thing that is non causally related, can have happened at the same time. From any perspective, we choose, and that’s also kind of weird, like so. I’m speaking into my microphone which is putting go into the phone going to a server on otter.ai and going to copy to the NSA, wherever else and whoever else is listening and then it’s sending words back to my phone. And you know, it’s all magically delicious and all causally related. So, I don’t know how I can actually apply it to some things that are not causally related, and is it the case that just that they have to be in separate light cones or can just be that my wife is talking downstairs, and I’m talking upstairs about different topics, and she can talk for an hour and I’ll talk, you know, I’ve been talking for 10 minutes. And so, are we causally unrelated? I don’t know this is going as well beyond my understanding of all this time. stuff. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about.

They say we like God is not conceivable, like, infinitely. And again, it’s not like the the Christian God or the or whatever God you want to think about but this concept of consciousness and I’ve just come to realize that by guiding my intention toward good or toward love or toward the selflessness and toward gratitude. My life has been better. And I’m not really sure how it works, but this has been written in many, many, many different books. Like think Think and Grow Rich is the same topic that I’m talking about. The what’s the other one? I can remember right now, that I said many, many, many I can only think of one and zero others. But it Oh, the the there’s a little red book that a woman read reads in about 20 minutes on YouTube. I’ll maybe put a link to that. It’s like, this stuff works and you can ignore it or not, or use it or not. It’s just really, really interesting that the like, like the basketball basketball players passing the basketball and there’s some white betting players wearing white jerseys and some players wearing black jerseys. And you’re meant to count how many passes the players wearing white jerseys make and I had an experience. When I was up in Oregon, i i My host gave me some marijuana cookies and I was like cool, and I won. He said if you don’t feel anything, you’d have here some more. He puts some more on the counter like six others and I ate all six other cookies. I had seven altogether as i Whoa, I can feel it now. And in that moment, I like I caught I realized that I was caught by Satan. That I had been duped into this situation whereby Satan had had created the whole universe so that I would have this experience of time running forwards and backwards at the same time, so that Satan could prove that he was powerful enough to run time in both directions at the same time. And I was trapped in this time loop and like oh no, what am I going to do you know, my life is over. And I don’t know how many minutes that experience went on. But the my host had a dog and the dog came up to me. Oh, and I realized that my host was Satan actually it turned out and so he had a dog and I said all right, the dogs not in on it. I you know, I I believe that dogs are pure love and goodness and they have best intentions in mind. So I like lean i the dog like sniffed my hand. Or something. I pet the dog and link leaned down as a balloon. You know, given the dog letting the dog lick my face, which I normally wouldn’t never do is like ooh, dog terms. But by doing that, I kind of broke the spell so to speak, I focused on loving on the dog, instead of like fearfully like, Oh, I’m trapped. And I had this like, just don’t have you have a good enough vocabulary word here. This incredible experience that focusing on love viscerally changed my experience for the good and focusing on fear viscerally changed my experience toward the negative toward feeling bad and feeling scared. And it was as if the like, I was like, like, if stand in between two mirrors. And you see him in like a bunch of versions of yourself in this like, Oh, wow. And you tilt one mirror a little bit, and then it just curves off toward infinity. And that’s kind of what it seemed like, you know, if I tilt my focus toward love just a little bit it’s just simply amplifies toward love. Like in toward infinity and like those mirrors and likewise if I focus my intention toward anger or hate or fear, just a little bit it gets amplified toward infinity and like an immediate sense. And as whoa do do such a visceral experience, and I felt so grateful to have had the experience it was very well worth a few minutes of fear thinking I’ve been trapped by Satan. In order to have this experience of realizing how bloody important it is to have a positive outlook or to like, focus on anything positive and this is the same my version of the same thing that Esther Hicks talks about all the freakin time. If you can’t change anything, just go along for the ride instead of fighting it. But if there’s I’m just begging if there’s any possible thing about what you can be grateful. express that gratitude. Recently, new paragraph recently, I have been offering up gratitude to daddy and in the you a program under earners anonymous, it’s a 12 step program they’ve saved you know, bring God as you understand God into your life kind of thing. And recently, I’ve been playing with this idea of like God is Daddy. Like the dad who will never get mad at me and who will always be there for me and Baba Baba blah. And I’m just saying thank you, daddy so many times every day that like go outside and just you know it’s chilly air, but the sun is beautiful. That clear sky was beautiful. And to say thank you, daddy. Thank you, Daddy. Thank you, Daddy. Just on repeat. For all the blessings that I do experience in my life. Right now. I’m like literally sitting on this magical phone. I don’t have to use my fingers to type and it’s like, wow, thank you, daddy. This amazing device is available for me. And I also have the option to say well this phone is kind of old and it doesn’t take very good pictures. I could focus on all of that. And just like Louie CK has a you know a little segment skit. I don’t know what the word is like a little gag. He’s like your people just say oh, this phone sucks. How was your flight was okay, you know, he’s like you jumped into a magical tube and flew over the the into the air. is how it is and he simply says it. And we just downplay all the amazing stuff that’s in our lives. And through this, these words I’m just dude, just, if you can possibly up play the amazing things in your life. expressing the gratitude for the things that you have in your life that that are beautiful and an amazing and even not quite what you want but good enough, you know? And yeah, I’m I’m a you know, a white guy from America and all that. But what am I going to do? This is what I can do. And

I’m just grateful for the daily blessings that I have here. Like being able to, you know, have this fresh air being able to have support accountability with my with my buddy Leszek.

It’s just amazing that I can say these words and they’re being transcribed into into text and so just having that gratitude I’ve heard recently that the this this came from who Trevor Noah was talking about the the comedy of, of Corona. He’s like, talking about the the peoples in Africa are not having bad effects from Corona. They’re like what that finished ages ago. And it’s like yeah, because there’s so many blessings that are available in the natural world. So I can be like, you know, oh, wow, this computer is so great. Or I can focus on Oh, well, I have to worry about Corona. You know? And so I posit it does not matter where one is in the world. There’s always blessings to be found. And yeah, just have to look and be aware somehow, and the stories of people who who survived, you know, all different tragedies and stuff are the ones that just kept their mind. Positive somehow. I do think it’s a choice and I’m probably going to wrap this up because I’m rambling here but uh, all of this pointing to gratitude to the creator the you know, you can decide that there’s no God. And for a while I did when I was in new high school or whatever it was, but just not like looking around and oh would do the magic of DNA or whatever. You know, because I’m not a philosopher, but there’s just so many benefits that I’ve experienced by being willing to say thank you to the higher power for that which I experience in the world. And it’s, it’s making my life better. I’m really, really enjoying this, like, creating a relationship with my higher power. And it doesn’t have to be a specific brand of Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha or whoever. In my case, right now it’s Daddy. And I’m just like, Thank you, Daddy. Thank you, Daddy. Thank you, Daddy. So much benefit and beauty beauty in the world around me. I’m so so grateful for that. So yeah. Let me pause this. I’m going to get it over into my actual journal, and then have another call with Leszek in 10 minutes. Okay, thanks a lot and see you well. Oops, see you later. Be well, bye